skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems rather disempowering to include “body” in the list of things not under your control. That control is not complete, but it exists to an extent.
If permission is not granted it's de facto illegal.
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2811

The Nim language in 2008 (when it was known as Nimrod) had originally been planned a similar approach of considering a unified AST with multiple "syntax skins," and as far as I understand there used to be a limited implementation of this. This would theoretically have been a boon for Nim, because an often complaint about Nim from emigrating programmers from languages with a C-style syntax was the (rather superficial) complaint - "no braces? Pythonic syntax? Yuck!"

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.1427.1428691340.3111....

The problem with this - and why Nim never really committed to the "syntax skin" concept - is that it would have led to far much fragmentation within Nim's own community as some users would prefer one "sub-language" over another. Given as it is the opinion of new languages (Nim included) towards a tool-based unified syntax formatting (e.g. certain naming conventions for identifiers, number of spaces for indent), "syntax skins" have become harder of a sell in favor of lingual consistency.

The original idea was that the same program could be rendered in a variety of different syntaxes in the author's IDE - but the implied maintenance cost of such skins plus that previously mentioned potential for fragmentation led to this idea falling to the wayside. Nim, as a language, grew to be quite flexible within its prime syntax over the years - e.g. the macro system (which modifies the AST directly) made way for a variety of DSLs (e.g. https://github.com/khchen/wNim#code-examples) that remain valid Nim code.
I'd like to request that nobody else make any more damn infrastructure tools that require writing code in order to use it, or require reading six manuals. I don't want to spend the rest of my life writing and editing glue and cruft, or spending two weeks researching and writing elaborate config files by hand just to make some software run.

It's like the infrastructure version of fine woodworking - building dovetails and screwless joints by hand, using chisels and hand planes and card scrapers and shit, to build a box. It may be "fun", but it's also needlessly complicated and time-consuming. Give me the power tools, pocket hole jigs, torx screws, nail guns, square clamps. Yes, the dovetails will make a more sturdy box - but do you need a box with dovetails? Probably not.
Grub Boot Loader Adds Support for LUKS2 Encrypted Disks
Try driving an (electric) Smart in the US. At least in the Bay Area everyone looks at us like we're crazy and inevitably there's at least one person a week commenting something in the parking lot.
Yep. Blood pressure monitors' accuracy goes like this, top-to-bottom, most to least accurate:

Mercury sphygmomanometer
Aneroid sphygmomanometer
Digital meter (arm-cuff)
Digital meter (wrist-cuff)
Digital meter (finger cuff)

The mercury sphygmomanometer is the kind with the upright scale on a mercury column that sits on a table-top and is operated with a hand-pump and a stethoscope. The Aneroid sphygmomanometer is also hand-pumped and used with a stethoscope, but it's got an analog dial and it does not have a table-top component.

The watch we're talking about is a digital meter with a wrist cuff, so it should be less accurate than a digital meter with an arm-cuff but more than one with a finger-cuff.
>Maybe we need an acceptable way for people who can't mentally handle work to be able to exist in society.

agreed. in america, the "acceptable way" is rapidly becoming suicide. of course, it's unacceptable. but that's what we've left people with.
The case against Uber was led by a local company providing among other things an app to hail normal taxis. It wasn't just some politicians decision.

Personally I never saw the big appeal of Uber and co anymore as soon as such apps starting to come around (which is since at least 2014 in Colombias major cities)
How is men’s soccer more exciting to watch rather than woman’s soccer? It’s literally people kicking a ball around. Does the ball explode if you are a man and kicking it?
You think a life where the only people who really know you and care about you actually kind of just loathe you? Contriubting nothing back to the scioety that created you? Leaving nothing on this earth after your gone then a collection of garbage?

> Maybe we need an acceptable way for people who can't mentally handle work to be able to exist in society.

What does mentally can't handle work even mean.

Animals can work, its that people don't want to work. Just because the reasons are probably more related to society than the individual doesn't mean they can't work.
Hashicorp Vault as storage engine for notary client theupdateframework/notary
Intent goes both ways - while perhaps there was no intent to have people die, there was deliberate intent to not do something about safety being compromised that they knew they should've done something about (or that they should have known about, being in their position to affect it or bring it to attention, instead of hiding or skirting around it).

It's not unreasonable to think that compromising safety (which they knew they were doing) could bring harm to people (including death).
Roughly 1 million men serve in the US Military (1.29 million total, ~82% of which is male).

[1]: https://www.cfr.org/article/demographics-us-military
life extension is not immortality.

Do you want to extend the life of your body or be mind-immortal? Two entirely different things.

Right now consciousness needs the physical shell to exist. What a Faustian bargain!

FWIW, I believe uploading consciousness will happen in the next 20-30 years.
One thing this piece really brings home to me is how unethical it is for media to sell sponsored content intermixed and indistinguishable from their own content. How do you trust a media outlet when their content is for sale? I know this practice pre-dates the internet, but it's hugely damaging to people's faith in the media.

I think Facebooks' failure in PR is more a symptom of how far Facebook has slid down the ethical slope into outright corruption. As you do more and more heinous things, it becomes more difficult to defend those actions.
How does this refute the previous position that women in general aren't currently as interested in computer science as teaching or nursing?
>Exactly. Extreme example of how the more localized we can keep politics, the better people can choose their government.

Using this logic, why doesn't every block in the US have their own local government? The reason is that these things don't scale linearly and that some decisions need to be made on a large scale in order to be practical. You can't have individual blocks creating their own privacy legislation and expect companies to be able to meet every law in every jurisdiction. There is a reason you have probably gotten dozen of "We have updated our privacy policy" emails over the last two months and that is because of the CCPA. Are we supposed to go through that process every time any individual municipality adjust their laws? Coming to a consensus on a singular approach to something like that is much more efficient even if large groups of people are unhappy with the final law.
> The story is a good analogy but the tone of the article is weird and condescending.

In think that's part of the point. And at the end he realizes that maybe he's not any different than the lotus-eaters; or, that the lotus-eaters are more like him than he thinks.
Low-Code Will Completely Change Startups
To be fair, I believe the author is writing the article with a fair amount of self-awareness about that.
Twitch’s Non-Gaming Just Chatting Category Was Watched More Than Any Game Dec 19
> Whereas other wild species who espouse pretty much the same behavior - rats, foxes, mice - are seen as pests.

I have not heard of anyone having a problem with rats and mice hunting other animals. They are mainly considered pests because they eat human food stores. And the only context I have heard of foxes considered pests is when they hunt livestock, chickens, geese etc. If a domestic cat starts hunting chickens, I am pretty sure it will have consequences as well.
Well if you're anywhere in western EU, thanks to the social system, it shouldn't be destructive to you. Not that I support it, but I frequently hear support of it from the automotive industry people (especially VW and Skoda) - you should use it then.
Previous revisions of the vehicle had measly 100KM (65 mile) ranges, and were only available to US consumers in California. Fiat also used older cell tech that wasn't as reliable or dense as newer prismatic cells. I do not know if the cells were temperature regulated, but that would explain the range and reliability issues found with the OEM cell packs.

The car itself is quite interesting in my opinion, but the untenable range and lack of accessibility doomed it to unpopularity. If Fiat made a reasonably priced version with at least 200KM of range, and high quality cells, I would make it my next car.
There are two different kinds of cryptographic hashes. It's confusing because there isn't standard terminology to distinguish between them, so I'm just going to call them Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 hashes are designed to be fast and Type 2 hashes are designed to be slow. MD5, SHA, and Blake are Type 1 hashes. Bcrypt is a type 2 hash, as is PBKDF. Type 2 hashes are built using Type 1 hashes as components. Type 2 hashes also typically include additional features like salts that Type 1 hashes do not have.
Can you help clarify what really happened?
It depends on the timelines on which you are measuring success. If these regulations get all-electric car ubiquity to arrive 5 years earlier, but in the process causes many domestic firms to shutdown, consolidate, etc. we may be sacrificing the competitiveness and innovation in this industry 25-50 years down the road.

It may be that this is a valid trade off to make, but it warrants thought at the very least.
And do what? Trust the experts? Which experts? Who puts them in the decision process? Often it's the political class.

Let the political class make all of our decisions for us without any armchair quarterbacking and see where that gets you. If we don't poke our noses into things then they see a mandate to do whatever they decide they have a mandate to do. Nobody's complaining so things are going great.

Democracy without participation is dangerously unstable.
Uber is essentially a Bring-Your-Own-Hardware for taxis. It's sort of "decentralizing" the taxi service, if you will. And laws seem to be antiquated for such a model. I wonder how decentralization of the tech industry, next, would play out if the laws are not written with that in mind. How do you tax a platform that offers, say, AWS but with commodity hardware? How do you ascertain data privacy laws in such a case?
I wonder if this depends on what language you develop in. I've been working on C++ teams for the past few years, and I don't witness any age bias. If there is an age bias, it's against younger engineers, because usually older engineers are much better at C++. The classical image of a programmer is still highly respected on every team I've worked on.

Also, I am an ex division 1 wrestler, and pretty muscular, and I always felt my physique actually worked to my detriment in interviews; I take a lot of steps to not come off as a jock/meathead. I wear glasses to make myself look more like a programmer, than an athlete. Maybe there is a difference though between being in shape, and being a division 1 wrestler.

Or maybe this is mostly a west coast/silicon valley thing. I've been working out of NYC mostly. Regardless though, this article really does not resonate with my experience as a software engineer.
Absolutely true. Although I’m assuming some people will take offence to the idea of it being run by an American owned company.
Both people knew it was wrong, but Larry and Sergey's best buddy got promoted to become one of the most powerful executives on the planet and paid hundreds of millions of dollars, and the woman got pushed out of her job and left to support their kid herself.
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4 isn't right (anymore) because they made all political ads available to anyone who wants to see them. https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2405092116183307?id=2...
Of any country I've visisted, Uber is the least necessary in Colombia. The taxi system is extremely fair and safe, albeit cash only right now. It's highly regulated and you can count on predictable, transparent, fair rates.

When I took an Uber at the Medellin airport, a guy saw me waiting at the curb and called my name, explaining that he would drive me to my actual Uber. I hopped in, and he drove me a mile or two outside the airport to a lot where all the real Ubers were waiting. We switched cars, and presumably he got some small kickback, then returned to the airport to smuggle people to their Uber. It was a pretty interesting experience; the police at the airport readily fine Ubers that pick up passengers and know the cars by license plate.
Just wait until Apple releases a Mac mini powered by an A-series CPU. If I had to bet, I’d say this will be the first Arm Mac they will release. This way developers can easily buy one for porting their apps before A-series-based MacBooks are released.
From a UX perspective a single pedal might be better, but from an efficiency perspective, I'd rather have manual control over acceleration and braking.

Heck, given the option, I'd try a car with three separate controls for standard brakes, regenerative braking and acceleration. I expect it would be a lateral move in complexity compared to the stick shift I currently drive.
What's your goal in asking so many almost irrelevant questions?

1) Probably. 2) No. 3) No. 4) No. 5) Depends. 6) Depends. 7) Sure.

I use "almost irrelevant" because "miscreant" is such a broad term that it can apply to any "person who behaves in a way that is morally wrong, badly, viciously or in a criminal manner." https://dictionary.thelaw.com/miscreant/

Yes, a miscreant doesn't even need to break the law.

The example at https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/miscreant is "A miscreant is a person who behaves badly — who lies, breaks the law, yells at puppies. It's a somewhat old-fashioned word, popular with old ladies shocked at having their purses stolen at the opera."

"Yelling at puppies" and "procuring an underage girl for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute" is such a broad range of behavior that your questions involving that term can't meaningfully be about the MIT's actions. Or any real-world discussion of ethics.
I'm amused by this assessment given how you could pretty much say the exact same comment in reverse.

Specifically, between these "intelligent people [on Hacker News]" and a "guy [with] dubious insights", one of these groups has a couple of billion dollars invested in every single one of the topics in the document whereas the other... well, maybe Bill or Jeff or Satya or one of the others reads Hacker News, but I doubt it. :)
Larry Page used to “date” Marissa Meyer. You make what you want to make of Meyers meteoritic rise at Google
Or don't, because that's entirely irrelevant
For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'
Quote from link above: "HR told me that Sergey's response to it was, 'Why not? They're my employees,'" Ayers said. "But you don't have employees for f---ing! That's not what the job is."
“the type of person who can build frontends for Google AdWords doesn’t have the skills necessary to do something better and should be content providing a service and taking care of their family” is one of the most condescending things I’ve read in a long time. Even for hacker news.

You ever watch that South Park episode where they make fun of Hollywood where all the actors love the smell of their own farts? These days I feel that this is a pretty apt of a criticism of SV and Bay Area culture..
So, your suggestion is that the dry forests cause climate change? Or is it the fires? Or does a common cause cause climate change and dry forests and fires, but the forests drying out has nothing to do with temperatures?

Like, are you seriously asking whether scientists have looked into whether high temperatures and low rainfall cause dry forests and whether dry forests burn more easily? Do you really think it is a big unsolved question in science whether hot air dries stuff and whether dry stuff burns more easily than wet stuff, and maybe it's actually dry stuff that makes air hot and the fire causes the things to have been less wet before they burned?
Common practice from VC is to do a 3rd party financial audit - billed to the startup in the end. Very expensive, but as you mention, it helps uncover potential ticking time bombs.

It's easy to complain about a heavy, expensive finance audit, but startups commonly are setup or practicing mildly to extremely incorrectly. It's just too risky not to do it.

Tech audits seem to fly under the radar a lot. Post deal, I've had one principal complain to me a portfolio company was using a single table for users & bookings just more columns - what. Ruined the company for 14 months to fix the tech with all the deployed money and the business never recovered. Extreme, but there should be someone looking.
I have an Altair - when I bought it, it came with a controller card for an 8-inch floppy system...with one slight difference:

It was for so-called "hard sectored" drives.

If you know about floppies, you know they have a timing hole near the hub ring; as this flies past a sensor, the controller can use it to keep the speed of the motor constant, as well as determine what sector on a track is currently under the head of the drive. Depending on timing and other factors, it can allow for varying size sectors - this is known as "soft sectors".

Hard sector drives had a similar sensor, but the floppies had - instead of a single hole - multiple holes spaced around the hub - one hole for each sector, hence "hard sectored"...

It was mainly a difference with the media and controller, not so much the drive itself, IIRC.

The problem is that, if I ever could even find an actual drive for the system, I'd probably never find any media; as it is, it's getting more difficult to find 5.25" media in the old 8-bit era "low-density" format - at least, anything new (similarly, low-density 3.5" floppies are difficult to find - which stinks for Amiga owners).

High density floppies in both 5.25" and 3.5" sizes are much easier to find - though the 5.25" drives can be an issue (not that they are hard to find, but sometimes the prices are thru the roof - mainly because of demand from industrial controllers that used PCs for CNC control needing replacements).
This is a hoary old chestnut; my dad told me this back in the 1990s.
> This time is different and we should know, as Jon, one of this story’s authors, worked for the last 10 interior secretaries as a career NPS manager, and ultimately led the agency under Barack Obama,

Previous agency director, criticizing current director.
I’d also factor in maternity, too. I believe research shows that women’s salaries lag significantly after they give birth, even if they take no time off.
One problem I see with this is your example of nurses. Women went into nursing in the past frequently because it was open to them, and being a doctor wasn't. That's changed, and now the only reason to be a nurse is because the educational requirements are much lower, and consequently, there's a shortage of nurses because who wants to do that instead of being a doctor and making more money, unless they don't want to spend as long in school and rack up as much debt?

Also, nurses are some of the least empathetic people around. Don't be fooled by the common misconception; they're usually not caring people at all. "Nurse Ratchet" is not that far from the truth. My mom was a nurse, and I've met many others; they're just not the nicest people around. And there's a good reason for this: a highly empathetic person would not last very long as a nurse. They'd get burned out very quickly, after seeing so many sick and dying people up close day after day.
Preventing suicide through pesticide regulation
That’s how I interpreted it as well. I was laughing at multiple occasions.

“I was in the throes of a lotus dream”
I'm quite certain that the cost of making albuterol didn't suddenly rise by three thousand percent.

How is bypassing that sort of extortionate pricing not a clear price savings?
You won't do anything about it if you are making money off of it.

The rest of us can't do anything about it except vote, which does nothing because both major parties are in bed with the MIC. So here we are.

It's funny how everyone is all worried about this now that Trump is President and not when Obama was doing all those extra-judicial killings using drones for eight years.
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> The goal is to reduce CO2, not create more electric cars. That’s just one possible solution.

Well shooting yourself in the foot is a pretty bad way to achieve those goals.

> Additionally have you seen how small Tesla is compared to someone like VW? They’re easily an order of magnitude smaller.

A US company benefiting from much looser regulation at home and most of all the insane FED money printing making its way to the stock market and funding them with free money.

> Finally if Tesla are building in the EU then they’re contributing to the EU manufacturing industry, and they’re beholden to EU regulation.

So we can all be factory workers for americans. Great.
why is that .co.uk anyway? like other countries have .de .nl.. at certain point i thought its smebody owning co.or reselling subdomains.
There are a significant number of tech workers I know that do genuinely believe that companies should leverage their technology to benefit the candidates that they feel would be better for the country, and do things like ban Trump's social media accounts. This is what Bosworth was addressing:

> But he maintained that the company should not change its policies on political advertising, saying that doing so in order to avert a victory by Mr. Trump would be a misuse of power, comparing it to a scene from “The Lord of the Rings.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/facebook-andre...
This is an English speaking forum, and post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged, unless they are very good and there is no equivalent material in English.

This looks on-topic, but I think there are similar post in English.

To get more traction, try writing a version in English and a version in Spanish with crosslinks, and post here the English version.
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Non-american here so pardon my ignorance: Why is "basement" so common in this case? I mean, the whole "living with parents" and the basement thing.
More like missing out on 2 mil
I think his purpose, in his head at least, was to say "don't get comfortable here." That's why he means by "lotus" the entire time -- the perks and luxuries that make you comfortable and unwilling to leave what you've got.

I don't personally agree with his version of Ithaca, and certainly not his condescension towards others, but this part at least seemed self-consistent.