skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A truly stunning level of incompetence which is causing so much misery for the state’s own populace, and literally no avenue for redress.

I’m not quite sure why state’s employment systems are so fantastically terrible given the relative simplicity of the task.

I have to imagine welfare, health care, and dare I say election systems don’t work much better.
Pretty cool man!!
Maybe OP is suggesting there’s a lot of fraudulent claims in auto insurance, or poor driving/maintenance practices that lead to more claims.

When your insurance company has a lot of customers, you don’t care about your big claim’s contribution to rate increases because it will be pennies/month. (Yes, I understand your rates can go up if you’re at fault, but you can also stop driving, drive without insurance (in some places) or reduce your policy).

While this ship has thousands of containers, they probably run through a handful of shipping agents that won’t be in business for long if they make fraudulent claims.
The Republic of Serbia is probably async enough already…
Rethinking the maturity of artificial intelligence in safety-critical settings [pdf]
No, everyone else whose stuff survived owes me 90% of two crates of bananas and you 90% of a pair of Ferraris. (I should have edited in that it’s based on percent of value while I had a chance, this seems to have caused more confusion than I expected.)
Who is hanging ornaments on the needles?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41737248

> Two French hackers used their computer skills to reconstruct a blurred-out code on TV and claim bitcoins worth $1,000 (£760).
How is this a flimsy reason? Trying to paint this decision as an example of oppression is either ignorant or dishonest. Her actions would have gotten almost anyone fired from any company. If the accounts from ex/current-Googlers are true about her being difficult to work with and creating an uncomfortable work environment I would have expected Timnit to have been terminated long ago.
I remember downloading files off it 10 years ago. So it can't be vaporware in the classic sense.
Most cops are polite to white middle and upper class people. Most black and some poor white people have very different experiences from cops.
How do I get my -4 post about this 8 days ago "unflagged" now that MSM is stepping up to prevent the kids from following this self-absorbed a-hole?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-death-of-zappos-tony-hsieh-...
Yes, intensively. The actual file isn't always important; often times I just care about the snippets containing a match, or simply the fact that there is one.
Need a movie of this guy's life.
Depends on what you're trying to do. For my app Firefox is so slow that it's unusable until https://arewewebrenderyet.com/ is rolled out on all platforms.

Considering the page is not even working I'm not very hopeful.
I made a site for indie mobile developer let's take a look
AppDigger a platform that helps you get country basis information from an app.

Why we build AppDigger?

Getting information regarding ranking is always a problem. Also, tracking a competition app for understanding pricing, language, or region strategy is another headache. The region changing from the AppStore to get information from other regions/country is an annoying circumstance.

But now you have a tool!

Just type the app or app publisher name to the search click the app from the result and select the target region/country or select as continents AppDigger will get impressive data from selected countries/regions.
You will see the following information from the selected country;
Rating, Reviews, App Prices, In-App Prices, Localize Title, Localized Sub Title, Localized Description, Editor Choice, Previews, etc.

The most demanding feature is Ranking information!
Just imagine you can see all ranging information for 85 different countries, AppDigger allows you to do that, regarding this data you can find out how much popular is the app. Also, you can decide on the growth strategy.

Please share with me you're thought. I will be appreciated. Thank you!
Divers find Nazis' Enigma code machine in Baltic Sea
FreeBSD Running on Apple M1
As an Android developer on apparently one of the N biggest apps there are, lots of hard truths but also lots of 'I like things this way so I don't think things any other way is fine'. It's problematic and in an ideal world we could do so much better, but as they mentioned, there's a lot of cruft and backwards compatibility. Have you tried writing a Win32 app?

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AndroidManifest.xml vs code declared, the manifest in reality is very different. An "app name" isn't really something useful programmatically. Orientation can be handled programmatically, but you can declare app-wide support for what kind of orientation you support in the manifest.

One syntax is really a style preference. I don't mind using different tools for different tasks, and the manifest is very specific to a specification for the app store, not on-device.

Java vs C++, meh, I think the main idea is that Java is a better language for most people than C++. Especially whatever C++ version existed when Android first came out.

Low-power is kind of a bad argument and pre-mature optimization without real metrics. It's been pretty clear that the reason phones drain the battery is because of the screen, and background jobs hogging the CPU, not running the JVM. Maybe running some compiled binaries would be more performant, but laptop batteries kind of also suck.

Keyboards, yeah, a bit weird, but the idea is that you almost never need to interact with the keyboard, you interact with elements that the keyboard injects into, since people can swap and use custom keyboards and other ways to enter text like dictation or accessibility modes.

Very true that all of this is not newbie friendly though. Shockingly bad really. Especially the status bar APIs.

Save State and process death is also a hilarious one that's underdocumented and confusing to new (and experienced) developers alike.
But customers are always right, which is why Acrobat these days has special features to do this. Besides deleting letters under it could affect layouts.
Biber is a reference manager, so orthogonal to XeTeX or general unicode support.
The better way to check for buffer overflow here is "((unsigned T)i < n)".

But the "(i >= 0 && i < n)" way that I used in this example - I have seen many times.

So hackers can scan open source software compiled with GCC for such issue and can exploit this vulnerability, since GCC developers will not fix it.
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Painful
I remember talking to Simon Peyton Jones a few years ago, and he mentioned that he'd like Excel to be the first functional language that kids get to use. Like a gateway drug to Haskell. Looks like they're getting there.
Stunning+Health+Benefits+of+Pineapple+|+Health+Lines
Anyone will throw a controller across the room after putting a whole clip into someone taking no damage, watching them rubber band across the map, and pistol whip you in the head. That's your life on a crappy connection in most FPS games which are some of the best sellers every year.
Taking the word "likely" out of the title changes the overall meaning and intensity of the title and article. There is no smoking gun implied. A path to the smoking gun, perhaps.

Even in the article, there is plenty of doubt that it was microwave energy. What they do say is that the symptoms suffered by the people in question appear to match symptoms that can be attributed to microwave radiation.

They do point out that a couple of state individuals known for working on exactly this type of weapon were in the city at the same time. That could be a coincidence. It's surely a thing that makes you go 'hmm...'

That is not at all suggesting that it was factually caused by microwave energy. It's a working theory. They actually do not know. But they do find the symptoms similar enough to look in that direction.

The word "likely" is a very important part of the original title, and the article in general.
When I batch, I batch it based on what could make sense to lose. More often than not it's small quick-fire tweaks though. I even made a small CLI tool to quickly deploy it `happy "Message"` and even optionally release an npm version `happy --minor`.
Very large of supply of young people who really want to work in games as a thing in of itself. As opposed to the standard software industry where, at least to my experience, most people spend quite some time thinking about the money they'll make.
A solid reputation among people I already know. Short of that, a good portfolio of prior work. good internet presence which shows how a person handles disagreement, conflict. This is why a small GitHub presence is extremely valuable. Not because I want to see people grind away at weekend work or have a full commit graph. Simply because you can hope to see people interact with others in e.g a bug report or PR. How did they behave when their PR was rejected or their bug report was dismissed?

This obviously is a step beyond self promotion. At this point I’m already reviewing someone’s resume. So the question is perhaps how would you get noticed to begin with? How do you market yourself? I don’t know. Work? No better form of self promotion than doing a good job.
That code is not a general purpose library function; it assumes the element exists.

If you call that method and the element doesn't exist, presumably something has gone wrong already. Adding a NULL pointer check is not going to fix it. You just silently ignore the error. You'll prevent the crash, but there's no mechanism for handling the error.
Safari does not support WebGL 2 by default. But Safari Technology Preview does.
Look a few generations back and reset your worldview. Been drafted into combat lately?
I think one emoji is one emoji too many. Many terminals do not support them. This also addresses the point of terminal independence you brought up elsewhere. The yubi key example looked like using emojis for the sake of using emojis. Several of them were redundant or only slightly relevant (test tube, hand, key).

In all honesty, I just really dislike emojis

The guidelines were all helpful otherwise. It shows that I could only find one nitpick.
PPC = pay-per-click
When I ran my quotes, about 3/4 of the premium was for liability. The rest (fire; theft, fixing my car if it was my own fault, hail, etc) made up the balance.

My car is worth $4k tops, so I cancelled the rest. The odds of a total loss are low, so a $500 or $1k deductible combined with the likely scenario of a $2k-$3k repair bill made it very meh to bother paying another $400/yr for.
on Safari/macOS you can enable Develop | Experimental Features | WebGL 2.0
So, as I gathered from this, Torvalds's solution takes advantage of the fact that the element scan is always started from the head, while the cs101 solution treats the head as a special case?

Both are smart IMO.
I'm referring to 50s and 60s when my parents / uncle were in school
I never in my life bought that amount of software compared to the App Store, it’s convenient and mostly safe.
Apple paid revenue in the store is two times higher than Googles. I think this is directly correlated with convenience and safety.
They (The Democratic party) have been able to beat back challengers because their selection process for the presidential candidate is ironically less democratic than the Republicans. The GOP super delegates cannot vote against the way their state voted and they have less influence. The DNC super delegates have a greater influence and do not have to vote inline with their state.

As for Sanders. He has lost influence because he betrayed his base twice (he endorsed a candidate that the base consider to be totally corrupt) and lets face it he is too old now.
I'm not sure about the current state of compiler optimisations, but IIRC in the olde-days, a not not in an if() statement would assemble to JZ, saving a clock cycle (& an opcode?), and wouldn't need to stall to load in the full width of the register.
Today's branch predicting compilers are beyond me.

I still use it as a clarification that it's a deliberate boolean operation, rather than implicit.
"Died with Covid", not "died from Covid".

Regular old respiratory infections are a frequent indirect cause of strokes and heart attacks, but we've never claimed before that common colds cause "millions" of deaths.
I thought that only makes sense in JS.

In C any nonzero value is considered "truthy", and on most architectures NULL is defined to be (void * )(0) or similar. The logical not operator AKA bang operator will replace truthiness with 0, and falsiness with 1. So applying it twice collapses all nonzero values to 1.
You can offer help and support but it's up to your friend to accept it.
But the truth wasn’t buried. Within a week of his passing, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal had in-depth, investigative reports into his death with on-the-record comments from those close to him. Hell, within three days of his death, the tabloid the Daily Mail (which isn’t what I would call reputable, but is significantly more reputable than a burner comment account on HN) had the 911 tape and the reports that he was drinking and abusing drugs (nitrous being mentioned) in the months leading up to his death.

And I guarantee you way more people were alerted to the truth in those well-researched and deeply reported articles than ever would have learned from a throwaway account on HN.

If the family had actively tried to halt publication of the articles or if there hadn’t been reporting into the cause of death, I would agree with you. But that isn’t what happened. Moreover, the reporting that did come out, even from the tabloid, added a lot more context and insight into the situation than what the burner account did. And even better, plenty of people were willing to put their name to their words (though you had people who were quoted anonymously too, which isn’t uncommon).

I got downvoted for calling that commenter and his comment gross - and I’ll probably get downvoted for this comment too — but the fact that unsubstantiated gossip happened to be true (which I personally didn’t so much doubt to begin with as much as it was I didn’t trust it without substantiation; my objection was how that information was shared) doesn’t change the other fact that the way it was presented was in poor form.

I’m in complete favor of being open and honest about the fact that people who we admire and respect or hold up as successful can struggle with addiction or mental illness. I think it is incredibly important to lessen the stigma around these areas.

But it is incredibly different for a mother to bravely and honestly declare that her son was an addict at his funeral then it is for a burner account to say “bro blew himself up while he was high on nitrous” (that’s a paraphrase, the original comment wasn’t as blasé but it certainly wasn’t full of either details or compassion). People are going to gossip and speculate on Internet forums, I get it. I’ve also definitely participated in it. But I don’t think it is too much to ask that as a community, HN be held to a higher standard of spreading anonymous gossip, than a place like Twitter or Reddit.
^Like here. I put laugh-crying emojis ironically at the end but they were filtered out. Many terminals wouldn't do me this courtesy of shielding my eyes and instead regurgitate gibberish characters.
And of course, the big issue is that in order to use the M1 you must switch your entire stack to Apple.

Not necessarily; the ARM version of Windows 10 is already running on the M1: https://hothardware.com/news/apple-silicon-m1-mac-windows-10...
there's something like this https://www.greengeeks.com too
The article points to ordinary eccentricities a whole bunch for sensationalism. E.g. the 26 day alphabet diet mentioned here sounds interesting.

Think of all the new things you'd try to fill out days where you don't know many foods that start with that letter. And the days that are mostly fasting (e.g. Z) aren't too common.

Plenty of us are a little weird. I guess something to think about is where do you know the "little weird" is treading towards excessive danger.
You didn’t address any of his points and your rebuttals come across as little more than frantic handwaving. Moreover, as has been pointed in this post, VLAs don’t necessarily need to have security implications since they can be implemented outside the stack. Yet you keep bringing up Google and KSPP as if they are arbiters of truth instead of corporate entities with their own agendas.

You are also spreading misinformation. VLAs being optional does not mean they have been removed from the standard as you keep claiming.
A lot of the "normal" opportunities for socialization have evaporated, though, leaving only the lunacy and strange ones behind for many people.
Anecdotal evidence doesn't really count when it's something you have personal and thorough experience with. Sun sets and rises, don't need study for that. Similarly, people who start and direct large enterprises have a strong command of people and understanding of their field. "Studies" don't disprove that.

> income inequality is a huge problem in the US; societies with dramatic income inequality are historically corrupt and unstable.

This seems ... less than proof of anything. Past societies were highly unequal due to 'half the population gotta farm' at the very least, so comparing them to modern societies seems like a mistake, and at any rate the 'successful' integrating empires were, well, integrating empires. Modern society hasn't existed for that long, and the US (land of inequality!) is quite a bit more stable than many poorer and more income equal (or ... poorer and less income equal!) countries. Historically, societies in europe were much more successful than ones outside europe, yet you wouldn't take that correlation as a causation, so i won't take yours either.

Anyway, you cant just throw a book at me and expect me to read it for a HN comment without laying out its argument at all lol

Your second paper says that 'racial discrimination exists'. The idea that asians somehow derive most of their success from systemic racism and entrenchment - "Overall, these results paint a picture of a rigid income structure by race and ethnicity over time" - seems absurd. Your second paper doesn't say anything about meritocracy though.

Your third study is also just 'black people are poorer'. That doesn't mean understanding of an opportunity (not 'general skill', but local, specific skill) doesn't lead to success. So i'm left with a book (i don't have time to read it, it's midnight) and two papers that don't relate to your point. Maybe asians are just really smart? Maybe they work really hard as kids while the whites play tennis or soccer, which explains why despite being 13% of the population they're 52% of the coders?
Yeah I read about that, an interesting study, but it's hard to know how accurate it is compared to human behaviour when using animals.
How about next_node?
No doubt it is a great shame. Everyone is so very sensitive that there is no room for anything but groupthink.
No they don't work, I think they literally change the video content on you.
I think we agree.

Slippery slope arguments are valid if 1) there is no demarcated line ("extingent circumstances") or 2) there is a demarcated line, and there is good justification for why that line might change.

Legalizing gay marriage is a clearly demarcated line. There is no justification for why gay marriage being legalized will lead to bestiality being legalized, so it is an invalid slippery slope argument.
Obligatory: https://github.com/artiebits/fake-git-history (does just what it says on the tin)

"I don't encourage people to cheat. But if anybody is judging your professional skills by the graph at your GitHub profile, they deserve to see a rich graph"
I know there was at least a couple of Kickstarter board games for Asmadi Games on there. They said this in the updates for the Good Puppers Kickstarter:

"...The ship, weather-battered (severe storm/gale-force winds is the actual cause of the above mess) and generally displeased with 2020's Bad Plan, is turning around to hit the closest major port (Japan) to assess damage. With 15-25% of its goods changed to bads, we might be lucky or we might not be, but we won't know for a couple weeks at best. In the meantime, our factory is going to try and rush out a fresh print run of the game shipped to us as soon as possible. I shall, of course, share more details as I know them!"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asmadigames/all-the-goo...
Wait what are you kidding!? Drinking DURING the day was encouraged? So the famed company culture is to let everyone get drunk as long as they're all hitting targets? Recipe for disaster for anyone who stays a significant amount of time. It seems cool when you're young then after 10 years people start getting serious problems like alcoholic neuropathy. Very sad situation all round.
The theory goes that the cooler something runs, the longer its lifespan.

“Cool enough” is highly dependent on ambient conditions. A cool basement floor vs on top of an audio receiver in a warm climate will have different results.
oops. this is not even a SIM card. can this be disabled? will the devices override user preference and still continue to communicate .
Is that why people are always saying you should squash commits? To help with collecting metrics?!

I view it as a clear antipattern (since the history within a branch can be valuable later if you need to cherry-pick apart a feature or find a bug with git-bisect) and have asked superiors in numerous places why they require it, and the response is usually a vague mention of “it cleans things up” and “history isn’t important”. It feels like the kind of practice that was mentioned on a screencast and just got cargo-culted, but I have to think it originally had some purpose.
I disabled private mode now. That might explain the glitches of me not being found.
I can confirm this, I’m still waiting for Apple to patch sign in with apple on simulators, where you can’t sign in at all or sign in periodically breaks. It’s been like this since the xcode 12 beta. Regardless I still feel its a far better experience than developing for Android.
I don't know I quite enjoy some of the generative.fm streams, but they're kind of highly rigged to sound decent.
Well Docker used to be dotCloud, a PaaS company around the time of Heroku, but that didn't take off. So they pivoted to Docker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker,_Inc.

Heroku had a lot of revenue and was acquired by Salesforce. I just learned on Twitter that YC was in the red before the Heroku acquistion !

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1334945195532685317

I think what Heroku did right is really nail the Rails experience, and the Rails customer base. And then they expanded to multiple languages with the "Cedar" stack.

dotCloud tried to do every language from the get-go, and had a subpar experience for all of them, from what I understand.
Ohhh, sorry - it must be my new glasses! :)
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> Or is cultural and social inheritance as influential as genetic inheritance

No, it isn't. For intelligence, in adulthood, it clearly isn't. For harder to measure skills, current estimates are at around half and half, but the error is mostly in the environment category. So much general-population variance is genetic (and that's only amplified at the highest skill levels - you need great 'cultural and social influence', but also great genes, lol)

> Did they try to marry their own? Naturally - out of snobbery and opportunism if for no other reason.

fun fact, the trait that shows the most assortative mating is intelligence. curious!

> I used to live in an upper middle class area, and a worrying number of the people were very polished thieves.

and I know a worrying number of lower class thieves. '20% of rich people are grifters' doesn't impune rich people as a whole, any more than Tony the crack money launderer impunes poors.