skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the source at https://github.com/melaku-z/ethio-european-date-converter/tr... and another 35 lines of unit tests nearby.

As a C developer, may I ask what the other 100 or so files are for? And why does a date library require a docker-compose.yaml file?
to internalize those costs for most workers, as most workers are hourly, you can just make the regular commute part of work time (perhaps using average commute time to exclude abnormal variances). that avoids using tax law, which can convolute incentives and create unintended loopholes.
Totally, it just moves the problem but potentially moves it to a larger search space. If you find a piece of marble isolated on top of a cliff it’s not cheating to deduce that it came from a larger group of similar rocks. You would calculate the probability that it was formed there, vs the probability it was formed somewhere else and moved there.
I think you'll be more successful as an advocate for TLA+ if you just say "yeah, the syntax isn't for everyone", or "the tooling has some issues" instead of writing long missives about how syntax like `[][x' /= x => y' = x]_<<x, y>>` is actually motivated by some deep mathematical insight, or suggesting that the desire for an editing environment that doesn't feel 20 years old stems from a failure to understand the difference between specification and programming.
It's not confusing if you understand that r is pointer that points to something and b is that pointer, which is nil. So of course r (the variable containing a pointer) isn't nil, b (the pointer) is nil, and r is the pointer b.
No, because (again, ideally) those taxes are going to be used to benefit the common good.

Trying to get out of paying them would be like saying, "of course I should get help from everyone else for education, housing, infrastructure, etc., but goodness forbid I actually return the favor later on so that others get the same benefit!"

Anyway, it's not like such taxes take away so much of your earnings that you're left with a pittance. At some point you have to ask yourself, "is the amount of happiness I gain from keeping this amount of money worth more than the various things it will be spent on, and the benefit it will give to others?"

(I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode, "The Last of The Red Hat Mamas, where Mr Burns pledges to donate money to a children's hospital, but then uses it extend his own life instead - by 10 minutes[0])

It's a sign of the sad state of things that taxes are treated more like throwing money away, than being a resource used for the common good.

[0] https://youtu.be/-Icbia3fDuY?t=45
I live in the province in question.

The issue isn't wearing masks, it's specifically those masks, which around I think around 1% of the masks in circulation.

All other masks are fine. By and large, the government itself doesn't force anyone to wear those masks instead of others.
Here's a few reasons:

- You trust the VPN provider more than your ISP

- You want to circumvent geoblocking (Netflix, Sports broadcasts, etc...)

- You have to use an untrusted Wi-Fi

- You want to circumvent your government blocking certain websites/services
Yes. I was in the same boat. Tried many things. Eventually,

I started exercising (very very infrequently) and trained myself to use the Mouse with the left hand.

It has been 15 years since then. I suck at a counterstrike now but avoided giving up on a career with computers.
Hand sanitizer is unnecessary for most people. Washing hands is better, and surface contact is no longer thought to be a significant vector for COVID transmission.
That's a pretty reasonable argument and I believe a big part of what makes hooks somewhat complex since they look like regular Javascript but can behave differently.
Still no way to show the whole git diff rather than clicking on the single files
I don't think I qualify for either introvert or extrovert (that is, I tend to be self-reflective about some things and outgoing about others).

There are plenty of other reasons too. It is much faster to communicate face to face (for me) and I tend to be much better at resolving micro-miscommunications that can blow up in hours of days of work delays when I'm face to face than when I'm remote. Compounded with the fact that I am not good at reading people in general (but much worse so remotely), in the WFH setup I end up having a lot more situations where I don't know exactly where a coworker and I stand on a certain issue, which even if it happened in the office it would be resolved in < 5 minutes face to face.

I think it's because in the office, interrupting someone with a quick question is a much lower barrier/less hassle than asking them to join you on a short video conference.
The problem with carbon taxes is it affects jobs that can’t easily use less electricity and still produces a lot of jobs/value. The paper and steel industry wouldn’t like carbon taxes high enough to affect Bitcoin. Bitcoin power use is also very easy to move internationally.
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If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there.

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Interesting. Thanks for sharing it. You just re-ignited my desire to try it out again :)
>Apple doesn't care about Album Cover Art

Apple? Has anybody (maybe except cover designers) cared about Album Cover Art ever since the transition to CD? And it went downhill with Napster etc. downloads (zero cover art 99% of the time), and later with official stores and streaming (small cover art).

Heck, with video games, good TV series, Netflix, internet, social media, youtube, mobile versions of the above, and so on, available the last decade or so, I think people (including the younger demographic) care less about music than ever since the time of Elvis. It's just not as big as a cultural deal anymore as the "escape" it represented for some kind up to the 80s-90s, now it's just one more thing in a whole range of available diversions...
Hey, would somebody mind breaking down the different not-necessarily-AI things? Like is machine learning the same as neural nets or a subset? This would be tremendously useful! I would assume "expert systems" falls somewhere at the bottom of the list, right above "good old vanilla programming". Dunno how linear regression fits in.
I think a good way to measure this effect is Discord. You have servers of varying sizes and can compare relative “toxicity” between them. IMO things seem to get pretty bad after 100-150 people.
Anyone work this technology and can talk about it (without breaking whatever NDA of course)? I'm a former infantryman and ... let's just say I'm _extremely_ skeptical of this kind of technology for all but the most niche use-cases (think, AR for the driver in the hole of the truck). Obviously for pilots stuff similar to this has been around for a while, but the article is not really clear about how exactly this would be used.
Thanks for actually engaging the arguments, do you remember what you found fundamentally flawed?
This is the lump of labor fallacy applied to energy, let's call it the lump of energy fallacy.

Increased demand for energy brings more energy supply into the market. New energy is mostly renewable energy.

Old plants are shut down when they are unprofitable. That can be because they're inherently too expensive to run, because the carbon inputs are being taxed too heavily (I think this is a good one), or because the governing body controlling the physical location of the power plant has declared them illegal (since you can't profitably sell something you're forbidden from selling).

I'm not making the "Bitcoin is good because it drives renewable energy investment" argument, which is too handwavey for my taste. I'm saying your argument is incoherent.

Reducing carbon emissions from power plants is mainly about pricing the externality they generate. Cryptocurrencies, in fact, any application for that generated power, neither harm nor help achieve that outcome. It's irrelevant special pleading, and it's a distraction from this urgent goal.
I appreciate your posted alternative theory on this subject. It's refreshing.
"Why isn’t it touching the edges of the screen?"

Why should it? One of the reasons it shouldn't touch is because it artificially creates a full-bleed line that separates the content and conveys that they are disconnected when they aren't.

"Why can’t I read the album name from the cover?"

It can't be read because that's apparently what the artist intended. Many album covers don't even have the album title printed on it.

"why can’t I see that The Who took a piss on the monolith?"

You can't read everything even on 1:1 replication of the album; but your phone is unconditionally smaller than an actual album cover.

"So much creativity, imagination and artistry thrown in the bin for no good reason."

It's not throwing anything away; it's making up for numerous design constraints.
It is true that it takes time. And to some extent just observing others’ work is a lot of the benefit of time. But if you’re looking for your mentor to be more involved and she’s not engaging that, try asking more specific questions. Like “oh this bit of code is interesting and it wouldn’t occur to me to do it that way, what was your reasoning/thought process? Where can I learn more about this approach?”

You can also find others on your team whose work you admire and ask them similar questions. Lots of people are happy to talk about their work when asked.
Not encryption in general, but end to end encryption.
Because it's not how music works anymore. People don't go to a store and buy an album. They rent from a service where your ownership of the music stops the second you cancel your subscription.

Even then they aren't picking albums or artists. They are served mixes from a bottomless carousel of user-created or algo-generated playlists. Most of the songs sound similar, as every playlist is designed to capture a specific mood. The artist becomes interchangeable. The album the track is from becomes meaningless. There's always something further down the playlist that sounds exactly like it.
It's something like 50% of user base and >75% of device-specific bugs.
Are we creating new organisms that can kill us?
Well said. If we consider ourselves engineers we should always have the public as our first responsibility.
> support it's SOCs for more than a couple of years

That works, even works well, as long as device makers feel that supporting SOCs for a limited period helps them sell more phones.

Apple has changed the rules of the game by supporting its devices for longer -- and as phone upgrades become more infrequent due to plateauing technology, I think device makers will realize this.

Samsung has already committed to supporting recent Galaxy devices for at least 4 years -- at least with security updates[1]. I suspect this was also because they found that their extremely short-sighted prior policy re security updates encouraged corporate phone procurers to ditch Samsung and go with Apple.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295639/samsung-galaxy-d...
True, but at the same time it has evolved into something required for modern development.

So: new features -> plugins.
Required features -> converted from plugins to native.
that makes total sense. I agree. though in the future, the kafka proto will be impl details. i.e.: once you start moving to http proxy with typed schemas.
Check out discogs.com. Most music listeners don't covet their physical media anymore, but there are still millions of people globally who buy and trade vinyl, and even CDs.

Anecdotally, I have a friend who collects rare underground CDs from the mid-2000's because vinyl hadn't been revived yet and digital streaming wasn't big yet, so some bands who were only active during that time only ever put out CDs. And personally I have a few dozen vinyl albums that came out in the last 10 years.

With the vinyl revival, I expect album art will still continue to be important to niche music collectors, and any artist who releases in full-album format (many artists just do singles now, so that won't apply to them I'm sure).
I think you are wrong. I have been working on https://openwisp.org for some time and implementing a controller which is robust and can handle many different corner cases and offer good functionality and also ease of use is a challenge and requires several people working full time on it. Even simple functionality it's a lot of work, unless for simple you mean really trivial. If it wasn't hard, there would be many alternatives but as far as I know there aren't many.
I don’t think this is casual or just “allowed”. The insurance company holds all the cards here. The choice is between getting treated or not for a great many people.
Nice, thanks! I will give it a try!
I think the classic example is [] == ![] evaluates to true. It’s not absurd logically, just the operators act weirdly/non-standardly.
I too am a curious dry-skin person. I thought i had read something to the affect of the interaction between soaps and bacteria worked better in warm water than cold.

I'll be really interested if i can avoid warm water.
The 2009 MJ documentary shows he was supremely talented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_This_Is_It
Or... you can just use the top up built cell to manufacture things. Why build your own nanorobots when there are pre made nanorobots that already works.
I'm a longtime Mac user but I recently had get a PC as my main computer, and VS Code has really impressed me. How does it run on macOS compared with Windows?
Probably NFTs will make these useful...
It allows them to keep the walled garden intact. A 3rd party app marketplace would need to install apps to the device and would require a different permissions model to anything available on the App Store today.
At the start I was. My work never had enforced work at office and there was people who were flexible so there is no mandate to go back.

Now that the office is open, honestly I don't go in as much as I thought I would and seem to miss it less than I imagined. I like the flexibility and do enjoy going in on the occasion to see people but honestly I think I'm going to stick to WFH for most of the time.
I agree in binary formats, it's easier to accomplish, but it by no means is easy.

Thankfully most source code is plain text. There are mostly trivial ways to encode information in whitespace/etc, but again, the ability to carry some useful information AND commit a SHA1 collision is currently non-trivial. Plus Git has specifically put in some hardening for the existing SHA1 hashes to make this even less feasible in the particular application of a git repo.

A pipe wrench to the back of the head(or social engineering) of some random committer is probably a LOT easier to accomplish.

That said, if your primary nemesis is one the giant nation states(US, China, Russia, Etc) AND you were very high target for them, then all bets are off, as they can pretty much accomplish whatever they want against any individual/small group on the planet. I would imagine most of us are not even remotely in this situation.
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The Magic Wand is great to relieve the pain when the RSI in my shoulder flares up!
No, people weren't ordered to wear them. Daycare educators are largely independent of the government beyond inspections every few months and heavy subsidies.

The masks were given for free, and there is a mask mandate. Daycares used free government provided masks instead of their own to save money.
But then why isn't Apple Music a big list of songs, like iTunes from 2004? I'd actually prefer that. The Apple Music streaming interface instead has headshots of artists I don't care about or abstract images for each "category". Like a lot of modern UX, it's the worst of all worlds: wasting a ton of space for the purpose of aesthetics while being less useful than earlier iterations - at least to me.
People on the ground never have use for such tech. These deals are all political and the actual equipment arrives by the truckloads and sits unboxed.

When people rant about ridiculous military budgets and spending it isn't about cutting soldiers' salaries but shit like this.
Entering the modern commercial music industry to then complain about having to share credits is like getting a software developer job and be upset that you are expected to write code.

At the end of the day, the singer brings in 100x more value to the table because what ever genetic lottery they won combined with whatever they did to capitalize on that means millions of people with poor taste want to throw money at them for the illusion of them being a musician. The song writers are much more replacable then the "face" in this scheme regardless of where the talent lies.

Anyway point being, don't get into commercial music if you don't like it. There are plenty of ways to maintain artistic integrity as a trade off for money but these writers choose to sell out instead. So don't sell out and then whine about not being able to keep your integrity.
I didn't say I ask a candidate to implement a linked list. I sometimes ask them to do something using a linked list. Using basic data structures is something I would expect most people I interview to do regularly in their day to day jobs.
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The first use of complex numbers was as intermediate quantities in the calculation of the roots of cubic polynomial functions. This use is analogous to using negative numbers in a ledger even though negative amounts of physical things don't make sense.

Edit: I meant physical things like apples fam. This is an important philosophical point we don't appreciate because we are so used to them. De Morgan once wrote:

"It is not our intention to follow the earlier algebraists through their different uses of negative numbers. These creations of algebra retained their existence, in the face of the obvious deficiency of rational explanation which characterized every attempt at their theory."
Back in the day, a big differentiator for non-iPod MP3 players was whether they had gapless playback. As a marketing tactic, it worked about as well as Flash compatibility did for early Android devices.
Activision Reveals Malware Disguised as 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Cheats
Someone wrote it though. It’s not a blackbox that’s evolved independently for millions of years.
We as a species know how to build one, since we did.
hi @sgt - yup SASL_SSL due to the client protos have to be compatible, including the hack you are thinking of.

from a user perspective, existing SASL + SSL + SCRAM will be released next wednesday - so no code changes.
Why is there a global chip shortage and why should you care?
undefined is awful because you can use it anywhere. Done properly you would only be able to use it in APIs that specifically need to deal with that form of null.
This article glosses over the actual results of Skokie and Charlottesville, both of which are pretty important. The Nazis never ended up marching in Skokie, nor did they march in any of the other small towns where they'd requested permits, either. There's a fair bit of reason to believe that their goal wasn't to promote their ideas, nor even to harass the heavily Jewish village of Skokie through marching, but to harass the village through the courts - they found someone who they could bully and they enjoyed it.

Charlottesville didn't deny the alt-right a permit. They denied them a permit in a particular park, which had a particular statue - but they denied it on the grounds that security would be difficult to arrange in the small park, and they granted them a permit in a larger, nearby park. The alt-right did in fact rally, and as the city predicted, there was an act of violence because of the crowded conditions, and someone died.

Both of these were tactical failures.

Which is to say, I don't think it's particularly easy to say that Ira Glasser-era ACLU was a great force for justice and Anthony Romero-era ACLU lost it. I'd argue that the ACLU made the same mistake, in the same context, both times. In neither case did they actually make it so someone could exercise their free speech rights. They just got lucky the first time that there were no obviously negative consequences to their action, and so they could engage in PR that they were the good guys. And the ACLU themselves bought into that PR, which kept them from realizing their mistake.

The article also makes this pretty wild assertion at the end:

> FIRE also discovered that female, LGBT, and Black students are less supportive of free speech than male, straight, Hispanic, Asian, and white students, a worrisome indication that the insidious effort to malign the entire concept of “free speech” as a weapon to “harm” minorities is bearing fruit. Rather than learning how the First Amendment has been a precondition for every social, political, legal, and cultural advancement secured by marginalized groups in America, it would tragically appear that indoctrinating the latter-day beneficiaries of these struggles in the belief that they are helpless against “oppressive structures” and “systems” has convinced many that free speech is their enemy.

Why is it taken as an obvious fact that said female, LGBT, and Black students are wrong about free speech? Why are they clearly indoctrinated? Why not ask them why they don't support it? Perhaps they have a well-considered opinion on the matter?
How is Airbyte optimized for building new integrations? Can you explain or point to article on that, i'm curious :)
>Maybe cover art is less meaningful to you. FTFY. To the author it is meaningful.

That's not really relevant. The author might find any random thing meaningful, including keeping an ant farm at home.

The point is whether it's meaningful enough to many people, justifying the claim that Apple should have given it some special prominence.