skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest you watch the documentary Inside Bill's Brain https://www.netflix.com/title/80184771

Bill is way too invested in this stuff for it to be a cynical PR effort. And he himself states it was his mother who inspired him to give: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-mother-inspired-p... If Bill's giving was a cynical PR play, why would he be pushing other HNWs to give through the giving pledge? Wouldn't it be better to discourage them from giving so he looks better by comparison?

Note also that a few years ago when Zuck pledged to donate 99% of his money, the internet erupted in incoherent anger. Similarly whenever the news covers tech philanthropy, the angle is always "well really this is something that the government should be doing, the fact that it is being handled by private philanthropy is kinda problematic". The giver's generosity is inevitably taken for granted. For the supposed PR benefits of philanthropy there is a shocking lack of good PR. Far more scorn is heaped upon wealthy philanthropists than rich people who just quietly buy yachts and stuff. Your reaction of "giving is just a cynical ploy" seems to be way more common they "hey, they are giving, that's pretty cool" in all the online discussions I have seen of billionaire giving.

BTW, did demonization of wall street in the wake of the 2008 crash trigger a wave of philanthropic giving from them?
One of my favourite papers of all time.

Most of the paper is a good joke, but Slowsort takes it a step further. It is just so inefficient I can’t help but laugh out loud each time I revisit the paper and re-understand the algorithm.

It ticks all the nice boxes, such as being easily proven correct, easy to implement, easy to parallelize, stable, no time wasted on unnecessary steps, can produce output as it sorts the rest.

At the same time, it’s Mergesort with a ridiculous merging step. But that means one can simply add a parameter to tune between Mergesort and Slowsort – if(rand(1,10) > 8) then slow else merge – so the code becomes tunable in terms of speed. Someone needs faster software? OK, I’ve got just the parameter for you :-D

If you haven’t implemented it yourself, give it a shot. It’s a transformative experience to see your computer struggle sorting an already sorted 100-entry array ;-)
I agree that on the surface these numbers are not alarming. That said I trust that the government agencies know what they are doing here. If anything there is tremendous political pressure to NOT scrutinize the vaccines.

There is enough anti-vaccine & Covid rhetoric that we should all cool it a little bit and let the experts do their jobs.
It also helps they went to Stanford together.
Possibly they are nervous because it could signal deeper problems. If there is anything people should have learned from the pandemic is that it takes a few months for the medical profession to sort themselves out when new data appears on the scene.
First paragraph had a very interesting perspective about stress and the last paragraph had a solution, rest of the content is very repetitive.
> It is to you. Just imagine someone having a mental handicap

If you have an actual mental handicap that's keeps you from understanding, you are usually not entitled to sign contracts without a supervisor anyway.

> or just tired and not paying enough attention.

Then you shouldn't be signing contracts in that condition. It's like complaining to the police that they caught you speeding and then excusing that with tiredness. I'm pretty sure the officer won't accept that excuse.

> Terms should be easy to read and understand, that is one part of accessibility.

They are. It's your duty as a grown-up to read a contract before signing it.
> I'm genuinely interested, was there any leftist intellectual honestly willing to learn from these failures

Pure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
People keep repeating this myth of birth control. I don't know how doctors do their job in other countries but if they look at the patients health history this number is a myth. Luckily health officials here (ETA: Denmark) inform about these myths on television whenever the government holds a press conference about new Covid-19 measures but this isn't so everywhere so please stop spreading FUD.

ETA: I see you made ninja edits to your comment....

Edit 2: So now you replied that you only added a word or two and then deleted you comment while I were replying. Your comment was only half as long when I replied (all the Twitter stuff wasn't there for example).
DPR explains why 32 refinery licenses to private operators are inactive
Big difference to me is that your doctor/mechanic isn’t your coworker.

Coworkers are peers and trust each other. But they also communicate. Maybe this is too high of a standard but a coworker must be able to explain what they’re doing to me in a way I understand.
I would use a formula based on the tax-assessed value of a property to set a maximum rent. Landlords should be free to reappraise their properties as often as they like to be able to raise rents at the end of a lease, but doing so will increase the tax bill as well. Call it market-adjusted rent control if you like, but there needs to be a tight range between rent and value if we want to encourage more housing starts.
In case anyone else wonders what Futhark means in this context – it’s a programming language: https://futhark-lang.org/

As someone who grew up in Sweden, Futhark to me is a runic alphabet :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark
I once worked for a company that tried to set up a new service, they asked for 99.99999% uptime. This worked really well for the 'ops' team which focused on the AWS setup and automation, but meanwhile the developers (of which I was one, but I didn't have any say in things because I was 'just' a front-ender) fucked about with microservices, first built in NodeJS (with a postgres database storing mostly JSON blobs behind them), then in Scala. Not because it was the best solution (neither microservices nor scala), but because the developers wanted to, and the guys responsible for hiring were Afraid that they'd get mediocre developers if they went for 'just' java.

I'm just so tired of the whole microservices and prima donna developer bullshit.
Vim also has it with `:set hlsearch incsearch`.
Too bad Red Hat is going the opposite direction with their Toolbox container management project, sharing your entire home dir with every container but not explicitly documenting this:

https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/183
The article misses the point. Heroku is for small companies. If they try to get enterprise customers, they will become too complicated like AWS and lose focus on their small customers. Heroku is important for innovation in our society. Greed-focused Silicon Valley VCs would pump it full of money and destroy it. I hope Salesforce doesn't do that.

Heroku is perfect as it is. Let's not mess it up.
Let's say you inherited a home in the US valued at $2 million. You would pay 2% of that ($40,000) as property taxes, every year. If you can't afford to pay the tax, you would sell the house and pocket the $2 million.

Is this so terrible? Doesn't seem to have stopped people investing in property.
Community-Centered Wireless Infrastructure Networks [pdf]
For those looking to learn the basics of v8 exploitation, there have been a handful of CTF problems on it, including the following recent ones (many with writeups!):

- PicoCTF 2021: Kit Engine, Download Horsepower and Turboflan

- Hack The Box (HTBs): RopeTwo and Modern Typer

- DownUnderCTF 2020: Is This Pwn or Web

- LineCTF: BabyChrome
What's a good life?

I know what I want from life, and what it costs, and I don't want extravagance. I don't have the capital to spend the 4-12 years training to increase my earning potential. My lack of capital is no fault of my own, I lost the womb lottery, why must I be relegated to live a meager life toiling for decades and have nothing to show for it while these billionaires you mentioned steal more money in a month than I'll see in 10 lifetimes?
Note that Python tends to get around this by providing a wide variety of fast builtin functions to do stuff that would otherwise be slow.

$ time python -c 'sum = 0
> for i in range(1000000000): sum += 1'

real 0m56.655s
user 0m56.646s
sys 0m0.008s

Compare to:

time python -c 'sum(range(1000000000))'

real 0m8.693s
user 0m8.684s
sys 0m0.008s

In reality, anyone is going to do heavy arithmetic using Numpy anyway:

$ time python -c 'import numpy as np; np.sum(np.arange(1000000000))'

real 0m2.022s
user 0m1.661s
sys 0m2.061s

As a nice bonus, you get hardware speed but it still gives you the right answer, unlike Node trying to use limited precision primitive types.
The "key issues to address" list explicitly calls out many of the challenges Powershell manages with its object-based view of the world. It looks like Arcan's SHMIF layer is meant to let developers using Arcan capture rich data and metadata before it gets smooshed into the VTxxx emulation layer and smeared away in a sea of screen formatting characters.

Where Arcan cannily (IMHO) differs from Powershell is it acknowledges the transition from existing toolchains will be organic instead of demanding wholesale operational changes to a different processing model. So it splits the data and metadata processing pipeline, exposes it at key points to the developers using Arcan, and lets an emulation layer cover legacy use cases, while enabling Arcan developers to create much richer data representations underneath the covers that can be tapped if desired by users via Lua manipulating the many different Arcan components (I think). This opens up hybrid GUI/TUI/other-interface best-of-breed/mixed-mode options that are unreasonably challenging to implement (especially with sync logic) with current UI stacks.

I like this approach more than Powershell's, but it remains to be seen how Arcan handles the guidance of the data and metadata ontology and resultant taxonomy; it is a much deeper problem space than just defining a default namespace, a way to modularly plug into it with extensions, then standing back and letting developers have at it. The way Powershell handled it, introspection and discoverability are out of band instead of a batteries included experience, and module management is still split out of band between Nuget, PrivateGallery, custom solutions, hand-curated Git+Jenkins lash-ups, etc.

For my small-scale, personal projects like for my family's intranet, the lack of an opinionated default for at-scale management of these issues is not a problem. But at my clients with dozens, hundreds and even thousands of developers, it presents software engineering management challenges. Solvable, just a developer experience hygiene factor I'd rather not deal with because solving it adds zero business value, it's just the cost of doing business.
It may break records of the quickest IPO devaluation so far.

What are some competitors from IPO to (near) bankruptcy in n months?

preemptive edit: cool(aid) down, it MAY be a scenario
It's also popularity... among bittorrent users, which is a fairly particular subset of the population.
>For what I remember some(most?) components of arduinos are imported from outside EU

So what? A third of iphone components are imported from outside of china. No competitive economy is 100% self sustainable.
Something that has fascinated me about the last year is that the pandemic has sped up the feedback loop on decisions like this. Seeing the impact of this decision won't take years and the outcome won't be unclear. In another few weeks, we'll very likely know that this was an overly cautious call that directly led to even more vaccine hesitancy, and lives lost as a result.
So, how do creditors protect themselves against fraudulent debitors?

If someone owes me money in the US, I don't have any means to send a legal request?

I Germany, I can just go to court without needing a lawyer and the court will eventually send a bailiff if my claim is justified.
Don’t feel bad about not being an economist. They mostly make shit up anyway, but dress it in fancy math and words to make it seem important.
I would love to see the wealth gap broken down into liquid and illiquid assets.
Everyone keeps recommending vacuum robots to me, but they don't solve the hard parts of vacuuming. A vacuum robot will not move furniture around to get the dust in the corners. A vacuum robot will not clean the dust on my desk, or in my keyboard.
Your 1989 chip can be emulated in software by a modern ECU.
I should add, I am lucky enough to be working with a wonderful group of people, who are the most accepting and supportive people in my life right now.. but that's just the small team I'm working with, I was in a different part of my organization before coming out and I did not feel like I could transition while working with those people. My old boss was coming from a liberal ivy league university in a blue state, and he turned out to be a huge misogynist/xenophobe. People make jokes all the time that they think are "no big deal" and they don't seem to understand at all how hurtful words can be when you're facing harassment, hostility, threats from total strangers all day long.
U.S. calls for pause on Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine
Honestly one could argue that DOS has some merit beyond Unix. It’s simple command line interface expects users will program in other languages like C or assembly. It’s more directly interaction with the machine. Sure it had limitations like file name lengths etc back in the day, but I think many Unix shells are overly complex and ought to yield to more suitable languages like Perl.
Is it possible to return structured data in PowerShell from non-.Net languages? I am genuinely asking here, it’s been years since I’ve poked it. If not though that seems like an enormous stumbling block.
Does the City of London want Julian Assange to die in prison?
An example of using local state is on the first page (the last example). It might seem unfamiliar because it does not use components, and that is simply because "local state" in Callbag-JSX is simply a "local variable" in JavaScript, which can be defined in any scope.

As for components: you are correct, there are no examples of components on the first page. There is one in "Getting Started", but that is a pretty simple one with the state defined outside of the component. That said, "components" in Callbag-JSX are just functions, "stateful components" are functions with closure. Though perhaps I should elaborate on that further.
> with one instruction per line

I shouldn't be surprised, of course you're also the kind of person who writes terribly long lines of code. We have ultra-wide screens nowadays, better put them to good use.

Anyways, you might think you're making a point by repeating "it's all opinions", but that doesn't mean your single opinion is equal to everyone else. And on the subject of one vs multiple declarations, you're overwhelmingly in the minority.
Even if you aren't the most talented and smartest person, having the advantages they did would still almost certainly mean you'd be in a better position then you would be without them.
This is kneejerk statistics 101 reaction.

* Hormonal birth control - years of research. Years of evidence and practice. Knowing what to do when this and that happens. Recommendations for women with known conditions not to take this and that hormonal birth control.

* Novel vaccination - barely month of research. Weeks of evidence and practice. We don't have best practices yet.

I'm fine with anyone to make a decision on them own to take these vaccinations. As someone with a not-so-uncommon mutation causing thrombosis easily, I'm happy I hesitated and haven't received either J&J or AstraZeneca.
Show HN: Things you never worry about doing that are riskier than the AZ vaccine
How the heck people discover these kind of obscure bugs?
This take seems a little short-shrift to me.

This is a highly unusual situation insofar as phase III monitoring is far from complete and there is no 'phase IV' (confirmatory) trial data at all yet. In the normal course of research, this is how we'd catch rare but consistent adverse effects.

So, if we had complete trials on a normal timeframe, then obviously there's a different calculus to apply.

But given what we know at this moment, these six incidents might actually be far more normal than the crude use of six as numerator and seven million as a denominator.

A pause to assess the data and allow any lag to resolve seems prudent.

And, while this will be very difficult to quantify until much later, if then, I surmise that this will only create temporary vaccine hesitancy and only outside the high-risk tier, which is perfectly rational.

For people in the low-risk tier, there's nothing wrong with waiting until the conclusion of the RCT monitoring in the first place, even if adverse events weren't the basis of that decision.
Ok, I see; obviously not my kind of humor.
If there is enough evidence to start a arbitration request, then start there. A editor who has already received a topic ban is more likely to get a second ban, or harsher because of the repeat offense.

That said, if you go after a person for their personal social media comments and succeed, the common result is that people clam up about their personal opinions in social media. This is the common argument against the recent trend of digging through peoples social media in order to find something to hang them. All it does is to make people less open and more closed minded.

Looking at the archived discussion at the Administrator noticeboard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...), the big issue seems to be the lack of any actually edit conflict. On Wikipedia, that is a problem if one want to sanction an editor for doing biased editing.

The whole discussion seems to be similar to the one about hardware back doors by NSA (if produced in a country where the US has influence), china or both. We can suspect there is a security problem, we can point towards incentives and capability to do it, but trying to do a proper response to the threat without anything concrete is difficult.
Maybe the rats scare the ants.
Agreed. Economists pretend like they can predict the future, but when they’re wrong they continue on like nothing happened.

As you point out, it’s better to observe history and the boom/bust cycles to extrapolate that this will not last. I’d wager the next bust will be even bigger than anything in our lifetime, but would be a happy to be wrong.
Second link: https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve...
Fukushima-fallout in Greenland cod (2013)
There are many people you need to follow on Twitter for business reasons such as customers, suppliers, neighboring businesses, peers and competitors. As the number of people you follow grows, so does the noise. It gets harder to hear the important messages among all of the others.Thus, I recently found a very interesting project https://audext.com/.
Big ships worth elevating modern bridges
My takeaway from this thread is that C programmers are completely insufferable.
> Contracts that involve money over time should state the exact amount you are obligated to pay in total, including any and all fees. Adobe does not currently do that. In Australia at least, they can renew your annual contract at a higher rate without notice. That's not OK with me.

It was shown in screenshots in the Twitter thread that Adobe _actually_ does that.

> The fact that you defend this practice shows where our ethics differ. I do not know how you can justify: A company signing you up for another year at a higher rate without telling you.

So, you think it's justified to punish Adobe for the negligence of the customer?

Both Adobe _and_ the customer have the duty to study a mutual contract before signing it. Not reading what you are signing can also backfire for companies:

> https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/updated-russian-man-turns-ta...
Ah good one, will check it out. "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling (from the links I posted earlier) also makes the same point.
Very interesting. I maintain several Titanium projects and I have to agree it seems to have chosen the best paths for basic to intermediate cross platform App development and the recent release to full open source has me excited for its future.
This site's negativity/nit picking is sometimes incredible.

This is an incredibly cool product that is by their own words "very alpha" and people jump to "OMG i know what hijacking is so I'll point it out" for attention. It's kind of a tired trope. This is obviously not an intentional hacking of users but rather a quite harmless bug in the implementation of an undo/permalinking feature.

Great job to the devs and I hope I can find a utility for this product in the future, it's kind of a javascriptable excel concept, really cool.
> family obligations that take priority

There's a severe lack of small businesses in the USA. Totally fixable. So many low hanging fruit. Affordable health insurance and childcare would be revolutionary.

I forfeited my fledgling software startup, just as it started to gain traction, once we got pregnant. I needed insurance for my family.

For decades, young parents have struggled with health insurance, day care, and other really basic stuff. 30 years ago, cost of childcare was ridiculous, and very hard to find. Today, it's completely insane.

Of course new business formation is at historical lows. (Pre-pandemic, of course, in anticipation of the inevitable pedantry.)
I generally agree with your comment, but

> That said I trust that the government agencies know what they are doing here.

If 2020 didn't finally shatter that trust, is there anything that can? FDA was already obviously a regulatory capture vehicle for pharma. And CDC got nearly everything wrong in the ebola outbreak of 2014. Then, both of them blundered their way through this pandemic.

For example, we know from the email leaks that FDA felt it was under pressure from Trump to approve vaccines[0], and then never disclosed this fact to the public. That doesn't seem like dispassionate science and expertise to me.

By contrast, many of the medical journals, preprint houses, and academic institutions have looked like far more stable sources of knowledge.

It seems to me that the internet age asks us to replace our state institutions of expertise with something more thoughtful and genuinely connected to science.

0: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627
C is easy to learn, but very hard to master.

Having self learned C devs do a big, complex program is an invitation for security vulnerabilities.

Most of the time people find themselves fighting against the language, and struggling to have the program simply not to crash.

If you see that, you start to think how much those guys would have time left to ensure anything like input sanitation, or code hardening in general.
Not a lawyer not legal advice.

Not correct. The price on the 'Box' is the invitation to
treat [0]. The price you pay in the UK is the verbal Offer at the checkout. They may/should sell it a the RRP, but it is not correct in law.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_treat