skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Professionals are up on all the codes and the latest tricks and so will be a lot faster.

"Professionals" also get preferential treatment from municipal governments. I'm pretty sure the only thing my local building inspector did was sign paperwork - good thing I found an actual home inspector that had a construction background because he found electrical, plumbing and framing issues so glaring it's obvious the local building inspectors "inspected" from the curb only :p

My parents built the house I grew up in and over the years I've helped several friends build their own houses and the amount of trivial crap they had to put up from drunk on power building inspectors is nuts by comparison. It's an utter farce. The problem is very few people will ever experience it, so it's easy to not even realize what's going on.

Until a large condo suddenly collapses in the middle of the night :p
WSJ prints scare piece to dissuade future SEC whistle blowers. Who expected that?
They pay for it but they aren't able to connect the dots. Have you looked at the developer community of MS frameworks lately? Seems like a ghost town. Of course this is not the only reason, but for quite a few developers it is. I dropped .net completely because it isn't worth developing against a badly behaving OS. I am very sure the ad income doesn't recoup the loss in trust at all.
Yep, you basically just described the setup, nothing super fancy :)

Cron job which runs a batch script at midnight which feeds youtube-dl some playlists URLS's which it downloads to a HDD. I also have nextcloud running which has access to the directory the videos are saved to, so I can easily share them if I want to.
Why? Because it glorifies the pattern of copy/pasting.

Your argument goes like: some biking commuters already bike too fast in crowded places, so what harm will it do to incentivise them to put an engine on their bikes so they can go even faster, even on hills?
How can you infer that? I can see how you could infer it if they were selling them at a loss, but not from selling them without profit.
Exactly! In a lot of areas, we hear talk of how "the developers"[0] made this decision or that decision (e.g. mobile apps, games, web).

But in reality, most developers have very little agency over technical decisions. Sure, they're the ones actually building it and choosing the exact tools and frameworks, but they have almost 0 control of their own constraints.

Metaphorically, companies decide they only want to use nails because they're cheaper. Even if screws would be better. The conversation inevitably turns into frustration with developers' overuse of hammers.

[0]: I get that we say "developers" to also include publishers/etc, but the term often morphs back into blaming the "technical implementers" on the team.
"Natural Competition" in this space can never be. What you're seeing is exactly how this space turns out. Verisign controls the registry for the .com TLD. They run the centralized authority that ultimately says if a .com domain is "legit" or not.

The Registrars like Namecheap and friends are just the messengers authorized to register .com domains into this larger database and they pay Verisign for the privilege to do so.

While it's possible for anyone to go out and stand up their own .COM zone in DNS, any domains created by that registrar don't actually exist in the eyes of the larger Internet and will not work.
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More than a decade ago I worked for a few years on a product that was based on OWL/RDF/SPARQL and since then I still see a lot of problems I'm facing in terms of subject, predicate, object triples.

The semantic web feels like a fad that has clearly passed but there are plenty of good ideas from that field that are under-utilized. For example, a lot of what gets encoded as JSON can be described with these triples and once the data is in that form, there are interesting questions you can ask of it.
also even if the price is really expensive, I would pay it if it meant recovering my lost data on a phone.
from my observation the chinese don't actually drink that much milk. they buy it for children, and the reason why you see lots of milk in the store is because there are a lot more people living there. they also like to buy in bulk as gift for relatives, and they usually buy heat-treated milk that doesn't need to be cooled either.

fresh milk is available, but compared to the size of the population, it's not as much as it seems. in the one million-people town where i live, i only know two supermarkets that stock fresh milk.
To be fair, they did market it as paired programming with an AI. When pairing, your partner can make mistakes like this as well.
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IMO this is the kind of project for GMV.
Holding 10,000 domain for $500/yr is likely to become unsustainable for any company. My suspicion is that they'd likely raise the price of very rare domains but stop parking basic ones
That is part of the problem: a lot of people just don't care.
Here, a computer might be interpreted as a laptop or a desktop, not an embedded system "with a computer in them".

Anyway, the list is very short and exclusive (for now?): "For now, the right to repair laws only cover: Dishwashers;
Washing machines and washer-dryers;
Refrigeration appliances;
Televisions and other electronic displays"
I guess I don't super understand this. Is this an argument against coercive policies? Are seatbelt laws bad?
But you could do that without any beer production - i.e. boil the water and then store in a sealed container.
Lot's of comments on how to act going forward, what I'm curious about is how to retroactively remove previous artifacts? How can you guarantee that all of your online banking, shopping, social media accounts are actually deleted?
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story drew the ire of the internet
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It could also be that TurboTax gets $50 less on the next person. I was working with only a single datapoint. Also, from what I recall the extra $50 seemed to be coming from TurboTax counting a deduction for double what FreeTaxUSA did. I really didn't understand what it was doing there.
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Imho, the type system should either be really strict and strong like in Scala or it should very loose like in TypeScript. Anything in between is just a nuisance.

Btw, there are other tools than compilers that can analyze your code for errors. Try PyCharm
> Why do everybody keep repeating "blind" everywhere?

"Blind copypaste" is just slightly more specific thing than just "copypaste". Copypasting code you fully understand and trust is fine (though in practice, is the rarer case). "Blind copypaste" implies you know it works(ish?) and don't care as much about the how.

> Also why all the anti-copilot seems to think their code is great, or even well understood by themself.

My code is certainly not great, but I like to think I understand what I've written pretty well (there are many contributors to poor quality code, not understanding what you're writing is just one potential one).

I also like to think that, while it's not great, it's on average going to be better than code put together by someone who doesn't fully understand what they've written.

> I have counterexamples everywhere around me all the time for these 3 points.

Do you? By what metric do you consider them counterexamples?
Now you know why iMessage exists.
Immediately? You need to find some other way to prove you're still you. Many sites which enable WebAuthn have a pile of single use random text codes you can use to do this, write at least a few down somewhere safe.

The specification for WebAuthn (and presumably U2F but that's legacy and shouldn't be used for green field deployments) explicitly tells Relying Parties (that'd be the web site you're enrolling with) to allow multiple authenticators to be enrolled†

They are keys after all, so it probably feels reasonable to have a key you're carrying and one spare at home. Maybe if you lose your keys a lot, buy three just in case.

Unless you've got a FIDO2 device (not just FIDO) enrolled for usernameless authentication, the device doesn't even know who you are. So if you lost it on the train, or at a crowded event, relax, even if somebody found it intact and is curious the device can't help them log in as you since it doesn't even tell its new owner who you are. In fact it actually works perfectly well for them too, to secure their Facebook or whatever, in this way it's more like if you lose a quarter than if you lose your car keys.

† Now somebody will point out that AWS doesn't do this, and somehow this fact will be a justification for why an entire technology is bad, rather than yet another shortcoming of AWS...
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I want to be all positive here and say "maybe it is just a stopgap while they work on solving those issues in a later stage"... but I'm most likely completely wrong.
And so the number of ads.
WSJ advocates changing SEC rules to better support whistleblowers.
There is more to it than that. The trades are a huge protection racket, and the municipalities are in on it. Yes, there are aspects of specialized knowledge where an actual tradesman provides significant value - but a lot of the bureaucracy exists to favor the incumbents, not to necessarily ensure you are getting a better or safer product.

Insert the George Carlin quote about clubs here...
On text games, I suggest you to try:

- Z Machine interpreter and Anchorhead, Vicyous Cycles, Enemies, All Thing Devours, Curses!, Jigsaw, and Heroine.

- BSD Games, ATC is addictive.

- Nethack/Slashem, DCSS. The first is lateral thinking oriented, the second one is combat oriented.

- Dopewars and it's fork Vaccinewars with, well, you guess which drugs are we using today.
A prime example of attacks making the target stronger.
As a part-time tennis pro. The combined benefits of watching the best in the world and then comparing it to a video of yourself playing is tremendous for most people.
I started working fulltime at 15 (illegally) to pay for my family to have a place to live. I was not able to attend college and I technically can't prove I ever graduated HS. I literally carried buckets of shit as a kid for my family of 7 we were so poor. My parents/family had taken the lions share of my earned money until they died in my early twenties.

I am now in the 1% of global earnings, and every step has been truly awful degradation as I have had 0 negotiating leverage and just learned to do what others hate because you get paid more for it.

I 100% guarantee that in the age of the internet there are more "self made" millionaire teenagers than at any point in history. And that puts the lie to the core feeling he puts out (which to be fair he does contradict multiple times) that there is less opportunity for agency now than previously, as always the sense of ones own childhood agency is still dependent on the quality/existence of your parents, the personality of the child and family/environmental wealth.

This article has a true premise in its title, autonomy and agency do matter very much, but the authors inability to grasp that starting conditions are the sole determining factor for any organisms global boundaries of success/failure are telling and they clearly romanticize the stories of extreme outliers and disregard data for narrative.

I 100% agree, this individual is romanticizing things he doesn't understand and the article has a lot of generally poor thinking.

Base rate fallacy gets people every time, the idea that opportunities for agency have decreased is absurd.

Also he apparently has a big thing for allowing kids to build full on buildings because he brings it up twice... which I don't think has ever been generally acceptable.

He should read books like little house on the prairie to get a better idea of how poor childhood opportunity has been throughout history.
This is extremely clever, and something I've never even heard of before, bravo. The closest I've ever seen to this sort of practice in the wild is periodically shifting people around so that more than one person knows how a system works. But more often I've seen no attempts at this, and a mad scramble with KT meetings when someone gives their two weeks notice.

I'm expecting a similar mad scramble when I put in my two weeks at my current company (hopefully within the next two months, interviewing with various companies now).
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>why didn’t they tell us it was this simple?

Say what you want about the ills that come with it, but religion has been telling us this since the dawn of time.
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Talk is cheap.

As another example, One of Comcast's values is 'Doing the right thing and acting with integrity'. Both from my personal experiences as well as what we see in their other behaviors (Tweeting support for LGBTQ+ yet donating over 1mil to anti LGBTQ+ politicians since 2019, Absolutely kafkaesque fraud department policies, continuing the union-busting and liability-dodging layered contractor system...) one can draw their own conclusions as to whether it's PR fluff or not.

This is also on the heels of the Teamsters announcing their intent to try and unionize Amazon. It smells reactionary to me.
Depends on the person. I spent every minute of free time I had playing video games as a kid. I had a lot of free time since my parents were very laid back and gave it to me. I wish my parents were more strict and forced me to do other things, literally anything else.
"This also explains an economic paradox. Why does our compensation go up when we switch jobs?"

Is it a paradox only if you take for true the existence homo or company economicus