skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, would you mind telling how's owning VT60 in 2021? Would you buy one as a real OLED alternative? I see it has some smart features like "apps" and that is kinda a red flag to me, sooooo... "how is it?" Thanks!
Thank you! this might be interesting for us. It won’t be real A/B tests across different countries though unless they are extremely similar, right? our service is also seasonal and different countries are on different schedules so it makes even more of a difference I imagine.
New study finds that conversations rarely end when people want them to
It is embarrassing to think how much bigger of a story this would be if Europe and the English speaking world had to deal with malaria. I don't say "Shame on us" but a soft groan is appropriate.
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Perhaps that is just the weapon of choice to achieve the OP's stated goals, particularly effective in a social media environment outside their jobs where outrage = attention = name recognition.
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WebAssembly is a compilation target.

Write C, compile to a native binary to get maximum speed, compile to WebAssembly and get maximum portability.
What about parsing an unknown number of at-most-4-digits integers from a string (being careful, as you exemplified)? Isn’t that a reasonable use of sscanf?

Do I need a full fledged parser for that? No. Does it have to traverse the whole string every time? No, because I’m being very clear about the maximum length of the thing I’m trying to parse.

You cannot not conclude that it’s a bug.
> Calling Biden into question (which anyone on the left would do) is risking your career.

Who has ever been fired for supporting Sanders over Biden?

> Twitter bans leftist accounts all the time as well.

Probably not because they were leftist, but rather because they violated some rule (and at that, probably only a small fraction of Tweets which violate their rules). Twitter is pretty happy to fill my timeline with the craziest left-wing stuff including a lot of things that violate their own rules.

> Take a look at every VC in our industry and they espouse staunchly establishment neo-liberal policies.

What? You're surprised that VC support capitalist policies? You know what "VC" stands for, right? Anyway, "supporting capitalist policies" is not the same thing as "canceling leftists".

This is a poorly reasoned post.
> From my perspective, the issue is that voters+press+justice never, ever, ever object

Born before Citizens United?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
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Can you elaborate on the possibilities here, maybe they will be looking for programmers.

I wish you good luck, sounds so exciting.
Genuinely, I really want to see Purism succeed and increasing numbers of competitors in that space, because we need tools that don't require so much blind trust. Whether caused by inept software devs, scope for malicious code / backdoors in firmware, analytics spyware, and whether this stuff is well intentioned or not, if it can be abused, it will be.

Open source and verifiable down to the firmware is the only chance we have at any real level of trust, otherwise as is always apparent in these conversations, it often falls otherwise to who you think could compromise your device and making your bed with it, like USA not China or vice versa
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Which is still pretty bad, considering what else $15 million could be spent on.
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> He desperately needs help from an editor.

Well, he did just get fired and lose al the editors he worked with for decades.

Goes to show how important editors are and writers really benefit from editors.
RDNA 2 only improved on the above. Nvidia were and remain a dead end with CUDA lock-in, but I agree that there should be more combined efforts to break it.
Anecdata, but I really don't think thinking rate is fixed. An easy example is learning a new language - at the beginning you will have a lot of trouble expressing yourself as you grasp for vocabulary and struggle with grammar, but over time these tasks become second nature and you'll be able to think and express yourself much faster.

You can argue that your thinking rate hasn't changed, you've just internalized some concepts and no longer have to actively think about them, but that seems like a disingenuous argument. You could certainly repeat this process for other disciplines and indeed 'think faster' for all intents and purposes.

Of course, this is a clickbait article and I'm wasting my time even responding to this, but I had a visceral reaction to this that I felt I shouldn't ignore.
> To circumvent censorship in my country, I began regularly using a tor proxy.

Depending on your ISP's firewall implementation, you may not need to use a Tor proxy or a VPN. https://getintra.org (and its forks) should be more than enough [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24612486
> So a colony in Mars maybe preserves intelligent life with roots in the human species, but I do not think it will preserve the human species as we know it.

That's sufficient for my desires of making humanity multiplanitary (and eventually spanning multiple solar systems).

I don't desire freezing humanity as it exists today, I desire ensuring the human project continue as long as we can keep it going.
Humans are bad in estimating exponential growth (like, totally - we're good in suppressing bad news, and _very_ bad in accepting ideas we don't like)

Still, we're depending on exponential growth (be it pension funding, companies, inflation, you name it).

We're lying to ourselves regarding population. Ok, too many people - we'll resort to a vegetarian diet - oh wait, that's not sustainable, too many people. Well, we'll be vegans! Oh wait, not sustainable also, we'll need gene editing (bad, but we'll accept that reaching a certain threshold). Well, then let's grow our food in vertical farms! Seems sustainable, until we reach the next (last?) limit.

This expands to anything (ICE vs EE, flying vs train travel). Unless we accept this inherent flaw and restrict us accordingly, we'll outgrow anything.

Oh well, then let's just ... ? Go to mars :) (I truly believe this is the only mid-term sustainable¹ option, since we'll never be able to have at most only 2 children as a population - and I'd love to gain as much hate for this statement as possible if I were proven false).

¹ Mars will not be enough in just a few centuries, probably even just decades
I've been using that lately for project documentation. The reduction of context-switching has been incredibly helpful.

https://www.luminoslabs.com/insights/text-based-charts-with-...
Because they don't want to be dismissed towards Intel, and also that's a move that will earn you a lot of ill will.

Instead, these companies allow resellers to sell above MSRP and send AMD/NVidia/etc... a cut.
I read an interesting anecdote years ago hypothesizing that the impulse to imagine the end of the world is a selfish subconscious response to not being comfortable imagining the world continuing on without us.

If the world blows up in your life time, at least it means you aren't missing out on anything after you're gone.
How come I am seeing surprising behavior from various Apple products multiple times a week at this point? Is it a new thing or is it just that they are huge and everyone is paying attention to them?
Are you suggesting it is a fraud detection? Which sounds like one if he was changing payment info. ( Like doing it with VPN )
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Yes, I don't think Apple Card has anything to do with it - I think his iCloud subscription was past due and that was that disabled his account - and then he found himself in a Catch 22 where he couldn't update/pay his Apple Card because he was locked out of iCloud. I'd imagine the same would have happened if he let his Visa card lapse.
I'm not a pro at this but this blog post is not very convincing to me. I have read evidence that people perform often perform cognitive tasks better under light stress, and that stands to reason. It would be a poor brain that did worse at thinking the more you need to do it.

I don't think the claim that the thinking rate is fixed is well-sourced in this blog, but there is various good advice that you can take to at least avoid wasting cycles you have spent. One idea is to try to write down decisions and the reasons for them, and get sign-offs, to prevent relitigating things with yourself or others. I'm sure there are a thousand other ideas that are a little more productive than trying to "reduce the pressure you're under" (as if that's something most of us have control over).
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This will not go anywhere. :)

I prefer to look around -- this has always been giving me much more objective info throughout my entire career.

I get your skepticism but you are not arguing in good faith. I already asserted that to me those language popularity contests are dubious and non-representative.

If you disagree with that premise then we have zero common ground and can't discuss the topic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Nope -- iCloud was not past due. It is an Apple Card policy.
Did they do that when they played with the https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_(J%C3%BClich) ?
> So, little embarrassed to admit this, but: I plumb forgot to set up autopay on my Apple Card when I first got it.

Why is that embarassing? Why on earth would you set up auto-pay? That's just asking for a headache if anything is every compromised, or if a vendor fraudulently or accidentally overcharges you. Reversing charges from your bank is a headache, and rogue charges can quickly cascade into a series of overdrafts, other failed payments, etc. Good luck getting reimbursed for all the charges if that happens, and hope it doesn't get you into a situation where you can't pay an important bill.

It's madness to ever allow automatic financial transactions that aren't fixed, scheduled payments from trusted vendors.
Fantastic...... I agree. The wrong decisions I had made was due to pressure in that short duration and if I had taken more time atleast 10mins more, I wouldn't have made that.

Disclosure : decisions were related to stock purchase and sell.....
Even as a progressive who read the NYT religiously growing up in NYC, I stopped reading it in the past five years or so. It’s gotten so bad that I don’t think they can recover. The same goes for other highly regarded names in the newspaper business such as the Financial Times, WSJ, etc.

I think it’s simply a reflection of the dying industry. I get my news from Twitter directly from reporters that I respect.
Slightly off topic but keep an eye on your work contract: in some cases the company owns whatever you produce while employed, even hobby projects that turn out to make money.
First, of course I could be wrong on this (or it could be a false claim as some have suggested), but a few reasons I said this is intentional and not a defect of code.

1. The OP in a response tweet said it took ~15 days before his accounts were disabled and a few more before he linked to two things together. Meaning likely there is a process that the bank handling the actual card sends details to Apple on some interval which says who is late etc, and when Apple got it they then process the disabling of accounts.

2. If it was unintentional I'd expect Apple to have an easy and quick resolution to fixing it, and I'd also think if Apple's systems were that linked it would have happened more immediate not taken ~15 days.

3. The reason it would take 3-5 days to re-enable the Apple ID's and associated services would be because the bank has to update their records for payment and then send notice to Apple that the user is current, hence it isn't an immediate task and takes a small process with associated delays. This fits the description of what the user stated.

Lastly, personally, Apple has been helpful to me in the past when a company I was working with had an issue with our corporate Apple ID & services. Apple support were able to unlock the account (and associated services) after just a couple of hours of back and forth and they were clear their managers had clear ability to enable/disable Apple ID's. I am sure they have some decision tree they use but it was immediate once the support woman told me it was reactivated I could immediately log in, no delay.
My version of this has been saving news to a reader. I read very few articles in the moment, it's all pushed onto the reader stack.

The stack gets a little out of control, but it also makes it easier to make reading news a discrete time chunk of acceptable duration. It also makes clickbait a waste of effort.

Maybe it's like the news version of sleeping on a purchasing decision. See if you still care about it tomorrow.
I'm not sure that is an excessive description anymore.

Jerry Seinfeld, a mainstream comedian, stopped playing at college campuses years ago already because he was getting picked apart and no longer welcome. at precisely the place that is supposed to be the most transgressive and open to ideas! a place to expand minds, remember? now it fully embraces orthodoxy and censorship.

or take the case of Bret Weinstein. a liberal, progressive professor who was exiled from campus for not bending to the mob. now he's being called a eugenicist, white supremacist and more with little resistance. here's a transcript from Clubhouse just a few days ago:

Brett W: "Let me just say, I am an evolutionary biologist. I'm very interested in how language actually changes..."

Brooklyn: "A eugenicist."

Brett: "Say again?"

Brooklyn: "A eugenicist. That's what you mean as evolution..."

Brett: "No, no, no..."

Brooklyn: "Those are the same thing."

Brett: "No, it's not the same thing."

Brooklyn: "They are the same. They are the same. I've seen the research. They are the same. You will not argue that here, you're not about to wiggle out of that."

you can hear the whole exchange here:
https://youtu.be/YyCj5UaG1kI?t=9900

this isn't just a one off thing, it's increasingly prevalent. if we're not already in an intellectual dark age, we're on the fast track to it. the trend line is clear.
Very true indeed.
> because each one requires a working phone number to create

This isn't true. I have an email-only apple account that works fine. My lock screen constantly carries a "Verify your phone number" badge that's rather annoying, but otherwise everything functions.
I think they changed that after the EPIC case. Read my other reply on the subject.
I really like your resume, did you build this with LaTeX by chance? I would like to format mine similarly.
Can user continue to use apple devices? MacBook, iPhone? Or are they also blocked?
That's just the copyright line. It was created in 2018
The biggest take for me is that reporters are ideologues of what they see as ‘truth’; to wit:

“...But we’re still jackals. We can befriend you for years, and then bite off your arm just as you’re offering us a treat. We can’t help it. It’s the nature of the job.
At the highest levels, like Watergate, it’s about digging for the truth, no matter what corrupt government official it hurts. At the basest level, when even the crummiest scandal erupts, you have to repeat the accusation, even if you know it’s untrue or half-true, in order to explain the truth — no matter how much you may personally like the source you’re hurting.”

How can you know if you’re ultimately right or wrong? What are you inflecting?
I'm nearly 40 and have been driving for decades. I recently downgraded to liability and it's still $55/mo for myself and my similarly aged significant other.
> Yes, that's why Malthusian model is so popular: because it is obviously correct

It's not correct right now, for humans, which is what we were talking about.

> and because its assumptions cover very wide range of observed past and future conditions

Ah yes, those magical "observed future conditions".

> We live in pretty unique circumstances when they don't

There are no grounds for insisting that we "live in unique circumstances". That statement is either a tautology (like your interpretation of Malthus) or it's meaningless.

> I believe that in around 200-300 years we will return to high-fertility regime, that will require governmental measures to curb, if we want to preserve the quality of life.

I like science fiction as much as the next person but that's all this is.
Electron -> Neutron -> Proton...ohwhat
The empty houses in UK and especially London is a well-known and researched problem, they are prime real estate where the owner decided that renting them out is not worth the trouble, they are just land-banking and waiting for their 'investment' to grow. Many (of those) owners don't even live in UK.

We had a 'homeless' guy build his house in a forest, but ofcourse the government showed up to remove him. Many people would sort themselves out if we did not prevent them from doing so.

The narrative of shortage is an obsolete idea from the 19th century. We produce more food, steel, oil, and every other real industrial good than we know what to do with. These discussions are like fighting WW2 with medieval tactics.

Today's economy is not limited by production like it was 100 years ago, its limited by consumption. By growing inequality and pushing people into poverty, the '1st world' is reducing consumption and destroying it's economy.

Think about it - how can we have abandoned factories, unemployed workers and surplus of all materials?

Think what 'productivity growth' means - if 40 hours a week was enough to feed and clothe everyone 70 years ago, and productivity went up 400%, how many hours do we need now?

That why we have useless hobs, and 60% of employees believe their job is useless.

The problem is not about morally corupt rich people being in charge, its about morons being in charge. If they were clever but evil, at least the system would not crash every 8 few years
That's amongst the reason I do my AOSP GSI ( https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases... ; Generic System Image, an Android that works on pretty much all recent Android phones).

Xiaomi devices are usually at sweet spots price/performance-wise (not really great hardware imo, but well). With custom ROMs (including my GSIs, but other custom ROMs are fine as well), buy a phone for their hardware, not for their software. (BTW my daily driver is a Pixel 5... not running Google adwares! Only high-end-ish device that fits my hand).

However, Xiaomi devices are bricks for like a month, because before being able to install your own software, you need to be approved (connecting a smartphone on a Windows computer), and it's only once you get your smartphone that you can install your own software.
So how does this work outside of cryptocurrency?

Suppose I change a bunch of USD for EUR at an airport. Six months later, the Euro has appreciated significantly vs the US Dollar. I go on another trip, and buy some stuff with the Euros I changed several months ago. Do I technically owe capital gains tax?
Not sure I understand the question. The suggestion is to use hexfloats, as they are unambiguous and straightforward to convert from and to (as opposed to anything with decimal significands): https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/hexfloat/
We live in a capitalist system, so yes the capitalists have a massive amount of power over our lives. People self-censor all the time, it's not just about getting fired.
Every so often a utility feels so intuitive that one thinks, "They finally got it right".

Present feeling: They finally got it right. This is how flowcharts should be made, by default.
> safe languages are more useful on complex projects that in simple projects, but complex projects suffer more from performance degradation

I don't think that's true. C is often slower than C++ because of how inlining works, plus some domains (e.g. compilers) it's best to just use a GC language from the get-go.
> AKA a unit test

Hum... No. It's not a test.

A test is some code that tries to detect the presence of errors with specific execution data and environment. This is verification, that is code that tries to detect the absence of errors over any possible execution data and environment.

The distinction is extremely relevant, mostly because a little bit of validation can replace entire screens of tests, and because tests tend to become stale, while validations tend to be generic enough to survive refactoring and even changes in requirements.

But well, I entirely agree with this:

> But what it does illustrate is something I've meant to write a bout for a while: having this kind of convenience let you be lazy about design.

It's very nice to hack some minimum proof of concept of the most relevant problems, and be able to refactor it into some high quality code just by setting the checks for quality and blindly following their results. I imagine that's also what the "TDD for everything" people like so much about their processes.