skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to forget all the cases in Java where you didn't expect null to happen, but for some reason something was null and you get a NPE. Sure, if you check all values for null already the difference to now is not very big, but no one I know does this. Everyone has some intuition whether something "can" be null or not. Rust (and other languages without null) formalize the notion of "this cannot be null", so you don't have to depend on your intuition anymore - and cannot be wrong about it.

Regarding unwrap: If you tell the compiler "I know what I'm doing" and you don't know what you are doing then no one can help you. It's the same as putting casts everywhere when the compiler yells at you about incompatible types: If you lie to the compiler it will do your bidding, but your code will run into errors at runtime that you could have prevented at compile time. Again: No one can help you here.
> They lied and cheated constantly. I didn’t get the sense that they represented the lower class because the others around them weren’t like that. It makes it harder to argue this represents class struggle when the main family is so deceitful and undeserving of benefits.

The Park family was so nice, always honest and considerate of other people! I didn't get the sense they represented the upper class, because frankly, where was the psychopathic ruthlessness of bankers and CEOs?

It makes it harder to argue this represents class struggle when the Park family is so modest, and shows that we can all unite together in peace without brutal day-to-day competition.
It's a bit like this satellite image of Australia:

https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/80000/800...

Some of what they have labelled as fires could be from mining but there is literally nothing out there as far as human population.
Baba+Ijebu+Today+Lotto+Prediction,+Baba+Ijebu+Game+for+Today+Pathfinder
Politics is for Power, Not Consumption (2019)
Mac Pro Review: Power, If You Can Use IT
If you know they are overpriced, and assuming you are interested in earning money, why are you not selling hearing aids for cheaper than the incumbents and taking their margin?

If you’re not interested in earning money, then there are quite a few firms that are, so if you release the schematics and details of the hearing aid, surely they will run with it.
I don't like this claim. It is very semantic. With your train of thoughts we can go very far. How about breaking patents? How about stealing your password? None of them should be illegal because you don't loose anything physical.

Our law system sees theft as something that need adjusting to technology. So I can say with a straight face that in 2020, theft do include reading article that you didn't pay for.
If you don't care about the else case you can use if let:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/flow_control/if_le...
Industrial giant Honeywell says it’s built the world’s best quantum computer
Not only that, audio CODECs have analog filters designed specifically for audio capture and reproduction, sometimes even configurable.

The advantage of having a cheap tiny board is that you can build a system like a polyphonic synth with very capable voices with relative ease. And since each one has inputs too, you can interconnect signals giving a lot of flexibility (aka modular synth).
Ironically it seems people as well as society as a whole fails to account that a zillion times inconvenience is death by a thousand cuts. This includes everyone writing code.

Goddammit when you take a long, hard look, objectively (like really) stepping back for a moment, every piece of software (and hardware to some extent as the line between both is getting blurry) around us is just a huge pile of Rube Goldberg machinery that barely happens to work on the happy path.

This process is not entirely unlike global warming and similar large scale psychological risk assessment failures.
80% smartphones powered by Linux (2019)
Excerpt:

"Meanwhile, tucked away in the bankruptcy filing was the disclosure that the net book value of Moviefone’s intellectual property is estimated to be $4,379,504. That’s just 1.1% of AOL’s $388 million stock deal for Moviefone in 1999, right before the internet bubble burst."

Amazing how some companies can devalue faster than Venezuelan currency...
It’s probably closer to price discrimination: they are obviously happy for people to read what they publish even without paying, as long as it’s only people who would not pay otherwise.

Publishers aim for a barrier that is just high enough so that people with less time and more money would rather pay than circumvent them.

It’s the exact same mechanism as supermarkets using coupons to grant people with lower financial means the opportunity to shop with them, knowing that their regular customers would die of embarrassment if their neighbors saw them clipping coupons.
So you get the virus and you will be fine but you will infect your grand parents and kill them. Or you infect your old professor, go worker, your friend who just had heart or lung issues and kill them too.

Is not about personal risk, it is about global risk.
About label size, I don't think the label should be that big anyway.

On an input, there is an option for explanatory text under the input element. At least in Material-UI.

So with proper responsive design, the input should expand with the label text size, and the label itself should be short, with the necessary explanation on the bottom.
do we need a ministry of funny walks to teach people how to avoid being tracked irl like they are on the web
I'm sorry if i came off wrong. You're right, I was probably missing the point. I meant no disrespect.
If she naturally sleeps eight hours a night and usually sleeps less than five hours she’s basically drunk most of most weeks. I hope she has a driver because she’s not capable of driving safely.
Same with my subdivision, the local power company made a pass a few years ago and replaced every other street lamp with a LED. They also took the old larger lens covers to.

The first observation was the it was like living with nearly a full moon out all the time; this increased after all lights were replaced. They produce very clean light which appears to reflect more than the old orange light color. the second was that birds in my front holly bushes and thuja trees took some time adapting to the newly lit world; at first they sang/chirped at night hours.

LED lights are amazing for efficiency to the point light pollution will increase simply because it cost so little to keep the lights on; I know I am guilt of that around Christmas as I run nearly five hundred feet of LED lighting then and don't even see the effect on my bill
Perhaps to push the post YC depression post off the top spot?

https://www.bmaho.com/articles/post-yc-depression
I usually search for recommendation on reddit because they seems to be more legit and so far it has always worked
Spot the Drowning Child (2015)
Albeit probably only because they aren't yet being exploited by companies to the extent that search engines are. I don't expect it to last. Googling used to find you this level of grassroots enthusiast information but now is mostly content farms.
that's interesting and one I haven't thought about before.
And the responses about the responses about how the Fed is printing money. And the response about the response about the response, no matter how irrelevant it is to discussion :)
Show HN: UX Principles in a new tab for Chrome and Firefox
and that's mostly thanks to subreddit moderators, if they weren't that aggressive it would be full of spam.
u can notice that on some subreddits when moderators are away or some that have lax rules.
I am not an expert Clojurist (yet) but I really love Clojure because it gets out of the way like Python but with the performance of Java. Almost all of the boilerplate is gone, and yes, static types next to each variable feels like boilerplate to me after doing enough Clojure.

Plus Clojure Core Teams laser focus on API stability makes 10 year old (and even unmaintained) libraries to just work. I have not come across a code snippet so far that did not work because of a breaking change, not saying they are not there, but I did not find it.
You don't?
You should. Everyone should.
Cisco Offering Free 90-Day Webex Licenses Due to Coronavirus
Yeah my server-side use cases are for times when I'd want to use a graph outside of a browser (e.g. PDF reports, printing, email distribution). If you're targeting a browser IMO it only makes sense to move away from the browser and/or JS if you're trying to create a static, raster image.
Animations and Accessibility
Are there any open source or open source hardware efforts to create or replace tractor software and electronics? I know of the Global Village Construction Set [1] but are there any others that exist that are gaining any sort of traction?

Are there any forums, GitHub (or other) repositories or other resources for folks to see what's going on and/or to help out? I'd love to see what's available and, if possible, help out myself but I don't even know where to start (I'm not a farmer and live in an "urban/city" environment).

It seems like this industry is "ripe for disruption" but I'm woefully ignorant. What stops farmers from slapping a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino with an array of sensors, GPS, modems and other electronics to "DIY" their tractors and other electronic/automated farm equipment?

I also know of FarmBot [2] but that project looks to be targeted at a different market. I also see OpenFarm [3] but that seems like it's more about knowledge sharing of crop growing rather than the mechanics/electronics/software aspect of farming.

[1] https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

[2] https://farm.bot/

[3] https://openfarm.cc/
Reddit doesn't help people. People help people
This rate is Case Fatality Rate (CFR) - that is total deaths / total infections. Due to the rapid growth of infections this still is not the most accurate prediction.

If the delay between getting infected and dying is taken into account then the rate becomes 4-4.5%.

You can read more about the discussion on this topic here https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...
The only way to conclusively prove or disprove your claim would be to have several musicians/singers/songwriters open up their books to show where their wealth came from. From what I have heard over the years, artists and bands make a greater percentage of their wealth from doing concert tours (ticket sales) and selling merchandise than they do from actually selling music via record labels (I have no proof for this claim). My point is somewhat supported by the fact that some successful artists later going on to start their own record labels: if the relationship with the label was otherwise good and the issue was not money, then why make a significant capital investment in creating your own label?
Unlike the music industry, journalism has been decimated, especially on the local level. Even success stories with world-wide audiences often barely break even. And unlike music, professional journalism is a necessity for a function democracy.

So I don’t quite see the hook for your Schadenfreude here.
I'm sure in the past search engines checked for this type of behaviour and punished it. If you give a special 'optimised' page to a bot, but give something completely different to regular people, then that's a failing of the search engine.
Did the original extension have Google Analytics embedded in it somehow?
> it's a problem whose solution only becomes obvious after a failed attempt

I think if the solution ever become obvious it's not a wicked problem.

You can solve them sometimes, but they involve large amounts of waste and time. And you never know how to have done them better.

That's my understanding.

My starting solution to the PDF is to give the user both OCR and text and let them chose. I don't think it's Wicked, but I do think no one is solving it properly along clearly viable lines.

I also think there is a clear solution to force companies to convert PDF's to text properly. So even at a higher level I don't think it's Wicked, just the culture is not correct.
This seems really pedantic, since you could apply this reasoning to basically any (volunteer) group effort.
Contagion implies the user has no control once "infected", whereas in reality we all have the ability to 1) not be uncontrollably reactive, 2) close the tab & 3) thinking a little critically about the information being presented. I'm not saying the research is wrong, but I am saying that people can be a bit lazy about their mind.
Thanks, seems that was it. I had only checked it in regular Safari.
You’re right; should have written F-1 but it’s now too late to edit my comment. But you get the idea.
most of these websites are thieves too, they steal your data, while still displaying as much ads as they can, and they want you to pay to access their content as well, fuck that.
Wasn't it made some sort of "default sub" a while back?
Another great source I’ve enjoyed using is https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php .

This of course presupposes choosing that particular investment strategy, but the opportunity to ask anonymous, detailed financial questions and get thoughtful responses and ideas is great!
"The exit “tax” seems the most alarming to me. Though it’s called a tax, it’s really just confiscation. And if you look at the other countries in history that have confiscated the property of people who tried to leave, it’s not company you’d want to be in"

- Denmark currently has what is in effect an exit tax on rich people. It's a complicated tax and changed all the time in order to dodge EU requirements on the freedom of movement between EU countries.

PG probably wouldn't want to be in Denmark since after all he exchanged chilly and grey England with warm and sunny California, but Denmark is hardly among the worst places in the world in which to live or do business.
OP isn't saying copyright infringement shouldn't be illegal, just that it's not theft.

Conflating depriving someone of their property with copying someone's work is bad -- it is not the same thing.
Remote Work Is Easy
Whingepool has its own set of biases of course, they’re just less obvious than those motivated by money. Perhaps better, though.
The Mess We're in (2014)
Pico is a spartan framework that allows you to write websites in C++ and C
> that's why if you're looking for any info, searching on reddit usually yields much more objective and generally better results.

Agreed, I often default to Reddit or HN for a lot of stuff although there are an increasing number of obvious adverts disguised as genuine posts (see r/hailcorporate for some examples).

More difficult to spot are marketing firms who curate a bunch of fake accounts, make them seem like "real people" by posting random content but interspersing this with subtle ads. There was an AMA recently from someone working at a firm that does this, they even gave their accounts personalities by posting in specific related subs (e.g. hiking, outdoors) in order to advertise boots. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it now, but still my point is that even though Reddit generally leads to better advice take it with a grain of salt.

Edit: Found it, wasn't an AMA but just a comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/f9rjh0/he_dressed_up_...

Although I don't see a reason not to trust this comment, the line about "we have seen great success with this method" had me wondering how they measure the impact of this strategy? It seems this would be quite time and effort intensive, therefore expensive. How do they know they can attribute sales to this since presumably they aren't providing affiliate links as that'd be too obvious?
If you're looking for alternatives besides the BOINC stuff, there is distributed.net.
But how do you prove these indicators weren't triggered before shipping?
Low-cost 60GHZ phased array antenna
The original Chrome extension does indeed.
Well; more than anything else the incentives around financial advice are so terrible that it almost can't be paid for.

The financial advisers are dealing with people who are so bad with money that they don't see problems with spending more than they earn or taking on debt for things they don't need. The incentives for anyone profit motivated is to take their money and move on. No point offering any useful advice; it just cuts into the margins. Ideally, sell the client complicated financial products.

The typical person paying for financial advice is basically putting a sticker on themselves that says "I'll buy anything; try and sell me a bridge!".
Or exert some pressure onto the window, that will keep the ball from moving.
I’m not ignoring the other groups, they’re irrelevant to my point, that the bottom doesn’t matter politically. All five groups were well educated, rich and cosmopolitan compared to the average Russian during the civil war.

That the French and Russian revolutions were complex doesn’t mean that the competitors for political power were ever in any way representative of the population. They weren’t. They were members of the elite or had been educated to a level that they aspired to that.

They weren’t on the bottom. The people on the bottom do not successfully engage in politics except as the tools of the current elite or of a counter-elite that aims to take over from the current elite.
Mama: What is the Web made of? (2008)
I think this is motivated by the fact that storing video from every body cam is too costly for little gain. The police departments that have well trained staff and nothing to hide adopt them with no effect on officer behavior. Police officers get away with bad behavior because of no accountability. When they make a mistake and kill or injure an unarmed person there is always another officer that will cover them. When you interview all the officers that were supposedly at the crime scene you get contradicting stories precisely because they weren't actually there. Therefore the focus is now on the tactical benefits of body cams.

In video games there is often a "kill cam" that shows you where an enemy attacked you from. This information is often used to spot camping snipers and then sneak up to kill them for revenge. If the police can utilize the body cams correctly the maximum number of casualties should drop drastically.
These blogposts are awesome, keep them coming Andreas!

Are programmers expected to always use this high-level OOP style of writing GUI programs? Or does Serenity expose a lower level API for manually creating windows, reading hardware input, writing pixels to framebuffer, etc, like Xlib for example?
It’s quite a feat of logical contortion to somehow claim a privacy motive to legitimize your unwillingness to pay. Unless, that is, you never buy anything online. Because Netflix and airlines and food delivery and Amazon all run tracking on their sites, and a single vendor with Google Analytics would presumably be enough to let them tie your browser to your identity.

In that case you’d still be excessively paranoid, but at least consistent about it.
> On GUI Desktop, various clients are in active dev

... although if I'm not mistaken, unfortunately none of them supports Single Sign-On yet, which is required for joining the Mozilla instance.
What is this tax called? As someone who lives in Denmark, it would be nice to know.
How the West Stole Coffee from the East: A Caffeinated Theft
Meaningful information from a persons face using Machine Learning (with Demo)
That question doesn't matter because national sovereignty would prevent other countries from doing that even if they wanted to. It's not a program it's even possible to consider without some really elaborate treaties that many countries would reject.

At the core of it what you're basically arguing is that nations are unethical because what citizenship someone holds influences things like their access to health care, and the solution to that would probably look a lot like the EU but completely borderless world-wide (with no immigrations or customs departments?)

I think you know how people would react to that. It's a pointless 'gotcha' question
Reddit is truly amazing, such that I've mostly replaced my usage of hackernews with it. I have serious issues with anxiety, and the inability for me to filter out content related to "current news" aka "clickbait fear mongering" means when I surf hackernews for too long I'll be upset for hours afterwards as I'm riled up with current events rewritten as FUD.

Reddit can be filtered by subreddit, so I've got a view with no FUD. Also as a personal finance hobbyest, I can sub to finance, personalfinance, financialindependence, and economics without having stories of police overreach or failures in the justice system written to scare people.

Also as a painter, there's another 10 subs I can subscribe to basically make my feed a walk through a museum.

Absolutely fantastic micro culture and I'm thrilled to have found it!
You can give a shot to the "open source load testing stack"[1] we built. It's using TimescaleDB instead of influx which makes it much easier to configure in Grafana.

We are planning on using TimescaleDB as a default database output for the local execution.

https://github.com/loadimpact/open-source-load-testing-stack...
Its a fallacy to call it a fallacy though. Sure, many forms of wealth is not zero sum, but some are. For example political influence correlate with wealth and is basically zero-sum. So larger economic inequality concentrate power among fewer people. This is pretty significant whether you consider it a good or a bad thing.
I never said copyright infringement should be legal or endorsed (though it should be noted HN specifically allows posting workarounds for paywalls, but not complains about them); just that it is something different than theft. Calling it theft is dishonest.

> How about breaking patents?

We don't call it theft; we call that patent infringement. We have patent laws for that (in at least US and EU and probably [almost] everywhere in the world).

> How about stealing your password?

We don't call that theft, we call it "breaking into computers" (I only know the technical term for it in my native language, not English). If you use a password to log into an account you don't have legal access to, this is breaking into computers. We have laws for that (in at least US and EU and probably [almost] everywhere in the world).

> Our law system sees theft as something that need adjusting to technology.

No, it does not, it has different laws for all the three examples in this discussion, two of which you brought up.

You clearly do not know or understand how your law works. The respective Wikipedia articles explain the differences.
Thanks for answering my questions which were also not rhetorical.
The solution is a legal one, force the companies to provide the software required for you to use your hardware. It is stupid as a user you can only see a red light and only an "authorized dealer" can plug a laptop and see the exact problem and detailed diagnostics.

Without the law your open source software would be blocked by DRM and I am sure the companies would attempt to void your warranty if they can find you modified anything.
I will always upvote James C. Scott. More people on this site should read his stuff
My Summer Internship at Google Turned Me Off Silicon Valley Forever
Great share. I've definitely found the residual effects of pulling a couple of coding all-nighters absolutely ruins my productivity the next few days. I just end up staring at the screen and not knowing what to do.

Also, I love the term "hustle porn". It's so true and destructive.
> Clearly, if the websites didn't want you to read the article, they'd not send the content to your computer.

If you use a news website (say the NYT) without plugins like the one linked, it’s blatantly obvious that this statement is not true.

So, if you go out of your way to conceal who you are, or to masquerade as someone/something else (i.e. google bot), in order to trick a web server in to sending you bytes that you know they wouldn’t otherwise send you, don’t be surprised if some people accuse you of stealing.
what's "clean" about this?