skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't use Fully qualified class names nor this unless I have to. If I have any question about the scope a quick hover tells me everything I need to know.

I also skip brackets with single line if statements and many other optional explicit things you could do but add unneeded text to the code, seems strange to not use language features to make the code more terse.

If its not good practice I wish they would just take the feature out of the language and make everyone run a linter before upgrading to the new more explicit language version for conversion.
Go to a corner and cry yourself to sleep.
I feel like this is all meta-commentary: the more we talk about QAnon (or the other things you list), EVEN TO DEBUNK IT WITH FACTS, the more people believe it. That's too surprising to ignore but too meta to discuss directly. So people write articles about QAnon and leave it their readers to wonder (and read more articles and get them more ad revenue).
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/marjorie-tayl...
This kind of revolving door depresses me, and makes me wish that software development had a code of ethics that people would have to swear to uphold.

Going to work for the open web villain is about as bad as the doctors who did the leg work to fuel the opioid epidemic, in terms of harm to society.
Ugh, good catch on the typo. Fixed.

"But the demo video doesn't look like much beyond a web based PPT tool. I'm struggling to see why I would use that over a generic tool like Google Docs."

Appreciate this observation. For people who've not done much video editing before we want Tella to feel as familiar as possible (e.g. editing a slide deck). Equally, we'd eventually like people who do know their way around a video editor to feel like they can create what they want in Tella.
> The state takes a cut of growth already either as income tax or capital gains tax.

This is true, but capital gains tax is only assessed when assets are sold. So, asset-rich individuals can acquire massive wealth, and instead of selling it, just borrow against it and sidestep any capital gains taxes. A direct tax on wealth is an attempt to change this in a way that income taxes and capital gains taxes can not, no matter the rate.
Is it just me, or is there a fair bit of down-voting occurring on pretty rational takes on this thread.

...and the post got flagged!
I see multiple posts a day related to QAnon conspiracy theories on FB. Much of it is just stupid, but it also includes anti-mask and anti-vax, which I think is very obviously more harmful right now than almost any other political topic.

I see nothing about flat earth or chem trails.
Google has an internal standard for how long it takes to wipe out user data after a deletion request, and compliance with it is taken very seriously. It's a lot less than 1 year.
> I know people who went to college, but lived at home with their parents "to save money". In reality, they didn't need to save the minimal room and board fees of a state school; they were mostly just cowards. They are the people that haven't changed at all since high school. They're the people that are afraid of everything in the world outside their small circle.

this might be true of the people you know, but I hope you don't think it holds in general. at the state school I went to, room and board cost the same amount as the in-state tuition itself. for a lot of families, this is not "minimal". if your parents have a spare room and already cook dinner every night, this almost doubles the cost of your education.

if your parents treat you like an adult (ie, you control your schedule, no curfew, etc.), there's no reason why you can't get the full college experience as a commuter.
Maybe we tend to go to different websites, but I don't know how you can make that initial statement. I use my phone to browse the internet a fair amount.
Spending $2k per year maintaining a bicycle is absurd. Could you not just buy a new bike every year (keep the saddle)? That's obviously a waste, so buy some tools online and DIY. The hardest part about bicycle DIY is bleeding hydraulic disk brakes if you have them, but even then that only needs to be done max twice per year.
I’ve seen quite a few people connect the rise of “main stream” conspiracy theories in the US to the demise of religion here. I suppose I could see that as a plausible explanation. But why is it that Europe seemed able to move on from religion without turning to conspiracies? Is the answer as simple as Europe reaching the secular “tipping point” before the age of social media?
"often using the same time or more" means often saving time when the whole shpiel isn't needed, which is the point.

Time management ia important when your time is highly valuable with opportunity cost.
Just because Jews and Asians have high enrollment at a university doesn't mean the numbers are being suppressed. It's pretty trivial to show wrt quantitative methods that it is clearly true that it's happening... hence the OP.
If they don't want to comply with laws then they shouldn't be operating.
Marjorie Taylor Greene

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/511633-trump-cal...

Yes, she only one the Republican primary, but it is very likely she will win the general election.
Can you concretely explain how these domains share the same skills?
+1 ONI. Truly a black hole that manages to warp time itself.

Also maddening being an early fan in beta, then repeatedly throwing out whole designs, plans and game files as they kept adding new things in the game and changing them.
How the A-level results algorithm was fatally flawed
> It's not the job of non profits to figure out how to feed endless amounts of humans

It's the job of governments to not create regulations that starve them.
This is a gross oversimplification, but America was founded by wealthy farmers who believed the conspiracy theories of the day that Great Britain wanted to ruin the colonies, when in reality they just wanted them to pay taxes for the expensive wars that happened there. A healthy distrust of all forms of government is basically required to be an American. It's their greatest attribute, but it's also damned the country in numerous ways.
Happy user of bunq.
That's a lightweight build for a browser.

Chromium's folder with build and .git takes 40GB.
Also recommended, a deep dive into QAnon from the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-n...
Really fascinating looking at the block my office building is on and it looking nearly identical to today. Its an interesting thought that people have had a similar experience walking down that block for the past 70-80 years.
I’m sure Trump’s love of neo-nazi imagery, slogans, ideas, policies, and people is just a coincidence, like the video he tweets of his supporters yelling ‘white power’. I’m sure it’s all a hoax, like his support of the very fine neo-nazis that killed heather heyer or the trump tower meeting with veselnitskya.
Having played both, Satisfactory doesn't come close to the scale Factorio has. Especially when it comes to late game scaling, I have 20k assemblers on my longest running save.
Teams that instead of fixing their main product, go off and create even larger products that don't have immediate revenue streams do little to "ship new products faster" or help the bottom line.

This is going to be down voted, but if I were running a software dev team charged with producing X and they spent all their time doing Y because they "need" a new tool I would question their value. Particularly if all the competitors are kicking our butts, and don't seem to need said tool.

So, rust is great and all, but is mozilla really the org that needs to ground up create a new langage/ecosystem? Outside of the tiny developer community using rust, what does it bring to the end users of firefox (you know the other few billion people on the planet who aren't developers) that couldn't have been done with just spending the time to fix compiler warnings/errors and enable some basic code analysis/linter functionality on the existing code base?

(which yes, I've fixed some bugs in firefox, its a giant mess, every time a new GCC comes out, firefox needs to have bugs patched just to run).
The note did not have personal guarantees. But that didn't stop him from trying to claim alter ego. Like the sibling comment says, even if we win, we still need to pay tons of money to lawyers just to deal with it, and put in a lot of our time as well.

Our lawyers and other investors do think this situation is pretty rare, as the guy ended up killing the business that could have given him a better return on his money, and also screwed everyone else involved in the process.
>I actually believe in the benevolence of AWS; I spent nearly a decade there. Do you?

I have no reason to doubt the benevolence of AWS at present, but how much faith do you have in the perpetuity of that benevolence? There is a tremendous power imbalance between Amazon/Google/Microsoft and the companies that depend on them for infrastructure, and the nature of capitalism and the declining rate of profitability means that eventually, the markets will demand for that power imbalance to be exploited economically.

When the Manorial system emerged in Europe, it was a largely benevolent force offering stability, security, and community in the wake of the collapsing Western Roman Empire - within a few generations it morphed into 1000 years of serfdom.
> Cult of the free

This is poorly chosen language as it doesn't distinguish between freedom versus monetization.

I think most users of free software know it's 'free as in freedom' and they are not being duped.

I think most users of free services are duped into thinking it is actually free and are unaware their data is being sold and monetized and are paying for the service with their data. Lately more people are waking up to that fact though. I don't mean services like MDN, just things like Facebook, Google etc
Maybe he copy/pasted it without reading it or caring about it.

That's what I did when I made tools that required a privacy policy.
Real estate is exempted because it is already taxed by value at a higher rate.
There's been a similar amount of shutdown on 5G tower conspiracies after they resulted in vandalization, arson and even a shooting. 17 towers were attacked in New Zeland alone[1] for example, and plenty elsewhere.[2] As a result 5G groups have been banned on Facebook and the like. Things like this that has real impact is for better or worse pretty quickly suppressed on most platforms. If flat earthers started setting tankers on fire or something they'd probably get the same treatment.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/17-cell-towers-have-been-van...

[2]https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/3/21276912/5g-conspiracy-the...
My thoughts exactly. Sometimes I think I hate Magento for being so overly complex, slow, resource-intensive, and feature-poor yet bloat-rich that only Adobe could be interested in it. Then I think of the poor people paying me to maintain and write extensions for it.
Unfortunately one can’t unilaterally be “the nice guy” and hope everyone else will decide, “yeah, let’s all be nice guys”. It doesn’t happen. So everyone who wants a more level playing field for themselves has to engage.
The general public was subjected to years of "RussiaGate" conspiracy theory nonsense, so I don't find complaints about "QAnon" credible.
Interesting. From the article:

"In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among [redacted], who have now demonstrated in the [redacted] movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority."
I thought jailbreaking worked by using exploits to disable code signing. As in, there’s no need to sign an app. Have things changed the past few years?
It's still under development, with no public release, but I think it's a bit unfair to call it vapourware, since he has produced plenty of material that demonstrates he has a working compiler and has clearly spent a great deal of time developing it, not just talking about it.

Whether it gets too much attention is debatable. He has some good ideas, imo, worth exploring, although I don't agree with all of his opinions. He has a prominent enough profile that it will likely inspire others to incorporate features from Jai if they are seen to be desirable, even if Jai is not ultimately released. (Personally, I think it will eventually.)
In this case, I imagine that a "hard fork" would entail starting a new smart contract and copying over the old balances.
If you can insert... for sure you can delete? It doesn't take days for your picture to show up.

Sure, eventual consistency and replication and distributed storage is hard.

Alternative approach: encrypt at rest, delete encryption key. It would require extra resources for sure, but if privacy was a concern... ;-) (and then have a reasonable expiry on your CDN if you use one).

(of course then we can argue that deleting the encryption key may be difficult too, for the same reasons)
I watched the whole thing and still have no idea what Skinner boxes are beyond that it has something to do with making people want to push a proverbial button one more time. So how do you actually do that? What ways do games do this? They mentioned some loot drops but I never played a game with loot drops and so don't know what that means either. (The only gaming context I have for the word loot, aside from the dictionary definition, is loot boxes, a word which doesn't make any sense to me: what did you plunder to get that loot---other than your wallet, that is?)

Looking at Wikipedia instead, the Skinner Box page says about games:

> Slot machines and online games are sometimes cited as examples of human devices that use sophisticated operant schedules of reinforcement to reward repetitive actions.

So I guess it's just about wanting to play the game more because it's fun and it's not some magic method that game designers use to get more eyeballs for a not-so-fun game (the way that the linked video explained it)?
Worked with DSSSL those times. It was perfect. Too good for the mess which was the web.
That's true, but regulators operate outside of that and will take the intent rather than the letter of the law to heart, and the GDPR is quite specific in its language.

A person who may decide to bring suit however should always cite chapter and verse to lay down the line and to indicate that they are very serious about it. Just the fact that you would be citing that article will likely give you a better chance of seeing your request honored. But if your request is refused and you decide to tip off a regulator it won't make all that much of a difference, they will do their own investigation outside of the particular case and may broaden/narrow the scope of that investigation as they see fit.

This has already surprised more than one company by the way, they decided to play fast and loose with a single individual and as a result found their whole infra and processes under review with plenty of things found out of order. Fines were handed out that were higher than what it would have cost to arrange things properly in the first place.
Simple, heavily commented, and built on Three.js. Go forth and build fun hand-input-based things!
One of the effects of mass media psychosis is feeling that what you're seeing is a simulation. Biden on TV looks like Biden, but isn't actually physical Biden himself - therefore clones.
>There's no licensure, no guild, no liability,

Those are all things that are near-universally features of working a trade, so what exactly is the difference between a trade and a profession?
No that was a lot more than just signal boosting.
He's the same guy who endorsed the use of hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatment by falsely claiming that it was safe and the FDA had approved it, and at least one person died after following his advice, so no surprise at all. He says what at the moment brings more approval without any care of the consequences.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/03/23/man-dead-...

ps. to 45' fanboys: a nice side effect of facts is that they don't disappear along with the posts reporting them, so happy clicketyclicking; I've plenty of karma to burn and too much grey matter to give a damn about it.
Ask HN: Is the perpetual evolution of programming languages a good thing?
I have the perception that under continuous pressure to evolve, programming language are adding more and more features that, most/some of the time have little practical benefits to developers, while adding to the language's complexity.

That's actually what I feel happened to C++ and Java and happening now to PHP and Python.

At some point in a language's lifetime, I believe there should be a "slowdown" where the effort should be focused more on bug fixing and improving the language's performance. An uptick might be necessary some time in the future whenever a new need arises (hardware evolution, new requirements, etc.).

I understand though that this will cause a lot of issues as no one wants to work on the boring stuff.

Am I justified in having these feelings or do you think that there's never enough evolution for a language?
Like I said, "Not unlike almost every other government service I’ve ever experienced.". So, yes, we largely agree.
Ansible has been nice for replacing a bunch of ad-hoc shell scripts for my Digital Ocean boxes for personal projects. I have a bunch of simple provisioning scripts I can re-run as many times as I want, and I have simple deploy scripts that automatically skip unnecessary steps. Cannot imagine a better tool for single-host devops, really - if I were putting together a list of "how to run your own small infrastructure" it'd be higher priority than anything else.

I am curious, as a bit of a devops outsider, how it fits into the toolset of a modern application. From what I can tell, a lot of the aspects of Ansible are made redundant in a world of _hosted_ containers - you don't need Ansible if you're, say, deploying container images to EKS/ECS/whatever - but if you were to self-host your Docker hosts (or... whatever the Kubernetes is equivalent is called), Ansible still seems to me to be the best tool around for standing up and maintaining those hosts.
I don't give a damn, I degoogled anyway. As much as is technically possible without building Firefox myself anyway.
>The rest, `item?id=24156986`, is meaningless to a human

Removing Url's is throwing the baby out with the bathwater though. Take Stack Overflow for an example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53302536/vue-test-utils-...

The only thing you need to actually get to the question is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53302536, but they intentionally add an extra human readable section for laypeople.

If google actually cared about making the internet a better place, they would simply rank human readable urls higher than non-human readable ones.
Because Twitter still hasn't and there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who follow the accounts that propagate this.
As another said -- chrome was dominant before Android was a player.

Firefox blew a hole in the IE wall. Then chrome came along and was more acid compliant, leaner (Ux/ui), faster, and it's approach of per-tab processes was superior to a lock-up prone Firefox, or IE.
https://www.helcim.com/us/pricing/ is 1.9% with no volume.
First url shortner (goo.gl) now this;
Sorry, what I meant is that people that don't run Ubuntu don't seem interested in having snap by default in their distribution , at least I only see the voices shouting that deb is enough or flatpack is better. So in the end if I were Canonical leader I would say fuck them and now put my few developers on implementing a different store for the other distributions.
I just assume that (from living in SoCal for a long time) California has most of the country's Vietnamese-Americans

There's a very large Vietnamese population in Houston. Probably other cities.
I agree with both of you, to a degree. Playing a single player video game is unlikely to help you build relationships with others. And yet never stopping to enjoy life in all its variation leads to a pretty empty life, too.
Does anyone know which vendors' equipment was on the attacked towers?
Participation Inequality and the 90-9-1 Principle in Open Source
Awesome, that's very useful info. Thanks for taking the time to link these and elaborate on the data
Likewise, and I spotted it early on so never really got into it. Systematic games are my favourite kind of game, but when it gets as raw as factorio is I suddenly snap out of immersion and realise I'm working but in a game.
If you're interested in this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
Safari has little to none marketshare.
Let me tell you why this is dangerous. QAnon evolved from an earlier movement, the spiritual warfare cult. My Father's family was all very deeply entrenched in this movement and while QAnon may be a new movement the spiritual warfare cult has been around a long time and rears its ugly head in many ways. While I was growing up the spiritual warfare cult was being expressed as the satanic daycare abuse scandals and the satanic abuse panics for the mid-80's and 90's. After my mother ran away with me from my father for being a physically abusive dick his entire side of the family came together to attempt to regain custody from my mother by saying that she was a satan worshiper. The case dragged on through the courts for years, I was sent to a church shrink that basically brainwashed me into saying whatever they wanted me to in front of a camera and my grandparents and father ultimately won the custody battle. It took years for me to realize what had happened to me. Needless to say, it ruined my life, my mothers life, my brother's, and my step father's. I have extreme trust issues with romantic partner's to this day.

I first heard about QAnon when I heard about the Cosmos Pizzeria accusations of hosting a basement full of children that were being "sacrificed to satan" and then canabalistically eaten by democrat elites in DC. Don't think that's harmless well what about the guy that shot up the place in an attempt to free those children from the nonexistent basement. Seems pretty dangerous to me.
Your post is the 4th made from an account created 12 months ago. What that means I don't know. But it's signalling a lot of 'you can't trust anything' which is interesting.
Yah, I've been trying, the used bike market seems even crazier at the moment than the retail bike market. I've yet to find anything that is both the right size, and not either a complete POS, or multiple thousands of $.
I am really excited that this is finally a chance to break the tight grip Apple has had on the App Store.

I say this as someone who enjoys having an iOS device but also knows that Apple absolutely can allow other app stores in a secure (PKI based) way. They're just choosing not to do so for monopolistic reasons but talking about safety.

If we think of the PKI trust chain, and the Apple App Store as a root authority, there's no reason why ecosystem vendors (like MS, etc) couldn't be "intermediate CAs", with their own app stores, with strict rules in place for running one.
Yes, you are right, BLM is not really a conspiracy theory. It's worst than that actually, it's neo-Marxism propaganda that is turning the US into a dystopian society. Hint: communism never ever did work anywhere in the world.

https://medium.com/unsafe-space/a-liberal-for-trump-484abb7d...
Yeah! I'll code for days without running the app. In OCaml, it's as you say, mostly correct when I actually get around to running it. With PHP/JS, I still have a lot of work ahead of me. With OCaml I feel like I'm thinking much more about the problem and less about the language I'm using.
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