skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must be joking if you think U.S. healthcare is deregulated. It’s one of the most regulated sectors in the economy, which explains why it’s such nightmare to deal with.
Of course it's C code. It parses, and compiles, giving undefined behavior.

If C wanted to insist that main is a function, it could. That could be in the standard, and then these clever hacks wouldn't compile.

So no, you're dead wrong about that claim. So I'll go ahead and not be impressed with your commentary.

Of course a standards compliant C compiler could give you nasal demons, or delete your root directory, so it's not the sort of thing one should push to prod on a Friday.

It's just a hack.
> What bothers me about this kind of material is it's such good material for someone who's not honest for "one upping" or saying "oh this is just another example of [insert phenomenon]". Without looking at the substance.

Math also has this property. In particular, and famously, statistics.

The problem isn't "this kind of material", as you put it, but the fact that the debates in question (e.g. climate change denial) are waged on appearance rather than substance; quacks get employed to publish studies that look "sciency", and appear to strengthen the arguments of special interests. More generally, misusing "this kind of material", and getting away with it, is precisely the same kind of crime as p-hacking.

And please let me offer you a gentle nudge: try not to think of ideas in terms of "this kind of material"; down that path, there are sometimes book burnings.

We all intellectually group things together by apparent semblance, but we should all also remember that this grouping is a time-saving tool, not a truth-finding tool. If you want to actually determine the validity of a study's statistical findings, the fact that its authors are from a prestigious university is absolutely no indication of truth. Similarly for any theoretical work, whether in empirical science or, say, history. The measure of truth is in the work, not around it.

Which is to say, don't judge books by their covers, even though obviously we all do, all the time.
If it is central to home computing, I'd say audio/music workstations are a bit outside of that. However, if you allow that, then a video workstation would also follow.
You're missing a major element: the relative measurements of your wifi signal...a.k.a. radar inside your home, visible to people outside your home.[1]

Your wireless router sends out a constant signal . That signal bounces off stuff, and can be measured in real time. Once a 3rd party has a calibrated measurement of your wifi signal, they can scan it and make relative measurements in real time. They can reconstruct what's going on in the room by reconstructing the triangulation of how the signal is changing. They've been able to fine-tune it enough to see a person breathing, or see their heart beating.

As this technology matures, I believe this will be the next-level of major privacy concerns.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/
Meanwhile Apple is trying to revive the iconic iMac G3 with the new colourful iMacs.
Laptops and tabletops are ubiquitous. The desktop computer is purely in the realm of the pc gaming enthusiast at this point.
To be fair, it was extremely profitable to arm our enemies at the time, what were we supposed to do, not make money? That sounds like communism.
Have you seen how governments spend foreign aid receipts?
They don't need to understand the technical details to realize that network names are public information if they have ever connected to a network in an urban setting, where you can always see your neighbors network names in addition to yours.
Adult Items Policy
The same happened to VisualAge for Smalltalk where in 2005 Instantiations, Inc. took over "worldwide rights for this product" - and is still offering it...
Hotels are the sanitized way to visit a place, which is fine for a lot of folks.

But when I visit a new city, I want to live as the locals, which means not in the tourist district, and not with fresh towels every afternoon and a dip in the hotel pool.
“The Baseline Protocol is an open source initiative that combines advances in cryptography, messaging, and blockchain to deliver secure and private business processes at low cost using the public Mainnet for event ordering, data consistency and workflow integrity.

The protocol will enable confidential and complex collaboration between enterprises without moving any sensitive data from traditional systems of record.“

Note: It is a protocol - not a company or commercial software.

You can watch a number of videos of the protocol in action - maintaining state across enterprises of say an SAP installation and Google Sheets.
Generally blocks. So backblaze takes 17 blocks of input, and generates 20 blocks out output. Then recoveries work if 17 or more blocks are recovered.
The updates are one of the things I like about LTSC though. It gets security updates only, so the behavior of the system never changes out from under me, and the updates download and install very quickly!
It is very easy to see that governments are flawed and imperfect, but people forget that the reason we can calmly laugh at our governments from our air conditioned homes, with clean water etc (except in Flint Michigan) is because in the context of human civilization they are incredible institutions, without which we would be roaming a mad max wasteland.
1. I clearly said I was being snarky and there was a lot more in what I wrote than a single snarky sentence.

2. I have APs that do collect and store data about nearby wifi stations and transmission patterns as part of a system that improved wireless throughput.

3. What difference does it make if it is being stored?
Yeah! More accurately just EC, no real systems here.

Roguelikes are highly deterministic and are not real-time, so a system updating all its respective components for every "tick" wouldn't really fit.

The biggest obstacle with roguelike development is the way the components that make up an entity have to communicate in an agnostic way. Think if a wizard tries to freeze a warrior, where in the code/flow do you specify if that is or is not allowed? And what happens when you have extreme edge cases like if a specific area, a status applied to a teammate, or some random event nearby maybe says that the warrior is actually immune to being frozen? And what if the wizard's freeze spell is so powerful that it can ignore all of those obstacles?

The approach I went with is that the EC side is relatively basic but all the components can optionally tap into a flux/redux-style event system, and those messages are very powerful in how they allow themselves to be modified or permitted/allowed while being deterministic.

(And of course the message system allows for easy client/server logic, and super easy unit or integration testing of gameplay systems which hasn't felt like anything I've used before.)

I'm quite liking it so far, hoping to have something more concrete in 5-6 months.
I’m not familiar with a single credible analysis suggesting governments are more effective per dollar than charities. Note that none of the effective altruism people ever advise “give your money to the Chicago city government” or whatever.

The conclusion I’ve reached is that, if you have a low time preference, investing in high-risk R&D is the highest social return strategy.
Does this list mention the really dumb stuff like trying to use thallium salts to cause Fidel Castro’s beard to fall out?
This is a very 19th century attitude. Who says invasion is the primary action of concern?
Interestingly, it looks like she has done a more than passable job at targeting her donations to maximize long-term social benefits. Even her donations to "arts and cultural institutions" (a field where the vast majority of charitable donations are mammoth exercises in wasteful frivolity) are actually targeted towards institutions operating in highly challenging community contexts, where arts and culture funding is a very plausible mechanism to jump-start development of high-quality social capital and community ties. So, a remarkably good job overall.
Yeah, it's slowly getting there but hard to reach 100% so will need QA to touch up for a long time. But the hybrid approach gets better rendering than photoshop vendor image (at least shopper have difficult spotting).
Still hard to tell if this is satire.
I guess that was what I was trying to say. Make your code as obvious as possible, and use comments to explain what's not obvious.

Although people have vastly different ideas of what is or isn't obvious.
I'm not certain about that very last constraint (the chamfered thread not being thinner than X) but other than that, precisely what you describe is a workflow I've been following for the past couple of months in FreeCAD: not for metal threads, for plastic, printed ones, but the workflow is the same. They added helical cuts and additions in the most recent version, but even before that you could get the same effect with a helical path (so a few more steps for the same result, essentially).
Uh, this _is_ a thing in the US. Amtrak has many overnight routes with sleeper cars.
> we are fundamentally changing the way text is marked up within a document to correlate it to individual changes in that text over time.

What does this even mean? Are you Disrupting™ the Text Editing Industry? In what substantial way is it different - and better - than existing version control?
Well since it's gonna destroy Europe not just for Facebook but probably all big U.S tech I don't see why the U.S won't reciprocate with nice tariffs on EU auto industry for instance. It seems quite draconian actually since almost no one complies with GDPR to that extent.
I use Telegram to take notes on my phone. You can "message yourself", they changed it to "saved messages" but it's essentially just you chatting with yourself. Each message is a note, beginning with "Topic :", e.g. "Game design :".

Then about once a month I copy paste the whole chat into a text file on my workstation PC, date and archive it, and clear the chat. Telegram includes the exact time and date of each message in the paste, and my consistent "tagging" of the notes with the topic means that I can programmatically parse the text files later to organize them, maybe on my website.

After years of note-taking in various forms, I find that I rarely actually need to peruse my notes archive. It's the act of taking notes itself which helps with retention of ideas.
Seems like everyone assumed I was talking about very fancy expensive, niche tents in my comment. I mean most decent tents today are amazing compared to most products I interact with and light years away from where tents were 30 years ago (when I was a young cub/boy scout).

I personally have used a BA UL2 which I loved although it was a bit too flimsy for my taste. Later I got the REI Half Dome SL 2+. "Ideal" is very personal with tents because you are always making tradeoffs but for me, my REI tent is perfect. Not so expensive that I worry too much about it, not too flimsy, decently light, very nice usability, backed by great warranty.
Google and Apple both have WiFi geolocation databases. As far as I can tell there's no way for an AP to opt-out of Apple's database.

Interesting tidbit from [1]: "In older versions of Apple's mobile OS (1.1.3 to 3.1), Apple relied on Google and Skyhook Wireless to provide location-based services -- so Apple left data collection to them. But ever since April 2010, starting with iPhone OS 3.2 and continuing into the current iOS 4 software, Apple has started using its own databases to provide location-based services to iOS devices."

[1] https://www.wired.com/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking/
I still wonder how it felt to be a Hawaiian and think I was going to die for 38 minutes. What would I do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...
Having said that you can spot bad code by its JavaDocs.

The most reliable Javadoc is @author, git tells you the author, @author tells you who the code was copy/pasted from.
yes, in cobalt blue, they're perfect. much better than the pilot g2's that preceded them.
The parent should not be downvoted. There is some real feedback here that could lead to a much better product.

I used emacs for 13 years. Then one day I switched to vim and never looked back. My RSI went away.

1/ Regarding the comments about remapping keys as the first thing people do: there are several issues with this. What if I am using a new machine? For example, every time I log into a new EC2 instance or a Cloud 9 environment I would need to do this remapping.

2/ I agree elisp hacking is fun. I prefer that over vimscript—but, evil mode just doesn’t really work in so many msall ways. For example, putting line numbers in the first column is non-trivial.

3/ Chording is unpleasant and I suspect a recipe for RSI if used in a full-time job situation.
Have any of you get tested for antibodies?
Instead of all these social (justice) causes, I wish these billionaires would just build out our clean energy infrastructure and lobby to destroy our fossil fuel infrastructure.

Putting that $2.7b into Tesla shares would probably achieve more for the planet.

Meanwhile, we continue to throw money at problematic regions and peoples of the planet, for little apparent result apart from establishing a multi-generational and potentially endless reliance of those groups on massive continued aid flows.

The regions of the world where people have been truly uplifted - eg. Bangladesh and China - are the results of old-fashioned foreign investment and the hard work and adoption of Western culture and technology of the local populations and Governments, with no aid or donations in sight.
I wonder sometimes if the marital law we have rn isn't a bit bizarre in the disbursement of half of the wealth of the "family", where 99.99% of that wealth is from one of the people.

I don't imagine I'll ever be Jeff Bezos, but I would feel pretty weird if I became an independent billionaire by divorcing my wife.

It's a hot topic, but I would appreciate some discussion on it.
E3 2021: Nintendo shows off more Zelda Breath of the Wild 2
Is it legal to scrape search results and use it in a competitive product?. Is this a legal grey area or its settled in court?
I'd argue most Next sites use only client side rendering.
has anything remotely like that happened in the years google has operated this service?
We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories
I am guessing that people with an aptitude for math ,such as top physicists and mathematicians, just breeze through calc 2. They don't study more than everyone else but rather it just clicks faster.
I don't. In fact, people often look to me for more nuanced interpretations during meetings and social interactions.
I was a Tailwind skeptic too, but pairing it with a tool for building 'componentized' user interfaces (like GitHub's ViewComponent gem for Ruby web apps[1]) makes it incredibly easy to build attractive, consistent, easy-to-change UIs.

[1] https://github.com/github/view_component/ and https://viewcomponent.org
These things happen in autocracies too, and often with the blessing of the autocrats in exchange for huge bribes.

Money talks... in all systems of government.
Given the enormous costs of some of these long tail bugs, it should be more evident that we have things in place to try to prevent them from happening in the first place.

When I started in C++ I knew there was a lot I didn't know, but I assumed it would get sorted out over the life of the program.

Now I'm almost afraid to write C++, or at least to step off the yellow-brick-road of tried and true things 'I know for sure'. I'm afraid for people on my team doing that and feel weirdly paternalistic when requiring my devs. to do the same. I feel like an adult explaining why we 'walk on the sidewalk not the road' to adults who actually do know the sidewalk is safer, but are probably unaware of the statistical liability of walking along the road even as an adult.

As a developer - I love solving these problems. As a product leader they scare me to death - losing x% of your development time to never ending rabbit holes.
We can hope that Microsoft will require _bing_nomap as their suffix, While Apple will be more privacy-minded and require _yesapplemaps to be added if you wish to opt-in.

Opting out of Google while opting into MS and Apple scanning is left as an exercise to the reader.
“I am too ignorant to understand the nature of hard money, power, governments, fiat currencies, inflation, etc etc thus it has no point”. Hn folks need to stop rejoicing in ignorance. It is unbecoming.
I also associate that button very strongly with Netscape. I was surprised to not see one which had the Netscape logo on it, only a "Netscape Now" button was there among other "Now" buttons.

I wonder if the 31px height was from the height of the logo on the right of the address bar, the one which was animated. I don't know which height it was, but it could match.
> Making a really cheap, high quality school is much better than funding tuition in existing schools.

But there are a lot of people working on this, including many who are already employing a "disruption" mindset.

I think it's refreshing that her approach isn't dripping with that classic tech-boy hubris of looking for two seconds and deciding you need to reinvent, but is rather rooted in affirming and uplifting good work that's already going on, regardless of whether that work is bootstrapping new and better systems, or may well just be passing on the cash— which in many cases could in fact be the most effective thing to do with it:

https://epar.evans.uw.edu/blog/long-term-impacts-cash-transf...
My desktop computer -which doubles as my workstation- is going to be 10 years old soon. The replacements during these years make it a beast to this day, it beats a $5000 Macbook Pro into a pulp for a fraction of the price. I'm not considering ditching it for now.
Basically a crack down on anything sexually explicit, including art and vintage.

> Effective July 15, 2021, the Adult Only category will no longer be available for new listings on the U.S. site.

> Items in the following categories are no longer permitted on eBay:

> Sexually explicit Adult Only DVDs & movies
> Sexually explicit Adult Only Magazines
> Sexually explicit Adult Only Video Games
> Sexually explicit Adult Only Domain Names
> Sexually explicit Other Adult Only
> Sexually explicit Adult Only Collectibles on Blu-Ray, DVD and Film, LaserDisc, VHS, Other Adult Movie Formats, VCD, SVCD, VHS Non-US (PAL)
Reminds me of Pavlov's experiments
Why would you need a custom web server to run Next.js in CSR mode?

Edit: Unintentional sarcastic reply from my side, it was a good question.
>In other words, they’ll be demanding licensing fees over lots and lots of software patents. By and large, software patents are the lowest quality patents, and their rise has coincided with the rise of large-scale patent trolling.

Software patents are just a way for lawyers to parasitize some of the productivity (wealth) created by software engineers and companies that actually build things.

They should be summarily banned.

Now that congress is "only" 40% lawyers (down from 80%) we might be able to get such legislation through government. But I'm sure lobbyists will do everything they can to block it.
One of the resolutions that I frequently make competitive high school debaters debate about is a proposal for the EU to federalize and form the united states of Europe. Honestly, the EU really should try this. African leaders are also trying to form a United States of Africa, and I wouldn't be surprised if something like it happens by the 2030s or 2040s...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Europe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Africa
That sounds cool! But on their YouTube I only see the 24 minute keynote. Do you have a link to this Q/A?
Turns out the PC was an accident of history. Not an endpoint like some of us saw it, but simply an unfortunate stepping stone to the ultimate goal of making a really smart toaster. The end goal was never really to empower people, it was just to create a new market for rent-seeking via lock-in on a shiny new black box. No repairs allowed. No modding allowed. And you can go fuck yourself if you want the source code for anything. "Micro-computing," as it used to be called, was never intended as way for ordinary people to gain freedom and agency. It was just supposed to be another tool for the rich and powerful to extract wealth from everyone else. And now, thanks to always-online requirements, inescapable updates and aggressive planned obsolescence, that dream is finally a reality. Welcome back to the farm serf. You never really left.
a global and decentralized authentication authority that respects user privacy by design.
This feeling is, I think, pointing at the comparative ability for the parties involved to efficiently spend money. There is certainly one really good reason to prefer how a billionaire distributes their money - because they were able to earn a billion dollars in the first place (assuming it's not inherited - if it's inherited then just sign a check). However, I think this belief breaks down when you have organizations pre-established and familiar with efficient ways to spend money in that market - if the nation has a public school system the runners of that system will be happy to distribute those extra funds in the places that have the most need - those next few budget items that got cut because of a shortfall.

I personally believe that getting rich is a combination of 30/70 skill vs. luck - without the skill you're never going to get anywhere, but a lot more folks have skill than get the chance to get insanely lucky. Letting established market participants spend that money is almost certainly going to be more efficient than trying to start a new market entrant and hope it does well.
Excerpts from Jony Ive
Defunding the police, government handouts, etc etc, whether you are in favor or against them, are policy decisions that some factions within the Democratic party are striving for using democratic (small 'd') methods. That is, if these factions can convince a majority of people to defund the police, then the police will get defunded. That is how democracy works.

If you disagree with defunding the police but with significant other parts of the Democratic platform, you can ally with these people on some issues but fight them on this issue. This is also how democracy works.

Trump attempted to stay in power even though the people voted against him. This is tyranny. Working with him, in any way, is a subversion of democracy. Anyone who is willing to work with him is, by extension, an enemy of democracy.

The only logical conclusion from your post is that you are against democracy: You argue that a policy you disagree with (defunding the police) getting implemented democratically, is a similar level of "bad" as a tyrant being installed. This means that you are willing to see a tyrant installed if the alternative is (democratically chosen!) policy being enacted that you disagree with. Seems like textbook authoritarianism to me.
> There seems to be no consequences for massive financial crimes anymore, and the more brazen you are the more you are rewarded.

Finance is too big to fail.

Number must go up or everything breaks and there is chaos in the streets. If we hold huge scale financial criminals accountable, it could spark financial contagion and number may not go up.

Virtually all countries are in this boat to some extent.
> 2. I have APs that do collect and store data about nearby wifi stations and transmission patterns as part of a system that improved wireless throughput.

If it's just nearby ones then that's much less of a problem.

> 3. What difference does it make if it is being stored?

Imagine saying that about someone else's telephone call...

Listening out for interference is not at all the same as siphoning up information.
Part of a musician "workstation" is already an ipad (or more).
It's question of time, IMHO.