skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously I was being facetious.

I was making a point that I'm sure they said that it's already the best laptop made ever, not just dipping their toes in with a rough around the edges product only for early adopters who don't mind broken stuff.
Strings as they existed in standard Pascal were extremely limited in how you could work with them, since it didn't have true dynamic arrays.

Strings as implemented in e.g. Borland Pascal were better. But then, the length-prefixed implementation had its own downsides. For example, it had to decide how many bits to use for length. 16-bit Pascal would generally use a single byte, and in BP at least, you could even access it as a character via S[0]. Thus, strings were limited to 256 bytes max - and because this was baked into the ABI, it wasn't something that could be easily changed later.

Hence when Delphi decided to fix it, they basically had to introduce a whole new string type, leaving the old one as is. And then they added a bunch of compiler switches so that "string" could be an alias for the new type or the old, as needed in that particular code file.
The fact that you would assign authority and credibility based upon celebrity rather than factuality is, in fact, the fundamental problem of social media.

Thanks for the example in a nutshell.
Also worth remembering sites that simply dump their third party cookies before the prompt even loads up! Often someone doesn't understand how their cookie prompt script works, or simply doesn't care and assumes if people see the prompt they'll assume it's legal!

Textbook illegal, but major high-street global brand names do this, and there's no easy way to make them stop - regulators just can't move quickly enough or show enough teeth. We would need thousands of convictions per day to even scratch the surface - I'd estimate at least 9 in 10 sites I visit breaks the law in one way or another around their cookies and consent prompt.

Perhaps we need a way to commercialise and earn revenue from identifying the sites breaking the laws as you describe? The law demands "opt in" for Europe, yet everyone tries to skirt this and use dark patterns like forgetting the cookie settings of anyone who dares not accept everything. Many of these dark pattern techniques are actually illegal.

If you could commercialise each of these findings, we would have everyone compliant in a matter of weeks. SEC style whistleblower model (albeit on a smaller scale)?
I would really like to know if the M1 chip helps this in any regard.
The "private company" argument, while fully and technically correct, is such a ridiculous canard to trot out at a time when we slide rapidly into public-private authoritarianism.

Someone (probably), in 1934 Hacker News: "BASF, Deutsche Bank, Hugo Boss, Bayer, BMW, and Siemens are private merchants. They can choose what to sell, and to whom. Maybe this presents a survival problem for the Jews, we don't know."

I guess it's ok since the public-private authoritarianism and book-burning is left-leaning this time?
Over long periods of time, I’d prefer my very valuable engineers and product leads limit their work to 20 hours of the deepest possible thinking and work they can do per week (maybe in 4 or 5 4-5 hour chunks) and then stop, attend to the inevitable non-product, shallow-thinking-OK busywork that also comes with a company or large team structure.

I believe I’ll get more out of teams and individuals working in that model than I will from teams grinding out 60 hours a week of keyboard pounding with hands and foreheads.

My job as an engineering leader is not to get that 20 hours of focused work up to 30. It’s to get the busywork from 20 (or 30!) down to 12 so my teams can crush it while working only 32 hours per week.
I'm not southern either, I'm from Central Florida [0] and we use Y'all often. I believe in your ability to use Y'all too! Embrace Y'all :)

[0] There's a joke in Florida that the further north you go, the more south you are. The further south you go, the more north you are. It's 100% true too.
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There's wisdom there. Maybe I will find a way to step back a little when I move on to my next gig...
> It’s not a measurement tool though - it’s tool for self-calibration.

This was my complaint of the term “velocity” because it sounds objective and absolute when it’s really much more arbitrary and not even comparable to the same team from year to year.
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Sort of an ignorant question by me but can someone explain what Whitney Wolfe actually did as CEO of Bumble if she was not technical/engineering based? I am asking respectfully as I’m trying to wrap my head around it. It seems with Bumble’s business model and nature of how the business is implemented (thru an app and website) that scaling and technical/engineering issues would be a significant focus. Did she just delegate that aspect and focus on hiring, etc.?
What's said is that query on CNAME returns the resolved address of evil.com, not "evil.com" as a name that needs to be further resolved.

Isn't cookie validity selected by the site? A diligent site could setup subdomains to isolate the tracking cookines. Say, .awesome.example.org rather than .example.org. tracking-you.example.org wouldn't match anymore. But then it's a third-party cookie again and ad-block could just keep cookie whitelists for .awesome.example.org and throw any other .example.org cookies out.
And you’d be surprised at the number of people who (validly) don’t like this but won’t speak up about it. I know women in tech who tell me this exact behavior feels constantly degrading and makes them want to leave tech. There are alternatives in English other than y’all, such as “team” or “everyone” or “all”.
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What's misleading about the numbers? I cited actual distributed money over 7 years for one carrier (AT&T). You're citing proposed amounts to be distributed for the whole program. The program has hit numerous delays, and most of that money has not been distributed. Regarding Phase II, for example: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/02/fcc-gets-ready-to-kick-off... ("The fund was proposed back in 2013, but for various reasons never saw the light of day.").

For the most part the money never materialized. The Phase II support, for example, ended up being just $1.49 billion over 10 years, not $1.8 billion per year as in your quote: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/connect-america-fund-ph...

It doesn't matter if the subsidies cover 100% of the costs or not--the point is that the funding is a tiny fraction of what the industry already spends, and isn't enough to move the needle outside a small number of very high-cost rural places. The replacement for the connect America Fund, the Rural Broadband Opportunity Fund, plans to distribute $20 billion over a decade: https://thecounter.org/fcc-20-billion-dollar-rural-broadband.... (Again, plans.) Wireline providers invest about $40 billion annually--or around $400 billion over the next decade.

The notion that subsidies are more than a drop in the bucket (and should be expected to significantly move the needle on broadband deployment) is just false.
Yep, and it's super annoying that it's not standard in all devices. I have it on my NAS, but not my PC.
Ah ok thanks...i'll send you an email shortly. My resume is not all that current as I'm coming from a completely different field. I have a Github which is what i'll send you. If the founder has any questions have them to reach out and I'll be glad to answer. Thanks
You're technically not, but don't be surprised if people react as though you are.
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While I think ebay bans are ridiculous most of this furor is about old, very racist books that Seuss himself apologized for later in life.

99% of Seuss readers have never read Oh Beyond Zebra, and nobody will miss the Cat's Quizzer.
There are many things about the Scaled Agile Framework(Safe) I don't like, but rebranding sprints to iterations is something that I really like. It's not about being faster, it's just about time-boxing development activities and making planning, communication, demoing and retrospection a routine part of your team activities within that time-box.
What could possibly go wrong with using "you people" instead of "you guys". That might already constitute entrapment.
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I can totally imagine trying to make a run-time for a high-level language in any sensible Pascal dialect, such as Turbo/Borland Pascal. I mean, forget strings - that thing had syntax specifically to implement interrupt handlers, or access absolute memory addresses.

Better yet, how about Modula-2? I can't help but think that the programming language landscape would be much better if that language occupied the niche that C does today.
This may not mean much from some stranger on the internet, but I'm sorry that this happened to you. I wish you well.
All of these except for the first two seem like good rules in general. Was the ban on the ternary operator just a style/readability thing?
Would love to see this email.
The next step is simply proxying the tracker through the original website.

/img/logo.png?uuid=..&res=1920&os=MacOS&osv=11.2

and when heuristics catch up with that ...

/img/logo.png?757569643D2E2E267265733D31393230266F733D4D61634F53266F
The cost of computers has come down a ton, but it was a much bigger deal in the 90's and earlier. A lot of people didn't have computers at home. A decent x86 system (like a 486 with VGA etc) was at least $2500 or so. That's without any programming tools... compilers weren't free. When I meet fellow developers who didn't have computers growing up, I realize how privileged and lucky I was.
What type of research did you do before you made this compensation choice? I understand lawfirms have a similar comp model for associates (7 years of lockstep pay increases before partner). Did you find any other industries that gravitate to this structure? If so, what did they have in common? What benefits do they see from this choice and what are the drawbacks?
I think the OP meant that the network writes spider-man in both cases. So the multi-modal "Spider-man" neuron is more a "write spider-man" neuron. It is impossible to tell (at the moment) if its forming and purpose is really comparable to how biological multi-modal "think about spider-man" neurons evolve and work. IMO it is not very probable.
It's not cancel culture when you opt out of something, it's cancel culture when you decide for others that that they can't do something.

Throwing these books away isn't cancel culture. Telling other people they can't sell or buy the book is cancel culture.
Obviously, you can't carry every book ever forever. I just meant that the general public should have timely access to books deemed too controversial by the elites, so that the plebs may make up their own mind.
Oh, man, you haven't seen Jira driven disorganized waterfall until you've seen SAFe -- Scaled Agile Framework. Basically Agile with cement shoes, for organizations that are scared to do anything without getting it countersigned in triplicate.
all y’all is great no matter where you come from
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Presumably at Oxide’s stage, the equity is the towards financial independence vehicle and the salary is covering the bills until that lottery ticket is scratched off and its value determined.

In this case, you are being paid $15K per month to work to make that ticket pay off.
> Do you have any examples of something which solves a real problem better than mature, scalable technologies?

The same could be said of the Internet when it was first invented. It was far from mature and took two decades, but it revolutionised the delivery of information. Cryptocurrency is revolutionising delivery of cash. It will take a while to work out the development of it, but we didn't have a ready made plan for the internet either.
Pretty sure they tabled it for now but it definitely did not end.
It's 6 of Dr. Seuss's books, and ones that most people haven't heard of. If you actually look at the content of the books, they are clearly racist and demeaning to those they make caricatures of.

And in any case, it was not a sudden "canceling" or anything approaching that. Seuss's estate, managed by his family, made the decision after much deliberation to cease the publication of only six books due to the content. You could even see it as an anti-cancellation - Seuss's family wants to avoid him being associated with the obviously racist content of some of his work.
I often think of Dijkstra's "only do what only you can do" ...

... and apply it to this, and wonder ...

... what is it that -it- and only -it- can do?
> If most browsers aggressively blocked ads then more sites would test to see if blocking ads breaks the site.

I'm not sure that's a reasonable assumption.

Many sites actively break their own user experience and hide their content as best as possible for users with adblockers. It's also understandable, because these sites don't want users but adviews and adclicks. They would rather intensify their efforts to force the user to turn on adds than make sure the website works without generating revenue.

I also don't think we would see much more subscription or pay once models, because they are just not viable for many websites. These websites would simply cease to exist and we end up with less diverse available information on the internet.
I had McAfee flag a restaurant's website because they mentioned alcohol (i.e included their wine menu). I went to the hassle of submitting a request to change the category ... and it was rejected!
Ah, that looks really neat! I have a couple minor pieces of feedback after looking at the homepage. The graphic for "Review Exponentially" [1] was a little difficult to grok initially. My first thought was that time was flowing downwards. I think a labeled arrow indicating the flow of time would be helpful, perhaps also a label to indicate that the numbers at the bottom represent days (instead of relying on me to understand that implicitly because one of them is labeled "Day 4: Lesson".

Also in the "Course" section I think you should include a link to "All Courses" because I almost bounced because none of those three courses were interesting to me (but I eventually found the list at the bottom, and SQL is a topic I'm interested in solidifying further).

Lastly I think it would be great to have a sign-up list to be notified of new courses (I do realize that perhaps if you sign up for a free account you _might_ also get information about new courses, but that's doesn't seem fully certain).

[1] https://www.executeprogram.com/images/diagram-lessons-over-t...
The DC-X was a tiny compared to Starship.

Starship uses revolutionary new Full-Flow Staged Combustion engines that have never flown.

Starship is testing a never used before method of reentry and guidence.

Starship is testing a never used before method of landing.

Starship is testing never used before method of heat shielding tiles and how to attach them.

Starship is not just testing the ship itself, but also the mass manufacturing line for Starship. Its not a test mule, its a mass production pipeline that is being designed at the same time as the product it produces.

Will likely be the first Orbital rocket to use Methlox fuel.

The DC-X was a fundamental dead-end, many of its engineers went to BlueOrigin and worked on New Shepard, a sub-orbital only hopper.

SpaceX Grasshopper is more comparable to the DC-X then the DC-X to Starship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

That program likely cost less then $60 million.
and you can. From what I've seen, particularly at University libraries, they'll do sales of super old worn out books, or long since outdated academic material.

Edit: In retrospect, this comment reads like I'm dismissing the parent or grandparents' concern, but really I'm just saying that you can definitely buy old stock that's been taken off shelves.
Try the inferior version of y'all, "you all".
I would argue that what is going on today and the mirrors with the Chinese Cultural Revolution are too close to not be worried.

We need to talk about this.
indeed, can relate!
I'm in the SF bay area and have a cable connection which is advertised as 1000/40, but in practice its actually 900/25.
Please share the equation that determines the sensible option. I guess we'll disagree over the optimization ...
AdGuard is all around great. Been using their native apps, too.
This never happened, so probably the latter.
There are companies who will offer you $X - $10K and negotiate up to $X if you fight them for it. There are other companies who will offer you $X + $5K and never negotiate.

For multiple reasons, it’s nicer to work at the second, but your algorithm ensures you’ll always choose the first type.
I understand that eBay has existing policies about what they will allow to be sold, but doesn't going to this length basically mean that a lot of media will eventually be banned? Something we say today may(probably will) be considered offensive in the future. Maybe this is the inevitable model for the future; mass "software updates" to our culture ushered in by Silicon Valley. Is this good?
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The dev team can absolutely never drive a business process. Developers don't work with customers, don't measure revenue, don't do marketing. Scrum exists to facilitate clear communication about requirements in the smallest deliverable increments. Devs should be fully bought in and involved in decision making but product mangers have to be there to do discovery and set priorities. PMs are there to facilitate and measure progress which can mostly be done just by keeping tickets up to date.

If you have an inexperienced team, any process you adopt is going to suck.
Peak energy consumption happens in the evening, when solar isn't producing any energy. And nuclear costs just as much to run at partial capacity as it does to run a full capacity. So if you build enough nuclear plants to support the grid when solar and wind isn't producing, then there's no reason to build any solar and wind. Nuclear makes the intermittent sources redundant.
It’s dangerous to complain about this stuff. Was at one place that routinely trashed white males, of which I happened to be. Caught hell when I tried to push back. Sadly this seems like it’s becoming the norm.
I wonder if the end game of adblocking is simply to proxy the entire page to the client - completely obscuring who you are or where the request originated.

edit: I almost wonder if this could be done safely in a decentralized manner. Everyone runs a BitTorrent like service and when you make a request the swarm proxies it to a specific node who then serves the page back to you.

Under this scheme it would become impossible to trace who you are.
Certainly, but I don't find the fault to be with the statement, but with people. Our inability to separate "inconvenient general fact" from "specific, personal insult to whole swathes of people" is one of the banes of modern discourse.
I'm sure you would, but at least do us the decency of bringing data and leaving hyperbole out.
My partner was on a doctoral training course at Oxford and they had to learn C over a few days; string manipulation is the hardest thing she remembers doing out of any medical science crash course they studied over 2 terms
It’s clear as an Asian person you need the insights of white people to determine what you should/shouldn’t be offended about in the depiction of your own race.
More capacity is more things to break and fix.

If it's underutilized, you can save money by delaying replacement.

Let's keep things simple and say in one interconnect you'e got 4x 10G ports. If your utilization peaks at 5 Gbps, you way overbuilt that connection, but if one port breaks, you don't need to fix it until another port breaks; you can wait until three out of four ports are broken if you feel lucky. That delays hardware replacement and eliminates service trips and probably reduces technician time. If that connection peaks at 35 Gbps, you should fix any issues ASAP. (And start planning for capacity increases).

Of course, if the connection is to another network, they may bill for usage too; although I'm pretty sure US dominant ISPs are not paying for usage on most of their connections.
Does that make the HN side any less valid? Without resistance we let the forces that be do whatever they want. I don't find that to be acceptable, especially when so many of us are actually in a position to change things, if only our masters would let us
There are companies that churn out addictive monetization traps masquerading as mobile games like candy.
The challenge is not to write a string library, but to write a "nice" string library.

Let's say, something that's easier to use and doesn't have all the footguns of the char arrays.

The library you link doesn't come anywhere close to that. It's 99% like the standard library and it has the exact same issues.
This isn't a tech thing, it's an english language thing.

Are women in finance degraded by this extremely common linguistic quirk? Women in medicine?
IDK I think it's quite cowardly if ebay is not willing to be consistent in what they are willing to sell. For example, if they can find a few people that are offended by violent video games, then all violent video games should be taken down from eBay. If I'm offended by the Communist Manifesto then it's time to take all copies of it off the site.

In fact they could even automate this. They already have a report item button. Whenever someone clicks that and marks the item offensive they could remove that whole class of items.
I know what I'd do with a 100mbs, split it with 5 people and pay a fifth
Hysterical articles tend to use the word 'ban' when they really mean something like 'choosing not to air' or 'removing from the curriculum'.
Right so this story is actually about yet another platform poorly enforcing its own moderation policy.
No one fails to make this "hey, it's a private company" point in these discussions. It's always brought up when someone is criticizing a tech behemoth for censorship of some kind, and it's nearly always a non-sequitur.

Guess what? It's totally fine and valid to criticize private entities even when their conduct is perfectly lawful.

Thought experiment: imagine eBay and Amazon started to promote Neo-Nazi literature on their home pages in the same way that they now promote anti-racist books and such. What would be the appropriate response: outrage, or "bUt iTs a pRiVaTe cOmPaNy!!!"?
My main point is, before the invention of the steam engine, land transit speeds were basically governed by laws of animal husbandry. After the steam engine, we went from slow rail roads to rocket ships in 100 years. Right now, the quality of the meats/proteins we consume is governed by the laws of animal husbandry. We have already developed the first lab grown meats for human consumption (first steam engine), and things are going to accelerate rather quickly from here until artificial meats are clearly superior in taste and quality as they are not governed by animal husbandry but rather human ingenuity and biochemistry.
You could do the same thing with a separate subdomain like this—the CNAME strategy is just using DNS to point to your provider so you never have to serve analytics requests yourself. If you self-host analytics, CNAME blocking was never intended to nor will prevent that.
That's can be only said by ignoring the giant blind spot of intermediaries skimming off the payment, traditional banks making it hard to process payments with automation, and foreign currency exchange.
Your point, please?
What do you mean, "you people?"
The issue is that they are not just removing racist or hateful content according to some kind of standard. They are going after hot topics of the day, whatever it happens to be.

Even worse, hateful and racist content that is ideologically aligned is explicitly allowed. One would be hard-pressed to find anything more blatantly racist than White fragility or works of Dr Kendi, and yet you would not see eBay banning them, up until they fall out of favor.