skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree with you that a minimum wage potentially has unintended negative consequences for those looking to work but do not have valuable skills to offer. An employer may make do without rather than hire a day laborer for instance at an expensive rate. We might disagree on whether negative consequences are inevitable.

By your assessment, though, it seems the seller's market is not caused by the minimum wage, but by COVID relief packages?

Also, I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. I only downvote if someone goes against community guidelines, and not if I simply disagree with them
> The alternative to finding Paint in the start menu and then later on finding my folder in whatever convoluted network drive I'm working on to save the file, is just hitting [Enter] to open the file you just made.

The real alternative is hitting Win+R and typing mspaint
Man, things are not looking bright for your comprehension skills.
Or they could go to a reasonably priced college for $40k or less and get just as good of a job. $120k is a jokingly high amount of tuition.
I spend maybe 40€ per week on food, not just lunch. 20 pounds for a single meal seems a bit expensive to me.
What you're describing is called subroutine signatures in Perl, an "experimental" feature I remember using on production in 2004.

At the time, I thought it made a lot of sense, after using other languages where this feature was standard and required.

However, I've since abandoned its use in Perl, because the traditional Perl way is much more flexible.

I do try to keep my `shift` statements towards the top of a sub, however.

sub PaintHouse {
my $house = shift;
my $color = shift;

if (!$house || !$color) {
WriteLog('PaintHouse: warning: sanity check failed');
return '';
}

print "painting $house with $color paint";

return 1;
}
Forgot that floating-point one.
Don Syme to teach Guido van Rossum F# live
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58855&start=50...

The Commodore 64 has a 65816 Super CPU add on that some games can take advantage of. It is needed for that Super Mario Brothers clone to get proper scrolling.
The various shell languages (e.g. Bash) are probably the inspiration, although when Perl was written it was already pretty hard to justify.
Its no different than es6+:

`const { foo, bar, baz } = someObject;`
Criminals by definition do not care how many laws and regulations a honest person has to deal or wrongly go to prison for.
I like Perl, but if the best argument for its readability is that it’s better than using an archaic macro-only typesetting DSL for graphics…
> Basically they have a lot of runtime checks enabled in debug mode, where you do the majority of your testing, that are then disabled in the release binary.

But there's the problem: Testing can't and won't cover all inputs that a malicious attacker will try [1]. Now you've tested all inputs you can think of with runtime checks enabled, you release your software without runtime checks, and you can be sure that some hacker will find a way to exploit a memory bug in your code.

[1] Except for very thorough fuzzing. Maybe. If you're lucky. But probably not.
Oh yea, and although we have made "progress", we must all hail the great economy structures we currently have that leaves out environmental externalities. This wonderful society and world where almost all living systems are in decline. To stay on topic with restaurant workers. Remember how hard those people in the kitchen work, many of them who don't speak english and make a set hourly rate, while all the people in the front of the house make massive tips that they don't have to share. just sayin...
Pay attention to what Bezos does, not what he says. Based on this, I can only conclude that he's a fuckwad of the first order.
Ok, figured out more what you were getting at I think.

As per sibling post to yours you can run executables from your PATH environment variable in the address bar.

So while you can't run "dir" directly you can run CMD and pass it dir | clip, or as I did "powershell -command ls|clip"

Nice one! Thanks for the direction!
The main one I use regularly with this 'feature' is a shell. I'd imagine it's where Perl got the idea from.

In reality, function arguments are an abstraction. You push your arguments onto a stack and read them off that stack. It's just that so many modern languages have that abstraction that we forget how it works underneath.
Please mention an example on how the new framework would make things better.
Why would anyone seek to harm Israelis?
Yes all of those are issues that don’t even take a second to figure out. But it’s a step forward.
https://archive.is/iHeIl
In the US restaurants are very cutthroat and what you describe only applies only to the most popular restaurants. It’s trivial to start a restaurant in the US so many people do an fail terribly after a year.

Restaurants are the worst fucking industry to invest in.
SCUBAG

Is what we need to invent then...
The status of a non-saved document in all software is always a bit strange too. In Confluence it’s a draft-before-creation, as opposed to a draft of an existing page.

To me, working in a new unsaved document feels uncomfortable. The idea that your Word window would already have an underlying file in the correct folder is reassuring. You can smash Ctrl+S all you need.
If they call landline you already know precise location…
> What exactly is that universal "same procedure" that "civilized countries" (please leave such flamebait out btw) follow?

Flamebait language beyond, US cops deploy SWAT teams on regular warrants and non-violent crimes. US cops seem to love their swat teams.

> The primary reason this wouldn't happen like this in most other countries is that it's unlikely that the home owner would turn up with a gun - if they did, police would be pointing theirs too.

Like, it is legal to own the gun, but if you have one cops are free to shoot you?
>new industry that produces new taxes is not inherently a good thing.

I think you are making different point than in the last post. I never suggested this. I agree that new companies can theoretically cause externalities that cost the government more than their taxes.

My point is that in this case SpaceX taxes are not pre-allocated to cover government costs incurred by SpaceX. SpaceX isn't increasing the number of people on welfare, teachers, defense budget, ect. In fact, SpaceX existing saves the government huge amounts of money on launch costs.
Past threads about EG:

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27308592 - May 2021 (10 comments)

A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038826 - Jan 2019 (4 comments)

The Private Edward Gorey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908935 - Jan 2019 (3 comments)
I would be thrilled if kitchen-only joints replaced sit-down restaurants. I have about 20 sit-downs within walking distance, only about 5 are easy for takeout, none which serve higher-end food. If there were a few higher-end food options ($20 lunch instead of $10 lunch, $30 dinner instead of $15 dinners), especially without having to deal with tipping, I would carry out and eat at home a lot more. I have my own silverware, wine bottles, and napkins.
I would argue their response shouldn't be to storm in with military flashbangs either, which is a typical response causing serious physical harm - burns, deafness, blindness. I refuse to believe there isn't a middle ground.
Phenomenal reporting from Ars technica here. It's releving to see Muse get carefully exonerated here. I do feel sorry for them

Oh and per the original isssue, perhaps Poettering needs to go be the sacrificial lamb and make a "telemetryd" so users can send crash reports to the devs they trust, and also possibly send them via intermediaries to filter out distro-sepcific stuff.
Whatever you think of auto-updates or telemtry, doing them ad-hoc and app-specific is not the distro way, and surely worse.

Also the hate mail over telemetryd will be hilarious.
Which is precisely why this is my favorite message board on the Internet. I love that I never have to collapse comments in HN threads because they're witty or off-topic.
Having lived a few years and witnessed "the science" change a number of times, I'd say that in my social circles (which are by no means representative of everyone) disproportionate trust in supposed scientific conclusions (particularly those that go against common sense) is a bigger problem than the reverse. E.g. official diet advice over the last few decades, or relative damage done by diesel vs petrol cars.
New Aspects Related to Plant Processing Revealed at Çatalhöyük
>You can go to these schools, ultimately it is about whether you are okay with your child being a racial minority.

You're assuming crispyambulance is white. If crispyambulance is black then crispyambulance wouldn't be a racial minority in these schools (I think that's what you're saying). If crispyambulance is Indian then crispyambulance has no choice and will be a racial minority at every school.
I have always thought the fork() interface was convoluted, perhaps it is more intuitive to some folks than me; using a old document to create a new one by copying it, opening it, and deleting its contents is not something I had considered.
It sounds like you are unfamiliar with this style, not that it "isn't what anyone ordinarily means".

Bash, Ruby, and Perl all support this style of argument passing.

Perl does not have named formal parameters, but instead supports passing arguments as lists / arrays. You can pass any number of arguments of any supported type this way.

If you've never programmed in a language that supports passing arguments in this manner, it will seem foreign.

However, argument passing in this manner has many benefits (eg easy to extend a function def, can easily add optional / req params with basic checking within subroutine) and after 15 min of doing it this way you don't really think about it again.
I'll take a walk most of the time (virtual instance provisioned with shell script). Flying yes, but only with pilots and the crew - no way in hell I'll start tinkering with it on my own as a sidetask.
Well, did gitlab forget how it explicitly said to not hire chinese or russian in fear of paranoid espionage concerns, that resulted in a hiring manager quitting gitlab? I wonder how it would do it people are mistreated in GitLab.
> Gitlab created the goal of 50% of all senior leadership should be women by December 2021 to address the imbalance within this underrepresented group.

I wouldn't be too thrilled having my career advancement sacrificed in the pursuit of 50/50 men/woman representation.
Theoretically, yes. Knowing Gitlab, they're very very close.
>only an assumption... leaked information could also come from...

The first paragraph of the article broadly mentions an alt scenario. "Or, at least, an enormous trove of documents was leaked to journalists."
Women in america for what?
I really really don't think suicides explain or excuse strong aggressive action. The cops themselves are most likely to die or get injured in car accident - due to them being on streets a lot.

America does not have significantly more homicides then other western countries. Most gun homicides are people who know each other shooting each other in dispute. And they are clustered in high violence places making the rest of America safer then average.
Julia compiles at run time.
Peer to peer as in DEXs such as uniswap, sushiswap? They will be more challenging to regulate for sure. I kinda see this regulation and others coming as a way for authorities to keep control of current financial establishment...hence also lot of talk about central bank coins ...very interesting to see how this plays out in next 5yrs
Why is the solution to concentrate people into a small number of countries and waste all the land that they would normally live in.

Contrary to popular belief, migration is not caused by climate, it's caused by culture.
well I guess it is barriers, as per the article -

2.1 People lie

2.2 People are lazy

2.3 People are stupid

but there is also the obvious scalability issue regarding people adding metadata - if one person can add metadata to 100 files per hour and you have 1 million files a day you will need a large team of people adding metadata.
I'd argue the official spec is now https://commonmark.org/ - it was partially reversed from the actual implementations in use and their behaviours, and is very highly specific compared to the original guide.
HashSet is just a HashMap (has a field) and that's pretty much it, it's quite inefficient (both perf and memory footprint) with HashMap bit inefficient to begin with.
If you compare the Bay Area to most of the US, it has significantly better public transportation. That was the point I was making in my comment.
"hacked" is a distraction - you think that NSO is going to be "hacked" without a honeypot - or some other "thing" as to make them look weak?

Nope.

They are trying to plausibly deny their bullshit by saying "Ey... look -- weez alsa beenz haxd... we no do dis..."

Yep - nope - fuck this company...

*laughs all the way to the bank with palantir folks.....
I've known so many people, put so much time and money and blood and sweat and tears and so, so, so, so much great and wonderful execution into a stinker of an idea. All the execution in the world won't help a crappy idea. And the example that the author gave about board games is a horrible example. The reality of most actual businesses is that you have to sink tons of time and money into it. Getting 100,000 boards printed up, hiring salespeople, packaging, graphic artists, etc costs a lot of money. Someone might sink their life savings into it and spend 5 years of their life trying to get a business to go, only to barely get by for 5 years and fail in the end. Then they try it again with another shitty idea, same thing happens and that's 10 years of one's life and all their life savings and maxing out the credit cards. Marriages and friendships get destroyed by this. One needs an excellent idea first. Otherwise, all the best execution means nothing. And by an excellent idea, I mean one that there is a market for, one that a person can afford (building a nuclear power plant for $4 billion would be out because of affordability), and many other factors.

People saying it is 1% the idea and 99% the execution are simply dead wrong.

Look at all the articles for business failure. Almost all of them have as #1 that the idea (product or market) didn't have a market, or was going up against impossible competition. For example, the first four of the reasons about why businesses fail listed in this article are about the idea, not execution of the idea: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2019/10/24/eight-commo...

A great idea must come before great execution. And yes, one must decide as you mentioned. But the decision must be based on the idea and the marketability of the idea - is there a market. Everything else is meaningless.

Then, after that, yes, you better have some very fine execution indeed.
Further clarification: google and 3 seconds of testing advise you can run any executable in your PATH environment variable.

Though there is some other step going on as "powershell" will set the current working dir on startup. Possibly a class entry in registry defining the full command to run.
>I don't think sending them bitcoin is illegal?

Well, according to the EU, not yet.
Superdeterminism is still determinism but an idea added to it for all particles sharing all future states. Superdeterminism is against the idea of real-time processing while Quantum Mechanics is typically imagined as real-time processing. Sure, determinism can illustrate a deterministic system producing infinite universes that are deterministically operating every possibility imaginable, where a local subject could get the impression things aren’t deterministic while they indeed are if viewing the whole system non-locally and that with what you’re describing doesn’t really fit the expression of chance.
Dragging the reporting on this a bit out prevents it from being easily buried under a single (manufactured) 'distraction'[0] news cycle in US media.

Also this gives NSO the opportunity to hang themself with their own rope: have NSO specifically deny allegations from one update, then show the allegations to be true in the next update and thereby revealing the company management to be liars.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2021/07/19/1017844801/biden-administrati...
Disagree, many progressives totally also expected prices to rise.

The alternative of forcing people to go to work while covid-19 sick, or being laid off and facing total abject poverty, and such... well not very attractive.

Prices & wages going up was going to be inevitable with inflation, which was on the plate, even if unemployment was never expanded and we forced the working poor to work, or eat our of dumpsters.
A big part of that is the complexity of the tax code.

Not sure how IRS is going to know how many dependents I have living in my house or whether I've lost my hearing and am now deaf.
Currently I meditate way less than I should. There have been a few months where it was as if I was only mind wandering the whole day (stressful period), so then I meditate a bit more to calm myself down.
You are free to not apply for a senior management at that business if you don’t like that policy.
I've been able to replicate the issue now, basically, if you have dark mode on and increased contrast on under "Accessibility" > "display and text size" you end up with white text on white backgrounds. A temporary fix would be disabling increased contrast.

I'm going to be making an update now that will allow the app to support increased contrast. It will be live as soon as Apple approve it.
Spencer
Women haven't been too thrilled either about their career advancement being sacrificed because of workplace sexism.
I thought only the 1040ez version for individuals was free. The small business version always had a coat associated with it
I believe so. When I was working in customer service, I had an English coworker. He said that the way customers treated us regularly would probably never have happened in England. Not once. Things haven’t gotten better since then.
I'm not sure how I'm losing. My employers contribution plus mine is less than what I get out.

Obviously, some healthy man or woman somewhere is making up for me, but that's the nature of insurance.

Anyway, you said the system doesn't work and is broken. If it works for 1/3 of people, the system works and the question is how to make it work for everyone.
Perl doesn’t lack function arguments, it’s just hidden behind a feature flag until the next annual release. A feature change had to be reverted to the more stable prior version but it’s de facto stable now.

Perl’s successor language, Raku, has sub arguments (even with lambdas) and optional type constraints.
This is how it works in Czech Republic.

Two brothers defrauded the government by forging signatures of the owners and notaries for the transfer of property deeds and took several hundred thousand Euros worth of land from various people.

My friend's family has been in court for 10 years trying to get it back.

The brothers mortgaged the properties to pay for litigation.

The real shit sandwich is that one brother died, and if the other brother dies, they start the proceedings all over again. If they win, it's purely in the name of justice; the lawyer will keep most of the money as payment for 10 years of litigation.

Lose-lose.
Link to non-paywall version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210721041546if_/https://www.wa...
So biased towards western people that Asian Americans regular beat them at it.
Probably to avoid creating a hyperlink or avoid crawlers.
something i wish was the norm would be a list of open folders that would show in the save-as window. a lot of times the folder i want to save to is already open on my desktop but if i open, say notepad, and save then it will start in the user folder and then i have to navigate to the open folder manually or copy and paste the address.

i think it was dreamweaver that had a target icon that you could drag from the save-as window onto a folder and it would change the location. even just a drop down menu would do as well though
This is a good article about how China plays the long game.

(I'm not going to develop this comment very much, because the submission is not likely to get many more than my upvote... I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did, though...)

I ruminate on China's rise, and how the U.S. Government has squandered much of the country's wealth over the past 50 years. With that said, China also has serious problems, where it's replacing its best farmland with factories and pollution.

"Humanity's traditional problem was scarcity...": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313669

China/Checkers/Chess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442222
Glad they're finally making this stuff first-party. When I messed around and did a Clojure project, the build/dependencies story was the biggest sour note of the experience by far. It was bewildering to have to go set up some third-party tool with a mustache logo before I could follow along with the official tutorial.

I think having a cohesive story for this is table-stakes in a modern programming language.
"Perhaps the most notable aspect of the deadly force findings is that SWAT officers rarely
discharge their firearms at human targets. We estimated that across the hundreds of team years
for which we had data that SWAT officers took suspects under fire in just 342 of the tens of
thousands of operations they undertook"

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/223855.pdf

I don't think that most SWAT responses are actually saving lives with bullets. Also included in that paper is a table showing that most frequently, SWAT is used to serve warrants.
>In 2019, ProPublica reported that Intuit added lines of code to the free version of its TurboTax website so that the site would not appear in search results on Google.

It's almost refreshing to see such an obvious "fuck you" move, without having it be covered by tons of PR and legalese.
Something like Monero or ZCash is decentralised by the same (or similar) means that Bitcoin and Ethereum are however they use various mechanisms to maintain privacy.

Monero uses ring signatures and several other mechanisms to separate a transaction from the sender, recipient, and contents so that you can't reconstruct chains of transactions but you can still verify consistency across the blocks. Monero is reasonably private but it's still technically possible to rebuild some fragments of transaction chains even if it's extremely unlikely.

ZCash on the other hand uses Zero Knowledge Proofs to verify correctness of the blocks and the transactions without leaking information about the system (such as the sender, recipient, or amounts). ZCash is much more computationally expensive, needs to be carefully callibrated, and needs the founding keys to be safely destroyed following the bootstrap of the system to remain secure however it does provide stronger and more easily mathematically verifiable assurances of privacy. "The Ceremony" is a really good one-off podcast about the story.

But in general it is possible to have privacy preserving functionality in decentralised services, it just requires far more complicated maths and lots of statistics to make work correctly.
I think gfycat approached this right. They sub-branded adult content to a separate domain called redgif, this allowed them to do both.

LA weekly did this with Backpage famously about 15 years ago. It essentially became exclusively sex work ads and they were the financial driver that funded the local journalism for years
I understand what you're saying and appreciate it. However, politics is attached to every single thing in life. That's just the way it is. I don't often say anything political, but I just did this time, for whatever reason struck me at the time.