skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayPal did a complete 180 from their stance on crypto just 2 years ago.

I worked at Coinbase on the Payments team ~2018. Working to integrate PayPal was a nightmare - so much opposition to the integration from PayPal execs and compliance team. Even when we did manage to finally integrate, PayPal was only enabled for crypto sells.

Change in direction at PayPal must have come straight from the top.
Do you know what's the difference between unmanned and autonomous systems?

Almost every country in the world has unmanned weapons. That's not the issue. The issue is autonomous weapons.
Volkswagen is not an English word though
Ah yes, so the conclusion is that the US will start all wars and poor China will start 0 wars and do 0 aggressive things. So glad we have such a critical geopolitical mind here to show us the way.

Or... it's much more complicated and China has been slowly angling to usurp control (unjustly) for decades.
I suspect arguments like this are even less comfort to people who have rented apartments their entire lives and aren't sitting on a million dollars of property.
I have bothered to read the link.

The point of those questions wasn't to see if there are answers to them. The point of those questions was to show that all answers to them are flawed.

Yes, the link provides one set of answers. (Except for the backwards-compatibility and changing language question.) But it doesn't solve the problem.

When you want case-insensitive search, it's the search tool's job to provide it. E.g. whenever you want to do a case-insensitive search inside a file, you pass "-i" to grep or click a checkbox in a GUI. You don't change the file system to normalize characters inside files.

From the link, it also seems like the main motivation for the change is compatibility with Windows software. In particular, it mentions that it isn't something that should be enabled globally in the file system. It really isn't a convenience for the user.

The article makes a good case for providing compatibility with Windows software. But not for much else.

Thank you gor being exhibit A
Old-timer here (I started on COBOL). I like programming; and I like 9-5. I suck at management. I tried running my own business, but I sucked at that too. I'm not a bad programmer, but I'm certainly not elite.

You want 9-5, and you don't want a boss, so permatemping seems to be one of your few choices. I was never that keen on having a boss; but I liked getting a reliable salary.

I have learned and adopted several programming systems (languages, if you like) over the years. One by one they were abandoned by their manufacturer, and I had to learn something new. I reckon it takes at least 6 months to get good at a new language.

By the time I was about 50, I noticed a trend for novel frameworks and languages to pop up with increasing frequency - more than one every 6 months. I found this increasingly teedious. By age about 60, I was no longer motivated to learn these new tricks, because they weren't going to be any use to me for more than a couple of years.

So: I concur with other commenters about taking up a job as a maintenance programmer on a codebase written in something unfashionable. PHP has always been unfashionable, and there's loads of PHP that isn't going anywhere and needs maintaining. You have PHP skills; consider Drupal. Plugging modules together to make Drupal websites is not challenging; but if you learn Drupal internals, you can be better than most Drupal "developers", and get jobs maintaining Drupal systems. Unfortunately, it takes time to get that level of Drupal competence.

Your "blue-collar" attitude is out-of-sync with modern software development. Nowadays developers are expected to be able to sell, teach, invent, write clearly, all the while avoiding antagonising people, as well as develop software.

Perhaps you could find a partner, with similar levels of ambition to your own, but with talents that complement yours, and set up shop together as a web-design agency. You need a production pipeline that enables you to build sites quickly and reliably. Your partner needs to have sales skills (it doesn't sound as if you do).

You don't want a boss; so I guess getting a job as a paid hack in a small web-development outfit is out of the question. But not all bosses are awful. And in a small firm, you might find that your experience makes a big difference to them, and that you are valued.

You sound a bit depressed. If that's true, I'm sorry. Things will improve. Good times and bad times are both temporary.
Depends on which part of the field you're referring to. Deep learning is arguably the least theory-intensive and it still requires at least calculus and linear algebra to understand what's going on.
SteamDB is a hobby project by two guys - I doubt they want the cost of a lawyer or headache of a legal defense. They may also get suspended by CloudFlare in the meantime.
You can curl ifconfig.co as well, uses user agent sniffing to just return the IP
Isn't that Teslas turf? Seems to be the only company that includes reserve / zero range remaining in its official EPA numbers.
Any examples of this happening?
Just to clarify, his immediate comment that "they blew it out of the sky" is (at best) pure speculation.

If you want to watch third-party livestreams, I usually recommend the NASASpaceFlight streams [1] that have more fact-based narration. They also had debris hitting their camera, but it seems to have survived.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUu1lih2RifWkKtDOJdsBA/vid...
> An object by definition encapsulates mutable state. Even if a particular object happens to not contain any mutable state, there's no way to observe that from outside, by design.

If I read you correctly, your definition of "object" excludes each of the different concepts that C++, D, Python, and Abadí and Cardelli's object-calculus call "objects", but includes what Scheme, OCaml, and Kotlin call "functions"? You are of course welcome to use that definition, but it might improve communication to clarify that you're using the same word that other people use but with a completely different meaning.

> don't use such a shitty language.

There's a plausible reading of the GoF book and the whole "OO patterns" movement that it's largely about how to make do with shitty languages, though I'd nominate SICP as being better at that. Often languages that are shitty on one axis have compensating advantages on other axes—for example, although you can script Cocoa with cffi in Python, which is less shitty than Objective-C for scripting in general, you waste a lot more time debugging segfaults; despite the admitted aesthetic advantages of 68000 assembly with respect to amd64 assembly, the latter performs noticeably better on this laptop; and, while I think I've convincingly shown that a factory factory factory is dramatically more readable in OCaml than in Java, you're probably going to have a much easier time getting your remote dictionary server performance to scale to 16 cores in Java than in OCaml. If you have enough RAM, anyway.
But it's not really an empty (using the first example) slice because I can have either an empty slice or a nil slice, right? So in Rust or Scala terms, every instance of a type is really an option of that type? It just seems like a totally unnecessary complication to me.
This is roughly what leads me to agree w/ the GP. The people who have the training to understand AI at a fundamental level will have transferable skills that will give them a leg up on whatever the next "hard stuff" might be, even if it's not in the area we currently refer to as AI.
For decades, people have been doing DIY EV conversions based on the VW Beetle, and the colloquial term for them has been "Voltswagens".

It's surreal to see it embraced by a company that, just a few years ago, was pushing diesel to the point of a planet-scale fraud.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then... you win?
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I was trying to figure out whether Charles Leclerc really pronounces it as he did in the show, and if so, for which audience (Italian? English?).
> Amazon has an entire program where employees at so-called fulfillment centers (which is to say, warehouses) can sign up to defend the company online. What do the employees get out of it? One day of paid vacation and a $50 Amazon gift card, according to reports from 2019

This is disgusting. Bribing warehouse employees to give rosy descriptions of the company. The link from 2019 is even worse. Tracking them by affiliate id, to see what they said.
Recently sequences of of the COVID vaccines were released[1]. It's amazing to me how such a short sequence of data will make such an impact on the world.

I had the idea to print a couple posters for the occasion, so I made this tool. I linked a redbubble where I uploaded a couple of my favorite designs, but of course you're free to build your own with the tool and print them however you'd like.

1. https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV...
I don't think you're in the minority. But I do think a lot of companies are recognizing the value of hybrid events. I at least dipped into 2 or 3 events last year that I couldn't have justified normally (this one and Adobe MAX). And that's coming from someone who normally attends/speaks at a lot of events.
In this context, presumably Steve Jobs.
Gasoline also comes from corn or anything else that can be distilled to ethanol. For greater calorific efficiency we should be looking to biodiesel as the environmental side effects are as minimal, you get more miles per gallon (km per liter), and the production of biodiesel via algae can happen efficiently in places not currently used for livestock grazing or growing crops.
This article was written ~3 weeks after Donald Trump announced his 2016 candidacy. I'm not sure the critique is at all politically motivated.
Cyber defense seems basically impossible.

Actually securing systems would require a massive rethink of systems architecture and replacing many hundreds of millions or billions of lines of existing code.

MAD doesn't work with non-state actors, and it only works with state actors if you're actually willing to go to the mat, which I don't think the US is.

So what does that leave? Hope? Not much of a strategy.
Sure, it's pretty simple. China doesn't have much to gain from the normalization of autonomous weapons.

Beyond that, the US and Russia don't seem to be hiding their work on it, so why would China, which has even less of an incentive, be hiding it?
Faraday and Edison is already taken. See: Faraday Futures, Edison Motors
So you think a young prostitute flown into a remote Island by a billionaire is able to consent with 100% impartiality? It's not the specific age that is the biggest issue here - the age of consent in my country is 16. It's the age gap between the parties and the fact that she was flown into private property entirely at the mercy of Epstein.

I don't agree that consent magically becomes a possibility at the age of 18 but not 17 and neither do most advocates for an age of consent for that matter. The reason for having one is because there does need to be a line drawn somewhere and pitching it higher than the onset of puberty is not a bad safety margin.

Also, may states and countries have laws that dictate cases underage sex between parties with smaller age gaps so the motivations here is not some infantalisation of the young, it's to try to have some level of checks against the often overwhelming power difference between minors and adults.

I also never claimed that RMS had any interest in participating in pedophilia or necrophilia himself. My claim was that his view on the morality these acts betray a lack of understanding as to why they are considered so objectionable.

Your point on American Muslims is just plain disingenuous and relies on trickery by omission. They believe in scripture that has views on those matters but the same is in fact true of American Christians yet if you took them aside and asked either the average Christian or Muslim on the street if they thinks sex with minors is ok, they would likely say no. Contrary to your delusions, there are a lot of practices in both the Quran and the Bible that are not widely practised by their adherents today. The vast majority of Muslims do not practice polygamy for example and the vast majority of Christians don't hold a vehement hatred for the consumption of shellfish.
Maxwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_automobile

Interesting:

> Maxwell was one of the first car companies to market specifically to women.
It's not tainted in Europe either. Sales are healthy and you see cars from the full range (Skoda, Seat, VW, Audi) aplenty. The overlap between car buyers and outrage bubble subscribers might be limited.
I'm no fan of the fraud but I'm happy to see the agility / change.
I first thought that it was a pretty poor decision considering the brand value of Volkswagen, but then I remembered that I've used the phrase "Volkswagen engineering" at work to refer to a suggestion that we optimise our application to work better in customer benchmarks.
A running joke in the Balkans is that you can find parts for older Golfs in the nearest ditch.
Norway has better management.
I am guessing OP is not referring to images per se but platform. For example, if you have all your 10K followers only on Instagram, you should definitely have exit like owning your own blog. Your followers should at least have a place to find you in case you loose access to Instagram for some reason.
I guess you the Times needs to use clickbait to get traffic same as anyone else.
A better title might be: ‘Mercenaries Undermine US Cybersecurity’.
It's also going to look really silly in 20 years when every auto manufacturer is doing electric vehicles. It'll be like Ford boasting that they run on unleaded gasoline.
you also have to ask "reliable compared to what?". my first car was a golf tdi. the only maintenance cost was the annual service. it never got close to 100k miles though because vw had to buy it back from me in the dieselgate settlement. statistically, I'm sure a toyota corolla is a much more reliable car, and I would have replaced it with one if that's all I cared about. but I've driven a few of those, and golfs are much more pleasant to spend time in, both behind the wheel and in the passenger seat.

there's an inherent tradeoff between performance, reliability, comfort, and price. once people find their preferred set of tradeoffs, they inevitably start making comments on the internet about how they don't understand why everyone doesn't buy their favorite brand.
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I thought your stereotypical patent troll wasn't a firm with access to top notch legal resources, just some people slinging enough shit that eventually it stuck? This would be pretty firmly different, right?
A pull is just a fetch followed by a merge. So to solve this problem, just fetch instead of pull!

Then do `git merge --ff-only` and if it doesn't work, do the rebase or whatever else to resolve the conflict.

I did this long before I set `merge.ff=no`. I hate it when pull creates crappy graphs — it's something I try to help all my colleagues to avoid. I often wish that `git pull` didn't exist.
The rocket was supposed to be able to blow up like this, that’s why the flight termination system is installed. Also SpaceX has to get certified for launching from Boca Chica which means that all the government agencies that could get involved have already given their permission for this sort of event occurring.
This is an issue I face from time to time when I'm (native German) in international calls and am talking about a German colleague ... I could pronounce properly German (while it's not too easy always for my mind to switch) or adapt to the way most others do (which often is English with an attempt to Germanize)

Luckily due to video conferencing software printing my name on my image, I don't have to do that for my name, as I had to do in phone conference times.
Yes. The Wire is shockingly true to life. I cannot think of a detail that isn't modeled after a great deal of real life events that play out, over and over, in a loop, in every major American city.

Edit: the McNulty arc in the last season probably doesn't happen particularly often. The alternative, that the murders are never found or investigated, is much more likely. I don't want to say what he does (it would be a spoiler), but yes, that was more character-driven than most of the dynamics on the show.
Proof of what? I can't possibly prove a negative. The facts is that China hasn't deployed any such weapons, while US allies have (deployed weapons are well documented especially when as visible as aircraft and other mass produced vehicles).

As for votes and public statements on treaties, that's all public information.
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Really? If the risks for making a false DMCA takedown request were that high, I would expect to see less false takedown notices, and less aggressive bots. Or maybe the aggressors are just assuming that the victims don't have the resources to fight a megacorp in court? If it's the latter it seems like an organization like EFF should step in to fund such a fight.
How would you propose achieving a middle ground? Anything in the middle will still have to have a lot of features, and once you have a lot of features, how do you hold the line and prevent people from adding more features until it is just the absurdly complex modern web-as-operating-system again?

The reason Gemini is so simple is not simply to keep it simple enough that anyone can write their own client or server, although that is certainly one goal. A big reason it is so simple is a general policy of rejecting new features, and that minimalism may be necessary to prevent scope creep.
It will work. The server will return JSON. The URL http://ipinfo.io/ returns HTML if the Accept header indicates that you want HTML, and JSON if there is no header, a wildcard header, or a header that requests JSON. As far as I can see, irm doesn’t add an Accept header, so the command jodrellblank provided will fetch JSON and work correctly.
Until companies insistence that this the real thing becomes itself part of the joke.
It's only in small pockets of cities, not evenly distributed among everyone there. If you aren't involved in crime or live in those high crime areas, you'll probably never experience any violence. But yeah, there are parts of Baltimore that are just like what you see on The Wire.
The problem with the analysis is -- minimum wage has barely increased while costs have markedly increased.

What are the odds that the rent will stay the same for 45 years (per your analysis) and what are the odds that minimum wage would go up equivalently?

You also missed: taxes, healthcare premiums, healthcare copays/fees, transportation, dental.
It most certainly is an English proper noun.
New Coke?
This article appears to have been last updated in 2015, but written in the late 90's (see comments on page). Wayback Machine also confirms this: https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/http://philip.greenspun.co...
https://www.evfaraday.com/
Pronunciation is no longer “folks wagen” but “faults wagen”. The classic German ironic sense of humor.
So tainted they sold more cars in 2019 than they did pre-scandal.
>even if apple did something online to help this

I've been pretty involved with online events over the past year. The formal part of the conferences have gone pretty well. (TBH, even when I'm attending a big event physically I'll often watch the keynotes streaming rather than cram into a conference center with thousands of my closest friends.) But chat, virtual booths, and any sort of attempt at serendipity have mostly been big fat failures.
Engine relighting in zero gravity is routinely done these days. All current upper stages do this.
I have the same feeling every time someone says C is "simple". It's simpler than C++, yes, but it's definitely not simple. There are a LOT of dark corners.
Besides the fact that a coal-burning plant is more efficient, one difference is a cleaner city. Another difference is that it can be charged from other sources, e.g. solar at home. Another difference is that the grid is typically a mix, not just coal. And another difference is that the battery is basically an abstraction which abstracts away the power supply so this becomes a different (easier) problem to fix.
> and ORMs are a powerful and delightful way to do this

I think we'll end up disagreeing there.

However, I think this type of model could maybe work better for "static" serialization/deserialization of file formats. But even so, I think the biggest part that's missing is a convenient way to describe the mapping between the structure of the serialized data and the internal representation. ORMs typically give you a single method of doing that mapping, which can work when you have control over the serialized representation. But it doesn't work very well when you're serializing to an existing file format, for example.

> Does `serde`[1] look like it's close to your imagined mark?

No, serde is exactly what I was talking about in terms of the serialized data matching your internal data structures. I think it's a necessary piece, but I think the part that's missing is a nice way to map that data to the representation your program want's to work on.
> I also find the obsession with anti-vaxxers strange, when the FDA and many european medical authorities refuse to allow the AstraZeneca vaccine.

AZ has not yet asked the FDA to allow the AZ vaccine. They are still in the clinical trial stage in the US.

The FDA emergency use authorization procedure includes FDA scientists plus a panel of outside scientists reviewing all of the submitted trial data and doing their own analysis rather than just relying on the submitted analysis. This is why it takes 2 to 3 weeks between the submission of an application and the approval of the authorization.

AZ had enough anomalies in their European trials that they weren't sure they would pass the FDA's more stringent review and so are conducting more trials in the US to get cleaner data.

About 3 weeks ago AZ said it expected to have results in a few weeks and would apply then.
April's fools is tomorrow, guess it's real.
Data-driven food and wine pairing search engine
Is rendering ships on approximately real world courses more rendering work than rendering them on pseudorandomly selected courses? I don't think anyone is suggesting the game ramps up the density settings or pulls in high res models for them
That's a rather racist statistic
Isn't it really too late at this point? By the time they're ready to roll out such a system, we'll have reached herd immunity. That's far from perfect, but enforcing vaccine passports is going to be incredibly onerous, especially in a situation where it has stopped being an immediate crisis filling up hospitals.

And there will be loopholes, such as people who can't be vaccinated for one reason or another. That means doctors signing off on "this person can't be vaccinated but it's OK" exemptions, and there will surely be plenty of room for doctor shopping. I'm sure there will also be religious exemptions, and at least some just plain "I hate science" exemptions.

It might have been useful if they could rolled it out along with the vaccines. A lot of things about the vaccine rollout were bad -- probably a mix of outright mismanagement on top of the ordinary difficulty of managing a crisis. But at this point I don't see any way out of just living with it.

Get the vaccine and be safe-ish. If you can't, surround yourself with people who have, and pray that will insulate you from selfish plague rats.
"tend to," not "all."
That's a fair amount of greenhouse gas emitted... for nothing.
Philly is bad but let's compare best to best and worst to worst. What is the US state or county with lowest homicide rate? Higher than Norway probably, but by how much? What is the worst in Europe?