skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, maybe off topic, maybe not.

i have a cat. She's a good cat, mostly. We get along pretty well, mostly.

Before the pandemic, there were large parts of the day when we didn't see each other.

Because we knew we would be separated much of the day, we found time to play around when we were together. I'd throw a toy and she would squawk and chase after it then look at me excitedly until I walked down the hall, picked it up, and threw it back the other way. Then when she was tired it would be time for treats and petting. Good times.

Play time was a valued time for both of us, as we knew that soon we would be separated for many hours, possibly days. Time together was special.

Now, we have nearly unlimited time together, and when I want to play, kitty is tired or hungry or wants to stare out the window at the pretty birds and squirrels and swats at me and tries to bite me if I persist in trying to initiate play time.

Meanwhile, when kitty wants to play, I'm often at my desk trying to focus on my work and probably trying to understand why this awful corporate group has cut another ticket about outdated software to our team when I'm on call. So when kitty jumps on the back of my chair, climbs onto my shoulder, and then flops down on my keyboard with a 'come pet me' look, I pick her up and toss kitty on the floor and tell her to leave me alone.

There is no play time anymore.
Borlands database was Paradox not dbase. Looks like borland was picking up the pieces of failing PCDOS companies
A better history is on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBase

For dbase look at Nantucket Clipper and Fox Base (which MS bought). They lasted into the Windows era. Also see the open source harbour which round on unix
Programmer career: tips to increase your salary by 230% [2021 guide]
Most comments addressed why it would be better than plantuml and mermaid. If you can add a feature to export the diagram as a GIF with animation to show the sequence, this would be a great feature IMHO.

Why I see animation as a vital feature:

- This would give clarity to both developers and product owners.

- When there is a new feature in the system, it will be easier to add change and export.

- Easily embed in README files.

- To my knowledge, this feature is not available in any diagram software.
Python abounds with corner cases and gotchas. It may have fewer than JS/Perl, but that really isn't saying much. It may hide them until a test or real-world use shows you you've stepped on them but that's not always a good thing.
It's not the fact that hospitals cannot handle it.

It's when you consider the cost-benefit of the increased risk associated with being in the hospital during a pandemic and possibly experiencing stronger symptoms/complications because of the pregnancy if getting sick, the scale tips away from trying for kids.
This article has the 76% figure https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-health-wo...

>Why the scepticism?

>The nurse who spoke to FranceInfo said that the arguments her colleagues gave against the vaccine were typical of those being shared often online.

>“It’s too fast, there is a lack of objectivity, the vaccine is hiding something, why have they still not found a vaccine against AIDS...” she said.

Which seems more like general news story type arguments rather than anything scientific
Do you have any kind of sense of the deeply dangerous and toxic tyrannical intent behind your proposal of an "extreme tax on red meat". You are literally also describing the slippery slope of "just this time because tobacco is so damaging" leading to "extreme tax on food because they don't eat what I want them to eat and I want to control it and make it painful for them so only the ruling class can afford it".

This kind of mentality is very much what is going to lead us all down a path of calamity, if we aren't already irreversibly on that slippery path already.

How about a more reasonable approach like making industrial farming practices illegal or just tax those to prevent the abhorrent practices that I also do not like, instead of trying to command and control what people can eat because you don't like it.

Again, I implore you to reexamine what you are espousing and your clearly authoritarian mentality and approach to things because no matter how it manifests itself, it simply will not end well, no matter how it ends.
Everyone would be elated if they decided to take on ticketmaster, though I believe TM has exclusive deals with most venues.
battery replacement via a stronger drone?
>you need to traverse them to find the terminator.

Why not just do a binary search through the entire 256TB virtual memory space, finding the largest memory address that doesn't segfault? :-)
There are chances it is "not a priority" intentionally
Yeah, true. It was more of a poke at Google's tendency to do this very thing even outside GCP.
But why would you expect to be able to afford the same house even with higher net worth?

I mean, my folks bought a house I can afford either but when they bought it, it was on the edge of the city, not a desirable area in a 2nd tier city. That’s why it was cheap. Now it’s in a historic neighborhood, highly desirable in a city where everyone wants live.

I could afford a house similar to the one they bought in terms of those qualities. In fact it would likely be cheaper compared to salary.
Isn't this something that major card networks can ban and shitlist you for? They have pretty strict rules about such things, given the "trick into subscription" scams and all.

An elevated number of chargebacks could do it, for example.

I mean, what the hell, even products that haven't seen such a sum of money on their accounts ever somehow manage to have a self-serve cancel functionality.
If you add up all the merch and ticket sales of the music industry (in non-covid times of course) it's quite a bit. 1% processing fees on that is a good revenue stream.
Housing is a necessity. Everyone has a right to housing by virtue of being human. No one has a right to a penthouse.

Red meat is not a necessity any more than caviar or Scotch whisky. People eat meat because they like it, not because they need it.
Bitcoins adoption leads to climate change acceleration. Therefore, profiting from bitcoins means profiting, indirectly, from acceleration.

I'm only trying to explain to you how I understand the original post, and it has nothing to do with my own opinion on the subject (which may/or may not be the same).
I didn't know that. Interesting bit of information.
The Future of Burning Man Emerges, an Outrageous New World in the Desert
> How does anyone know what is going on / manage risk / assess anything at SoftBank

SoftBank has been chasing all kinds of bets over the last years, some of which make even r/wsb sound wise in comparison.

That's the problem when there is way too much "dumb money" floating around to be invested for even the most minuscule returns - it will inevitably flow towards high-interest, high-risk stuff. And SoftBank in particular was propped up by a lot of Saudi-Arabian oil money (or, given their dismembering of Khashoggi, I prefer blood money).
it is obvious that considering environmental effect is the next parameter in company evaluation. We can even call it capitalism 2.o maybe. We just don't have the model yet.
Reading the pricing detail for free tier at a glance is a little bit of confusing because of the icon and font color used on certain feature, I had to read the next tier to (probably) understand it further.

Is the free tier limited to 4 diagrams? Is the free tier limited to 40 diagrams? Is the free tier permit the user to save the diagram on Gleek server? and so on...
Silly rules enable reinforcement learning agents to cooperate
Ask HN: How are pointers in C different from Golang?
aha, thanks!
>May be that's because Norway has a higher average IQ [1]. May be that's because Norway has a lower cultural diversity index [2]. May be cold climate is the factor: those who didn't work froze to death way before industrial era.

Here, the bit where you said that cold climate resulted in Norwegians have genetically higher intelligence than other countries.
Sound Money, Safe Mode: Monero
And it's not even shipped yet. I'd love to see how accurate it is
An easier starting point would simply be shifting meat subsidies to fruit and vegetables:

Assuming your goal is to raise meat prices, the problem is if the US for example stops subsidizing meat it will just mean that people will buy more non-US meat, unless you at the same time slap on an import tariff (which is tricky to do). Taxing meat at the point of sale solves all those problems.

That being said, you should probably also look at shifting subsidies towards making fruits and veg cheaper.
Scoop: Leaked HHS docs spotlight Biden's child migrant dilemma
> Austerity and cynicism dominate the US right now though.

This is greatly exaggerated by news media and social media, especially with everyone stuck at home. The contrast between what I read online and what I see in the real world has never felt larger.

Austerity refers to reduced government spending, which is the opposite of what we’re experiencing right now. We’re spending so much that my CPA friends are working overtime to help businesses figure out what to do with their stimulus money. Prices for goods like lumber are through the roof because construction demand is off the charts. My local construction companies don’t have any availability until Q4, if they’re taking bids at all.

Obviously we have problems that need to be addressed, but the combination of 24/7 news media and politicians competing for our attention has exaggerated these issues to the point that we’re losing our ability to put things in perspective or judge the absolute scale of social issues.
It's a good thing, but I expect politicians to just use this as another excuse for more mass immigration. They've been using this narrative for decades now after all.
Maybe there should be a law stating that cancelling a subscription needs to be as easy as sending a single email and then confirm for critical things.
Hello! Thank you for crediting me btw! :) I was very pleased to see this on HN today.

My site's down at the moment, but the JS version is now back online on GitHub:

https://avelican.github.io/bonsai/

I will update it to link to your new projects!
The alternatives of which are largely plastic-based.
I think a mac pro level machine will be the interesting one.
Put a bunch of these cpus in a system. I don't know if we can hope for expandability anymore, apple just might not do that anymore.
How to put together a regression model
It's a beast and it's also mega efficient. Right now on my MBA I'm running 2 displays (one external at 3008x1253 HiDPI 120hz), several apps open including VS Code and 3 browsers, playing a 4k vp9 YouTube video in Firefox, and the passively cooled M1 never crosses 40C. My other Macbook would be at 70C with the fan screaming.
Teoría de La Mente
Is it not done on purpose as a growth hack, so you have to contact them and they can have a report?
I had a subscription to digital version of "The Globe & Mail", largest Canadian newspaper. I had to call them to cancel it because you can only subscribe online not cancel.
Care to share it with the world, that currently tries to deal with plastic pollution?
World’s Largest Bank Raises Eyebrows with Anti-Harassment Guideline
This is becoming more and more common from issuers. BoA, Chase, and even Venmo Credit have this or similar functionality.
This isn't true. There were ancient, relatively effective methods of birth control. And if you really couldn't care for kids they became orphans.

Also with larger extended families and closer knit societies many people would "gift" their kids to others who were barren.

5 out of my mother's 15 cousins were adopted (without their parents dying).
> As an example, I rarely worry about my bad cooking skills these days, because my wife is exceptionally good at it.

But that's not a gender role, that's one person being a better cook.
Management 2.0: Reducing meetings through better information flow
I hope someone from the company will see this and respond.

I found the free version of their service to be compelling and have considered a paid subscription. Making cancellation difficult is an immediate red flag for me, though, and I would never pay to subscribe while this is the case.
And it's also the case that even though certain brain functions are linked with specific locations, the brain can still use plasticity to re-organize things and adapt to damage. And when you're doing any language related task, there are always going to be other more domain-general brain functions involved too, which aren't as localized.
That is unfortunate, the "call to cancel" dark pattern is so annoying.

I hope they do better.
You’re misreading the standard a bit I think. It’s saying undefined behavior comes from the format string (which you should control and is a common compiler warning if it’s not a literal) doesn’t match the types of variables you pass it. This is kind of obvious when you think about it. Variadic C functions lose type information so the format string is the source of that.

The “out-of-range” issue just means that the library isn’t going to mandate every implementation of this function is guaranteeing to provide the same overflow behavior (some might stop when you saturate, others might stop at the end of digits input and overflow, others might detect the overflow and saturate).

The Linux man page is clearer here IMO:

> If the number of conversion specifications in format exceeds the number of pointer arguments, the results are undefined. If the number of pointer arguments exceeds the number of conversion specifications, then the excess pointer arguments are evaluated, but are otherwise ignored.

That’s the only spot the word “undefined” appears and doesn’t discuss overflow. My general impression is that the “undefined” problem largely only applies to language operations or user input causing a library to perform such an undefined behavior. Older C functions with older documentation may be using “undefined” with a less strict meaning to also cover “implementation-defined”. The “undefined behavior” brouhaha came up in the past 5-10 years only when compilers actually started leveraging it breaking a lot of assumptions.
The link below is to an interview where the Norwegian King is trolling(phun intended) the queen when talking about this airport/science station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXw9jGTdBy0

It's worth noting that the word "troll" in norwegian references a type of being in scandinavian folklore, not your typical "internet-troll".
Yeah this is huge, just 100 years back kids got married and worked at like 13 years old.
Ask HN: What's the most entertaining story of a technical mistake you've made?
We all make mistakes and sometimes looking back at those mistakes can provide a good laugh. I'm curious to hear stories others might have.

My favourite is from when I was in grad school and I connected two network interfaces from the same subnet onto a virtual bridge. This effectively meant my box was repeating all traffic on our lab's subnet. I was trying to debug my own network problems and was puzzled why I was getting duplicate ping replies. I left for class and figured I'd debug it later. Halfway to my class I finally clued into my mistake and rushed back to the lab. One of my labmates asked me if I was having Internet problems. I secretly reached under my desk to pull one of the two network cables and said no and we all got on with our day :)
I think he's talking about motor control - how the left hemisphere is responsible for controlling the right side of the body and vice versa.
Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Bluetooth Tracking
Definitely agree with you're last point, it makes it so easy to just get something on the screen.

I had written an AI for the board game Khet, but wanted an easy way for people to actually have fun playing against it. Godot was the perfect tool for the job to create a nice little frontend. And it was quite a pleasant experience to boot.
All Hands on Deck (2020)
My mother gets Shetland-ponies-as-a-service from a local farmer. They look beautiful and they keep the grass trimmed. I think she has about eight now.
Yea I was going to say, call your credit card and do a chargeback. Pretty easy case to make.
Wow, cancel culture in action
While the demographics are interesting, the forecasts of doom are overwrought. These authors should be celebrating a future of increased prosperity with lower resource contention.

Population, especially in a country like the US, can easily be augmented through immigration, as it has been in the past. If that even matters.

But does it? A top heavy aging population does need an improved “GDP production” base (the article calls it “tax base” as most policy people think of it, but retirees are supported by a combination of tax funds, retirement funds, family support, and other sources). But working against this requirement is a long term secular decline in commodity and goods prices due to increased automation, increased productivity, increased resource efficiency (e.g. see the decreasing energy intensity in GDP), shift of energy production from op ex to cap ex, et al.

And there’s clear economic ignorance in the article’s claim that “a smaller work force… portends lower economic productivity”. The very definition of productivity is the same or greater economic output per unit labor.

The next wave of automation boom is like the computing boom of the 80s and 90s, which was famously “visible everywhere but the statistics.”
"meritocracy" is a banned word at okta. We have a wiki page with over 80 words banned and 'discouraged' for inclusivity

definition: "Belief in the flawed idea that hard work and talent alone are all that’s needed to achieve success."

Thanks Todd!
First, there's a difference between population control and genocide, but I'm sure you're aware of that.

Anyway your other point is great: the rich and socialist countries are naturally controlling the population by reduced birth rates, so when someone mentions a comment like that they specifically mean poor and / or brown people.

To get 'natural' population reduction, we need a worldwide policy of wealth, health care, and sexual education. For the last point, it's important to note that it requires deprogramming. To be very blunt, the Catholic Church has brainwashed generations to reproduce as much as they can. That damage has to be undone.
Katerra’s Facade Crumbled
> adds to the stress and uncertainties of delivery and postnatal care

Another lurking factor is the availability of grandparents to assume some of the early child care. Movement restrictions can remove this assistance entirely from new parents.
Same here. Free tier with limitations of 40 elements? .. useless to me, next tier 13 dollar per month? Way to much for 2-3 layouts I want to produce spontaneously and irregularly.

I would love a gitlab plugin which creates new layouts based on all module imports in a repository. to get an overview like a dependencies graph. For that I would pay instantly.
The exact house or equivalent in a similarly populated area as the one your parents bought in? If the former, I imagine it's because the area has developed significantly since.
Sure, but those extra “const” do not mean anything, and are apparently ignored by the compiler.
This is just not true in the vast majority of cases.

"Surplus energy" is another lie bitcoiners like to spread about this. Sure, there might be a few occasions where bitcoin mining might use surplus energy.

In the vast majority of cases, no, they are not doing that. That is just not a thing.
Fun times and all in an era without raid storage, though the likes of Novell Netware soon did well addressing that in the years that followed.

I didn't do much DBase work in that time, but did do Dataease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataEase
(if you get an old copy hold down the CTRL key and type DEBUG and you will get a hidden debug mode, might also need to hold shift and do not recall if debug was upper or lower case but one or the other will work in the old DOS versions at least).

Which was pretty powerful stuff and was used for bespoke construction projects - what would be the realm of ERP in many ways. But large projects like the construction of oil-rigs was not isolated and few large engineering projects would be using your DBase, Dataease and Paradox! as well as few that I do not recall at the moment.

Was not long after that we saw SQL start to take some traction in usage and availability. Which was also around the time that the GUI war (however brief the GEM/Windows and then Windows/ OS/2 was) and saw many of those legacy databases fall upon those swords over the comming decade and early 90's release of Access sure did cat those who was left, combined with some aggressive office bundles and that included later their server system with backoffice - all priced together for the price of a competitions single package offering and that further hammered many of the competition that come the end of the 90's - many just hang on to stalwart legacy customers and for some, that help for a while.
Are you disagreeing or nitpicking?

Pretty much none (well I guess the salesman will have a harder time throwing in free oil changes to seal a deal) of the "time of sale" stuff is effected by the switch to EVs though which is why I didn't bother to cover it in depth or make a new vs used distinction.

Only a subset of service is affected. Yes, dealerships make a lot of money on service but they also waste a lot of bay-hours on warranty so it balances to a degree. Dealerships aren't so lean that that a reduction in service will sink their entire business model.
Oh hell yes. A goat could escape from Alcatraz faster than any human could.
Any advantages over what Telegram has?
That's not true. It's floating point. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.decimal?v...

> The binary representation of a Decimal value consists of a 1-bit sign, a 96-bit integer number, and a scaling factor used to divide the 96-bit integer and specify what portion of it is a decimal fraction. The scaling factor is implicitly the number 10, raised to an exponent ranging from 0 to 28
Long Before Greensill Imploded, Credit Suisse Saw Danger
This is right. It is useful to know how much electricity production costs in health and environmental output. It is useful to know how much of bitcoins value is the electricity cost. We can put a value on environmental harm caused by total electricity usage.
But, using these and suggesting that we can accurately measure the cost of cryptocurrency now and in the future compared to how the money/value would otherwise be spent is a distortion. The same reasoning can be used to make anything that stores value or does not have an obvious output look disproportionately harmful. It could be useful to compare cryptocurrencies with themselves. I am a little interested to see how they factored cryptocurrency's optimization to use the cheapest electricity possible. It disproportionately favors storing value from electricity that would otherwise be wasted.
I get where you’re coming from. I suspect that much of that flexibility was never intended. After all, OS X started as a workstation OS for a different market than Apple entirely.

I won’t address your whole
comment but I feel compelled to point out that Music is iTunes. The Music app was just a name change, and, confusingly, Apple Music (the service) is an entirely different entity than Music (the app). Your own local music files (either your own MP3s or iTunes Store purchases) are still accessed in the same iTunes Media Library folder as they always were.

Music was just a rebrand, and it spun out podcast, audiobook, and iPhone/iPod sync. But the rest of it is 100% iTunes.