skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your evidence to support a global, state-enforced lockdown is one case in Sardinia from 450 years ago?

If Trump had demanded a full lockdown in March like you're suggesting, it would have been opposed by everyone.
mwell that's your point... I'm no sure you are right about it...

The real big mistake in programming, it's to able to write a program with few knowledges...

appropriating others words/phrases and assuming you are a programmer.

This is the biggest mistake an individual can do in programming.
Oh that explains why. Fansubs have gotten worse because they're just ripping the professional subs.
Not that both can't be true, but was surprised at your words. I read it as a subtly sweet story. Surprising in both generosity and gratitude, hinting at still being in touch, sincerity. (But yes, agree that poverty itself is sad.)

btw you're a beautiful person, spiritplumber (been without home in the past too)
Wonder if there are mirrors of Github based in China that do not receive these takedown requests

https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/nyaadevs

This mirror shows up in DDG search (which uses Microsoft/Bing for its results)
I share your distaste, and even more so when outgrowing devolves into outspending and outlasting.
I was going to comment on it but did search first and found your comment. It is hilariously funny but more to the general theme of HN is a notable example of a typo that cannot be caught with a simple spellchecker and probably not even more complicated grammatical checker, but some kind of neural network maybe?
Do you still use Python for parts of Sourcehut? Have you eliminated all uses of OO in your use of that language?
> These people are idiots.

I think 'these people are idiots' is an easy thing to think but almost always the wrong thing. Few people are idiots. Most people are just as smart as you are.

More likely, these people fundamentally aren't looking at the situation like you are. Probably, they don't care what you, or the police, or the FBI, or anyone else, think about what they're doing and don't care how they're being tracked.

They don't feel the need to hide.

It's comforting to think 'nah they must be idiots' for not hiding... but maybe more concerning to realise they could be right about not needing to hide.
Quote: "..even if you instruct it to begin archiving a site then it can easily fail if that site’s robots.txt prevents crawling"

Huh? Does actually the big corporations care anymore about robots.txt? Nowadays is more of a "netiquette" than anything else. Google definitely ignores it. Dunno DuckDucGo what it does
Without Python 2 refugees Python 3 would never compromise.
I don't think so. They were at the Capitol for a few hours. They committed some vandalism and brawled with the Capitol police. Maybe the guy with the zip ties thought he was there for revolution, but most seemed to be taking advantage of an opportunity to run in and see or loot the Capitol.
I had the opposite reaction. I realized I was doing better mentally under COVID and this has caused me to re-evaluate some things about my life. I found it disturbing that a condition considered nightmarish by many was actually a boon for me. By that I don't mean to say that I have an insatiable need to conform to other people's lives but rather that I might have taken up some long-term unhealthy habits over the years.
Are we talking about BAT? Thought that was an opt in feature.
"Read the rest of this story with a free account."

No thanks.

But judging by the title, it seems click-baity. The "biggest mistake" is definitely not OOP. You can definitely abuse and misuse OOP, where other abstractions would be a better pick, but it's not just universally bad.
> Has Linux desktop share been increasing lately?

I run on Mac for desktop, Linux for projects. I don’t know that more people have been switching than before, but I thought the author of this[0] piece illustrated well that it’s easier than ever. That said, the author states that they opt not to have a phone. That’s much less lock-in than most of the market.

[0]https://orta.io/on/migrating/from/apple
All of those policies were developed over time and required buy in over a long period of time.

There is no timeline where the American public buys into the lockdowns that would be necessary in February 2020, which is when they would have had to happen.
Where I live, ANPR is unlawful except for Law Enforcement, so I don't generally worry. I've never had a car whose navigation system pulled directions from the cloud - always on-board maps. I can also turn off my phone or leave it behind. All new cars sold in the EU have an eSim for eCall, but it's prohibited from sending telemetry except in the case of a crash and can be permanently disabled at the fuse box. Dash cams are regulated.

> Privacy is dead. Most people just don't know it yet.

It certainly is if you accept it.
There really should be a drastic limit to executive authority after an election and before a new administration takes office. I'm talking no new executive orders, no pardons, no judicial nominations, really hardly any executive action at all without congressional approval. This would limit the kind of sour grapes, last minute policy changes arguably enacted in bad faith to hamstring an incoming president.
FFVII was used as an example because the re-release is 3 games, and each game is considered long for today's standards.
I was confused too. But I'm pretty sure they mean condos cost $1500/sf to buy, and not apartments cost $1500/sq/month
Someone needs to look closer than they actually would to check that level of detail. If you have the right color for this year you are good unless they really want to get you for something else.
That's a great demo! Thank you for sharing it.

I especially like "your tags" feature.
I wrote a blog post a year back https://blog.est.im/201906/stdout-003
That is not my understanding of the MCAS failures at all. The primary cause of the failures was:

1. Lack of redundancy with the AoA sensors. This is obviously straightforward to rectify.

2. Lack of proper pilot training and awareness of the different handling characteristics of the 737 Max with MCAS compared to previous versions of the 737. Also obvious to rectify with proper training.
Rereading my comment I think you're right. Been frustrated with bureaucracy related to covid (specifically the vaccine) and the lives it's costing. And that frustration was redirected to other people following silly rules with far less at stake.

I still think a lot of research in software engineering is useless because researchers spend too much time focusing on different methods and not enough going out into the world to collect better data. And researchers should be mildly ashamed for doing crappy research.

But also my tone should have been more constructive.
it never really went away
> economy that in any way is competitive with liberal capitalist democracy.

Fixation on only economy and relative development indexes distract from the measure that matter: comprehensive national power or other similar composite measures. Apart from 1st rate turbojets engines and semiconductors, China has indigenous capability for nearly every sector. Compared to US, no other country is remotely competitive in a comprehensive sense. Relative measures only disguises how far China has come in terms of national capabilities, very few countries have: indigenous nuke, space, military, light/heavy industries, tech, media etc. When US policy makers reference peer competition, it's not referring to other OECD countries, it's referring to China because no one else has similar levels of comprehensive hard/soft power to remotely matter.

"Most improved" hides the fact that China holds the silver medal after brief development period, or that the gap between gold and silver are closer than gap between bronze and no-name junior varsity bench player. In that sense, the Chinese system (tuned to specific Chinese conditions) has already out competed nearly everyone else when considering aggregate factors to general power which enables prosperity. The question is whether Xi thought can make China competitive enough with US to create multipolar world. Seeing as to how everyone is hedging against Sino/US coldwar, right now it's seems to be between strong maybe and probably. Ultimately, Chinese scales means never reaching per capita parity can still outcompete in general. Doing so as middle income country with massive income disparity and relative easier gains only works in Xi's favour.
I think that is just discontinuous, not sub linear.
> I'm sure that guy is glad that that crappy $20 radio was there and a ham operator had configured it for the 911 service it was used for.

You can call 911 on a radio frequency in the US?
Personally, when I think of OOP, I think of objects which combine state and the code to modify that state.

The details of how it’s implemented - inheritance vs. composition - strikes me as more of an implementation detail than a vital difference.
Unfortunately, people seem to be willing to break into cars for a few dollars of value to them.

Of course, people do similar when shoplifting.
One of my personal projects is https://betabooks.co, which is a markdown based feedback collection tool for pre-publication books. In other words, securely share a complete draft with beta readers and get their feedback nicely organized in an easy to use app.

The app works best with markdown, but very early on I had to add "paste from word" and rich text formatting because I discovered that, while _I_ write fiction in markdown, only ~5% of other authors do.

Too bad, because it fits really well for the task, and there are so many great long-form markdown writing tools. I personally prefer Ulysses for Mac.
> Such a drastic change seems to be an admission that they thought the previous design language was wrong but they seem to have replaced it with... no vision at all?

Sure, but Jonny Ive just officially left. He was head of all design (when he should have been head of hardware design only). It’s natural that there would be greater-than-usual changes as someone new took over.

Big Sur has some pretty terrible changes. There’s nothing surprising that changes occurred. The only surprise is how bad they are.
Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Launch Opinion Publication
whataboutism is really just hypocritical deflection, meaning, but we're not talking about the other situation.

it's important to push back when people try to invoke "whataboutism" which is toxic to the integrity of discourse.
Mine still asks about "daytime running lights"
OOP is domain-specific in its applicability if you are following the original intent. If you are not strictly following the original intent of OOP, you can get the best of all known worlds if you apply strong discipline and your tools are capable enough.

For instance, in most OOP languages you can define your domain model as bags of facts without methods. Then, you could define a separate domain service layer that is exclusively permitted to mutate instances of those types. Next, you enforce immutability by defining a copy ctor for every type in your model. When you return anything to a caller from a domain service you always send a copy. Same idea on create/update requests. The way I look at it, the domain services (methods) protect the model (facts) from unwanted mutations.

Having your facts separate from your methods means you can apply things like normalization and start to leverage functional and/or relational techniques. Being able to query your domain model with SQL is next-level productivity if you can manage it.

So, the biggest mistake to me in computer science is not OOP, but the blind following of any one specific doctrine to an inevitable dead-end. Good software outcomes require an incredibly difficult balance between many ideologies, as well as conformance to actual realities presented by the real world (i.e. customer requirements, regulations, developers having bad moods, etc.).
> My company doesn't even hash passwords...

I can't imagine anything even resembling a reasonable excuse for not doing something as basic as hashing passwords, and I don't even want to imagine what else isn't being done by a company which operates in that manner.
do what works best for you.

Peace.
President Elect Biden sending messages encoded in binary
Corresponding Chromium issue:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=722567

They've also whitelisted ipfs:// links since August.
Indeed, I have the same reaction to Powershell syntax as I do Enterprise Java and C# --- extremely verbose and hard to actually read beyond the surface --- the fact that it contains English words is in some ways deceptive. The mixed case Reminds Me Of People Who Always Write Like This, and that's as annoying as it looks. My theory of why it is harder to read is because longer sequences of characters are harder to memorise than shorter ones.
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Correct; your AWS session would be scoped to your profile. You could be using your own personal account in the "Personal" profile, and your professional/corporate account in your "Work" profile.
Sorry, should have included that. I believe it's "should".
OOP doesn't even mention classes in its definition, just objects. Class oriented programming is undoubtedly a mistake, but to be fair, OOP has been so distorted that the fault cannot be in the paradigm
Null is not a problem with programming languages that correctly support (and enforce) optionals. The problem with null in, say, Java is that any object reference can potentially be null, which makes it very difficult to know when and why you should verify that something is non-null.
We never quite did enough in NYC. One gym in Williamsburg stayed open even during March and just kept paying the fine.
There just hasn't been that much enforcement. We came to the conclusion that we experienced a real lockdown instead of a short stint of heightened delivery use. It's absurd that indoor/outdoor dining is still allowed (also that restaurants can't get support). In my experience as a 20-something, most of my friends have been hanging (even house-partying!) indoors maskless, and it too leaves me at a loss for words. The "well I already tested positive" mentality is pretty common. Meanwhile my partner and family in Asia participate in heightened levels of lockdown when getting a fraction of the cases we get on a good day.
Are you still in touch with them, by chance?
That was my point. The lack of AoA redundancy was an egregious design flaw that no software could have fixed.

A design with a simple but catastrophic & easily foreseeable error isn't a good or even OK design overall. If you make a suspension bridge missing one of the towers, or lacking sufficient cable strength causing it to collapse, your bridge design is terrible, even if everything else you did was flawless.

Maybe the engineers had excuses, were rushed by management etc., but their design was still insane.
I agree that CNN and Fox are both disgustingly biased.

I appreciate BBC's journalistic standards, but I think they are the exception rather than the norm. I think Poland's case is more typical:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/04/951063118/polands-government-...

Whether privately or publicly owned, the mitigation of media bias requires constant effort, education, and integrity.
Can't take Graviton seriously until I can run my binaries via Lambda on it.
Probably not. Even when actually shot, people don’t always run. It would be pretty hard for them to stop the crowd with a few cops and a few handguns.
Maybe; I'm not super familiar with Canvas Blocker. One thing you have to be careful with when blocking APIs is that you don't generate a negative fingerprint by your restrictions, which is every bit as effective as a positive fingerprint would be. Our farbling is pretty good, and will be getting even better later this month :)
Discussions about the first amendment often elide its true purpose, keeping the government honest. One way that a lack of free speech can hurt a country is that smarter individuals are more likely to get arrested due to their greater innate capability to come up with novel-to-them ideas, some of which are "booby trapped" and get their originators arrested. However, the consequences of it being illegal to make practical attempts at changing the government truly come home to roost when officials realize that they can steal. The less ability citizens have to exchange information that threatens the authority of the regime, the less able they are to not be stolen from. The problem with that is, private economic activity needs resources, and officials tend to take all they can get. Again and again, in the history of countries around the world, the activity of many individuals given relatively small domains of authority has lead to the destruction of the nation's industrial capacity. Since it is impossible to question the bribe-taking of the inspector without questioning the legitimacy of the system who installed him, criminals within government quickly discover that they can do anything they want, so long as they keep their superiors happy, which is typically accomplished by making sure they get a cut of the proceeds.
In the 80s and 90s, I imagined the ‘Net as borderless. That didn’t last long, and because it’s so long gone, this seems not to really add any scope to that creep. That said...

First point seems less worrisome until you see the intent to have access to access patterns (not just IPs, also timings) outside the US by non-US persons. Note the “or” and remember “corporations are people”, as well as remembering there are no loopholes to pick at here until after it’s drafted. The intent is clear:

The term “United States Infrastructure as a Service Product” means any Infrastructure as a Service Product owned by any United States person or operated within the territory of the United States of America;

On the second point, is there any reputable CSP that doesn’t have the IPs used for access or administration? Is there any that doesn’t already geo-check the edge accesses for proactive threat management? This language could also give legal air cover to enrich domestic CSP security practices.
I think you hit diminishing returns even before 10 years. Unless you have a reason to believe that if let out they would immediately do harm I would cap it at 5 for the very worst offenders.
ECS, the emerging game pattern, breaks off the state-modification code as well
Yea, that warm tropical climate really cancels out the tyranny.
It's a more obvious problem in typed languages like C or Java, where the type system can't help much to protect you against null pointer exceptions if you forget to check for null. Specially in C, where the null pointer exceptions cause billions of dollars of damage in the form of segfaults and nasal demons.

In a language like Python the possibility that variables may contain values of different type (such as the None value) is part of the game. An inherent tradeoff of being dynamically typed.
Ok, thank you for clarifying!
After years of nothingburgers, Facebook has been trained to understand that every scandal will quickly blow over and that they can resume business as usual within a month or two. In fact, Zuckerberg's Augustus-inspired methodology is exactly on that sort of general strategy. At the risk of making an inductive fallacy, I do not believe Sandberg to be under any real threat just like all the other times Facebook got caught doing some crappy thing.
Net Neutrality and Big Tech’s Speech Hypocrisy
>Is it better than dying or killing somebody? Fuck yes.

I find the self certainty in the phrasing there so shocking. Why can't you do this consistently with all communicable viruses that call? How do you know you're not being completely arbitrary deciding "just this one"
I know many people who hold onto the idea of free market like it's a religion. They call their religion libertarianism (I don't know if this is accurate of libertarian thought leaders)

I do have to refute that idea. I'm not sure how much their opinions matter and if my time is well spent trying to change them, but they're in my life so I collect the evidence.
Imagine if an American visits China and published an open source project there, then the project magically becomes Chinese?
Show HN: Rent a Brain
How do you generate that rss feed?
Amazon has stated that it warned Parler for months without redress, but to offer another perspective, the CEO of Parler stated in an interview that they were notified the day before they got the plug pulled, sought to work with AWS on solving the issue, then were "deplatformed" the following day.

He said she said, but obviously both sides are incentivized to make themselves look clean
Can you use a single source that contains the numbers for both China and the US, please? For such data points that have a lot of very different possible methodologies it's quite important to use the same source or ensure that the methodology is exactly the same.
Did a quick fact check on this. Her husband is an investor and traded options* for tech companies including Facebook, which she disclosed out of their own will since she was attacking them at the time. Basically everyone has been trading FAANG in the past year so that tells you nothing.

* which also means most likely he never actually held the stocks
High school econ class, for one
How did you come up with that conclusion? Honestly, just asking
I think if you ask nicely they might let you anyway.

Speaking of museums and archiving, currently there are a lot of archive materials that cannot be accessed or even digitised because of COVID and thus cannot be viewed by the public. Its obviously not a priority but it is a little worrying.
Indeed, some countries, including China, abuse the sampling mechanism. See "Are The PISA Education Results Rigged?", https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/01/04/are-the-pis...

Among all OECD countries the U.S. scores slightly above average in all three categories (even accounting for score inflation), though math and science scores could arguably use some improvement: See https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png
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Hey buddy, how can I get this car out of 2nd gear?
I'd forgotten about that feature! God the old opera was a hell of a browser. M2, the first stand alone web apps ...
This does not bear out in the data - of 60+% employment in the public sector as well as higher performance than (much more) liberal capitalist countries.