skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, wouldn't this also be caught by static code analysis tools, at least today? An assigment inside an if condition is both, most likely a mistake, and fairly easy to detect automatically.
I'm not sure why you'd call him a partisan. At worst he has an opinion, which doesn't think that the colonialism was morally neutral, and he is sharing it with us.
Roughly speaking, if the carbon is captured from the atmosphere and later released into the atmosphere, the technology is carbon neutral.

If the carbon is sequestered (stored permanently) it is carbon negative.

If the carbon is obtained from an unsustainable source and released to the atmosphere it is carbon positive. The current consensus is that only carbon positive systems are considered a problem.
Interesting. Hadn't heard about this before.

Curious about how it is used by the public. And can businesses login and check too?
> Software engineering isn't medicine. It isn't that difficult to learn

I would never hire someone that treats software engineering as something easier that medicine or other branches of engineering.
Your blog article is startlingly incorrect pretty early on. Individuals can and do use ACH between each other all the time. It is literally how paper checks work in the US. And I’ve been able to use a routing number and account number to send money to someone else online via ACH for decades...
That blog is frightening and informative - it gives some idea of the sheer scale of misinformation we have to cope with now.
There is some indication that exposure to some other coronaviruses may improve immune response to the pandemic one, but I think it's still a bit vague and undefined. Since there are coronaviruses in circulation which cause colds, this is possibly true.

It's not something to base public health policy around though!

You are certainly right that we lack a lot of understanding, including about various kinds of immune response to the virus which is critical to developing an effective vaccine. The level of scientific activity around this one virus is utterly phenomenal though. I'd like to think this is going to be a defining moment for human medicine, but I fear it might turn out otherwise.
They made cash almost illegal allegedly to fight corruption, but I think that has an awesome UI.

Of course the poorest were strongly hit by declaring the currency illegal. Some negligible UX experience wouldn't be my first thought on the issue
It always strikes me as odd that so many Americans look at the constitution as if it was a holy text from the founding fathers that must be followed and left unchanged, even though they are usually discussing amendments...
> doesn't change the fact that an independent Nigeria free from influence stirring internal conflicts would have been much better off

Maybe we have different definitions of the word fact but I'd suggest what you are saying is actually a hypothetical and not a fact at all.

Ethiopia was never colonised and look how they turned out compared to the rest of Africa. It's very tempting to try simplify these highly complex realities, the relative comparison you've made doesn't hold water though.
That's a false dichotomy - it's a third thing: nakedly political posturing.
I had a draft article for that, also I've posted an article about how therapy helped me to keep up.

But it didn't get much traction :(

However I'll post about it too, where and how I worked, even with photos!
Yeah, the problem with this idea is that it assumes there's one fixed set of right ethical values everyone should agree on. Take for example the actual, original Hippocratic Oath - it required, amongst other things, doctors not to provide abortions to women. There's still a large number of Americans who hold this ethical belief, but I'd venture a guess that almost all the people pushing for ethics in software development hold the exact diametrically opposite view.

A lot of the demands for software ethics get into even fuzzier and more complicated territory, like whether the companies which control our mass communications should use that control to decide which political views people should be able to share and what they should target, whether this is good or bad for democracy, etc. Also, many of them seem to be things that would've been incredibly niche viewpoints even a decade ago. I've seen people in another thread thinking that Google promised not to use e-mail contents to sell ads originally and then snuck that in, but in reality basing ads on the contents of e-mails was part of their business model all along and it's just that no-one cared when they launched because it was so much less obnoxious than the ads on other providers. Somewhere along the way, we got this meme about big tech selling our personal information, and everyone seems to project it backwards in time onto how people felt before the meme.
Release 16: The 3GPP Industry Group Is Giving 5G a New Direction
Ask HN: Should a Startup in the messy middle change TOS on every turn?
We seem to closing in on market-fit. Should we book a lawyer every time we change routes to update our TOS and contracts? If not, what is best practice to go about this?
Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know (III.)
Regardless of the optics, the key outstanding questions I had were asked and answered in the full PDF document [1]. Opinion and geopolitics are not substitutes for evidence and rational thought.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Shi%20Zhengli...
There are countries freer in practice if not in stated principals.

But there are definitely a load of countries which make America look great, and if that's not a sign of how much progress humanity has still to make I don't know what is.
I would suggest memorizing C4 instead. It's much easier to go up and down a couple of octaves from there than it is to start from such a low position. By the time you reach C4 from C1 you will likely be off considerably.
How was it shown a failure? Because one side didn’t get what they want? All while mainland security forces were kidnapping booksellers and trying to erode rights at every step? There was no failure of democracy in Hong Kong, the mainland was just too impatient and too power hungry.

It’s not the purpose of the opposition to prevent democratization, that’s silly. The people were not “incited to riot”, they did their best to make their voices heard. But China didn’t actually want to hear their voices. And you’ve completely fallen for the propaganda. You haven’t tried to really empathize with the people losing their freedoms. You don’t understand what a nightmare it has been for them.
The first 24 hours with Flutter
Thanks! There's definitely plans to include more. For now, a lot of additional material can be found at https://algodaily.com/curriculum :-)
This seems rather mad compared to just using the existing manufacturing infrastructure; sand is a fairly trivial component compared to all the chemical processing involved, the backing (usually polycarbonate, I think), aluminum frames, glass frontage, indium tin oxide, copper wiring, tin, etc.
Thanks, I didn't know engines specifically cut down the fuel supply nowadays when engine braking. I'm not sure charging the car battery used for lights etc counts for much though!

I do think this is significantly different in ICE cars from regenerative braking in EV cars which actually stores the energy and can use it to drive the engine later. This still comes out ahead against ICE cars which don't burn much energy while going downhill.
“Children of the Magenta Line”: Lecture on pilot automation dependence (1997)
Maybe that's the point of this oath? Software engineers will refuse to work on these areas, unless demands of the oath can be met.
In French, we have an equivalent for "depreciate": déprécier. But we don't have a close relative for "deprecate" (which translates to "désapprouver, dénigrer" and would never be used for an API).

We tend to use the terms "déprécié" (~depreciated) or "déprécaté" (~deprecated but not valid French).

On the other hand, "deprecate" seems to also translate to "mark as obsolete" according to https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/deprecate

I guess both terms make sense but I would keep using "deprecated".
So why isn't ACH used widespread?
Once a single string is tuned it is all relative from that one, so I can totally see how that would be the case. If you are a good listener then you can tell the beats until they are very close indeed.

Another trick: tune then relative to the first string tuned, not incrementally from one tuned string to the next. That way you end up much closer to the ideal.
They're opposing a trademark application.

I'm all for calling out big companies when they do crappy things, but you have to be seen to defend your trademarks & the system to allow businesses to contest trademark applications is there for a reason.
So, there’s always a sucker who needs the cash or health insurance.
Are we getting Star Trek comm channels?

"Tesla, hail the Hyundai behind me!"
I wouldn't want to join a company that just outright lies to me:

> We don’t, Sell data, Sell ads, Charge interest

Then why do I see requests to: Facebook, Heap, Segment and especially Google Analytics and Adroll?

This is spyware.
Beau Geste? Battle of Algiers? No I've no idea either.
That's fine, but a misrepresentation of what I said.

I didn't call them a partisan, I called the phrasing partisan and inconsistent with the call for nuance.
Correct. It shows that Trump is subject to the law but the CCP does whatever it pleases. China blocks whatever it likes because it has no such legal standards.
I did explicitly say "free from influence stirring internal conflicts", and in that regard Ethiopia has some history with Italy and communist regimes.

I stand by my statement: they'd be better off left to their own fate. But maybe you're right, it's not factual.
https://prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_populatio...
I would guess this is part of the reason why most modern compilers will indeed emit a warning about assignment within if, for, and while - branch checks.

At the same time, the standard implementation of strcpy is:

while((*dst++ = *src++));

which has a legitimate reason for doing assignment inside the while condition. Then again, one could argue that the above code is 'too clever'. And I would probably agree.
Arbitrary businesses cannot access it no. However the press can gain special access for a small fee. This means that when the lists are published there are always a lot of news articles about how much various public people earn. There are limitations on how they can use it though, and they cannot publish the whole lists.
What is the average value that an employee makes on a startup exit?
So I have been exploring the lottery tickets in the startup land. Obviously we all see sometimes small, medium and big time hits and founders & investors make money. However there are cases where even when startup exits, employees get zilch. I was looking for some numbers but failed and was curious if someone else explored this? If you take all exits that happened and put a dollar value towards the employees and also include all the fails (that raised), I guess the amount won't be that interesting to even consider a startup route?
Sounds absolutely awesome! Congrats on your excellent product / company!

I hope you find much success!
>it's a great place to own a sports car

this is interesting - could you elaborate? I would have assumed the opposite, but I guess you don't live in a heavily dense urban area?
European colonialism was certainly novel in its sheer scale, and its effects are felt to this day in pretty much every non European country barring a small handful.
The way I see this is that someone is trying to shift responsibility away to someone who has even less power and is now in a vulnerable position.

Smells like diesel gate where executives claimed that they did not know about the cheating device.
It is entirely possible to force subordinates to do things in secret in a way that cannot be traced back to the original decision maker. If there is money to be made it's going to happen.
According to the document, the net worth was unique researched data that is still yet to be accurately replicated. In other words, the company created the data, they did not simply display it. If they were sunk by IMDb copying their data then the data source goes away too, unless IMDb invests in a research team.

What happens when CNW goes offline, how will Google replace the now missing data? Remembering that celebrities constantly change net worth and new ones show up every week, so it's a moving target that someone needs to chase.
Show HN: Declarative Angular Forms with JSON Schema
Not the first of its kind but it is lightweight (<1000 loc), renders compact forms, and supports Draft 06
> But let's also not let the UK off the hook

I think this kind of attitude is what the author of the article is struggling with: assigning blame, tallying up the sins of each side to see who is the winner, this kind of debate is not useful - even if you don't intend it, framing things in this light will cause it.

There is value for everyone in discussing the nuances of dark events in our histories. But unfortunately we have a natural tendency to over simplify things into these highly polarized dichotomies, a vs b, in an attempt to make complex events easy to understand. Nobody alive today had a hand in these events, and while it's natural to feel things for our ancestors whether it's shame, pride or anguish, we would do well to distance ourselves like an alien observer when analyzing these events... the sins of our fathers should remain that way if we are to make progress as a species - I'm not religious, that was an accident.
Crediting the source while providing the information has the same benefit for the user accessing that information, but not the same benefit for website presenting that information. The website loses on whatever benefit a visiting user brings in e.g. advertising revenue, lead-in to a subscription / patronage, a plea for a donation etc.

I still remain very much against ads, but I have a more sympathetic take to financing journalism as a result of reading this account. Perhaps just having the headline be free, but having the rest be behind a paywall is a better middle ground?
> How about you blame the stupid evil fuckers who started all of the futile wars

And I fully agree. Expecting people to individually bear the burden of "some oath", is a fool's errand.

My point was software on its own, much like a fridge, is amoral. You can use it to store your groceries, or you can use it to store corpses.

That said, there are some extreme cases (like a gun), that have very limited non-violent uses. And IMO, that should be regulated, instead of depending on people Doing The Right Thing™.
Larry Wall's Three Great Virtues of a Programmer
As someone coming from a region that suffered lots of US interference: The US is the world’s last hope to have full peace, open trade and modern value/societies.

Woman did not have rights in most of the world because they wanted to. But because the US pressured them to.
Related:

https://medium.com/better-programming/here-are-the-three-vir...

Also, here's my interpretation / rephrasing / translation of the 3 virtues:

Laziness (Larry Wall): "The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it."

My Translation:

Efficiency. Choose the most efficient solution to a problem, and if there isn't one, then invent it. Automate any manual repetitive process that can be automated, even if* extraordinary large amounts of time and manual repetitive effort are required to automate it in the first place! (Related: The 5th Labor Of Hercules, The Augean Stables)*

Impatience (Larry Wall): "The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to."

My Translation:

The Most Efficient Use Of Resources Possible (AKA "The Knowlege Of A Better Way Of Doing Things"), the anger you feel when a better path / solution is known -- but for whatever reason (management, etc.) that path / solution, is not or cannot be taken. This makes you take the initiative, and ask for forgiveness later (if you screw up), rather than permission earlier (that is, never start on the solution if the answer from higher-ups early on is 'no').

Hubris (Larry Wall): "The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about."

My Translation:

Pride in one's work: The quality that makes you create solutions to problems (in any domain or field) which are so elegant and well-engineered they are light-years ahead of what anyone else in that domain or field has yet accomplished (and thus, no one can criticize you without making themselves look like a buffoon in the process...)

(Example of someone who creates such elegant and well-engineered solutions: Elon Musk)
I have seriously come to not trust recently released products with less than half the features of their 50 competitors when it comes to adding logos from the likes of Google, Lyft, Dribbble and Amazon.

This is unethical but is there a law that stops from people blatantly posting the logos like this?
> Facts (like someones net worth) cannot be copyrighted. However a compilation of facts can be.

... in the US.

In the EU and UK there is separate copyright-like legislation that covers this, so-called "database rights".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
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Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies (2018)
> I will never know why the team chose to handle my report by swallowing the error instead of dealing with upstream, but that's what happened.

The team avoided dealing with upstream in exactly the same way that you avoided dealing with upstream. What's so difficult to understand?
Has this happened since the source-control was changed to git? I imagine it would be almost impossible to break into Linus Torvald's git server amend previous commits, considering each one's hashed on the previous commits...
Other ridiculous examples:

Apple vs. Apfelroute - A bike path through a apple producing region
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article192836621/Apple-will-A...

Apple vs. Apfelkind - A small coffeeshop
https://www.dw.com/en/german-caf%C3%A9-owner-takes-on-apple-...
NASA sounding rocket finds helium structures in sun's atmosphere
Ah, got it :-P
What are Skewed or Imbalanced datasets?
Well for ine autonomous weapons were already there. Landmines for one. Back in the stone age even with snares even meaning /rope/ is an autonomous weapon.

There is no human in the loop (no pun intended for snares). It decides when to strike using physics and the answer is always "yes" if it is triggered.

What makes the new "autonomous" weapons different is that they attempt target differentiation. Mobility becomes useful then when weapons systems can say "no" when presented a target. Since even the Military Industrial Complex, purveyor of unneeded bullshit which wantonly takes lives would find it impossible to sell a drone that goes around shooting missles at all targets after launch.
> it is generally left blank

Not at all.

> it adds no value

It is used by Linus to check what's going on and see if there's anything he should check more closely (perhaps cross-checking the message with the diffstat); it is used by developers (now or in the future) and journalists to make themselves an idea of what is being merged; it may explain features that are in development and have preparatory work being merged; and so on.

So I'd say there's quite a bit of value there.
I agree with the concept that you argue for, but don't see Ethiopia in particular being the clear cut case you indicate it is.

I think there a definitely places in Africa doing better than it but also plenty of places doing worse.

What's your view on Ethiopia
It actually does, but not as clearly as I'd hoped.

"for a freezer of this size, completely packed, you would probably have twice as long before running into problems with melting when the power goes out, so about 36 hours. This assuming it's in a room at 19° C (a cool basement). If it were in a hot garage at 30° C, the food would thaw in about 3/4 of the time.

And while the power is out, for each time the door is opened for five seconds, subtract 7 minutes. "

I watched and enjoyed the original video when it came out, so I knew to look for this information in the text, making it easier to find.
This paper on "Object Algebras":
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2012/ecoop2012.pdf

is a great example of using ideas from functional programming and category theory to improve on the visitor pattern, such that the expresson problem can be solved.

The value of such mathematics is that it enables us to formalise some of these patterns and generalise them.
Technology Connections did a decent video that covers freezer design decisions like that and others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAhWgkKlHI
I’m not sure how delayed records would stop you working out disability status or any other sensitive status that affects tax paid. The tax regime for any given year is presumably public info.

People are notified but that’s hardly going to stop someone seeking to upset you as in the example scenario.

Though as I understand the press can do mass lookups with no notification. Don’t you find that disparity concerning? The idea that the government gets to decide what counts as ‘press’ is already something people from countries that don’t operate that way would consider objectionable. Let alone giving them the power to decide who should be 'outed' for their tax affairs.

To be fair, that's perhaps more an issue of this particular implementation, rather than fundamental. But it's an example of how it can be used to entrench the establishment.