skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put your money where your mouth is and short it then. Otherwise such statements are empty predictions with no responsibility or weight behind them.
Optionals help, but what's really missing is union types for arguments.
Streaming Systems and Global State
You're being pedantic. You can melt down that coin and sell the silver or use it for a myriad of industrial purposes. The value of the coin is based on the market value for the silver contained inside of it. The metal in American coins, the fibers in American dollars, are worthless (relative to the face value). The value of the American dollar derives from the the US government's guarantees of payment on its debt, its status as legal tender within the US, and the requirement to pay US taxes with it.

The value of the dollar derives from the might of the American government and the productivity of its economy. A silver coin is worth its weight in silver even if the government and economy that issued it long stopped existing. The dollar is worthless without the American government and American economy backing it.
I prefer using dap-mode. It has a much nicer interface that's consistent across multiple debuggers. I use it for C, C++, Rust (Native Debug + gdb) and Python (debugpy).
Hard disagree. Give me a person with great pronunciation, ability to differentiate minimal pairs and decent grammar with only 400 words in their repertoire and they will be better language users in no time than any person with a +5000 vocabulary but crappy grammar and pronunciation. Vocabulary is the easiest part to get by daily usage, for the others you have to do a conscious and constant effort.
> Let's start by saying that marihuana is just one of the products that cartels sold and represents a miniscule part of the earnings since the 80s.

As of a 2007 report, it was estimated that marijuana contributed up to 60% of cartel revenues [0].

> According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, drug proceeds in Mexico in 2005 ranged from... $3.9 billion to $14.3 billion for marijuana... Mexican drug traffickers also grow marijuana in the United States; therefore, the amount of proceeds returned to Mexico is likely greater than the reported estimates.

> Adding up the midpoints for each range, the total would be roughly $15.5 billion, though we note there’s a wide disparity in the marijuana estimates.

This portion has likely decreased substantially with increasing legalization of marijuana in the US, but it was not minuscule by any standard. The drop in revenue has pushed cartels to other income stream (e.g. avocado protection rackets) [1].

> Cartels not only sell marihuana, cocaine and pills, they control human trafficking, prostitution, oil robberies, kidnapping, etc.

I think of cartels as companies whose product is criminal activity. Drug prohibitions make it possible to overcome the initial hurdle needed to build such an organization, but once established it will seek to diversify revenues and adapt to changing markets by offering new services. While legalization of drugs would likely cut cartel revenues, it would not entirely eliminate them.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/24/do-mexica...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-20/mexico...
>And you can’t realistically control the configuration of a computer or smartphone in an exam.

And why should you? This isn't the 1860s when exams were being invented. We shouldn't try and copy the conditions that were accidental at the time for all eternity. If someone can cram their phone with a program that answers their exams for them they should be commended for good preparation and we should find another way of measuring peoples knowledge.
I get the answers, but why not cache the password in the browser for the duration of the redirect?

edit: ah I see, sometimes cross domain, that would make the handover potentially dangerous. I thought of just keeping it in js.
You may think it a very easy task, but it is one that a large proportion of our elected officials failed, or possibly pretended to fail for their own political gain.
This network only matters if you went to Ivy League or similar schools.

Networking with your average person in a state or random private college is the same as networking with someone you meet at a Meetup.
Couldn’t read the article but did she kill them off one by one?
As a Java end user I'm really glad that method overloading exists. The two largest libraries I ever built would have been huge messes without overloading. But I take your point that method overloading might be a net negative for the Java platform as a whole.
I attended "poor" schools most of my life. Graphing calculators were provided and rarely we had homework. The irony was, once I got to college, for our calculus class we were only allowed to use a basic calculator.
prions are a specific sequence, the danger with a prion is that they stack up on each other like building blocks and produce "plaque" structures, there is such a difference that it is about as close to zero as you can get.

what you would get is some false starts, and segment of protien if that at all.
Taking on the responsibility of pushing back hard on poorly conceived new features is one of the important hidden skills of being an effective software developer. Programmers who just do whatever they get told like marching ants end up shooting an organization in the foot long term.

You have to develop an opinion of the thing you're building/maintaining and what it should be able to do and not do. You can't count on project managers to do that.

The trick to doing this effectively is to find out the problem the feature is actually trying to solve and providing a better solution.

Usually the request is from end users of software and they have identified the problem (we need to do xyz) and prescribed a solution (put the ability to do xyz in a modal on this page.) But if you can look to what other software has done, do a UX review and find a way to add a feature in that solves their problem in a way that makes sense in the larger context of the software, they won't have a problem with it since it solves their problem and the codebase will take less of a hit.

Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to just add the modal without complaint.
I don't know man?

People don't like, a lot of things, they don't call them delusional. We call things delusional because they are, in fact, delusional. What makes it dangerous is that people deeply believe that their delusions are "truth". Belief to the point of fundamentalism, where they will kill non-believers in their delusions.
Well, when Wayland started they went in on the assumption that they could cast away quite a bit that “no one was using” or that “wasn't necessary”.

And then they had to include more of what they cast away because they underestimated the number of consumers of things they personally weren't using.

libinput originally actually did not have a way to disable and configure pointer acceleration I believe because the developed thought there was no reason to ever turn it off. He was not a gamer and was largely ignorant of how essential being able to disable it is for the level of accuracy required for video games.
Visual studio code can do this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35424367/how-to-navigate...
Hopefully the highly-vulnerable populations (elderly, obese) are willing to take the small unknown risk enough to drive down death rates. I'm not personally super bothered of a bunch of young and healthy people choose to forgo the vaccine pending more time and studies.
Yea.. seems like a massive conflict of interest.
The sequence is that of the protein. That's how it works.

The vaccine contains the mRNA sequence for the protein, so cells produce it, triggering an immune response.

The "nucleotide modified" bit just means they replace some nucleotides with nucleotide isomers like pseudouridine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudouridine) to keep the vaccine itself from being attacked. The sequence remains the same.
Why would you need to know if a value is the default or a value the equals the default? I can't think of a reason for that as I've never faced this problem in my career.
I’m sure they do!

The comments that bubble up (or get otherwise suppressed with votes) speak otherwise.

But “centrists” in 2020 are far closer to right-leaning because of said Overton window.

If you want to call center in 2020 a true center then sure, the site is drawing from the “whole range” equally. To the extent you acknowledge the impact of global cultural shifts and the deeper meaning of ‘left’ or ‘right’ then I would contend otherwise.
I wouldn't necessarily trust others with my data, but if a person wants to trust themselves then that's up to them.

Symmetrical high speed connections allows for the option of self-hosting one's own stuff and being able to serve it to the Internet (or connect to it remotely), but it is not mandatory for people to choose that option. They may not feel confident in their owns skills so choose the option of paying someone else to be responsible for it.

I'm simply talking about having more options.
Ah, Hacker News. The victim complex runs deep in this gaggle of nerds who have rarely, if ever, been exposed to real hardship or discrimination.
My memory being quite spatial, I was intrigued that given the compactness of Chinese words, a good sized n-most-common-words working vocabulary, in a small font, would fit in 1080p.

I pictured an electron app, with words ordered by usage frequency, with mouseover for translation and speech, dynamic colorization for various relationships, and a window for browsing chinese websites, with their content tied back to the pane of words. I've never seen anything like that, but for me it had a feel of "but of course - how else would I best go about learning to read Chinese?"
I'm porting moonlight-qt to webOS TV
Someone interested in making some good webOS homebrews?
Yep, clearly very illegal.

It's kind of funny you say that too, as people have been saying that forever. eg "If they were so bad, stuff would have been done" (sic).

Look at PayPal's reputation going back a decade or two, and you'll see there are tremendous amounts of stories about it. People used to set up dedicated websites collecting the copious horror stories. Not kidding about that, in any way.

At the same time, there were multitudes of other people going "Oh, I've never had a problem with them, you must have done something wrong". (etc)

They've cleaned up their image _a bit_, so things don't seem as obviously bad now (latest development aside). Back then though... sheesh...
And named arguments.

All three features, useful on their own, could be added to java at maybe 10% of the complexity of method overloading. With method overloading, they are all exponentially more complicated.

It's crazy how many places method overloading ends up rearing its ugly head if you are dealing with the JVM.
Yes; I must have overlooked that. My mistake.
The major barriers to competing with Google/Amazon/Facebook etc are not regulatory hassles, by far. Even in highly regulated industries, like space launch vehicles, the additional cost of compliance over your own due diligence isn’t the biggest barrier.

Also, consumers on average do a bad job of managing anticompetitive behaviour and harmful externalities, even if they know about them. Convenience and habit are strong motivators. And we need regulation to disincentivize companies from outright lying in the first place.

Companies and people in a fully free market system won’t magically become rational automata that behave ideally. We’re only human. Our superpower is the ability to collectively leverage our individual specialization. Foresight for negative externalities is a specialization that needs regulation to be effective.
Bitcoin seemed interesting to me, but I read the comments here on HN and most people were saying how ridiculous it was, how it was worthless, etc.

I didn’t know enough about it, and deferred to the “experts”
That’s the problem, isn’t it: Sales is a short-term metric (quarterly?), whereas client retention is long-term (multi-year, depending on contract length).

I had the pleasure of carpooling with some random owner of a small tech firm, and he flat out said it was difficult to keep on top of salespersons.

Meaning they were pretty shifty by nature and hard to trust.
I assume that the amount of research that is done, papers produced, etc. is much higher in traditional Unis compared to the Fernuni.

If you look it through the reverse lense, the ratio of professor to student is much worse than your alma mater. So one professor has to take care of much more students, exams, etc.

To me the Fernuni seems great if you want to study while having a job, during a pandemic, are just interested in the degree, are not a in-Person Person, are a Self-motivating learner or live far away from a Uni City.

The traditional Uni seems great, if you want to experience social life, are a study group kind of person, want to go into academia, like noodles for 2€ in the Mensa. Also a lot of STEM or medicine that needs access to research facilities will be easier in a traditional Uni.
> everytime I check the coinbase APP when I wake up, my hands literally shake because of the fear that while I slept the price went down some insane %

That's an emotional reaction.

Emotions have no place in a profficent investor or trader. They will fuck you up, it is just a matter of time.

They are also not a signal for anyone else to change, or any system to change, or any discussions to start or stop on certain news aggregators - they are a signal for you to learn to chill with your investment decisions, become more analytical and less emotional with it, or at the very least scale back the size of investments to a comfortable for you level.
Yes, it was intended. I think with enough redundancy there are silver bullets in certain areas.
I suppose you could profile your app, watching the syscalls it makes over a full cycle, and then build a stripped kernel with nothing but those calls implemented. Any drivers not touched would also be removed. That would not eliminate the syscall overhead, but it would certainly minimize boot time and improve security somewhat by reducing the attack surface.
This is beside my point. I only picked cookies because I'm making some. :)

Look into the supply chain for lumber to your house. Concrete. Electricity. Literally anything. Life is complicated.

Software just fools us by letting us more readily have a blank slate sometimes. Though, even then, the complexity of the tool chain to support such easy "hello world" programs is insane.

If you want to know frustration, try using any of the simple tools you can buy at a dollar store for a time. Simple can openers that will fall apart in no time. Tableware that will bend and likely go unusable in months.
Ghidra doesn't have a debugger (which afaik is a WIP).
> Using chemistry in this example is kinda bad

That is the bad part? SOME white people (I mean crazies like Steve Sailer, not the average HN user) have a funny worldview. When white people perform better than black/latino people in tests, It is because of genetics. When East-Asian people perform better than white it is because they are mindless drones that only are good for rote memorization tests and creativity is a better marker for intelligence anyway.
I wonder if that would be possible without types. Maybe some kind of IO decorator, that enforces the separation, to allow for enforced pure functions in an untyped language.
You don't just have to hope; you can do it.
Reader mode in Firefox was a terrific idea and I use it daily. It's "disable images" on steroids. I can't recommend it enough. I do wish there was a simple "disable images" button for other instances when reader mode wasn't available.
I wasn't really. Just trying to give useful feedback. I'm probably not alone in finding these tacky/empty. As you point out yourself, we are already bombarded by ads with unsincere words. This feels like just adding to the mix, though kind words are, arguably, better than what we see in ads.

Anyway, if the goal is to brighten someone's day, an innocent joke or a little pun may be much more effective. I feel like lighter words are better than emotionally loaded ones when interact with complete strangers.
I am able to see both Orwell’s tyranny AND Huxley’s tyranny.

If I frame all dysfunctional human interactions through the lens of “tyranny” then I see “tyranny” everywhere.

That is how all confirmation biases works. That is why they are all uninteresting.

Falsifying one’s own biases is much more fun...

The world today is less tyrannical (as per Orwell’s concept) than it was when he was alive. Only when you ignore all moral progress do you get to paint contemporary society with Orwell’s brush.
My experience, is that "complicated" vs. "complex," as you define, changes, depending on who is looking at the code.

If someone has a philosophical aversion to something like abstraction, then they will label it "complicated," but I use abstraction, all the time, to insert low-cost pivot points in a design. I just did it this morning, as I was developing a design to aggregate search results from multiple servers. My abstraction will afford myself, or other future developers, the ability to add more data sources in the future, in a low-risk fashion.

I also design frameworks in "layers," that often implement "philosophical realms," as opposed to practical ones. Think OSI layers.

That can mean that adding a new command to the REST API, for example, may require that I implement the actual leverage in a very low-level layer, then add support in subsequent layers to pass the command through.

That can add complexity, and quality problems. When I do something like that, I need to test carefully. The reason that I do that, is so, at an indeterminate point in the future, I can "swap out" entire layers, and replace them with newer tech. If I don't think that will be important, then I may want to rethink my design.

That is the philosophy behind the OSI layers. They allow drastically different (and interchangeable) implementation at each layer, with clear interface points, above and below.
I've got one from Bosch (a name brand), and use it to check for steel reinforcements in concrete and power wires in walls (and, rarely, studs). I can't double check the readings non destructively, so I evaluate the device according to whether in the end I hit something or not when drilling.

The readings are imprecise at best, with lots of false positives and possibly some false negatives (no way to know).

The tool is useful, if repeated readings are coupled with domain expertise, common sense and intuition.

If you ask me if the tool, by itself, works, I'll reply "maybe". All I know is that, aided by the tool, I haven't done any damage yet.

I don't think it's the tool's fault though. Rather, it's the combination of non-destructive testing and the limited feedback.
Is there a market for these calculators? They were super cool in the 90s and early 00s but why would one buy these over a... laptop? Or a tablet/smartphone?
Ah yes, a dissident who couldn't get published in his own country was obviously included.
McCarthy published a paper in 1961 about if-then-else as a form of propositional logic replacing and/or/not, with its own identities playing a role like associativity, de Morgan's laws, etc. This had to be invented.

It's interesting to me that these identities and the canonical form McCarthy introduced there were exactly how BDDs work (when you just add memoizing, which was also invented about the same time) -- but BDDs weren't invented until the 1980s. (Explanation at https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/four/the-language-of-ch...)

It's easy to think things are obvious in hindsight.
AFAIK Lambda runs optimized Linux kernels in VMs (with very limited virtual hardware etc for speed and security).
> You can exceed the posted limit to pass.

If you're doing this consistently, over several kilometers, you're just speeding.
When the pandemic lockdown started some of the supply chain abstractions leaked, and the US public was noticeably inconvenienced by lack of toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and (in some cases) meat. It turns out the supply chains are actually rather fragile with many failure points.
> vocabulary acquisition shouldn't be constrained to the typical or more salient nouns and adjectives

My recent research finding (that needs to be confirmed with new data I collected) is that East-Asian L2 learners of English have a gap in knowledge of adjectives/adverbs in comparison of nouns. The nouns causing them problem are in the 3000 frequency vocabulary band while the adj/adv they don’t know are in the 2000 frequency band. That’s a very huge gap. So you are totally right that other part of speech that nouns should be given more attention.
You should give a go at reading or recommending Anthony Shaw's excellent book[1] (or at the very least the free article on Real Python[2]).

1. https://realpython.com/products/cpython-internals-book/

2. https://realpython.com/cpython-source-code-guide/
> If I pay I want: No ads, no tracking, full access to my own data in sane export formats, schemas, no data mining, no data selling, no "sharing data with our partners", encryption options, no dumb hoops, no dark patterns, the ability to point a product at an API endpoint of my choosing, backup options that default to my infrastructure first and so on.

GDPR's right to data portability provides much of the export functionality you're after. It must be structured, in a format that is commonly-used and machine-readable. The ICO's guidance suggests that CSV, XML and JSON best meet this requirement.

Tracking is something else that GDPR helps with. Tracking of personal information via e.g. cookies require active consent. Silence is not consent.

"sharing data with our partners" requires a lawful basis when dealing with EU data subjects. This will normally be consent where data is sold to third-parties for e.g. marketing, so data subjects will be able to make an informed decision and opt out of this. Again, silence is not consent - and burying data sharing in an unreadable legal document is not informed consent.

> the ability to point a product at an API endpoint of my choosing

The right to data portability includes this:

> Individuals have the right to ask you to transmit their personal data directly to another controller without hindrance. If it is technically feasible, you should do this.

> Actually let's add more: The data generated by my use of my data in the product.

This is in scope for a Subject Access Request.

> Non-canned support responses that don't ask for information I literally put in the ticket three weeks ago

This is difficult to solve with regulation but I think it's an entirely reasonable thing to expect for your money. GDPR does not help here

Hopefully if there are multiple competitors in the space, customer support is something that providers can compete on.

> Prominent indication of where (geographically and legally) data is stored and used

Privacy information already must contain a transparent list of data processors:

> This includes anyone that processes the personal data on your behalf, as well all other organisations.

What we really need is for other countries to start taking data protection regulation seriously.
You are correct that I do not make the argument. My intention was to provide some signposts for those familiar with this literature to situate Kelly's relative to it.

I have no problem with tech entrepreneurship per se, as my commenting history shows.
FinCEN Became a Honeypot for Sensitive Personal Data
OK, procreation based multi-million dollar contest wills were extremely outside the norm ??
> Apparently youtube is

Youtube stops them from talking to each other?? You aren't worth my reply.
Unpopular opinion: why do we need this? The people in prison are by and large human trash who have brought so much suffering to humanity. The quality of prisons in the US roughly correlates with the class of crime. I’d let it be.
Exploration of Cyberpunk steam reviews using transformers sentence embeddings
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