skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't fathom that. How could the 4 hours "pairing" negate the fact that one of you can't work for 4 hours? I can see it if those 4 hours were really design/planning time, but otherwise, I just don't see how it could work.

Most of what I see people here calling "pair programming" is just normal collaboration. Bringing in someone to put a second set of eyeballs on a problem, or to discuss some design topics, or brainstorm isn't the kind of pair programming in the original article.
just like the kuru, the effects may develop long term. 1 year study is not enough to catch that.
It's quite eye-opening how much lower-end hardware is out there. Too many users to ignore have either 2 cores, or 4GB RAM, or 768px resolution, 32-bit OS, and hardly anyone has a discrete GPU.
Yawn.

If I had a dollar for when someone goes out with the racist trope that Indians don't use computers but perform physical labour as part of their day jobs...
I realized after I posted this that account number is ambiguous in this context. It was my membership ID number at the credit union, not the bank account number itself. Their membership numbers were nine digits long and you would use them to identify yourself when you interacted with the a credit union representative over the phone. When I spoke to the support agent about that mystery car payment they said, “It looks like your member number is 649345121, and the real owner’s number is 649345122 so they must have mixed it up on the paperwork.” Which lead me to believe that the loan originated in house and the paperwork just asked for you membership number and which kind of account to use for the automatic payment. I guess the checksum was supposed to be the human who entered the number verifying that the account holder information matched the information on the form, but that didn’t happen in my case.
The OpenPOWER Foundation GitHub organization appears to be here, but it doesn't look like there's a public repo for the openpowerfoundation.org site that would allow submitting pull requests to remove the hostile scrolling behavior on this page.

https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation

(Please do not upvote this comment.)
> You could see BTC investment as a bet on the future of BTC as a normal/common currency.

Yes, I totally agree. The question is: what has to happen before it's a common currency?

See my other comment for my thoughts on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27104956
Do you understand that your example implies many things? (certain type of time, space)

For example, imagine we live in a simulation, how does it affect your example?
I don't dispute the ability for China to produce more ships than the US or have more ships. By tonnage they are still less than half the size of the the US fleet and they aren't in control of the oceans. I'm not saying that won't change I am merely flagging OP statements as inaccurate.

Don't worry I don't take your comments as rude.
Wait 3 seconds until someone takes their phone out, boom, now you know what phone they have
A bunch of self-replicating patterns in a physics simulation believe other self-replicating patterns must exist elsewhere.
Unethical to use your right to access your data? Interesting take.
Yes because poor science is never jumped on by the media for general consumption.
intellij IDEA does this formatting very easily, and you can also customize it pretty easily to fit your aesthetics too.
I mean the company should automate this if this is wasting too much time.
Not Java, but an example of streams enabling parallelism in another language - https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/04/30/how-rust-makes.... Change 4 characters and it goes from saturating one core to saturating all.
(When I was a sysadmin, I heard a story of how old VAX drives would stall, so holes had been drilled in them with tape over the holes. When stalled, the sysadmin would peel back the tape and use their finger to spin-start them. Those even older drives must have been more tolerant of dust!)

More than once I had a hard drive fail to start up after a power cycle (back then the drives only spun down when power was removed). First thing we tried was to remove the drive and give the whole drive a sharp spin on the axis of the platter. Due to inertia of the platter, this would tend to get the platter to move a bit and "unstick" it.

My recollection is that it worked every time I had to do this. Of course, we would back up that drive and replace it as soon as possible.
I love coding as the way to build things and play around with new/cool technologies.
https://tradingpithistory.com/hand-signals/functions-options...
I'm 50 years old and have never understood that saying until now. Thank you!
Because before being a meme it's someone's creation, and their creation is being used for nefarious purposes that they don't condone, art has always an artist behind, a human. A meme doesn't appear out of a vacuum.

They can be authoritative in their intents and try to seize back their creation, as fruitless as this will be (and the author very likely is aware of) I think that's pretty sensible of them rather than throwing your hands up in the air and let the chaos machine of internet meme culture take over everything it touches.
"Don't you find it fascinating that we think it's wildly improbable that we are alone, yet have not been able to find other life?"

We haven't been looking for very long, and out searches have been very very limited.
You cannot argue that buying raises the price and selling drops it, since every trade has a buyer and s seller.
It's because software is incredibly amorphous. It's incredibly hard to compile meaningful metrics about it, partly because every project is different and used differently. We all know this in the back of our heads, and how incredibly daunting it is to squeeze out quantifiable data from it, so we instead don't tackle it (which is normal behavior for humans) and instead go with stuff that sounds and feels good. Pairing increases your code output Well, two it better than one, so it must be better! TDD prevents bugs? Well, writing the tests first sounds good to me, so it must be better!

Yeah, it's a dangerous mindset, and I don't really know how to get out of it, especially since we're all hypocrites to some degree.
I'd eat my shoe if they came out with a one time purchase for anything of the sort. I'd put $20 or $30 to a browser with those guarantees no problem, but they'd likely be subscription model which is why I'm so skeptical of such a thing.
Biggest by number, not by capability or weight. There are significant differences as a result.

I.e. who cares if you have the most swordsmen on the planet, if you in a gunfight.
Intuitiveness can lead to a type robustness with sharp tools though; if it's either easy to undo destructive operations, or hard to accidentally do destructive operations, it makes for a more robust system overall (even if it doesn't specifically affect the robustness of the component in question)
> This conversation would be a lot clearer with a distinction between "regexes" and "regular languages".

This is often an important distinction, but the point of the article is that the Stackoverflow question does not require recursion or any other non-standard regex features, and therefore can be solved using a vanilla regular expression.

So in this particular question the distinction is not important.
C++20 Coroutine: Compiler's Point of View
Linux 5.13 Features from Apple M1 to New GPU Support, Security Additions
Pairing is also, bar none, the best way I've seen to onboard a new hire. There is no better way to learn a codebase than to work closely with someone who knows that codebase, on a real-world, production problem.
There is a monthly donation option for Mozilla https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ I don't understand why "any option whatoever to donate" must exclude non-Firefox projects. In my opinion that is the start, available right now.
China’s Much-Hyped Digital Yuan Fails to Impress Early Users
Yes, new models typically start being available around September: I always thought it was absurd too as a kid growing up, but it makes sense when you consider that competitive marketing pressures would drive manufacturers to release the new cars earlier and earlier. You can check the sticker somewhere around the driver's door to see when a vehicle was actually manufactured.
That's funny, I was going to mention that, but without the reference to Gide, which I didn't know about :-)
> To see why people buy it, understand their fear of what might happen to them if they don’t.

Yes, I totally understand it. My opposition to crypto speculation is as follows:

1) Investments can be a self-fulfilling prophecy if extremely powerful/wealthy people are involved. If you bet on an outcome and also have the power to create it, can we really trust you not to do that?

See also: Peter Thiel buying property in NZ to prepare for societal collapse, even as he worked for the previous presidential administration.

2) This one is just personal to me -- if crypto becomes an important alternative to USD fiat, the world has likely collapsed and I'll probably either be dead or ready to die.

It's hard to overstate the consequences of the US collapsing, considering the enormous amount of military power that our country has.
Programming is neither design nor implementation; it's a skill and a tool that isn't owned by a particular process. I am quite happy to sketch in code; I won't work with my hands tied behind my back.

Concretely, what "incredible waste" are you projecting here? Neither myself nor the ancestor even laid out a process to criticize.
Thank you for catching me. No, that is not what I walked :)
Online Harms Safety bill is being co-opted by banks to shed responsibility
[Upcoming webinar] Architecting for Serverless in 2021
They totally would. And anyone we meet will probably already be related to us, if life is panspermic.
>I think there is probably a market for an Android app which can detect if any Bluetooth devices appear to be following you.

how do you handle mac address changes?
Or this one: https://tradingpithistory.com/hand-signals/participants-cbot...
There is a well-maintained “food forest” near my home which is a real pleasure to stroll through and pick berries from occasionally. There’s an incredible mulberry tree, thickets of autumn olives, plums, wild greens of all varieties, sea buckthorn, figs, medlar, and more.

It takes volunteers real work to keep it tame enough for a city, but they’ve done it for as long as I’ve lived here and it’s a really beautiful spot.
Could someone clarify whether donations to Mozilla are earmarked for Firefox specifically? Or is it for unrelated initiatives, and Firefox is only funded through Google?

I assume the donation money can't legally reach Mitchell Baker, since it goes through the Mozilla non-profit, but the whole Mozilla Corp vs Mozilla non-profit structure and the handling of funds is still very confusing to me.
Nearly all proprietary software is distributed that way.
Rather than debate what “open data” really means, maybe there need to be more specific terms for the Op’s different aspects of openness.
Smells funny because it's used to defend so many different pathologies.

Alternatives? Break up big banks that are too big to fail. Build up many small, local banks that actually give a shit about their surrounding community.
> but more difficult to debug.

I've found the stream debugger in IntelliJ to be very useful when looking at debugging streams.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/analyze-java-stream-oper...

The old plugin version of it has the same functionality (and better pictures) - https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9696-java-stream-debugg... (click the 'more' link)

Selecting a piece of data within the stream shows you how it moved through the stream.

The other part of streams, for me, is that with the additional "each line does one, and only one thing" and you're not putting too much complexity in a single map, I feel that it forces you to write simpler code that doesn't need much debugging. The question of "how did that data get into the stream is where most of the debugging comes from.
Commercializing OSS: When to start monetizing (& what to do until then)
I agree the post-consumer recycling passes the buck from manufacturers to consumers. I think your point can be made without making it sound like it is because "Karens", which is just a way of saying "thoughtless women", are taking frivolous trips.

If you're going to complain that the blame and responsibility is misplaced, you're ruining own point by using it as a reason to complain about "thoughtless women and their unimportant, pointless trips." It would be similarly ineffective to make a comment about just men and their unimportant, pointless trips.
That's very easy to say from a highly ordered country with effective law enforcement and a strong tradition of low violence. Other countries, much less so. There are many in the world (I live in one) where if you're "asked" for a ransom payment because a family member was kidnapped or as a threat against your business being burned to the ground, your only even partly decent chance of escaping the situation in a way that minimizes tragedy is to simply pay. Anything else, including going to the thoroughly useless, corrupt police, will mean that whoever you love enough to sell your house for will die, or something you spent years building is destroyed. Avoiding future incidents is something you'll think carefully about afterward, but paying is the first and usually only choice for saving a life or property. Ponder that in the context of how you would feel with your own family before giving flippant, simplistic absolutisms.
This is still the best (Hollywood quality) depiction of what the trading pit looked like in reality. Trading Places, 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLySXTIBS3c
It sounds like the author has no experience of buying a website or vending machine and got a profit out of it. If the author had experience with it, then the author would know that it is no easy task and requires significant attention and not easy to delegate.

If it were so easy I would be curious to read the author’s detailed experience with the costs and revenues from running websites and vending machines in a passive manner.

Article presents a nice story, but rings hollow without concrete experience of the nitty gritty details that separates profit from loss in these side gigs.
Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction
Extracting, modifying, and re-flashing the fireware for the first time would be worthy of discussion alone, but modifying it to do something useful is especially noteworthy.

As the extracted firmware is analyzed further interesting discoveries/capabilities could be found.
The roots and spirit of hip hop have always struck me as the exact same as punk - out of urban poverty and exclusion resulting in anger and lack of respect for the system (although the irony is that the Norwegian black metal scene was entirely a bunch of the most affluent privileged kids on the planet but their anger was over systemic control too). Today I see artists like Big Frieda as having beats and tones hardly different from what makes up a lot of extreme electronic music. Losing a lot of the credit for popularizing twerking must be disheartening on top of it. The whole New Orleans sissy bounce scene struck me as a strange term - it’s owning the identity of the musicians as endemic to the genre. I don’t recall any other sub genre popularly labeled with the musicians’ gender identity ever.
Yes, the Nodder has to have proforma authority to override the AIs decision.
> If a bank shuts down and goes into FDIC receivership, it re-opens the next day.

Have I got a story for you.

What you described normally happens.... Unless the bank fails so hard that no buyer for it is found, and then the FDIC insurance kicks in.

I know, because it happened to me back in 2012. :-) My bank failed, and they were in such bad shape that nobody wanted to buy it! I got an email on a Saturday morning stating that my bank had failed. Here's a copy of said email: https://imgur.com/a/HR42BxZ

The following Thursday, the check from the FDIC for the contents of my bank account arrived in the mail.
Incidentally, this post was by the same person as that video :)
Outlawing a thing except for when the govt controls it is just another way of saying governement regulation. Which is both common and successful.

When was the last time you drank bootleg liquor? Answer: I don't know of course, but for most people in rich western countries I would think the answer is never.
This even works for some non-antique cars. Jeep Wranglers (TJ generation) and Mazda Miatas (NA generation) have both appreciated somewhat in recent years.

Of course, no one's getting rich when a car appreciates from $5000 to $6000 or $3000 to $3500 over a few years. Net of repairs it's probably break-even. But it's nicer than losing value :)
When I started playing with Linux back around 1996, I started learning the real value of having logs. It took me into my first career in IT. The Unix/Linux value behind logging everything and quickly getting to the bottom of any problem, was something that was missing from my MS Windows experience. Yet the Event Viewer existed. No, it was rarely all that useful. Somehow lines in a text file... rotated at a predetermined interval... is just so simple yet, completely effective. Through the years I've tried the other tools that are supposed to supplant it yet, I still think it was the best. I'm getting used to the SystemD/JournalD way but, I really did like having a directory full of text files (and gzipped friends from previous days)
> It's not going to become the currency of a failed state, there are far more power efficient and opaque ways of doing things.

It's already being used as a proxy for USD in some failed states (which is exactly what every stablecoin's value proposition would be). It's certainly not widespread, but it makes sense in a society where you don't actually need/want to convert to fiat to transact.
American has too many monopolies though, and I believe price collision in many industries is alive, and doing well, but has gotten harder to prove.

My mom wants to nix Comcast, and it's not that easy.
> The safeguards are a work in progress

I find it curious that I've never seen any such articles for Tile and co. It really feels like that by taking any steps to solve it at all, all Apple have actually achieved is to bring awareness to an issue which either already existed, or never existed?

Why are airtags being treated specially here?
Incisicide.
It's a free product, and a commodity. Development is expensive, especially when the main competitor can make it so by playing Fire And Motion (see Joel's article) and treats their browser as a loss leader for their trillion-dollar business.
If core dev would accept such budget for one lib, given stdlib is composed of a lot of them, each python install would be enormous.

Not to mention python runs on constraints systems such as MicroPython, which features coroutines.

HN, the place were people complain about how electron is bloated then ask you do copy that.
I think it can be good for 2 seniors when you need something right now i.e. production bug, or feature that came out of nowhere that needs to ship by EOD. Assembling a strike team of sorts.
Anyone whos been sold Splunk as a drop-in syslog replacement for observability or visibility is painfully aware of this. Larger companies that use splunk as a central auditing tool are invariably left with a byzantine nightmare of dashboards and strings to figure out. people leave and roles change, and eventually youre running a nine year old server that can hardly tell you the time, let alone the state of nginx.

just write a script, email the people regularly in charge with the CSV, and let the PHB make it look pretty.
TIL: marshalling == ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering

these CS gals of olde really had a hand for naming :-)
Glad I migrated away when they announced the transition. Simple helped me get debt free. I was sad to see it go and haven’t really found a replacement that works for me.
Chernobyl alcohol drink seized by authorities
Roger Cicala is probably the best photo gear blogger around these days.
Cyberattack on U.S. pipeline linked to criminal gang
Create an HTML email signature from scratch (No-Code)
In terms of safety technology, your average 2010 car is missing a bunch of things that are found on your average 2021 car. Automatic emergency braking, side airbags, hell even the backup camera!
He is packing house and the disk is only 80gb.

Kneejerk, half-"/jk" reaction when started reading was Brendan was now all in with the chia fever.
> All in all, why is the code not just:

In the other code, you could substitute parallelStream for stream and have it execute in parallel for "free".
I had the same reaction to the Mistborn books, and my interpretation is that Sanderson really struggles when the plot and characters get "wide". The first book was tight and focused; when the characters graduated to a larger stage everything - from the characters to the world to the plot - ended up "flat" and unrealistic. It's like he has a set budget for any given work, and the wider the focus the less of that budget any individual piece gets.

Which is a shame, because some of his work really is excellent.
"it's possible" means something very different to scientists than it does general public or popular media. Scientists rarely say impossible. The effect is of like "theory of evolution". This makes it hard for scientific-based discussion to address hype-filled conspiracy theories.

mRNA Integration is very very unlikely given the scenario described. Show me data to support otherwise, beyond the PNAS paper.
> Is there any point in having a query builder API in a dynamic language?

Yes, it eases the creation of queries and ensuring both escaping of parameters and quoting of columns and fields; It also allows the easy creation of dynamic queries based on lists of parameters, and facilitates both naming of tables and fields.

> I can see the point in a typed language where you can ensure the query is correct at compile time.

Given that most query builders allow arbitrary parameters (such as table and column names), you can't actually ensure the query is correct at compile time, regardless of the type of language.
It's not a question of Indians vs. not Indians, it's a question a people working with a computer daily vs. people who don't. The latter are present in massive numbers in all countries.
This etymology reminded me of my favorite Existential Comics comic, the Existential Ad Agency:

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/204
The connection between Epstein and Gates seems fishy, not only because of what Epstein did but because the picture painted of Epstein by some intellectuals was of someone that distilled basically into a "eccentric try-hard". He would spout facts and some shallow philosophical questions around to play up his own intellectuality which was easily picked up by anyone less braindead than he was.

How has Gates endured talking to someone like that through the years? To the point of supporting and aiding people around Epstein? Is it all about money and "philanthropism"?

Such a weird connection to have, I understand that Epstein was connected to a lot of powerful people but Gates is fucking Gates, he can get connected to almost any powerful person just by making a call and stating "Hi, it's Bill Gates calling".