skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have variable experience in this business.

In the same town you might find two people doing similar work and getting paid differently by a factor of 1.5 if not 2.

I've worked at places that vary dramatically in how toxic they are from

* I left in a huff and 6 months later they called and said they hadn't hired a replacement
and wanted advice, I told them that there was no possibility of retaining people
if they didn't fire my old boss. They fired my old boss

* People who are really nice

and everything in between.
*doesn’t work anymore
Eric Clapton Blames ‘Propaganda’ for ‘Disastrous’ Covid Vaccine Experience
> It's less straightforward to backdoor the OS/sdk because it's open source and built by various vendors.

Not for devices running Google Play Services. If your device is running AOSP with absolutely zero Google services then maybe that's the case (although I'm not even sure that's true at the firmware/driver level), but if you'll never use the Play Store then Play Store restrictions don't really affect you in the first place.

I also think you're seriously underestimating or misunderstanding the potential attack vectors here. You don't need to deliver a blatantly obvious backdoor that can be easily found in the AOSP source code. Consider the history of 0-day RCE exploits on the Android platform and then consider the fact that such exploits can be subtly introduced in a non-obvious way that gives you plausible deniability if discovered. Now consider that you have your own closed-source and privileged code running on billions of Android devices that could take advantage of the 0-days you introduced yourself.
Yeah, I get that. I guess I just mean that the worst pandemic of the last 100 years and (so far) it's maybe 17% deaths over the baseline. That feels kinda low.
I never understood the point of smart contracts. Why not just launch a new blockchain or decentralized application by forking code and launching nodes? That way you don't need to pay Ethereum fees and you get a lot more flexibility - Also, your project will not be constrained by Ethereum's scalability limits and you won't have to pay fees to subsidize the popularity of other projects which are running on the same platform... Ethereum seems to facilitate mostly short term scams.

Projects launch, raise a ton of money, then when people try to actually use the new project, they realize they have to pay $20 per transaction. This quickly kills the project; now onto the next scam. What kind of brand new project can justify making their users pay $20 per transaction? I struggle to think of any genuine use case.
Not *purely* navel-gazing but that's def the correct classification
This is deaths in excess of the expected number, not total deaths. Given the normal death rate, we're 10m(+-3m) over that.
Unfortunately, the term "Datalog" has been used inflationary to mean anything to anyone as an attempt to market proprietary DBs at this point.

See [1] in case you're wondering what Datalog actually is.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
> If not, we’re about 20% done with COVID, world-wide.

For exponential processes think of the % done on a log scale. So population of USA is 320M, and ~100M had COVID, or we were 94% (8/8.5) done with it before vaccine was introduced.
It would be kind of a fun experiment to require a rough estimate of LoC written in a given language be included in feedback about that language. These comments are kind of a cesspool of poorly written feedback that wraps ambiguous complaints about "readability", "maintenance" and even the silly take of "Go is a language for engineering managers", whatever that means. I suspect most of the negative comments on any language come from people that have spent practically no time writing it, and thus are inherently uninformed.

Of course, if you hate a language, you're not going to write lots of code in it (unless you have to, and then I would expect your feedback to be pretty negative but at least informed). Feedback from beginners/programmers external to a language is super important for the success of that language of course, but lots of debates about things like programming language are cluttered with feedback that isn't really made in good faith. Someone that doesn't like static typing is going to leave feedback about Go that may not directly say "I just don't like static typing", but ultimately is as simple to reconcile (and thus, should mostly be discarded).
One obvious point would be transactions for which the traditional legal system is not an option, like illegal transactions or highly secretive transactions. But yes, I think advocates would provide other examples of lowering costs.
> oh, Russian? Just wondering

Close enough — Ukrainian. In fact most languages on this planet don’t have articles.

> Why don't you need to make that distinction?

Because you just ydon’t, it’s perfectly clear from context most of time or even completely irrelevant. When you actually mean to make this distinction, you just add this/that/my/your or some/any/whatever, refer to specific object by name or any other way.

> … in a way that makes its utility to English speakers seem less puzzling

I mean I understand the thing, it encodes another redundant bit of information, which I just don’t have when I’m thinking about something.
Apple would effectively be acting a distributor of apps that redirect people from their platform.

I think you’re seeing this in terms of what some solo dev should be allowed to do when they have a choice; don’t sell iOS apps.
The Achilles Heel of the Coronavirus
This is what the payment screen looked like in Fortnite which made Apple ban it. Why shouldn't it be allowed?

https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-direct-pay-apple-app-stor...

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
From the article: "The question was in relation to Apple's App Store anti-steering policy, which forbids apps from telling iOS users that they can purchase virtual goods or subscriptions cheaper elsewhere. [US Judge] Gonzalez Rogers was questioning why allowing this to be conveyed to App Store customers would be bad..."

It's not so much about offering choice (implying the choice multiple app stores on iOS), as it is allowing users to be directed off iOS for purchases.

This judge does actually seem to be looking for middle-ground between the parties.
Writing TypeScript is like writing JavaScript but with type annotations. Writing C is not like writing assembly with type annotations.
I'm guessing the GP was commenting on the fact that very few people use type writers any more, and much less if people had hear of Liquid Paper
English did not start off as "old German", that's factually incorrect. It started off as Old English aka Anglo-Saxon, that is the languages of the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes which emmigrated from the north sea and areas which are now in the Netherlands, Denmark and Schleswig Holstein. Not the same as "old German" which would be Old High Franconian, an entirely different branch of the Germanic family.

German and English have almost 2000 years of separation. More than Italian and French and Spanish.

But yes Old Norman (and Old Norse) modified the language extensively.
> I want my code to be clever. I like to push at the limits of expressibility in a language. For the types of work I do, small, tight, fast code is better than simple, verbose code that any tom, dick or Harry could comfortably maintain.

> Does this distinction have a name?

Yeah. Write-only code.
My rule is, if someone is profiting off of my believing what they say, then assume they aren't above lying to me about it.

I try not to be a curmudgeon about it and give people the benefit of the doubt, but my life experience has largely taught me that people are willing to lie much more often than not when there's money on the line.
If you mean https://treenotation.org/ then it's completely unrelated.

I saw this recently on the front page. Was pretty confused myself. Domain name is very similar and what the project is about seems to overlap, but ultimately it goes in a different direction.

TAO is my independent original project, but it makes sense that there is > 1 person making an effort to figure this stuff out.
This reads like a standard payday loan, to be honest. Which is to say, it's absolutely taking advantage of people who already can't afford it, but it's also not a new phenomenon.

A standard payday loan might be 10% on a $100 advance, repaid after 2 weeks (when your next paycheck comes in). That translates to a 260% APR, even without considering compounding.
Why? They know what they signed up for.

It’s a legal contract.

Don’t like the terms, don’t sign up?

I frankly don’t care about some small dev that could vanish when and take my paid app or service with it.

If we as a culture cared about small business still we’d not have enabled this mess to begin with.
If you actually placed the files on your device as a general deterrent, then that would be fine - intent matters. However, if you did place it to try and prevent evidence gathering (I mean, this is in context of someone being detained for some other crime, not just a random person), and just assert this claim, realistically, it would not be that difficult to convince a jury that you intended it to deter LE and not some hypothetical target.

For an exaggerated example, if someone is tried (among other things) for routinely performing some illict acticity (i.e. they clearly had an expectation that they might be arrested and their phone analysed by LE) and has prior arrests in which their phone was actually analysed, which they knew and didn't like and after one such arrest they just "place the files", then it would be straightforward to get a conviction; and on the opposite direction if a privacy activist using all kinds of interesting features has had this thing on their phone for years and then gets detained for something unrelated to that (i.e. not a case of e.g. putting these files in the morning before going out to do some activism that's likely to get them arrested, but perhaps before going to Saudi Arabia - deterring foreign agents instead of local LE would be a legitimate purpose), then indeed it would be difficult to prove that they had a specific target in mind.
All the Shah's Men
> we have seen radically different approaches to inequity

Not once have seen changes to human nature.

> unprecedented growth

Are you sure about that? It was higher in the 19th century.

> only were unwound in the Reagan administration

Forgetting the stagflation of the 1970's and Carter's "Malaise Forever". Things got a lot better under Reagan.

The Guilded Age saw massive increases in the standard of living across the board. The notion that it was some hellish period in our history is unfounded. I've read "Titan", the biography of Rockefeller. The book failed miserably at presenting any evidence whatsoever that Rockefeller got rich at the expense of the poor.
None of the popular static site generators match Wordpress or Mediawiki for how long they've been around. Although for me personally, the established ones are old and popular enough. E.g., I use Pelican, which has been around since 2010.
Apple constantly and proudly state that they do most of their processing on the device so network monitoring likely wouldn't tell you much. In this light it doesnt sound as good no matter if anything happens or not.
100% COVID / vaccination isn't the end point.

It's R_t < 1 for sustained amounts of time. Where the effective reproduction number depends on the basic reproduction number, and the number of susceptible people, which depends on the number of people who have had coronavirus infections / vaccinations & the durability of immunity.

So some amount < 100% of people infected / vaccinated will create enough spreading "distance" between that coronavirus won't be able to effectively reproduce, because the (limited) vulnerable hosts will be too "far" apart.
If anyone wants to learn about BSV, simply Google

"Florida perjury Craig Wright"
> Have you come across Eve?

Apparently that link was already marked as "visited" in my browser history and it seems familiar.

There seems to be a strong connection between reactive programming (especially the functional-reactive style) and Datalog. I believe that is the case because Datalog (simplification incoming) is a logic programming language that, contrary to ASP, for example, always returns a single model and can therefore always be seen as a function from input-relations (FRP cells) to output-relations where the deductive steps and intensional predicates are the streams.

The issue is - and that's not really surprising - that implementing useful call-conventions for your application on top of a datalog-engine is not easier than using a fixed call-convention (like a (f)RP-framework) and implementing your deduction with simpler semantics.

In the end, you have to bind your input and output-relations to your view and write down the rules and they are somewhat simple. With reactive programming you have a somewhat easier time binding your data to the views and the rules (functional mappings) are somewhat more difficult.

That is why I abandoned the reactive style of using Datalog as a general purpose programming language early on. If you really want to do this, you can already use differential dataflow and some plumbing code and you would not have lost a thing.

My approach is closer to Logic Production Systems.
My read on Go versus other options, having used it for a year or so and then switching back to other old favorites(Python, Haxe, Lua), is that it really doesn't want you to redefine the language. Go code is Go everywhere and asks you to work with a largely homogenous set of concerns everywhere.

That is great if you are building the environment for your application, but it's not great if you are building the application, because a differentiated app will always possess a unique application "vocabulary" - it's a thing that gets thought about in terms of a medium that is not the host language. Go resists extension, so most teams opt for primitivism rather than developing proprietary compilation mechanisms to express their spec. Everyone gets worried about the risks of generating code and how to maintain that: it's a "known" to have a larger fungible uniform codebase. The result is that "slow and steady" feeling when working with Go to do relatively high-level things - it lets you do it, but you have to work hard.
As opposed to Apple forcing you to go through their gated options? When better payment, ad, search, email, browser, etc, etc, options exist?

Apples OS is decent and their options are "solid"... but for each of their offerings, there are better options and their options aren't worth the 30% tax.

Tons of companies have better payment options and should be allowed to use them without anti-competitive restrictions placed by Apple.
I made an iOS app that is structured around the same idea of a Bullet Journal. Is allows me to segment my tasks by priority of today / this week / this month and later. Even on paper that’s a nice system that works pretty well to get things done.

I also built an Apple Watch that set a timer by adding prime numbers up to 59 minutes. That was fun to do as an experiment. I use more often the other way of setting the timer: by choosing the end time. It’s faster than the default app and when I can’t use Siri.

https://bulletweek.app

https://primetimer.app
want a drop shadow on a div? no problem, just wrap it in 8 other divs and give each of them a different background for the sides and corners
How is Go the clear winner?

Python has been around since 1994 (2 years before Java: 1996). It's heavily used in Data Science and Science in general.

The C API allows you to write code in most compiled language (C, C++, Rust, ...) and Python serves as a glue between business logics.

Go simply does not serves the same purpose. There is no winner/loser here, just different use cases...
The entire reason this exists is because of post-build modifications. A huge portion of an APK file is not useful on a given device. To save disk space and bandwidth and improve load times, Google will automatically remove content from APK files that aren't relevant for the particular device downloading the app. But doing this would break the signature unless Google possesses the signing keys.
"Finding Datalog useless and frustrating comes from those"

There are many reasons that people might get frustrated. If you assume without further evidence that it's purely due to user ignorance then you aren't likely to learn about any real shortcomings.
love that you put cs1.6 there and made it openable
Amongst many other reinvented wheels;
PopH264 - https://github.com/NewChromantics/PopH264
A cross platform (mac, win, ios, android, magic leap, pi, linux) h264 decoder and encoder library with a nice and simple CAPI (alloc, push data, pop data, free).
I use it in unity, my own engine, node.js server and just doing an unreal bridge.

There just wasnt a simple cross platform library with hardware support. (Anyone who suggests libav hasnt tried it outside of an statically linked demo app :)
Aquix
Жидкость, выделяемая устройством «Izonator Enterprise», вызывает ультразвуковые колебания и микровихри, которые производят структурные изменения в воде и синтез добавок. Эффекты этих физических явлений приводят жидкость в возбужденное молекулярное состояние, что сопровождается повышением ионизации, увеличением электрической проводимости, удалением растворенных газов, увеличением окислительно-восстановительного потенциала, в результате чего структурированная вода, вырабатываемая по физико-химическим показателям, близка к биологическому раствору живых клеток организма человека. Регулярное использование структурированной воды, произведенной устройством Izonator Enterprise, улучшает функцию клеточных мембран, помогает клетке решить основные проблемы её жизнеобеспечения, тем самым клетка максимально активизирует свою деятельность на свои изначально поставленные задачи и созданное функционирование.Так получается, что происходит повышение жизненных сил, замедляются все процессы старения, улучшается обмен веществ, очищается организм от токсинов и отходов, и увеличивается усвояемость витаминно-минеральных комплексов. Человек регулярно употребляющий напиток из Izonator Enterprise будет заряжен энергией и будет меньше употреблять вредной жирной пищи. Это приведёт в поддержание физической активности и возможности избавиться от лишнего веса. Скоро это устройство будет стоять в каждом доме у людей, которые заботятся о своём здоровье
Go is my favorite language but I'm still learning Rust. Would highly recommend either. I hate Python as a language but use it for web scraping and the occasional data transformation.
Once again, they are not interested in hodling in the first place as I have said weeks ago. [0] They are interested in making money and Elon and Tesla know that they are able to move the crypto markets.

If they have already sold it, well that is the 'dump' + negative coverage / spin on BTC to pressurise the price to fall further. Now the poor HODLers at >$60K will have to wait a while until the next run up to the all time high.

One more thing in this crypto-currency episode, 'What goes up, musk go down.'

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086093
Yes and some API required permission from the phone manufacturers. However, it stopped shitty apps from being able to slurp all your contacts, etc.
You're getting downvoted but I do believe you're correct. I'm a healthy 21 year old, please govt., give my vaccine to other countries. I will take it if offered, but I'd prefer to give it to those who really need it all things considered. Let me get the vaccine when others are safe.
Fantastic, that's your choice. Does this shed light on the subject?
When your only options are (1) a loan at 15% while you’re unemployed but you get another 30-60 days of a roof over your head or (2) immediate homelessness then the high-interest loan is the rational choice.
Anyone who cares about this sort of stuff already pays for most things in cash anyway. It's cards that are the additional hassle, really.
> The disunity of nationalistic selfishness has struck our species once again.

Let's unpack that.

Is what you describe a species specific phenomenon i.e. biological in origin? I'm not sure how you'd determine that question, if what you are talking about is "attitude to vaccine inoculation to stave off pandemic spread", since that behaviour is limited to one species, and is fairly recent.

Is what you describe a species wide phenomenon i.e. biological in origin? What does the data from different nationalities tell us? Does the phenomenon occur similarly in all nationalities, or only some?

Is the phenomenon biological in nature, or might it be cultural? Is it even widely held amongst individuals, or might it originate from some other level of organisation e.g. government, media? How would you investigate these questions?
As someone who's had to (or maybe wanted to) learn both english and german, I'd say german has a steeper initial learning curve, but it becomes easier later, whereas english can be easy to get going, but it's difficult to master (obviously the spelling, but also the more advanced use of tenses etc).

Regarding Twain's complaints, the biggest lesson I learned from learning german at an older age was: languages are nonsensical, illogical, and the sooner you stop trying to make sense of it all, the faster you will advance. Children do not learn languages by being analytical and by comparing to what they already know, they learn by just accepting it as it is. This leads to a funny phenomenon that foreign speakers know the actual rules of a language better than most native speakers, simply because native speakers know things are as they are, but not why. Whether adults are capable of this is a different question, but trying to find logic in a language will only lead to frustration.
I did some work in 2000's (aughts) using a Zigby and a spare water meter to keep track of leaks and water usage on a computer for home use. I even made a youtube video (since deleted by youtube). I was a Best Buy recently and saw essentially the same produce that was "invented" by a guy in California and developed by his son into a multi-million dollar company. Trying to piece together what happened 13 years ago is tough, I can only wonder at how hard it is after 30 years. There is a lot of corporate mytheogy that
is allowed. When I worked for a certain supercomputer company, they put out the myth that the founder spent his spare time digging a tunnel from his home to his lakefront beach. Not true, but got the company a lot of free PR.
Assembly cost too from what I understand, if you need to go up to a more fancy pick'n'place machine because of the number of distinct component reels.
Somewhere a Gentoo maintainer's ears are ringing, but they don't know why...
You may find that magnesium taken at night may help. Be aware, I'm not a medical professional. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
Interesting, that doesn't really work for me as I sometimes use it to OCR sensitive stuff from scanned documents, and it wouldn't work offline. I found tesseract to work pretty reliably for my use and only fail when scanning non-ASCII characters.
> a few dozen different versions

I think you are underestimating the number of versions.

And why would developers want to do this? This adds a huge pain in the ass to all deployments.

> Google could come up with a new app format whereupon there were a signed manifest of files

They could. But this wouldn't be backwards compatible. So you are stuck waiting like eight years for the ecosystem to all adopt the new OS versions.
Most apps on Google Play are proprietary and cannot be rebuilt.
You should have used Loughborough instead of Scarborough :)

Low-barrow? Luf-baruff? I certainly had to look it up.