skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Here's a promotional film on the car that was sent to me on Saturday. It's almost impossible for me to believe this passes for work today. It's incomprehensible, unappealing, uninteresting and meaningless. It provides no information that makes me want the car.

The blog author misunderstands that the BMW car video ad is deliberately not supposed to convey concrete information. Abstract ads are typical of "brand awareness advertising" vs "product specific advertising".

I made some previous comments about the difference between "concrete informational ads" vs "abstract aspirational ads"[0][1]. Yes, the ad agencies choosing to communicate abstract ads are infuriating to us but they don't care because they are going for a deliberate and calculated emotional effect.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20034558

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877422
And then, comparing that to the flu and saying this isn't much worse, we're now well into the "this video is a potentially a public health hazard" territory.

No, lockdowns are the public health hazard. The data is quite clear at this point that what's going on here is no worse than the flu. Here's a simple graphic from the UK to make that point clear:

http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/

And if you look at when lockdowns could have possibly started working given incubation and death lags, you'll see that most countries seem to have peaked before the lockdowns could have started working. Implication: they weren't responsible for the peak and decline.

But the more important point is that it's critical such things can be debated. Simply assuming you're right and anyone who disagrees is a "public health hazard" is totalitarianism. You won't have any ability to defend yourself, or even any right to, next time someone erases you because e.g. Trump declared your views to be dangerous.
Don't worry. Many native British people don't know what a preposition is and as for those Colonials across the Atlantic, I give up!

Rather than attempt perfect grammar (if there is such a thing), I recommend you find a writing/speaking style you find comfortable with. This might mean using interesting idioms (where most natives would use cliches) or 'talking in writing'. Consider these two alternatives:-
(a) Use short sentences.
(b) Here's a thing you could try. Brief sentences with just one thing in them at a time.

Vocabulary will always help, but sources can be peculiar (dumbed-down or deliberately off-centre) or jarringly out of date.

All in all, people are more interested in what you have to say than picking out silly non-conformities. Read a few news or Wikepedia articles in English you might fancy comparing with Hebrew to get the flow of sentences.

Good luck. Good reading. Good writing. Good conversation.
On the "weird pointer solutions" tangent, there's the ARM authenticated pointers: https://lwn.net/Articles/718888/

Given that years ago we added a mandatory piece of hardware to most systems to implement virtual memory, I'm now starting to wonder what security and/or performance benefits could be achieved by delegating memory allocation to (or through) hardware.
Well it is a two-sided platform market that may very well be sustainable.

However it is set up to extract rents from both consumers and drivers, which is a problem for the latter. In effect, it captures profits from transportation markets and sends them to a company in the US.

And that may be both sustainable, since its a platform market, and it may create suffering and poverty for many drivers.

Handily, the existence and further political support for traditional taxis implies that a regulatory approach on competitive misconduct is unlikely. So these companies may not only be economically stable, but even in terms of competition policy.

In any case, I hope you see the difference between companies selling a product, and those selling a platform, for a local economy.
Disclosure: I have worked with distance/remote learning as far back as 15 years and my wife homeschools our kids.

Schools (and pretty much everything else) were caught completely off-guard by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Setting-up an online education infrastructure takes a lot of work and requires significant mental retooling. Teachers need to adapt as much or more than their students to the new paradigm. Zoom, Hangouts, Teams, or Jitsi are not replacement for in-person instruction.

Part of this is that in remote learning the curriculum materials and assessments need to lend themselves to greater self-guidance than those of brick-and-mortar books and other resources. This is not impossible, but also not easy to do on short notice. I am not surprised that schools are finding it simply too hard to put together packets, distribute them, and trying supplement with video conferencing when the materials are based on a different assumption.

I am optimistic that this will further the reach of remote learning, but I am doubtful that the stagnant style of traditional education will shift to fully embrace it. I foresee a lot more alternative educational institutions emerging as the traditional schools very slowly adapt.
At the time Signal didn't have the swipe-right-to-reply behaviour, nor the ability to lock audio message recording so you can record handsfree. But it has both now!

As far as I know yes Whatsapp uses some of Signal's tech but doesn't implement it in exactly the same way.
What privacy issues do you think the iPhone has?
The idea is that everyone doesn't catch it at the same time, not that they don't catch it at all.
if this is true, then it's terrible and it's instances like this that make crypto look like an absolute shitshow...
I think you're on to something. IPFS needs to replace SQL somehow,the front end is a non-issue. You'll need authentication to validate everything if you want to have any levelnof moderation.
I think you're right, but you're being downvoted by people who don't speak German and don't understand how "sexist" the language really is, even if Germans themselves are as enlightened on the subject as one could be.

People forget that English has reinvented itself for the last hundred years and it's not showing any signs of slowing down, whereas German-speaking culture is a little more resistant to the mores of newspeak. Until you lived and loved in both languages it's not really clear how equitable German culture is, in comparison to English. A German might say there is a level of respect in calling something feminine, whereas an English-only speaker might react with abhorrence. Such misunderstandings are to be expected across the language barrier.
So doctors aren't experts in health now. That's what it's come to?

Do you think epidemiologists are? The people who have apparently never predicted a disease outbreak successfully, ever? Why are they experts but not these doctors?

And what makes YouTube employees believe they're qualified to decide who's right? They're experts in HTML5 video serving, not health.
And some have problems: the Python example of reading a file into a string is:

lines = open(f).read()

which doesn't close the file. The second C example of this task is tricky, and seems to miss an offset.

The C and Go implementations of uniform random integer include the upper limit, the Python and Rust implementations don't.

And that's just from quickly browsing.
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Technical answer: Hard real-time systems.

Non-technical answer: Handing over your implementation to an average programmer.
ProtonMail-run site with GDPR advice left user details exposed
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Thank you! Amen and all that stuff :-)
Look about your work environment. It is possible that your light environment is just not good. I used to have photo sensitivity and frequent headaches at a previous work.
Then, I realized that the cause was bad light conditions. It was not that I was in the dark, but for example sun light was coming from a window at 90 degrees with my screen.
And despite being sufficient light in total all around, it was like that the direction of my screen where I was looking was the darkest.
Uber's S-1 (quoted below) claims 5,400 direct employees in platform support alone. Interestingly, I've seen an Uber floor while touring a third-party call center in Manila, so they probably outsource even more these days.

Platform User Support

We have invested in a network of global support centers to support our worldwide operations. We have ten primary support centers in Chicago (U.S.), Phoenix (U.S.), Limerick (Ireland), Krakow (Poland), San Jose (Costa Rica), Hyderabad (India), São Paulo (Brazil), Manila (the Philippines), Lisbon (Portugal), and Cairo (Egypt) with approximately 5,400 employees and 400 independent contractors who provide 24/7 support for platform users in the United States and in certain other countries. In addition to in-app, web, and phone support, Drivers can visit Uber Greenlight Hub locations for in-person support.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...
>> English is defined by what the native speakers speak.

What about regional accents?
For a non native speaker of English, understanding English as spoken in Scotland is a challenge. And I heard people born in UK complaining they had sometimes difficulties with American English (for example with real life/social things).
This without speaking of people from India who speak an English which is slightly different from US' or UK's English (and equally valuable and "native").

So I guess a definition of "native speaker" is a bit difficult.
Ask HN: Any recommendation on CS networking courses?
it seems like Stanford Laugnita has been disabled for non-stanford students.
can anyone please recommend other alternatives for any good computer networking related course?
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"Articulated" doesn't quite work because the past tense shades towards meaning "movable with joints" instead of "express."

That didn't even cross my mind. That's probably "an engineer's perspective" so to speak.

These days, lots of words have different meanings to different people, depending upon the context of their lives, and it's getting really hard to treat anything as a lingua franca, even English which gets called "globish," because we have so many people with such rich and varied knowledge bases who use the same words to mean different things entirely.

I do agree that said is the better word, but mostly because it's shorter and more common and not because there is much risk of it being misinterpreted, given the context.
The reason wasm is like this is that with "normal" control flow chrome would have had to implement itself the relooper algorithm internally before the MVP release.

Overall the main negative point seems to be that compilers toward wasm are more complex, but under the constraints of the web moving complexity from the client looks like a valuable positive point.

Two other negative points would possibly be performance and code size (which is the reason for a if-then-else specific instruction for example) about which I know very little. Do you think it would have made a difference here?
> Dear Commenter,

>

> I am sorry to inform you that you do not have a PhD in

> online commenting and therefor are not a domain expert in

> online communication. For that reason your comment and

> opinions in the previous reply are invalid and should be

> de-platformed.

>

> Yours truly,

>

> Hypocrisy

Oooooooh. This comment is so deliciously stupid that I am going to quote it verbatim in case you delete it. I would hate deprive future readers of the ability to marvel in the grandeur of its laughable dimwitted glory.
Did you just say "I don't know them and could care less", and "Everyone is infallible", and "I was being sarcastic", and "You are pissed off, and you took it 100% personally"?

Chill out, it's only a parody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Crimes

>"Word Crimes" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun (2014). The song is a parody of the 2013 single "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I. The song spoofs misuse of proper English grammar and usage, reflecting Yankovic's own rigor for proper syntax and semantics. Yankovic chose a topic that would be distinct from those used in many pre-existing parodies, and that would avoid the misogyny issues that had arisen from the source material.

You are pissed off too, and you took it 100% personally too. I was being sarcastic too, and merely quoting some hilariously relevant Weird Al Yankovic lyrics. You probably don't know of him either, but since you claim you could care less, that means you do care, at least a little, so you might care to read this Wikipedia page, which explains who he is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic
The problem is that open medium like YT also contains ton of distracting and low quality content. It is too easy to let kid click on some "5 minute tricks" garbage or celebrities bait.
> We have the "best" teachers already providing materials: they're in books

The best teachers are those that can induce pro-learning behavior in others, and books are a good medium to learn from once induced but quite poor in inducing the necessary behavior by itself. Videos are usually better than books, but tend to fall behind compared to the best in-person teachers.

That said, no school is actually teaching people how to trigger pro-learning behavior in themselves. It is always assumed that either students learn it as a side product from all the other classes, or it is the responsibility of the teacher. That in my view what is missing from the picture when we a transitioning away from in-person education system into a online system.
I mainly agree, but quality of taxi services varies from location to location.
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So there is a link in that Blog post (https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/bandwidth/) wich got me thinking about the $.01 Price and the Bandwithpool.

1000GB Data consumption is 10$ (1.000 GB @ $0.01 / GB) but adding a Droplet for 5$ adds 1000GB to you Datapool.

So with adding cheap Droplets you could lower the Bandwith Cost 50%?
The execution is necessary for the parse to complete, as until then it’s unknown what the identifier is as it’s dependent on the result of the undecidable expression.
> When an object is lost, 95% of the time it is hiding within arm’s reach of where it was last seen. Search in all possible locations in that radius and you’ll find it.

Yup, look closely in the place you expected it to be. Something may be on top of it, or it may have fallen off.
> The prices in the local taxi market didn't go down a few % it got fractionally cheaper - it went from being barely affordable and only used in exceptional cases to a substitute for car ownership and not having to think about using it (depending on your daily commute).

That's because they loose money with every ride?
I mean it really can't be cheap to have your have your personal driver for your daily commute.
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True! The way microcomputers supplanted mainframes.

If you launch cheaper satellites more often:
- you get to iterate so you can make improvements at a much faster pace
- there is less problems from a single failure
- more scale effects

You can enter a virtuous cycle.

There are limits! It can be that it's hard to make a useful satellite once you go below some certain size. And reliability suffers if you try to skimp on good practices.

On many scientific satellites, the instruments are one off anyway and are complex, hard and hand built with astronomical costs, so it might not save so much even if the launch and the bus were a lot cheaper.
Measure first, then optimize.

This sounds like good advice, but from experience I've found that optimizing code by adding things like memoization after you've discovered it's too slow in the context of an app is a lot harder than than writing something that's efficient to start with, especially if a feature is mature and other parts of the code are resistant to change. There's a balance to strike between spending time writing optimal code and actually shipping, but if there are low-hanging fruit available and you choose not to take advantage of them you'll probably regret it.
Managing data is not an IT job. Data is just unformatted information, and should be managed and governed by those who are trained in Information Management: Modern day Librarians.

IT own the platform, and the software. They should never own the data as well.
"Experts" in 2020 are merely washed up mathematicians and Ethiopian politicians who have no incentive to be correct, only to speak, and who have spent a lot of time publicly arguing with each other and producing completely contradictory advice and predictions. Of those predictions they all had severe and deep flaws, like the Imperial paper that assumed hospital capacity was entirely static and couldn't increase at all. That's an assumption any working nurse could have corrected immediately but the team responsible didn't bother asking them.

There are no experts in this disease, only people trying to control other people through false proclamations of authority.
Online or offline communities beyond 20 people are garbage. Being in a tight knit community is more important than the mechanism that is used for communication. It's the same reason why urban environments are so lonely. You meet way too many people.
Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
Imagine how much their head would explode when shown a Chromebook. Or the Candy Crush preinstall in Windows 10.
WSJ is like the textbook example of a newspaper where I'd love to pay per article I read. There's no reason I want to subscribe, I probably read like one article from there every 2-3 months, which is certainly not worth an annual subscription.

From what I understand, I can see how the operations for this kind of business model aren't ideal and so difficult to imagine scaling. But even PG has been pretty vocal about how limiting media subcription based models are...

Sorry, end of rant.
> Within the /.git/ repo were the keys to GDPR.eu's WordPress kingdom: a full and unabridged copy of wp-config.php. In a WordPress installation, wp-config.php is the critical file containing a plaintext copy of the username and password for the SQL database powering the entire site.
I don’t think you’re too far off with ‘leaving the space of normal C’, but I think it may help to see the context from which the author was coming when writing Cello [1] and evaluating it in that context.

It’s been a while since I watched the talk but I believe his intention was to do just that, to push the bounds of what could be done in a header file purely for the fun of it. The second half of the talk specifically addresses the “why are you doing this?” in quite a charming way.

1: https://youtu.be/bVxfwsgO00o
Question: Would vanilla js be faster than using react and when just using functions that handle hiding & showing divs by changing the css visibility value? I always assumed optimized react was somehow significantly reducing the browser rendering in the background but I’m unsure now when reading the comments.
The fact that it compiles does that this particular setup halts. This isn’t true in general.
I meant that "[You are] only allowed to be a "builder of tomorrow" if you're a high achiever from a high income district[.]" is, at least approximately (there are almost always exceptions of course) and in practice, true. I wasn't making any claim about whether that was good thing, either normatively or pragmaticly.
> Well, it's murky, but some easy thought experiments might bring clarity: * Should we raise humans on factory farms, in order to increase the amount of conscious experience? * if so, and assuming that humans pay more attention to aversive stimuli than positive/neutral stimuli, should we deliberately torture them?

> Both propositions are obviously horrible. But why? The answer is similar to why the death of worms < chickens < pet dogs < people < great people.

>Consciousness is a matter of connected/integrated complexity

Can you prove this supposition, though? Would that make the internet conscious, for example? I would think not.

I think the propositions you mentioned seem horrible because of an offshoot of our instinct to form tribes to survive better. It feels bad to torture people and other beings that help us survive, because that's integral to our survival. A lone human being has a much rougher time than a group does, and a group that trusts each other would survive better than where everyone is at each other's throats.

My theory is that human beings need a religion to feel sane. If there isn't an organized one that they accept, they create one of their own. This is why these sort of "common sense" laws of morality (better to not raise animals in a factory) come into being. People need to believe in a higher set of laws than what man can provide, even if there isn't any real justification for them one way or the other.
See also http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
A simple trick to improve type safety of your Scala code
> It's not for assuring that variable cannot change.

Please tell me how you'd change a to 1 in this example:

const a = 0;
They hand it over to a local debt collector agency or whatever the local procedures are. Maybe they call the bank and take it out of the persons next pay check.

I disagree that it is a jobs issue. It is a legal issue and what procedures exist for these situations.
Your comment in turn piqued my interest - very much enjoyed seeing Simeville and now having a great list of browsing material.

Virtuous circle!
Especially in prototyping you can mostly .clone() everything, and stop worrying about any lifetime problems.
I'm trying to say that whatever makes Haskell unpopular, it's not its declarative nature.

Whoever manages to make a purely declarative general-purpose programming language will be a technological superstar, because for normal non-programmer folks it would be the ideal gateway to programming.

(That said, I don't think it's possible. 'General purpose' implies some sort of Turing completeness, i.e., recursion or loops, which immediately makes it impossible to reason about in normal declarative terms.)
I'm surprised by not seeing more comments against the OP moving from Google to move almost everything to Apple & Facebook.
I've also started a similar process but haven't managed to ditch Google completely yet, mainly for convenience.
Because my concern was mainly privacy, I started by adding a pi-hole in the home network and that allowed me to block an infinite number of tracking codes and ads. This improved the overall internet experience for everyone. I've also attached a HDD to the raspberry pi and created a network drive. With the help of a good script the backups are automatic and silent.

For messaging, Telegram FTW, but can't seem to convince a lot of my friends to move over.
Two twin brothers killed by 2 pandemics but 100 years apart – Covid-19 Pandemic
> 'Happy' is a baseline for existence

How do you define happiness ? If "happy" is the baseline for existence a lot of us don't even exist.

Some people spent their lives working on this very topic:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_a_Happy_Life

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
How much companies have actually lost in these schemes? Flipkart has been doing it for years now.
> iOS not letting you use good ad blockers

I use 'Adblock Fast'. Seems fine, but I admit I have nothing to compare it to.
Atlas flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs
Of course it's a net positive to consumers. It's a business being run at a loss, and propped up with constant capital inflow - i.e. a massive transfer of wealth from investors to consumers.
Schools are daycare centers, the curriculum only expands to serve that purpose.

So why not use this opportunity to cut the bullshit and focus on reading, writing and math?

All of the other stuff is eventually forgotten anyway, to no detriment.