skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point as a tech person, but really, have you ever had this issue with your parents and iOS devices these days? I mean even most 30-something people don't know what those choices are about, that Whatsapp is worse than Signal...

Maybe there should be something like a "root" or "developer" setting that can be enabled for advanced users, but for the average person the default for all this must be the best possible option already and they don't need to worry about it.
More relevant ads. If you play free mobile apps and ads are shown anyway you might as well opt-in to have them be relevant to you.
Whether it's part of the language or the standard library is arguing semantics; Support for type safe dynamic arrays is something that C++ has that C doesn't, is widely used, and poorly reomplemented in C using macros (if you're lucky).

>Namespaces: prefixes work just fine in C and don't require name mangling.

This is a perfect example of a feature that solves a problem that C has (global namespace pollution). Prefixing is a bandaid, and a nasty one at that. Everyone loves #define NOMINMAX in the windows headers, and prefixing all their code with a faux namespace, dirtying _all_ of the code.

> RAII makes no sense with C's concept of "dumb data" instead of C++'s "smart objects".

Sure it does. Every call to fopen should be paired with a call to fclose, every malloc with a free. RAII practically eliminates a whole category of issues around resource leaks; in over a decade of writing C++ professionally, almost every instance of a memory leak, stomp or resource leak was someone trying to be "clever" and drop down to more C style code.
> I don’t want to read into this too far but I hope the author doesn’t blame himself for all this

I dunno, the whole "business turned me into a monster" bit is a little thin given that he opens his story with a VC pitch that he secures by melodramatically faking grief over his uncle's death.

The guy seems like a little bit of a psycho, who became a little more of a psycho through desensitization.
I think it is really fairly clear that CCP is the side that prevented WHO team from conducting a thorough investigation at suspected ground zero.
If elderly would climb wind turbines I guess those numbers would change.
Python is a much better utility knife in my opinion, because it's used in more domains than just web development, and comes bundled with most operating systems.
> From early on, public and media perceptions were shaped in favor of the natural emergence scenario by strong statements from two scientific groups. These statements were not at first examined as critically as they should have been.

The propaganda from the CCP played a major part of that “shaping.” It’s critical that the influence of the CCP on the head of the WHO not be ignored. Reporters seem to ignore the potential conflict of interest given that the WHO head was the former foreign minister of Ethiopia and oversaw billions in Chinese investment in that country. It’s not inconceivable that he was personally enriched with Chinese money during his days overseeing the Chinese “investment.”
The wording of this title reads really weird to me.

Anti-Asian Hate Crime reads like "Being against Hate Crimes perpetuated against Asians" not "Hate Crimes perpetuated against Asians".

Mostly because "Asian Hate Crime" to me reads as "Hate Crimes perpetuated against Asians" and not "Hate Crimes perpetuated by Asians"

Anyways, this isn't too surprising to me. Vancouver has it's fair share of shitty humans like any other place, and like the article mentions, a lot of Asians live there.

If you're the kind of asshole who wants to hate on asians for whatever reason, Vancouver would provide ample opportunity to do so.

I'm not sure it indicates a rise in anti-asian sentiment among the non-asshole population of Vancouver though.
This especially drives me nuts because I use text selection to help with reading on ultra-wide pages when I scroll so I don't lose my place. I hate when I can't select text.
Thank you so much for your thorough answer.
I can totally understand what you say about helping seeds grow and the "analytics fatigue" when it comes to legacy tools.
I also understand that you are not much interested in how your visitor base or visit cohorts evolve.
Beyond, please share if you have any hints about how you may estimate these metrics with your current tools.
Apple's apps have never done what the new App Tracking policy requires your permission to do. Apple doesn't need to ask for your permission in this instance because they're not doing it.
This completely ignores the advantages they have in code readability and reliability.

I can well deal with a little extra effort to order the initializations for those benefits.

Now, if you complained about the burden on refactoring member orders it poses on the other hand?
ACPI is problematic in big endian.
Show HN: Empty, transparent Mac OS Browser Window (.psd, .png) License: CC 1.0
Evidence that science is mostly this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fuck-around-and-find-out

Although that Know Your Meme article focuses on politics, science has always been about professional mistake-making.
> There is no compelling evidence that eating unprocessed beef carries any significant cancer risk.

Red meat has an IARC classification of 2A, probably carcinogenic to humans. This is based on limited evidence from epidemiological studies, but also (contrary to your claim) mechanistic evidence.
I didn't know this project but if you visit their website today you can see that Stellar is listed there as a reference.
Cryptocurrencies can still be subject to hard forks which allow seizure transactions. Likely in the future governments will demand such changes, if they don't outlaw cryptocurrencies entirely. Furthermore, bitcoin's value is highly volatile. So your initial investment of $100 might be worth $5000 or $0.10 in 3 years. You might not have to trust the network itself, but you have to trust the value of the asset to remain stable enough. Which it isn't due to multiple factors.
It's a slippery slope though. First come the ads, then the tracking, then the microtargeting, then the targeted disinformation.
The review leaves me with no idea whether the book is any good or not. It is fair to say that the post-war US had a lot of money and a lot of power, and thought that it therefore must have a lot of great thinkers, major writers, and first-class artists. Not all have held up well; some were I think pretty good.
1. As previously noted, I find ads targeted based on my personal information useful, when done well. The harm is that ads become less relevant to me (and others). If I have to see ads anyway, I would prefer them to be as relevant as possible.

2. Banning ads targeted on personal info makes advertising a less effective/lucrative funding method for free services. This in turn increases the likelihood that such services will have to move to more regressive funding models, like subscriptions.
No, quite the opposite - `let` should be used by default (due to better scoping rules (block rather than function) for most cases) and `var` only used when necessary.
I'm surprised the article does not mention tax evasion and money laundering. Those are surely bigger hammers than whatever would come from the FTC or GDPR.
Amazon has billions of dollars in profits. That they don't spend a small portion of this on curating their seller base tells me they see the fraud as something that helps them.

Or that Amazon can't move beyond their startup mentality of growth uber alles. Perhaps the best move at this point is not to continue their existing approach, and redefine their storefront to something other than a nicer Aliexpress.
Im not saying that skin cancer is not a thing, but that from my position seems overblown.

The fact that seems that if you take sun without sunbathe you could likely get skin cancer is crazy.

As I said, I live in a rural place where most people gets lots and lots of sun and I still have to know a single old man having it.

And old mans that have taken +8 hours of sun since they are 12.

Just my two cents
I wouldn't be completely surprised if there is a box running a build of Mac OS for RISC V somewhere in Cupertino!

Seriously though, I suspect that the ISA isn't that important for Apple but on the other hand I think they're probably quite happy with the direction of the Arm ISA (probably had a big say in parts of it) and it would take quite a lot to push them away.

I think that the odds on the Nvidia takeover are quite small by now so don't think a move likely at all.
This list shares a lot in common with these sources for a youtuber's racial policing videos: https://www.the1janitor.com/sources

Is there a meta-source you got your list from?
I ignore all positive reviews these days as a rule.

Instead I check a few of the negative ones and see if there's a pattern that indicates some sort of systemic issue with the product.
Maybe, I don't have the exact figure either but it is known that a specific mutation (which I don't have) is needed for efficient conversion. This is telling that at some rather recent point (agriculture) humans started consuming less animal fats.
Why would it be?

A lot of JS in the wild favors putting everything in objects (maybe not explicitly, but they end up doing it a lot anyway) so gets away with a lot of "const" use that still lets them mutate the values of those objects. If you're dealing with primitives you're going to need "let" a lot more.
The most interesting part of this is that Fiverr has a premium freelancing service where people (at least one, anyways) make good money.

I didn't know about Fiverr Pro. That's interesting.
This is a nice simple article exploring an interesting problem.

I hope they use a fixed seed for their random function when probabilistically covering parts of the image.

If not it might mean one could refresh the image a few times and get different parts covered. If so, you could then knit together a full image by combining just the uncovered parts.
Those get taken down, with the motivation that they’re reviewing the seller, not the product, and should be on the seller’s page instead (where no one reads them).
I've been acquainted with a number of engineers at various autonomous vehicle companies and they are some of the most reserved people when it comes to the reality of autonomous driving. Many of them going so far as to say they would never use one for themselves now or in the near future.

I think when domain experts speak up like this we should listen. The autonomous vehicle technology seems like it has a long way to go.
> They only have two datacenters in Europe

Nonsense, Hetzner operates like 25 datacenters.
Yes, you could use node's streams to implement this. It would be really cool.
"Against all odds"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22a...
I occasionally have used JScript on Windows, mostly because I don't much like VBScript, and PowerShell want you to sign its scripts.
You can do a buyout after 3 years for $99. So the maximum cost someone might need to pay is $(400+36*12+99) = $931, or $131 over the outright purchase option.
I'm surprised!
OpenAPI Generator v5.1.1 released with a new go-echo-server generator
That's interesting, I did not know that.

Seems Facebook could nonetheless offer two tiers of service for those with and those without tracking.

Although a bit orthogonal, Instagram will not let me post from a Desktop browser but will from a Mobile browser. (So I switch my User Agent to a phone on the Desktop when I navigate to Instagram and wish to post.)
Things founders do on their websites
In C, n=f(x) plainly means the variable n is assigned the value returned from f(x). While you don't know what f(x) does, you can tell it is a function.

In c++, the = could be a function too, that does unexpected things. Critically, if you are unaware of the side effects of that = operator, you may be doing things you don't want to do. The most likely issue would be performance if you are repeatedly using the = operator thinking it is a simple operation. Like if someone is being clever and uses the Active Record model and you are unexpectedly doing database writes with what you thought was a local object with no side effects.

To not have this happen, of course, you could read the entire object definition, but then you need everyone working on the project to have 100% of the code committed to memory. This is why you will likely find rules in the coding style guide of whatever company banning such practice after someone is bitten by it.
Meanwhile “More than half the U.S. grain and nearly 40 percent of world grain is being fed to livestock rather than being consumed directly by humans.”

Your anecdote makes it sound like animal feed is just a fixed waste cost of growing food for humans.
Repeat offenders are often given longer sentences. Mandatory minimum sentencing plays a big part in this. I assume that's what they're trying to control for.
I think (1) is really about where you land it.

I am not free to name the product, but I worked on a product that has done billions of dollars in revenue that designed a bunch of state management checkpointing using a custom STM implementation for C (yes, C). It made so, so many things straightforward in terms of corner cases; we also extended transactionality to sync over the wire in some cases.

I also think STM-adjacent designs are gaining some traction - for example, FoundationDB looks an awful lot like an STM system from the point of view of applications, much more than it looks like a traditional database.
> the nuclear power plant killed just one

Yes, I'm aware that some people will keep repeating this damage control PR stunt a thousand times, and that other naive people could even believe them and spread it, but it will still be false (and irrelevant).

Every time that we talk about Fukushima we have the but "almost nobody died" rabbit out of the hat again. We have yet discussed why this is false ten times and frankly I'm a little tired about this tactics of draining our energy making us to repeat obvious facts again and again until everybody quits the room.
We Manage New York Times Readers’ Data Privacy
Yeah I can't believe people are still parroting this at all.
If you want to go the bad car analogy route: it's as if a company was making Mercedes car mats using the Mercedes logo and being surprised they have to pay a fee to sell them via the Mercedes dealer network.
You have misunderstood what transactional memory is. Think of it as database transaction applied to memory operations. Like a database transaction makes a collection of read and write and computation based on those read and write appear atomic w.r.t other transactions and read/write, transactional memory generally aims to make a section of instructions to have transactional semantic for all load and store and other instructions in the transaction. Most transactional memory proposals are not page level granularity - though obviously most proposals have certain limits, and byte level being too granular doesn't even make any sense.
Nice! Maybe at one point you can release a general web search engine for the Common Crawl corpus? It seems even simpler than this proof of concept, but potentially more useful for people looking for a true full text web search.

There isn't an easy way today to explore or search what is contained in the Common Crawl index.
Yes, America turned away boatloads of Jews. Yes, the world did not do enough, and turned a blind eye when it didn't affect them directly.

> That wasn't the reason for the war.

This is false. Hitler spoke and wrote at length about the "Jewish problem." It wasn't the _only_ reason for the war but it certainly was _a_ reason for the war. Even the war against the USSR was framed as against "Jewish Bolsheviks."

This is aside from the fact that OP referenced their grandfather being a member of the SS. The SS was _not_ the German army. The SS was the military organization of the Nazi party - often conflicting with the army to achieve their goals. They enforced racial policy in Germany and its conquests, ran the concentration camps and death camps, and were specifically tasked with eliminating Jews.

Perhaps it is because of the collective guilt of not having done enough for Jews at the time, but people often gloss over the explicitly racial and antisemitic aspect of World War II. The extermination of Jews was not a byproduct, it was one of the key goals.

For further detail, I encourage the interested reader to check out "The War Against the Jews" by Lucy Davidowitz.
I assure you, it wasn't intentional.

I read Mr. Sampson's blog, and I literally got tears in my eyes. I regretted engaging with him in the way I did, but HN doesn't let me delete posts. It was also too late to edit them.

He and I had something in common, and it's just extremely rare to encounter fellow coders who spent some part of their childhood in "the system" (shelters, foster care, etc) like I did. I've also seen hardcore racists who disown their children for dating a person of color. I even tried to dissuade a man (he was a boss on a construction site i worked at) one time from doing this to his daughter. The hatred in his heart was so deep that it was like talking to a wall.

I saw a commenter continuing to engage, and I wanted to express my emotions I felt after reading his blog. I understand the anger too. I remembered, especially in my mid to late 20s, having the suppressed memories/emotions come back and fuck up my head, and often consume me. It was an attempt to relate and process, and yes, a reminder that these negative memories cause us to forget about being grateful for the good things and good people we encounter on a daily basis. The dehumanization of people who disagree with us, is bad, and I'm not pretending I'm not part of the problem, including some asshole things I said in this thread, which I regret.

Based on your outright hostility and strong political beliefs (you clearly have politics incorporated into your identity), I doubt you'll believe my explanation, but I'm writing this in the off-chance that Mr. Sampson sees this. He's embarked on a difficult path with his startup, and I sincerely wish him well. That's it.
Tetreasy – Tetris which always gives you the best piece

Pull request:
https://github.com/qntm/hatetris/pull/51#issue-632962518
PH Launch – Get your team's honest thoughts with anonymous messages in Slack
This is a hope OT reply, but I just want you to know that I truly appreciate your commenting on HN. I find myself actively seeking out your comments when browsing. While I may disagree with some of your thoughts (violently in a few cases) I always find them well written and argued. I even find myself wondering what you would think of my pet language project. So, in sum, even if coming to HN is just a fun diversion for you, it actually makes a difference to some people, so thanks.
Every time you install the browser or buy a new computer, I guess?

Or until they issue an update or change their API and your add-ons suddenly stop working.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/02/01/addons-mozilla-or...
Let is syntactic sugar.

To me, the code smell is the syntax from BASIC (and later C) that goes:

<code>
x = y
</code>

I've always disliked that notation; it looks like the statement "the value of x is the same as the value of y". So "let" turns the code into something that makes sense when read aloud.

I don't think syntactic sugar is a code smell.
More like where the grind begins.
The cancel issue you described is no longer present in the current version of win10.

The unfortunate fact is nobody except us geeks uses Yubikeys. 99% of users prefer platform keys. So it's not hard to understand why software defaults to it.
Similar thoughts on the same idea here.

Taking The Emergency Exit From A Wind Turbine - Tom Scott

https://youtu.be/UWSckm8zTc8?t=80
I have never used Termite but I used Terminator many years for more features but mostly the window splits, I have also done a lot of Rust development so when I heard about Alacritty I gave it a test drive. One thing I did was run `find /` with Terminator and Alacritty side by side and Alacritty finished about an order of magnitude faster.

So I switched to tmux for tiling and use Alacritty now, not that I regularly dump so much text so quickly on the terminal but I was impressed with the engineering. I have been happy with it.
I think it isn't helped by the fact that SSD fail in a more specific way, you can write x amount of bytes before it should fail, so it feels more like a countdown to failure when you use one even though you could probably never write that much in your lifetime under normal loads.
Autonomous cars might be possible for climates without snow but they'll never be capable of driving with humans in winter till they start making the same intuitive mistakes as humans given sparse data (complete snow covering).

The problem with any non-vision based location system to compensate for covered roads is that it isn't what humans use. In winter in cold climates sometimes the roads are covered with snow for days to weeks and road margins drift for the entire season. Humans just form new emergent lanes. These lanes often aren't the "correct" lanes that non-vision based absolute position would find. And they're very difficult to detect with computer, or even human, vision.

Having one set of laws of autonomous cars in arizona and another for minnesota will lead to a lot of problems.
Based on Apple’s job postings I’m beginning to suspect their stance on ads and tracking was nothing more than a clever ruse to weaken competitors while they build their own a personalized ad business for iOS:

https://i.imgur.com/y1s9F4J

They also just hired Facebook’s first ads targeting product manager to work for their ad platform. I don’t think Apple ads won’t be limited to the App Store within a couple years.
Yeah, the adapter was cheap. I already had a working drive to go into it.
I'm not sure I agree that a distinction needs to be made between the two, certainly not on lines of agency. The "our" in "to our surprise" may or may not correspond to an agent, patient, etc., in the modified clause.

To an agent: "To our surprise, we found them. To our surprise, group A was found by us first."

To a patient: "To our surprise, they found us. To our surprise, we were found by group A."

To neither: "To our surprise, group A found group B. To our surprise, group B was found by group A."

I suppose "to our surprise" is explicit about whose expectations weren't met in a way that "surprisingly" is not. But in a first-person narrative, I imagine most readers would understand "surprisingly" to mean "to my/our surprise."
It seems so.
Its the notion of "Trust Lines"[0]

All this thing does is limit potential losses from fraud. Not eliminating.

The main value proposition of a blockchain is to solve the "principal-agent" problem [1] and gis simply reduces the risk but doesn't remove it entirely.

Plus some of the requirements on a node having to be online (in a decentalized, byzantine environment) all the time are unrealistic.

This seems more like ripple.

Stellar uses a more sophisticated notion of "quorum slices" and is resistant to byzantine faults [2]

[0]:
https://trustlines.foundation/faq.html

[1]:https://as1ndu.xyz/2021/04/clarifying-the-blockchain-proposi...

[2]: https://youtu.be/vmwnhZmEZjc
Painkillers are generally effective against back pain or headaches. Much fewer side effects than amputation.
> On the other hand Gnome3 is the first Linux desktop that I think is really non power user friendly.

I think Plasma and Cinnamon also belong in this group.