skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that undirected learning is huge. I don't know how I'd go about reproducing it... you need both availability of resources (software and hardware), and you need plenty of relaxed time spent with those resources to find the particular angle you end up taking into the environment. That doesn't seem compatible with a bootcamp-ish weekend program where you get hand-held through "making a web app" because the point is to Make You A Coder.

If I was trying to figure out how to actually give kids the opportunity to get interested in coding, well, I'd start off trying to go for an open-ended after-school program, where you can drop in and mess around with computer stuff with access to knowledgeable adults if needed. I'd try to get the adults to propose interesting little projects that might capture the imagination of the kids. I'd try to get donated VPS time, not so we can force the kids to make cookie-cutter web apps but so they can put together their own janky terrible stuff, and if they screw up we just kill the VPS and start over. Personally, I think trying to focus on games too much is also a mistake--either you end up with the Logo turtle (educational but incredibly boring) or you have 9 kids just playing Minecraft while the tenth actually learns to script it.
I think the fingerprint auth stuff Apple’s working on will replace MFA: as I understand it, in Safari, the MacBook’s Fingerprint sensor implements the same protocol as a Yubikey or similar.
I feel the same, but with an added caveat. Just because some movements/concepts are 'A Good Thing™' doesn't mean that they are not amenable to abuse by 'Not So Good Things™'.

E.g., whenever a company lobbies for stuff, it's never "for the profits of our stakeholders"; it's always "for the sake of the children".

Therefore while I applaud positive movements, I'm also always weary to note the timing and subtext in which they are presented, and very often it feels like there is a disingenuous agenda behind them, that sours the apple for me.
I used to rail against this practice of using CS-y questions as hiring filters.. but I think now I get it. I just got a take home test from a start up where I had to find all bounding boxes in a 2d array of chars, filter out the overlapped (or contained boxes), and return the largest non-overlapping box.. whew. I wrote it with a recursive traversal to find each bounding box (something I thought was clever), in scala (their language of choice, although I could choose any), within a few hours on a weekend, and I still didn't get the job. Evidently, missed some edge cases, but in their view generally worked for the most part. Obviously, this isn't remotely close to what I'd (ever) possibly do there (it's a web portal.. or something), but I can see why it was used. It's like the SAT, it's something that can be cheaply deployed with immediate feedback. You don't really have to guess if this guy/girl is going to hack the basics. Now clearly it doesn't really control for any sort of specifics of experience, other than how you think, and how you put together a specific solution. They need to filter on something, other than a gut feel, or a good conversation. They're in the business of software development, so I guess this is (at least) some objective measure of that. What might be interesting is to know how many FAANG wash-outs there are, despite doing really well on these tests. I wonder if it's close to what the normal attrition rates would be at other companies.. maybe none of that really applies.
How is this flamy I h am quite sure that criticizing musk is not flamy by any means at least according to the guidelinesif it is please let me know
Fair, though I'm curious if the people falling for them are using email providers with quality spam filters. I'd guess it's a much older crowd that's more likely using an archaic email provider with no incentive to improve spam filters.
>Why do they still bother installing Intel?

Because despite getting clobbered on desktop, Intel is still competitive in laptops and produces more than AMD can.

>Then the Ryzen one is old as well. Why not a new gen?

Because there's not enough supply.

>Why not trying ARM like Apple did?

Because people use Microsoft for backwards compatibility. They tried it before with Windows RT, and it was a flop.
The fact that this is wormable is huge.
Could you elaborate on what kind of leverage this gives them? Does anyone doubt they had the capability to employ more efficient centrifuges and enrich uranium beyond 20% prior to this. How does choosing to actually do those things benefit them in negotiations?

If the criminal in a hostage situation starts shooting their hostages, does that give them leverage in negotiations? I would think it just devalues their hostages and gives the police more incentive to shoot before things get worse.
I don't think you're appreciating the magnitude of the error here. This kind of complacency, typical of the public health bureaucracy, has led to a large net increase in death.
If it was just the commercials, I'd agree. They're actually very well done, as slightly-below-the-belt mockery goes. I even agree with them with respect to Wordpress' weaknesses. Vix's attempts to lower it to the level of an internet message board shitfight are embarrassing, though.
I can't answer for anyone else, but I suspect they already knew. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, putting a spin on what Google really is (a monopolistic internet advertising empire, profiting off detailed information about as many internet users as possible.)
People who interview like that should be fired. The damage to the company in missing a good hire and blighting the company's reputation is cause.
1Password is great software. I think I've finally switched over to their more all-encompassing extension on Safari and I love it. Glad to see them doing more, I am happy every time I use their software.
Ok but this is still mostly for novelty though, right? It’s not really about saving 2-3 seconds of work I presume (probably takes an hour to program it just right), it’s more that it feels cool and futuristic I imagine.

Especially since this kind of thing has only been possible in really high end homes until now, so it feels exclusive. At least that’s my read.
> Technologies like this remain stagnant until the landscape is ready for them.

So true it should have a name, like kstenerud's Law or something.
> Slow is an understatement. And huge. Like 100Mb to start working on a medium size design (~20 frames?)

Because they need to load the entire editor into the page. Compare that to Sketch, or Photoshop, or any other tool.
With Sketch, the 'cons' are that if you withhold from upgrading, then after some time the app will get increasingly less useful: plugins are generally supported only for the latest version, and it is rare when you can get old versions of plugins. Design resources too always seem to be available for the latest versions only. So if you work completely independently from external world, it migth not affect you much, but if you are not, it is cheaper to buy upgrades. Maybe not every 12 months, but every 18 months or so.

But anyway Sketch is that good that we pay it's price gladly.
A someone that prefers Gnome2 and KDE... Gnome3 and Unity are both ewwww...
The only safe answer: I don't feel I have the requisite experience to discuss this topic at an expert level.
That's not what I'm saying - it seems to me to be programmer error that such a question is being asked (an exception should be thrown regardless, since the result is not of a usable quality).
I am not a physicist, let alone the right kind of physicist, but from the abstract it looks like the transition temperature is 35K. That is a long long way away from "room temperature".
I'll admit, I haven't tried on my laptop, but doesn't the Darter Pro support USB C charging?

Direct from their website
Charger
65 Watts, AC-in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC-out 19V, 3.42A, USB Type-C Charging Compatible
This has a very uncanny resemblance to the Apple TV show Tehran.
Definitely open to contributions, feel free to reach out if something is confusing!
I think the point parent is making is slightly different. Let me try to re-phrase it negatively: What we don't know about mRNA vaccines we don't know about SARS-CoV-2 either. Our state of knowledge of the effects of SARS-Cov-2 will soon be eclipsed by our knowledge of the effects of mRNA vaccines. SARS-Cov-2 is only 6 months older than the mRNA vaccines. There will always be unknown unknowns for both mRNA vaccines and SARS-Cov-2.
What value does crypto provide to those groups you mentioned, that cash cannot provide? If the answer is, it allows them to break laws then yes by definition they are criminals. You can argue that some of these laws are unjust, sure but that's tangential to the question. The value of crypto by volume is largely for speculative bets and criminal activities.
Wordpress.com has hosted wordpress also.
Your argument would be stronger if you added up the area of the inhabited areas of Israel rather than the total area, but yea, one nuke wouldn't take out a country unless the country was just a single city like Singapore.
https://about.bnef.com/blog/tesla-worker-says-firing-timing-...
The best thing about Unity is that now it will never change for better or worse and still works with Ubuntu 20.04. It's fairly minimalist and frozen in stasis like I wish Apple had done with the SnowLeopard UI.
Yeah pretty much I think. We're definitely there as far as financial institutions, I just hope we're not on our way there with the communication and social institutions (increasingly dominated by the Internet).
Yes, but the way Alexei is going about it made it awkward for them.
A bad proprietary connector at that. The device side has failed on me a few times, requiring replacements. After about a year the connector needs to be pulled at just the right angle to charge the device. It would slowly get worse until I couldn't get it to make a connection at all.

I'm sure the issue is that I have it plugged in while it's on my lap a lot of the time, but barrel plugs and USB-C have not given me any issues under the same conditions.
Programming languages are not the foundation of a developer career. Languages come and go. Few non-trivial applications use a single language.

Rather than mastering this or that language and try to predict the future, focus on solving business problems, adding value, implementing requirements in code, and good development practices.

If you want to learn one language that has a high chance of lasting throughout your career, learn SQL or C.
I think that those "Let's make our own DE" dumb kids are both a symptom and a cause why Linux never broke on the mainstream workstation market.

Truth is that a shite miserable 25 year old xfce could be customised in a way good enough to compete with OS X. Why waste all the time on such a massive amount of extremely useless work? Just because it is fun?

And yeah, you can downvote this into oblivion, I don't care. The fact is that 80% of the comments on this thread are making fun of the very same retards for the very same reasons.
It's not a framework, it's a JS runtime on top of v8 (like node).
Drone to a roof at night, picked up by an insider on a cigarette break?
> In most languages, numeric literals, identifiers, and keywords cannot be adjacent, but any of them can be adjacent to an operator. The odd thing here is "0xfor" being tokenized as "0xf" and "or"

0xf is a numeric literal, and or is an operator, so as you said, they can be adjacent. or isn't an operator in C.

of course, if it were 0xfand ... you have a fun problem, because it could be 0xfa nd, but nd isn't an operator (that I know of), or 0xf and. Ideally, syntax shouldn't be ambiguous.
> hell bent on developing nuclear weapons despite of non-proliferation treaty signed by the whole world in 1960's

I have no ideea why you think this is relevant to your otherwise valid point. Iran and Israel are very similar here, one never signed the NPT and other signed it but is in non-compliance with the terms. Both states essentially don't care about what the other countries think of their nuclear activities - as is their right under international law.
Keep reading: “We have also observed that some phases remain stable without pressure at up to 300 K and for at least 7 days.
Is the battery replaceable, though? The Surface Laptop 3 also had some repairable parts, but the big disappointment in my mind was the glued-in battery.[1] Batteries are consumable and are guaranteed to start wearing down within a few years, whereas the SSD, keyboard, monitor, etc. are likely to last a long time, so it was surprising that they advertised its repairability even with this significant omission.

I feel weird using my MacBook Pro, knowing it's essentially a ticking time bomb, with its slowly degrading battery that can't be replaced.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+3+(...
It's the presumably extremely expensive watch front and centre that particularly irritates me.

I don't get that shit.
The lexer unfortunately is a greedy token matcher. As soon as the 0xf "made sense" to it, and 0xfo did not - it did the same thing it would do in the case of something like 0xf+3. Except the + was an `or` in this case which is kosher. There is an idempotent step you can take where extra spaces are added before the AST is formed to make this sort of thing easier. The good news is, with a decent lint / format flow - these sorts are easy to catch.
I hope in 50 years the leaders and adults in general of today will be mocked and ridiculed for the rest of humanity for destroying our only inhabitable planet.

My generation has been robbed of the ability to look forward due to the necessity of constantly cleaning up the mess of previous generations.
You have a point in the case of a volatile cryptocurrency: if 1 MOB is worth USD 10 one day and USD 1 the next, nobody will want to keep their MOB, so you have one bank transfer for one MOB transfer. It sucks.

If MOB becomes less volatile over time, you could imagine people having USD 100 in MOB that they would trade for small debts, and they could be fine leaving this sum in MOB. In this case, you'd have several MOB transfers for just a few bank transfers, and it'd be an improvement.

How stable they'll manage to make it, frankly I can't say, I believe it's still an open problem for them.
No because in sports you have rules that you must follow or there are consequences. This bug is considered an exploit and therefore it is against the rules to use.
This is true, but I find it funny and frustrating that people are so ready to selectively treat rare odds as catastrophic in other circumstances that suit their worldview. For example, urbanists are ready to accept the premise of Vision Zero, which aims to push road fatalities down to zero. Today, there is approximately 1 traffic fatality per 100 million miles traveled in the US. It's so rare that it doesn't deserve attention, but here we are, with people looking to force cars to drive slowly (or ban them outright) to try and chase a world with perfect risk-free conditions. I am betting the same cohort that supports Vision Zero overlaps significantly with the group that thinks none of these vaccines should be paused. I'm sure there are similar examples of logical inconsistency that we can highlight for any political/social cohort as well - that's just one example. But my point is people tend to selectively make data driven arguments only when it suits them.
Deno isn't a framework, it's a node.js alternative. The best pitch I've heard is that it's written by the same guy who did node.js, with the intent to fix everything he thought he got wrong with node.js.
> We have also observed that some phases remain stable without pressure at up to 300 K and for at least 7 days.

300K = 80F
I'm a layperson skimming in a hurry, but it looks like this is actually "our findings with material A may be transferable to material B", which is very close to a room-temp superconductor but doesn't seem to be the same thing as "here, I have a chunk of it on my desk".

to quote the conclusion:

"In conclusion, we have demonstrated that the pressure-induced/enhanced superconducting phases
with high Tc and the pressure-induced semiconducting phases in FeSe and Cu-doped FeSe can be
stabilized at ambient without pressure by pressure-quenching at chosen pressures and
temperatures. Theses pressure-quenched phases have been shown to be stable at up to 300 K and
for up to at least 7 days. The observations suggest that the recently reported room-temperature
superconductivity in hydrides close to 300 GPa may be retained without pressure, making
possible the ubiquitous applications of superconductivity envisioned"
Is it technically a framework? I thought it was an entire alternative runtime to NodeJS.
Birthday paradox means ten not 20 and while I MIGHT be able to go two weeks without encountering ten others my oldest son works at a restaurant, my wife at a school, and my youngest son is full-time HS student. They meet 20 people a day easily and live with me at home.
Many of my friends and family moved back to WhatsApp after the massive two day down time Signal experienced after the huge inflow.

That too was so mysterious and moxie never gave a proper explanation why it took them so long to recover the service.
Well, Deno's not really a framework, it's a runtime (like node.js). If you're writing Typescript, it makes that way easier. If you're doing lots of IO, it makes that easier (promises). If you want sandboxing, it has that (though if it's for server software, you should use firejail or Docker or something around it anyway).
Well, their additions to Gnome in PopOS have been very well received. So..maybe. The "power user" space (especially the non-cli oriented one) is really lacking out-of-the-box solutions rn.

It wouldn't be the first time tailored software drove hardware sales.
> Mozilla would have to stop paying their developers.

Well they are almost there, wouldn't be surprised if there are no developers left pretty soon
I’ve never been asked to provide access to my bank to buy anything, that sounds like insane overreach. There are budgeting apps that ask for it but I don’t use any of them. My main bank account provides webhooks for transactions which I use for my budgeting app, that works well enough for me.
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>If side-loading or alternative ways of getting apps onto the iPhone existed, then they could implement far stricter controls knowing that, worst case scenario, you can still get an app onto the iPhone. This is how it works on the Mac. Tor isn't on the Mac App Store, but that of course doesn't mean Tor can't be used on the Mac.

And if side-loading was alowed then every big player whose app users "have to have", e.g. Google, Facebook, Abobe, Zoom, Epic, would start their own independent app store (or distribution just for their apps).

Users would have no recourse than to install the app for there (or do without Facebook or Zoom etc).

Then every scammer and scamster does the same for their apps, and lures enough people to get them, and depending on what's allowed, you also get pirated app "stores". In the end the result is not so great for the devs complaining either...

Now instead of 1 method of payment, 1 way to enforce subscriptions/cancellations and other rules, one checkpoint, you have 2 or 5 or 10.
I highly doubt writing texmacs or other complex coding for diagrams leads to the same memory retention as plotting by hand.
The punchline I know to that is "Because we don't want to employ unlucky people."!
> I do wish you'd figure out the Chrome extensions on macOS, though. I don't understand why I have to choose between excellent browser integration OR more seamless integration with the native app and fingerprint support in the browser extension.

We're efforting on that! Thanks for the feedback. We currently have better integration with our 1Password for Linux beta, and that will be rolling out to other platforms as well.

- Ben, 1Password
My data is anecdotal. I live in the suburbs surrounded my middle class people like myself. Food / clothes / tools / entertainment are plentiful. People are living a good life.

Here in Australia, house prices are rising significantly faster than inflation. My personal suspicion is that its because everything else is so cheap, the middle class can afford borrow and spend more of their dual income salaries on their houses.

Yes sure, the "they" is business owners, but its expected that the business owners should then pass that cost down to the consumers that buy the products. Yes, the business owners are reaping the rewards, but so are all of us consumers. (It's future generations that will pay the price.)

The root cause may be that we allow some people to have too much power in our society. But the amount of money they have in their bank accounts is irrelevant. We live in a democracy so we can make rules that balances power, but we choose to allow people with a lot of money to have a lot of power.

I think its much more interesting to look at inequality of power than inequality of money.
I purchased my first 1Password license when it was version 3, and have faithfully upgraded to every standalone version ever since. These days I’m not so sure I will be upgrading again (and I’m not sure there will be more stand alone versions).

The latest version is a mess on Big Sur, with unlock fields obscuring input fields, conflicting with Apples iCloud Keychain, and just not working like I expect it to.

Furthermore, stand-alone versions are buried deeper and deeper behind a cloud service subscription that brings me absolutely no value over what i already have, and adds the uncertainty of having to synchronize my most secret secrets to a cloud service.

While I can certainly forgive software errors, this has been going on for so long that I’m beginning to suspect it’s either a strangler pattern to get people to switch to the cloud solution, or it’s death by a thousand cuts.

In any case, I’ve begun evaluating alternatives. Bitwarden looks promising (though nowhere as polished), is open source, and allows me to synchronize to a service on my LAN.

Password-store uses gpg and git that also allows me to synchronize locally (though it leaks website names without the vault extension which is not supported on iOS).

Finally I’m evaluating Yubico authenticator for 2FA codes and just using iCloud Keychain for the rest.
Actually there is because southern states are well on their way to removing women's rights to do what they want with their body, installing theocratic governments, and resurrecting Jim Crow laws. If that's not a reason for more federal involvement I don't know what is.
Nukes are way more powerful than they were at the end of WW2, and most of southern israel is not populated. I'm pretty sure an H-bomb to Tel Aviv would kill >20% of Israel's population. So yeah, not exactly "One nuke and Israel will just be gone, completely", but still "one nuke and 1/5 of the population is gone, and countless more injured"
No Thunderbolt 4? Pass.
The percentage efficacy can be misleading, it is not a like-for-like comparison.

https://www.vox.com/22311625/covid-19-vaccine-efficacy-johns...
Deno isn't a JS framework?
Yes? The lack of a workable window manager is one of the biggest things that prevents me from using a Linux laptop as a daily driver.

It makes sense that System76 would work toward a serviceable Linux desktop OS. For the same reason it makes sense that Apple develops MacOS but charges no license fees.
Maybe you're not making this point, but why is the UK Ministry of Information any different from Facebook? I think the fact that Facebook is a private company does not matter. A significant portion of society's speech and opinions are held in this one digital town square. Their influence is larger than most governments, including the UK. When they censor certain speech and allow others, that is propaganda at a scale similar to governments, and just as damaging.
Wrongfully arrested man sues Detroit police over false facial-recognition match