skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that opening up the market to "Aunt Mae" will also open up the market to malicious players.

The financial barrier of entry of TV & print advertising is a very effective filter against scams. I have yet to see scam ads for fake tech support or "win an iPhone by filling a survey" or some "free" trial which uses unreadable fine print to sign you up for something very expensive, but those are commonplace online.
> Today, we’re announcing a new consumer alert to stand against racism.

I read this, laughed, and closed the tab. The world has gone mad.
Hi, I am the author.

> but we aren't writing math paper

It's not about writing math papers, it is about having making refactoring less error prone. Imo, the equals from math helps this cause and it iw worth it.

The new approach may seem harder because we have been programming for 40+ years with side-effects, tracking them ourselves. It is understandable.
Most people are not reading the papers.
Not stating that the randomized target is a specific subset is misleading.
Announcements like this one are great advertising to people who don't already know about it, but everyone not already fairly intimately familiar with secure scuttlebutt will wonder "what the f* is SSB" (I was thinking about site specific browsers at first). It's not explained on the page even once.

That said: Congratulations! This is super exciting stuff!
The latest iteration is actually called 'ActianX', and it's a continuation of Ingres plus support for column-based tables from the 'Vector' product acquired by Actian.

QUEL is still there, but its functionality has been frozen for years and, in terms of bells and whistles, is way behind modern SQL.

If you do want to try it, I had no trouble installing it on my home Ubuntu system a couple of years ago. Ingres is pretty easy to use in some ways. If you want to make a database, you just type "createdb mydatabase" at the command line.
This is what always happens when you allow yourself to be fooled to vote away your souvereignty to others who will rule over you. It is incredible that people still expect a different outcome after thousands of years of history. Einstein called this behavior insanity.
Everyone thinks they should be getting SF salaries in this new era of remote work. Nobody thinks they should be getting a Flint salary.
Equal pay for equal work doesn't have to mean the bar is raised.
> When you test, and in one case you find something different to what is presented, what do you do?

First, you check for external factors which may have affect the test. If you can confirm you cannot reproduce past results, you may consider discussing with other people about your findings, and publishing if no one can find a reasonable explanation. In any case, you are happy because that's how science progresses.

> My position is that I am happy to continue as before, but I won't overstate my case. I won't say 'I know' when I don't. I can accept that what is presented as true, may in fact be true, but I don't know it. I would be lying if I did.

Sure, and that's the point of science: there is no truth, only better and better models. But we won't stop using the verb "to know" altogether.
Knowledge is not a binary thing (you know or you don't).
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I’m surprised that he isn’t wealthy on the back of his world famous novels, and also why some of his novels haven’t been brought to cinema. Snow Crash would make a good film in the Internet age.

Perhaps, this essay is old though, and by now he is and some of them have been.
> This might sound harsh, but Common Lisp fans should stop whining about what everybody else is doing and start making some killer apps to bring back some life into their language.

They can't. They are all busy implementing another Lisp in Lisp.
It seems so:

> In governance, sortition (also known as selection by lottery, selection by lot,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I just want everyone to know that the vast majority of economists(99%+) believe that inflation is an integral part of our economy. You can disagree with all of them, but everyone should know that the experts disagree with you.
You should contact the appropriate Google department. They will definitely guide you.
Yeah, that's exactly much what I was thinking, that when you take a look at their activities, it's clear that the definition of what's considered political here is fairly narrow.

Re: your hypothesis, after learning about 501c4s from Jeff in this thread and reading about for 10 seconds on Wikipedia, it seems that those actually serve that purpose quite well ("super PACs" are apparently 501c4), so I don't think the 501c3s are highly likely to get used in that way.
Many people still don't realize government and IRS are the mafia, believe it or not.
We're working on a minimalist test framework driven by rich comment blocks, its really great and looks like this: https://gist.github.com/dustingetz/8a42297736e0acc544acccffb...
Not consciously, perhaps.
>If the world worked differently, we wouldn’t still be writing on QWERTY keyboards, or speaking English; technically superior alternatives like Dvorak and Esperanto would have taken over.

Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
The broader trend here is that power is becoming more concentrated in companies and institutions and away from individuals and local groupings. These differences in beliefs, ethics, morals, etc. are difficult to work through in any large grouping of people. The array of approaches to government is an example of trying to solve this coordination problem.
Apple's walled garden is great for me as a consumer.

I trust it
I know the billing is simple
I know apple stand by the transaction

In the age of click bait and the information wars it is refreshing to trust the computer in my pocket.
Thanks for this detailed criticism, it’s quite useful.

My understanding is that for functions with more than a few arguments, it is expected in Julia that only a small subset of the possibly thousands of combinations will be covered. Thousands, because with multiple dispatch you dispatch on the types of all the arguments. The binary operator “*” in Julia has 364 methods, and that just takes two arguments. So you define the ones that are useful.
I imagine screen tearing, especially under the default compositing window manager, would be unacceptable for the out-of-the-box configuration.

Another possibility is just that nobody has gotten to it yet.
Do you have an example where in a political company both views were heard?

Typically the whole discussion around overly political workplaces revolves around west coast tech companies, which are a monoculture of liberalism. Republican views are definitely not heard or dealt with.
Right, this is my main problem with the big social media networks. They claim objectivity, but then show you things you don't follow. Pick one.

Facebook/Twitter cannot truthfully claim "Whoa, we can't remove holocaust deniers! We're a neutral platform!" and then turn around and show me trending topics, news, and people.

If you're so fucking neutral, then only show me things I follow, and don't insert ad content into the feed like it's real. Put if off to the side like a regular advertisement.

They want to have their cake and eat it too.
This sounds like the pharmacology version of "you're not holding it right". Supposedly HCQ works because it is a Zinc Ionophore, facilitating intracellular zinc ion transport. Therefore you need zinc ions to transport. But zinc ions exist in the blood of humans. But some humans might be zinc deficient. But you can draw blood and measure their zinc ion concentration and then provide supplemental zinc. So to end up having done a whole study on HCQ efficacy but NOT covered the bases on "zinc needed" seems unbelievable.
I completely forgot Reddit even has ads.

I was watching a screen share on someone else's computer who was looking at a news article and I was completely shocked at the experience. How do people live without adblock?
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What I don't get here is - who is doing this? I'm not sure who has the motivation to falsify clicks on Reddit ads. For Google ads, somebody might want to falsify clicks on the ads displayed on their site because they get paid by the click, but who other than Reddit would want to do that here?
My team is split between the US and India. The time zone difference makes things harder, but we work well together. The cultural issues are greatly lessened by the fact that a number of people on the US side of the divide are from India, and I (US-born white guy) have made five trips to India to get to know people there. We're able to hand off issues to each other and address customer issues quickly because someone is available around the clock. I've had to push back and limit meetings to keep from working all the time, but it's easy to get sucked into over-long hours.
This is like the 5th study that confirms this. It's pretty conclusive by now.
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Yeah, dream on.

And what about OS/2 ? ;-)
> Apple mandates that functionally equal options cost the same inside the app as outside

Do they? I heard it before, but when I tried to search the developer guidelines, I couldn’t spot anything specific about this.
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When he talks about the bankruptcy/CDS/default shennanigans (eg Hedge fund offers bailout to avoid default in exchange for ophaning credit etc), he does not take a stance on right and wrong.

Why? Both sides of the game are Informed. This isn't screwing over the dentist, it is fund A outthinking funds B and C. Is it a social good? Don't know, nor does he (seemingly). So why bother pretending
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Because you enjoy it anyway? Because you believe it brings you closer to god? Because you feel it drives you towards a level of mastery you have not yet otherwise achieved? Because you feel bad for the script having to do nothing but meaningless work?

There are all kinds of things in life that contemporary culture encourages us to stop doing and instead pay someone else to do on our behalf. While division of labor is almost certainly a net gain for human comfort and quality of life, that doesn't mean it's always the appropriate thing to do.
Actually, CRS are part of the Police Nationale, not of the Gendarmerie Nationale. They are civilians, not military.
It's not a 1-1 comparison only because it sidesteps the crux of the debate completely and focuses on the strawman portion. What's argued as anticompetitive against these app stores is the integration of consumer devices with storefronts not that independent storefronts exist and don't advertise other storefronts.
I filed mine in Feb 2 2020 from San Francisco (via Fragomen) and received the I-485 approval notice this week. Biometrics appointments were halted through most of march through july, but they've started taking in applicants again since then.
I think the recipe metaphor section was far too long (should have been 10% of the size maybe) and I would have preferred the actual numeric examples to be filled out instead.

More worked examples with perhaps some of the recipe metaphor mixed in would be better.
My concern would be the opposite. What if scams are only targeted towards those that are likely to fall for it like the elderly, flying under the radar of anyone who has the skills to recognize it as a scam and report it?
> I'm saying, everyone - EVERYONE - is accepting claims all day long, without any proof.

You included. But saying "no one is checking" is false. For every claim, there are people who do, actually, check. But you ask for _everyone_ to check _every claim_, which, I repeat myself, is, plainly put, impossible. So either you still do not accept that this is impossible, and going further in the discussion without this axiom is just useless, or you accept that this is impossible yet you still hypocritically ask for it. In either case, I do not have much to add.
The cuneiform we see is mostly accounting and short snippets to glorify the ruler of the day. So, basically, W2 forms and Trump tweets.
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The parameters within which HCQ is thought to work have been clearly stated. If a study is attempting to evaluate HCQ without following those parameters, then the study is badly designed regardless of when it's being discussed.
Well, a slightly flawed analogy is that you bought a Best Buy house and the only way to get a TV is to get it through Best Buy.

It's the fact that not only are Apple providing a platform to sell the product, they're also the only distribution method for the product and are slowly clamping down on the loophole of providing a "free" app that requires a subscription bought elsewhere.

To continue the flawed analogy, the Best Buy houses are clearly the best houses in most other respects in the opinion of a lot of people and it's hard for the market to apply pressure about this one specific limitation. Whether that's fine or not is basically the philosophical argument being had.
Yes, I think so, but after a 2 year waiting period. You don't have that wait for Social Security disability benefits though.
Interesting, are you aware that the big bang theory originated from a Belgian priest?
I see people threatening to do this sort of thing. But, seriously, do you really think you can keep the fact that you leave a couple time zones away from SV a secret from all your coworkers (one of whom will drop a dime on you eventually).

"Can you drop in on a meeting tomorrow?" "Um, there's a blizzard in the Midwest." "Well sure, but you live in Santa Cruz, right? No snow on 17."
A handy diff argument handling feature that's old
Same, I saw the headline and thought this was gonna be Sid Meier's version of the Sims
It depends heavily on how the law is actually used because the phrase 'with a view to committing' means it's down to proving or disproving intent and even if you don't actually go to prison ultimately you can be arrested and/or detained under that law, which is unpleasant, disruptive and definitely acts to discourage people from participating in anything that would risk arrest.
That link doesn't support anything you're arguing about. Why continue this when you're just flailing around making ridiculous claims. People like you are why I left reddit.
Oracle Cloud have an S3 API compatible service, don't they?
Yep. Having gone through multiple review cycles with Apple, they'll look for any hint of a way that a user might wind up paying through a different mechanism and force you to excise that. A great example we faced was a feature that was only offered on the web (it didn't make sense on a phone), and we weren't allowed to link to it or mention it (even though you got access with an in-app subscription) because someone might go check it out on the web and subscribe via the CTA on the page.
I'll challenge your claim that it's a stupid idea, if you really want to speak carefully about it together. Your prescription to not prescribe using it requires some justification.

The best way to use the tool is to have it click between rarely and sometimes. Anti-tracking tools may allow you to dial it up as well.
CRS and traditional police forces specialized in protest and riot have been accused of many abuse. But the biggest part of the abuses came from police forces that is not specialized in protest and riot, mainly from the Brigade anticriminalité known to be super violent.

Because the protest were large and long, because of budget cut before, and because the state wanted to hit hard, they chose to put use many of those violent and not properly trained police forces

On the top of that they've been (illegal) order given to the police force to hit hard (newspaper le monde published this news)

Furthermore, the state was dependent on police, and police was already unhappy (wanted more money, pay rise...), that partly explain why those abuse continued to happen during months, without political or judicial reaction...
I'm an engineer. I primarily care about how good the language is at expressing and executing my intent. I've been around long enough to see several tooling fads come and go. I've also been around enough to know that the barrier for delivering quality software is becoming insurmountable, and the additional tooling and infrastructure isn't resulting in projects being more successful, nor being delivered more quickly, nor being less costly than when I started.
Teams are enormous now. Software projects are enormous. Deployment requires deep knowledge of multiple hosting platforms and various cloud provider apis at the enterprise level.
Available libraries, increasing reliance upon testing, type safety, and better development life cycle practices have had a far larger impact than the ide's I've seen come and go. In my experience, a particular tool has a popularity lifecycle of about ten years. Vscode and lsp will probably be the same.
Give me types, good compiler error output, and access to a large universe of libraries with good documentation over relying upon ide api discovery any day of the week and twice on Sundays. The rest is an ever-changing tide of requirements fashion.
Mine was by credit card. I called the support number, got picked up quickly, told them I didn't have enough time for it and wanted to cancel. I also made it clear that I just wanted to cancel my newspaper subscription, not my crossword subscription, and mentioned that I realized I would no longer get 1/2 off on the crossword puzzle subscription.

He cancelled the newspaper subscription, and then told me that I was mistaken about no longer getting 1/2 off on the crossword puzzle subscription. I'd only go back to full price on that if I let it expire and then re-ordered. As long as I have the subscription on auto-renew and those payments go through, it will stay at 1/2 price.
France has been under martial law long before covid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/wi...

The state of emergency which enabled the martial law has never gone away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle

Yellow vests aka protests against the government have been banned before covid even happened.

Did the yellow vests just give up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement#21_Septe...

Interesting how wiki just stopped covering the yellow vests.

https://apnews.com/article/bf7bc0dc7c2f49bb86ebf1e2595418fc

https://www.newsbreak.com/tennessee/paris/news/2057961521309...

The reason wiki stopped recording about the yellow vests is because the martial law and banning of protests. They arrested the yellow vest folks. The entire leadership have been imprisoned.

If you look back as well. Sarkozy barely won. Hollande barely won. Then after martial law had been declared and general freedoms of the French people have been removed Macron won convincingly? Dominated his opponent.

Then when covid came around he 100% banned protests. They have issued 500,000+ tickets for "non-essential movement outside" and it's currently not recorded how many arrests have occurred under the name of covid 19.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/12/clashes-and-arrest...

The movement is dead because France's martial law has banned protests.

This amnesty article doesn't go far enough. Coverage of France's martial law that has been ongoing for 5+ years and practical banning of basic human rights is quite scant.
It is indeed ublock origin. Should have specified
And what should replace the ad industry - to keep websites running?
I'm constantly amazed at the frequency with which articles posted to Hacker News have a bar of clickbait ads immediately following the body of the article.

Those rabbit-hole articles where they split eight facts across 12 pages and in some cases never mention the fact they were advertising in the original link. All so they can put six more ads per click in front of you.
I am a PhD dropout but as a startup founder i was able to get an EB1 in the business category (not technology/science which is the common route, even though i was CTO and had a couple papers). Something for founders or senior business leaders to consider.
You said false fact and said nothing about when corrected. Maybe that's the reason your opinion is unpopular.
Give us some more time, there's just so many things to do and the reliance issues favor getting the fundamentals right first (much easier to switch the debugger UI than the names of functions that'll get put all over the place). We certainly understand the value of good tooling, so just stay tuned and maybe try it again every once in a while to see if it's good enough for you yet. Too much to do, too little time :)
Yes, but also "Facebook gives us all the info and leverage we need about everyone : three letter agencies."

And that's why nothing will happen to Facebook.
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Well kinda but people are saying that it is memory safe, which is not a guarantee with unsafe code.
Microsoft owns Xamarin (as of February 2016), so that would be weird :b

This would be somewhat concerning if we were talking about Ballmer-era Microsoft where they were going around extorting companies that used Linux. Although nothing was really stopping them then. They had a good system of picking companies one by one, being threatening and making them sign "licensing deals" without ever needing to go to court or publicly say which patents were being infringed. (Probably all FAT stuff. Google eventually had the good sense to stop using FAT on Android, but it was slow going because if you haven't noticed Google manoeuvres about as well as a freight train). With the amount they've changed under Nadella, I'm not sure present day Microsoft even could do that.

But for present-day examples we're going to need to search elsewhere.
So you think you know Python
Quiz: what is the value of foo after this code is run?

foo=[0];bar=[foo];foo[0]=bar

Extra credit:

1) what is bar[0]

2) foo==bar
Is it worthwhile to read Matt Levine's newsletter, even if someone doesn't even have a rudimentary grasp on finance/economics? I've tried reading excerpts but they just went over my head. Would it be more useful to get a basic understanding of finance before reading his newsletter? There is so much terminology that is foreign to me.
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That paper doesn't consider reinfection risk or non-fatal outcomes.

There are many problems with the GBD, but the simplest is that we don't know who the high-risk groups are. Yes, we know age and certain categories of pre-existing condition make for higher risk of death. But we also know that perfectly healthy young people end up with strokes, heart damage, and lung damage, and we're not really sure why. We don't know why some people end up with debilitating symptoms months after infection.

We don't even know if herd immunity is actually possible, or if we'd be committing ourselves to years of intermittent lockdown controls as local outbreaks come and go.

This paper is a similar (if slightly more mathematically detailed) approach, and is more recent: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/21/2008087117. It comes to the opposite conclusion. What they find is that while it's technically possible to achieve herd immunity this way, it's logistically unfeasible. It needs monitoring, compliance, and reactiveness that we demonstrably can't (or won't) implement - if we could, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Besides which, neither this paper nor that supports any idea that these three are "leading experts". As far as I can see they're vocal and have a history of being proved wrong by events.
Native French speaker here (Québécois). Minor nitpick: Your translation of "jeux de tests" to "test games" is incorrect.

The word "jeu" can indeed mean "game", but it can also mean a group of things. A better translation would be "test suites", "test sets" or similar.