skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the no in “no, the two are not comparable” no, the destruction is not acceptable or no, there is no propaganda and fomenting of violence from the left?
I was arguing against the idea of "string are implemented differently by different languages, so WHICH one choose?".

A safe one. Your sample is that - except I think is better if is a utf-8 string, but this one works for me too-. What will be worrisome is if is made to be like in C.
So I was downvoted but no one has still provided any lists of apps or tweaks worth side-loading onto a iPhone in 2021. This isn’t 2012 when the only way to listen to Pandora or another music app while having another app open on IOS 6 is to jailbreak your phone and use Cydia to install backgrounder.
> The way it currently works is that Marijuana can be bought legally at a coffeeshop, but it cannot be produced for sale legally

An interesting information:

"In 2018, the Dutch electricity provider (Netbeheer
Nederland) was able to detect energy theft that could
be related to 2 600 cannabis cultivation sites. People
running these growing operations stole a total of
95 million kilowatt hours in 2018, costing the provider
a total of EUR 60 million and the government about
EUR 135 million in tax revenues. Based on police
estimates of about 30 000 illicit cannabis cultivation
sites in the Netherlands, these would consume
and possibly steal about 1 billion kilowatt hours of
electricity, equivalent to the annual consumption of
all households in the city of Rotterdam, which has
650 000 inhabitants (Netbeheer Nederland, 2019)." - EU Drug markets report, EUROPOL.
Depends on the contract, many places I’ve worked if it’s outside of company time and on your own hardware you own it
> to question why my government is spending

Defense contractors develop military tech. To continue research, they need government grants and contracts. They search for friends in administrations to secure long term financing. Withdrawing from a war will hit them, but there will always be expensive programs that ensure they can continue their business. Otherwise a country might loose technological advantages.

It could probably be a lot cheaper if anyone were to consolidate contracts, but you probably would need to face severe resistance, even from your own military.

I think subs might be a more precise and safe delivery mechanism for nukes, but if you can have both, most administrations would probably opt for that.
You say cocaine should not be OTC, but possession and use should be legal. It sounds like you accept some level of cocaine use as inevitable. Then why would you make it so that cocaine users are forced to finance criminal organizations?
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From a Google search I made in the last hour, the top 6 search results were all text ads.
I think you need to look at whether alternatives exist. All cities that have a congestion charge have a well developed public transport system, as far as know. So making driving into the city more expensive may nudge people into switching to public transport. How big the effect may be is another issue. Poor people also often already take public transport into cities (in Europe at least), not least because even without congestion charge, parking charges are usually very high.

Tobacco is neither here nor there because, obviously, people do have the choice not to smoke.

On the other hand, when you're in an area with little to no public transport and the only way for you to go to work or go to the supermarket, or do anything really, is to drive there is no alternative. When you're a delivery driver there is no alternative. When you're a tradesperson there is no alternative.

There is no alternative because EVs either do not really exist (electric utility vehicles only start to be available) or are way beyond what you can afford and you do need a vehicle.

Basically in France this was seen as Macron's "let them eat cake" moment with well-off people in Paris (with its world-class public transport system) deciding that everyone in the country could "just" drive less or change car.
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It isn’t clear, but I think the 25% just haven’t downloaded the update yet
Looking forward to the responses handwaiving your comment and saying these aren't real use cases, they don't solve anything, you don't need this stuff unless you're doing illegal activity, tradfi is better, only reason they exist is to better enable scams, [insert any other ignorant argument].

It really is hilarious how similar the naysaying here is to the internet/email says.
Yeah, I looked into it in the past couple of months. Ultimately it wouldn't compile because my system has GCC 11. They have a vendored copy of ring that's about 2 years out of date, and has some issue with array type confusion where a field is defined as a fixed length array in one field and a pointer in the other. Since GCC 11, that's been a warning, and their build system compiles their fork of ring with -Werror, so that new warning in GCC 11 breaks the build.

Sadly their gitlab instance at the time was "email the dev to set up an account", so I just left it there.
Also how they figure out which subflavors (orange, vanilla, etc) of gunk to ship to which regions.
No, why, does suing others and expecting a payday somehow imply that the plaintiff is likely to be suicidal?

Or is the implication that the airline is likely to blow up their own airplane and kill hundreds of passengers just to swap one major lawsuit for hundreds of major lawsuits?
It would be great if someone created a non-profit simple website for sharing pictures and updates with family and friends. EFF could promote it and all the smart people who hate FB could volunteer to build it. I'd donate buckets of $ to it to stick it to FB and show the world that the current model of surveillance capitalism is not the only way.
Life kept throwing various curve balls at me: I got married, had a daughter, lost a loved one after a prolonged battle, underwent major health issues, battled COVID…

^this made me cringe a bit. personally, it makes me sad when i hear someone describe family or commitments as obstacles to work.

i'm sure i've done it in the past, but personally, i think it warrants examination.
it’s almost funny, but more sick, considering the connotations that the word “consent” carries these days
The reason I would use a Git monorepo over Subversion is that Subversion is really painful to use. I would rather workarounds and kludges than that tire fire.
Exactly. If anything, we need to transition to a democratic model based at least in part on sortition. Randomly selected citizens assemblies have already shown promise in Ireland, France, and elsewhere.
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In Germany, near the top of our most fundamental lawbook, the Grundgesetz, it says:

> §14.2 GG: Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen. [0]

Which roughly translates to:

> §14.2 GG: Property obliges. Its use should also serve the public good.

[0]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_14.html
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Thanks! I understand that is not your purpose now, but do you plan to extending to businesses? I'd be glad to have such decision helping tool :).

Also, congrats for your website. I find it very clear to understand what the tool does, why it is useful (your example are simple and to the point), and what is your pricing. :+1:
> And their interested might be misaligned with company mission, let alone shareholder interests.

Employee interests are irreconcilably and diametrically opposed to employer and shareholder interests. This is a basic tenet of Marxist thinking. Each faction is trying to get as much from the other as possible.

> But people who "do" things don't necessarily see the big picture.

This is in part because they have no need to because they are not listened to.

> People who extract money hire people who know who should be listened and who shouldn't.

They hire people that advance their interests versus others.

> different companies want different conflicting laws

This is true. There are fights among the ruling class. None of them actually care about anything other than maximum wealth extraction. Human rights as a sales pitch to a consumer base to be discarded at the slightest turbulence.

> So, I believe your world view is too deeply flawed, so there's probably no point to discuss further. Cheers!

Likewise.
Often I hear the argument, people saying "I prefer ads that are relevant for me over random ads". But the result of the tracking is not only that you get "relevant" ads, it's that your timelines and your feeds and your news gets tweaked in ways that makes you engage with ads as much as possible.

Not only do you get manipulated in buying stuff you didn't ask for (ads in general). You're also getting spoonfed content that tries to make you as vulnerable as possible to this manipulation. Up to a point that this is downright threatening democracy and our way of life.

I guess you could call this a form of censorship. Content gets suppressed, simply because it doesn't generate enough ad revenue. It's this type of censorship on "social" media that I consider much more harmful than the type that usually gets most of our attention.
I've said it before, but over here in Europe, a lot of the good ol' boys from the 80s/90s/00s MLM scene pivoted to crypto the second it hit the mainstream - if not before that.

If I were to invest in anything related to crypto today, I'd conduct the due-diligence of a lifetime before sinking a cent into the investment, even going as far as hiring private investigators to fine-comb through the people involved. I don't think any tech sector has more veteran con-men than crypto - these folks have been scamming people for a lifetime.

Behind MLM (https://behindmlm.com/) makes a decent job at following the worst offenders
The path to positions of authority is often paved by diligent applications of assertiveness.
YMMV.

I'm not saying nothing in the ecosystem ever breaks. I'm saying that despite it being unstable, it is much more resilient than it is brittle. It does look crazy at first glance, you have to experience it to believe it.
> FFXIV is a single linear game

So MMORPGs have turned into normal games where you are forced to pay a subscription and play with other people?
> where you sub for a month every few months to "catch up".

Make introductory rates low and let people lock in. If they unsub and then resub they will have to do so at a higher rate.
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If sites can’t fund their content with ads based information I’m willing to give up, then they can beg me for money, or charge for the content, or beg me to look at ads or whatever. But I want that transaction to be transparent and deliberate. And I don’t care if 90% of content online just disappears because we click the privacy button. Then it was never a viable business model to begin with.
> CI/CD inside a git monorepo without requiring a large checkout.

this can also be solved by using a git mirror.
Write Better Code by Knowing What’s Bad
Am I understanding correctly that the author has scored a bounty of $10K? If yes, where did it come from in this case?
The fz-1 and fz-10 were/are amazing machines. The only comparable gear from that era was the Synclavier which was 10x the price.

Aside from the sampling abilities, the onscreen wave editing is just amazing. One of the most underrated digital synths ever made IMHO.
> One of the interesting things I've noticed is that (around here at least) the over-the-air TV is much higher quality than the local providers (cable and fiber).

There's a substantial difference in bitrate between OTA broadcast (for the main channel) and the cable broadcast. Typical cable will stat-mux several channels down to well below 10 Mbps/channel. Main OTA tends to be around 15 Mbps (for a different encoding) but not stat-muxed. So to some extent, the quality of the channel you're watching on cable/fiber depends on what is going on in the adjacent channels.
Big Tech trying to disarm the FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan
Are We Just Pawns to God?
You generally don't have to specify outer since the outer is inferred by not being a straight "inner join" or more simply, "join".

I dislike writing outer too so simply don't. My joins are either:

Join

Left join

Right join

Full join

Cross join

Much better imo
I don't know. I think when ad supported free services start shutting down people will move on with their lives. We'll find out instead how really unimportant Facebook, etc. was in people's lives. Put another way, how on earth did people get along without Facebook before there was a Facebook?

I'm reminded of a comment from the guy that created the TV-B-Gone. He would turn off TV's in public places like self-service laundromats, etc. He said he was surprised by the general reaction of those that had just recently been transfixed by the flickering 60Hz cathode glow. Mostly they just turned away form the TV and went back to quiet thoughts or whatever.

It was like the TV could go away and people would be like, "okay".
What an awesome Summer of Code project! I wish opportunities had been around when I was learning to program. I remember constantly looking for open source projects to contribute to, but each had such a high bar for entry that there was no low-hanging-fruit that I could cherry-pick (sic) to get involved.

While it's certainly useful to learn by rolling projects from the ground up, you can learn a whole lot more by contributing to an established project and experiencing how their code standards, review process, etc. all feel in comparison to other projects. One big thing I lacked was simply having someone say "We write static functions LIKE THIS because they have THAT ROLE within the scope of this project."
> cost of ST licences back when was beyond a joke

March 7, 1988

"Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95"

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=P...

> nasty-looking non-native GUIs

The "non-native GUI" was quite important because Smalltalk was running on MS-DOS — not on MS-Windows.
This sums up my thoughts perfectly. I would add a comment--all of the anti-apple voices in the article talk only about the poor business that will be hurt. The never talk about the benefit or drawback to the people being tracked. Their approach can be summed up as "we have a right to this data and telling people about our tracking and asking if it is alright with them is not alright." So businesses have rights but individuals don't.

Personally, I hope things like this start to kill off the "free internet." I'd much rather pay for the things that I use.
If only facebook made an option to have a paid account ($15) or free w/ ads, people would suddenly feel better about ads.
I'm not telling anyone to do anything. If people want to get vaccinated that's fine by me.

I do not believe that I'm "protecting" people, and I certainly would not waste my time trying to protect able-bodied people who are fully capable of protecting themselves.

But I do work hard to help disabled people when they ask for help, particularly those with similar experiences to myself.

To be clear, I think vaccines do far more harm than good. I agree that serious, acute vaccine injury is very rare, but I would argue that a slow, debilitating degradation of health from vaccines is very very common. There is a rapidly growing body of research and real-world data indicating that vaccines significantly reduce our immune systems ability to defend against evolving viral threats. Short term, some vaccines appear to be a good idea, but long-term they may be a net-negative.
Well, from the perspective of non-shattered people, wanting to go through the hell and horror that is our justice system could lead outsiders to believe shit's not going great for them to begin with.
Indeed, maybe it's about time advertisers got back to sponsoring quality content their target audience enjoys, rather than direct marketing through the back door on the lowest common denominator.
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Isn't this, like, a very evil thing to do?

I know there aren't any laws there yet but why should be expect no morals at all from people with power?

Is Elon Musk simply another bad person?
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Yes, and just to underline your use of quote marks there, those "free" products aren't even remotely free. You're just paying with a different currency, and -- in my view -- it's absurdly expensive.
> Without that promise, there’s no reason to favor advertising on these platforms over other platforms.

Precisely. Instead, there will (again) be reason to favor advertising on high quality content.

Redistribution of income away from ad platforms and content spam mills to original journalism and high-quality entertainment would be an unambiguous win for society.
Is the advancement of AI in line with the best long-term interests of Humanity?
Hi all, after seeing the GitHub LEGO sets floating around twitter being given in swag boxes – I decided to take a crack at building a model in BrickLink. Hope you enjoy!
great point about showing up and doing the work means you will succeed, just not at your 1st or Nth idea or favorite idea; but as long as you are moving, you are making progress, and the success compounds (Im a bit putting words in your mouth, but I hope it stays in the spirit of what you said :) )
What parts of economics seem Western and not objective to you? Supply and demand? Game theory? Fractional reserve lending? The effects of monopoly? Of rent control? Of pollution taxes? Of immigration restrictions?

I got a master's in economics. Everything in the textbooks is positive (what is, what happens) rather than normative (what should be). Individual professors have their individual beliefs regarding justice, of course, but those beliefs don't really constitute what economics is. Economics is a set of methods for anticipating how people will respond to incentives.
This is the truth right here. I've never signed an IP assignment agreement that applied outside of work hours and company equipment in my entire career. I've simply refused to do so, and made it a point of negotiation. If there's a company I really wanted to work for, at times I gave up some salary for this flexibility, but generally speaking it wasn't even an issue. Overly broad employment contracts are common-place in the US, because most people never challenge it. It's very much an "implication" situation, because of the power dynamic between employee and employer. Take the power back, read contracts, and don't sign if you disagree. There's always room to negotiate.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to say things I create during work hours, or in the office, or with company equipment belong to the company. On the flip-side, once you are no longer "at work" (whatever that means in your case) and on your own equipment, that is none of the company's business whatsoever. If you agree to it though, that's on you.
Maybe peak is Christmas?
Well, I agree with respect to Damore. He is innocent of these accusations. That was awful.
It’s basic git that breaks down, not the monorepo model.

And it’s less about LoC, and more about the number of files and how much binary stuff you put in your repo (and how often it changes). Git is really bad when binary data is involved.

Git has the facilities to keep monorepos clicking along (shallow clones and sparse checkout) but they aren’t along the “happy path”
This is true, but...meh? OK? Perhaps there are places where inefficiencies are not a bad thing, and perhaps advertising is one of them.

Perhaps, even, we should require people to think and empathize and communicate rather than feed a pile of unvariegated data into a black box and do what it tells us to.

I'm shockingly OK with having to make a connection with people to try to sell them something, and to have that be an upper limit on a company's reach.
Yes! So money will flow back to magazine ads, billboards, radio, tv, and other media that has seen money flow away the last decades. Because their untargeted ad model is now not much worse.
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I had been leading a project for about 4 months. It has essentially been declared as failed due to technical choices I made and corresponding unsolved usability issues. I have a pretty successful track record in building and delivering products. So this failure stings. Maybe it also stings a bit more due to some of the politicking that has occurred for it to be declared a failure.

For all the “fail fast” thinking, this does not feel good. How do you deal with such a situation?
"hello fellow 25-40 year old bracket members, I too think the government should spend less money on abstract defense concepts and more on highly popular initiatives like healthcare and college debts"

I genuinely agree that ICBMs are anachronistic and need to be rethought as a part of the nuclear triad, but this essay is infuriating.
Apple says that’s not acceptable. See 3.2.2(vi) here:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I edit my posts regularly. It might be a bad habit, but I tap posts out quickly on a tablet and often it seems the spell checker is possessed by the devil. So I regularly fix gaffes, clarify the writing, etc. This morning I had a link to a 24 hour satellite loop and changed it to 240.

By the time anybody calls me out on a mistake (say I said "Markov Chain Monte Carlo" when I really meant "Monte Carlo Tree Search") the edit window is usually closed and I have to reply in another message.
Successful assertiveness is a learned skill.

successful assertiveness = speaking up (at the right time, being articulate, tone, etc)

successful assertiveness = being heard (not just speaking)

successful assertiveness = being prioritized (not just bl adding to the noise)

successful assertiveness = not being penalized / oostracized (so next time you're heard+prioritized)

successful != ambition, promotion, raises etc

successful != hurting others
swprs.org is apparently a suspicious site according to wikipedia. do we have actual names for the authors so we can check up on them?

edit: anti face masks lol case closed on this one
I doubt it was a "ha-ha you're a stupid idiot" laugh but more of the sort of laugh you'd do when a toddler does something that makes perfect common sense, but violates social norms (like discussing their bowel movements with strangers).
Consider how much profit a company like facebook makes. Ad value could take drop a lot and they'd still be a viable company. They's lose, but from a societal perspective I'd argue that probably a positive.
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