skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would work, but the point is not golfing but convincing the compiler to generate a cmov. The branches of your ?: have side effects, so it won't be easier for the compiler to optimize than a normal if.
Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit
I'm surprised, no one mentioned https://www.sql-ex.ru/
It has few hundred graded SQL exercises (some of them are very hard) + there is a book http://www.sql-tutorial.ru/ that goes over most common errors from submissions. On top of that, there are competition problems with the leaderboard.
On top of that, I highly advise everyone to read T-SQL Fundamentals, by Itzik Ben-Gan (and few other books by same author) and do the all exercises in the book.
That's the same sort of freedom that the foundation's name refers to, so SA scoring well adds up.
That only holds water if the news orgs are truthful
You mean like C, born in 1972?
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841947
> My app correctly offered a privacy policy link in its Google Play listing
I hope, for the sake of their sanity and ours, that they won't one day look into how routing of Internet traffic works.
Thus, why I asked the person above how they are "certain" of a thing.

Seems like a double standard. Person above makes a claim with nothing to back it, I counter the claim with an actual cite. Everyone jumps on me instead of them, for, providing anything at all?
Yeah, the premise that rain patterns can actually be affected significantly by what is growing on land seems to be further supported by how the local climate has seemingly been affected in the Ernst Gotsch plantation by his activities:

https://www.renature.co/articles/ernst-gotsch-planting-water...

EDIT: Ok, so the article doesn't actually talk about increased rainfall, only about increased water absorption in soil, which then provides water for local streams.
Well another workaround actually: CMD-TAB until focus is on Teams, DOWN, DOWN, RETURN does the trick as well. But, how embarassing...
It’s hard to see anything beyond “he said, she said” from this article. No real substance to qualify the pilot’s claim.
First Look at Microsoft Teams 2.0
I among them using a VM over Citrix as my "work machine". Other than being under powered (typical one size fits all) it is _wonderful_. Always logged in with everything up and available. Sign my company up.
From the article:

> My app correctly offered a privacy policy link in its Google Play listing

I think that counts as being able to read it before downloading?
This is a national tragedy for the Netherlands and hopefully a much-needed wake up call to the growing similarity between that country and a genuine narco state.

Organized crime is completely out of control in the Netherlands. On a margin that far surpasses almost all other countries in the west.
> It’s odd to even hear the idea that it’s a bad thing.

And strikingly illiberal, although both liberals and libertarians tend to agree on most matters of free speech.

For decades, liberals have fought for more freedom of speech, even in grotesque situations[0], and now we throw it all away, because we're suddenly winning?

0. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-em-defends-kkks-rig...
It is called Objective-C. :)
If it’s immoral to leak, why is it moral for employees to have no democratic rights in the workplace?
It varies from the region. In Peru deforestation is happening also at smaller, familiar scale.
These days cmov reg, reg is very cheap. Linus used to rant against it but then the latency was much higher.
I asked you how you were "certain" what you were saying was true.

You haven't provided anything in answer to that, and instead just criticize something that shows what you claimed wasn't the case.

So, please, go ahead and provide data showing what you're claiming is in fact the case.
Writing an (Overly) Idiomatic Fizzbuzz with Rust
I wouldn't really call the new rules "aggressive". They are long overdue, thanks to very successful lobbying and blockades by Germany. The targets are also incompatible with the Paris agreements.
He did great work. Hope it won't scare off others. I have heard people mention this week that we live in Medellin (this was narco related), not Amsterdam. Over the top but this is sad.
I would not sign such a contract.
I think he never really understood Bitcoin, which led him to create Dogecoin and now this. He is right about the whole "crypto industry", but that has nothing to do with Bitcoin.

There's an ideology called Bitcoin maximalism or toxic Bitcoin maximalism, which defends the truth and the ideals of cryptocurrency against this greedy and manipulative "crypto industry" he is talking about. Bitcoin maximalism is basically the free market / "hyper-capitalist" answer to all the scamming that's going on in the industry.

It's like the early Internet. There were a lot of scams on the Internet, and also early Internet companies which were pump&dump-scams. It gets better when people get more educated and learn not to trust anyone. I'm not sure what are his suggestions, but authoritarianism certainly doesn't solve this issue.
For a small test or personal site it's fine, but otherwise you're trading developer convenience for a longer load time for every user.
Several car manufacturers, Volkswagen being the biggest, have publicly stated goals of aggressively growing their electric fleets or going carbon free by 2030-2035.
https://apnews.com/article/volvo-electric-vehicles-only-2030...

I was surprised I didn't hear about this sooner since this seems like a big deal.

Pretty good write up on many more manufacturers goals.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g35562831/ev-plans-automak...
> Do people still think the solution is for everyone to reduce their individual carbon emissions?

It couldn't hurt. If people put more effort into reducing their carbon footprint and being mindful of the carbon externalities of their lifestyle they'd also probably vote for people and pay money to companies who seek to reduce the carbon footprint of industry and government too.

We have to care before anything will get done.
I recommend trying out https://www.sql-ex.ru which has some good exercises which can trip up a lot of people. I have used quite a few questions from here as an interviewer. Going through it completely is a solid foundation for tackling SQL at work.

As a baseline, if one can solve https://www.jitbit.com/news/181-jitbits-sql-interview-questi... then you can be confident you can nail entry-mid level positions involving SQL.
Are we expected to sympathize with an app that's siphoning off sensitive user data from phones without informing the user? Seems shady.

Your main website says:

* Data is never kept online

* No ads, no affiliate marketers, and no creepy tracking

* No phone number is required; No need to share your phone book. Only need an email address (can be masked)

But your privacy policy says:

* For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name and email address.

* We may employ third-party companies and individuals

* We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information.

Kind of ridiculous IMO that you can get away with doing that just by adding an additional link in your app.
Oh god, not this bullshit again. How many times are we going to rehash the Damore thing to no fruitful end?
They certainly meant steamed to something. Blanching isn't steaming.
This is one of those cases where the actual feature isn't that hard to make, but it widely depends on what your vision is. If Twitters vision is that a tweet should remain an unchangeable representation of what you said, then it is not just a matter of shipping it.

Given Twitters toxicity it should probably be done with a huge mark "this tweet has changed" and an option to see previous versions just be not be abused.
What's FP?
"The boards that make our hut were cut from somewhere". I had hoped that consumption of wood for construction is one of the best things we can do assuming the tree is mature and no longer growing and a new tree is planted in its place.

Unfortunately there is data that shows old trees are better carbon consumers than young trees which is surprising. I expected the carbon required for physical growth would be much higher than needed what is needed for its basal(?) metabolic rate once it is mature. But I missed the fact that most older trees are still growing.

https://www.pacificforest.org/ee-old-trees-store-more-carbon...
Yet all major GUI frameworks are OO, even component based ones if one would actually bother to read OO CS literature, before announcing them as some magic solution.
Gun homicide is 44 times less frequent in the Netherlands than in the US: 0.28 / 100K people, per annum in NL, compared to 12.21 in the USA.

So, a person getting shot dead is much more of an extreme event in the Netherlands (even disregarding the particular circumstances).

Statistic taken from here:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
Yes, for bigger distances this makes a lot of sense.

I want everything be as small as possible to fit more when I'm using my laptop but I would really appreciate decent unscaling on my RaspberryPi i use siting on the couch in about 3 meters from a 42-inch 1080p panel.
"Creating more money" is simply diluting existing holders of money. Capital != money, value != money, productivity != money. Printing more money does not create wealth - it redistributes it to preferred recipients. The gold standard reinforces economic discipline. America and Britain were able to inflate more effectively than others because of having a monopoly on reserve currencies and owning the rails of international settlement, by requiring all countries to settle in their currencies. Essentially they exported their inflation to all other countries to benefit their own citizens.
>I agree that it should always be accessible (which it is via the "website" button)

Smells fishy to me. What if I include a link to google.com, where the user can just google AppName + "privacy policy" to find the policy? How far can you be removed from a link to the policy and still be ok?
Hopefully this has a 'Veronica Guerin' effect.

An Irish crime reporter was killed for being too curious by drug bosses. The subsequent Garda investigation was so intense and far reaching that it's estimated the the drug operations lost huge money over the coming years -- the Irish state implemented news laws and even the creation of 'Criminal Assets Bureau' came from Veronicas death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Guerin
Nice, seems like they can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MicrosoftResearch/search?query=...
It's a modern spin on (or ripoff) of The Gervais Principle - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Im leaning towards ripoff because he basically copied it down to the same TV show and same kind of analysis
I guess we were just a few minutes apart in our comments. I have gone through the website and yes I highly recommend it.
Yes, things are certainly getting better.

But there is much historical baggage that are still hurting women today without most of them even noticing.
A word on Casio. In the past few years I've bought a low end calculator with aspirations of being a scientific calculator and a low end sample player for my young son.

Both purchases offered a surprisingly high value for money, especially in the price points. I think the calculator was ~$15 retail and the sample player was ~$60 as I recall... both about 2 or so years ago.

The sample player (Casio SA-76), really a toy, was really good for what it was: it can be battery powered and the batteries last a very long time, decent sounds and features, and it even powers itself off if its not used for awhile. And given my son's treatment of the device (drops, throwing, etc) the fact that it still works at all is amazing, but it actually hasn't had any problems at all from the abuse... aside from scuffs on the case.

Don't get me wrong, no one is going to mistake these for high end tools, but on their own terms they've been excellent purchases.
Ask HN: Have you ever had someone try to steal your personal project?
Mine: I had a project that was closed-source and that had received some minor interest, even winning me a grant. I received comments from a potential user saying I was greedy and that I needed to open up the source. Shortly thereafter I was contacted by the CEO of a small company who supposedly wanted to hire me on a contract basis to do something similar to what I'd done with my closed-source project, for him.

During our meeting he asked me to screen share and walk him through my source. I told him I was unable to do that at the time due to technical issues. We talked about my project some more and he said he was going to contact me with details for the job. He expressed interest in having me consult for him. I never heard back.

I believe this man may have been attempting to steal my software from the "walk through" he asked for. I wonder if this is a common occurrence, or at least not an isolated incident. Has something similar ever happened to you?
He got it by working hard in his masters program... of course the professors are connected to darpa, that's where the grants come from!
Unfortunately is quite common[1]: 1972 journalists killed
between 1992 and 2021.

[1] https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5...
hm, does Pharo have native-looking GUI now?
Facebook's “see no evil” strategy
Have a look at these ads for the MMM ponzi from 90s russia. Same vibes

https://youtu.be/a9FA0b61zSE
Apple does the same, so Google does too.

What came first, an Abusive Apple or an Abusive Google?

I can't help to think how much better the mobile world would be with Microsoft vs Google. I wonder what would be the great difference? Right now it's Veblen good vs utility.

Whatever the case, at least you still can use apk.
At the same time, I'd rather they didn't do that.

I'm not familiar with the details of this topic -- Are actions by locals significant-enough/at a large enough scale to yield these results? I'm thinking of Native Americans' hunting v. colonizers' actions.
That leads to a different market failure: inefficiencies due to redundancy. The free market will, left to its own devices, become less free as the most efficient company dominates. It may buy up its competition or simply outcompete them. That will allow the same amount of goods for less money since the redundant overheads are eliminated.

However, the ultimate end state of that is a monopoly, which frees them up to set prices wherever they want. In theory a new company could arise to undercut them, but in practice barriers to entry make that unlikely.

So the free market is always in constant tension between healthy competition and unhealthy inefficiency. The balance of it depends on the ability to differentiate, customer choice, and external regulation -- as well as the overlapping dependencies from supply chains and nearby industries.
I have no connection to Google, but I'm really, really, impressed that Google was okay with him sending these comics, internally, to upwards of 15 THOUSAND employees. Some of these are pretty scathing- drones in Google colors, the repeated suggestion (acknowledgement?) that the ethics are less and less of a concern, etc. If I posted something along these lines internally at my company, which I think is quite open in the grand scheme- I'd be out the door or given a stern talking to a minimum.
More importantly EU is finally, gradually, fixing the problems in
Emissions Trading System (ETS is cap-and-trade where they set up a annual cap for emissions and then it's possible to trade with emissions)

They have been giving the largest chunk of emission allowances (EUAs) free for big polluters. In principle that's OK because there is still incentive to reduce emissions and get money from selling EAUs. Unfortunately if you pollute less they reduce those EUAs and that takes incentives away. That will be eventually fixed.

There will also be carbon tariffs from imported products to take out incentive to move emissions elsewhere and level the playing field.
What a New Book Reveals About Facebook and Russian Interference
If he'd said "inherently Evil" it wouldn't have communicated the thought as effectively to his audience.

I don't know (or care) what this person politics are, but there's something to be said for speaking the language your audience is listening in.
The fact that they were also collaborating legitimately in some parts of the deal doesn't justify the fact that they were also colluding blatantly in other parts of the deal.
Progress can still be made, one funeral at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
Lol, yes. I agree. It's not "our tribe" that has bias. It's "their tribe". "Our tribe" is noble, generous and infallible. "Their tribe" is misinformed at best, but probably crazy if not outright evil.
It has basically two reasons. First, it is to prevent conflicts like: "Pharo is Smalltalk, look, it is written on its web page! How do dare you to change this? You are allowed to improve this if and only if all the other Smalltalk implementations do that too!" [exaggerating]. Pharo has many differences from standard Smalltalk (different File API, class definitions, traits, slots, small grammar changes...).

The second reason is that the general knowledge about Smalltalk is very poor, and most people only remember that it is something old and long dead. Try to sell a dead fish.
The first line of the article

"During the twentieth century, the FBI closely monitored poets, read their work, and speculated about their political and artistic intentions."

is very different from the second line

"American surveillance agencies even hired people with backgrounds in poetry to be spies and code breakers because of their skills in close reading, language analysis and critical thinking."

The first line it seems to me is part of the MacCarthy era suspicion of the creative class. Poetry is always ambivalen and you never know exactly what they're talking about. That is suspicious. As a secret service you want clarity and everybody that speaks in riddles is suspect.

The second line is about exploiting the skills of poets to become spies and code breakers for the American cause.

Did they use those poetic spies to spy on other poets, or did they use them to spy on regular spy stuff that had nothing to do with poetry? Or where those poetic spies used to spy on other creative artists? Where those poetic spies heroes or part of morally corrupt McCarthyism? I wonder?
Show HN: Top Remote Companies based on 38 Parameters
The Rosanne thing was pretty great.

https://time.com/5294313/roseanne-cancelled-abc/
People need to realize that these walled garden lock ins are the worst thing ever in our industry.

To be honest, I would think twice nowadays if I wanted to do invest my precious life in developing an iOS app and have my income derived from that. If the gatekeeper is unhappy, they can kill my livelihood without any recourse.

Same thing is happening in the ecommerce space with Amazon: they can ban your seller account without any reason and you lose all the revenue and your funds get frozen.

Shoot first, ask questions later. Thats whats going on here and threatening good businesses and individuals who have invested time and money into these platforms.

So if you think that these monopoly platforms should not be regulated properly, think about these scenarios. And Im not buying the “security” argument that always gets thrown around.
When did we decide that sharing aljazeera and citing what your friends told you > official data?

I mean, I agree that official data can be forged and should be taken with a grain of salt but come on. You can do better than this.

Also it has been proven that there is a strong inverse correlation between vitamin D levels and covid severity. If we assume that you are right and many more people died in India, how can you prove that it's because the vaccine that in Europe the mortality is so much lower?

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/cl...
+
https://revista-fi.com.br/upload_arquivos/201606/20160600681...
+
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24054...
U.S. drug overdose deaths rise 30% to record during pandemic
The best time to have your email on a personal domain was ten years ago, the second best time is now.

Trivial to register a domain, setup Fastmail, and then download all your Gmail one-off and then ongoing. Over the next year or two, correct the email address people have.
That’s what the courts are there to settle.
> Why should you expect different treatment from Google than Twitter et al.?

Well, because you aren't twitter. Expecting google to treat indie dev the same as multibillion dollar corporations would be stupid. World isn't fair place and crying after fairness is often waste of time.

This kind of blog post might affect the situation and I think it makes sense to make it in polite way. However my default assumption would be that no one inside google will do anything about this, because thats how giant corporations work.
Surely.

It is part of ISO C++, and not everyone agrees with C++ safe coding practices.
> On a margin that far surpasses almost all other countries in the west.

Which developed country doesn't it surpass? From what I've seen the Netherlands is well on the road to becoming today's Mexico.
I’m the same way. I’m far more open with people I just met than with my family because the strangers won’t give me follow-up conversations the next week. To the people I do interact with daily, don’t punish me for doing the right thing by springing follow up conversations on me.
For people who own a gasoline car, what are they supposed to do with it? Lot of them are still in good conditions but will be useless and worthless. If you cannot use it, cannot sell it, what are you supposed to do? Should they just throw them away, then buy a new car? Or drive it to a foreign country outside of the EU?
That was my first thought too. Clotting and mechanical shredding of red blood cells. These can be problems even over the span of a single operation where bypass is used.
an indie app isn't the same as an official app of a large public company or an official app of the world's largest economy.
I'm not sure what arbitrary symbols* as operators gets you. "It's built on concepts from relational algebra" does not mean "it must literally be a 100% compatible relational algebra mathematical engine." That is not the purpose of an RDBMS, and the purpose of relational algebra isn't to find a use for sigma, pi, and rho. Nevermind how eye-bleeding the difference between ⟖, ⟕, ⟗, ⋈, ⋉, ⋊, and ▷ will be in a sea of table and field names.

(* Yes, I know those symbols are the conventional relational algebra symbols. They were still chosen arbitrarily as notations built on top of the multiplication symbol borrowed as the Cartesian product symbol.)
I know how researching companies when you're job hunting is an absolute PAIN. More so when you're looking for remote jobs.

It takes so much time & energy and yet you you're never sure if it's a great remote company to work for.

So I built a framework/paradigm to analyse companies so that you can compare them on a comprehensive Remote Index.

Would love to know your thoughts and feedback!