skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...pull the bed to the side of the road and it's gone within a day

That's littering. In most places this carries a substantial fine. Sure, you, might not get caught. I've known several tenants that got large disposal fee bills from their landlords for doing this. This happened whether they left their trash on the sidewalk, or by/in the bins.

>it's easy to buy one used in a new city. If you can afford to heat treat it, you can be sure theres no bed bugs, or if you have a job, buy a $200-$300 mattress from amazon - theyre surprisingly good these days.

Easy != free. Every expense adds up.

Deposit up front before getting back whatever's left after the previous landlord takes their scammy fees.

Lost wages. Costs of moving itself, and disposing of stuff that needs to be repurchased . Buying new stuff, even replacing a modest set of furnishings for a studio from second hand stores can pass $1k easily.

>no family, no savings, just a lot of manual labor/smart packing.

That has a price tag. You're not calculating it accurately. Just because you think you made all those moves cheaply doesn't mean you did.

Did you rent vehicles? Rebuy furniture? Stay at hotels? Mooch off friends or family? Did you eat out or sleep in your car?

These costs grow with a family. It might cost me $500 to move in a hurry. But it could cost a family $10k or more.

Did they stay long enough to build significant equity or make repairs? They might've lost money compared to renting. Some people do everything right and suffer bad luck forcing a move in bad conditions.

Do they need to rent or stay at hotels in between the move out and move in? It's not always possible to avoid this.

Even moving/re buying a minimal amount of furnishings for a family can cost thousands. Moving it is often cheaper. That adds time and labor either way. Or cost to avoid this. Some people also aren't physically capable of moving themselves.

It feels so easy and simple because you make these decisions for you and you alone.
I'm not the earlier poster, but have similar reactions as that poster, and for me, yes, sometimes non-biological things trigger similar reaction. Not always, and usually not as strong, but it's often there. It can depend on context, my own physical state (fresh awake and mentally 'on' vs... tired/foggy/etc).
Moore's Law made it possible, not AWS.
Also to spam about using cookies and ask for the location data every single time you visit.

Ah the ultimate Single Page Abomination (as I jokingly call it even though I do my own at work but everything has its place).

Course Svelte is what might be the game changer in this regard.
OfferUp has been good in Norcal
> Can you just shoot these burglars on sight or do they have to be on your private property for that?

No idea about the law, but I would hope you value human life more than a stolen black suitcase.
Pathfinder 1.0 and 2.0 in the future?
As if remaining part of code of conduct doc promotes evil. Please
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You got a point there (pun intended :) about the symbol for zero.

I guess I was being generous with interpreting the parent comment, by mentioning the (possibly common and cross-cultural) visual association of a circle with womanhood, a straight vertical line with manhood.

I didn't mean to imply that the symbols for zero and one have direct historical origins in those ideas - like the parent comment might have suggested - but I do think there is a philosophical or artistic merit in drawing the analogy.
Bananagrams is a word game based on scrabble which has a really elegant catch up mechanic which comes so naturally out of the rules you barely notice. If you are behind you will tend to have more free tiles which don't require large rearrangements, making it easier to see new words. (This breaks down slightly with big skill differences or if you are way way behind but in most cases works perfectly)
I really don’t need an extended-C with productivity features... as that’s one of the defining points of C(the language is small). Fixing the warts (like different behavior between the overflow of unsigned ints & signed inta) would have been fine.

I personally want a better stdlib for C; fix the defiancies of <string.h>, removing the global locales (changing function behaviors according to LC_* was a really, really bad idea[0]), etc...

Does anyone know of an alternative stdlib for C?

[0] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
I see no reason to stop fetishizing privacy while social activism is so cancerously obsessed with mob justice. The government already has the ability to unmask us if they really want to. Why should the same courtesy be extended to the rabid masses?
Can you edit the monster stats for an encounter?
I've used instagram to buy drugs all over the world, usually no weird series of emoji are required.

"Hey! I'm visiting $city for a few days and looking for someone who can drop off $quantity for me at $hotel, cash only"
True !

Recently this has become pretty annoying in some cases : if I search the name of a sports team even though I mean something totally different, Google will start sending me notifications about that team. To make it worse, how to remove that team from your 'interests' is a bit convoluted.

I also have to go out of my way to make google understand that I am sometimes looking for a result in my native language (I live abroad).

Most of the time it is on point though. It does indeed seem that it taylors dev questions to the languages I use or more generally my interests.

If this kind of logic could be somehow stored on device instead of being something that Google (or Apple or whatever other company I don't have infinite trust in) owns, that would be a killer search product.
https://twitter.com/njal_la/status/1201420518848638976
You mean like the Americans did with Cisco? I am not really in a mood to defend the chinese regime, but the “free” West really threw away any moral high ground we might have had.
"statistics of the field as a whole, and of CS degree holders, show that that is a bias inconsistent with the real qualifications for the field which cannot avoid exaggerating the gender gap in the field."

You've made a counter-intuitive point and claimed that it's confirmed by statistics and yet haven't included any...
Looks very cool. Will definitely try it out for mapping out a scenario.

One thing I immediately wanted was a way to link certain lines to different pages. For example, I might come up with a character or other feature of a city on the spot for my players, and want to add it to that citys page to keep track of it for future reference. But I might also want to keep a linear log of what happened (or didn't) to my players. It would be nice if there was a way to link an entry from the city page to the log so I don't need to duplicate manually and everything is kept consistent if I later revise the entry in the city page.
I wonder if it is normal for slow release drugs to come with warnings telling you that you can crush them up and abuse them?
well... thank you very much. 3 am - can't sleep... now I'm terrified of even trying as I've never had that nightmare but it's now stuck in my head... :/
I just wanted to point out that the article mentions the number of pages, not pageviews, which is part of the reason why I find that statement so bizarre.
Yikes, the real horror is always in the comments.
I am actively working on robust custom monster support. Keep a look out for that update soon!
Long compile times are almost always because of bad use of header files which include basically everything, insteda of only the used component.
And this sometimes is because of bad separation of concersn / modularization.
The term "basilisk" is referring to the thought experiment itself, not the AI, by the way. A basilisk is something where perceiving it damages you, more or less.

The AI is nameless or might be referred to as Omega.
Or rich software engineers who consider themselves to be socially progressive, should give their money to the poor, instead of into 401Ks. Because, who knows if the company managing the the 401K is backing share buyback programs of the Apples of the world
The alternative sources in the post still aren’t at gender parity, though they do show a higher percentage of women. If you can hire equal amounts of men and women from those sources then you’ll move your metric up, but you won’t get to 50%.

To hit 50% when the hiring pool is less than 50% women would require women to get accepted at a higher rate than men.
Using patch files to fix bugs in your NPM dependencies
If this project garners enough interest, totally possible!
It's certainly not "toxic all the way through". That's such an insulting assumption. I bet you for example that at engineering university women are more likely to get help than men.
We'll need to see what comes out in the wash. Maybe the more OSS they encounter the more suggestions it will be able to make. Or maybe not and it will indeed be a sales pitch masquerading as a feature.
Let’s Get Personal; Why Brands Are Adopting This Data-Driven MarTech Strategy
Isn't the whole point of parenting to leverage our significantly larger base of life experience to steer our children away from potentially harmful (or at least sub-optimal) decisions somewhat induced by their own inexperience?
The FBI and analogous TLAs do this all the time. And generally, there's no recourse.

In many cases, sites have resorted to distributing their IP addresses.
a) making for-profit companies responsible for education is an anti-pattern

b) suggesting that those people should be paid less is immoral
While I’m opposed to using legal terms to weasel out of an insurance claim, it’s an interesting question. If Russia deliberately dropped a bomb on Merck’s factory, it would unquestionably be an act of war. Likewise if they dropped a bomb on a neighboring plant and also accidentally destroyed Merck’s plant.

But dropping a bomb on a facility in Ukraine, with equally destructive shrapnel destroying facilities all over the world? Knowing that using this weapon can easily cause such collateral damage?

We barely have the terminology for discussing this type of warfare. The initial attack was an act of war, certainly. Beyond that, we have to come up with definitions and reactions. At the very least, it’s a subject for diplomatic channels, maybe even sanctions.
Spanish guy here. Just to give ya'll some context of why bootcamp hiring does not work here.

I had to go through the "do I go to a bootcamp or get a CS degree" conundrum 5 years ago.
The answer was quite clear for me.

All the serious and stable jobs that were offered in the entire nation except for the capital city, Madrid, required you to have a CS degree + bootcamps/X years of experience for a specific language.

Either that or they outright asked for a Master's degree or a PHD in a specific field.
Simply applying normal statistics to candidates feels wrong as we usually have to make the “random independent variable” assumption for the simple statistical analysis we do.

I fairly certain that assumption does not hold about humans. Our social environment has a direct impact on our work outcomes.

Ergo, simply picking the top best candidates for some individual measure candidates does not guarantee the best work outcomes and so, depending on the effect size, doesn’t necessarily confer any advantage.
In the same way the fact that Microsoft is a US company has implications on backdoors/exploits and Windows. Except C for all is Open Source, so you can go check.
Yes.

The assumption you're making is that everyone who is capable of doing a dev job manages to get one, so if you remove all the hiring biases all those people will continue to get dev jobs and nothing will really change.

That assumption is wrong.

There are thousands of people who can't get dev jobs for reasons other than lacking technical ability. Some hiring managers filter out candidates before the make it to interview for absolutely stupid reasons. Some companies have hiring practices that are plain stupid and select out capable engineers for dumb reasons. If hiring was a multiple choice exam those people would be able to enter the industry and there'd be fewer companies with unfilled positions.

Also, even if you don't think it'd have much of an impact on the numbers across the industry, the numbers at the specific companies that have bad hiring biases obviously would change. That could be useful.
It’s interesting how “evolutionary approach” is used. Compare with C2: http://www.c2lang.org/

I think that in the case of C2 it’s still a language that will rely on the same paradigms as C, whereas C-for-all is more of a “kitchen sink” style of language that moves very far from C in how the natural code solutions are. Just the small change adding destructors and constructors is a feature with huge impact on how data will be managed (for better and for worse)

(Full disclosure: I have contributed to C2 in the past and I’m working on the C3 lang which is feature and syntax-wise based on C2 but goes further: https://www.c3-lang.org )
> which BTW isn't a country, so by definition, one can't go to war with it?

Suppose North Korea shoots artillery on Samsung factories. Is that not an act of war because they were targeting a company's buildings?

The US has some mixed messaging on cracking. On the one hand they reserve the right to consider attacks on them as acts of war (and to respond with bombs) on the other hand they have no reservations about cracking others (e.g. Iran).
I've been working fully remotely since 3 months or so and I love it. I have much more control over disturbances (i.e. people walking to my desk) and much more flexibility in how I structure my time. When I get in the flow of working I can focus fully, and when my focus is gone I can answer emails or take a shower, prepare lunch, that sort of thing. I don't have to adjust to other people's rhythms as much and it makes a big difference in how I feel about my work.

It's nice to have people around in an office and I do miss out on some of the quick conversations. Overall our team is quite distributed though so it's not much of an issue. I live with my girlfriend and a bunch of other housemates so it doesn't get too lonely. I do make a point of going outside regularly and getting some exercise (biking or hiking) since when I'm working I'm mostly behind my desk.
Do not forget you can say thank you via the /feedback command in Slack
> - Allow administrators of domain in .org to "opt in" to being managed by Mozilla by placing special DNS records or the like.

Wouldn't this effectively be a hostile takeover of .org by Mozilla? This seems like it could set a dangerous precedent.

E.g., what if Google decides later that some other registries are also untrustworthy and offers management on Chrome?
The main problem with allowing cyberattacks into the "declaration of war" category against all known diplomatic norms, is that attribution is extremely questionable. History is full of false flags done in the physical realm. Cyberattacks will be no different, other than easier to perform.
You quoted the key point: "idiomatic C++ code is difficult to use from C": most C++ libraries are useless in C programs.

They want the productivity improvement of C++ without leaving behind 2-way compatibility.
Exactly - craft beer has been taken over by IPAs over here - and variations about them.

I personally love stouts and porters - yet there is a severe shortage of them. There was a 'whiskey/bourbon barrel aged RIS" craze short while ago, but it was all the same.. and they were available only in brewery pubs.

When i go to store the beer wall is full of IPAs, another one is full of lagers(I'll pass on them).. and maybe 2-3 types of stouts/sours/porters are mixed with IPAs.
Professional Service Expenses will be the lawyers, accountants, auditors, etc. That adds up quickly. I’m actually a bit surprised it’s not higher. It makes me wonder what percentage of the day the GC spends giving legal advice vs. haggling with outside counsel about billing.
Nice move from puri.sm

At page 15 and 16 there are some M.2 connectors. One has an USB line named USB2_WIFI_D* and the other USB2_4G_D* so I guess these are used for 2 external radio modules (WIFI/BT and 4G).

I wonder what these modules are. Will it ship with the same from the devkit (RedPine WiFi/BT M.2 module on SDIO, SIMCom SIM7100E)? Pretty important from a security/privacy standpoint.
"Thank you for giving us a hard to find, poorly named option to opt out of your buggy shit"?
How? Apples and Oranges comparison
Okay, deep breath, this will be unpleasant.

1. Do you ban creators for "hate speech"?
1b. If yes: What is "hate speech"?

2. Will you ban creators for content published outside your platform? (e.g. erotic content published on other platforms but not mentioned in their BmaC profile)

3. Will you ban creators for content completely unrelated to your platform? (e.g. drunken Twitter rants)
Internal billing is such a joke everywhere I have had the misfortune of stumbling across it.
You use sdslen() instead of strlen(). Ditto for everything else. Failure to do so results in subtle bugs.
My opinion: applying one-size-fits-all formulaic interviewing to your candidates excludes unconventional talent. Asking personal questions and following through on them unearths the smart and self-motivated talent. As an unconventional CS talent myself, I've had the most success with this approach on both sides of the interview process.

What do I mean by personal questions? My favorite interview so far left all the academic quizzing aside and asked me to talk in-depth about a particular real-world project I worked on. What patterns did I use? How did it interact with the database? How did I model the problem? This was not something that would be easily googled and it let me convey how I think about software on my own terms. Then it was up to the interviewer if my approach to software would be useful to them.
I paid $5 to post a used truck for sale ad on craigslist. The only responses I got was from scammers. I posted for free on facebook market place with copy pasta text + pictures. 10+ inquiries and sold it in 2 days for my asking price. craigslist is going down the tubes and they are just cynically capitalizing on every bit of revenue they can before it fades into obscurity.
This is a bit simplistic my educated guess is in Russia, Ukraine and prob some other countries given pay structure in 3 letter agencies they simply can not afford hiring proper skills for the cyber sec especially for the offensive side. So they have a hybrid private/gov system where certain groups get some level of immunity for their "commercial" activities in exchange for deploying their skills for 3 letter agency use when needed. Alternatively people who are caught for some criminal activity get their sentence suspended in exchange for services.
Create Google first and we will all see :-)
Anyone saying it isn’t an issue - what if I want to turn location services off for everything except one app. This is impossible to do with this setup.

I either need it on and on for that app - and it phones home without permission.

Or I have to completely turn it off.
Latest Edge dev preview has supported it since the switch to Chromium. The Chromium-based Edge launches on Jan 15th, at which point Edge will support it.

Safari (WebKit) actually has a fully working implementation, they just haven't shipped it yet. Search the release notes for "BigInt": https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
Well, WhatsApp was started by industry experts in scaling. If you're making a point about functional programming, I'd tend to agree but from a business perspective I'd look to why Netflix still uses AWS: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Netflix-still-use-AWS
Problem with google is that they are losing data game.

They own the web but meanwhile web became only one medium among many and a lot of companies build their own "web"

Instagram app is essentially a browser to use IG's private "web" of content google has no access to.

Same goes for twitter, even Snapchat.

So attention wise, google is loosing dominance as other companies are building their own protocols on top of web.

Speaking of data,they own search intent (via Google) and web content (via Google analytics).

However I'd say Facebook is ingesting way more data on non-content usage. They made much easier for advertisers to connect into FBs audience graphs and cross reference and retarget based on first-party visitor profiles.
Facebook too. I hate both with a similar passion. But I'm in tech and thanks to HN I have a vague idea how the sausage is made. Do regular users share our dislike of these companies? If not, which is what I suspect, this fleeing will be mostly nonexistent.
I’ve worked at a couple of mid-late stage startups and currently at a FAANG and I’ve observed very few engineers that I would put in the “bro” category. I don’t know how this became the stereotype when nerd is still the dominant character class by far.

Is it just me? Does anyone find that their workplace is even 50% brogrammer?
Satirical-edgy leftist meme pages
Relive it here for modern languages (Python, Perl, JavaScript): https://www.masswerk.at/card-readpunch/

For a proper reenactment, write you program by pen(cil) and paper first, then punch. Let a few hours pass before execution in order to raise anticipations to appropriate levels. Refer to your pen-and-paper listing for debugging.
This used to be the case in Dubai when I used to live there. The defacto classifieds website in UAE is called dubizzle (dubizzle.com) which is a subsidiary of OLX. People used to use similar (in fact, worse) haggling tactics to get things for cheap. Couple this with spam and selling an item becomes a nightmare. On the contrary, I have had a far better experience on Kijiji and Facebook in Canada.
It's not that evil. The first time used AWS, I really enjoyed the power and easy to set up the whole system from scratch everything (network, servers....) If it's on-premise, it'd cost a ton of effort of a lot of ppl. AWS is not that's hard, the console + UI is user friendly and they have a great document site so you don't really need to get these AWS's certs (I had one about 3-4 years and honestly the information in these tests are not helpful, rarely 1 people need to remember a lot of details in 20+ services of amazon, whenever you want to use one just start reading document about it).
A new service from AWS - that's great. At least that is a new option for end user.
The original reason was that smart people like career progression. Money alone isn't enough to keep them - they want something good on their business cards. Otherwise some will leave to become CEO of another company.

By making a group of companies, you can have many CEO's, more directors, more VP's, etc. and therefore keep hold of more smart people who are after external recognition more than money.
Computation was extremely expensive back then. Was it typically financially beneficial?
I don't know what you'd consider colossal but the migration doesn't sound fun: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/facebook-instagram/
Your function is frozen if there is no active invoke in progress. So no, ssh or minecraft server will not work, unless you make them communicate over Lambda invocations.
I don't use JavaScript and the page scrolled fine. No links worked, but it scrolled smoothly.
I don't get the commotion about this. The old slack editor was really poor, and the new one is just as poor, but differently.

But at least with the WYSIWYG you can see before you send what parts of the markup it got wrong.
There are hidden system services in the iPhone that can’t have their location settings individually turned off.

Interesting, this is my understanding as well and don't see how anyone can claim it is a non issue.
Just because the west also can't necessarily be trusted not to try to sneak exploits into sponsored projects (or through other means, such as a snail mail MITM) doesn't mean we shouldn't ask the question of other countries as well.

Whataboutism is never the correct answer to a valid concern (in general. I'm not sure if there's much to worry about in this specific case or not).