skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have first-hand experience that yes, Rust does make software more reliable. It noticeably changes the class of bugs you deal with. The low-level bugs like memory corruption or dangling pointers disappear. You're left dealing with mainly high-level issues, like features not implemented up to the spec, and deficiencies in the program architecture or algorithms (which you still have in any language).

It's not some Ying/Yang balance of force or a contract with the devil where getting rid of sneaky Undefined Behaviors must be paid for with another evil.

In C I've struggled with multi-threaded software, and even relatively tame solutions like OpenMP ended biting me. OTOH I haven't had to debug a data race in Rust yet (I've caused a bunch of deadlocks, but these are relatively easy). In C, despite my best efforts, I've occasionally had buffer overflows, leaks, and UAFs. In Rust I've had these only when interacting with C libraries via FFI.

You could probably say that my C bugs were my fault, and I'm just not a good C programmer. Well, I haven't got any smarter, but I'm a good Rust programmer.
Look, I don't know. Speculating seems like a pointless exercise, and I'm already being downvoted for not liking Microsoft enough. I think I'm just about done with this website.
I'm a night owl living on a 9-5 schedule, and I have the same problem. Most of the day I'm a little tired, then at night I get a burst of energy. It's frustrating. I think the ideal solution would be to find a good job that lets me work my ideal hours, but barring that I've found a useful strategy. After my wife goes to bed, I'll go downstairs for an hour or two and read, write, and think. By letting my brain burn off some of its energy, I find myself naturally drifting into a healthy calm tired. I'm never exactly wiped to the point where I can just fall asleep, but I calm down enough that I can still get to sleep at a semi-decent hour. Combined with WFH I actually get close to 8.5 hours by sleeping in later, so it's not bad.
maybe you just need a Linux laptop, like some old Thinkpad with Ubuntu. Install time is 15 Minutes or so. Emacs is included by default.
Which is luckily illegal in the EU. Tesla will be sued big time at some point as they do not play by the rules like the other manufacturers. Tesla makes VW look like pure angles.
> Not really. Muir argued that nature provided "spiritual nourishment" to people. Like I said in another comment, the argument was that nature was a public resource, so should be preserved so everyone could benefit and use the resource.

Sure, fine. I'm not trying to re-characterize Muir's beliefs for the sake of an argument. I'm agreeing that he had a reason to think nature itself was a public good. But then, so is the water supply. There's an inherent tension. Attempts to ignore this tension are over-simplifying the problem.

> Given that the discussion has moved from "Is it worthwhile to protect nature from exploitation so all can enjoy it?" to include "Are we going to destroy the climate and with it our society", I think it's safe to say one group was wrong.

Maybe. It doesn't change the question of whether or not Hetch Hetchy should exist, or if cattle should graze on public lands, or any of a thousand other issues of the same shape that have existed forever.

Also, frankly, there are plenty of folks who think the benefits of mitigating global warming are not worth the costs: if you believe that there's any limit on what we might do to stop the phenomenon, then you're one of them. It's a continuum, and absolutist positions on either side of the issue are more heat than light.

As per usual, we will end up in some middle ground as a society that satisfies nobody completely.
im okay with those but what i dislike is how some people are so jaded that they spam downvotes on all your comments.

basically I'm learning there's no algorithm protection against this so I guess I'm not going to play nice either anymore.

It's time to dust off all the aged HN accounts I've accumulated over the past few years and it's open season now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm openly declaring my intent to abuse the downvote feature with multiple nicks if Dang isn't going to fix it. The algorithm clearly isn't working to protect against it so I will keep going until they fix it.
> replicator from Star Wars

"juice; jabba, chilled"
“Motives aside” is not how the law works.
In which case I'd say "singlehandedly" applies equally there, too. Still hyperbolic, but still representative of the degree of effort involved.
Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?
Tech Community Turns Against The New York Times
> "Paid support must be opt-in. Whatever we do with paid support should have no effect on the 80-95% of people who don’t use it."

I assume that includes "when the tech has no tickets, they /do not/ work on anything that would improve the service for everyone"?

> "Essentially, if you want support, you’re not really paying for the answer to a question. You’re paying for somebody who knows what the heck they’re doing to be there when you have a question"

Often no, what I need from support is something I could technically do or am willing to work out, but cannot because it needs to be done on your side of the customer/business security boundary, or needs information from your side of it. e.g. the difference between support resets passwords vs self-service password resets.

This is covered down at the end of the comments in a list of recent support examples, many of them can be potentially fixed by the customers who are using the support as a consultancy service, but a couple cannot. Take password resets, you can design your company to have a self-service one or not at your choice and a good self-service one will mean fewer support requests. Thus, if you charge for support, it would incentivise you to have no self-service reset so that you can get support money for salaries. But you need to pay salaries either way because you need some techs available to run the service, and to provide support-as-consultancy.

> "Although there is a distinct response time benefit to subscribing before you need support, we do expect that a nontrivial number of people will wait until the first time they need support to subscribe. Leaving the first month at $5.00 helps protect us in that scenario."

1. There are parts of the system customers cannot get to, cannot find out about, which can go wrong, so there is the risk of every customer needing support at some point. 2) People who willingly pay a support subscription also go times when they aren't using that support. 3. The people paying for the support and not using it are subsidising the retainer fee of the technical employees being still available when the other peolpe waiting until they need support to subscribe have something still around to subscribe to. 4. Technical people employed and not doing support can do things to benefit all customers.

It only makes sense to include the cost in the fees charged to everyone. It can still be prioritised by inverse usage, or etc.
Not sure this is an indictment of git. It still works great without central servers (unlike svn) but GitHub just makes it nicer for most people. And with GitHub the wiki is just a git repo so I’m guessing it would be easy to take with you. Not sure how the GitHub issues work so that would be a pain to move away from.
> since english people have a cultural prohibition against complaining.

Complaining about the status quo.

If you ever visited Britain, you'd see how much Brits complain. See: whenever it's raining. Or sunny. Or just grey. Or drizzling. Or foggy.
Depends on your skill and other variables.
Going with the decision approved by 34% is a bad move. There's nothing wrong with going with it eventually, but this is a sign that as of the poll, there is no consensus and more discussion / more options should happen.

If you decide to act on this 34% anyway, you are only just telling your community that their opinion doesn't really matter. Which might explain why 60% of the eligible voters did not bother.
To be honest, looking at your arguments for Maven being better, most of those are pros or cons, depending on where you stand. They're tradeoffs.

Also, as far as I know, Go doesn't require special support from your git (or whatever VCS you use) server, as is confirmed by the reference: https://golang.org/ref/mod#vcs

Though I mainly wanted to comment on the profiles part. Could you please provide links to tools which are in your opinion good for complex profiling use cases?

I'm asking because I myself really like both the web based profile viewer, as well as the go tool trace viewer, for more complex situations.

However, to address the other points: testing has good libraries for equality and mocking (I.e. testify); formatting is a trade-off, many people prefer one forced consistent code style, even if they don't like it

Overall, your conclusion of the Go ecosystem being "definitely worse" looks quite far fetched based on your arguments. Not to say it's wrong, the reasoning just isn't at all convincing.
Perhaps I'm a total boomer, but I just can't imagine feeling that way about an "original" JPEG. A signed baseball card is truly unique, and the signature is an almost (albeit weak) physical connection with the signee.

I cannot fully describe why a digital proof seems less valuable. It's like comparing an email signed by someones crypto cert vs a printed letter with a signature. It's just ... different.
I can go weeks without reading HN. It’s a real pain to then have to go back and catch up on all the stories I missed ;).

Thanks pg and dang!
The act of recording is making a record of an event. The recording isn't complete until the record is made permanent.

If you're live-streaming to social media, the record is being created on the social media site. The recording is not complete until it is saved on that site.
> but the Lords is no longer a hereditary body

Wait, what? What's the alternative?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords says this:

> Membership is granted by appointment or by heredity or official function.

> Membership was once an entitlement of all hereditary peers, other than those in the peerage of Ireland, but under the House of Lords Act 1999, the right to membership was restricted to 92 hereditary peers.
Assuming the best from the GP, I think they might have meant "whatever" in the sense that AWS enforced their terms of service by enforcing something that they don't hold their other customers to. As you said, this could be for ideological or PR reasons.

The "whatever" being any cause they could justify their actions with.
That is the exact same thing. Apple even glues stuff just to fuck with people that want to repair anything. If anything Apple is worse than John Deere (by far IMO).
It doesn't go very far into the protectorate-- that's nearly always a separate book-- but I think that Christopher Hibbert's Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649 does a really good job. More in depth but I think interesting to a lot of HN readers would be The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill.

If you have the time, I think that Veronica Wedgwood's (she published as CV Wedgwood) history of the era is pretty great. The writing is fun and engaging. The problem is, it's contained in four books:

The King's Peace
The King's War
The Trial of Charles I
Oliver Cromwell

I don't think that Dame Wedgwood is really someone that academics read anymore (she's definitely old school history), but her scholarship is good and she wrote wonderfully.
That's only a problem if your own location is revealed. In the dark forest, everyone is hidden and attacks are anonymous.
Could myself and everyone else quit our careers, open a SoundCloud, and start living off the public purse?
Creating a Best Workplace from Anywhere, for Everyone
Interesting how the hero image is an SVG (640kb). Although it's really sharp the initial rendering takes a really long time, and it feels like the image loads very slowly when it's actually the rendering that's slow.

Regarding the product, why would I use Rize.io instead of something like https://www.manictime.com ?
git won because it's default workflow is better than hg's

hg added stuff to match git's workflow but it isn't hg's default. The tutorials for hg all teach a decidedly inferior workflow to git.

ps: did a 20 person year long project in hg first, next project was git. Not going back if I can help it.
I quite like that interactive website that helps visitors choose a mapping tool: https://whatosm.pavie.info/

It asks the difficulty level, time you'd like to spend, and whether you want to map at home or on the terrain.
Yes, an email body works great too. Typically if I send an email cover letter I try to pare it down to one or two short paragraphs instead of the half page or full page full cover letter.
That's Jared Taylor at 11:45 ???
Filming police activity, and posting the footage has been continuously upheld as a first amendment protected activity. If these claims are true then the police (acting as the government) are attempting to restrict free speech.

If the cops are dumb enough to have put this in writing (most cops generally forget that text messages are admissable in court), it would seem that the government is intentionally restricting free speech.
I feel like if you know the song being played (which could also be automatically identified with an algorithm like shazam's) it would be pretty easy to generate an inverse waveform to remove it from a video's audio. It wouldn't be perfect, obviously, but it should screw up the song enough to not set off the copyright filter while leaving the conversation intelligible.

On a more general note, respect for the law requires respectable laws. Short sighted laws meant to benefit some special interests implemented without clear and effective safeguards are a would-be tyrant's wet dream. How fortunate we are that these officers blew their load trying to shut down some random guy's interview rather than saving this hack for a special occasion like suppressing a major protest or worse. Imagine the danger of someone more ambitious manipulating the system in analogous ways but on a much larger scale. Who knows what sorts of law-hacks the next wannabe despot is already sitting on? Constant vigilance is the only defense.
I think this would be a pretty terrible abuse of that law - it would also be quite non-standard since listening to music on a boombox hasn't been prosecuted AFAIK[1].

Oh as I mentioned in a different comment I think this should be illegal and might already be illegal - but pulling some rando law out of the aether to force the charge isn't a great tactic.

Edit: Just to clarify, one of the other reasons I'm skeptical of using copyright law for this is because the intent doesn't match what the officer's intent would be allowing for officers to have a pretty good chance of avoiding any repercussions and because the penalties of sentencing are inappropriate. There are existing legal recourses in most instances for restricting the ability for civilians to record police incidents - if an officer is abusing copyright law to accomplish this silencing then they are likely running afoul of those laws and should be sentenced with breaking those laws since the penalties are more appropriate.

1. I'm going to guess it has happened sometime because racism, but it really shouldn't be. And thankfully a quick googling didn't turn up a litany of results.
Edelbrock Is Leaving California Partly Because SpaceX Hires Too Many Machinists
https://archive.is/2WMRI
A 100% static site doesn’t run any JS, right? What did you need Vue for, then?
Nice try “DanielBMarkham”. I know a pen name for pg when I see one ;)
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> one of the many reasons why the monarchy should be abolished.

Doesn't that just shift corruption to the next party? I don't see why logically switching the ruling party would abolish corruption. It might even increase it.
I'm exactly the same, only I've done it ever since I was very little and it simply never went away (I'm in my early 20s now).

Usually I'm awake in my bed for at least an hour. Sometimes two. I just really can't stop thinking. It's not anxiety in my case.

Any people here who were in a similar situation and were able to get rid of it, or make significant improvement?
"there’s no equivalent project to DefinitelyTyped" - no, but these days you can auto-convert those TS type definitions to Haxe externs automatically! :)

https://github.com/haxiomic/dts2hx
Copyright holders often act in bad faith, non-copyright holders as well. We see both all the time on YouTube. Yet people continue to proceed in bad faith without repercussion.

I do know lots of small businesses (pop-ups) use streamed media -so do company picnics and so on. It’s a thing. Officially I’m sure ASCAP frowns on this. On the other hand it’s a fruitless pursuit.
I would throw money at them until they gave me that static IP.
That's insane.

My sub's volume level is in increments of dB from -60 to 0.

PS: I was summarily banned from YT permanently without explanation or recourse. Something crazy like racism or other things they refused to disclose, and refused to show evidence. All of my subscriptions evaporated and now get a bunch of MGTOW and wacky pseudophilosopher/-scientist nonsense. Crock of crapola inverted totalitarian corporate feudal lords in action.
I agree, but only to the extent that HN is really just a subreddit which focuses on technology/software engineering.

If HN grew significantly and wanted to enable more diverse conversation, it would essentially turn into a Reddit.
The hope would be that, as more and more people are caught up in this sort of thing, we'd become more accepting of personal growth, as a society. This hasn't happened yet. Hopefully this is just a growing pain. But I can definitely see why people wouldn't want to take a chance, given the stakes!
KDE 2 was super scriptable through dcop, and also had embeddable UI compnents with KParts (or was that in 3?).

My first job after high school was QA for Lindows, and I used dcop to automate testing of their app store client (2002-2003).
I won't comment on your attitude, to not stir up your emotions even more. I'll just pick a little paragraph from your comment:

> The entire value I got out of this course in undergrad was technical writing. Learning how to actually "write" a proof, and not just nonsensically sling notation at a poor soul. Comparing Jeff's writing with mine, seeing where I tripped up, and trying again.

Specifically:

> Comparing Jeff's writing with mine, seeing where I tripped up, and trying again.

Hey, you get it! You spent an entire screen trying to pretend that having model solutions is wrong and useless and pointless, but you made a slip up and admitted you've known the value all along! Oopsie.

But yeah, I understand your point (kind of), but you yourself seem to find value in comparing your solutions with the 'correct' ones — not only the contents, but the formulation as well. Do you find it so hard that others, maybe some that aren't from Illinois at all and just like the book, would do the same?
I just think if they'd picked an original term and trademarked it, the whole thing would be simpler. It could be Open Source (tm) and they could enforce it, rather than relying on 'lashing out' as you say.
FWIW the U.S. equivalent is "banana hammock".
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As Google has lost it's sheen of benevolence over the last decade public knowledge projects like this become ever more appealing. Wikipedia proves they can be wildly successful all without capital investment and the perverse incentives that follow.
I really like shadowing, since it prevents me making mistakes all over the place by referring to the wrong thing. If I introduce a new name, I have two names cluttering up my namespace, and might pick the wrong one by mistake; for example if I validate 'myInput' to get 'myValidatedInput', later on I can still refer to 'myInput', which would be a mistake, and may end up bypassing the validation. On the other hand, I can shadow 'myInput' with the validated result, meaning that (a) I can no longer refer to the value I no longer want, (b) there's only one suitable "input" in scope, so it's easier to do things correctly, (c) I don't have to juggle multiple names and (d) it's pure and immutable, and hence easier to reason about than statements (like 'del(myInput)' or 'myInput = validate(myInput)'.
Whenever I see “go home and bite [his] pillow”, I’ve always assumed the person spoke quickly and/or skipped a word, which the editor thought should be added. It never occurred to me before now that the editor actually replaced a word!
Ah, I see. Well, I don't have any great advice for you. But I suggest emailing HN user tptacek (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek), and asking him, since he is really deep in crypto and security, and runs (or maybe past tense, ran) an operation that helped people find jobs in the field.
Abolishing the monarchy would also obsolete the Sovereign Grant, so all the surplus income from the Crown Estate would go to the state without the royal family leeching their cut.

That said, there are some Duchies that are privately owned. In my opinion, these should be seized by the state during the establishment of a republic - if we're going to abolish the monarchy, we need to go the whole way and strip each member of all their inherited wealth too.

It's the very least they deserve, and would provide a much needed clean slate for New Britain.
after being disillusioned by zachman, togaf, dodaf, feaf, gartner, rup etc, started using it in various various forms since 2004. why do you ask?
Again, that doesn't reflect my experience working at a newspaper, where many other factors play a much stronger role in headline selection. Perhaps you're right and I don't see that deep-seated bias that's informing headline selections. Happy to continue this discussion elsewhere (should be easy to find my contact details based on my username) if that's something you're interested in.
> Also, every member of the royal family should be stripped of their wealth and exiled.

What about billionaires?

You know, millionaires don't need all their money either.

How about we take all their money and exile millionaires, billionaires, and the monarchy?
The main lesson we can take is to design our software with the assumption that the machine can be turned off (or crash) at any time. That is obvious when you’re in a browser or running in a VM, but it was very far from engineers’ minds 20-30 years ago.

Most note taking software I’ve used doesn’t even have a save command. That’s a huge step forward.