skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a long overlap, when the same office might be using both computers and typewriters.

For example, not all internal processes might be on the computer. Or external processes often still used paper forms, especially externally. A typewriter was also handy for shipping/courier forms, and for addressing envelopes. (When I was doing shipments for a small computer products wholesaler, UPS still had us record shipments as line items in carbon-forms book, and tear off the top sheet or more to hand to the driver when they came to pick up the boxes for the day.)

Somewhere in there, the IBM Selectric II Correcting typewriter came out, which I imagine took some Liquid Paper sales. I had a chance to use one of these, after using computers for years, and they were still a blast. The "mechanical keyboards" meme has nothing on the visceral, powerful typing experience of a Selectric II. (I fully intend to get at least one, in excellent condition, once I'm out of student/startup-apartment mode.)
I guess insider trading doesn't apply to Bitcoin?
Not only that, but the covid restrictions have meant that the normal death rate is lower. Because people aren't traveling and commuting the road toll is down, because people are at home and social distancing workplace deaths are down. So excess mortality is up and the base deathrate is down meaning excess mortality is actually higher than shown.
I definitely want something like that.
I’m always surprised when people haven’t heard of Xapian which is also in this space.

I tell people Xapian is the SQLite of search.

https://xapian.org/
It doesn't really matter what a few eccentric celebrities say, the hive has made up its mind about what's seen as a complete black and white issue by most. It couldn't possibly be problematic injecting experimental and not formally approved vaccines, especially with younger people who aren't even much at risk.
What happens if google gets a "national security letter" that says "hey, we wanna read $NAME's whatsapp messages".
In the scenario without this system, google needs to use their control over the OS, the installer and the SDK to somehow deliver a changed version of the app, or run an exploit / backdoor against that app from other code they control. Excluding the exploit and pre-existing backdoor, that is something they could refuse to do somewhat easily.

Compare that to if google has the signing keys for updates to whatsapp. Then the national security letter could just state "hey, here is an update to whatsapp, please sign it with the appropriate keys". That is so much harder for Google to refuse.

I have a lot more faith that google would not comply with the first national security letter than with the second.
The middle ground here is to allow multiple certified backend processors for larger and more trusted providers who appear have that infrastructure.

What Apple should’ve been doing (IMHO) is by controlling the conversation and thus the outcome. It’s going to be bad if a court decides this.

Apple added a small developer program to reduce their cut. This is clearly just a PR move and shows it’s not about costs anymore (it would’ve been when this was a much smaller venture). It’s simply a profit center now.

This move was completely backwards. If Apple had been willing to offer larger customers a smaller cut, scaling down to say 10% (remember this includes credit card processing) then I believe they could’ve completely avoided the risks of this lawsuit.

Why? If someone sues you, you just kick them out of the discount program. Would Epic risk a lawsuit in this case? I have doubts.
I think the flaw in this premise is believing that the regulations promulgated at the state level had any real impact on the public response. It's not the "lockdown" that keeps people at home, it's the disease. In some states they did not order restaurants to close, but that doesn't imply that attendance at restaurants in those places was normal.
i wish they would at least add colspan/rowspan to css. doesn't cost browsers anything to implement, would make responsive tables a lot easier
Believe it or not, you can be financially successful and still be a bad person. Bernie Madoff wasn't the most moral person.
Try it? It'll feel a bit lower level at first, but I suspect you'll come to appreciate the concurrency model and the (not too pedantic) type system.

More generally: you're getting downvoted because your question is impossible to answer without knowing what kind of work you do.
There is literally no such thing as a red state or a blue state, so not surprising it doesn't map to anything.
> Lives is the keyword. speed vs velocity is of concern to physicists but mixing up gender and sex has been weaponized as a tool against trans people and because of that, we need to push back.

Such can be said about many such words. — various terms that enjoy more præcise nuance in linguistics have very much been used to weaponize against allowing people to speak in their native registers, similar things can be said about religious nuances. So do you also go about correcting people who use the word “Flemish” as most use it, and rather insist that in technical terms, it only refers to a specific group of Dutch dialects rather than standard Dutch as spoken in Belgium?

> Yes, most people don't give a damn about other people, I know, after all, Atlas Shrugged is popular in the United States. This is why the United States is heading to, if not already there, to be a failed state. But those who actually care about others, recognize how much a difference they can make by deliberately using two such simple words in their right meaning and so they do.

Yes, and I would submit that neither you do, but that you simply insist that a special exception be made for the one thing that seems to be important to you, for if you evenly applied this standard throughout your life, and demanded the same corrections elsewhere, you could not generally allow someone to finish a single sentence without demanding several alternations to the words.

In about every sentence vernacularly spoken, words are used that have a more præcise nuance in technical vocabulary, and in many such cases the lack of distinction has been weaponized, for vagueness is indeed the ultimate tool in politics.
> Don't you think he's got some merit considering he's climbed the ladder with successful exit after successful exit and now is #1/#2 richest person on Earth? Do you think his decision making is all fluke?

Exits are fine for your buddy smoking pot on the beach as you look back at the past 3 years running a company before the acquisition by a bigger fool who you managed to screw over.

Richest man in the world should be a guy who can walk away from the company and sell 15-20B dollars worth of shares per year and the company does just fine, with an AAA+ Credit rating. Namely:

Jeffrey Preston Bezos

William Henry Gates III

Warren Edward Buffett

Lawrence Edward Page

These are serious people, Musk is just one of us who is constantly winging it and hit it big with the constant pumping, cult of personality and frankly fraud. Matter of fact he can't walk away.
This is one of its biggest advantages to me as well. I have had to support many production systems, written in varieties of languages, over my tenure and in my experiences the systems that live the longest are those that are the most readable by new team members; people transition in and out and its important for them to learn quickly. And while a person's language experience matters to some degree, it is more the underlying domain that takes the most time. Languages that simplify on the number of solution patterns and focus on key ones being "idiomatic" helps to lower the mental load someone has to overcome to learning that domain. If you know C, Java, JS, etc. you can pretty quickly figure out how to read Go, and that matters.

Is Go perfect at this? No. I too would love to see some higher level functions exist for to help reduce boilerplate. For example, this proposal: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45955 to add Filter, Map, etc. to slices. That seems like a practical set of functions to add to minimize boilerplate while at the same time not breaking away from simple idioms.
More than that in terms of percentage of actual app revenue, since Google Play is such a $+#$show.
You make a strong claim with no supporting evidence or analysis. On the other hand, we have roughly 3.3M (Econimist) or 3.4M (Financial, Times [1]) confirmed COVID-19 deaths. Is it so surprising that only 25-50% of actual deaths due to COVID-19 were confirmed? Why do you try to downplay that COVID-19 is the second most deadly pandemic in a century, after HIV/AIDS? [2]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866842/
That’s why overall excess deaths are a better measure. You really can’t game them.
Isn't it like selling a "new" car with used parts?
I've only mentioned one example of how such a tool could work. There are many ways this typ0e of system could be designed. For an alternative that doesn't depend on the number of output combinations, see GauntletWizard's example[1] that uses a signed manifest of files.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27177425
> It's inconvenient, dangerous, and provides little in the way of antifraud measures

The major card networks have rules that give customers recourse in case of fraud or missing/faulty goods regardless of the processor and card type. Some countries have laws that strengthen these protections even more, though it's usually limited to credit cards.

The "antifraud" narrative about how the App Store is so much better at fraud protection is annoying (especially considering how many scam apps there are).
very low in a sense that since we discovered antibiotics, the global mortality rate went down by a factor of 10. compared to that we are still in a relatively "good" position.
Android has done it for me every time I install an update to an app.
This might be a blindspot among the US citizens. I know the European countries have united to supply vaccines to the developing world with their Covax program. But I don't think the US is doing anything similar. I'm not even sure how the US would go about doing that. Would it have to be a Presidentially-ordered/led initiative?

As a private citizen, I'd be 100% for the US helping to vaccinate the world. It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country.
That is the developer's fault, surely.
The irony: despite Mark Twain's vicious rant, German is quite consistent on following the spelling, just like Spanish et al.

That doesn't mean some phonemes aren't hard to pronounce for the uninitiated, nor does it exclude accents and dilects and the everyday contraptions of the language.
You could easily say this about the stock market. Imagine if Buffett came out and said in advance he was going to sell all his Coke stock.
Logic programming is a difficult subject to teach and I've heard similar accounts to yours ("entire class struggled with it") for Prolog which I'm more familiar with. To be honest, I find datalog simple compared with Prolog -the only real complexity is in understanding fixpoint semantics which can be hairy at first- and so I'm surprised to hear your class struggled with it.

Of course I'm surprised only because I've been using and studying logic programming for a good ten years now and I have to struggle to remember how it was when I first started learning the subject. It was hard :)

I think though teaching Datalog as part of a databases - related (?) class makes it even harder. Datalog was basically created from Prolog's rib and it doesn't make a lot of sense without at least some background in logic programming, which I suspect is not given in a databases course. I also suspect your tutor would have gone from relational calculus to Datalog, that's a surefire way to maximise confusion.

Anyway logic programming is so far from most programmers' experience that it's hard to know where to start with its teaching. I've struggled with the question often because I help mark papers for Prolog courses at my uni and I can see the carnage and my heart goes out to the poor students, and the tutor.

So, yeah, you're not insulting anyone. Everyone understands it's a hard subject to teach.
I mean, shouldn't it be taken as a lesson that if the kids want to play with fire, an unregulated market (include MLM-Ponzi scheme structure by all accounts), then that's one type of pitfall that exists?

Elon's also publicly said, tweeted not too long ago: "Bitcoin is almost as much bs as fiat money" - so just because the markets didn't know or report on that to help provide a balanced, critical breakdown to promote balanced news - that's all Elon's fault? The mob of irrational buyers have no responsibility to know what they're "investing" in or to research and understand statements or behaviours about what they're "investing" in?
That website blocks European visitors for legal reasons. Archive.org link to get around it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210516204113/https://ktla.com/...
It would be interesting to also be able to sort by how much value measured in USD or troy ounces the different networks secure.
Also, deaths are not the end-all be-all to be assessed. Many more people have survived it but many have near crippling after effects from it, and even more, if not suffering now, have had a terrible and painful experience going through it.
Covid makes your country worse. It’s like having endemic malaria. No one wants endemic malaria in their country, and costly government intervention was required to rid the developed world of it.

Similarly, it’s disheartening to see so many people — especially on partisan lines — promulgate the talking point that we just need to “learn to live with it”. This is insanity. Annual mRNA booster vaccines ad infinitum, with continuous vaccine passports is a wholly inadequate vision for the future. Melbourne, Oz — a diverse, international city of 5M — demonstrates it’s very possible to eradicate Covid with international, interregional and interstate border closures, with hard lockdowns plus federal financial support. Four months later, zero covid.
Still not sure where 0.5% IFR is derived from; the best data I've seen puts it at 0.25% - 0.4%.
There's a cult of personality around him.
The fraud aspect is either a mistake or there are people intentionally promoting a particular agenda. As you rightfully pointed out, online payments have been done for decades outside of the App Store and fraud has never been a dealbreaker (turns out banks and card networks give you a lot of recourse against it even for debit cards).
PyPI stats for "six", the second most popular package, that's used for 2/3 compatibility in tons of libraries, shows 80% of its millions of daily downloads are for Python 3. [1] The proportion for "requests", a building block for a ton of long-standing packages, is even higher.

Anyone using Python 2 at this point are either supporting legacy software, getting their runtimes/packages from distros rather than PyPI, or otherwise completely checked out of the modern Python ecosystem.

1: https://pypistats.org/packages/six
That seems likely to veer into begging the question or tautology territory.
Have you checked? Because people here are claiming that Google is an adversary in their threat models. So you can't just assume that the OS actually did verify the signing key.

Or perhaps it makes more sense to not consider the developer of your operating system to be adversarial.
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>You can see the for loops and if conditions in front of you, but it's difficult to extract the underlying logic its trying to convey.

That's what abstraction is for. Do you not use functions or something? Do you not group related ones in packages, and pay attention to how they model your domain?

What you're pointing out seems more like bad programming practice than a bad language. Even PHP doesn't have this problem.
> If this had been a "real" plague, of the kind humanity has faced repeatedly in the past (and has been expected for some time now), we would have been totally and utterly screwed.

Not necessarily. Part of the reason there was so much pushback against public health mandates was because covid was so tame. You are being forced, by the government, to wear a mask, isolate from others, and stop going to work for an entire year for a disease that, for the vast majority who get it, just makes it so you can't taste or smell anything for a few days along with fatigue and flu-like symptoms. If it were like black death and 50% of people who got it were dying you better believe there would be bi-partisan support for mask usage and lockdowns.
And inserting N elements into slice would be?..
I've always thought the main driver of spread was probably not the political football issues like masks in public and businesses being open or closed, but what people are doing behind closed doors with family and friends. Lockdowns don't have much effect on this.
I’ve asked myself this question. I have no hard data to back this up, but wonder If it’s related to outside time and vitamin D absorption, which seems to have an affect on covid. Ex: did NYC have a tougher time than Florida as a result of this, and even with all the protocols in NYC, they could do only as well as Florida with no rules.
I love the idea! Sushis are indeed very "pokemon-like" they all have very different characteristics and very cute looks. Have you thought about gamifying it somehow? Also I hope there's some kind of stats and lore on each sushi, so going on this page would be like exploring a pokedex.
Why contracts don't have a test suite that verifies them?
Per Google, the US is at 33 million total cases.
I'm not sure if 9front can be a daily driver yet; say, it does not seem to be able to run Emacs. Would be nice though.

Not that I don't like Red Hat. They are the poster child of a successful open-source company, and did and keep doing a ton of great things. I only don't like certain directions of development of certain userspace things which happen to be done under their corporate umbrella. These things, systemd in particular, were quite noticeable on the Linux landscape as of recently, both in the tiny desktop niche, and the huge server sector. Nobody's perfect, you know.
The community I grew up in in California purposefully threw rallies and went out of their way to rebel against every single restriction. I keep this in mind when people say California's restrictions didn't work.

Edit: This was in Orange County CA, not rural. And when I say "rallies" I'm talking thousands of people, not small gatherings.
Who would be an insider?

In general, many regulations do not apply. The Bitcoin party line is that they like it that way.
Well said. Getting vaccinated when you're technically low risk may seem selfish, but it still benefits others. It would be politically untenable for the US to give away its remaining doses until a substantial portion of its own population is vaccinated. Whether that's right or wrong, the faster we get there, the better.
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IMHO if you want to understand what an effective response looks like - don't look at North America or Europe. Think Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and many parts of Africa, all of which had vastly better outcomes.

Of course, I'm not an epidemiologist or public health expert, so while I have some guesses I'm not sure what exactly they did that was more effective - but there's no question that it was more effective. If I was going to look for case studies to understand what to do next time, I'd start there. If I was going to look for case studies to understand what not to do next time, well...
I think it’s still hard because deaths for almost everything else go down when people aren’t out getting in car crashes, picking the regular flu, etc etc.
This sort of thing is incredibly common and has been for years, especially in Chinese markets. Because you can just extract bytecode from downloaded apps, people try to protect their IP by doing all sorts of runtime inspection to look for repacking.
> This is literally just your opinion and you have zero to base this on. Stop spreading misinformation.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...

It's pretty funny that you object to something that is clearly true as "just your opinion" and "misinformation" when you're doing exactly that yourself.
This is a change to google's policy for access to the play-store. This does not affect the android operating system. Hence anything that is not installed through the play-store is unaffected.
If you test on random parens, won't the nesting depth be fairly shallow?

I'm still reading and I am trying to understand what this will do if you have long streaks of pushes with rare pops (but maybe still occasional enough to cause large shuffles in the in-place reduction). What do you do after the stack size is larger than the number of parallel thread?
Not mistaken. The try..except creates a scope. It is not always, but often, that I need to address this new nested scope when structuring exception handling when I could simply not if exceptions were not used.
Did Elon issue a warning to the public? Did he tell them not to buy? Did he post a tweet agreeing with Munger and telling people to stay away?

He fed the fire because it helped raise his public persona. I think he does have responsibility.
It continues to optionally (and traditionally it would certainly have/been very much more common to) contain suet.

If it ever contained anything one could in good faith call 'meat' (by modern definition, at least), it's news to me. [Edit below]

(The brandy however is borderline essential! Certainly a mince pie ought to be served wirh brandy butter.)

That said.. I don't think it's relevant how the quirks came to be, as in, it's no less interesting if it's easily explained away as 'oh well that used to make sense', because it's still funny/ambiguous/confusing when you take a step back and take everything at face value.

[Edit: you are absolutely right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincemeat - it was essentially preservation by naturally sourced citric acid and sugars. News to me indeed! I stand by above though.]
Because if it is on device you can't prove how or if it's used either way. You are sounding very defensive? I didn't state if they did something bad or not with the data. I only state that never being able to prove if it is used in bad ways doesn't sound as good as when Apple says "amazingly we do it all on the device" which is clearly meant as "unlike Google".
Are you talking about market cap or something else?
So you changed the argument to bad vs. not bad person. Don't you think there's a net benefit to Elon with Tesla getting literally all vehicle manufacturers to now seriously be on the path to mass producing EVs? How do you account or calculate that vs. whatever other behaviours he may engage in?

Funny you bring up Ponzi schemes too, considering that's what Bitcoin is - just global and decentralized - with a few other bells and whistles misattributed to Bitcoin from blockchain; so are all all earlier adopters who then peddle/hype Bitcoin without understanding it also then bad people, or only if they understand it has a MLM-Ponzi structure and they're happy to milk schmucks/layperson that the SEC is meant to protect?
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I’m going to guess that you also believe that people should be fired from their jobs for holding the wrong views, too.
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I wrote a small django application that makes it really easy to set up an endpoint where you can check the health of your app - including backing services like databases, caches, etc.

https://github.com/mwarkentin/django-watchman

When I wrote it I couldn’t find anything similar, although I’ve come across a few others over the years.