skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean by 'his work on Racket being only tangentially related to what's he actually paid for", as far as I know all his research for like the past two decades has been on Racket, though I'm not familiar with what he's been doing exactly. Now, it could be that his involvement with the project isn't necessary for his research to continue without issue, but I at least don't think that's a given and would depend on what research he's been doing specifically.
Where do you live that it's not??
Every person who has compiled a Linux kernel by first typing "make menuconfig" has used a program created with flex and bison.
Nice work. Curious what value the patent holder extracted from the original patent that's expired
I would not get refractive eye surgery if I was old enough to have reading glasses (since nothing fixes that yet), but if all you have is run of the mill myopia, a couple thousand dollars to spare, and you are 25 to 30, LASIK or PRK is one of the best quality of life improvements you can make.

The clarity with which you can see everything is stunning at first, and the lack of inconvenience is incredible. If you’re interested in dating, it is probably one of the best investments you can make to improve your experience.

You would get at least 10, maybe even 15 years of not having to deal with glasses.
Except that FB acquired oculus after they were already shipping their prototype as a devkit.

Considering HTC was able to launch what is arguably a better product within the same year as oculus I fail to see what facebook brought to the table besides dark patterns and forced privacy violations.
Young tax cattle need to know their place under the violent yoke of the state.
Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)
It's great to allow your kids to take risks, and we do this with our own as much as we can (they're 1 and 3, so "within reason" is still doing some heavy lifting. I pick ticks off of them now and then and patch up their share of bruises).

But fundamentally, what I want most is to be somewhere my kids can ride bikes or walk alone to school, to friends, to the shop, etc. from the age of 7 or so. As best I can tell that pretty much means the Netherlands, parts of Denmark, or perhaps Japan (more for transit than cycling).

Children can't drive, which means unless you're lucky enough to live very close to your friends, and ideally on the same side of the street, your home is effectively your prison in the US and Canada.

And yes, I suppose you _can_ let your kid ride a bike to school alone in the US at 7, but you would be risking arrest, and death. It's often forgotten that drivers are, by far, the leading killers of children. Far more than people with guns. I was an avid cyclist in the US for the first 30 years of my life and I still have a bruised rib and too many memories of very, very close calls with death.

NotJustBikes, who moved from Canadian suburbia to the Netherlands, explores this in more depth at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98
Pi Network – Making Cryptocurrency Accessible to All
Lol. I see his critics did exactly that. The whole anti-ten-thousand-hours people cherry picks borderline arguments and ignores overall correctness of his general point.
What's the newsworthiness here? Thousand-year-old eggs are already a common delicacy in China. When preserved properly they not only stay intact, but are also edible.
What do I put my money in?

Crypto is having a fever dream. Real estate is ballooning. Index funds are at an all time high and the fed is printing money like Gutenberg reincarnate. What do I do?!
I already have logs, alerts and dashboards.

I want a control panel. Complete with blinkenlights and switchgear that goes “click” and has satisfying detents.
At the level of Heineken 0.0, which is actually 0.03%, it should be noted that the alcohol content of most unwaxed ripe fruit is higher due to natural subsurface fermentation by wild yeasts.

To my knowledge, Muslims do eat fruit.
The more nodes you have participating the more secure an onion system tends to be. Since the Tor network can carry most kinds of traffic, the motivation to avoid a fork is strong.
> geo-IP location showing basically everywhere you have taken a photo in, ever since the dawn of time

Geo-IP is the process of taking an IP address and attributing an location to that IP address.

I think you meant GPS location?
dear god, please no. So tired of the entities I have to deal with who only offer SMS for 2FA and not email. I tried to send some of them a stash of links about how insecure SMS is for this purpose, to no avail.
Isn’t iCloud+ “VPN” (Private Relay) just white-labled Cloudflare Warp? Is “onion router” a new development or is Jerry overzealously inferring there’s more than meets the eye here?
A quick search for "reentrant flex bison" gets me this:

https://stanislaw.github.io/2016/03/29/reentrant-parser-usin...

which in turn links this:

https://github.com/blynn/symple/tree/75aaea79141a18a234c94dc...

The magic flags are:

%option reentrant

and

%lex-param { yyscan_t scanner }
%parse-param { yyscan_t scanner }
%parse-param { val_callback_t callback }

... so ... it seems a reentrant flex/bison parser is easily possible?
The original safari webgl implementation did just that, and the dialog was useless as you had no way of knowing if a site was trustworthy.
And, what if it's not installed? What if it's just some icons/app suggestions that trigger download/installation on first use?
I saw the exact same thing and was surprised too! I wonder if it was a site that was on HN...

I press "accept all" by accident and thought "wow".
I'm pretty certain an actual fine (not ceasing operations) has a limit of max(10M€, 2% worldwide revenue of previous year) and double if you're antithetical to GDPR. Also, it's per infringement and isn't a yearly free pass to continue once you're fined.

Companies are not doing much because enforcement is lacking, and in case you get caught, most fines are in the neighborhood of reasonable rather than instant liquidation.

[0] https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-handles-9993-gdpr-complaints-wi...
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27516562
Can you argue why this on a different level? It's the same joke but a more violent version. I'm not arguing that it's not funny but that it's not that unique and isn't genius by any definition.
That's fair. My contacts were always for distance vision. But as I've gotten older, I need readers--only if I'm wearing contacts--for reading. Multi-focals improve but don't eliminate the need. So very manageable.
A GitHub employee maintains an unofficial Linux-specific fork here: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop
This beautiful but 5 minutes in and my 2015 macbook pro cannot handle it.
Power-up your ESP projects: browser-based install and configure Wi-Fi via BLE
Although they often intercept, her paper was not an economics paper, it was a legal treatise. I think the novel portion was that she used modern economic theory to create a legal framework that could be used for enforcement.

That said, that and one other paper got her tenure (not just tenure track) at Columbia Law.
flex & bison use globals to report things per-rule. Of course they are not re-entrant. This is documented by virtue that those are globals.
> He wasn't anywhere close to as critical as this review, however.

When someone with a much (much!) bigger following than you parachutes into your field and joins you on your platform (where you are currently covering the same topic), you maybe withhold your most severe criticism of their work.
I'm not being a contrarian - I support deflation. The supposed problem with deflation is that economic activity slows down and enough stuff won't be produced. But we're presently drowning in stuff!

I agree it is a concern for a non-developed economy not meeting human needs, especially when price signals travel slowly (high system momentum). But we're in a well developed economy with a near-instantaneous global network.

Witness, we've had four decades of deflation in the technology sector. Inflation advocates would tell you that everybody should have put off their technology purchases until computers stop(ped) getting better and cheaper. But yet people were buying new devices the whole time.

If we're concerned with natural resource depletion and sustainability, we really need to stop pumping the gas pedal.

BTW I don't see your parallel to shorting a stock. Care to explain?
I think a lot of folks are going out of their way to misunderstand what happened. Yes there are other similar projects and containers. No, none come from a long established COMMUNITY RUN PROJECT. This is something akin to the difference between VirtualBox and OpenBSD’s vmd. Ones a product with a “free” tier, the other is a community project.
As a society we’ve mostly regulated away the truly dangerous threats to a safe and healthy life. Now the wealthy among us have too much anxious energy that gets spent decrying things that merely bother them. Without a realistic frame of reference, these annoyances balloon into huge threats in their mind’s eye.

I think rich people have always thought this way, but nowadays there’s more people who live a rich life thanks to technological developments.
Again, I feel this is just you. You're ascribing a deeper meaning to the term than it actually has. Even in this thread there's someone saying "Well it's OK to call yourself CEO as long you actually tried to start the business".

Think about it a bit more. How many employees before you can call yourself a CEO in your opinion? 1, 2, 10? Do they have to be employees or do freelancers count? Do free interns? Does your company have to have made a profit, or does it count if you just blew a bunch of seed cash and never made a dime?

And what term do you want to use if they fall out of your personal guidelines? As you haven't actually suggested one, nor has the GP. FlibbleFlobble? Pertankywank? PersonWhoDidSomething?

You setup your own company, you're a CEO.
This is very a very pretty game, reminds me of quest games I was playing as a kid. Those games seem limited in capabilities but they were pushing boundaries back in the day in terms of graphics and artistry. Looking forward to see more of this. Im gonna try this on my 3 year old and see what response Im getting.
If it's so trivial, why didn't they?
It would have to be in steps:

Add Xn+1: create new views without column.
When no Xn clients remain: drop column from tables and drop schema Xn.

The point as I see it is to not break live client connections which expect the column to exist.
Blaston is a $10 app. https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2307085352735834/
> quality of life is higher than Russia

Have you been to Russia?
I can assure you that while it certainly is easy for faculty to get away with this behavior (Matthias himself being evidence of that fact), his behavior is well outside of the range of what could reasonably be considered normal, at least within computing academia in general.
I think cycling is one of those things where it’s important to do it in spite of Canamerica being such a bad place for it, every person cycling normalizes it and pushes indirectly for positive change. Of course it’s also important to directly push for change in city government.
People are always spreading FUD like this about the military industrial complex but you have to keep in mind, it emits less than 2% of all the carbon in the known universe. So it's actually pretty green when you look at it like that.

Also, I get a lot of shit for driving a Hummer but it really has way less emissions than the Maersk shipping fleet, so checkmate libtards.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pens blistering essay against social media sanctimony
Yeah the 'less than' in the headline is wilfully misleading.
> opportunity to teach a “how to search” class

Not as much as SEO "how to break search" opportunities.
Same experience here; recursive descent parser advantages:

- It's just normal code; you don't have to go learn a whole 'nother thing

- Easy and fun to write (ymmv)

- Does not add extra dependencies to your build system (the time I've wasted getting the right version of yacc installed just to handle software that parses some trivial grammar...)

- You can easily deliver really good error messages to your users (they love this!)

Disadvantages:

If you're not careful, you can accidentally end up w/ some sort of weird frankenstein grammar
Seems like a strange course of action. What if someone just wants to come and see you and not debate the scientific merits of Damore's memo? The man is a computer science professor, after all. I don't know about "hostile work environment" but it seems needlessly antagonistic to me.
Adding a column, changing column's nullability and adding/changing constraints is already zero-downtime in PG.

Not sure about default value change, but I would also say its zero-downtime as adding a column with default is zero-downtime. Haven't checked, though.

Dropping a column and changing the data type are not zero-downtime.

Renaming a column is not zero-downtime as you might have multiple readers/writes using both.
Its not as yet feature complete but has come a long way from its earlier beginnings. I have been using it on Windows and being native and close to UNIX shells really helps my workflow.

The inbuilt commands and structured philosophy is a great approach.
Maybe because we have such a skewed media system in the US that facts mean nothing if you can monetize said stereotypes. Honestly, we need to restrict media companies speech somewhat. It's certainly not fair that they can control information on top of allow for whatever libel they want to pass through so long as they add a retraction later.
To continue the off-topicness...

That number almost always works for store 'loyalty program' discounts too.

<local area code> 867-5309
Who moved my cheese- I wanted to find out who moved his cheese.
Levine’s analysis is regarding to the evidence gathered from the investigation while the statement from the press release refers to whether or not a group of transactions warranted investigation in the first place. The “sophisticated analysis” the SEC refers to is akin to an if statement while the evidence set forth in the complaint (and referenced by Levine) is the result of running “then investigate” when $isSuspicious returned true.
Maybe we need to talk about what’s wrong with adults being so freaking creepy !
Several years ago, I worked on some open source projects that involved Racket. The community and Matthew Felleisen in particular were very helpful, and it sticks with me that the project founder took time to teach me idiomatic/correct ways to write Racket code and tests.

Not condoning Matthew Felleisen's behavior towards Matthew Butterick - people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect - but there does seem to be a side to M.F that enjoys teaching and evangelizing Racket.
Implementing Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications
I’ve seen risk deaggregarion at work and wonder if it stems from how easy it is to shoot an idea down with a counter example.

E.g. Should we switch from “status quo” to “change”? Good idea, but if we move to “change” then “this one bad thing will happen”.

A solution might be to use the lieutenant’s cloud, an idea I learned on a thinking course.

With this you simply ask why “bad thing” and then offer a suggestion that solves the why, not necessarily the bad thing.

This is probably easier to do at a closed organisation. In the public eye with an emotive topic like possibility of child abduction, a lot of sensitivity is needed.
> American parents are having their right to raise independent kids restored, so their kids can grow into confident and capable adults, ready for the world out there. The parents win, the children win—and so does America.

I’m a beneficiary of childhood freedom, to injure myself (tools, fire, trees), to explore (walking for miles through the woods, along defunct railways, and biking the dirt roads), and to read whatever I found at the library. The downside was I didn’t have what I think of as healthy discussions with my parents, perhaps because it was awkward for them?
As a parent now I’m trying to build on their successes, adding emotional mindfulness.

For example: finger crushed in a heavy book? Yeah, that hurts, and it’ll hurt awhile yet (no asking “you okay?” because that’s too binary, and mainly to appease the parent). In the meantime, take long, slow breaths and feel the pain as it subsides and you’re ready to move on. If it doesn’t go away, let’s take another look at it.
I also let my kid fall, and I tell her it’s helpful to feel what it’s like to fall. She’s learning to climb and take steps, and when I’m spotting her for safety I’ll intervene enough to prevent injury but not the initial slip. I largely credit our Early Childhood Education teachers with my own progress here.

For those of you who give your children more freedom, how do you manage your concerns around risk? How do you decide how much freedom to give? What do those conversations look like?
You are probably thinking of century eggs, also known as thousand year eggs and many other names. The name isn’t literal; they are made within weeks or months and I seriously doubt they’d remain edible after 1000 years (nor would they be affordable for your average cook).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
I think there's a difference between Dan Carlin's "I'm interested in exploring what it felt like to be in some moment of history, and why the people there made the decisions they made" and Malcolm Gladwell's "I'm going to cherrypick facts until my 'history' fits the just-so fable I'm trying to tell".
How this guy think he is able to spin this in any kind of "positive" fashion is beyond me.

He just made the math and proved how completely crazy bitcoin is from an energy consumption POV and somehow tries to flip the story
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
Theoretically, the point of venture capital investment was exactly to give such a "no-strings-attached" period of buffer time to discover what revenue models might work for a new piece of technology with promise. (In reality there are many other confounds...)

It's why many people wished to see that rather than an acquisition (where the new owners can do what they want) for Oculus. Back in the day, FB tried to placate these worries by suggesting that even with an acquisition they would try to behave like a VC and keep Oculus more-or-less independent. At this point it is clear that that dream is over.

People aren't angry, just disappointed. Eventually we will all lose hope on these things. Heck, many already have.
Which is still better then no explanation nor minimal hint at all unless you are doing something simple.
I've punched many people in the face many times, and been punched in the face and in other body parts many times, too. Hard-contact martial arts was once one of my favorite hobbies, and I owned a martial arts studio for some years.

Like other commenters, I do not generally advocate punching someone in the face for saying something rude or cruel, especially if you're well-adapted to fights and they aren't. It's probably unethical and definitely likely to cause you legal grief.

I will say this, though: in twenty years or more of a hobby that involved punching people in the face, kicking them hard enough to knock outlines of their bodies into the drywall, and choking them to the edge of unconsciousness, I never saw the kind of thoughtless cruelty and bullying that is described here. Mostly I saw a lot of mutual courtesy and respect, with exceptions on rare occasions.

I will say that people who like to punch down seem to lose their enthusiasm when they discover unexpectedly that they're actually punching up. Perhaps it will amuse you, as it did me, to hear about a fellow I know who is large and strong and skilled who dropped by to visit in person someone who had been bullying and abusing him online. No violence ensued, but the bully experienced an epiphany about the value of courtesy and discretion.
Views can perform arbitrary queries. They can achieve any kind of inference starting from the base data that's stored in tables. (Keep in mind that modern SQL is fully Turing-complete.) This makes any view-augmented database a viable source of rich, complex knowledge, not just mere information.
My grandfather did this with my father - though with specific marching orders. Regularly, maybe starting when dad was 7. It was the 1920's (s/bus/train/g). So far as I can tell from old family stories, it was considered pretty normal for an extended family with farms that were hundreds of miles apart. When school was out, the "free" young farm labor could be sent to where there was work that needed doing.
It could be argued that ads are inherently attention diluting and therefore can only be harmful. Some research might help but this is a difficult subject to study.
Yes, it does. Booting a FreeDOS flash drive is how I update Supermicro BIOS and flash HBAs with IT mode firmware.
Milk is high in carbohydrate. So are most plant based beverages. Back to diabetics... Can't or should not eat it (or should have tiny, tiny portions which reduce the amount of nutrition anyway). Problem is for people who should not consume carbohydrate, especially sugars, a plant-based diet is not sustainable. Yes supplements can supply nutrition, but they are the epitome of highly processed products.
I think the whole ten-thousand-hours is doing exactly that, it presents some cherry-picked facts and ignores giving substantial evidence. The main point of the book is quite obvious before Gladwell wrapped it into pop science: hard work does pay off one way or another but the extent of his generalization is ... pop science
Hi: What?

Who is proposing we eliminate the chain of custody for ballots? Who's actually called for that. Who has said "no observation of ballot counting" as opposed to "everyone who feels like it can come in and wander freely to investigate". Ballot harvesting has at least 3 different definitions, some of which are fine (put your ballots somewhere other than a polling place, and officials collect them) others are dubious (give some person you trust your ballot, have them deliver it to the polls). And if these things are "guaranteeing" election fraud, show me where it happened on such scale as to matter (and not some dude who did something he shouldn't but got caught and therefor disproves your point about how bad the security is).

There's bad faith arguing and then there's this.
You've caught an Orobus by the tail!
Just so I'm clear, risk de-aggregation is when I worry and optimise about the risks of drink driving, and end up killing myself by [drunk walking in front of a bus]/[accepting a lift from a serial killer]/[Cancer I got in the smokey bar I was really careful not to drive home from]
MS they don't want you to use it, because Windows!?
And the fix is to not use globals. cf. my toplevel post about "%option reentrant", "%lex-param" and "%parse-param".

Globals are just the 80's setup, and flex/bison are supposed to be POSIX lex/yacc compatible, so I'm gonna count this as "shitty defaults due to compatibility with stone tablets".
It would be even better if they didn't leverage their success in one industry (advertising) by publicly posing solely as another kind of company (social media) in order to buy up other companies (Oculus) to make a lateral entrance into VR, an industry unrelated from advertising, just to pollute it with more advertising.

This whole thing is shady IMO from top to bottom and just another aspect of 2021 tech which makes me think we really collectively failed to prevent the wonder of computing from just being another instrument to extract capital from the people and give it to the powerful
A farmer friend of mine told me that the chickens must sent to the slaughterhouses at a certain time, since beyond that, the chickens have heart attacks... the heart can't support the load placed on it.