skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is for languages left-to-right. For Arabic and other right to left languages the story is different.
> maybe the site's reading time estimator is broken? sarcasm intended.

It was not rewritten in rust?
I want to chime in here and reiterate your words. Being arrested sucks, and the police in general sucks. Out of say the 10 most violent acts to happen to me personally, the police is responsible for like 7, and did not help in the other 3. When I see a police me go to reaction is to be afraid and try to minimize the risk of interaction. How is it that we allow an organization to walk freely that terrorizes many (most?) people they encounter?

I was arrested in San Francisco back in 2011, it was the most violent act to ever happen to me by far. It was my first time in the city and I was at a protest. Usually it is really easy to avoid arrest in a protest, however that night the police did not give us a choice, rounded us all up and arrested the lot of us. I had my life with me in two bags, apparently you are only allowed to be arrested with one bag, the police suggested that I needed to abandon one (in civil terms this is called theft).

They put us in a petty wagon and drove us around for probably an hour, we couldn’t see out, so for all I know we were being driven out of the city (after being released I found out that we were driven 15min walking distance away from the protest site). I was really scared I wouldn’t be able to get back to the city during this.

We were all detained under a freeway pass in two cages, segregated by the gender the police assigned to us. While detained nobody was allowed water or toilet brakes at first, and then only one person at a time. I never got to go to the toiled during the whole ordeal.

They charged me with a misdemeanor called Illegal lodging (whatever that is). They assigned a court date 3 months into the future. As someone that didn’t live in the state (and even the country) it felt like they were setting me up to do an impossible task. However they dropped the charges before the court date (without telling me though).

Now I in the process of immigrating to the USA, and whenever they ask me if I have ever been arrested/detained, I have to answer “yes”, even though—as far as the justice system is concerned—I have committed no crime, and then I have to explain to them that, yes, I was arrested for a misdemeanor, and then provide documents from the courts that the charges were dropped. A lawyer once told me that many people fall for this and provide the arrest records in an attempt to disclose but fail to show the court records, and are denied as a result.

And when I think about all this, what sucks even more, is that my experience was pretty mild. Hundreds of people have far worse violence inflicted on them by the police then I did a decade ago.

My question is is always: “Why are they doing this, what is the point?” and the only logical answer I can think of is that they really love treating people like shit. The only logical explanation for their behavior is that they are facists. They hate people other then them self. The police really has to be abolished.
Yeah, I have a friend who got similarly addicted to WoW during undergrad, and dropped out.

I also have a friend who dropped out of high school for games, but it worked out! He became a fairly high end professional Counter-Strike player, moved to South Korea for awhile. Then when the CS professional scene stopped being as lucrative, online poker was taking off, he moved to online poker, and did VERY well financially off of that: https://www.sk-gaming.com/content/1844754-shaguar-to-run-cs-...

When he dropped out of high school to play CS, his parents were obviously very worried, but he treated it like a job and did really well.
Why do we measure pascal's?

Because it's a standard. It's not something they made up.
Yes, you can clone all day long and just reuse variable names as if you were writing JavaScript, but what does that do to your memory allocation?
I've seen exactly this many times in audits (gets them a high score!). If they flag it and not check the usage I know they didn't bother putting anyone good on the audit or only ran automated stuff and it is pretty much useless.
The same can now be said for sha1, gets them results quickly and looks good on the final report.
Really?

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4619

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6069
won't apple just murder this? its like a jackel trying to steal meat from a bear's meal
They are considered psychologically akin to gambling, are being investigated in several countries under their relation with gambling, and at least one country (Belgium) has declared them to be gambling.
> but infrastructure code is somewhere you really want to be able to drop into the full expressive power of a programming language.

Please expand on what this expressive power you need is. I see things like Pulumi and I can only think of IaC codebases that end up being turing tarpits in the hands of developers that don't get what the whole point of the declarative model is, putting a bunch of untestable arbitrary IO and high cyclomatic complexity in the middle of determining what is going to be deployed.

And this is definitely not an argument against having better languages than HCL, Dhall would certainly be a step up that doesn't give the developer an arsenal of footguns to move fast and wreak havoc on the underlying foundations of a business. But I want to know what needs you have that you feel are worth the risk of putting a bull in the china shop.
Leading computer scientists debate the next steps for AI in 2021
OR dominates the west coast!
Finite-State Machine
I think that being able to write down the lifetimes in the language is beautiful.

You don't have to do it, but if you want to do it, being able to do so in a way that's verified and enforced by the toolchain beats doing so in a documentation comment.

Now every time I read a doc string saying that I need to "deepcopy" something in Python for some API usage pattern to work properly I cringe.
I'm one of those people who is forced to keep Windows around because of my employer. Our VPN only works in Windows.

Some people have made Juniper Pulse Client work in Linux, even a co-worker has posted some instructions. But I already have a setup where I start the VPN client in a Windows VM and tunnel through it.

I feel like any Linux solution would take a lot of time to setup and might not be as robust.

Another reason I still need Windows around is we only support S/MIME encryption in the Outlook client. Part of this is because of how our internal IT configures the cert, there is a way to make it work in the webmail but our IT guys have either opted out of that or not gotten around to it.

That's pretty much it though. I can happily use Linux for 99.99% of my time.
There is no need for a short-term limited duration plan under the ACA, because losing your job is a qualifying event that allows you to enroll in the ACA exchange or Medicaid (depending on our financial situation) and that can't be denied due to pre-existing conditions.

We've had the ACA for a decade now, you can't just pretend it never happened.
I kinda have a bias that wants to agree with the author but _almost the entirety of quantum computing_ has been developed since 1996 - including the theory and building the things - which is such a ridiculously humongous exception that there’s little point taking this article seriously.
based on your own set of possibilities it sounds like they chose b and "f#ck everyone else" contradicts "Facebook truly seems to be trying to improve its behavior for the benefit of society at large".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhSX7IzHkrE
This is not a helpful message in the vast majority of cases. Lots of servers out there that always return 200
If only there was a product that helped size up work and let teams manage a backlog of features. :D

But I agree totally.
Sounds like a bug.
Sufficiently far out from land (IIRC 10 miles) the ocean becomes "international waters", and no country legally controls it. There's a border between the territorial waters of a given country and these international waters along the coast.

There's also noun/verb confusion. A state has borders (noun). A state can border another (verb). State A has a border, state B has a border, and A borders B.

California has a border with International Waters. Hawaii is directly surrounded by International Waters. California does not border Hawaii, though both have borders and border International Waters.
Over 17 billion total last year. A shady company with no proof of actually holding any funds and real proof that they were kicked out of all the banks they tried to use, a court case against them and a text on their own website that says that they are not backed by USD but "some other assets" prints 21 billion fake dollars and everyone is ok with that.
You are putting the cart before the horse here. People who think outside the box and challenge society and norms are the ones who push the limits of our current knowledge. Conformist and those who seek approval from others will not risk their credibility or reputation on untested ideas.
Ask HN: What have you done to keep finding interesting stuff on the internet?
Yes. This is surveillance capitalism taken to its extreme. Facebook didn’t invent it, they’re just doing it in a way that makes the consequences more difficult to ignore than Google, which has been able to largely sidestep the blowback by being mission critical to so many people and also having massive goodwill projects that don’t directly point to being profit driven.

It’s up to citizens of the US and EU to reign this in. We can hate the player but we gotta hate the game even more.
That looks great, does anyone have one of them? What's the battery life like? The ESP32 isn't very battery-friendly.
I got it because I'm probably ancient compared to many readers here. But if you're going to do quotes stick them in quotation marks, that's the normal thing to do, and it serves as a hint to the less well read (apropos Adams) to perhaps google if they don't get it.
I really like this but some of your objectives don't have a timeline attached. For example, "Write 10 reviews on twitter". I would have liked to see a parenthetical "(1 per week for 10 straight weeks)" or "(within 60 days)". Without this its hard to put concrete tasks on a calendar.

BTW I like your goals, too. They seem quite wholesome and achievable, and reasonable (granted I don't know your BMI now, for example, but waking up before 8:30am is a good one.)
A safety tip about that:

Before taking whatever it is you're taking be sure to thoroughly investigate its physical effects and learn about the precautions you should be taking, and what to or not to do.

For example, MDMA, which is sometimes sold on the street as Ecstacy or Molly (and sometimes other drugs are sold under those names, which is yet another danger) can interfere with the body's temperature regulation ability, so when you take it and start dancing and get hot you might not be able to cool off as effectively... which is one reason why people can die from it, especially if they're dancing a lot in already hot environments (like at an outdoor festival on a sunny day or in a hot club with poor ventilation), or when they don't drink enough water, or drink too much water.. any of these can kill you, and people have died from just this.

DanceSafe's recommendations for MDMA are to drink one pint of water an hour.

Below are some fantastic videos from Emanuel Sferios, the founder of DanceSafe, that he gave at UC Berkeley about MDMA (and general recreational drug) safety, which I highly recommend everyone watch. You could save your life or that of a friend by learning what's in these videos.

So, everyone, please EDUCATE YOURSELF and stay safe!

[1] - Part 1 - The History of MDMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZY-ZFJnWbg

[2] - Part 2 - Tips for Safer Use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgUPKYrpBvY

[3] - Part 3 - Pharmacology and Medical Use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHduGGB5kJU

[4] - Part 4 - The Need for Drug Policy Reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTSiyQHm2s4

[5] - Part 5 - Heather Brooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8s-nhlaACw

[6] - Part 6 - Joseph Pred https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wolzUE3lPk

[7] - Part 7 - Question & Answer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rovaoVjLnOk

[8] - Prohibition Fatalities and MDMA Complexities: Interview With Emanuel Sferios, the founder of DanceSafe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKYogJ8Yxs
I don't think the size of the universe matters. Marvel has a huge universe but it's mostly derivate, trite, n-th repeatitions of same-old under different names and guises. Star Wars had a cultural significance in a way that Marvel movies never had (but Marvel comics, in their heyday, did, albeit for a smaller niche).

Plus, the Star Wars world was such a good fit for building upon, that it was expanded vastly by hundreds of comics, books, and so expanding "the canon".

>and constantly just microwave and serve the leftovers of the old movies

Funny coming from someone who enjoys Marvel.
Probably a dumb question, but are the disclosures only available to the government (federal?), or will the disclosures be available to the general public (and litigious lawyers) too?
You're thinking about this as though the system is free of uncertainty and prosecutors didn't use overcharging to extract plea bargains.

If doing something could allow the prosecutor to plausibly charge you with this, even if you wouldn't be convicted, you now have to be counseled in doing it to avoid that possibility, otherwise you could be coerced into pleading guilty to something you didn't do because the alternative is prohibitively expensive legal defense from a questionable charge with a low risk of a high penalty.

Businesses are risk averse with things like this, so now, because of the possible implications, they'll hire a lawyer/accountant to deal with it, increasing compliance costs on many innocent people.
In VBS environments, the normal NT kernel runs in a virtualized environment called VTL0, while the secure kernel runs in a more secure and isolated environment called VTL1.

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/07/08/introduci...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...
Great point, will do monthly recaps and consider weekly ones as well. Cheers!
The fact that this can even happen is enough for me to never touch this for doing work.

I stopped developing on Windows after the Windows 8 fiasco and I don't see myself ever coming back.

Both Mac and Linux are faster, more convenient, and more solid in my experience.

I considered advising my son to buy a Surface for his school work and developing on WSL2, but I'm glad the M1 Mac came out with a much better cost/performance, so he got one. At least his git repos won't get corrupted.
> Here in Europe is not perfect, bu paying more is not necessary to get better health care.

I would say it depends on your illness. Here in France, if you have teeth problems, need glasses or eye surgery in order to not go blind or need to stay in the hospital, you better have good insurance (mutuelle). The state social security /does/ pay for this, but the amounts are ridiculously low. I'm not sure what the prices are in the US, but healthcare over here is not free. Source: my mom had to undergo eye surgery (the mutuelle had to cover a fair chunk of the cost) and my father had to spend some time in the hospital for surgery; both where in "state-approved" clinics.

I'm not familiar with how the US system works, but from what I understand this "mutuelle" thing looks like the employer health plans in the US. It's also paid for by the employer over here, but you have to pay income tax on it.

I think that many people, at least when they compare the US to France, consider that the insurance paid-for by the employer is somehow "free", or don't even realize it's there.
Flagged because this thread has no value beyond people who don't like fb kvetching. The guy who left loves fb, he didn't leave because fb is being unethical.
I live in Germany, and I do compare salaries to American numbers. This is the very reason why I will never work for German companies ever again, because I'm not willing to be dependent on wage labour until the end of my days. I am working remotely for a US startup, who a) value my skillset instead of using antiquated tech, and b) who pay twice what I made before in Germany, and c) recently made me a cofounder.

German startups aside, our big multinationals happily create teams working in the the US and Germany, while paying their German employees a fraction of their American colleagues. I know of cases in pharma, automotive, and erp.

I'm loathe seeing this contentment with the wage situation in Germany. If wages for in demand fields like Software engineering are essentially flat for 30 years and €70k are considered an amazing salary, how exactly are wages supposed to rise in service sector fields, for example for caregivers? Salaries as part of gdp have deceased over that time range, but the prevalent ideology among my crowd is that one shall not work for money, because that's apparently a dirty thing to do.

Software engineers not pushing for significantly higher wages and gaslighting people who do makes them accomplices to the wage surpression that is rampant in Germany and the EU at large.
I could not agree more. If the USG wants to provide competent digital services to it's customer/shareholder then it might make more sense to get rid of the Digital Service in the WH and rather expand and go all in on 18F, where it provides a whole career progression from basic training on up through SES.

I feel the absence of job training upon hiring is also why there is no concept of "company men" after the Boomer Generation; companies stopped investing in the employees they wanted and started treating them like pre-packaged commodity.
Much like the other guy, I too would be interested in some sources. I mean Alex Jones is right on occasion even though he touts about 95% nonsense embellished to make the 5% of truth seem more dramatic. Which is kind of what I'm suggesting about your comment.
What an amazing speech blending personal and technical. I wish I could have heard him actually give this lecture (is there a video? I can't find it). And a great conclusion:

> In Berkeley it drizzles in the winter. Avocados ripen at odd times and the tree in Fred’s front yard was wet and sagging from a load of fruit. I was sagging as I walked out to my little silver Honda Civic, which never failed to start. Neither Fred, empty Becks bottles, nor the sweet smell of the dawn of the age of PCR could replace Jenny. I was lonesome.
The Conspiracy Theory Handbook
Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery
They already hardly support POSIX-like programs on iOS and watchOS.

In what concerns macOS, UNIX certification is anyway only for CLI applications and daemons like software, stuff like graphics isn't part of UNIX trademark.

https://publications.opengroup.org/standards/unix/t101
Lol...this is so laughable. All of my friends in China are doing well. They love their country, especially after this year due to being safe from the pandemic. Food is still amazing and varied. Pork prices came back down to previous levels. Economy is doing fine. Most people I know want to be in China, escape to Vietnam? You are hilarious.
I've been using ESP8266es and ESP32s for years and Lua isn't really that popular. The original NodeMCU did come with Lua, but I've never used it (I just flashed something else as soon as I got them) and I don't know of many people using it either.

I'd say that MicroPython is more popular than Lua at this point.
You have an incredibly inaccurate take on the US healthcare system. I live here and I'm in my late 30s with a family. My wife is a cancer survivor. My oldest son was born 3 months premature. and yet I'm not penniless and broke because my health insurance paid for everything.

I'm not saying it's an ideal system and doesn't have major flaws but if you are a software engineer the scenario you are describing just isn't a thing. I'm sure it feels a lot better to tell yourself that when you realize you're being paid a quarter what you could be on the other side of the Atlantic.
Most languages just clone all day long, it's not that bad, rust clones (like most languages) are just to the first reference counted pointer after all.
My under-the-hood series, mini working versions of popular JavaScript tools
I disagree that anyone needs to spend $30/m on it. Sendgrid offers 100/day for free. I think all of the groups you just mentioned would fit well into that category.
No, I haven't been tested, but I know that I snore if my weight goes above a threshold. Covid has kept me from exercising so my sleep is probably taking a huge hit.
My guess is it's the result of shutting down the virtual machine that runs the Linux kernel too soon, leaving writes to the virtual hard disk in an inconsistent state. This coincides with "shutdown /r /t 0" being able to cause it as well as blue screens or power loss. And explains why I've never seen it, despite using WSL2 on insider preview builds on multiple machines daily: I almost never shut down, only for updates and new builds.
Doesn't do localization or integration with assistive technologies of the host platform, does it?
Author here :) Fortunately, I mostly don't idly browse the internet on my computer - that habit is attached to my phone, which I just leave in the other room :) But in general, yes, if I need a break, I check off what I'm currently doing, write down "break", and then take a break, and check that off when I'm done. But my experience is that it's probably best to keep your breaks physically separated from your workspace if possible so that when you sit down to work it feels like "work time".
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Rust makes hard things easy and easy things hard.

Also reading Python code is easier (less syntax noise) on the eyes. The article above is very beginner Rust, and I won't rely on that to look at actual Rust code in the wild.

If you want to take a look at what actual Rust code in the wild, take for example, a web server Actix, and try to figure out what the documentation says.
I mean, GDPR is a step in the direction. Many websites, and by extension, people seem to think that you comply by 'gdpr' by putting up a stupid cookie banner.

But the real compliance is not storing PII, then you don't even need a cookie bar!
Glad you liked the structure/goals.

All of them are for January-February-March 2021. Does that cover the time-bound aspect you're talking about?
No, I mean the paper the other user linked where they were turning dials so Zuck could cosplay as The Mule.
For example, this lottery [0] from early 2020 permits individuals with an income of $168,130 to qualify for the affordable unit.

Affordable housing units developed during some of the late 2000s to early 2010s had very, very high income limits. Those housing programs have mostly been sunset at this point but units built under those programs retain the income bracket levels then in effect.

http://web.archive.org/web/20200110053546/http://www.nychdc....
I made a visual: https://i.imgur.com/VgsDidE.jpg
That's one of the things that get me about Rust discourse: it seems that "Rust is pain in exchange for performance" is a common misconception. Rust is discipline in exchange for performance and correctness. A GC lets you be relatively worry-free as far as memory leaks go (and even then..) but it doesn't prevent a lot of the correctness problems the borrow checker would.

With a checker you're forced to think: do I really want to pass a copy/clone of this? Or do I want to let that function borrow it? Or borrow it mutably?