skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are young students selling nudes online and feeling tremendous shame and grief about it that could cause them significant harm later in life.

1. They don't feel "tremendous shame and grief about it", you're just projecting. They wouldn't be doing it in the first place if that was the case, at least for the middle-class ones that I'm talking about.

2. The "significant harm later in life" does not stem from the (imaginary) shame & grief, it comes from the discovery when they inevitably hit The Wall that no high-quality mate wants to marry them, and that they have tarnished their reputation forever for a short-lived boost in income and attention that is guaranteed to fade one day. The progressive culture and their friends will tell them about "sex positivity" and that prostitution is just "sex work" like any other work, which it isn't. You will not agree to that of course, "I don't own her body haha".

If there is one thing to take away, let it be this: look at the people around you and their relationships, and observe what works and what doesn't. Don't theorize, don't moralize, don't judge, just observe and make up your own mind.
Places can change. There's nothing stopping suburbia from becoming more walkable and friendly to the elderly other than choices we made.
They handed over boatloads of money because that is the toll that Wall Street firms exact in illiquid markets and that is how Wall Street firms make money.

I'm not saying that they were screwed over.

> all he said was it makes the stock market look bad when some people double their money in a day.

That is one part of what he says, very misleading. He describes it as an "error" that is due to a flaw in the "way Wall Street is organized" (ie. around capitalizing on IPOs). That's more than just saying the markets "look bad".
I have to say that I am very happy with my pixel 4a. It is plastic, but looks and feels very nice.
Set the default permission for notifications from Ask to No in Chrome
I experienced this first hand when I visited my wife's family in Vietnam. All 10 or so of them live in homes side by side on the outskirts of Saigon. Everyone woke up in the morning and cooked for each other. Every day was like a little party. It was so nice to have that much support around all the time. I have never experienced anything like that in the US. Of course having family literally at your doorstep has its pros and cons but it worked really well for them.
R<star>Trees seem like they might be an ideal data structure for writing a GUI, Window Manager, or the like...

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_R-tree

R<star>Trees are a subcateory of Spatial Indices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_database#Spatial_index
Those were not personal attacks, they were explaining that apple stuff is desired around the world and even in countries with lower incomes, people will save up to buy apple hardware, buy it used, etc.
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Increasingly, nations need to force the US and China to start cutting, not continue cutting their own emissions. Otherwise global will continue to rise and they'll be wasting their time.
Came here to say this. Adding new syntaxes is something I have mixed feelings about at this stage, but opening up what you can do with existing ones (and, indeed, removing the complexity of remembering special-cases of what's not allowed) is a strict win in my book.
It really is a lot for Japan, if you ever visit ニコニコ動画 (https://nicovideo.jp) and look at the top videos, views pale in comparison to anything on Youtube. Nico video is #28 on Alexa in Japan (Youtube is #2) and is very very popular, it is a Japanese only Youtube site. It is so popular the Nintendo switch app to view the site came out a year before a Youtube app did (7/2017 vs 7/2018).
A few years? They still repair the iPhone 6, a phone thats 6 years old now. If that gives you another 2 years of use, thats a total of 8 years.
Who cares what that person said? It's either a community project or it isn't. No elections, no public discussions, it's not a community project.
I'm not talking about interaction with the host, I'm talking about the general risks of traveling and then going to a new place where you are interacting with the people shortly after traveling.

My claim is that most of these people are not going on exclusively nature-exploration vacations, they are going to see people or to patronize their businesses.
Does that same process not naturally play out as kids turn into adults? (e.g. college freshmen massive friend groups -> 10 years later only really talk / hang out with 10 or so folks)
They don't have the exact same expressive power.

If you have a `trait A { type B; ... }` then for any type T you can implement one specific A with one specific B.

But if you have `trait A<B> { ... }` then you can have a different implementation of A for every disjoint type B.

Then if you have `trait A<B> { type C; ... }` you can have one specific C for every possible disjoint B.

So with associated types you can express additional constraints/semantics which you can not express with only "classic" generics.

Furthermore the compiler can rely on this constraints for e.g. type inference.
I cannot wait until the nursing home lan parties. During pandemic I have rekindled relationships with 2-3 friends, some out of state, and we've played games at least 2x a week. The opportunity for casual interaction (via discord) while focusing on another task (the challenging game), perfectly mimics the environment to build deep longlasting relationships through shared struggle, trust building, communication, feedback, and so on.
> The EU is the biggest trading bloc in the world.

That recently changed: https://www.dw.com/en/asia-pacific-nations-sign-worlds-bigge...

> China is highly dependent on the EU and the US for trade

This is double-edged sword - EU and US are dependent on the imported goods. if the trade between China and the rest of the world stopped China would end up with abundance, and EU would be in serious trouble, not being able to buy basic things they need. Always better to have some real stuff than virtual money.
Yes, currently bookmarks are local to the device. I'd like to update that in the future so they are synced and stored for safe keeping, but I'm not certain how I want to tackle that in react native yet. Any suggestions?
Hacker News: Websites were so much more creative in the old days before standard templates and layouts made everything so generic and bland. Each was a work of individual art and craftsmanship.

Also Hacker News: (adjusts bifocals) WTF even is this mess?!
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I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with Airbnb and hosts who are basically trying to rinse as much money as possible for as little effort as possible. I’m not sure after a long journey I want to wonder around the Edinburgh fringe again, trying to decipher Scottish, while the wind is going crazy and there are millions of people floating around just to get keys. I think Airbnb is great if there are 15 of you sharing a flat but a lot less good if you’re a couple who want their lives to be simple. I really do not get why it’s so popular, it’s barely cheaper than a hotel after cleaning and service fees - and 100% less convenient.
> Current knowledge says that "on average, a 10 percent increase in lane miles induces an immediate 4 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled, which climbs to 10 percent – the entire new capacity – in a few years."

There is an obvious confounder here, which is that anywhere they add lane capacity is going to be a place undergoing growth, which is why they felt the need to add lane capacity. But if the growth the continues, the new lane capacity once again becomes insufficient at some future point.

I would expect to see the same pattern with electrical transmission capacity. Where they add more capacity, you then see an increase in consumption. Which is to be expected, because why else would they add the capacity?

The difference with roads is that they don't catch fire if you want until after you're over-capacity before expanding them, which makes it more likely that the demand will consume all of the new capacity, since you're starting off from the point of already being underwater.
The less taxes the better. Islam has solved this problem over 1400 years ago, no income taxes, no land tax, no property tax, etc. If more societies applied something similar to Islam's Zakat, we'd be much better off.
That's plainly not true.

There are top performers that do not produce the largest number of commits and PRs.

They produces the most difficult ones to get right.

There are mediocre performers that produces an awful lot of commits and PRs, confusing volume with substance.
Microsoft Edge will now hog much less of your computer's processing power
Yes yes, wishing shame on another is beyond the pale.

Seriously, wishing someone feels regret, shame, embarrassment isn't incompatible with forgiveness. Learning difficult lessons, especially from harmful mistakes, is the only way society makes progress.
Was the IP address 127.0.0.1 perhaps?
Imagine if you wanted to run a Linux program with KVM support, and you had to ask Linus to enable a flag on your Linus ID Account.
I thought I was the only person who thinks they look nice!
Almost certainly not. In this case it seems to require user interaction, so if the ad doesn't show up you can't click it.

I've said for years that ad blockers are the first line of defense against a lot of malware.
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I've solved the first few AoC puzzles with Common Lisp and while I'm not great at it, it's been a pleasure to use precisely due to the interactivity, restarts, introspection of the running program, etc.
First, could that be because the accord was signed in 2015 and its emissions targets are in 2030?

Second, countries set their own emissions targets. So it's more of a gentleman's agreement.

Third, it's also false. At least 50 cities are on track [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/11/paris-cl...]. In fact people track who is naughty and nice and there are some countries making good progress and still on track [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/clima...].
Not sure if your argument is strong in the context of their headphone products - which this thread is about.

You are absolutely right in the iPhone & Mac space, but AirPods are famously unrepairable [0].

iFixit's verdict:

- AirPods are not designed to be serviced. No hardware components can be accessed without damage to the device.

- Sealed-in batteries limit the AirPods' lifespan, making them a consumable/disposable item.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+2+Teardown/121471
Yes, my desktop usually boots in around 10 seconds. Or at least feels like 10 seconds; no more. In fact it takes more time for it to wake than to boot from full power off, albeit that says more about Linux sleep/wake support than anything else.

But my point is that, for most of the time, I just leave it on. It consumes almost the same power sleeping that fully on, at idle.
There was a very big story last Halloween about an Airbnb house party in Orinda, CA that resulted in a mass shooting and 5 deaths. That started their crack down on house parties.
One of the most useful programmer metrics that I've found is code churn: (new lines + deleted lines) / total changed lines. Instead of telling you how much work your programmers are doing, this metric tells you what kind of work your programmers are doing. Small numbers mean bug fixing (end of project and maintenance) and large numbers mean new development and features.
For UI/design you can use something like this https://dribbble.com/stories/2019/05/07/7-design-prompt-gene...
The maker of Photoshop says photos are obsolete
> They've solved the trust and the brand issue, and _that_ is their moat.

I think they've solved it better than their competitors, but I'm not sure that they've solved it broadly for people using hospitality services.

For better or worse, one bad experience tends to sour people that I've talked to on the overall host-driven places to stay. Whereas for hotels and other more traditional forms, that seems to be compartmentalized to specific locations ("ugh, the hilton in boston") or chains ("I'm avoiding all Marriots from now on").
I agree. Although, in practice digital activities probably help to strengthen and keep relationships alive, which could lead to greater real physical connections in a symbiotic way.
Normal folks could write letters to a newspaper, some were published in each edition.
yea, but they wouldn't have needed to sell 51,551,723 shares at that price, just 24,343,869
You can still do similarly hellish impls with `Index` - especially if you mix `Deref` into it. IIRC, the compiler will perform automatic recursive derefs when you try to use the indexing operator `[]`, until it finds a deref target which matches the index you're using. I doubt anything relies on that search behaviour outside of the compiler code itself.

I imagine abuse of specialisation could also increase the confusion, if you were so inclined.
You could have a look at https://adventofcode.com. I've been solving every puzzle so far and it's a fun way to play around with a new language (at least for the first couple of days).
While certainly some high quality expensive products focus on weight reduction (e.g. carbon fiber in camera tripods or hiking gear), many customers still have a subconscious association between weight an quality. After you’ve removed all the unnecessary parts or features and really optimized high volume manufacturing, at some point product cost is highly associated with part weight. More material costs more money. If a designer or manufacturer goes too far optimizing for cost by removing material, the product is more likely to be damaged under normal use or misuse.

Even if many consumers can’t tell you directly that something feels cheap to them or why, they are subconsciously aware of it. There’s a classic story from the history of industrial design where in the development of a desk clock, the designer, Henry Dreyfus observed consumers in a store evaluating competitive models of clocks. They picked them up and sensed the weight. By adding mass the product became much more successful. [1]

In the course of my work as a product engineer, I’ve designed many docks and stands for devices, and torn down competitive products. These kinds of things often have added weight in the form of stamped steel plates or die cast zinc. The weight helps keep the dock stable so it doesn’t tip when the user puts in the device, and it also adds to the feeling of quality and security.

[1] “In 1939, he designed the Big Ben Alarm clock for Westclock. After a year of development, it was ready to market. The first customer was the John Wanamaker department store in New York City. Henry Dreyfus, in what is considered to be the first live ‘user testing,’ observed potential customers pick up the clock, examine it and put it down without buying it or asking any questions. Eventually, he questioned customers. Why were they putting it down after examining it? What was wrong?

Their response: it felt too light. Something so light couldn’t be substantive. Whether they were right or wrong, Dreyfus realized that people were associating weight with value even though he knew there was no connection. In a radical departure from the notion that ‘less is more,’ he added a 3 oz. weight, serving no function whatsoever, but to create the perception of greater substance. In this case, more weight equated to more value. He said, ‘people want the experience of knowing that their alarm clock had something inside.’ Weight was an attribute that had meaning and relevance… it created a cue that led to a perception of value and substance.”

From https://drozmarketing.com/designers-role/
If by utility, you mean enriching the pockets of their shareholders, then sure. But that is not a net positive for society. People got along in the world before Facebook just fine.
Copy or mimic work of people you admire.

Pick one thing and focus on that one thing.

Take less time to make decisions.

Be okay with not making the perfect decision or doing perfect work and detach yourself from the outcome. Just do it and move on.
> I don't think they make or break a language for 99% of the developers.

True

> You can get 90% there without HKT and a similar developer experience.

Not really though. Unless similar developer experience means you suffer like hell and still have to deal with runtime errors and worse performance.
They are struggling. They IPO not due to the health of their business, but because so many dupes are putting their dumb money on the table these days.
How effective would you rate those federal requirements on fully automatic weapons? If a person wanted to illegally modify a semi-automatic weapon to create an illegal fully-automatic weapon, how feasible would that be?
Maybe ease up on the costal holier than thou sentiment. I’m in Miami right now and 90% of the people I’ve met are tech / finance types from NYC doing blow inside of clubs until 4am.
> Physiology and psychology rely on delicately tuned equilibria, which are easy to disrupt.

Agreed. My point is just that we should look at physiology and psychology as guides, not anthropology (which is interesting but not necessarily prescriptive).

A diet of Twinkies and Coke is obviously terrible. But a finely tuned, balanced modern diet guided by nutritional science is likely superior to a primitive hunter-gatherer diet. There are plenty of people today who are in great physical condition; this is very feasible within our modern society.

Similarly, different modern countries often have differing familial arrangements, so we can look at empirical outcomes there instead of trying to guess at what our distant ancestors did, who had little choice but to do what they did, not having modern civilization as an option.
> There's a standard API implemented by Linux for the firmware to communicate this to the kernel, also PCI works on ARM just like x86. No one bothers with this because all of the popular ARM SoCs tend to come from organizations that are extremely hostile to their users though.

That's the problem. Most SoC vendors just don't care and implement drivers in or around forks of the kernel, and also specify the hardware via device trees. IIRC having the firmware give the device tree to the kernel instead of it being baked into the kernel is a new development.

If MS came and said: we want stable interfaces, the vendors would buckle and MS would be able to ship one OS image to all devices, instead of having hw custom images.
Well, if they paid for COBOL courses, that is. COBOL still evolves.
Heck, they render fast and smooth on my 3 year old iPad.
The first ARM chips were blazingly fast and made their competitors performance look anaemic - they have been around since the mid-1980s. The real difference is they went the low-power route while retaining as much performance as possible, rather than depending on desktop power supplies and industrial cooling.

One of the reasons this new chip is so performant is the "headroom" that this approach has given them.
I'm doing in COBOL: https://github.com/GaloisGirl/Coding/tree/master/AdventOfCod...

I'm having a problem with day 7 with the lack of hash tables.

Care to share your BASIC solutions?
Looks like the page you linked considers China's climate targets "Highly Insufficient" with the CO2 output mostly staying the same for the next decade.
>Can they prevent you from learning about a local city council candidate by blocking that person from advertising? Absolutely.

If you remove moderation rules, there won't be blocking. However we fall in the other extreme with fake news and obsceneties taking over. The loudest and most provocative win because that's what makes the news. At least that's the logic.

Is the root of the problem that no one elected Facebook to be moderators? And now that it is so big, it has become a problem because it has an overbearing affect on people?

So essentially the monopolistic argument is a justification for government to grab back control.

I can't help to see this as a growing pain for global companies becoming bigger than countries. FB has 2.9 billion users. Only 10% are in the US. It has such
a reach beyond borders that countries are freaking out, afraid to lose sovereignty over their citizens.

Or am I reading too deep here?
Microfocus dominates on Windows, and rightfully so. Integrating .NET with COBOL was a very good idea for both them and their clients.
Experiences as a first time CTO (Twitter acquisition edition)
Copy or mimic work of people you admire. Don’t try to be “original” (in quotes because when you dig down usually even the most innovative works are heavily inspired by something else or even copy it).

Pick one thing and focus on that one thing.

Take less time to make decisions.

Be okay with not making the perfect decision or doing perfect work and detach yourself from the outcome. Just do it and move on.
Do you really believe this so strongly that you write this strongly-worded comment?

Plenty of reasons why people would convince themselves to buy them:

- I can easily return it if I don't like it (most never do)

- the OS X/iOS integration will be way better than my current headphones (my poison)

- I love Apple

- 2020 sucked, if I can't even go to Thailand this year, I'll at least treat myself to these. I deserve it.
My mom always said ”Move far away enough that your parents can’t visit in their slippers, trust me you don’t want that kinda meddling”

I moved to USA.

“Damn it I didn’t mean that far” ~ mom

My sister lives with her boyfriend in his mom’s house. There is indeed a ridiculous amount of meddling even though they’re technically separate households.
How difficult is it for a person to modify a stem-automatic weapon to make an illegal fully-automatic?
What are you talking about?

Apple supports devices longer than any other manufacturer. Case in point is iOS 14, which came out a few months ago and still supports the iPhone 6s, which came out in 2015.
Right, you don’t want a delivery driver parking and crossing the street. You want them next to the address, walking less and carrying weight for less time. This is absolutely not applicable to anyone driving in their normal life.
This is like saying Python should not be called Python because it has nothing to do with Monty Python; rather it should be called "Interpreted Programming Language #456", or whatever.
My guess would be EUR. In most of the Europe people don't mentally convert to USD but to EUR.
Create Opening Doors in CSS
Or you can choose publishers that have solvent and sane business models and support them by paying.
> What was disastrous about the PowerPC?

The G4 was amazing, but right from the start Motorola couldn't get acceptable yields on the higher-clock versions, and that kept happening. The IBM-sourced G5 was a power hog that was clearly not meant to be a consumer CPU.

The first computer I owned was a G4 Power Mac, I ordered with the student discount the day after it was announced. I got the middle 400MHz version. Apple was forced to abandon the high-end 450MHz version shortly after launch.

If Motorola could have manufactured the G4 according to plan, Apple probably never would have switched to Intel.