skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'm just saying in reality it's not as ideal as it would seem. You're not going to get thousands of new qualified people reading every codebase every year, things will inevitably slip through the cracks, and at a guess open-source lines of code probably have fewer people reading them net than all currently maintained proprietary software, just because there is so much vastly more open source software these days.
Yes, you do need a certain number of calories just to keep your heart beating. My point is that once you already have all the calories you need it would be too bad if you needed to keep eating in order to get all the nutrients that you need. That is why it is favorable to eat red meat.

You are correct when you state at the beginning of your second paragraph that people on meat-heavy diets tend to eat fewer calories. But you are incorrect when you state at the end of that paragraph that a plate full of plant food will have fewer calories than a plate of meat. If this were true, then people on meat-heavy diets must not be finishing their plates of food, since they end up consuming fewer calories.

As for your own diet, it's a good thing you have the eggs and cheese in there! That's where your vital nutrition is coming from. The rice and beans and veggies are just keeping you alive with calories but not carrying their weight in terms of nutrition. You could be doing worse, such as eating a bunch of bread and pasta, or even worse than that, soda and candy, but you could also be doing much better by eating mostly steak and sardines.
Citigroup Director Outed as Qanon “Mastermind”
I absolutely agree. I am as lefty as it gets but having this ideological indoctrination shoved down my throat in highschool was an awful experience. It didn't feel constructive, it didn't feel educational, it felt like an uninterrupted lambasting. It totally failed to persuade and left an awful taste in my mouth that decades have not erased.
While it's not explicitly mentioned, I think Cloudflare is providing financial support to the Internet Archive.
Joseph M. Williams's "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" is by far the best book on learning HOW to put sentences and paragraphs together. It teaches principles that I've never seen anywhere else -- principles for making my writing easy to read and understand.
Then it teaches methods for applying those principles.
So instead of teaching rules, it teaches how writing can be clear. Instead of "don't use passives" it shows the only time a passive verb makes the writing easier to read. It teaches how much new information to put in a sentence and where to put it. And then it shows how to connect that sentence to the next for simple flow.
Nice smile :)
In my view, type systems have replaced formal methods as the main way of enforcing guarantees around program behavior. Type systems are conceptually simpler, and although they aren't nearly as powerful as formal verification, they're good enough for many common purposes.
Yes, and this is why nobody is going after, for example, Facebook HQ's janitorial staff for the moral responsibility of Facebook's actions. Their income remains static in spite of Facebook's quarterly profit so it would be unfair to accuse them of trading their ethics for an income.

There is a fundamental difference when you're talking about a stock-owning, educated, in-demand software engineer, even if they are "just" working on scaling Facebook's image service. They have the institutional power at the company that they could leverage to change the product's outcomes, if they so desired.
What did they do, install enigmail extension by default?
Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack
Be careful with AirQueen masks. They are of dubious quality.

The [CDC tested them](https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/results/...) and their quality control leaves a lot to be desired.

If the variance for just 10 masks was so incredibly high, who knows how crappy the 99th percentile mask they produce is?
Those side projects or the various other 20% time random walk policies push the innovation envelope. It allows the garden approach where a hundred flowers grow, untended, weeds and all. It might be messy but it is supposed to be. It might be uneconomical in the short term sense and therefore first into to the lawnmower during a cash crunch; but it is supposed to be like that also.

I personally have had great, highly individualized, product-market fit with a two year old beta android app out of Mozilla Indonesia of all places [1]. It provides on device unbelievable OCR search for my massive screenshot inventory unique to my personal workflow and it just works.

I have no idea of its future in the new Mozilla but will keep using it until it dosen't work anymore and then find another way.

[1] https://mozilla-next.com/eng/firefox_screenshotgo_beta#first...
Good for them, but PGP is essentially dead for any non-technical zealot users. S/MIME is better supported and easier to use.
I'm curious how this works under the hood, looks like it's added as an annotation processor, and the DSL is embedded in specially formatted comments, but not in annotations. This implies to me the annotation processor is processing the comments in a source file? I did not know annotation processors could do this! Also implies comments carry through to the compiled .class files which I did not think they did either (runtime bytedcode weaving)?
Astronomers capture stellar winds in unprecedented detail
Whilst it’s impressive you’ve managed to hold an argument with yourself I think it’s more the case that anything as broad as a programming paradigm will naturally hold multiple approaches. Is immutability a defining feature of FP? Let the battles commence.

Likewise critics might focus heavily on inheritance or some other feature of OOP that is easy to critique.

And whilst I’m not particularly interested in defending OOP I think describing it as uniquely plagued with bad code is not something anyone should just take axiomatically.
Which parts of it are untrue?
Sure, we have seen "anomalous" years for median earners from time to time, but it's important to remember that over time real median income has still been increasing as a function of the business cycle — I.e. the first derivative has always been positive during bull economies (see: FRED historic data). Sometimes the second derivative is also positive, which isn't uncommon. In 2019, the second derivative was not only positive, it was very positive.
Try http://instantdomainsearch.com/

(No affiliation, just a happy user)
Interesting. The main reason I lost interest in Rust is because I found the type system to be too poor (there should be a better alternative to "rich" in this context, but I can't think of it right now).

Off the cuff, I'd say Ada addresses all of those problems. In case you're interested, I'll leave a few terms that might be useful in delving further.

- Nullable types + sum types. Pointers can be declared "not null" which basically works as it says. Sum types exist as discriminated and variant records. Variants can be immutable or mutable, and obviously work to do the typical Option, Result, etc stuff.

- Locked data. Protected types do this. I imagine details might differ, but I know nothing about how Rust does this and haven't messed with them much or at all in Ada.

- Task types. I'm tempted to say more, but the little details matter so much for this kind of thing so I probably shouldn't. But Ada has tasking and concurrency mechanisms built-in to the language.

- Typestate. Compiler errors for this sort of thing are not immediately obvious to me. I can think of several options to try using even just the features I already mentioned, but I'm not sure what would or would not be detectable at compile-time. Catching incorrect usage and preventing it from causing trouble is more trivial, but just not the same.

The simplest and (in my opinion) most important feature in Ada is the ability to trivially create new types. So many languages require manually wrapping types. Better ones start to provide more magic to help automate it. But fundamentally none of them make user-defined types as a core component of the language. In Ada to create a new type it's just one simple line, and you automatically get full functionality of the base type while retaining incompatibility. The rest of the language and even the standard library is all designed around the idea of allowing the programmer to freely use these types.

You end up capturing so much more of the model that the program is using, and the compiler is able to check and ensure that the code is actually sensible according to that model. I find even the process of writing the types down helps expose flaws in the design I had in my head. Then once I start using it, it does a great job of catching when I start deviating from how I said everything should work.

Pretty much every other language I've ever looked at makes doing that sort of thing extremely painful. There is too much friction involved in detailing all of that, so nobody does. Then libraries are designed without it, which just increases the friction. Ada meanwhile makes it so easy to do that you feel bad not doing it, and you don't even gain much more than saving a handful of keypresses if you avoid it anyway.
Toast racks are not to cool toast, they're to stop it from going soggy.

If you stack toast, the moisture from the toast below in the stack makes most of the stack soggy. Racking it lets the steam escape. You still eat the toast warm, just not wet.

If you find yourself without a toast rack, you can lean them against each other as if you're starting to make a house of cards to keep them crisp.
Because there are too many users on SMTP/Email, but not many PGP users to worry about interoperating? I mean, Hey.com shows that people still like SMTP/Email.
I wonder how much this has to do with decreased building porosity. Used to be if you got water in some places it would just evaporate into the airflow. Anywhere there is no airflow, the water will persist.
Definitely agree. However, the long tail will likely include discovering some more 'improbably' results. For example, the researchers who ultimately discovered Phosphine on Venus this week had early requests for observation time on telescopes denied and seemed to have to have been extremely persistent to finally get their chance.
It's a shame how many people didn't get to experience the Advance Wars series since they were only released on the GBA/DS. I think a Switch version would do really well.
Haha, we built this internally to use with Axiom scanners in our fulfillment centers which use RS232 interface, those scanners are 20 years old.

I convinced my boss to let me sell these as open source since we found many cool IOT uses for them around the office as well, that's why you are getting the RS232 on there but most people probably will not need that feature, but hey... it is there if you need it :)
Your comment explains the hate.

There is no such thing as history without a political philosophy. Herodotus had one, Thucydides had one and Zinn has one. This is all fine and good. The issue is when people come along and say "He tells the truth, a truth not often told".

It's not the truth. It's a contribution. In the medium-to-long run, parts of Zinn's writings will be accepted and other parts will be rejected. In fact, this has already happened. The problem is people selling Zinn as "the last word," as if we can all stop thinking about history now because Zinn finished the job. In reality, history is a never-ending process. Historical theses can be more right than others but none of them are "the truth".
Noam Chomsky and the other elements of the Cantabrigian intelligentsia of his generation mostly.
I hate these extreme thought puzzles. They try to simplify the problem by analogy and try to highlight the issues of the original problem through severe imagery (incendiary in an orphanage, wtf), but all they do is mislead, because the choice of what is magnified is an opinion, and the lesson to be learned is shaped by bias.

In this example, we are meant to assume that the incendiary is the equivalent of fuel overload in mismanaged forests. But the analogy is bunk. No one is planting bombs (it's not a willful act), the policy of stopping fires was once considered good, and when it was no longer considered good, there were also issues of homes and property to protect. And then there is climate change that is ostensibly creating dryer and longer fire seasons, so the underlying factors have changed.

Yet the thought puzzle is designed to have obvious answers (aka bias) that the author wants us to apply in the real world. This is manipulation. Give us the real world problem and more information to think about it, we are smart enough.
A) I literally mentioned compensation in my post.

B) Lots of people find the current rules to be unfair. An enterprising fellow could build a massive structure in NYC and claim royalty rights over any photograph which may contain it.

You might be a-okay with that, but I take it to the extreme and think about what would happen if every building owner in NYC asserted copyrights over images of their building. Then every photo taken in the city would be subject to royalty/licensing requirements. YouTube's content scanners would automatically flag any video with shots of the city, etc.
Cloudflare is really neat unless you find yourself mysteriously blacklisted by them as a user.

Then suddenly the web is a much smaller place.
Zinn's own words (which are quoted in the article) confirm the parent's point:

From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country . . . something rotten at the root. The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society—cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.
"No one reads anything. Those who do read, they do not understand. Those who do understand, they immediately forget."

"Linus's law" is refered to as "Linus's fallacy" now.
Reminds me of the old jokes that start with "if cars were like computers".

https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/crash.htm
I recall there was a massive boycott [0] of GoDaddy about a decade ago over their SOPA position.

Whenever a company does something sufficiently offensive, they earn a lifetime boycott from me.

It's an especially easy commitment to make in crowded marketplaces (laptops & mobile phone manufacturers, DNS registries, fast food chains, etc).

[0] http://godaddyboycott.org/ and https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16320149
You mean like Juno?

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html
That must be one of the most desperate arguments I’ve seen in favor of nuclear power.

You might as well argue agains people having roofs because more people have accidents laying roof tiles.

You got to have a roof and you might as well put in something like Tesla solar tiles which serve as both solar cells and roof tiles.
In most cases, the devs that should be concerned about debugging generated code are the authors of the generator. If there are bugs in released code, consumers of the API should file against them. In any respect, as I mentioned in a previous comment when a resource is selected you can view its generated source via Edit | View Java Source.
Yes, and I don't see crack dealers as the problem in your example. The bigger problem is how society views drugs, addiction, and the criminalization of both. We've all seen how well that's worked for us. Thinking we could apply similar bans on speech we don't agree with is just as stupid.
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But Facebook does take a stance, no? As an example, they probably have used their platforms to show pro-LGTB propaganda (I haven't checked). That shows a clear political leaning in their staff.
The first link is indeed relevant, but the second is emphatically not what physicists talk about when they talk about QFT. (It is generally true that nLab usually lacks perspective, to put it mildly, and the corresponding Wikipedia articles are likely more information.)

For a description of the differences, I suggest this paper (link is to a preprint version): http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8890/1/critique_sep10.pdf. The author also gave a talk on it which was recorded and put on YouTube.
Because the "hacker" in "hacker" news stands for "I copypaste javascript from stack overflow".
If this is what GoDaddy is doing, let's get back at them.

Everyone can search for a variety of domains that we are not actually interested in, and waste their money if they frontrun us.
He wasn't describing an ideal but problematic society like you claim Rand was though. Have you read Marx? He was developing philosophical technique for analyzing history, politics, and economics.
People use Facebook for different reasons. I use it for Groups and to follow artists but definitely not to see baby pictures.
> These measures are always marketed as being for security from hackers and more recently also in the name of privacy

That's because they are. The reality is the existence of side-loading and third-party stores on Android contributes directly to the spread of malware on the platform, which is why Google has made it more difficult to do so with each successive release of Android.

According to Nokia's threat intelligence report (https://onestore.nokia.com/asset/205835), Android devices were responsible for 47.15% of malware infections compared to 0.85% from iPhones. (Note that even after scaling for the number of devices there is still an order of magnitude difference.) Windows/PCs at 35.82% and IoT devices at 16.17% make up the rest. That's right, Android has overtaken Windows as the biggest malware vector on the planet.

According to Kaspersky's mobile malware report (https://securelist.com/mobile-malware-evolution-2019/96280/), 13.89% of users in the United States were attacked by mobile malware in 2019. In some other countries the numbers are significantly higher: 21.23% in Brazil, 24.14% in Mexico, 27.36% in Malaysia, 37.98% in India, and 60.64% in Iran. The overwhelming majority of mobile malware targets the Android platform.

If you want to argue that your right to "freedom" over your device is so important to you that you believe the risk of malware is worth the tradeoff, that's one thing, but don't hand-wave away the very real security benefits of strictly controlled devices as "marketing". It's disingenuous.
Wait, in the US it doesn't say kcals/100g on the package?
I think everything you've brought up here is addressed in the second link I provided.

I assume you didn't read it because they very clearly separate the studies of healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers, including at least 3 studies covering a household setting with infected living alongside uninfected.

Any of your points that aren't covered in that meta-analysis are easily addressed by other readily available literature.

I replied in good faith assuming maybe you were just unaware, but I can see now you're intentionally ignorant.

I'm out. Have a nice day.
Yeah, London is a great place for food. I only take exception to Pret.
Damn, a millionaire professor at Stanford has issues with Howard Zinn. Funny coincidence!
I'm a fusion360 user, mostly for simple 3d printed things. I had already stopped recommended it to people last year when they started messing with the hobby/startup license.

Frankly, I would be perfectly willing to toss a couple hundred dollars at them if it were a boxed product that I "owned" and could reinstall in 10 years. But they don't offer that, its a rental model or nothing. After all, I paid for simply3d, despite there being a bunch of free slicers, because it works well and I can use it for an hour or so a year (because I use it in 5 min bursts) without fretting over continuous payment.

In the end, I will probably give TurboCad another spin in a year or so when the next set of fusion360 feature removals happen. I used it a bit a few years ago and have that copy, and they continue to sell a "permanent" license version that is fairly reasonably priced. Plus, it looks like they have done a fair bit of additional work to make it work better for 3d.

For the time being though, I will save off my drawings, and donate some $ to freecad https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Donate to encourage them.
Wait, how common are $300k salaries in SF/NYC outside of FAANG-level companies?

This forum isn't Teamblind.
Oh, I meant half the smartphone using population of the US, which is around 280 million people.

It's a fact that the iPhone has half that market and that number is only growing since they also have somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of the youth market in the US.

Rocket League skins have no comparison here, whatsoever. Just wanted to make sure that everybody is aware of that.
20 years too late. If they had done this 20 years ago and properly, it might actually have been of use. But even today Mozilla apparently does not comprehend its user base or what they should focus on for adoption. So why am I even surprised.
Being a unicorn isn't a reflection of leadership quality either. Again, a particular litmus test that has a quality threshold may work for some and not others, it's still valid for consideration.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21107/juno-s-first...
> How do you feel about registering hate speech in a domain name, or someone else's trademark?

In the US, all kinds of speech is "awful but lawful", including hate speech. I don't think registrars should be policing legal speech.

If there's trademark infringement going on, there are legal processes to which the injured parties can avail themselves.

If there's more serious criminality afoot, law enforcement should generally lead.

I don't like the idea of unpopular but legal speech being scrubbed from the public internet because people object loudly to it. I think domain registrars (and other infrastructure vendors) are qualitatively different than social media properties, etc, in this regard.
Oh, I see, “contemporaries” is the opposite of what I meant to ask.

Who are current writers like him?
I'm more a fan of https://tld-list.com
Saying that America has deeply rooted problems is not pessimism, it's realism. Not believing in people's ability to make it better is pessimism.
50m2 Solar on the roof top of every household would power An average western country. That is not a lot. And that is is an upper band as we have wind power, biomass, hydro power geothermal and many other sources of clean energy.

Offshore wind is getting really cheap and offers vast amount of unused space.
Gotta look good for all those movie producers that just found their next big star :D
I wouldn't presume they gave it thorough thought.
Useing Lego Mario to Play Super Mario Bros
And apparently GTA V will be re-released again for PS5 in 2021. [1]

Meanwhile, a huge portion of the revenue must be coming from microtransactions. The total cost to unlock all the in-game content is estimated at GTA$700M, [2] while potential earnings are capped at GTA$500k per hour of playtime at most (GTA$300k is a more realistic figure). [3] At this rate, it'd take hundreds of hours of grinding to get past all the paywalls. And it also has to be noted that competing against other human players, which is what most GTA Online players seem to prefer, does not generate any significant income and in fact costs money. Players are also charged for being logged into GTA Online regardless of what they are doing, and these fees can reach GTA$40k or more every 48 min. [4] In-game currency may be purchased for real money at the rate of GTA$8M = (US)$100 (for the largest top-up available). [2] Unlocking all in-game content through microtransactions would cost $8,800 in real-life money.

1. https://blog.playstation.com/2020/06/11/grand-theft-auto-v-c...

2. https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/364182/how-much-g...

3. https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-make-money-in-gta-online/

4. https://old.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/90rehp/how_much_...