skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took an interview at the NYC MTA about 10 years ago to build a credit card system instead of the ridiculous ticket system. It was pretty cool. They had very simple and cheap solutions available, even some self-built prototypes, but ... politics. Everybody needs to make some money off of everything to pass each stage of approval. From then I started thinking always about the many revenue systems we employ that cost far more than they collect. Public transit is a big one because the cost of a customer not buying a ticket is not just the ticket price, but traffic time and road expansion and emissions and parking structures etc. It’s hard even for government agencies to capture those externalities across department budgets and mandates.
Good thing the parent did not said that. What he said was that these countries are "not shy to touch on the freedoms of their population" and that they dont like when someone in EU points that out.
> haven't powered on in close to a year.

Didn't you just say you were viewing that website from the iBook but yet it hasn't been turned on in over year? So which is it? Are you actively using that computer or are you just using it as a strawman to prove some orthogonal point..

> Unless every single piece of software on every piece of hardware on their network is fully patched and up to date, and doesn't contain any zero-day vulnerabilities, of course.

Take two scenarios: one where everyone is on a unpatched 2004 iBook and one that we live in today. The chances of the former being hacked are WAY higher.

> What point do you think I apparently helped prove?

That you're an edge case and people aren't actively running on older versions of software because software vendors provide support to those systems. Support requires costly resources (humans, systems, etc.) to maintain. Those updates don't just come for free. The "system" that the WP article is referring to is the whole mobile ecosystem and internet. iOS needs to constantly be updated (including the SDK) to mitigate every new attack that comes with changes in ISPs, people's usage behavior, SSL/TLS changes, Wi-fi changes, and and and...this list goes on forever.

So how do you expect Apple to keep up with those changes? How do they enforce their walled garden has gardeners who water their plants and give them nutrients?

EDIT:

To further reiterate, back to one of your points before:

> Still, yes, I wish there wasn't such a constant expectation from tech companies to constantly update to the latest & greatest

For exactly the reasons I put above. There's probably a good reason TLS/SSL is throwing an error...because SSL2/3 is deemed insecure and this is an enforcement policy to change webmaster's behaviors.
the entire state of the database gets captured by a hash value. By having light-weight clients (or auditors) keeping track of it is how tampering is detected in despite of where the database server is running
[ Full disclosure: CMake developer. ]

That presumes that we knew it would have been such a problem when CMake was started (back in the late 90's; I started contributing in 2010). The issue is that a lot of semantics are tied up in the way the language works between the list representation, variable lookup, scoping, policies, etc.
There's something to be said when one claims they like homeless people acting a certain way.
The Hopkinsville Goblins
But to get to Select mode in the first place, you need a key sequence that seems longer than the direct route:

- select from block requires Ctrl-G and then start typing, but c or s is more direct

- select character uses gh, but c is more direct

- select line uses gH, but C is more direct

In what circumstances would Select mode be more direct than to go from Visual to Insert, or from Normal to Insert?
Spending more time at work (yes, going to a happy hour with my coworkers is still "at work") is not a reward for hard work. More money or time off is.

I work hard to have my own life, outside of work. I don't work hard to be rewarded with a single expensive meal with booze paid for.

I don't even drink anyways.
The company did not hire me to do scientific computing, rather build the beginning of an ambitious software platform which, beside other things, will leverage a scientific computing component. As we are a start up, I'm more than happy to go out my comfort zone to work on the first steps of this component, before we hire specialist in the years to come.

Thanks for your advices on MATLAB and Python, and I'll take a look at OpenMPI. Who knows, maybe I may have the option to understand what the code is doing if I put some work into it :-)
> It gave me a chance to say "thanks"

"Me" is the key word

> and for us to bond over the challenge we overcame.

That occurred already. It happened through the process of overcoming the challenge.

I get the intent, but your people probably just want to rest and get some of their time back. If you must celebrate, do it during hours. I typically did offsite lunch time activities pre-COVID. Now it's more gift driven and individual. I made up award systems like the high school "most likely to ...". If someone renovated their masterbath, give them something that is specific to that as a thanks. Find out if they prefer public or 1:1 gratitude
Is there a pay-as-you-go pricing (OK to be a higher than monthly) too? I'm looking for something like this but am willing to pay when I need but won't use it regularly.
Back then it was a FAB - does seem excessive I have had a couple of interviews (both avowed jobs) like that.

Huntings wouldn't even let me in the main building and Hanslope Park I was escorted (its much nicer than its description in the laundry files)
Please explain how this harmonizes with the “well regulated” clause of the second amendment.
data needs to be provided in a machine readable format.

From there, a specific parser/converter needs to be built by the competing service for imports.
It would be more difficult, but I don't think it has to be "a lot more difficult". The code could make a lookup in the actuarial life tables for each country to get the expected remaining years of life for a person of that age, and then just aggregate these, no?
I agree, actually, but that's fundamentally different from saying people aren't "qualified".
I'm a Norwegian citizen and a Texan and I can tell you that at least in my own personal contact with this phrase I feel it was way more influenced by the popular "cowboys and indians" western imagery than it does with contemporary modern Texas politics itself.
That would be very bad indeed, but it's also a situation that is statistically more likely to happen in California than Texas, just to add some perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
Definitely an interesting problem though.

You'd probably want to gather life expectancy rates for individuals once they reached five years of age (since infant mortality necessarily lowers life expectancy but after a cliff people who make it tend to live longer than the average with a bunch of 0s, 1s, and 2s in it) for each country in question.

Then you'd need stats for the age of the dead in each country which I guess you don't really have in most cases since the deaths aren't aggregated anywhere since they haven't been attributed to COVID.

Thanks to the Economist for publishing their model. Would be neat to see more stuff like this. I haven't delved too deeply into the code (several 1000 line scripts which would take some sussing out) but it's nice people will have real world projects they can delve into.
Knives of a certain design (switchblades) and lengths? Absolutely.
Do you drive?
I think some people summarise that as "an armed society is a polite society" but it seems more like "a fearful society is a repressed society". In some countries the populace is oppressed by the fear of an authoritarian government, in others they're oppressed by the fear of the person stood next to them. An authoritarian government could be considered preferable as at least they are more predictable than random strangers.
1 - Battery life. Their last big win was "now only as bad as Chrome, which is still pretty bad!" and that was a while ago.

2 - Resource use more generally. One shitty tab shouldn't make my whole system slow, even outside the browser. Safari (as with the battery life thing) manages this better than the rest. Do that.

Those two are basically table-stakes to get me back to thinking about using it regularly.

3 - I gather from this thread that they collect "telemetry", including mouse movements, on an opt-out basis. We used to call that, unequivocally, spyware. No. Stop. I don't care that a bunch of ad salesmen made this normal, it's still gross.

4 - Better in-browser performance (separate from not junking up my whole system, performance-wise, as in #2)

5 - I think to be compelling, they either need to slim way down, or bulk way up, feature-wise. Either laser-focus on being the light, slim, simple browser that FF hasn't been since like the mid '00s, or integrate more Internet protocols to try to break us out of this crappy local maximum. New social protocols (Mastadon?), maybe pick one of the old-school-web protocols and run with that. Maybe IPFS. Something. Probably several somethings, ideally supporting and enhancing one another. Give me reasons to want to use FF again, either because it does things nothing else does, or because it's lightning fast, has a postage-stamp memory footprint, and is easy on my battery. Notably, I think, the fat-FF route is also a pretty damn clear route to monetization, which they seem to want. I fear they've missed their chance for that, though, and the time to start was at least 5 years ago when they had a huge headcount and lots of money.
I can't handle hearing someones drink as it goes down their throat; not just large glugging but even little sips. I actually physically clench up and sometimes have to leave the room. It's my experience that women tend to be the worst offenders.
I love how in some American cartoons/comedy movies there's always a salesman selling some extremely powerful/dangerous widget saying something along the lines of "This here bad boy is illegal in 49 states ... except Texas" :D
(And yeah, I drifted from CMYK to spot inks, basically there is a whole world of Printing Process that an RGB-only program is unable to do, and while you can come up with workarounds they are all a ton of hassle.)
Thank you. I was trying to think of the best response to the comment containing the line

> You can fix a shitty product with great marketing but if you don't fix your marketing, even a great product will fail.

but you said it better than I possibly could.
The “right” for individuals to walk around armed all the time was invented by gun manufacturers and legal activists within the past few generations. That it is now taken as some historical/constitutional standard is due to an incredibly successful propaganda/marketing effort.

The constitutional amendment is about a “well-regulated militia”. The purpose was common defense against military invasion, not citizens having intramural shoot-outs.
HN is minority of tech people, and even on HN not everyone share same opinion, I doubt it's even 50%.
The purpose of the excess death model is to measure the real number of deaths without having to argue about whether they were caused by covid infection or not. It is simply the difference between the typical number of deaths in a given time and the real number of deaths -- unless you're saying that death certificates are being fabricated altogether?
Does the Constitutional right to bear arms on an individual level apply to nuclear, chemical, and biological arms, or is it limited in some capacity not explicitly outlined in the wording of the Second Amendment?
Previous discussion from 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23671022
Comments are closed after some time. I don't remember the official number, and the mods may change it whenever they want, but I guess it's one or two weeks.
Facebook's data worth $1294 per user per year is probably BS. It'd mean Facebook generating 3.5 TRILLION in PROFIT every year.
> If you're a good person and a business owner, you're looking to make mutually beneficial business transactions.

Exactly this. The transactions become much less mutually beneficial if the business is trying to hold my data hostage. Especially if they gave no indication of it previously, back when I was still evaluating the value of the transaction.

We had a good time, I got value from their services, they got my money and perhaps some extra benefits too - now it's time for us to part ways, I'm packing and I want my stuff back.

> If someone is looking to move away from using your business, then it's them who's trying to extract value from you, without giving anything in return.

Transactions on the market are supposed to be voluntary. This means I should be free to move away from using any business, after discharging all my obligations to it that I voluntarily accepted. By switching to a competitor, I'm not taking any more value from the company. As for asking for my data back, a business should consider my data loaned to them. It's their obligation - social, and now legal - to give it back.

GDPR specifies more than one way to do this. Controller to Subject transfers are a no-brainer. It's my data, I want it back. Controller to Controller transfers are gated by "where technically feasible". This point is there to ensure that businesses which don't have the necessary infrastructure in place aren't forced to spend time and effort to build it up. Only those that can do it at negligible costs are being forced to provide this option.
Please fix the content. It should be "Unlimited Subscribers", not Unlimited Subscriber's".
As an anecdote, when I asked about getting it, I was told that it would not be covered by my insurance and would cost me $500. That price is out of reach for the vast majority of Americans.
'I Built an Underground Cave After a Fight with My Parents'
Related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/nkayx7/usa_mat...
Martin is, and always has been, a plagiarist, ghost-written, clueless, idiot, with a way of convincing other know-nothings that he knew something. At one time he tried to set up a reputation on StackOverflow, and was rapidly seen off.

Toxic. Avoid.
See my sibling comment. The way CMake's language has evolved is very organic. There is a declarative core now with targets and usage requirements, but due to backwards compatibility guarantees, actually making it the only thing available is nigh impossible.

Lua was also deemed not suitable in the long run because of our backwards compatibility guarantees. We'd need to ship N Lua interpreters internally because Lua is not compatible between 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, etc. Or say "we only support Lua 5.2, we cannot support 5.4" which…distros really dislike.
Then you should probably move to a country whose founding document doesn't explicity state that citizen rights to bear arms shall not be infringed.
And tech people want to move here because of lower taxes?
Yup. Ever after 5pm work thing I've been "rewarded" with is still work. Even if it's more fun than working at my desk its still work. I'm not able to do with that time what I want. It's only a reward if it is replacing work. And really it's only a reward if the amount of time that it is replacing is taken out of the sprint planning.

At the end of the day if you take a weeknight from me I'm going to be annoyed at best and upset at worst. If you take a work day from me, or part of one, but still expect me to get a full days or work done we will both be in a bad position.

I get the intention here. I used to be a people manager and I planned lots of things for after work. But I stopped when I realized how difficult it actually made things for many people and people with kids.
I can see this is quickly going to become a "hate on Texas" thread, rather than considering why Texas is doing this, which I think has some very legitimate ground.
Texas seems to generally recognize that when power is concentrated into a point, that power is almost certainly abused, and is incredibly dangerous. It harks back to the old phrase "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

It really is simple; Texas generally fears a tyrannical government more than they fear a random shooting. So they give freedom to guns to spread out power. While certainly not risk-free, I think it's a legitimate stance.
Poland launches $273,000 lottery to encourage people to get vaccinated
The headline is misleading, it is unlicensed _concealed carry_ that is being legalized, from what I can tell. I don't know Texas gun laws but I suspect its already to open carry without a licenses. Also the article mentioned that Texas already has unlicensed carry of rifles. Again, while this is true, it doesn't strike me as uncommon in the US. I line in New Mexico, and yes, we're less restrictive of costal states but we also have unlincesed open carry, and unlincensed rifle carry. Concealed carry in NM does require a permit, but its pretty easy to get.

The article gave me the feeling on non-americans writing about america--they focus on what is unusual to them, without necessarily realizing that some of it is pretty common in the US, with our lax gun laws.
That's great! I wonder why it's not done more, why there is no kind of standard for this? I looked into it and it's complicated in the electrical side etc, also I guess costs.

Recall time is what forced a lot of professionals to totally move in the box.
You can build a Merkle tree from any data that is append-only; Git does this, as do ZFS and Dat/Hypercore. That lets you make strong assertions about data integrity, even without blocking local writes.

Now add a mirror: git upstream, FS snapshot, immudb replica, etc…or even just an outside log of the merkle proofs themselves. Then, if your database ever fails a check against that proof, you know the data has been modified, not just appended to.

To use a familiar Git workflow example: you can do whatever local writes you want, but if you disallow force pushes no one can erase history on the upstream repo.

Put another way: if you have immutable backups you don’t need a blockchain to ensure data integrity. OTOH, if you can’t trust your own infrastructure even as far as a secure remote backup you have other problems that a blockchain won’t solve either.
Silhouette in the Sky
I would love to see the tests that people come up for this...

Tests can be helpful and informative, or they can be make-work boilerplate that will never reveal any flaws. And in this type of code base, it's hard to imagine the test that's written in code that will be informative.

When dealing with data, "testing" is most often done visually, with plotting.

The process of exploratory data analysis is not anything at all like writing code to an architected specification, and the same practices are not as effective for different types of work. Insisting that there should be automated tests for something like this reminds me of the cultural phenomenon of extreme table-phobia in the 2000s that happened as a reaction to using tables for layout. I had trouble getting people to believe that is was OK to use tables for tabular data, it was extremely frustrating. Or in the last 5-10 years, with design trends preferring spare layouts with lots of empty space, it was super hard to get information dense designs into production, because they were so averse to the idea that people may need information density for some things.

I'm also reminded of this video about the deficiencies of notebooks:

https://youtu.be/7jiPeIFXb6U

Yes, there are huge deficiencies to notebooks. But using them is an entirely different task than the type of code that one would write in an IDE, for code that gets put into a library and will be run by others. I have two work modes: 1) IDE (actually Emacs) where I write tests and the code is meant to be reusable, even if it's a one-off script, then 2) exploratory data analysis and processing, in notebooks. Though both of these use code, they do not and should not share much else in the way of practices.

We develop best practices in fields to work against our worst instincts. And once we establish best practices, we become strict about them to make sure we don't fall back into bad practices. But when approaching a different field it's good to reevaluate these best practices to see if they still fit.
Similarly, free software running on proprietary Unix OSes became (during the years 1983 through 1991) very popular before any free Unix kernel started getting traction.
> Emacs is too laggy for me as my main editor.

wonder what kind of projects do you use
There's several concealed carry shall-issue and non-prohibitive may-issue nations in the EU including: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. All of which have low per-capita firearm deaths relative the the United States. I think this is more related to the old school "wild west" image of Texas than anything else.

Useful map of regulations in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation...
Sadly CSIRO axed entire seL4 team, "to focus on AI".
What are the odds that the Twitter accounts that the researchers base their findings on were also bots? It’s an interesting thought to entertain with intertwined mutual feedback loops of assisted automated systems all assuming each other to be human.
> 2. [...] Again, consider Christian Heaven: singing hymns doesn't sound like loads of endless fun, but you're supposed to enjoy praying, so no one can point this out.

Clearly written by someone who's either never been to church, or goes to a boring one :-)

If you've ever been to a fantastic (rock, jazz, whatever) concert, you know the amazing feeling of being caught up with others in the excitement of a shared musical experience. It's fantastic!

Well, worship can be like this too... you may need to shop around to find an exciting church (and yeah, church is supposed to touch all your senses, not just your intellect, so excitement is OK.)

And a ton of our popular ideas of heaven (walking on clouds in white robes playing lyres) doesn't come at all from the biblical account. Go read Revelation... heaven is going to be a city, the inhabitants will have jobs, etc. The biblical heaven looks interesting to me!

See "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn for other interesting myths busted.
Let's go! Wild west pimp style!

Its truly amazing the number of states going constitutional carry, and I look forward to it being nation wide.

Congrats
Note that 20 other states already have permitless legal carry. Vermont is one of the longest-running states to allow it.

Texas is actually not one of the more permissive states when it comes to firearm laws. Everyone just thinks it is because of the "don't mess with texas," "wild west" image they like to maintain.
The key concepts are documented here: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts

Some things that Fuchsia was able to do thanks to starting from scratch:

- The system is based on capabilities, a security model which is based on explicit tracking of permissions. It wouldn't be possible to change Linux to be capability-based because the ambiant-authority model has been used pervasively since it was conceived 30 years ago.

- Fuchsia provides a stable binary interface (like Windows, but unlike Linux). This lets you update your system while keeping some components unchanged, eg. binary drivers from a hardware manufacturer that wouldn't provide updates for them anymore. I think Linux could technically change this, but they have historically been unwilling to, and it is unlikely to change in the future.
Yes let's please do this. I'm tried of this book being brought up at work.

My clean code book:

* Put logic closest to where it needs to live (feature folders)

* WET (Write everything twice), figure out the abstraction after you need something a 3rd time

* Realize there's no such thing as "clean code"
You want a csv saying what "this account has this item" flags are set for your account in the database? Ya, you can probably get that, for all the good it will do you.