skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shouldn’t a software engineer who lives in the Mac and/or *nix ecosystem, be competent in the shell? I understand that it’s not programming, but it just seems such a core and fundamental/base skill to understand this stuff.

I agree the instructions are not clear enough, however. “Run the following two commands, which adds the needful to your profile and current shell” or similar would be a better way to put it.
Can you describe the process you are suggesting?

"After receiving a phone call concerning an active shooter situation, the force sent round a single officer, just to double-check. The officer was among the 7 killed by the gunman."

Remember the story of the boy who cried wolf? The sheep were slaughtered because the town stopped trusting him. I'd rather the police scare a few unlucky people and waste some resources than learn to distrust our cries for help. Of course it's a tragedy that someone lost their life, but how many lives would be lost through not mobilising enough police?
I'm pretty sure I've written on HN before that SMS 2FA doesn't do much against phishing, which we know is a big problem, but worse it creates a false reassurance.

The user doesn't reason correctly that the bank would send them this legitimate SMS 2FA message because a scammer is now logging into their account, they assume it's because this is the real bank site they've reached via the phishing email, and therefore their concern that it seemed maybe fake was unfounded.
Restaurant capital costs, and low margins, guarantee owners would be wealthy and willing to take the risk.

If their risk calculations are off, that's an opportunity for competitors.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Lot of weirdness on the Internet the last few years.
The fact that c doesn't have a native concept of an array with length and strings usually use a null byte to determine the end is, IMO c's biggest failing, and it's worst legacy on the wider software world.
Well, it sounds awkward in Russian as well as English but it works.
Free market at work:

1. Restaurant workers quit
2. Restaurants raise wages
3. Restaurants get workers back

Minimum wage seems to be out of this equation. Natural market dynamics will self-correct and the wages will naturally rise as literally any other price rises when inflation occurs. To be honest, I'm not sure what minimum wage is other than an artificial constraint. Workers obviously are willing to quit jobs with low pay, so why does the lower bound of pay need to be enforced? It seems contrived. If anyone can explain how minimum wage affects the above scenario, I would be grateful.
does it matter? been able to buy pot at a physical storefront in dt vancouver since around 2002 and currently for the last couple years can go to a website and have mushrooms shipped nextday to my door. if the police wanted to shut either down they would, but they don't.
This thread devolved into a debate over C versus Rust or other memory-safe languages.

1. Blaming the language instead of the programmer will not lead to improved program quality.

2. C will always be available as a user's language. Users will still be write programs in C for their own personal use that are smaller and faster than ones written in memory-safe. languages

3. Those in the future who are practiced in C will have a siginificant advantange in being able to leverage an enormous body of legacy code, of which a ton is written in C. Programmers in the future who are schooled only in memory-safety languages may not be able to approach C as a learning resource, and may in fact be taught to fear it.

There is a tremendous amount of C code that DOES NOT contain buffer overflows or use-after-free errors. It is amazing how easily that work is ignored in these debates. Find me a buffer overflow or use-after-free in one of djb's programs.
> for many users, the way they create a new file is to find an existing file of the same type, copy it, then open the copy and delete everything in it.

Cringe.

> And who among us can say they never created a new class or project by copying an existing one, and then deleting everything inside?

... Hey. No fair.
AIUI, yes, it has been found that, e.g. there are games where two players who can’t communicate but who do have a pair of entangled qubits and can each make a measurement, would have a strategy which is better for both players than if they didn’t have this resource.
(where the games in the version where they don’t have the resource of the entangled pair of qubits, are fairly simple games where each player receives some information and then has a choice between two options)
> The man died of a heart attack from the stress of confronting the police with a gun

And even that is probably an exaggeration. Stressful situations don't cause fatal heart attacks by themselves...he probably had severe heart disease before this happened.
What do you expect them to do? Hardcode their clients to ignore that certain CID? That obviously won't work for a whole host of reasons.

That Uniswap UI is out there and literally nothing can stop it.
> It's not compatible with keeping old versions of software installed.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that sometimes software "updates" in fact introduce regressions, but there's a reason that one of the most universal traits among security professionals is "keeping automatic updates enabled".

Surely the appropriate course of action is to fork a project rather than to just run outdated versions?
Yes, some stiffening is required. Many hospitals now say you have the right to not get the vaccine, and we have the right not to hire you...
Modern designs sometimes have some duplication of functional units that allow the final chip to be configured in a workable manner even if a few of the units don't turn out right. But otherwise, getting all of those transistors working right is the big challenge of chip design. Yes, they all have to work. Yields on new processes are often very low, only a fraction of the devices made actually working.
You forgot to mention the part about the restaurants that can't afford to raise wages either cutting hours or shutting down for good.
I'm just pointing out that the demand for eating out is highly elastic. If the restaurant industry as a whole raises prices relative to background inflation, then overall sales will fall and some will go out of business.
I knew picking that example would derail the discussion.
I'm a homicide researcher in Chicago. There were over 4000 shootings and 769 homicides here last year. AFAIK, there were 0 swattings here.

So, I don't think it would be a good idea to set "assume it's a swatting" as the default response to 911 calls for service in response to violent crime. At least for Chicago.
Do you have updated comparison with some data of performance and memory vs. PyTorch / TF?
I guess I’d stop commoditizing young men and women who haven’t had enough time to develop a career.
No, you were taught the right thing. You never know what some random JavaScript is gonna do to the contents of your clipboard when copying from a web page.

Best practice, IMO, is to open as dumb an editor as you can find and pasting the commands into an editor buffer for inspection before running anything in the shell. And, if you don’t understand what it’s ask you to paste into your shell, don’t do it.

Even if you run with JavaScript off entirely, this at least makes you think before you do anything potentially destructive.
you didn't address `"Q"-like LARPer/fraudster figure`
How many times did the SWAT team do something useful last year in Chicago?
We are all investors now
> HTTP is a cleartext protocol. Why does your browser quietly navigate to any HTTP site you throw at it? Anonymous FTP isn't any less secure than HTTP.

This is true, but it ignores the fact that the web has been moving towards depreciation of HTTP in favor of HTTPS.

While FTP is an established standard, FTPS is kind of a nightmare with different and incompatible variants.
Because the ACA made it illegal to not have insurance, not because Walmart and McDonalds are now insuring all 3 million of their employees.
Unsound business models can only exist for so long -- are all restaurants closing, or just those with extremely small operating margins? If a restaurant is operating on such small margins that they can't raise wages to keep their business open, then it makes sense for that space to be used by a restaurant owner who can run the business more effectively.

I fail to see how this isn't just capitalism and competition working as expected. The majority of restaurants react to this by raising all prices -- including wages. The food costs twice as much now, and they are paying their staff twice as much. If people don't want to pay the price, maybe it's best that a better restaurant takes its place or the restaurant improves their offering?
Depending on the language target and method of execution dynamic resolution of runtime types can be quite hard. IIRC Java's JVM is super optimized for static codepaths, whereas Julia uses a JIT system that is "slow" on first run but speeds up considerably after all methods in a hot code path are resolved.
Russia unveils new 'Checkmate' fighter jet
The only device this work flow seems to be natural in is Iphone (which is barely a computer). Nothing else works like that. So no, computers are not at all "app-centric". They are always file-centric.
This has a limited time window of being effective as exchanges are a temporary bridge between the traditional system and the crypto economy. In a decade or so you will likely be able to do most things on crypto rails and there will be few choke points left where KYC can be enforced.
I love symmetries. Is the reverse of this also true? Could there be disclosures missed by investors that if unearthed would positively impact the company?
You're asking this on an American-centric forum, secure in the knowledge most Americans aren't paying attention to issues with the police in other countries.
Some dev bought the fiserv.forum domain and is hosting their resume there
Not reporting tips on taxes only hurts the waitstaff even more. It blocks you from being able to get loans/credit. Reporting them and keeping track of them then paying your taxes at the end of the year is the only way...but of course that assumes the bank doesn't deem your income as "not steady/stable" because of course...it isn't a salary.

In my area some waitstaff also make $3.50/hr because the company assumes they make tips. Some also hold all your credit card tips and give them to you on the paycheck...so it isn't all roses.
It is not a trick so much as thinking what kinds of operations can be done with these vessels and water. Not necessarily a good interview question, but may be a good discussion with a young student.
What you are saying is true, but it's a little bit superficial. There are many successful long/short funds and even a few short only funds. The risks are largely manageable risks.

The upside to starting a hedge fund is astronomical. And if what they claim they can do they can in fact do, the best business model seems to be start a hedge fund and manage the risks doesn't it?
> I think some businesses are going out of businesses because they stubbornly refuse to raise their wages.

I'm sure you're right. Some business owners are stubborn and don't want to offer higher pay. That said, to quote TFA:

> But in one recent survey, more than half of hospitality workers who've quit said no amount of pay would get them to return.

Paying more will get some people. But it clearly won't be enough for all, and maybe not even most.
Yes! In fact I think Julia borrows a lot of concepts from CL and the like for their type system implementation.
Technically, you'd need two bidders if this is an open auction, or you'd also have to explain why you outbid second place by so much.

And to answer my own question: apparently it's not required for auction houses to vet buyers, and this has been discovered by russian oligarchs evading US sanctions. Congress passed a law on Jan 1 to make that illegal -- overriding Trump's veto, naturally. It specifically mentioned 'antiquities' so presumably people are testing the waters elsewhere.
It's interesting that nearly everything that might benefit the lower and lower-middle classes seems to lead, inexorably, to inflation: UBI, a living wage, decent benefits, the list goes on. One might almost conclude that inflation has become a lazy boogie man, to be trotted out for propagandist purposes whenever change is suggested.
As someone who knows next to nothing about genetics, this sentence confuses me a bit:

> We find that only 1.5 to 7% of the modern human genome is uniquely human.

I've read many times that "humans and orangutans share approximately 97% of their DNA" and other similar claims [1]. Knowing that, what makes this revelation so surprising?

[1]: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/orangut...
The lack of official spec is really holding back markdown, I always find it grating when someone mentions that their site renders "Github Flavored Markdown". It should just be markdown. It would be great if Github didnt have this vendor lock in on markdown
The Reason We’re Shocked by Deadly Floods Is We’re Good at Preventing Them
Maybe I'm stupid here, but what did they plan? That the old guy would keel over, and then his twitter handle would magically become available to them?
What happens in your country when the police receive an anonymous phone call about a violent crime in progress at a residence?
Covid vaccination centres burned down in France
But anyone can see the new address to which the utxo's were sent...
> 1. Blaming the language instead of the programmer will not lead to improved program quality.

I disagree. Blaming the language is critically important. Tony Hoare (holds a turing aware, is a genius) puts it well.

> a programming language designer should be responsible for the mistakes that are made by the programmers
using the language.
[...]

> It's very easy to persuade the customers of your language that everything that goes wrong is their fault and not yours. I rejected that...

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> Users will still be write programs in C for their own personal use that are smaller and faster than ones written in memory-safe. languages

Users will always write C. No they won't always be smaller and faster.

> 3. Those in the future who are practiced in C will have a siginificant advantange in being able to leverage an enormous body of legacy code

Much to society's loss, I'm sure.

> and may in fact be taught to fear it

Cool. Same way we teach people to not roll their own crypto. This is a good thing. Please be more afraid.

> There is a tremendous amount of C code that DOES NOT contain buffer overflows or use-after-free errors.

No one cares. Not only is that not provably the case, nor is it likely the case, but it's also irrelevant when I'm typing on a computer with a C kernel, numerous C libraries, in a C++ browser, or texting someone via a C++ app that has to parse arbitrary text, emojis, videos, etc.

> Find me a buffer overflow or use-after-free in one of djb's programs.

No, that's a stupid waste of my time. Thankfully, others seem more willing to do so[1] - I hate to even entertain such an arbitrary, fallacious benchmark, but it's funny so I'll do it just this once.

[0] http://blog.mattcallanan.net/2010/09/tony-hoare-billion-doll...

[1] http://www.guninski.com/where_do_you_want_billg_to_go_today_...
Please stop trying to win a debate.

Lol, it seems clear you are the one setting up a debate and attempting to win it. I actually am working on the implications of the "simulation" argument. All of my positions are based "plausible reasoning" with similarities to formal logic being only incidental.
No, lol. But they've made it abundantly clear that when it comes to the Fed and anything involving nuke sec, personnel are basically dogmeat in any situation where the poop hits the fan. Anyone ex-mil or who runs in those circles knows this; it's hardly a secret.

Of course, you are expected to not let it get to that point. But re: the comment about hostages, yeah, Uncle Sam would not hesitate to disable a nuke or material, even if it meant casualties of NMCs held hostage.

Civilian casualties, no idea. That is the kind of fodder of actual classified conops. But in the metaphorical trolley problem between "N civilian casualties" and "nuke gets away", yeah my guess is N will be nonzero.
That seems a bit overkill. A simple rewording of the instruction to make it clear would suffice. Something like “Run the following two commands, which adds the needful to your profile and current shell”
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"A high profile sceptic of Covid vaccines French politician Martine Wonner told protesters to "lay siege" to the offices of lawmakers who backed the government's Covid policies.

A day later, another clinic in the south-west was partially destroyed by an arson attack, local media reported.

One site in south-east France was vandalised and flooded using fire hoses on Friday night, authorities said."
That's a bit like asking if the universe were a clock, would the speed of light be the maximum rotation speed of its crankshaft.

If the Universe were {analogy} is {real thing} related to {analogous thing}?
What objects do you have lots of that you're not storing in a HashMap or similar?
you're right about t rowe, I confused the story about them moving their main office (to harbor east) with the fact they've opened an office in owings mills. apparently the reason for the move is safety concerns downtown, which is still not a great look for the city, but whatever.

I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the expansion of the L. it's definitely good if you already live there (I do) and plan to stay (I hope to), and some of the areas being annexed are/were fairly close to hell on earth. it's not clear to me that the butterfly residents will benefit from the increased opportunities like you suggest; I think it's more likely they get gradually pushed out to less desirable parts of the county. but we'll see, and I'd rather be wrong!
The UK has cameras on every block that are staffed by a person watching them. I'm not usually a betting man, but I'd bet they're going to toss this job to software one day and every other nation that lags behind them as a surveillance or nanny state will attempt to follow suit.
I don't know. I'm of course biased, though that bias is built on several years of dealing with increasingly critical systems and the entirely avoidable issues those systems faced due to a preponderance of foot-guns that could have been otherwise mitigated with clever use of "ahead of time" constraint checking and enforcement. Not to mention the runtime quality and localizability of your diagnostics goes up a ton too when you know ahead of time that when you see certain kinds of errors/exceptions/failures that they must have happened in certain places and/or under very narrow conditions.

It also has a very nice quality of not mucking up your runtime performance with doing all the constraint checking on-demand and in very branchy ways.

As a simple example of how useful the approach can be, here's a thing we did awhile ago for making safe abstractions to low-level hardware resources: https://blog.auxon.io/2019/10/25/type-level-registers/ .

With that approach we could build a pipeline to consume hundreds of pages of SoC datasheet, generate the appropriate type specs from the register definitions, and end up with an API to the hardware that would fail to compile if a program was written to consume the hardware interface in a way that violated the spec in the datasheet.
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So the owner who has operated a cut throat, extremely demanding, razor thin margin for years folds because they don’t understand basic labor supply and demand?

Keep in mind this person has mostly likely done in depth analysis on how to make their most popular item at the same quality but for 2% less of some expensive ingredient.

I know one phenomenal restaurant owner who spent an entire year to get the cost of their paper products from 2% of COGS to 1%. Bonuses to managers, trash audits, the whole thing.

You really think people like that couldn’t figure out raise salaries and prices?

Do you know whats going to happen here? Panera, Qdoba, and 5 Guys. Just a monoculture of terrible bland food. Only the big players with economies of scale can charge less and pay the same as smaller restaurants.
Extortion I would guess? Give us the handle or we keep harassing you.
No, and in exactly the same way N arbitrary frequencies don't sound good together. There are infinite sound frequency combinations that sound good, but this is still a smaller infinity than all possible combinations of frequencies. That said, if you claimed "C Major" as your chord, you might get swatted.
I miss xpath dearly in Json
> The use case is transferring files.

Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol.

> Because I don't have a client for any of the others installed

Then I guess you can use telnet for FTP as well as web browsing.
League of Legends wasn't their game idea, they hired the guy who at the time maintained Dota and told him to make a stand alone version of dota. Giving money to someone who is already successful to make them more successful is a great business idea and has been done by others as well, but it isn't the same thing as some rich kid coming up with a game idea and telling someone else to implement it.
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Polarizers were my first thought reading this, but they only work at certain angles.
The complete story from the local news:

https://www.wkrn.com/news/swatting-call-leads-to-death-of-tn...
Demonstration of Different Layouts of Harmony OS in Fruits App Part-1(Java)
What percentage of alerts triggered by home security systems are false alarms? I don't have authoritative numbers, but I kind of thought "everybody knows" it's most of them.

I'm not arguing for 90%, just against assumptions.
1TR?
I'm running Windows 10 and the right click menu often takes like 3-10 seconds... :(
I'm really loving the image of a 3D GUI for navigating your file hierarchy as a squirrel climbing branches of a tree, thanks for that.
In some contexts pasting a copied file pastes the full path to it. For example, copy a file, then paste into the Open dialogs name input, and you’ll get the full path to the file.
Most businesses are small businesses, not ones run by mega millionaire CEOs.
Automatic updates should be something that users make the choice to enable, it shouldn't be a default.

Forced & default automatic updates have a long-term consequence of reducing fragmentation of the software landscape, ultimately leading to a reduction in the degrees of freedom for the end user.

Developers love this, but on the flip side they're gradually losing personal control over their computers and operating systems and software as a result.
On win 11 typing cmd open a command prompt. Typing powersshell makes explorer navigate to "documents\powersshell".

Edit: typing powershell.exe does the trick
Is it possible there's multiple types of small business owners, and you're talking past each other? Because I'm sure some owners know where every dime goes, like you say. But the small business I work at currently doesn't work like that.

The small business I worked at previously was closer, but the owner worked longer hours, possibly for less pay, and absolutely had more responsibilities, than I ever did working there. And I assume that led to a divided focus, and in turn, not being able to focus solely on optimizing every dollar.
I don’t think calling GP “hostile to Linux” after they critiqued one part of the ecosystem is very fair. All systems have their flaws, and if judging part of a system negatively makes you hostile to that system, then I guess Linus Torvalds is hostile to Linux too.