skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alan Kay has worked on that problem space since the late 1960s. Here's his recounting of the history of the Dynabook and how it compares to the iPad: https://www.quora.com/American-computer-pioneer-Alan-Kay-s-c...

It's a shame that his vision of tech education isn't shared by hardware manufacturers. There was the OLPC project, which didn't seem to gain much traction. The iPad could easily fulfill this role, yet the OS still limits the device to media consumption and any programming on it is cumbersome. There's an iPad Scratch app that might be worth a try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scratchjr/id895485086
Obviously the second amendment provides an unconditional right to carry guns. It says “bear arms”, which means to have it on one’s person, and it says “shall not be infringed”, which means no erosion of this right is permitted (for example requiring a license to carry or banning open carry). I hope the Supreme Court rules sanely and guarantees a nationwide right to both open and concealed carry.
> There's a lot wrong with your post, but I'll just say that the right, like others, is written in a way that is absolute.

Then perhaps governments should be able to regulate it, as in the very first clause of 2A: well regulated.

And if one is going to be an Originalist à la Scalia (and there is nothing in the US Constitution that says that this is the (only) valid way to interpret it), then one needs treat the Milita like it was when the 2A was written: akin to the modern day National Guard. So if you wish to bear arms as part of the Militia, I would ask: what is your rank? who is your command officer? what unit are you a part of?
Exactly. Code quality is not an intrinsic good, but it is a technique for accomplishing the actual intrinsic good, which is whatever the function of the software is.

This is like saying “no one cares about training for a marathon, they only care about running a faster time”

Well, sure, but up the WAY you run a faster time is to train. You need a technique and strategy to accomplish the actual goal.
When possible fill out the list of security questions with nonsense that you keep a record of/or understand the pattern of answers to. "What's your favorite sport?" "Potato".

I fill them out, screenshot the form and keep that screenshot in an encrypted file that I keep backups of. Not even text searchable that way.

Also completely ridiculous I have to do any of this.
See also MX-30, if anyone’s looking for a new electric with gas range extender. Rotary engine!

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40168/2022-mazda-mx-30-ev-the-...
Chinese-founded social network Yalla gets going in Middle East
It makes intuitive sense for San Francisco to be "the most profitable rent in the country" as you claimed, but the surprising and counterintuitive truth is that it's the opposite.
Alvy Ray Smith, founder of Pixar, is not a "her"
Imagine making this ridiculous argument for anything else.

Yeah, maybe only .005% of Americans are flat earthers but I chuckle at the math! You just havent given it enough time for us to be proven right!
Ageist? I didn't say they all were, just the ones with this special kind of anti-youth aggression. You know, the ageist ones.
With a really tight knot where you can't find a place to start, don't pull, push. Knead and squeeze at it long enough, and you'll find some looseness somewhere. That's usually all you need.
You can see porn as a shitty alternative to sex, or as a great visual aid to masturbating. Both are technically true.

Also you can watch porn while having sex, in theory.
Well, you essentially described credit history, which is what credit score is based on.
> And yet sales of new guns are up massively. Can you explain this discrepancy?

I do so in my post:

> Fewer people own guns nowadays generally, with only one-third only a single gun, about one-third owning 2-4, and one-third owning >5:

> * https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-dem...

> Seems that only a minority of American (households) own firearms, and the ones that do may simply make more noise than the (silent) majority that do not.

Ownership is more concentrated:

> But America’s gun super-owners, have amassed huge collections. Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each.

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/the-gun-numb...

> Some are collectors with elaborately curated selections of historical firearms, while others are ‘just accumulators’. They say it is surprisingly easy to get to 17

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/gun-ownershi...
And it's not like Ivermectin wasn't studied. In randomized control trials and was found to be probably ineffective. Still being studied by various people. But also likely that even if it were effective the doses required would be too toxic for humans. So not a wise thing to spread around as "health advice" and presumably why Facebook etc have clamped down on this.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_drug_repurposing_rese...

Also if it worked, I'm pretty sure Merck (the creator of Ivermectin) would be all over selling it for that purpose.
yeah could be that as well, definitely some conventional ICE engines, not batteries
Obligatory: Not every company is in "that category" (hyperscale startups trying to churn out their MVP).

Some places where clean code really matters:

- The personal project where, if you can't figure out how you did something, you'll quickly get bored and quit.

- The open source project that needs to onboard hundreds or thousands of developers across language barriers in order to successfully solve problems.

- The medium-to-large startup or enterprise that needs to maintain velocity on a product line.

- The small startup that never quite hit hyper growth and needs to retain developers.

- ... many more

If you're trying to get rich quick, or quickly iterate through many different, dissimilar ideas, then writing sloppy code is fine. I'd argue that that's _not_ most codebases (though perhaps it is in the entrepreneur community).
I have mixed feelings between your response and the response you are replying to. One one hand I can clearly see how what you're saying makes sense. On the other, I still am inclined to believe that if you really distilled the actual purpose of everything you mentioned, it could be formulated in a way that doesn't require AGI.
Mountains on molehills.
Glaciers melting in the harsh sun.
All we do is subject to the fate of our ancestors.
Brilliant is the one.
Makes Lambda look FAR less attractive up front.

You’re only paying back a small percentage of income and that’s IF you are even employed, so it’s not clear how you would be thinking of going into bankruptcy to discharge this loan.
I follow the development of the stations pretty closely. It is much much much harder than you think it is. Some stations take well over a year from permitting to lighting them up. Tesla has also made deals with a lot of businesses and states to put them on highway rest stops. The other charging stations are spotty at best. I live one mile from the Electrify America HQ. Even the station at their HQ is iffy and I had issues with payments on it.

Also Tesla has two full production lines for the station gear. One in Shanghai and one in Buffalo NY. Electrify America is a hodgepodge of 4 different suppliers gear.
I don't understand why would any company want to openly discuss...

That's the point; companies don't want to discuss it but oppressed employees do.
I care about my clean code. Nearly every line of code I write is "clean", because it affects the bottom line.

Messy codebases and bad architecture quadratically drive up the cost of development time. I've experienced this countless times for over 10 years, and it's endlessly frustrating.

The state of web has gotten so tirelessly messy, I had to write my own framework to return to the clean web architecture we once had. And my clients love it, even if they're not directly aware of it, because everything takes less time (and therefore less cost) to build.
Sincere question - not meant to be inflammatory: Do you actually believe that most employees in the United States are coerced/forced to sign employment contracts, or are you simply playing devil's advocate?
When I was working on this https://codaris.github.io/UnderDeskBike/ I honestly didn't know if what I wanted to do was even possible at many layers. I didn't know how to do Bluetooth. I knew nothing.

It's not worth doing things "the right way" right off the bat because you might not know what that is. My first version was literally a linear file of statements and console output.

Once I got something working and understood the problem space then I could back and fix it up. The final code looks like nothing like the original prototype although at no point did I actually throw it away -- I just transformed it heavily -- but the theory is the same. It started as a console app even though the final product was not one.
I don't think we can ignore that this is happening in the context of current events in the United States.
> But Lambda already forgoes loan repayment if the student doesn't get a job making at least $50k.

No, it doesn’t, ever, for the California Retail Installment Contract at issue.

Their ISA, defers for five years and then discharges.
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
I just generate my security questions as multiple random words in my password manager. I used to just do random passwords but I had to spell the random password with symbols etc over the phone a few times and quit that
Why don’t companies hire software engineers who are willing to write code for less money?

People tend to want to be paid market value
A "eat more blueberries diet" will always be more popular than a "eat less" one b/c with the form you'll have farmers, super markets, etc behind you. With the latter, the message will be don't go to the store and buy something - not 'sale sustaining' (yes that was an awesome pun).
Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
How Stardew Valley Bridged a Connection to My Grandfather
• Money is overrated.

In my experience, never said by people who have been poor

• If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.

Agree completely!
As a person without ADHD that sounds weirdly similar to my experience of studying or coding on amphetamines (from brief experiments in college that I quickly decided were not worth it). Is there actually any difference between ADHD meds and speed?
"Users couldn't care less about the programming language you used", and yet the author is so protective of his work that I can't copy paste this phrase. Unhappy user right here.

We code for ourselves. We deliver value to the costumer. Two different things.
So the concept of having a boss is authoritarian? Again I'll proudly wear the label of authoritarian as you describe it.
The argument for it is that without it a graduate with a large balance could default on their loan immediately after graduation. The classic example being a surgeon getting hundreds of thousands in loans for medical school, and then skipping out on paying them back when they begin making bank as a doctor.
If you care about having long lasting competitive advantage rather than simply being the first to market, than you care about your code. It just depends on what you want to optimize for.
> but sometimes it is the only one available

I vaguely suspect that there are better games you can play with 2 dice, which come included in the Monopoly box. Pig is simple enough that a child can understand it, but also has a reasonable sense of tension built in as long as no one in the group has run the numbers on what perfect play is.

And if you can find a deck of cards or even just 3 more dice, options open up even further. Or if you've got an even number of people and one of them has a phone, there are multiple websites online that will generate charades or pictionary challenges for you.

I just don't think Monopoly has that much to recommend it compared to almost anything else, even when the game is at its best. And especially if I'm in a group setting, given the choice between fighting about the 'proper' way to play Monopoly or just playing a game that's at least nominally fun regardless of anyone's experience level... some things just aren't worth the effort.
You’re assuming ridesharing in the way Lyft and Uber do it will last for long.. not a single place I’ve seen anyone confirm that it’s profitable or break even for the drivers. Almost no one drives for years with them, and they’re bound to run out of drivers who haven’t learned the lessons. Or their prices jack up to more than regular cab prices like in nyc. One way or another it’s a non zero possibility these companies won’t survive in the same shape.
It's going to change soon. Plus if EVs get up to 500km in range, that makes it almost as much as an ICE vehicle and that means you can easily get around long enough to find a charger.
One approach we used was to wrap the connections in a proxy (easy in Python), and flag if the code called the commit() method at any point. You do need to trust that the code doesn't call COMMIT explicitly via the execute() method, and flag tests running subprocesses that might dirty the database. If the test is dirty, rebuild the test database from the template instead of relying on rolling back the transactions.

However, if you add this behavior to an existing test suite you will likely have to fix a lot of tests assuming sequences will return predictable numbers, such as in automatically generated primary keys. Technically, these tests are already broken even if it is unlikely to see them fail.
The thing now I see in the Go community is cargo culting coming from seasoned veterans who took advantage of Go's minimal set of rules and created their own "standards". Take this project in Github called golang-standards. It even got the attention of Russ Cox who dismissed it in this Github issue: https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout/issues/11....
I thought her speech pertaining to the other girl constituted bullying.

I doubt the privacy laws really hold snapchat as private communication. PA law is very restrictive about recording. If someone recorded her conversation so that it could be played beyond the 24hr period in snapchat, it's possible they could be prosecuted for a felony under the wiretap laws if snaps are actually considered private.

Tinker doesn't really provide clear criteria. The disruption would have to be proven, but the articles don't give us all the details around the issues that were being caused on the team. It's possible she reiterated or confirmed her position at school or the activity, further causing the disruption even if some other person was the first to bring it up (ie it's likely not all of her speech occured off campus). Tinker also doesn't define censoring. It's mostly about not suspending or suppressing student speech on campus in a formal classroom setting. The nature of an extracurricular can carry additional responsibilities and expectations (things like illegal activities, bullying, not following team standards, even performance issues - which you could say this meets) . In this case the school did not try to censor the off campus speech, it merely took action to remove a team member that had a performance issue by violating team policy. There was no formal discipline and she was even allowed to continue with softball.
Another Unexpected Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Windows RPC Protocol
Same. Debit cards carry a lot of risk that I can offload by using a credit card. If someone gets ahold of your debit card info, there is very little recourse once the money has left your bank. Not so with credit cards. In addition, credit cards carry a whole bunch of rewards (earning points you can redeem for travel or gift cards, cash back, upgraded status with airlines and hotels, no foreign transaction fees, and the list goes on) you can’t get with debit cards.
Actually, since the loan is structured as an all-principal, no-interest $30,000 loan, deductibility of interest isn’t an issue, so it wouldn’t be classic fraud.
Terrible things don't just "happen." They have cause and effect - and people will want to change that cause and effect. That is one of the major talking points for 2A rights - that bad things can happen, so buy a gun to protect yourself (stop one of the causes, of a negative effect.)
Say "keep company Slack channels civil and focused on work."

You have been canceled for "tone policing".
There’s easier ways to kill mass amounts of people than a rifle.

And trying to take guns away from the lawful is like trying cars away from non drunk drivers cuz drunks drive cars.
I don’t think I misread you, and I think I fully understand what you mean - to some, simply saying “my husband and I” triggers the feeling that you’re shoving an agenda in their face. I get it, and I don’t disagree at all.

But you immediately lept to “conservative politics” as the one opposition that might object to the very existence of somebody. Clearly, without any context, if ever a word were to be said about this hypothetical scenario, it would be inherently political, and you would already know from which side. So, clearly, you’ve also already ascribed politics to this anodyne chitchat.

But I also think it’s disingenuous to leap from “banning political discussions at work” to “the LGBTQ family has to pretend they don’t exist”. If culture is such that people discuss what they did with their significant other or family over the weekend, then setting an environment where everyone is welcome to discuss that freely falls on leadership.

Somebody finding fault with that is going to have to be dealt with by HR the same way you might deal with a person who constantly shames everyone else for eating sugary donuts every morning - an opinion they can keep to themselves, without attacking or threatening others.

I’m not saying the line is always easy to find, but it’s not nearly as complex as most make it out to be.
CyberRabbi, you should brush up more on your Yiddish for schmoozing.

As a side note on Germanic loans, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of ersatz at work for my hacks.
I believe this is the direct link to the mentioned challenges: https://adventofcode.com/2019
Well, I still use some UML diagrams fairly often. Not so much for permanent or comprehensive system documentation, but to help me think through specific features or behaviors, and communicate these designs to others. I usually use a smallish subset of UML, because this usage doesn't require deep details.

I did give up on WYSIWYG tools for this, though. PlantUML support in VSCode is pretty good.
> Fewer people own guns nowadays generally, with only one-third only a single gun, about one-third owning 2-4, and one-third owning >5:

Yeah, sorry, serious collectors aren't going out and buying junky Hi-Points and Kel-Tecs. They just aren't.

Which strikes you as more likely:

1) a serious gun collector buys multiple $200 hunks-of-junk.

2) people lie when a stranger calls and asks them about a politically charged topic?
You're right, they should learn digital logic first...

I'm not entirely joking either; a lot of these "teach kids to code" efforts either start far too high-level and don't really help to dispel the myth that computers are magic, or border on outright corporate indoctrination ("use this locked-down environment, don't even think of trying to go outside it".)
10 years younger than you, can't run at all. Mad props, you beast.
Teslas can use ChargePoint chargers. I don't think a lot of competitors make their cars compatible with superchargers, though.
Heartsine AED
Come with CPR advisor and is low cost.
The one factor that you conveniently dismiss (market cap) is usually what people look at when talking about company size.
We used Celery (https://www.trycelery.com) before moving to Shopify.

As for Shopify, I'm not sure what's the lock-in, I can export all data (On Amazon, by comparison, you can't access your customers.)

Also, themes are in liquid, you can upload any html you'd like (bonus: if you end up doing a cool theme, you can resell it.)
Same with Moderna.
I believe it needs to be a person-to-person interaction.

You want a line of credit? You have to go into a physical location, get photographed, maybe a fingerprint scan. Ideally, we centralize the data.

This serves several goals:
1) It provides a huge resource bank for fraud detection. On the small scale, you can flip the records to law enforcement as soon as someone says that their identity was stolen. On a big scale, you could identify serial fraudsters-- if the same guy applies at 12 banks under 12 names, a red flag needs to go off as soon as he steps into bank No. 13.

2) It makes applying for credit a serious, conscious thing that discourages frivolous use. The Klarna/Affirm style "instant credit" disappears. I think there are many people who will be better with their money just because of the shame of going into a bank and admitting they need another credit line.

3) You have an opportunity for direct intervention. Applying for credit may be a crisis signal-- maybe te guy taking your picture has some basic training and guidance to ask "are you undergoing financial abuse by a spouse?" or "you know that you're buying into a classic 419 scam?"
Premium sedan, not sports car. E classes do not and have never competed on 0-60 times
All kinds of ruggedization are wear items. Even a bicycle helmet needs to be replaced after it has experienced an impact. They should be easily replaceable, like phone cases are now.
Pfizer is certainly becoming the leader here against COVID it would seem!
America: You’re welcome, world :)
I find this article exaggerates the evidence by playing loose with the term “metadata”. For example, they claim PageRank is just another example of metadata. But that’s a graph processing algorithm and it’s just that the graph was constructed using “metadata”. Now we would probably use Graph Neural Networks which would use that same graph structure but also include the page content as node features, which PageRank wasn’t capable of.

Would using IP address as a feature in an online fraud risk ML model be another case of “metadata”? Speaking of, I don’t know what American Express does specifically, but I have enough experience in the fraud + ML space to confidently say that many/most of the big players are using ML in several places throughout their fraud systems, even if allow/block lists are also used.

I guess that’s my larger point: these aren’t exclusive things. Metadata is of course incredibly valuable. So is Machine Learning. They also work really well together. And sometimes simple things work best.
I mean, of course users don't care about clean code. I care about clean code, because I care about future-me.
I don't see that as a curse. That's what everyone should be doing.
Analogical interface for sending Telegram audio messages and thermal printing
A grandchild made an analogical box with with Jack inputs, a large button, a mic and a thermal printer and programmed it using a Raspberry Pi so that his grandmother can send audio messages via Telegram to her grandchildren who reply via text and it gets printer on the thermal printer.
Using USPS's normal services, mailing etc, is difficult for me at least now because of hours. Its ooen from 8:30 to 5:00 on weekdays, & I have to run in my lunch to get something done, or otherwise have to wait for saturday. Would love it to shift an hour morning or evening, like 7 to 4, or 9 to 6 or something. With this suggested in-person verification, it will be more important than ever.
except I was trying to use my phone to record being illegally detained
Noted. Next factor in: [1] the fascistic pricks of my generation (who are still most of today's fascistic pricks) happen to be what I said they were, and [2] I never said all Boomers were lead-contaminated or that this was historically unique to only them.

Now we don't even disagree on semantics.