skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do assume that.

>By what logical reasoning / axiomatic induction etc did >they conclude that being correct is enough?
>
>I say there's none.

I don't think myself or people as perfectly rational. Tests have shown we are mostly subconscious beings. We are not masters in our own house.

Tailoring everything to the other person and being kind can lend into being straight up manipulative. We have an identity in the world that effects how people hear what is said. My kindness can be less effective than yours because of my identity. Wielding all of my outward facing tools to achieve a goal can include being just the right amount of challenging so that the content of what I say is heard as plausible, credible and valuable. Many attempts at kindness can leave the words in the wind, in one ear and out the other.

A value structure is taking all ideas in and bringing them into an order. Utilitarianism would be one idea that is ranked among others, as would rationality and politeness and kindness. There's light and dark to all of them, you couldn't pigeon hole someone as executing on just one of the tools or ideas listed.
> E.g. if I update my system, you need to update your system

I see you’ve played InternetExplorer X vs X+1 before.
From my perpective, part of the problem is that any system is chosen based on political connections and/or bribes. And once any system is in place, there is zero reason to replace it until someone else puts down enough bribe money to convince a poltician to make another move.

Government promises, and thus government kills. A monopoly enforced by guns and prisons.
Sulfur helped make Earth habitable before the rise of oxygen
I dare say these boys will find the manual rather handy.

https://ibms360.co.uk/
It's a lot harder to find motivation to go hard enforcing this or that law when you know that if you broke this or that law they'd receive the same treatment.
Resource limit is reached.
> Weapons are the ultimate form of equality

...only if everyone is willing to carry? The lack of understanding here is astounding. The claim of lax gun laws promotes safety has been debunked hundreds of times. The average person does not have to have to carry a firearm in order to be safe, believe it or not.

It's sad, really, how people think owning guns makes them safer or more tough. Statistically the former is 100% not true. Maybe people have this fiction in their heads that they will "save the day" from the bad guy (or government?) Seems childish.
What do you know, the most common offenses are alcohol related. People that cant control their own drug use are the front-line warriors in the war on drugs arresting people for not abusing the same drugs they abuse. I know things have obviously gotten better in regards to prohibition in California, but there is still no excuse for people being caged, harrassed, and lightly abused for taking a substance to try and feel better in this shitstorm of pain and suffering that we call life. As long as people arent hurting anyone other than themselves, then no reason to cage them and ruin their ability to get jobs and progress out of the hole that our drug laws put them in.

Idk i just thought that it was incredibly telling that the group of people that continuously arrest others for drugs putting them in situations where they are unable to find employment, do not suffer from the same penalties when they get caught abusing the drug that they say is OK (and is arguably one of the most destructive of all drugs).

It truly sucks to hate and fear the group of people that are supposed to help and protect you in emergency. Even now that I am a professional, long removed from my days of risky behavior like fearing the police while leaving a rave with personal amounts of drugs, they still prove they dont care about helping and are more concerned about their bonuses from finding drugs. The last time I called police because my roommate was drunk and yelling and threatening me, they saw a single syringe cap on the bathroom floor from where my roommate had thrown the bathroom trash can. They got aggressive and started threatening and looking around the apartment and in open rooms without express permission. I work in a biochemistry lab and use syringes, mostlyneedl3less everyday at work, had accidentally thrown some minor trash in my pocket and emptied it out while changing clothing in the bathroom. But this apparently was probable cause enough to be an asshole and search around mildly and forget about the actual reason i called
It's also entirely possible for two people with vastly different credit history _lengths_ to have approximately the same score. In other words, a 25 year old with an "800" due to having had a CC for a few years and a car loan that they've kept up with is not the same as a 50 year old with 800 who has multiple CCs with high limits, has paid off two or three cars, has a mortgage, etc.

They're both considered "top" credit risks, but obviously one of the two people has demonstrated a longer history of being such trustworthy person to lend money to (also probably makes a lot more money than the other person to boot). It's not at all uncommon for people with "identical" credit scores to have different limits.

Now perhaps there's an argument to be made for more granularity in scores to make something like this more obvious, but it is what it is.
Genetic Imprint of Palaeolithic Detected in North African Populations
Except, as I've said multiple times already, that part has been perverted to where now "forever minus a day" somehow suffices. When they pull that crap to hold on to property that should be in the public domain, I don't feel a need to respect even the concept that they own that IP.
Always interesting to re-read that article. Written in 2005, before Facebook got big, the last paragraphs says

> PR people fear bloggers for the same reason readers like them. And that means there may be a struggle ahead. As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.

And today we have "influencers", native content marketing and Medium (etc) blogs that are way less authentic than what PG wrote about in this post.
Indeed. A huge and complicated project is a much wonderful playground for involved people (from the planners to the decommissioners). They benefit from it (on all accounts, including intellectual, financial, reputation, tolerance for error...) much more than they would with simple and transparent ways.
Try Empyrion. I was a Space Engineers player who has switched entirely to Empyrion. It’s SE with way way more complexity. Food and starvation, recipes, mobs, biomes, and so much more. It’s a criminally underrated game.
It's a common feature of interpreters that they impose a large slowdown on whatever is done in interpreted code; Python's is about 40×, although better interpreters like GhostScript and Lua are more like 10×. It's surprising the difference isn't bigger in this case, but I can mostly confirm your results, getting 3× except for small numbers:

In [1]: dl = lambda n: 1 if n < 10 else 1 + dl(n // 10)

In [3]: map(dl, [0, 1, 9, 10, 99, 1000, 15432, 32, 801])
Out[3]: [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 2, 3]

In [4]: %timeit dl(15322)
100000 loops, best of 3: 4.64 µs per loop

In [5]: %timeit len(str(15322))
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.41 µs per loop

In [6]: %timeit dl(0)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 721 ns per loop

In [7]: %timeit len(str(0))
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.24 µs per loop
Effects of microgravity on cell-level cardiac function and gene expression
I'm not sure if - given my threat model - it makes sense for me to disable phone based 2FA on my Google account.

I'm not prominent at all, so I don't expect to be individually targeted. I store 2FA tokens in my password manager (1Password) so that I could recover from my phone being stolen or damaged. However, I don't have a printout of my 1Password backup code stored under my mattress (or in my desk) because I don't completely trust my roommates.

If I had my phone and laptop with me and was mugged, or if both were damaged at the same time, I would be locked out of everything if I didn't have phone-based 2FA. With it I could get a replacement SIM card, regain access to my Google account, and then use that to bootstrap password resets to everything else.

(For the same reason, my only duplicate passwords are memorized randomly generated passwords for phone, primary Google account, and laptop (and there is some duplication between them))
> If I chop down a tree at the top of a hill it could roll down and potentially wreck your house.

There's a Minecraft like game with this mechanic right now. When you chop down a tree it goes rolling down the hill and can damage you/enemies. It's as satisfying as you'd hope it would be. I'm not affiliated but I enjoyed playing the alpha.

https://dvoidis.itch.io/valheim
When I worked in the newspaper business, you'd have copy editors to tidy up your prose, sub-editors to cut for length and style, and then the editors to decide what ran and where.
I think being in the justice system like law enforcement or judiciary where decisions are made about life and death should require higher standards than other jobs.

I know somebody whose cop ex-husband first beat her and then terrorized her for years. No local cop would ever do anything about it. She moved away a few hundred miles and even there he managed to get other cops to harass her constantly. This should just not be possible and people who behave like that simply aren’t fit to be a cop.

From what I know stuff like this is quite common.

Addition: the abusive ex-husband retired with 50 and pulls a 150k pension now.
And patients that lie / dirty input.

Sure, use cousin x’s coverage. Nobody will freak out when your blood type doesn’t match the records...
If you're wrapping lots of things in try/catch, you're doing something very wrong in the first place. People who think you need to do that are using exceptions wrong. It's no wonder that they come to dislike them.

Your example sounds like a badly structured piece of code. If your finger-query code is racing against your event processing code, that's a bug. You violated the function's contract. The exception was telling you about the bug. Don't shoot the messenger.

Maybe you wanted to write the moral equivalent of optional<Coordinate> getFingerPosition(FingerID finger). Nothing stops your using the optional value pattern in exceptional code.

I'm sympathetic. Should contracts be more explicit in code? Sure. In C++, the default should be noexcept, and it should be a compiler error to call a non-noexcept function from a noexcept one. But that's an argument for doing exceptions better, not an argument for abolishing them.

> Do you catch NullReferenceException s instead of writing basic if conditionals to check values for null?

If a pointer is null where it's not supposed to be null, you crash. That's a contract violation, and failing fast in the face of contract violation is the right thing to do. Are you one of those people who writes out null checks at the start of every function? I dislike code like that very much.
When you inevitably change jobs, how much of a salary hit do you expect to take and does do you still come out ahead or even? I ask because usually when I cost it out it doesn’t make financial sense (which I read as the gist of your post), it often does make cultural/family/life sense, but never financial sense.

Also, good for you, I hope more people can make this choice!
For mobile, I switched to Firefox which was a fantastic decision. Firefox on mobile is as fast as Chrome whilst allowing the much needed adblock and darkmode plugins.

I'm hesitant to do the switch on desktop right now because, last time I checked, Firefox was slower than Chrome. However, the day I see ads on Chrome will be the day I am forced to make that switch. I do not need my browser experienced tainted by the slowing and frustrating appearance of ads nor do I want my mind subject to the so often poisonous online marketing.
Having done a fair amount of python, this is exactly the result I'd expect. `len`, `str` are essentially implemented in C, thus avoiding the massive interpreter overhead compared to a simple loop in python.
I don't "go around dismissing things as artificial", you're just playing word games. It's obvious from context how they meant it, "artificial" is just not a good way to say it. Anyone who truly rejects "all artificial" things won't write on the internet, or even speak in polite society, seeing how they would be butt naked. So that can't possibly be the meaning.

Just like you don't literally mean "going far", which has nothing to do with distance travelled.
Truckers are fucked because of motor carrier regulations that were changed to bust unions in the 80s.

There’s no organization going to happen because distance trucking operates from labor hostile states.

That said, the automation story is overplayed. Trains are the threat to trucking as fuel goes up.
I did say the rest of the natural world.

If it turns out that the only way to bring down carbon emissions is to make low carbon energy much cheaper, then why would anyone think that we'd spend our newfound wealth on cleaning up our act in other matters?

There are a multitude of cases of human over-expansion proving catastrophic for other natural environments which have nothing at all to do with climate change yet have been totally eclipsed by the issue. I don't know why anyone would think that much cheaper energy would help those cases rather than make them worse.
Why are the terms nationalism, authoritarianism, and chauvinism used interchangeably?
journalists are liars

benchmarks doesn't like, and they proved that Chrome and Chromium are both superior and faster to Firefox
Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd Invented a Refrigerator in 1930
Car roads, bike roads, bus roads. With some intersection. I think that's the ideal
“Progressives” often refuse to accept that their labor structures are more about a transfer of power than a net improvement to the human condition.
I never said that there weren’t bad cops, or that good cops never abuse their power. I was responding to the argument that they join just to be thugs.
Is this library needed, if you are using PrinceXML?[1] Looks like a lot of the pagination and margin stuff is already supported by CSS 3

[1] https://www.princexml.com/
All Magic Leap Patents Have Been Assigned to J.P. Chase Morgan as Collateral
I'd say it's less what class you take and more what skills you have.

If you say you can use X programming language or Y framework, and you pass an interview you've got the job. It doesn't matter if X and Y were learned in a class or doing hobby projects. At the end of the day it's the same skill.

Most interviews for new grads are algorithms interviews, which requires some level of skill from an algorithms class, which is at most universities a third year class, which is why companies want people with a BS and not an AS.
It was a blatant and extreme rip off of someone else's work too. They copied every single detail of branding, marketing, packaging and product:

http://hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875_Ima...
Do containers transfer if you sync the Firefox profile with rsync or something? I haven't tried yet but if I get a second machine I'd like to be able to do this.
Can you explain why top-posting is bad/why people care about what IMV is a really irrelevant distinction?
The "officers" being shown in /r/HongKong disgust and enrage me.

My dad was Oakland PD in the 70s - he quit after OPD killed several black panthers. He said he had to quit, as, "When you spend your whole life looking for bad, soon, thats all you can see"

https://old.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dujohq/1111_hong_...
> 8. You should always add lots of comments[0] to your code.

If I don't do this, when I come back to the code an hour later I have no idea what its supposed to do or why I wrote it. I'll also usually add an explanation, like "3 is bad number of args because..."

> 44. Funny names are funny, you can always change them later.

This one drives me crazy, I hate when people use something like "x" or "habberdasher" instead of something functional like "newspapers"

[0] https://twitter.com/jschauma/status/1044581775983276034
But who decides which opinions are possible to exclude without being detrimental?

Turtles, all the way down!
Almost like a railway?
Tell that to a single mother. It's not your choice. It's a false argument that everyone needs to carry. Hence police get phone calls... to bring guns.

Are you going to politely ask the murderer to wait 5 minutes?

Nice "stats" you have there. http://v6y.net/gun_stats.jpg
There is a more insidious problem at work here. Police are, by dint of their daily work, good at understanding how the law works and how people get away with crimes.

This means that if you treat them equally to a random person, they have the knowledge to/will get away with more crimes.

The only problem with holding them to a higher standard once you understand this, is that it generates resentment, and the higher standard becomes a different system they learn and game.

I say this as someone committed to justice for who 15 years in policing is receding into the past.

I don't have a perfect solution or I might have stayed in policing, at least kept my badge- I work in security now which scratches the itch that got me into law-enforcement in the first place. (don't tell my coworker devs that- some already think infosec is out to get them- we are not)
It is hard to stay justice oriented no matter where you are- in gov law enforcement or the private sector, startup or big-corp.
According to others in this thread, their finding is misleading. They are incentivized to find problems where their aren't any in order to stay in the headlines. The article indeed reads like a PR piece. All in all though, I'm glad they exist.
I agree - I’d like to see their steady-state follow-up numbers 5 years from now.

Even if that’s the case, I guess they can just have an amnesty every once in a while.
The commodity you sell as an employee is time. Piecework is dumping risk in the employee.
Some points seem contradictory. How do faxes have history that's easy to see, and if the other end successfully received, but it doesn't have delivery receipt like email?
I'm not sure how a system with complex and tight requirements is able to run with so many organizations taking care of pieces...
How exactly do you earn equality?
Another possible avenue is mrustc, an alternative Rust compiler which compiles Rust code to C code. Every platform has a C compiler (though maybe not C11, which is what mrustc targets).

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
The whole debate is predicated on the belief that we are running out of earth's capacity to accommodate our waste CO2, so it doesn't make any sense to mockingly cry "Malthusian" at the suggestion that further capacity issues lie beyond.
> Don't like the terminal interface? Let's slap a GUI on the front that still interacts via TTY on the back end.

This made me smile, because this is exactly what I did when working for a major health insurer...
You may have a choice of 31 flavors... but you're still in Baskin-Robbins...
Why would they return books due to fines they don’t feel like paying? It seems plausible.

It’s a bit like saying that people wouldn’t pirate a movie that only costs $2.
There are plenty of people who question that in the slightest! There is lots of activism going on about police violence
I used to work as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate computer networking course at UBC. As part of the course, we would usually ask the students to write a simple line editor, in order to practice their IO programming skills. This was an assignment designed by a professor in the early 1980s, when being able to work ed was considered a basic computer skill.

Fast forward to 1999, and I can say that roughly 80% of students in the class didn't know what ed was. Before being able to get started on the assignment, we would have to provide them with additional material explaining how to use a line editor and why you need one. The majority of students just grew up using Emacs, VI, Notepad or whatever visual editor they had on their computer, so they had no idea of what we were asking them to build.
> a relatively new kind of fraud calling "SIM swapping"

Either the journalist has misinterpreted information given to them or the Ontario police are at least a decade behind current scams. SIM swapping or port-fraud is at least a decade old problem.
def digitLength(n):
dlen = 1
high = 9
while n > high:
dlen += 1
high = 10*high + 9
return dlen
He didn't say the world, just Germany and [other] parts of Europe and it's a probable result indeed. You don't make a cannon to shoot just once.
There's a particularly good short story dealing with AI personal assistants shaping people's lives called The Perfect Match by Ken Liu (who once worked as a software engineer at Microsoft!) It's in an anthology of his short stories called The Paper Menagerie. Check it out, they're all pretty great - he's also the guy who translated most of the Three Body trilogy into english.
Dismissing things because they're "artificial", as if that proves anything, is super common in these sort of discussions. Especially online, especially among tech folks.

> Nationalism isn't normal

OK. I'm listening.

> , countries are a completely artificial construct.

So. What.

"Grass is not red," OK, I'm with you, I'm very open to what you're writing, even. "Red is an artificial construct," nice non-sequitur and it's not that it isn't true, but so what?
>I understand that there is ... a large risk of group think associated with our global information system

To be honest, there would be group think anyway. There always is, it's just a human proclivity. I'm not sure why exactly people felt that's something the internet was going to eliminate? The printing press solidified nationalistic thought (and other kinds of group think as well), the internet is solidifying it further.

I guess I just think, group think is kind of, something to be expected considering mankind's history.
It's hard to describe what California is now only in terms of the politics. Despite everything, the state has enjoyed a strong economy for many years, and that results in the symptoms of transcience: so many people enter the state to advance their career, then go elsewhere after getting established. They never fully engage with the politics. It's not just that it's too expensive or too liberal, rather, the local political machinery has grown accustomed to not actually being beholden to constituents in any long term sense. They get plenty of tax revenue and businesses clawing for attention.
Gotta admit, that syntax is a lot easier on the eyes than subprocess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

Tally: Germany 1, France 28

There are many causes, one being that during hot seasons many French atomic plants cannot run at full speed (thermal pollution).
Show HN: Web components to create OS-like web apps
> If I don't do this, when I come back to the code an hour later I have no idea what its supposed to do or why I wrote it.

I think the point that the tweet is trying to make is that if you comment, you should explain why you are doing something instead of saying what you are doing. The latter is already written there, in code.
Artificially limiting people's access to capital is a real problem. Sure, perhaps having to go to a separate company once is a minor inconvenience. If no one questions the "algorithm" and it gains wider spread adoption, people's access to capital can very quickly deteriorate. This has real consequences to people's ability to start a business, buy a house, pay a hospital bill... And yet you are not "concerned in the slightest". Do you have a blind trust in the algorithm, or just complete apathy on how this could affect people? What are the things that concern you then?