skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that's the worst about this is the sheer arrogance of the Firefox dev team. I noticed it acutely a few months(?) ago when they introduced the update that inexplicably makes the address bar grow in size when you focus on it.

The disturbing bit wasn't "we're making this dumb change the new default", it was "we are also not making a way to turn this off and literally do not care if this bothers you, we know better than you so just accept it".
"Hey, we have 50 engineers sitting around that just finished our new bowling pin setter machine. What should they work on next?"
I work on such a system. I have the same sentiment as you, but the reality is that every entity along the way, including federal, state, county, city, and sub-city level governments all treat SSN as a unique identifier and accept no substitutes. The one and only way to get away from this is to pass massive legislature and have the federal government provide better IDs to the public, something most people don’t actually want. It will never happen unless a massive amount of people get defrauded overnight. Like 10-40% of the country, and literally in a short enough period of time to create a news shitstorm. This cannot be changed by your software system being different, and if it is, it will already start at a disadvantage for not being compatible with everything around it.
Companies that pay well in the US also provide good healthcare benefits. There are some weird setups like HDHPs where they give you free money at the start of the year, then immediately charge you so much for prescriptions that it gets used up again, but I think this is a way to let us farm credit card points.
Thank you for sharing your positive experience! We can power cycle power outlets remotely and can connect a console (ip kvm)... and we are staffed 24x7.... in case you need another server. Thanks again!
Yeah unfortunatly, same as well.

OP: reading your comments make me want to check it out more.

Also I'm not sure what codeacademy-style lessons means. Like, interactive thingy?

Maybe you could let the first level of each lesson wide open. I don't know
Your rural mail carrier selected the vehicle based on a known defined mailbox height.
Just be careful with these solutions, I use the one in Bitwarden for a few things and while great for convenience, there's a significant security tradeoff when you go ahead and load all your TOTP tokens into memory on the same machine you keep the passwords on. Turns your 2 factor authentication into single factor pretty fast against even a decent piece of malware, let alone a dedicated attacker.
This was at near the top of the front page around half an hour ago and now it has disappeared... What happened? Is this being filtered for some reason?
Personally I rate the figure-8 over the bowline. I think it's a much more versatile family (and much easier to tie and inspect with high confidence soaking wet in the dark).
Flu counts are down because flu tests are not being administered. Everyone is testing for covid antibodies. If hackers new the five biological laws of nature as discovered by Dr Hamer the world would be a better place.
Hard to say, but definitely more than the 10k, all the people that just clicked off before it loaded.
Wiretapping (without a warrant) is stupidly illegal.
You're not getting nothing for that 10k. I don't know where this idea's come from that nothing at all has been released.
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It's not a surprise that an airborne virus spreads more during the time of year when people are spending more time indoors with their windows closed.

Same reason it was rampant in the US subtropical south during last summer, when it was uncomfortably hot and people stayed inside where there's AC.
There’s a number of themes that cut down padding (just take a look at the GTK Themes section of gnome-look) but two where it’s more obvious are the Nordic and Mcata themes:

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1267246/

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1381832/
CoreOS was a good attempt in this direction, but seems to have died. I am also a fan of the ChromeOS partition layout, which is solving the same problem.
Do any of them work on desktops? I keep around a spare iPad to run my authentication apps, but I'd rather have it installed on my computer instead.
“Unite the whole Human Race! For we’re All-One or None! … Exceptions eternally? Absolute None!”
--Dr. Bronner's philosophy in his soap labels
FortNine is an excellent channel.

Aside from that my motto has been that if you say something that doesn’t exist should exist, it’s now on you to make it happen or to find and fund someone who will. Organize an event using this service or another, advertise it to a few friends, make sure everyone has a fun time, they’ll spread the word for the next event for you.
Not to mention India
Rust Koans
overwhelmingly a Twitter phenomenon

Are you sure about that, or do you just think so because more social science is done on Twitter due to their relatively open API, and conveniently short post format? If you're sure, I think you should shore up your claim with evidence.
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Why are looks so important anyways?

Clearly USPS is trying to look after its employees, trying to ensure they have the best vehicle, suited for their work with minimal hassle.
There's two sides to every deal though. You can't presume something is necessarily a worse deal just because on the other side you are asked to give up some right. You obviously must compare it to what you get in return. In the US you can waive much of your warranty rights with an "as is" purchase, for example. I think the important issue is whether it is clear to the customer or buried in fine print, which I do think is unacceptable.
Yes, this is true -- and another thing that's true is that you might still miss something subtle in your reverse engineering efforts.
If you extrapolate down the fine-grained-permissions line, you eventually end up with effectively a legal system where the rules are encoded explicitly (and enforced programmatically) but the spirit-vs-letter of the law is left to interpretation by a judge (the reviewer in this case).

That's probably better than the scenario we have right now. Such a system of smaller permissions would be an improvement over every extension asking for all permissions and being able to do what they want with your browser.
It's weird because the front end looks like a typical sedan but everything from the windshield back looks like a box truck/van.
Blame should always flow up, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other causes. For all we know there has been a team of devs putting their kids through college “working” on this for years.
Same for me — rural town 30 years ago. A classmate's mom was the mail carrier for the whole town and used a station wagon similarly fitted (RHD, sign on the back).
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For what it’s worth, the vaccines have been released under Emergency Use Authorization, not the normal approval process. The EUA still requires safety data etc.. but isn’t as rigorous as the full process. Here’s a decent write up:
https://theconversation.com/what-are-emergency-use-authoriza...
FCC obviously needs to come down on this like a ton of bricks.
I never realized this before, but I think I've actually invented a new way to tie a necktie. I've been doing it the same way for years, but it is different from any of the knots presented on this site. My technique produces a symmetric knot which falls apart when the short end is removed. It is distinguished from all the other knots by having the long end go behind the short end as the first step. It's a little hard to describe how it goes from there without images, but you basically do the first half of a Windsor backwards, wrap the long end around the front, and then finish like a regular Windsor.

Maybe I should apply for a patent :-)
I've been at this for 8 years now and I think you're dreaming if you believe you'll ever get to the point where you're never just beating your head against the wall with something frustrating and non-obvious, no matter how great your learning or deduction skills are. Either that or you're much better at it than I am.
I realise TFA is about the US, but it’s worth noting that in most of the world, SMS is pretty much just used for receiving messages from your bank and other automated stuff these days.
No, that's not the problem, the problem is that many many organizations demand an authoritative identity when no such thing is necessary or advisable.

https://sneak.berlin/20200118/you-dont-need-to-see-my-id/

The US has plenty of centralized identity systems, including the Real ID one, a backdoor federal ID system that is required to board all commercial flights in that country.
I disagree. A terminating type checker is much more valuable than a possibly non-terminating one. Also I think you're possibly conflating multiple issues here. Higher-kinded types, dependent types and kind polymorphism don't actually mean your type system becomes undecidable. They do vastly complicate the implementation in other ways, though.
Block heaters are only needed for diesel vehicles or areas with really low temperatures. I live in Michigan and the only block heaters I know of are used for school buses.
I definitely oppose Maoism, Stalinism, Leninism, etc. I also 100% oppose violence except in self-defense. Marx did support violence earlier on in his life, but didn't he also argue that peaceful revolution was possible? And on the subject of peace versus violence, I would side with what Jesus said over what Marx said.

But yeah, I'd definitely ask how much of a role Marx's writing had in what happened in the Soviet Union or Maoist China. Was it Marx's fault, or could those people have adopted MLK's approach instead and seen much more success rather than collapse? I honestly am not equipped to know the answer to this question, but as I study MLK and Malcom X post-Mecca I think the entire discussion around Marxism (at least in the fundie parts of the world I've lived in) conflates Marxism with the Soviet Union and Maoist China too much. MLK and Bernie Sanders and AOCs borrow from the Marxian framework. Even America did - we've already implemented many of Marx's list items in his manifesto, after all. :) Would anyone say MLK or Bernie advocate for violence? Or that they're any less Marxian if they don't?

You definitely know more about the depth of Marxism than I do - I've never gotten into dialectical materialism or the Hegel/Marx beef. Primarily because the Manifesto is tiny and has enough of the vision in it that it is sufficient for my purposes. And also because as an engineer and a technologist I see that material needs will be obviated by technology soon. Does that eliminate the need for that deep dive into dialectic materialism?

But to address your point and the edit that you brought to my attention since I missed it: It does sound like we do agree! I'm limiting myself too much by calling it "class consciousness" rather than "solidarity." I realize now that the vernacular has to be updated to reflect exactly what you said about post-class schisms like race and culture. My view on this is that when understood at their most charitable, religions do accomplish exactly this. A "bigger solidarity than class" like you said. I'm reminded of what Paul wrote when he described the blanket with all kinds of meat on it.

I do like calling it solidarity instead of class consciousness and I will change my approach. Thank you so much, this is immensely valuable and you are a brilliant mind.
If the social network is a reflection of society as a whole, then it's not possible to ensure bad things happen less.

What is required is to shift focus from social networks to the society. Removing hate, bigotry, evil and social factors that induce crime ought to be the focus.

A society cannot be reformed if it is corrupt at its core, no matter how many controls you put on public communication systems.

The problem has to be addressed from within, not from outside controls.
This sounds like a description of Emacs most of a decade ago, not long after I started using it, rather than of Emacs today.
That’s what I call the “divide by zero quality system”. If you don’t ship, then there’s no risk of leaking customer data. Likewise, if you just assume that every screen in your app is in-scope for PCI, then the consultant has a very easy job.
> If a type system is Turing complete, than it either has to be inconsistent or incomplete.

How is Turing-completeness related to soundness? I am behind on CS theory, but what little I know about category-theory tells me this isn’t the case.
Did you even bother to compare it to other programs? It's dog slow.

$ hyperfine './optimized-ncmncm-cpp < kjvbible_x10.txt'
Benchmark #1: ./optimized-ncmncm-cpp < kjvbible_x10.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 1.396 s ± 0.023 s [User: 1.381 s, System: 0.012 s]
Range (min … max): 1.357 s … 1.429 s 10 runs

$ hyperfine './optimized-cpp < kjvbible_x10.txt'
Benchmark #1: ./optimized-cpp < kjvbible_x10.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 407.6 ms ± 9.1 ms [User: 400.3 ms, System: 6.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 396.6 ms … 423.6 ms 10 runs

$ hyperfine './optimized-c < kjvbible_x10.txt'
Benchmark #1: ./optimized-c < kjvbible_x10.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 203.6 ms ± 4.7 ms [User: 195.1 ms, System: 8.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 196.2 ms … 211.1 ms 14 runs

$ hyperfine './rust/optimized/target/release/countwords < kjvbible_x10.txt'
Benchmark #1: ./rust/optimized/target/release/countwords < kjvbible_x10.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 314.6 ms ± 6.9 ms [User: 302.0 ms, System: 12.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 307.6 ms … 328.9 ms 10 runs

$ hyperfine './rust/optimized-customhashmap/target/release/countwords < kjvbible_x10.txt'
Benchmark #1: ./rust/optimized-customhashmap/target/release/countwords < kjvbible_x10.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 239.0 ms ± 2.8 ms [User: 231.0 ms, System: 7.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 236.0 ms … 245.0 ms 12 runs

I compiled with

g++ -O3 optimized-ncmncm.cpp -o optimized-ncmncm-cpp

I also tried with clang++ and got similarish results.

Care to retract any of your statements? Did you even bother to look at the programs before spouting off a bunch of nonsense here?
>What happened?

Building extremely high quality user interfaces has been de-prioritized by our tech gods. See: ElectronJS. Every "native" "desktop" application built upon such technologies has a minimum latency bound that is user-detectable and a memory appetite that cannot be appeased by even the most opulent workstation-class system.

Those of us seeking client->server->client trips that are measured in microseconds (on top of network stack latency) have been forced into the dark nether-reaches of technology. Writing 2D graphics libraries and client/server UI frameworks from scratch has become one of my new favorite hobbies.

All of this is especially upsetting when you consider how much complexity has been magically hand-waved away over the last 20 years with modern OS, language and tool design. You don't even have to go to C/C++ to get the UI performance these days. A high-quality C# implementation using platform-specific graphics interop is more than capable of producing UIs that can respond in the 10-1000 microsecond range. WinApi interop and hooking the window message pump is a trivial exercise. See: https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi et. al.
Zen2/Zen3-based, non-APU Ryzen still has pretty awful idle power consumption compared to Intel desktop CPUs.

My 5900X at idle draws around 22W. Modern Intel desktop CPUs (which are basically all Skylake refreshes right now) are 8-10W at idle.
Particles exist, yes. A few scientists have spun the narrative that transmissible particles CAUSE illness. That is not proven.

Scientists harp on the fact that correlation and association, do not mean causation. Except in virology where circumstantial evidence is enough to upend the freedom of the world for the sake of an abundance of caution. This religion of virology.
I’m all for the vaccine — but this need is ripe opportunity for drug co.‘s to foist unnecessary boosters. — the more boosters, the more they make. So... the question becomes, should the gov step in and mandate a low price for any booster that will just cover the co.’s costs to produce? Am I off base with this?

But, on the flip side, I’ll never say this to family who are hesitant to even take the vaccine in the first place. What a jam.
in uk all the services drive boring old Transits or whatever. At least Royal Mail have some respect for their Postman Pat legacy and paint their vans red. But there is one outstanding exception: UPS. I don't even see so many of them around, so i'm not pure why it's economical for them and why only they use custom vans, but i respect them for that.
It's an interesting question. I suspect that the nature of media in general is to lend authoritative voice to individuals rather than promote perspectives or ideals, and thus the "voices of science" promoted in the media will themselves become pop-authorities.

Plus the fact that the promotion of science in the media seems more for entertainment and ingroup-signalling (ie, politics) than genuine truth-seeking.
Git has always supported large files! What it does not do is treat them specially, with different semantics, which is what git-lfs, git-annex, etc, do.
Eh, I don't agree, despite being very sympathetic to type system sophistication.

The fact that you can get Turing complete behavior in some part of a system with some encoding doesn't mean it's accessible enough that it's relevant when deciding how I am going to accomplish something or (typically) when deciphering what someone else has written.
Looks like it is supported on Firefox, but disabled by default, and requires an about:config tweak: https://caniuse.com/?search=setSinkId

Its MDN doc (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...) shows it as a not-quite-finalized feature, but even so, seems odd to have a pref just for it.
Then why not temporarily suspend vaccinations only for those under 40? Or let people have a choice in determining whether the risk is worth it for them.
Hawking I'm skeptical of for other reasons:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets...

I will not discuss his capabilities as a scientist since I'm not qualified to speak on hard physics at all - but this relationship between these people has me very skeptical of their truest intentions.

But you're right that Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson were not in the same class as Richard Dawkins or Lawrence Krauss in particular. I'd include Sam Harris in this group too.
> Eminent Domain is a real thing.

It's technically a thing but totally not a thing in the context of my comment and this topic in general. I doubt you'll make a case that China, Russia, or for that matter, even Austria have stronger private property rights than the US. Remember, the origination story of the US revolves around private land ownership attracting European migrants who were fed up with European feudalism. I am sure there are some carveouts here and there, but they are remarkably minimal to the point that it's sometimes worth making an observation without adding a bunch of footnotes.
Why do you think the future of vr is limited to gaming? Watch the Oculus Connect 6 keynote.
Lucky you. You're probably the average user GNOME was designed for. Unfortunately for GNOME, most users aren't average.
Someone tell them to stop this.
Dude, it’s been almost 7 years, full of widely-recognized dishonesty and bad faith arguments by GamerGaters and fellow travelers. What do you think you’re going to accomplish by trying a new variation of an old claim conspicuously made without any evidence? Do you really think anyone is going to believe it, much less say it excuses what happened?
I literally mean there is a good chance they'd fail. Is it 30%? 60%? I'm not sure, but it's not as low as you might expect.

Many stanford phds fail the interview process. I'm not speculating. Others have suggested this says more about the interview process than the person in question. They might be right. But here we are.
Heterogeneity Matters When Modeling Covid-19
I think you are taking what I said a bit out of context. Most people have a half dozen close friends and they find that person interesting or pleasant to be around or whatever it is they see in them. But hand a average person a megaphone in front of a crowd of 10,000 people and they won’t know what to say and will run out of steam quickly. Global social networks are that megaphone. This is why your feed, while having some gems, is also likely full of reposted memes, personality quizzes, and other retweeted/reposted content. If you have no actual special connection to the person who is posting the meme/quiz/repost, it is just noise to you, no?

I firmly believe that technology like social networks can bring people closer together and enrich lives of everyone, from luminaries to ordinary folks. And I believe we should build better networks. But if I throw a dart at a completely random Facebook post and read it, there is a very good chance it’ll be a lot less interesting than a random post from e.g. Neil deGrasse Tyson or Neil Patrick Harris or Obama. My point is that having these huge global networks doesn’t actually achieve the goal of furthering friendships or increasing the quality of content the participants read.
> There is no "should" about any of it.

Of course there is. Objective functions can be utilitarian or deeply selfish,
but "should" pushes them in someone's desired direction. Relativism is
tautological and intentionally or not, condescending.
I thought they require ID for buying SIMs in Australia, surely they also require ID for switching your number to a new SIM?
It’s a consequence of Goedels incompleteness theorem. You cannot create a type system that stops if the program is type valid, and does not stop (or stops indicating invalid) if the program is type invalid. The practical consequences of this are (probably) minimal.
I grew up in a rural area too and the mail carrier drove their own vehicles. In fact, when I was a kid my parents bought a stick shift from someone and the person said they were selling it because they got a job as a mail carrier and needed an automatic.
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> If the fix had been some super application specific super obscure thing, we would all understand.

Would we?

Even if I don't understand what it's doing, devs doing nothing about an O(n^2) algorithm that takes multiple minutes every load is clearly a big mistake.

Even if it's something that has to be that slow, cache the result.
There's just one robust metric for "better," and that's market cap, which is
generally tied to current and future profits.
The idea doesn't work with closed source protocols like what you listed. It would work with open source protocols that can interface with other instances on other ISPs.
Two problems there:

1. Many people are more likely to go to a lot of effort to complain loudly and widely rather than hit a simple "delete this" link.

2. Such feature is basically a self-DoS. If someone takes a disliking to the app or a user of it they can script up a "delete everything" and fire it off.
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This is impressive and hilarious at the same time.

Thanks for sharing!
So if feedback from a small number of people is discarded for being a minority, and feedback from a large number of people is discarded for being spam, how can users make product managers understand they are unhappy with the removal of functionality?
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There's just one robust metric for "quality," and that's market cap, which is
generally tied to current and future profits.
At scale it makes sense to have control of part supplies and have consistent service processes. UPS and to a lesser extent FedEx also use custom bodies.