skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to read more on the background of this The Checklist Manifesto is a great book and has lots of applications when it comes to IT operations. Stupid checklists in markdown that you can check off as you go through have certainly improved our performance in ad hoc tasks that we don't automate.
You'll know that the top 40 comments are dynamic.

The world doesn't revolve around you!
The thing is, computer languages are extremely simple compared to human languages. Even the more arcane ones, like C++, probably have on the order of 1-200 'words' that you ahev to learn to 'speak' them fluently.

Of course, you also need to learn large amounts of library functions and their semantics, but that's more like learning who the people at court are and what their roles are than like the language. You could speak perfect French, but you still have to learn that you must call the Comptesse de Barry before calling the King if you don't want her to be upset. Even patterns are often more in this area of cultural/local context rather than the actual langauge - more like learning the difference between overly-descriptive prose and good prose is (which is why the knowledge about it also tends to translate better between different languages).
Ah yes, studies like the one on tax cuts for the rich are fine, but not ones on government spending levels.

Any way, you're over-simplifying how an economy works.

If there are not enough profitable investments to maintain current investment levels, then investment levels should decline. The government should not invest unprofitably just to maintain current levels.

And no, GDP will not drop. Current productive capital will generate the same value of goods/service, and prices will drop to clearing level until everything produced is consumed. It's better for the population to enjoy higher consumption levels, or to create stockpiles for the future, than have their labor and capital output diverted to projects that will provide them with less resources than they put in.
Generally, Android is worse for privacy than iOS, and this is worse than Android.

So if one follows your advice to use this instead of iOS, you give up a LOT of privacy protection.

That does not seem like good advice to me.
Google's hybrid remote work plans and why it's a recipe for disaster
Oh, I need more information about this. We have mars bars and milky ways in sweden, I wonder if ours are the UK or the US variant.
Here is a good explanation on the AR/VR adoption struggles:
https://arpost.co/2019/11/27/ar-and-vr-changed-our-lives-5-b...

Gilmore and Pine “Experience Economy” suggests that we are now in the transformation economy. Maybe VR needs to be transformative?
I Germany we have a saying that goes "Nobody is completely useless - you can still serve as a bad example."
> It applies to everyone in the EU. If you're an American inside an EU country using the local wifi, you're covered by the GDPR

As far as I know GDPR states EU citizens not people within the EU. Member states' laws will cover everyone however GDPR is for EU citizens globally since that is their remit.

> It applies to small companies just as much as to large companies. However if you're not really marketing to people in EU countries, the GDPR doesn't apply. So a local newspaper in Ohio need not worry about the occasional European visitor, but The Washington Post definitely does

Basically you argree with what I wrote but wrote it in a way to make it look like I stated something incorrect. Why did you do that?
“ffira” does not mean “great” in Spanish or Greek, nor does it appear to mean any other word...

Not that it transliterates to firra as such, but fyra φύρα is wastage in Greek. A bit archaic though.
Sorry, I am not a native speaker. Whats the right word for purposefully breaking the law?
> The interesting side channel papers are those where you can get information from emissions (e.g. crypto keys) without malware on the target computer, during normal operation.

What about using GSM on cell phones to steal data? (2015): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150728123634.h...

Also, here's a nifty resource for exfiltration; leakage through DNS would seem like a big one after any airgap is bridged:
https://github.com/rmusser01/Infosec_Reference/blob/master/D...

Or maybe you could use one of NYU's robotic geese to insert a USB key into an airgap'd PC and have it use it's webbed foot to hold lower keys down then peck type a command to copy files.
For visual low-code programming to align with how I visualize code, it would need to have one modality for when I'm writing, and a much richer, more complex modality for when I'm troubleshooting. There is a lot of emphasis in visual low-code programming on the first but not the second modality. There is a third modality for reading as well, which is very similar to troubleshooting but usually can be mostly a subset of troubleshooting.

YMMV, but the way I reason through while I read/write/troubleshoot code are mentally visualized and mapped in very different ways. When I compare what I visualize with the junior engineers I support, their visualizations tend to stop at a much higher granularity level. I strongly suspect that I engage in techniques that would be extremely familiar with and be on far more elementary level to those who practiced building "memory palaces" [1].

I have tried to teach this to the junior engineers, but the vast majority are simply wired differently it seems, and the few who "get it" do not sufficiently make it a habit to internalize it, much of which at first involves tedious pencil and paper.

I remember as a kid while blundering about a PDP-8 drawing on paper what I thought was going on at first with labeled boxes and lines (most of which was laughably inept and naive), then gradually transferring that to memory. Over many years of practicing that, it eventually became a reflexive habit. For more difficult problems I encounter today, I still sit down with pencil and paper and diagram it out to talk myself through it and build up a mental model.

For me personally, engaging spatial, motor, visual, verbal, and auditory senses together makes up my "visualization" in an iterative process that gradually internalizes into a pure mental model. That's why I prefer to look like a mental patient in the confines of my private office than at a co-working space or coffee shop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
> That attitude is actually how I program—with scripted languages I write code and see what happens, if it didn’t work I write it again.

This is an incredibly harmful attitude towards learning, but it feels nice because it's a lot less effort than actually trying to read or listen to something to learn. It's just laziness.

Learning C++ this way is how someone would end up with a buffer overflow every 30 lines of code they write. It's the reason some self-taught developers can't give you the fuzziest definition of the difference between O(n) and O(n^2).

The closest approximation of this is how kids learn to speak, but this is incredibly inefficient, and they receive many years of formal education anyway.
What you’re asking for feels like the antithesis of each workspace being assigned to a virtual screen, which says “these are physically disjoint spaces”. You seem to be seeking a move command that’s willing to violate this abstraction, penetrating workspace boundaries. (Or if not, I’m not sure what you could mean; floating windows are the only other case I can think of that could be affected in any way.) The only principled way I can see it working would be if you defined another nesting level above workspaces, so that screens were rigid splits on the greater part. This could probably work, but it doesn’t feel right to me. Certainly I never had the slightest desire for anything like this when I used two or mostly three monitors. I treated one as primary working space, one as secondary (mostly for communications), and one for things I might want to keep an eye on in the background from time to time. Occasionally I’d want to switch a window between the first two screens, but I would always want to use a workspace-shifting command for that; never (not once) would I have desired a move command. Very seldom indeed would windows shift to or from the third screen—they’d start there, live out their neglected lives there, and perish there at my pleasure.

I’m interested to hear what you have in mind.
I would love to see the photos from 70s Japan. The ones you feel comfortable sharing with strangers, of course!
Of course you can do that. But eventually keeping up with all the different fill parameters is going to catch up to you.

Besides, what do you call the parameter to fill the owner of the children? Fillchildrenowners? It’s nicer to work with if your API takes this into account.
The only fair way to curb the deforestation of the Amazon is to make the economic incentive of not cutting it down greater than the incentive of cutting it down. In other words, Brazil needs to be compensated for not utilizing its natural resources. The majority of Western countries exhausted their natural resources (including forests) for economic gain and have no right to point fingers at Brazil, especially when they buy meat and soya from Brazil. It's important to note that Brazil has more preserved nature and a smaller carbon footprint than most - all? - countries that criticize it. I'm all for preserving the Amazon but the entitlement and double standards that surface in discussions about this subject are ridiculous.
Phrased in a different way, they are developed to entertain you in your free time and help you relax. When they do this, they compete against all other forms of entertainment.

Well, this is true for paid entertainment at least. You are absolutely right about ad driven stuff though.
One @gmail.com account shows no email received from 2:17pm ET Dec 15 to 6:05am ET Dec 16. I normally receive ~4 emails per hour, throughout the day and night. After I realized there might be a fault, I sent myself test messages around 6pm ET on Dec 15 and Gmail bounced them with the error:

> 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser x62si100799otb.139 - gsmtp
That's client side. If you load 3rd party content into your browser or fail to block, that's on you. I thought usage of ublock origin/privacy badger could be implicitly assumed among the HN crowd.
i mostly stopped bothering with in-browser video when mpv wiht youtube-dl integration came around. either drag the url to the player window or use an open-with addon.

hardware decoding, no ads, buffering as i please
If we tax the rich, the taxes go straight to the government. A thriving economy needs CHURN. Please note: it’s not about the taxes..plain old taxation creates stale economies..it’s about how much people spend and buy and produce and keep money in circulation. The economic churn. More churn, more prosperity because we are creating movement of spending money that came from capital to keep alive a thriving economy.

Taxing the rich ..those few amongst us..will result in a welfare state with no vibrant economic activity and everyone being dependent on the state because if there is no income, there is no movement. No small businesses, no new start ups, no way to spend money in all those conspicuously consumptive ways.

While it’s fun to act shocked at the number of billionaires amongst us..most of it is tied up in stocks that can’t be liquidated. The high stock price determines dividends..pension funds, investment firms, wealth funds, retirement funds, universities, everyone invests in these stocks that allows people to retire and spend and splurge and buy homes etc.

The hypocrisy of the outrage is laughable. Case in point: Chicago teachers Union protested in front of Jeff Bezos home with a guillotine because he became the first man to be worth 200 billion. [1]

The same Chicago teachers Union owned 45k AMZN shares which brought its investment in amazon to ..wait for it.. $86 million+. In year ending 2019. Trickle down capitalism doesn’t work? .. right then!

[1] https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/ctu-sparks-controve...

[..] The Chicago Teachers Union sparked controversy Thursday when it said it was "completely in support" of demonstrators who built a guillotine outside of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo's home.

The union tweeted a video of the guillotine and wrote, "We are completely frightened by, completely impressed by and completely in support of wherever this is headed." The tweet generated both support and outrage online.

The controversial tweet came as Bezos reportedly became the first person to acquire a personal $200 billion fortune.[..]

[..] The Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund owned 45,754 shares of Amazon stock worth $86,641,147 at the end of fiscal year 2019, according to its 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.

The pension fund is governed by a 12-member board of trustees. Active teachers elect six of the pension board's trustees.

The report showed the pension fund's Amazon stock was its second-largest domestic equity holding behind Microsoft in 2019. In addition to Microsoft and Amazon., the funds top 10 domestic equity holdings included Apple, Facebook, Alphabet, Chevron, Visa, Berkshire Hathaway and Johnson & Johnson, according to the report.[..]
> you are being manipulated to not think

This is where it crosses from insightful into conspiracy theory territory for me. People seem perfectly capable of groupthink-deluding themselves. Why cheapen your argument by postulating some master manipulator when it's not necessary for the deeper point you're making?

It will only lead to people focussing the discussion to challenge this particular aspect, or them disregarding all you've said, instead of engaging with the actual meat of the argument.
To me it's like reading a map, where am I, where was I and where am I going exactly turn by turn
Becoming one of the main identity providers online would be hugely profitable. You could easily add on payments (a la paypal) and other services that generate enourmous revenues
>>Evidence: "one reddit post about a single product, cars, deffo not cherry-picked"

My demonstration of the growing lifespan of cars was more than you provided.

You claim it's cherry-picked while you cherry picked any article you could find supporting your claim.

You also edited your comment afterwards to include those links. I didn't see those links when I responded the first time.

The quote from the Yale Economics professor is NOT using planned obsolescence in the context where you were using it, where companies were deliberately reducing the lifespan of products, not as a side effect of reducing their costs to provide lower prices, but as a deliberate objective to get more reorders.

It was referring to consumers choosing cheaper products at the expense of shorter product lifespans. This would be a trade-off preferred by a consumer, not a deliberate handicapping of product lifespans, that solely reduces economic value, as a way to gain more reorders.

The study you referred is primarily focused on theoretical incentives to engage in planned obsolescence by monopolists and oligopolists, which is already a known source of economic-rent seeking, and an outlier market structure not characteristic of most of the market. Monopolies/oligopolies engage in a host of exploitive rent-seeking practices, and the study merely gave theoretical support for planned obsolescence being one of them. This is hardly the same as your original claim.

So no, you haven't come close to proving that planned obsolescence is a general property of market economies. Even the single study you referenced doesn't provide support that assertion.

>>Pretty on point for a free market fundamentalist to add socialists to that list.

Like I said, claiming Economics is coopted by a capitalist oligarchy to push a fundamentalist ideology for their own benefit, and with nothing more than anecdotes, vague assertions and unsubstantiated conjecture to support your very serious accusation, is absolutely irresponsible quackery, and reminicient of all of the narratives I referenced.
Back when I was still practicing as an anesthesiologist (1977-2015) I had a pack of 3x5 cards I carried in my scrubs pocket on each of which was an exhaustively detailed list I'd made of EVERYTHING I needed at hand to perform specialized procedures such as inserting an arterial line (putting a #20g plastic catheter through the skin on the inside of the wrist into the radial artery for direct beat-to-beat monitoring of arterial blood pressure, a measurement employed for seriously ill or unstable patients). I would assemble a tray with the following items in the OR before going to ICUs or the ER because invariably one or more of the items I would need would not be present and would take time to procure.

For example:

ARTERIAL LINE

• several sterile alcohol skin wipes
• 3cc syringe with 25g needle [for skin infiltration of local
anesthetic at puncture site]
• bottle of 2% lidocaine with epinephrine 1/1000
• 2x2 cotton gauze pads to use for pressure on failed
puncture sites
• 3 #20 gauge plastic catheters (22 gauge for small children)
• 2 surgical towels to drape over hand and lower arm to
absorb blood that accompanied successful arterial puncture
• size 7.5 sterile surgical gloves for me to wear while
performing procedure
• specialized 1" waterproof plastic skin tape to secure and
protect catheter in situ

I was constantly amazed by how my colleagues would have to stop and wait for something not present in the unit they were called to.
Conversely, when I was called because of an inability to insert an A-line, as they were referred to, and wasn't in a place where I could assemble my desired materials, I'd proceed with the materials at hand, all the while thinking "this could have been done a lot better...."
>anybody who wanted maximum gaming performance, above all else, had pretty much no other choice except for Intel

Which means nothing for the vast majority of users since the cpu was far from holding them back which is why we have seen most pc builds include an AMD cpu for the last few years because very few people want to pay way more to get a slightly higher number in a specific benchmark and see nothing in reality for the money.
An annoying aspect of getting into Octave was realizing that it had only very basic support for Unicode (no Unicode in filenames, variable names, comments...)

The main issue seems to be Matlab compatibility, which is stuck with UTF-16 (like some Windows internals), while most languages have moved on to UTF-8 as a standard (Heck, even Windows PowerShell (and Notepad?) default to UTF-8 now!)
I use Firefox on android, want to keep alternative to chrome alive. I like it, it isn't as nice to use as chrome but works well for me
No arrest, no charges, so no crime then?
A cynical part of me thinks that this is another attempt by Google to say - Look now users decide if they want to be tracked using GA.
The used metric was "impressiveness", not raw percentages.

The OP argued, that assuming she had donated 59B out of the total of 60B, while this would (probably) be a higher percentage than the OP, it still would not be "impressive". She would retain 1B, which, I hope we can all agree, is more than enough to live a wealthy life, and certainly more than the 3k left on the account of OP.
On hacker news!
I've often thought that: "Hackers and Composers", might have been better than: "Hackers and Painters". Or, maybe, they both fit equally (not) well.
I think that them being equivalently positive is a weird way of looking at it? It ignores what the poster you're replying to is probably referring towards. If you value Romanian ideals over Texan ideals then you'd prefer Romania to get a lucrative economic position of power through trade over Texas as the Romanian government provides more utility to you due to more favorable (to you) ideals.

Though, I personally don't think these companies moving to Texas matters that much, but if there was a mass migration it could certainly shake things up in ways that some may appreciate and some dislike.
The long term plans and studied for surgeries can be moved one day forward or backward basically by definition.
It’s Always Year Zero
Yes, on the economic side I will say, It's better a big piece of a small cake or a small piece of a big cake?

On the entrepreneurship side I will say that you will get an incredible know how to scale with your project and have a bigger impact :)

On the learning side No doubt for me that be inside one of the most prestigious alumni community it is worth the 10% of the company.
tldr: “ The killer was the 6PPD-quinone from the tires in the roadway runoff.”

6PPD is an antioxidant added to tires, and the -quinone is the oxidized form (not sure if it oxidizes before/during/after manufacturing or after escaping the tire).
Do you know how it compares to insertion sort, which is also fast on nearly sorted lists?
For any given input, there is no advantage to running more than one instance in the same universe.
Hackernews and Wankspider.com
This has failed in the past (AppleScript). Another way to do it would be to make the language “vague” in the same way a poorly formed English sentence can still be understood, but I think this would fail too - the most important thing for a tool is to be predictable, not clever.

Ruby’s syntax does seem to be informed by Japanese word order, so that’s nice.
Wrong syntax is more like using the wrong words in human languages than it is like what we normally call bad grammar.

If you write in C 'foo(a;', that's equivalent to saying 'ball foo with a' - the compiler really can't understand what you mean.

The equivalent of 'I go store' is something more like writing 'int p; printf("%d", p);' - the compiler understands what you mean, but it's bad style, and possibly wrong (you're supposed to initialize a variable before you read it).
Interested in knowing your use cases for CL development. Or do you use Clojure?

Either way would be interested in learning where/how you use lisp.
The easiest way to avoid YouTube ads is to avoid using the YouTube website and its "Javascript player" to play videos. The Google Video download URLs to watch the video, without any ads, are right there in the hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxx webpage. I use a tiny shell script of only 97 characters to extract them. The truth is, where YouTube ads are concerned, neither a modified dnsmasq plus RPi so-called "Pi-Hole" nor any browser extension "ad blocker" is required. No user needs to run Javascript to play videos just like no user needed to run Adobe Flash to play videos. Flash and Javascript are useful, maybe even essential, for tracking and advertising, but are unnecessary for playing video.
Emacs and slime are great for lisp, but my experience is that learning all three at once is too much.
Stick to vscode and install the lisp extensions (or sublime and sublime repl was what I learnt on) and work through the lisp koans (search on github you’ll find the repo).

Once you have the basics down then look into setting up slime and jumping down the emacs rabbit hole.
Never seen anyone to take a day off on birthday. Living in Europe too.
They are ordered by a mix of recency and upvotes as far as I know. Which means the top 40 comments that I see are the same as you see, if I am correct, at the same moment.

I understand the misunderstanding and the urge to correct me. I don’t understand the need for your accusation of egocentrism. Why did you do that?
But What For?
Oh. So chord diagrams do not refer to music notation, here.
My mistake :)
Egghead.com Redirects to Amazon.com