skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Raising the floor for everyone by supporting each other is a great objective. It would be beneficial for all of us to greatly reduce food, shelter, income and healthcare insecurity.

But this isn't the way our current political discourse is going. Instead new rights are being created seemingly by the day. Voters are asked by politicians to demand their rights. If housing is a right, then some politician will eventually say that vacation homes are also a right. If employment is a right, then employment at the workplace of your choosing is a right.
I don't know what you mean by "pure-AI systems." I work in this field and have many times implemented a review in the loop, or a route for review. It's an old technique, predating computers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_letter_mail
The fluent API flavor is how jest works in javascript-land, and while it makes the code read ok, it makes for some lousy assertion failure messages.

Typically, you get some autogenerated variation of "expected 3, got 5" - which in a large codebase is kinda useless because you don't necessarily have context on what the error refers to without going back to the test source code to see where the failure originated from. This is especially problematic with table-based tests or tests with large numbers of assertions where the closest human-readable label might have been described too generically.

I much prefer to be able write out "foo broke in such such way: expected %s, got %s" than have the team rely on a machine attempting to generate a description and getting a bad description because the human is encouraged to be too lazy to write a proper description and the test framework is not smart enough to write a proper one for them.
> Obviously the democrats are the ones who will define what's a lie.

Obviously not, if this would happen through legislation, absent erasure of the filibuster or the inconceivable result, given the structural biases in the US electoral system, of the Democrats securing a Senate supermajority.

> Any Americans here think it's appropriate to allow the democrat party to define what's a lie and then have it censored?

I haven't seen any proposal for any political party or government apparatus to either determine what is a lie or to have it censored, or to take any other concrete action whatsoever.

I've seen an inquiry into what private parties in a regulated industry are doing, which presumably might feed back into how that industry is regulated in any of a number of ways that don't involve government determination of truth or state-directed censorship.

> It's interesting that the democrat government is pressuring ATT to deplatform their political opponents.

The “democrat government”, whatever that is, is doing no such thing. They are asking for information about AT&T has done and metrics AT&T might have about past events, not directing or suggesting any future course of action.
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Not surprising. Disney has a long track record of screwing over artists to maximize their own revenue using legally questionable tactics.
With the right definition of nit, I agree. However, the first example is "a variable name that could use a more appropriate word" AKA "a variable name that increased confusion". If perfect performance optimization doesn't matter, then don't review for it, but code readability does always matter. It won't be them who has to fix it in a few years, so take every opportunity to change things that put friction on the path of enlightenment to within the bounds of your capacity to sacrifice optimizations.

It doesn't make you an irascible ass to say "I find this variable name confusing. Can we change it to something more like X?"
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-noise-camera-trial-to...

Noise cameras. Just like a speed camera, but it measures noise levels and issues a ticket in the mail. There's unfortunately a regressive element (some people can't afford to fix their noisy exhaust), but I see no reason not to issue tickets for noise outside of normal hours, e.g. 7am-10pm.
Competition to what? Facebook's main product is ads.
The deregulation is allowing the retail consumers direct access to the wholesale market. The product that Griddy was selling is not something that should be legal to sell to normal consumers.
What the author says is:

> [Bitcoin is] a naked speculative bubble based on a technology that doesn’t scale can’t and [won't] replace any existing financial service

So that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, and provides no financial service of value. I don't think it's fully true, because Bitcoin facilitates underground transactions and is a practical asset in countries with high inflation and currency restrictions, but the fact that "some people made a lot of money" is no counterargument.
Not only that, but the people gladly handing over more and more power to the government now that Trump is out will be in for a terrible surprise when they learn that someday someone like Trump might win another election and will assume those additional powers.
What happens if the cell towers are down? As can often happen during a power emergency.
If the purpose for 'historical investigation of the consequences of past actions' is to rally anger and hate in the present, then no, I would prefer it kept 'secret'. Mainly because I would have no faith that the investigation would be objective or have any redeeming qualities.
Yeah, or like in other countries, teachers are subject to competition and can be replaced by better ones.
The concept makes sense, but I'm not sure the numbers work out. Heat pumps are pretty efficient, something like 300 to 400%. Are you really going to use less than 25 to 33% of your living area and also not provide any heat at all to the other areas?

Also, with forced air heat pumps, you can usually adjust the registers (air vents) to reduce the flow of air to unused rooms.
99.99% of modern systems are either Unix-like (Linux, macOS, etc) or Windows. And Windows and Unix are related systems anyway: Microsoft borrowed a lot of ideas from Unix, everything from the directory syntax – albeit with the regrettable decision to replace forward slash with backslash – to the use of C as a systems programming language, Winsock being based on the Berkeley sockets API, etc.

It gets a bit monotonous. Other systems are interesting because they do things quite differently from how Unix and Windows do them. To give an example, look at something like IBM's mainframe operating system MVS (nowadays known as z/OS). It is a really different world from Unix-likes and Windows. You can download the late 1970s vintage MVS 3.8J for free, run it under an emulator, and experience it for yourself [0]. (Contemporary versions are somewhat less of an alien world, given they've added stuff like a Unix compatibility subsystem, Java, and now in the most recent version even the ability to run Linux Docker containers.)

[0] I even put it in a Docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/skissane/mvs38j
The norm is falling through time. Right now, the norm is fine, but in a few decades, the norm will be to barely be able to afford rent.

The way things are going, the norm is trending towards pretty bleak, yeah.
My answer would be: flexibility.

And I'd argue the alternative is more verbose since you're not invoking the error/fatal.
> What, exactly, is the problem with that?

Literally the entire thread appears to be "people who can't do maths correctly, misinterpreting a third-party tool which may or may not be accurately reporting the information in the first place, running around like their hair is on fire."
This isn't a correct statement, I think what you mean is it isn't user replaceable. Take one to Apple who can and does replace these due to failure through their service program. Outside warranty you will of course be paying for that.
How is it not? Both are serialization formats for trees with strings and numbers at the leaves.
Surely there must be some value in a more educated and capable population in and of itself?
It's how many times the drive is powered on/off.
I would like to provide 'the middle ground' so to speak :)

I think it depends on the 'nits' and the environment. "pointing out a variable name that could use a more appropriate word" as the article puts it, is not a nit if you ask me. It's something that is just part of Clean Code. Now the way that you message that you found such a suboptimal variable name plays a big role I believe as does the overall culture in the company and in the PRs. It will also depend on your relationship history with the guy pointing it out and whether you've worked with him in person/close contact or not. Friends can 'play rough' easily (what to an outsider might look like you're fighting) while actually having fun with each other. The exact same behaviour/communication would seriously turn off someone you don't really know very well.

At my place for example, we collectively have a high standard on these things and it's absolutely not considered nitpicking to point out these things. You're generally grateful for them as it happens to all of us that we just use 'some name for now' while trying out an idea and we overlook one while 'cleaning up'.

In the same vein, the "boy scout rule of coding" - "Always leave the code base in a better state than what you found it in" - can either be applied in a good way or can be taken way too far. It's all about the balance. Just like in the real camp ground, sure you will pick up the trash you found in the fire pit and when you find some more trash while wandering about camp, you'll pick that up too and throw it out. But you're not gonna laboriously interrogate every square inch of the camp ground plus a two mile radius around it, are you? You'll never get anything done that way.
> No one knows. That's not public information.

% Short float is public information. And based on the discussions I've had online, it seems people are confused between %short float and %short outstanding.

> Everyone knew 400/share was unmaintainable.

Clearly not. My friend was buying in at that time, despite me arguing with him that he shouldn't. There's also plenty of retail-buys that occurred at $300 to $400: millions and millions of shares bought.

So plenty of people were buying at $300 and $400. That's just a fact. Retail purchases and retail volume by the way, is also public information. (Along with other indicators of volume: open interest to options for example)
Why Did People Wear Powdered Wigs?
Yes, I imagine it has been very rare in the past. I'm wondering if anyone has come across the issue before (or has a friend who works at Apple and knows the rules). I would hope that if they give you a new logic board that they'd at least be able to transfer your data. I know that they always make you sign a waiver saying that you've backed everything up and if you lose the data that's fine. Hopefully they would at least try to transfer the data for you, if this turns out to be a bug like it sounds like.
Well, the real answer of course is that some of the eaters don't care, at least some of the time.

I love good food and I'm a fairly good cook, but that doesn't stop me from picking up dinner at McDonald's when I just don't feel like cooking. I don't think that the existence of Applebee's proves anything other than sometimes people want to "eat a meal that someone else microwaved."
My release builds makes binary packages (including a .deb) and push them to my artifact repository; isn't that normal?
> If you really disagree, you can even short USDT, by borrowing USDT on Compound at 4.2%. Then use that to buy USDC and supply it on Compound at 4.9%.[2] If USDT collapses, you'll make nearly 100% as you'll only have to buy back now worthless USDC. In fact the market will even pay you take this position, with the only risk being if USDC collapses relative to USDT.

This trade involves risk, and not just the direct USDT risk. If it didn't, there's no particular reason multi-billion dollar hedge funds wouldn't buy this down to the yield of an equivalent US treasury or similar.
Why would you ever want to swap an uninitialized value into a buffer? You're wasting CPU cycles writing out data that you are guaranteed to never want to use. Why not just do a copy from the source buffer to the uninitialized one (as that is likely the half of the swap that is desired)?
All of that is at the whim of governments and could be seized. If properly stored no one knows you even own bitcoin let alone would steal it. Land is probably the most dangerous asset of all from a fear-of-government perspective.
Segway was the 'device of the future,' So why did it fail?
No need to cut heads off. It’s less messy and more palatable to take someone’s entire livelihood away. Any real threat to power comes from the middle class. Make it so their precarious status depends on loyalty to your ideology and you have all the control you need.
I think the banking regulator and or justice system in the relevant country step in. Being in a modern society with laws seems to be the main, partly effective preventative measure. If we're going through the work to have laws and courts and regulatory bodies anyway, and if we have the FDIC etc, why shouldn't we get a partly-trustworthy financial system out of it? I mean, of course, not that the people are trustworthy, but that records of what you deposited, withdrew, transferred etc will be respected.

Even if you own crypto, I'm guessing you have a bunch of money in other assets in accounts managed by financial institutions. How often has the bank just decided that you don't own that?
We’re talking about hardware here. There’s no guarantee that all future hardware will be able to boot an unsigned Linux kernel that the user compiled themselves.
The price isn't transmitted over the power lines; you use an app to check prices over the Internet.
This couch side laptop I use to read and search things is a 2011 MBA. Not 16, but maybe it'll make it...
Vouchers only tilt things in favor of private schools.

The problem (US) is we've been steadily decreasing the relative cap on public school spending.

If the spending wasn't so little, you'd probably be a lot more adamant about that voucher.
That's all well and good, but the horn is, at its core, a safety device. What we really need is for law enforcement to start actually enforcing the laws we have on the books against things like loud stereos and mufflers. These are far more disruptive, especially at night when most people are trying to sleep. I'd even go so far as to posit that the link discussed between noise and heart health is actually via psychological stress, rather than physiological stress.
My favorite:

"The idea is to study by lecturing out-loud, to an imaginary class, about the key concepts you need to learn. Something about articulating arguments in complete sentences cements them in your mind like nothing else."

from http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/08/02/the-straight-a-gospels...
"Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) was introduced and there we NO NEW FEATURES"

run that past me again please
Not enough jobs. People do settle in smaller cities if there are jobs - the city of Ulsan has higher GDP per capita than Seoul, thanks to Hyundai Motors and other big plants, but it's not exactly easy to get one of these jobs.

In the end, most people flock to the greater Seoul area because that's where most jobs are.
Is Oracle going to start putting their OCI API client code into distros and get distros official accounts for distributing images etc? (Debian would be my first choice for this)
Right. And I learned a while back that the bigger and more varied a restaurant's menu was, the more likely it was that the food would suck.
Yea i'd personally be pretty annoyed if my macbook was just writing that much data in the background slowly wearing out my ssd, 25tb over 2 months is just silly.

checked my 2015 15" that i've been using non stop for over 3 years and it's at 96tb which is 2.6 a month.
Atletico Madrid vs. Chelsea Giroud's overhead kick secures vital away win
User-facing, I assume
We are also assuming it'll grow at all.

The premise of the comment is that we don't have enough data.
Software Testing Is Tedious. AI Can Help
The giveaway seems to be the comments. Some comments a computer could obviously generate and some are obviously written by humans. The code seemed to be irrelevant in making a determination in my playing around with it.
Habits of people who are especially productive working from home
I agree with that take
What are you doing with the uploaded images that you're collecting?
If the free market had been allowed to do its work the price would have been even higher than $9,000.
Yes, we can help you with that manually. :) kindly email us.
Maybe there’s a common application at fault here?
Interesting technique, though the final section about how you can disrupt their C2 servers by sending txns to their wallet seems to make it fairly vulnerable
YC allows you to fill out an extensive application and then they guarantee you that they will read it several times across several people. Compared to what you get from VCs, that's a unique lift.
You're where I am and I've had this Intel MBP for nearly 4 years and haven't been nice to it (compiling, etc).

Percentage Used: 3%
Data Units Read: 57,377,073 [29.3 TB]
Data Units Written: 77,652,525 [39.7 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,297,472,434
Host Write Commands: 1,855,797,459

I have 10x your host r/w commands. I wonder if the size of the SSD's blocks on these new MBP are very large so you get large physical writes for small OS writes? Or maybe the controller is bad at coalescing writes?
Those are 7 American universities. Am sure hundreds of other non-American universities also didn't participate.

Either way, those 7 would make minor difference to the list.
I really miss Snow Leopard and the direction things were going back then. It felt like an advanced operating system that was easy to use. Modern iterations of MacOS feels more like they're trying to make it look good, while making the interface "simpler". Simpler as in showing fewer UI elements and settings, but if you want to actually use those elements and change those settings, it's many steps back.
Citizens definitely will have it more; we elected a snake oil salesman for president just 4 years ago and probably would have again if not for the pandemic.

There’s no revolution happening right now in anything... supposed revolutionary ideas like cryptocurrency are just hijacked into the same old system and make things worse.

Not even a poorly handled pandemic resulting in half a million deaths resulted in significant social change, and in many ways it further entrenched or economic issues (so far 9/11 was more impactful, for the worse of course).

Universal healthcare is still a fringe issue among the vast majority of our elected officials (many of whom were recently reelected), including a president who ran for office saying “americans love their health insurance”

What exactly is changing? It’s been a slow decline since I can remember (which is back to the regan days).
I predict his reply will be that your property rights to land, cattle, homes, and common equity are protected by governments.
older doesn't mean anything relevant to anyone but you. Did it have its bar mitzvah or is it 3 years old, nobody knows but you.
If I remember correctly wasn’t this the version which had to cool dance style intro music? I could reinstall for only that
I disagree with you 100%. The problem is we spend more money on schooling than nearly every other country, especially in our inner cities that have very poor outcomes. We don’t need to spend more - another $10k per student with the same teachers and administration isn’t going to magically make every school better. We need to inject competition into the system and stop allowing mediocre / bad schools to muddle along. I’m not sure if you are aware of how bad public schools in the USA can be, but I have witnessed a few and it’s very depressing.
There is a universe of difference between "availability" and "acceptability," and to presume that you can just pick open over closed for day-to-day tasks is oversimplifying things greatly.

To perhaps put it somewhat dramatically, the world outside of geekdom increasingly does not consider open computing to be acceptable; It is growing downright hostile.

I use Linux as my main operating system and it consistently gets harder to do over time as I interact with others in work and life; and there is no good technical reason (e.g. proprietary superiority) for this to be the case.
Off-grid turbines, Atmospheric water generators, Hydrogen batteries
GP's referring to HVAC systems you'd find eg in a relatively new (1980s+) single family home in America
The person you’ve responded to has confused a bootloader with... virtualization? There are some legitimate concerns about how open the RPi has made certain things, but you haven’t read a sane person’s critique of it above.
I guess STEM here really means the fields that pay decently and require hard skills. I hope we will always have such fields, be they STEM or not.
Ruby on Rails' Active Record Inflection Classes into Pure PostgreSQL
Xbox Live Games in March are for fan of shooters
If the output is not as you expected, we can rectify it from the back end. For that, once you place the rectify request - we use your capture to fix the issues. :)
Gold has real industrial and consumer uses (and therefore reliable demand). I don't see why anyone buys Bitcoin for any reason other than that another speculator will pay him more for it later.
Just in case I all for science and now gonna try to debug what processes cause heavy writes to disk. Easier for me because I don't really use much except browser and some games.

> The first line of the smartctl output everyone's bandying about says that a total of 1% of the drive's capacity has been used, which means that in about 16.5 years (2 months * 99 / 12) their drive will go readonly.

Problem is that my SSD end up 3% dead two months after I bought M1 and after month of daily browsing / Netflix. So that news got me really worried about what gonna happen if I actually move my files to that laptop, connect it to DropBox and and gonna compile C++ on it and might be do some Java web development. What if I end up with 5% capacity loss a month?
M1 8gb Macbook Air here:

Percentage Used: 0%

Data Units Read: 28,383,716 [14.5 TB]

Data Units Written: 26,487,969 [13.5 TB]

Host Read Commands: 137,200,722

Host Write Commands: 155,386,158

VSCode, compiling, generally programming work load, with heavy multi tasking. I would say ~1 month old.
>>> Chresmologoi played so much of a role in bolstering public confidence that the wealthy Athenian politician Alcibiades privately contracted them as spin doctors in order to persuade people to overlook the risks of an expedition to Sicily in 415 B.C.

"Fake news and predictions" as old as civilization itself.
They're not meaningfully replaceable without paying apple a lot of money for an ssd, assuming you're out of warranty, hastening planned obsolescence. How's that?

People understand apple can replace them. Nobody wants to pay apple to replace an ssd.
Apologies, didn't mean to put words in your mouth, but that's how I interpreted the following:

dnissley: "Do you think the solution should come from the government? It seems implied here but just checking."

Retric: "Do you have any other options?"
OMFG Los Angeles neeeeeds this. 'Course we need the more stringent European licensing requirements too, but....I can make do without that.