skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, other than your first sentence (which agrees w my post) you've completely misunderstood and mischaracterized what I wrote.

I'm speaking from personal experience about what's been profoundly helpful to me in successfully overcoming a set of challenges related to how my mind works. My intent was and is to share and encourage others. FYI, learning to view this condition as a trait that can be advantageous (vs a defect or impairment) can be transformational for people suffering needlessly from frustration, guilt and self-doubt -- which mental health issues are rampant in my ADHD cohort. My aim is to speak directly to this group in saying "don't give up! try looking at things in this way, keep searching for the right solution and there's a good chance your life could radically improve, as did mine."

As for your ideas about what constitutes being "charitable", the less said the better. May I politely suggest taking a few slow
breaths, ideally w your eyes closed, outside, w the sun on your face, and remember how lucky we all are to be alive.

Have a great day!
I have a different view. I'm not on an epic supported platform, so I don't and can't use their launcher. I wouldn't buy anything directly from them, but I will log in and claim my free copies, in hopes that it cost them money in licensing fees.

I don't know if they make bulk licensing deals, or pay a reduced price per copy claimed, but I hope it's the latter and I'm just a drain on their budgets.
Discover `Array.prototype.includes()` in depth, through a jskata
Wow. Loads of empathy on display here.
Check the actual source code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261598

I don't think the failure is with the accept type. I think the failure is with the bespoke JavaScript checking the filenames. That puts the failure on the College Board, not Apple.
These tests take a not insignificant amount of time and stress to do, especially on top of this SiP situation. Not to mention they cost the students money.

Communicating these issues only over twitter is also not at all acceptable. Plenty of people don't use or rarely use twitter, such that it should not be considered the primary communication channel.

So while yes, College Board is allowing students to retake the tests, anyone affected should be refunded at least partially, if not fully, for having their time wasted. College Board should have had their backend reject invalid formats, not just hang. The result of attempting to upload an invalid format image should have been a 'whoops, please use a different format', but that's not what happened.
Most of the problems described in other posts concern trying to convert text programming paradigms into a visual representation.

Let me suggest two ways visual programming might be a big part of the future:

1. New paradigms, such as constraint based programming, might well lend themselves better to a visual presentation; and
2. VR. Visual programming is indeed much less visually dense than text, but if you start over with the assumption you’re doing it in VR, that suddenly is if anything a virtue.

Imagine something that was part Excel, part Access, with visual, animated 3D representations of other major programming abstractions also, and you start to see that VP might really be the future.
Hmm, I’ve bonded with birds via food too. At least I like to think I did ;)
> letting students take the test again.

Yeah, that still fits "our system broke, you're screwed now, sorry".

They have the submissions, the submissions can be easily converted to their target format. That's what they should do instead of asking students to take the test again.

Or maybe they simply delete any accepted[1] submission that they deem corrupted, in which case I have nothing more to say.

[1] Quote:

> Spencer used the same process on the real exam and thought it went through, but he received an email the next day saying the files were corrupted and that he needed to retake the test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora is mentioned in another comment.

The Wikipedia article looks very unbalanced to me, but there is definitely some smoke there too.
Personally, i think there was a time where we genuinely needed to solve hard engineering problems - around 2010-2015 when a ton of companies figured out concurrency, distributed systems, scaling, way better web tech, smartphones etc.. in those times companies needed a LOT of good devs, so the network effect Silicon Valley had was valuable. And the VCs saw huge empires to be built and so much money on the table, so high salaries were easy to justify.

Now the market is crowded, scaling is a simple economic problem, the network effect is turning on its head and there isn't any revolutionary software to build on the horizon. Times have changed but the narrative hasn't caught up yet.. its going to suck when it does honestly. Software is just so commoditized and cookie cutter at this point i can't see it being a great career for much longer.
VidPress: Baidu’s New AI Tool Creating Videos from a URL with One-Click
What I love about comments like this is that "we" (the citizens) are demanding that websites filter out X, Y, and Z, and then at same time come back yelling at them when they do. Censorship and lack of censorship come at a cost and you have to be willing to pay one of them.
yes, marin is a bastion of nimbyism (it's also quite pretty) but that's not the "entire environmental movement". the objection is to the exaggeration.
If you had a plot of land worth millions would you give it away? No, they can't let it go unmaintained that's illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Pilot_programs_an...
Rebuilding the original NeXT web browser [CERN 2019]
This should do it: https://carrd.co/
Good example of a use case for Pi-Hole.
I agree with you. Microsoft plays a long game. Through giving out promotional / free copies of Excel, with 1-2-3 compatiblity, they killed Lotus. The same with Word and Wordperfect. The same with Netscape. And those companies completely dominated their markets. As market leaders maybe they were lazy, taking profits, and not enhancing their product. That happens with most market leaders. But the fact is, it is impossible to charge $150 for WordPerfect when Microsoft is giving away a compatible word processor. As their only / primary source of revenue, WordPerfect and Lotus could not survive a free competitor.

They don't have to kill Linux, and in fact, would not want that IMO, because then someone might bring another pesky antitrust suit against them. But if they can dent it in any way, they will.

For those who say Microsoft has changed, is a different company, is embracing open-source, etc.: if that truly is the case, wouldn't they release DirectX for all Linux distributions, not just theirs?
So... let's say 500k people, 10k a year, 10 years, that's 50 billion dollars.

That's... not a small test. That's a small city deciding to go all in on trying it.
I work in IoT and I have no idea how Azure Digital Twins can be helpful. This is too much advertising talk and not technical enough.
The American revolution would be like some Chinese colonists refusing to pay back infra debt in Africa. And the US would have to have the guts to send some Rochambeaus and Lafayettes to the Chinese colonies.

Kinda a stretch comparison. But I would like it in doing so the US got mad broke and then we had a real revolution.
That's a strawman that doesn't try to interpret the point I'm trying to make from the strongest possible position. I'm not suggesting that an event like that should be just brushed under the rug as "Well, death just happens."

I'm saying that the response to that event such as the Patriot Act and other safety-above-liberty-at-all-costs measures would have received a lot more scrutiny and been seen as disproportional. Just like your strawman is not a healthy response, neither was the response we had to 9-11. The goal of the terrorists was to fundamentally change life for Americans and get them to abandon their principles. Well they succeeded beyond their wildest imagination because we responded by dumping many of our freedoms in response.
>>Why does the calculator take seconds to start?

>Instant

It's "instant" to show up, but you got to wait one to two seconds for the splash screen to disappear, whereas the windows 7 showed up instantly and was usable immediately.
It's also predicted that if self-driving vehicles become viable and ubiquitous, you'll also see a shortage of organs since a significant amount of organ donation rely on vehicle fatalities and in theory, self driving vehicles should be safer. I'm sure its not coincidental that organ donation opt-in is closely tied with most state drivers licenses and renewals.

I haven't seen an analysis but I suspect you'll also see a lot of municipal revenue streams cut down when if self-driving cars or other transports become popular. I know a lot of small towns rely on lots of interstate traffic tickets to help balance their budgets. I suspect most those violations will decrease significantly with autonomous transport. I'm not sure how many cities/towns at large are reliant on these sort of revenue streams but I presume increased taxes would need to pickup the bill.
If you can’t tell the difference, does it really matter?
In a world in a pandemic and climate crisis , asking people to drive long distances, or worse, fly so that middle management can “observe facial expressions better” should be met with disapproval
What point exactly?

The stock market != the economy.
You act like information isn't constantly being curated in all forms of knowledge delivery. The same way we don't tolerate students attempting to derail professors in class with unfounded hypothesis or flawed logical arguments, Youtube doesn't have to tolerate the same on its platform.

Disclaimer: Work at Google, thoughts are my own.
It's not American exceptionalism but rather a statement about the tendency of Chinese policymakers to focus on America when they look for inspiration in reforming their legal, financial and business systems. For most Chinese, America is the stereotypical example of how those things work in foreign countries. In other domains they may look to other countries, e.g. Japan and Germany when it comes to industry.
This article sucks.
I think author is brain damaged.
Any idea what level/compensation FB is offering to Giphy engineers?
After moving to America a while ago, one thing that struck me is how a lot of things are designed as effectively regressive taxes: the poor pay more than the rich.

I opened a basic bank account with a giant American bank. The account has an exorbitant monthly fee, something like $15, but it’s waived if you keep a sufficient balance or have a steady salary. So the only people who pay the crazy fee are the broke people with irregular income. This is one example out of many such seemingly structural biases in everyday services.
While I kind of agree with the sentiment, I'm also totally done with the notion of "Apple decides to have their own unique format every 2 years, and makes the change in a backwards incompatible way, so now the world needs to kowtow to them, despite Apple dragging their feet in many areas of standardization."

Seriously, fuck Apple. It took legal changes in the EU to force them to the "Just f'ing support USB-C like the rest of the world instead of making half your money selling dongles".
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257870, which was posted earlier, but was flagged. We'll turn off the flags on that post.
JPEG is like 50x more complex than PPM, but we eventually moved off that standard as well due to storage size and feature limitations. Plus, it's being adopted by both iPhone and Android--it's not like it's a proprietary format specific only to Apple.

Not to mention HEIF/HEIC images take up a fraction of the space of equivalent quality JPEGs, which is significant if you're a shutterbug who fills up their phone with photos.
You know, generally overall my opinion of Facebook is neutral to slightly negative (I'm not sure they do enough to prevent misinformation from spreading). But I have to say, watching this (my first time hearing Zuckerberg speak) he seems like a pretty regular okay guy.
Sure, but reputable (from a privacy sense, anyway) VPN providers don't even retain any logs. Some providers just run everything in RAM, so no data ever touches disk. And there may not even be a disk.

And then you can route through Tor, I2P, Orchid or Lokinet. For any of those, getting logs from enough nodes to figure out browsing history would be nontrivial.

I suppose you could then be charged with "evasion" or whatever. If we get to that, it's time for a rootkit/botnet that spreads like WannaCry, and communicates via covert channels. Everyone will be running it, because it spreads so aggressively, and anyone who wants can use it, without leaving any traces.

Edit: spelling
This page seems to suggest that's mostly because the solicitor will have barristers they prefer to work with: https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/for-the-public/finding-...
> But why do so many projects depend on Zookeeper?

Hadoop ecosystem legacy. Most companies adopting tech like Druid were already running Hadoop and had Zookeeper as a result. Probably made sense to take advantage of a reliable, or at least well-known, system.
It all comes from a large concentration of excellent CS programs, not just in the bay area but also all up and down the west coast. It is nearly impossible to replicate that research output anywhere else in the world, and it's what drives every technology.
I have seen a lot of bad faith cops on https://ns.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/, but most of the time, they don't kill the suspect.

This is the best database that I have found so far for shootings by police and at least they tell you if the suspect was armed, but yes more information is always better...

But the main issue is that even if the cop was found to use excessive force, there are no real consequences, most of the time.
Re: property values: who cares? Again, I don’t find this even remotely compelling when weighed against the rights of property owners to do what they want with their own property. Again, I understand why rational actors want to protect the value of their property. But we shouldn’t assist them as a matter of policy.

(And this is really neither here nor there, given my stance, but property owners actually tend to be very bad at knowing what’s going to negatively affect the value of their properties over the long term. Allowing more density would increase values, in most cases, yet homeowners universally oppose it.)

Re: safety: sure, there are some reasonable safety rules. Those aren’t what we’re talking about here.
I'm not sure building a ghetto is the right answer. Whats stopping anyone from claiming a 10x10? Can I claim one?

You're grossly oversimplifying the issue.
>>> I doubt there could be any certification body for that.

Plot twist: There is. It's a standard clause in software procurement contracts, especially for government.

"The application must be supported and tested on browsers with at least 10% market share, as defined by the yearly Gartner report"

Replace browser with device or what is relevant for the project.
For me, WFH let's me have a much better work/life balance. I have a family with 3 small kids. I was racing against the clock in the morning to pitch in around the house, arriving at work already stressed out usually late, put up with all the work place distractions, had to suffer through rush hour traffic, arrived home stressed out and found it difficult to switch to family mode. Very rarely would I get into a grove of deep work. I tended to hit that grove after 2PM, which was only a few hours before I needed to start watching the clock and dread the traffic back.

Now, WFH I'm free to set my own schedule. Sometimes I do my best work later in the evening, something that I never had time or energy to do while following the "9-5" schedule.

I don't miss the socialization much, probably because of the roll my family fulfills. The most important difference now is that I have a lot more patience with my family, because I don't feel the constant stress of my old commute and schedule.
Sounds like Scientology's requirements for making trips out of the compound.
Someone always has to chime in with this take, on every thread. Nobody is forcing you to work from home! Come on!!
Haha, most government money projects in California are a mechanism to funnel tax money into chosen pockets. The interests in play encourage that because:

* Most Californians don't like other people living near them. They want to live like in the suburbs and it annoys them if that changes.

* They can fig leaf in 'environmentalism' or 'traffic' or whatever in order to do that. Sometimes they'll fig leaf in 'gentrification' and 'affordability'.

* They want to be able to complain about government spending but not really do anything about it. The best part is that this allows you almost all the real benefits of actually having government spending change: you still get the funneling, and you get all the social value of being against overspending.

* The last thing is that Americans as a whole hate being told they've been defrauded. It's like the worst thing in the world to be a sucker here. So the right response is always to pretend like you aren't being suckered. That's crucial. You can always choose to say things like "San Francisco is built upon 150 years of shipwrecks" or "America is a big country" or "California is diverse".

My hope is one day to embed myself in enterprise sales to government. It's the good life.
So this is saying that you are "agreeing" to the full price, allowing them to one day charge you that full price?
(While hooking you in with the 50% discount?)
Announced on https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xb2GYUPxoGAprDj3G4Idz?si=A...

I've got to say, I've moved almost entirely to consuming information via podcasts and Yang Speaks is one of my top ones.

1. Find some smart people/organizations you trust
2. Listen to them daily
The answer is clearly one more regulation to fix the loopholes in this regulation.
I don't know how the survey was worded. But if they asked me, would have said "somewhat interested", in that I want to work from home 1-2 days a week, but no way all 5 days a week
> That is to say, perhaps these drastic actions of mass WFH will have implications we can’t predict yet, especially at scale.

Something that I haven't yet seen discussed much on this or similar threads are the support and amenities staff. Most of the developers will be alright, maybe even better off, but the Bay Area is full of chefs, shuttle drivers, janitors, and who knows how many other roles that probably won't exist anymore. That's a big permanent shift in employment opportunity for those people.
I believe those students had received noticed to use png/jpeg, and their solution was to change the file extensions. The website accepted them without issue, but these students later received emails telling that their photo was corrupt. The other, unaware students tried to upload the HEIC directly from their phones and the website stopped responding causing their test time to expire.
Why do you see the employer/employee relationship as adversarial? Perhaps you are working in the wrong company. You need employers as much as they need employees. It’s a myopic view.
>Her “magic backpack” is actually a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite space, from which she can pull out useful or random objects

Reminds me of Drywall from Scud: The Disposable Assassin comic[1]. It's an interesting plot device.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud:_The_Disposable_Assassin
I live in Canada and they actively recommended against cloth mask wearing for the general public on the grounds that it leads to a "false sense of security" and "increases touching of one's face" and that asymptomatic persons do not spread COVID-19. "Putting a mask on an asymptomatic person is not beneficial".

You can listen to Theresa Tam's (Canada's version of Dr. Fauci) exact words here: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/watch/tam-on-why-canadians-d...

I think any reasonable person who defers to authority would have listened to this and come to the conclusion that there is no reason to wear a mask if they're asymptomatic and had no connection to a sick individual. They could even reasonably conclude that it would be dangerous as they would be touching their face and virus particles would accumulate on the outside of the mask.

And they would have been wrong.
this can be seen in some cultures where the eldest son and his family are held in high esteem because he is the one responsible for taking care of the parentd while daugthers are a burden, since they will be with their husband supporting the husbands parents.
Before this job I worked from home for 2 years. When I wanted human interaction, I could go to a restaurant, the gym, a hockey game, or a friends house. You can't do any of those things now.

Once things open backup, I think a lot of people find that WFH is a lot less lonely.
> and you can't change my mind.

Welp, why bother commenting then? Also half remote half in office doesn't work. I've been working for all remote companies for the past 4 years and (asynchronous) communication has always been great. It's "just" a mindset shift.

You say we're naive for thinking this is a revolution. I'd say naive is the one evaluating the viability of remote work by looking at an incredibly noisy dataset (or a single data point in your case) during a pandemic in which companies have been forced into a paradigm that requires methodical and progressive change.

Similarly to asking someone who has never run to join a marathon and be in the top N.
TI-BASIC code is entered with a menu-based system. For example, while editing a program on a TI-84+, pressing the PRGM button yields this menu:

[CTL] I/O EXEC
1:If
2:Then
3:Else
4:For(
5:While
6:Repeat
7:End
8:Pause
0:Goto
A:IS>(
B:DS<(
C:Menu(
D:prgm
E:Return
F:Stop
G:DelVar
H:GraphStyle
I:OPenLib(
J:ExecLib

You can navigate up and down the menu with the arrow keys and pick the keyword you want with the ENTER key, or you can just press the corresponding number/letter (which is much faster). You can also left-arrow and right-arrow to related submenus. For example, that "I/O" next to "CTL" is this menu:

CTL [I/O] EXEC
1:Input
2:Prompt
3:Disp
4:DispGraph
5:DispTable
6:Output(
7:getKey
8:ClrHome
9:ClrTable
0:GetCalc(
A:Get(
B:Send(

There are never more than 3 submenus associated with any key, so you either get the menu you want, or you are only a single left or right arrow away. Menus (except the "Catalog" of all commands) have a maximum length of 35 entries, so you can always select a menu item by typing its corresponding number or letter (assuming you already know it). The worst case is 4 keypresses: faceplate button (like PRGM, MATH, or LIST), left- or right-arrow (if you need a non-default submenu), the ALPHA key (to type a letter), and the letter of a command more than 10 entries down in the menu.

This is exactly the way that all menus work on the calculator, and all of the actions you can pick at the REPL are also valid program entries. The more familiar you are with using the calculator in general, the easier it gets to program them. I wrote a lot of TI-BASIC in high school in the early 2010's, and had a lot of the menus memorized. Typing the programs in was definitely not the hard part.

The only times you use alphabetical input when writing TI-BASIC are:
* writing string literals
* typing a one-letter variable name
* referencing a custom-named list that hasn't yet been created, or has been deleted and already deleted.