skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course that doesn't stop everyone (because not everyone may be aware of that desire).

This is only true to the extent that the church is extremely efficient at tracking down ex-members and sharing this information with local congregations and extremely inefficient at remembering that people have requested multiple times with multiple authorities never to be contacted again.

People are visited by members of the church, acting as members of the church, introducing themselves as representatives of the church, visiting an address given to them by the church, and asking for a person they've never met by name,
at an address the person has recently moved to after leaving the church. Again, I've witnessed this firsthand, in front of my own eyes.

Think of the effort it takes to pull that off. It's not an innocent oopsie.
I hope they don't end up in court. I've been a fact witness in 3 patent troll cases. The side I was a witness for won one, forced a settle-out-of-court for the second, and lost the last one. The last one was the biggest and most egregious. There was clear prior art, at least to anyone with a solid understanding of the field (in this case, adding state to otherwise-stateless HTTP interaction).

I remember looking the jury in the eye during my testimony and thinking "these people are tired, they are bored and they don't really have a clue about any of the technology involved here". Sure, it's the lawyers job(s) to try to make sure they do, and that they decide in the "right" direction. But seriously - taking a semi-random set of 12 jurors, sitting them them for 1-2 weeks of court room "education" in network technology, protocols, filesystems, cookies, URL structure and so much more, and then expecting them to come to an "informed" decision?

This is not a justice system worth defending. In the last case, no jury of "peers" - ie. other engineers who actually understand what the patents are about - would ever have found for the plaintiffs. But you end up in court with a very different jury than that, and at that point, the battle has just started.
Unlimited time and resources? I'd try to tackle the global security issues related to advanced cyberattack. It's such a complex problem I don't even know if it's possible, but it would require hardening software update servers, networks, and utilities (especially electrical power distribution) to the point where a single bad Windows update doesn't take out the economy.
Even worse, the lack of proper compiler design courses in many universities or "engineer" bootcamps, means that many attribute to language X, what is actually a compiler backend capability, like you quite well explain.
Pitch to Gwyneth Paltrow: Pooping magnets.
The problem with Typora is that the spell-checking is every intelligence agents dream. And it's a fucking cock app or whatever. Based on chrome. Can't come up with the name since I'm high as fuck. As always. But if you got spellchecking on you're likely monitored. Have fun with your cia shit my hnigger.

Edit typora is an electron app, I just forgot the name. All your cia is belong to the spell checker my dear sir. They got all your notes.
For example, Christians and LDS have different answers for these 3 fundamental questions:

Who is God?

LDS: God was once a man, who became a god There is more than one god, but only one god that we have to do with.

Christianity: There is only one God, who is the creator of all other things.

What happens when you die?

LDS: If you are truly evil, you will go to the bad place. If you are generally ok, you will go to the ok place. If you follow LDS teachings your whole life and perform the required temple rituals, you will eventually become a god.

Christianity: Heaven (eternity with God) or Hell (eternity without God)

What must you do to be saved?

LDS: You must perform many good works, including temple rituals.

Christianity: There is no good work you can perform that will save you. You have to trust Jesus and put your faith in Him. Good works are possible evidence that you have done this.
I think it was in the beginning, and its certainly easier to set up for Chinese citizens. The big hurdle is you needed a Chinese bank account. Alipay now has a Tourpass which is specifically made for foreigners.
Rather than "(2014)" maybe the title should say "(1898)" or something.
A search engine that produces results
you would find interesting/helpful/engaging most of the time. It should heavily penalize SEO optimized, clickbaity listicle trash. Content that was created organically as part of a conversation should rank very highly if it's relevant to the query, as well as blog posts from obscure but highly relevant and informed sources.

Google died when they stopped being well informed librarians and started being aggressive salespeople. It's time for a new search engine to step in specifically catered to the curious.
There are many implementations of C#, a few of them use LLVM, like Xamarin AOT, IL2CPP, Burst.

.NET Core and .NET Framework, do not.
I find its the opposite, in the US they weren't this slow when they were rolling out 20 years ago. Probably 10-15 years ago they started to get a lot slower, they went from basically instant to increasingly laggy. Gas stations have been rolling out chip aware ones for the past couple years and overwhelmingly they seem fairly laggy. It seems like there are a couple brands that are faster, and the rest are timeslicing 10k pumps inputs on a mainframe in new jersy (ok that's a joke but wouldn't surprise me if they are javascript based and round-tripping over dial-up to a linux machine fronting a AS400 or something).
Well, it would be p-hacking if you tried 1,032 different hypotheses until you got one that passed your threshold. There's quite a lot of scientific history (e.g. Kepler's discovery that planets went in elliptical orbits) that would have to be thrown out if you decided you could never use data for anything other than the original hypothesis. Kepler didn't even collect the data, much less collect it with the idea that the planetary orbits were elliptical.

Having said that, the results smells (pun intended) bad, just because I cannot think of any plausible reason for a non-migrating animal to align with the magnetic field, when defecating or at any other time.
I did not understand the 3 bins of 0%, 1%, 2% etc. declination. Does anyone have a simple explanation for that?

Also, the point about the sun is good -- maybe they just don't want sun in their eyes. Clearly the very dedicated and obsessed researcher needs to do a similar study but indoors. Can you imagine who has the personal passion to do this data collection?
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I don't get why they still provide you with the stupid notepad. Just throw it away and preinstall Visual Studio Code as a text editor, Notepad is useless.
:D I also got so annoyed that I started curating blogs and videos (as myth-busters) to help me bring the point across in discussions. My experience with this is sadly that changing anyone's mind who has already made it up is _really_ hard.

Here is my list:

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI

Hacking Blockchain (Konstantinos Karagiannis, Chief Technology Officer, Security Consulting, BT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gL6DsR6vGg

Myth Busting: Can a blockchain save healthcare? https://blog.andreacoravos.com/myth-busting-can-a-blockchain...

Blockchain Graveyard https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/

Response to Blockchain & Blockcerts Critiques from Privacy Researcher https://community.blockcerts.org/t/response-to-blockchain-bl...

Blockcerts: Using blokchain for identity management is (mostly) ridiculous https://blog.xot.nl/2017/09/06/blockcerts-using-blokchain-fo...

Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2952-a/papers/perspective.p...

Do you need a Blockchain? https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/375.pdf

IOTA Tweets from cybergibbons: https://twitter.com/search?q=iota%20cybergibbons
If we don't take software engineers as a fixed population, but rather everyone on Earth with sufficient intelligence to code well with the right no-code framework (which currently doesn't exist), then this is indeed the biggest priority. Of course, I am under no illusion that no code will work for everything, such as developing ML applications from scratch. Even then, it can be a way to interface with pre-built ML apps, and use them in various industries. It would also serve as a pipeline for non-STEM workers into full-blown programming and STEM.

Think about what Excel did to productivity, and multiply that by 3x or more. That's what no code could do as the 60% solution for a 200x larger labor pool (more like 80% solution for anyone who can't access engineering talent). It would also make its creators obscenely rich. With the amount of processing power that we have, the time for no code is now.

By the way, there's a large chance that Big Tech incumbents won't be the ones to create the no-code holy grail. They have institutional handcuffs that will make that difficult.
I would rather use cash than mobile payment systems.

Especially, those ones.
Yes, 26 domestic cases and 64 cases on Diamond Princess cruise, total 90 cases
To a large extent I agree with you. At work, I have projects that I know when they need to be done by. I know that other people will expect that certain stages will be done at certain points, because they need them to do their parts of the project. But within that there’s a lot of arbitrary ordering of work. It doesn’t really have to be micromanaged that closely.
When I saw this, my first thought was that circling could allow magnetic alignment.
This isn't about having a minimal install. It merely removes links to paint and Wordpad.

> This change does not remove Paint or WordPad from Windows 10, but you can now disable both apps and also remove traces of these apps from the Start Menu and other locations.

I suspect it's done because they consider Paint and Wordpad to be deprecated and want to help discourage use.
Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux
Is it just me or is it really weird to start a scientific paper with "sleep has been one of God’s most precious blessings since human’s existence and it is vital for both body and soul"?
It's generally not a problem until you start making enough money (or get a lot of funding) to be worth suing in the first place, at which point you can afford to pay them off (or potentially fight it, though as noted that can be much more expensive). There's supposedly recent changes in the law allow you to fight patent suits without a million-dollar legal process. Not sure how well it works for people.

I don't think the risk is really that high of dealing with a patent troll. Competing firms are much more likely to sue you in my experience. To "insure" against these you need your own patent portfolio to counter sue them with. Or license some technology from a giant company that protects it for you. Or, again, just pay them off.

Either way, the goal isn't to shut you down but to bleed you of some of that money you are making. So it's a good problem to have in a sense.
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This is true, and a valid point. The way they phrased it does make me feel more than a little suspicious, nonetheless.

(Besides, there's some other oddity there, like that apparently the alignment only matters when the magnetic field is calm)
With CPUs it gets even worse, because that clever optimized Assembly code can stop being so in another CPU or after a firmware update.

The days of Z80, 6502 and similar are long gone.
This isn't a corporate-managed open source problem, it's a single developer managed open source problem, with the corporate entity functioning like a single entity. Tons of great open source project exist as updating projects through the force of will of a single passionate developer. When that developer moves on, the project dies. The open source license grants others the ability to continue, but without that singular developer and their passion the reality is in most cases no one will pick up the project and carry it forward. Sure there are examples where projects do survive the death or disappearance of a maintainer, but there are far more projects out there in need of a new maintainer than find one.
The biggest problem with this idea is that it doesn't really have a good market space. If your company revenue is too small, your subscription backed debt is just an inferior financial product compared to equity, which handles risk much better. If your company revenue is large enough, you have plenty of financial tools to keep your company fiscally healthy. The only time I can see it being useful is if you want to trick rich non-investors to give you money by pretending that your startup has value when it doesn't (similar to an ICO).

Let's say you had a subscription user base and the retention / LTV data to convince finance people to treat it as a security. That usually is the sign of a successful startup, and you'd also likely have access to venture capital as well.

As a founder, is it worth your time to come up with a new financial product and convince people to buy it? In my opinion, you're probably better off doing a round because it will close much quicker and you'll know what to expect, and you can focus on growing your business instead of convincing everyone of your non-standardized, not well understood financial product offering. Good luck closing a group of institutional investors with that.

Now, why do finance people create new financial products? One reason is to investment larger amounts of money all at once - so create asset classes and then buy them in bulk because you have a $5b dollar fund and can only afford to look at $500m deals or more.

This is probably the only reason why you'd want to create a subscription backed debt - collect them up and allow people to participate in returns on startups without becoming a VC. But this is much more likely to be a repeat of the mortgage crisis rather than being actually beneficial to the economy.
They should not preinstall any software, and let you install them at the first boot. Windows 10 comes with so much bloatware preinstalled that you then have to waste time to remove, I want just nothing.
I think I’d always say ‘would you mind picking up some milk’. ‘Please pickup milk’ sounds blunt to the point of mocking sarcasm! Maybe it’s cultural.
"Working in the industry for a long time doesn’t automatically bring seniority either"
I can't emphasize this point enough. Most engineers, who are doing the same basic tasks every day over and over again for years, identify themselves as senior engineers. I understand that people like to stay in comfort zone when there is no need to get out, really. This is something I do too. However, this bothers me when these kind of engineers block and mock their colleagues(especially juniors) by convincing them he/she knows better, when they try to get out of their comfort zone and learn/do something new.
Removing out of date and incorrect advice on c++ from the internet.
Close your eyes and imagine an apple, what do you see?
Do you forget that $100k is a lot of money in most places?

> Or less than the salary of an intern at Google...

It'd be remarkable if their stipend was less than the salary of an intern at nearly any other company. Google is a huge exception
Notepad is one of the most used programs on my machine.
Just out of curiosity, is it really still an emulator when the processor architecture is the same as the host machine and all you're really doing is breaking through layers of encryption and lockouts? The ps4 runs on an AMD x86 cpu, would the instruction set not be the same as most PCs?

Not that these aren't still cool projects I'm happy to see being worked on, but I always think of emulators as emulating one type of architecture on top of another.

Maybe I'm wrong about all this, but your comment just made me think of this.
How is this on HN? And on the front page no less?
USA used to have an expert patents court AIUI, anyone know why things were changed?
Only sorta related but that map doesn’t show this interesting detail which I experienced first hand:

The Navajo Nation Reservation is on a different time zone than the state it is mostly inside.

But the Hopi Reservation is entirely contained within the Navajo, and is on a different time zone.

When we drove through that region my phone just freaked out, switching times back and forth arbitrarily.

And the hotel had three clocks in the lobby for clarification.
Same here. Sometimes I forgot how to define a class method. Is it def? Is it func?

I can write Rubyish, Goish, Pythonish or PHPish pseudocode, but the syntax will be only 90% correct. I remember distinguishing features(like Ruby blocks), but features that all language has always a blur.
This is what I do too, but I have it as a general list of things I want to get done like

[] Mon - task 1

[] Mon - task 2

[] Tue - task 3

[] Tue - task 4

This way I don't hard time lock the tasks and just do them until they're done
Probable claims. Not truth.
I think the criticism comes from them amassing so much wealth when there is still so much suffering.

There are people who will criticise churches regardless, but there seem to be a lot of reasonable people who look at the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church and determine their wealth is inconsistent with their teachings.

Mormons could probably further their message by selling their golden ornaments and using it to shelter the homeless, for instance.
Special Relativity Explained for Noobs
Well, for a long time the population as a whole in the US managed to kill pay first gas stations. Pretty much everyone just kept driving when they saw the "pay first" signs and the pumps refused to just pump gas. The inconvenience of guessing how much gas you need give the attendant a $10 or $20, pump gas, go back and collect your change was a far worse experience than pump the gas, pay whatever you owe.

Wouldn't surprise me if the ad based gas stations just lost a 10-20% drop in customers if there was an alternative nearby without the ads.
Depends. For just checklists org-mode is overkill, I use a few custom shortcuts
in Vim for that.

But org-mode also has a couple additional features like time tracking and a way
to generate summarised tables based on that tracking, or the agenda. Either way
learning Emacs just for org-mode is probably only a good idea if you really want
to use the features coming with it in one package.
No, it's a note-taking &c. system that offers the capability of doing lots of other things, but nothing compels you to make use of any features you don't need, and in the end the files are plain text files that are perfectly readable in any arbitrary text-editor.
Anecdotally, I actually tested this one time. I pulled out my phone and launched the compass app. My dog was PERFECTLY aligned and was facing north while pooping. Never tested it again, tho. But if it was a fluke, it was a very impressive one.
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I do this and it is extremely powerful and extensible.

On top of this, I also track how much time I spend on different projects and then run a script that generates graphs to summarize my weekly and monthly usage of time.

However, I still use a physical daily agenda to take from my TODO list one or two concrete tasks I will focus on each day.
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Moleskine is a piece of ass. I love the moleskine notebooks on one hand but lot's of inks tend to smear and shit.
A senior engineer is someone 3 years into their career no longer willing to work for paltry wages. Stop glorifying something every mid 20s in the profession deserves. It only serves to keep the power in the hands of the corporate elites and the wage pressure down on an already meek, mostly economically illiterate and unconfident group of otherwise intelligent and productive individuals. If you want to write an article worshipping your ideal of a nerdy super-hero, make it about senior architects at FAANG earning 1 million+ per year instead.
I find it very useful to quickly copy-paste some stuff (use like a clipboard) and use it for temporary scratch notes while working on something. I wouldn't want to boot up a bloated software like visual studio code everytime for such a simple use case.
It warms my heart to imagine zero air travel CO2 emissions for a few weeks.
I have four dogs, and I watch them poop every day. For some reason they have to slowly turn lots of circles before they're satisfied they have the best pooping position, and if the sun is out, they almost always settle on a position where they're not facing directly into the sun.

Makes sense from a practical viewpoint. You're more vulnerable to attack when you're pooping out in the open, and even moreso if the sun is right in your eyes.

To the extent that more pooping is done near the middle of the day, north-south pooping orientation would naturally dominate. No need for a sixth "compass" sense.
Imagine the hilarity when your least-technical relative tries to use Visual Studio Code to write a short note to themselves! It'd be great.
CoreOS, docker, and mesos was an alternative to kubernetes. I'd say while using flatcar is viable, it looks like kubernetes is what the people have chosen.
I'm doing something similar. I use markdown and have a structure log/year/<month>.md.
You will just move the goalposts forever, your mind is closed.
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>What's the most important piece of technical debt across software engineering, that could practically be solved if we put enough energy into it?

Being able to update libraries, tools etc. automatically and without friction. Right now upgrading is so tedious, error prone and painful that most places just keep using ancient versions that are not only lacking bug fixes and newer features but are a huge attack surface.
This seems like an antigoal to me.

Abstracting away infrastructure just means it will become increasingly centralized as a commodity and less likely/harder to create independent services.
I'm amazed by how many productivity apps there are out there right now, many with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding.

This has to be a bubble, right?
This does not seem like a software engineering improvement.
Python DOES have multiline lambdas! It's a common misconception that lambdas have to all be on one line. They don't. What lambda's can't have are statements. Lambdas are restricted to a single expression due to their implicit return statement, but that expression can have any number of line breaks in it. I still shake my head when I hear this complaint about Python, because when coding in the functional style (which is when you need lambdas), expressions are all you need! Haskell and friends don't even have statements, just expressions. My Drython experiment (though unpythonic) demonstrates just how far you can stretch Python's lambdas. Check out its readme for examples: https://github.com/gilch/drython

Hissp, my Lisp-on-Python project, uses multiline lambdas to simplify its compilation target to a functional subset of Python: https://github.com/gilch/hissp

Hebigo is a skin built on Hissp with a more Python-like syntax and macros based on Drython. It's what Python would be like if its statements were composable like its expressions are: https://github.com/gilch/hebigo
Oh totally agree at them getting something for it. Just I doubt they'd get 2/3rds of the value of equipment.