skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Huh? They're part of Pascal (known as variant records) and plenty of other languages besides. It's mostly C that lacks them, and even then you're just expected to implement them yourself, for maximum efficiency.

"plenty of other languages besides" doesn't matter if those languages aren't being used in practice.

Let me list off the top 10 languages (incl markup) from the most recent Stack Overflow survey, specifically the Professional Developers tab. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

* JavaScript

* HTML/CSS

* SQL

* Python

* Java

* Bash/Shell/PowerShell

* C#

* PHP

* TypeScript

* C++

You can argue about the demographics of Stack Overflow or the bias in users who actually respond on these surveys or a million other things. But based on job postings I've seen in the last several years, I'd wager this list is pretty accurate.
I don't know why AmericanChopper keeps getting modded down; his points are absolutely valid.

I'm not a fan of open offices either, but I've worked in a bunch of different places over the years, and he's right on many points. There aren't many places left that don't have open offices of some kind, and I have not met many people who complained about them. Usually, I'm the biggest complainer. I would take surveys with a grain of salt; of course complainers like me are going to be happy to voice their opinions in surveys like this, while other people probably don't bother taking the survey. I also find that my younger coworkers seem to really enjoy the open layouts. At my current workplace where I work in a closed lab, the complaint is about the lack of windows, not the noise or the lack of privacy. Some people will make comments about certain teams having meetings that are extremely loud, or about how quiet the lab is when those teams are in their meeting, so there does seem to be some desire for a little more quietness, but these same people have no trouble having a fairly noisy conversation while people are trying to work. In my view, Americans are just loud and extroverted in general, and this extends to the current workers in this field.
I trust you, it never worked for me too.
It's not regressive. It's a flat tax, everyone pays the flat rate. Feels like spin when you say regressive.
>Didn't it mean he would be free to stand trial for the rape allegations?

No, there were never any charges filed against Julian Assange in Sweden. He was wanted for "questioning" by a Swedish prosecutor in a case that has now been entirely dropped due to a complete lack of substance. Assange's assertion was that this Swedish investigation was created entirely as a pretense to seize him and ship him to the United States for his activities as a publisher (an assertion that has proven to be true given his current status). There was nothing preventing the Swedish prosecutor from questioning Assange in the UK - they have traveled abroad to question subjects of other investigations in the past.
Is tinnitus diagnosed as a chronic condition? If you are only susceptible to sporadic hiss/ringing would that be considered normal or pathological?
Can you elaborate a bit more your statements? The link provided for the discussion is from Amnesty International.
Initially, at least.

Valve isn't the same company they were back when they developed things like HL2. They've basically been sitting back and sucking up money for a long time. They're good at that, but there's no indication they're good at anything else at this point.

I'll go out on a limb and say this game is going to suck, and after the initial hype people are going to hate that Valve did this.
Oh definitely. Assuming good faith, I'd guess the GP just didn't read the article before jumping in to discuss.
If I commit a murder I will go to jail, even if I make a magical pill that instantly cures cancer and AIDS. The same sadly does not happen for the intelligence community. They can murder as many innocent people as they want without having to prove their usefulness.
If you take that point of view and use a different example it sounds foolish.

If we agree to have sex while she has a blindfold on but only if I wear a clown mask. If I take off the mask before sex and she watches the tape later she cannot claim rape.

Or do you think that's rape as well?
Which is exactly GPs point. The advertisements are forced, not skippable because that is how the platform makes money.
> could have ended the torturous circumstances at any time

By subjecting himself to probably worse injustice. Torture A over torture B is hardly a choice.
Was hoping for a more lib/framework focused article. HTML5 has never been the easiest platform to develop games for.

A game I love that's made in Impact/NW.js is CrossCode, which even leverages its Web-based nature by having the demo fully playable from the website!
Zuckerberg’s Anti-China Rhetoric Roils Facebook's Chinese Employees
Ah, but that's the issue. As currently constructed, the espionage act cannot be challenged in court.

Assange would want to argue that he isn't a spy, but a whistleblower. The argument would be that he willingly broke a law in order to expose more illegal behavior by the government. In order to make that argument, he has to be allowed to talk about what the government does.

Under the espionage act, though, the government can say that the details of their activities are classified, and therefore are not admissable evidence in a public trial. Therefore, their guilt cannot be proven because any claim of illegal behavior could not be backed by evidence.
Snowden took and gave much more than he could possibly have read.

In July 2014, The Washington Post reported on a cache previously provided by Snowden from domestic NSA operations consisting of "roughly 160,000 intercepted e-mail and instant-message conversations, some of them hundreds of pages long, and 7,900 documents taken from more than 11,000 online accounts."

He did not read the 160k emails he provided to the Washington Post.
And it still wasn't enough...
TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, and China is a totalitarian state, so it's basically owned by the Chinese government. Is it too paranoid to worry about all the videos and their metadata being controlled by the Chinese government?
90% of podcasts these days are just people rambling on without much thought while trying to sell you something. I have a feeling that most people who listen to podcasts do so for background noise, as a way inject some dopamine into their boring commute or routine chores.

I used to listen to podcasts a ton but switched to listening to lectures or conference talks.
From what I've heard, the US prison system is indeed inhuman, and torture (solitary isolation, etc) is common. Many people inside and outside the US criticise it and call for reform.
> The link says it's trying to maximize log wealth

Yes it is maximizing log wealth.

Think this way: If you give all of your fortune to the mugger, your capital will end up being 1) 0 livres(99.9%) or 2) 20000 livres (0.1%). So the expected log wealth is:

log(0) * 0.999 + log(20000) * 0.001 = -inf

On the other hand, if you bet 10% of your wealth, you will end up having 1) 9 livres (99.9%) or 2) 2009 livres (0.1%)

log(9) * 0.999 + log(2009) * 0.001 = 2.3

So you will prefer to bet 10% over 100%. The math does not bring you to "bet all of your fortune!" even if the odds is 1:100000000.
“Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question?”
Well, there is a middle ground between completely unrepairable and completely lego like. Nobody needs to glue the keyboard to the battery and the speakers in a laptop. My laptop is fine. Changing the battery is especially common, they wear fast. And Apple has shown that it did glue an unreliable keyboard to components that didn't need to be thrown away.

As for tablets, you can change the screen or the battery on an iPad 2 for instance - though not easily -, and its form factor was perfectly fine. A bit thicker would not make it horrible so I am sure it is also possible to design a repairable tablet and I think Fairphone proved that it is possible for phones too (although the Fairphone seems a bit thick, granted).

As for smartwatches, I'd argue that while there are valid use cases for them, most people certainly don't need them, so it should not be a big concern. Almost everybody has a phone now, and people who really want to wear the time on their arm can get a regular watch that will last decades instead of a smartwatch. We don't need to carry two computers 24-7. I hope this market is niche and remains niche. But I certainly can imagine that you don't need to glue the battery to the screen in a smartwatch neither anyway.
Some people say that they can hear this(1) as a distinct sound.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex
Nope, sorry. He could have left the embassy any time he wanted. Any 'torture' is purely self-inflicted.
This view seems like the usual textbook moral panic stuff.

The people most "easily manipulated by ads and disinformation campaigns" certainly—at first glance—don't appear to be the same people who are most comfortable using modern media channels.
I would think the Hough transform would be an important tool in your image recognition box but didn't see any mention of it.
Haha, I held my electric toothbrush behind my ear for about 60 seconds and it worked! The effect lasted only a couple of minutes. It seems like the heavy vibrations mixed things up in there, and when they settled back down, the ringing slowly returned.
As an employed person happy with my life I enjoy my corporation, does this make me not ok?
Exactly. It's important to distinguish those two questions:

A. Does a creator exist?

B. If so, would it care about where we put our sexual organs?

I see those often conflated: "There can't be something from nothing, so the universe must have been created, so the Bible must be true!" -- Eh. WAT?
shrug You're entitled to your opinion of course, but my point was that there is no objective measure for past sets being better, there's anecdotal evidence that (at least some) kids enjoy legos as much as I/we did 30 years ago, and there's plenty of scienfic evidence for 'rose colored glasses' wrt childhood memories, the subjective nature of 'enjoyment' and preferences being formed in childhood/adolescence.

I'm not going to argue set numbers and brick counts, I don't know anything about legos. All I can say is that I see children be just as creative with legos today as I and my friends ever were.
I didn't lie to my manager, I presented him an abstract view for quick and effective decision making without having to be "in the weeds".
There are also more high-quality documentary series than ever before. And more books, and more of everything.

I don't know what GP's expectation was - that the internet would turn everyone into Aristotle?
I’m guessing it’ll be an okay game. But because it isn’t excellent, that’ll be enough of a blow.

Yeah Valve has barely made any games this decade.
You're plastering this thread with the same talking points. People are responding to you. Were you going to address any of the responses, or just keep plastering?
The United Nations has criticized the US for it's treatment of prisoners in the past, the US just ignores them. It is worth noting that the two million incarcerated are serving sentences for crimes they were convicted of, making it marginally less horrible than Assange's situation.
Where is the step where PHP is installed and running on the machine, bound to port 80? This is a non-trivial step on every system (slightly less trivial if you bind to port > 1024 but still not for the absolute newbie).

Note that you can go much simpler by just loading a file into the browser, and absorbing the dynamism in the front-end. (If you really want a proper URL, then launch a simple static http server in the same directory as the html file.) The great benefit here is that the browsers dev tools are far better than PHP's.
Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
> Just go watch a TikTok compilation on YouTube if you want to get the best parts of it without downloading the app.

There's also https://www.tiktok.com/trending
As someone who uses Google Cloud, Azure, and used to work for Amazon, I am happy using GCP but find Azure to be lacking in a lot of ways.

Also Google support is usually absent but when I actually get to talk to a human, they're great. Microsoft support is usually present but often seems explicitly designed to waste my time.
Half Life a number between 2 and 4
MVPs are a great concept, but at least for me Google is way beyond the point to afford a MVP launch. they are Google, with that budget launched products should be a little bit better than that.

DISCLAIMER: Did not check out Stadia, i prefer to play on my own hardware.
wouldn't 2ms be <400 miles of travel? Youd have to be pretty close to the datacenter to get 2ms of latency when the computer needs time to do calculations as well
> So challenge it. Go fight the charges. Take the spotlight and let everyone see how unjust the law is.

Easy to nominate someone else for martyrdom.
Kernel? What kernel? You probably aren't using a separate kernel with an M3, though you might have an RTOS. You'll, as a rule, have the compiler putting the floating point emulations in directly. I think the performance hit is only around a factor of 100 or so for an M3 though.
A related issue is that software floating point must be used in the Linux kernel. Because floating point is rarely needed in kernel programming, FPU registers are not swapped when execution switches between kernel and user code. Instead, they're only switched when context switching between different processes using the FPU, and initially processes run with floating point instructions disabled.

> Basically it is almost always better to use integers when you can

I'd say: understand the limitations of FP, but it's almost always better to use them unless you have some particular precision or performance requirement. Then again, my experience of FP is mostly in graphics, where IEEE 754 single precision is good enough for almost anything you'd want, and hardware FP is commonplace.
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Appealing to authority is a lot less persuasive when it's a non-binding report from a minor working group. I read their account. It was poorly argued and inconsistent. Should we really accept a case that's made because of the authority making the argument rather than the argument itself?
> being a dick to women

I'll take things that are not crimes being used as proof of a crime for 1000, Alex.
Sorry man. US healthcare is honestly brutal. I am hoping you have insurance, which has a decent max out of pocket limit. It isn't a solution this insane problem though.

I too went into medical debt in my 20's. Now, in my 30s I deal with chronic pain but at least my credit recovered. I hope you recover from this!
This is a weird community of startup techies that built their lives around FOSS but yet are extremely hungry for cash and are willing to ignore everything that got them to where they are. You get an odd swath of ideals here, for better or worse.
Punched cards predate electronic computers by a long way. They were used in the Jacquard loom (1804) and Hollerith tabulating machines (1889). Other paper instruction storage included paper rolls, used for weaving by Bouchon (1725) and for playing music by Gavioli (1892).

IBM introduced the 80 column punched card in 1928, and that's what computers have been using until recently. Gavioli's book music is a precursor of MIDI.
China isn't noticeably more secretive about their violations of human rights law that Russia. Oh wait, I forgot Assange was a complete hypocrite...
I also think that the everyday super hero, for all purposes is not available in movies any more.

What happened to movies like Volcano or Speed?
It's not regressive. It's flat.
Throughout history it's been very clearly demonstrated that laws are not always just and impartial. I'd even go so far as to argue that there has never been a time in history where all laws were just and impartial. Having a difference of opinion doesn't automatically make the other person a troll, and acting like that's the case doesn't lead to productive discourse
And in this case, William Barr really doesn't want Assange here, in order to protect his client, Donald J. Trump. And that's why we will not see the extradition to the United States while the Justice Department has been essentially neutered by, what would you call it? Deep State?
It continues to surprise me that the official documentation seems to prefer using global configuration in /etc/ansible; it always seemed vastly preferable to me to put it in a repository under my home directory. This does mean that I have to put in a config file to point at my inventory, but that's a trivial one time change and now I don't have to touch system configuration owned by root every time I want to change my inventory or whatever.
But that's precisely why their first big AAA VR Experience is based on Half Life. It's probably one of the few franchises that (could) force people to jump into buying a VR rig. Yes, it's not exactly cheap, and it has some requirements like space, but being able to experience a new Half Life game after 12 years, is quite exactly the thing that will get people seriously interested.

(This is all coming from someone who's probably going to jump back into PC/VR gaming for this experience, depending on the reveal and pre-release coverage...)
PayPal is actually a bank in some countries.
> and streams of lies about extradition

What lies about extradition? Just as they forced him out of the embassy the US published an extradition request. There were also past cases such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
I think there’s a bit of hysteria here. Tiktok have completely separated their Chinese business and international one, with international server hosted outside China. Saying that data collection is funneled to CCP is like accusing any US company of _potential_ acquisition of foreign data by the US government. Or to rephrase, no Chinese business should have the ability to operate elsewhere because they are from China? I think it’s overboard and even somewhat hypocritical.
Thanks! So it started as complaint and only then took on the role as label for a summary. That explains it somewhat.
I don't think that "people" are interested in USA

CCP - yes
Now weigh (e.g. multiply) the number of each with the number of people actually consuming it. Just look at Youtube: If a serious video that teaches you something interesting has a thousand views it can be called "very popular". The latest useless joke video easily gets a million views.
WSJ report about Google search manipulation gets a lot wrong
> Why have we not improved real arithmetic since 1985?

Because most people actually want either fixed-point or floating-point arithmetic. Especially if you only consider the population who is willing to spend money to get better hardware to support their use cases.
This looks good...

But as soon as someone is convicted based on just a witness statement from a privately employed person whose bonus depends on getting a conviction, things have gone too far.

And this isn't far away...
So it is NOT just me! Whew.

@dang, not sure if this is your territory or not. I'm not sure of how to file a bug report :)
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When humans fail, AI may be solution to phishing attacks
> It was while he was defending Minsky and he was actually arguing that sex does not magically become rape depending on the country that you do it.

No, he wasn't defending Minsky, please stop saying that!

He was arguing that the definition of rape should not change based on the country you're in, or to put it in other words: if you are 16 in Italy, you can give consent to have sex, if you are 17 years and 364 days old in U.S.A., you can't.

That shouldn't change the definition of rape.

> It's just that they agreed to have a condom on but he apparently ripped it or something and she noticed it only afterwards

That's not what she says.

I was not there, did you?

I tend not to believe to a man that has at least 4 children with 4 women and he "prefers them virgins so he can be the first one to impregnate them" when it's about using condoms.

https://gawker.com/5757325/julian-assange-has-at-least-four-...

BUT we're seriously OT here.
Is that good faith? Ignoring the substance of a matter in order to opine in a way that, in context, qualifies as outright misinformation?
> This is rather ugly for it is not closed by inversion.

Sure, which is why Scheme is better than Raku here.

> this view is rather subjective, and only valid if you find rational arithmetic more natural than floating point

No, it is an objective fact that arbitrary decimal literals can be represented precisely, and precise operations performed with those representations, in a rational representation but not binary floating point, and that binary floating point trades that precise representation of expressed values and capability of precise operations with those values off for space and performance optimizations.
> muscle growth via nerve stimulation

Is this different from growth from physical activity?
Even if they're lying, they don't deserve the treatment Assange received for that crime.
FYI, the full interview is available here https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/moore-on-jerusal...

EDIT: The relevant quote (although the whole interview is pretty interesting):

"I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying. While these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of their twelve or thirteen year-old audience, today’s franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs. Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century. The continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest, combined with an numbing condition of cultural stasis that can be witnessed in comics, movies, popular music and, indeed, right across the cultural spectrum. The superheroes themselves – largely written and drawn by creators who have never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them, much less the rights of a Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster – would seem to be largely employed as cowardice compensators, perhaps a bit like the handgun on the nightstand. I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks."
Thanks for the link. I guess I was aware of the general lawlessness of that part of the world at the time, but the part about "cattle rustling being “considered one of the lowest forms of crime.”" seemed like a reference to some specific, well-known rule with which I was not familiar.
It's a sliver of a sliver of the market. Gamers -> PC gamers -> PC gamers with powerful gaming rigs -> PC gamers with powerful gaming rigs who care even a little about VR and so might buy a headset, if they don't already have one

I don't get this move. But hey, maybe I'm wrong and this'll be what takes it mainstream... somehow.
Right, because all evidence points to him getting a fair trial if he came forward.
That's a great news! - going to ty it soon.
Do you mean e or pi?
I've read somewhere that the flat company structure, which had an initial boost has started to be a detriment to the company.