skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rubbish. By this logic, we can just say that we shouldn't upset the "balance" of the slave owners -- they were able to to "maintain the balance needed to maintain the ecosystem that it is a part of".
I long for the day when someone will stand up to Israel always bullying and terrorizing helpless people.

At least curb their incessant spying...
>In the absence of that, individuals aren't taking actions that could help (or reduce harm) either.

There is no way for individual action to solve climate change, that's just a way for business to place the blame and guilt on us. Solving climate change is necessarily a collective action problem, which is why I believe we aren't going to solve it. We're too selfish and unwilling to take the drastic steps we need to take and it's only going to get more difficult to solve the problem. We're all trapped in a car that's starting to smoke and make unsettling noises, yet we're cheerily driving along hoping that it will be cheaper to fix later if we ignore it now. The car is going to break down soon enough and we're all going to be stranded in the desert until we expire.
I felt something similar after running my first marathon. I was always a sedentary kid who could barely finish a mile in grade school so this was a huge accomplishment for me, but the emotional roller coaster of training and racing and the post-marathon blues hit like a truck [1].

I also felt the same after living in Japan, which was the brass ring I'd been chasing for as long as I could remember. I had to confront the realization that what I thought would make me happy ultimately didn't (these experiences yielded both the happiest and saddest moments of my life) and could never have lived up to my perfect idealization [2].

What helps me is to think of myself as a verb instead of a noun [3]. This helps me avoid putting all eggs in one basket and realizing that my self-worth does not come from a single persona that I wear, but is a weighted combination of everything that makes me a human being.

[1] https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20804968/the-p...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5R8gduPZw4

[3] “We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.” - Stephen Fry
Who would have an interest in drawing South Korea into it?
The article says: 45% of American teleworkers regularly work from a couch, 38% regularly work from bed and 20% often work outside. 45%+38%+20% = 103%.
Windows93 and Windows96 work best in a fullscreen Window. Press F11 to enjoy them properly.
The new guard is no different from the new guard of the 60’s they’ll either be squeezed out or conform.
> He made a point to distinguish between "professional shoplifters" and disorganized solo thieves. The pros, he said, frequently are connected to a larger network that can, in some cases, function as a sophisticated "shadow business."

This is the aspect of “defund the police” that people don’t seem to understand. Police can’t stop every, or even most, solo criminals. But that’s not the only purpose of police. Where the police monopoly on violence is weak, organized crime springs up and turns shoplifting, robbery, etc., into a business.
If a store prosecutes their customers for stealing a $0.10 washer, they won't have customers for long.

My personal opinion is that the severity of consequence should be relative to the people the crime affects.

Theft (retail, insurance, etc) exists in this weird limbo where the primary victim (the business) isn't the customer. However, it's ultimately the customer who pays.

So light-touching theft prosecution is effectively not caring about taxing customers. Most of whom don't even know they're being taxed.
I think your analogy is a little off. It's a little more like describing a car fire (Chevy Bolt) by the name of the battery cell manufacturer (LG Chem) whose battery is burning. There's a lot more potential energy in battery cells than in lumber.
There’s a pandemic that forced everyone inside and remote. Computer companies does great. End of story.
The SE is $400 for 64GB, $450 for 128GB, and $550 for 256GB.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-se
Please no. Keep all those poorly-written proprietary privacy-invading vulnerability-enabling anti-cheat kernel modules as far away from Linux as possible.
I have a TI-83 and an HP 19B II and both see regular enough use that they live on my desks (one at home, one in the office) rather than in the drawer. The calculator on my phone sucks (no history, difficult to enter anything more complex than adding up a few numbers) and I don't even know how to calculator on my Mac (because I never had a need to).

I use the calculator as an extension to my brain, it has a little memory and a lot of quick compute available, I know how it works well enough that it's all muscle memory and invisible to my conscious processing.

If quality scientific/business calculators ever go away I'll be sad.
That only works because the people who'd steal your tools would steal them to use themselves.

There's a reason every large facility that provides its own tools has a tool crib where they track who checked out what.
Depends on the tool and the usecase - our contractors always had proper pro-level drills and powertools, but their handtools (especially more consumable ones that get lost during day to days when they're mobile, like screwdrivers and stuff) looked to be from DIY stores.
The NYT clearly doesn't understand that comics are not necessarily considered low brow culture in France and Belgium. Comic books don't have the same reputation in France and Belgium as they do in the USA.
An Iterative Approach to Writing
Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases
All States now committed to building an EU quantum communication infrastructure
Yes, so what? I often work from the desk with docking station set up in my bedroom.

I also often work from my den. “Often” isn't unique per person.
Exactly. Who wants to hire somebody who's dumber than half their teammates? That's a recipe for failure. Assuming inaccurate measurement, you'll actually have some below median, so you need to bias upward or else you'll just end up with a bunch of mediocre eng.
I have a hard time learning react, because the 'language' used is so divorced from the concepts or actions of what it is the code does... If that makes sense. So I memorize some language chunks in react that does something and this is supposed to be 'programming?' How can I ever know what this stuff does? And why I'm supposed to use it. I just get frustrated with all these frameworks.
Usually the approach in a statically-typed language is to transform your dynamic request into something that you know through parsing instead of validation. Here's a great article about this: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va....
Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
Just write software that somehow pretends the anti-cheat module is running even though it's not.
I don't have the site live yet, so there isn't anything you can interact with.

The idea is that you can have different views for different jobs, but all the data stays the same. So if you're looking for a system administration job, you might leave out some of your robotics experience. If you're applying for a position working with hardware, you might want to include it.

The views are created as you need them, deleted when you don't- and you can revoke access to them at any time by re-generating the url.
Yeah - I agree with the article's premise, but it's a pretty weak effort given that the author hasn't really delved into React.

Having done a fair number of side by side implementations of things with React and vanilla JS / jQuery, React has always ended up more code and complexity (and an inconvenient extra build step). More shunting state up and down the call stack to conform to the functional architectural ideals, etc.

It shines on certain types of problems, but seems to get shoehorned into a lot of others due to hype and groupthink.
They are talking about the survey data, which doesn't rely upon the normal testing regime. They randomly contact and test individuals irrespective of their symptoms status, which is different from the normal testing regime that gets reported daily. I believe its a 20k sample size. The survey takes a lot longer time compile

Most recent summary:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Most recent data:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Methods: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
Imho, fungible and zero-copy-cost goods is a much more nuanced topic.
Still pocket change to a trillion dollar company. To companies this size, fines are just part of the normal operating cost.
This is an excellent way of looking at this and many other high bar organisations - thank you !
Nope, and my instant reaction to Happy Blob Friend under the first paragraph or so of copy is that I wanna punch him, not let him persuade me to do stuff.
Whether you "need" something seems like a rather vapid bar to quibble over. You don't really "need" anything, but evaluating the trade-offs of using something is one of the primary roles of an engineer.

On HN, we too quickly circlejerk over whether a given project really "needed" some bit of tech and brag about how we could build it without, as if that's the metric that matters.

If you used React unnecessarily and the project is worse off for it, fine, you're still learning. But it all too often becomes one of these blog post rants with the extra whammy of people coming into the comments to brag about how they've been hand-coding HTML since 1999 and don't see the point of a tool like React or Javascript.
Had the same experience buying a CPU from Microcenter. You told a store associate what processor you wanted, he wrote it on a cardboard slip, then you get the product after checkout is paid for. Overall I was pretty happy with the process. Hardest part was hunting down a sales associate.
I love that article, but it made me sad. It is just as relevant today, as it was, nine years ago.

I'm a huge proponent of improving software Quality. I have found that complaining about it doesn't actually do much good. My complaints tend to get downvoted into the Mantle, and I just get pissed off.

So, my approach, is to do the very best I can, in my own work, and limit the amount of other people's work on which I rely. When I do use it, I am quite careful, and vet the work. Even so, I have had to back out several highly-rated packages that I had thought were good, but my apps started crashing, as soon as I incorporated them.

Just mentioning that, has often proved incredibly unpopular. It seems to be considered blasphemy.

It does reduce the scope of what I can accomplish, but I am quite happy with what I do.
+1

No accident that part of the world produced Herge and Mobieus and inspired Miyazaki.
So some old lady who doesn't scan a can of beans right at Walmart is a felon?

I don't think you've thought this one out.
> I've tried the "rebase into a feature branch" workflow, which I think you are alluding to. Unfortunately, it always results in scary conflicts.

You never rebase something into something else, you rebase onto something. I suppose you meant you want to rebase feature branch onto master.

If you have conflicts, you'll have them anyway, regardless if you're merging feature branch into master, merging master into feature branch or rebasing feature branch onto master. Conflicts are not a consequence of rebasing.
Or lose access to it because google canceled your account for some reason.
1. Browser APIs have subtle differences, or don't always exist in every browser you need to support (e.g, https://caniuse.com/)

2. You'll need at least a transpiler (if writing anything above ES5) and polyfills to solve #1, and if you're diving that far into the JavaScript tooling chain (bundler + babel), might as well choose to use a framework.
Even if they can just pay for health insurance out of pocket, they’d be switching plans twice, and each time they’d reset their deductible and possibly need to find a new doctor.

When I was an actuary we used to do “intern to hire” for unemployed recent grads, but I can’t imagine leaving a full time position for a contract-to-hire position. I think for me personally the opportunity would have to be really interesting and the comp upon converting to FTE would need to be at least double my previous comp (meaning the contracted rate would probably be something like 4x my implied hourly).
Tweaking WebRTC video quality: unpacking bitrate, resolution and frame rates
My old company made a DIS box (UK gov-specified integration server that would talk to the central Government Gateway) as Java on Solaris in the early noughties, and doing a performance test that one Solaris machine took down the entire Windows-based Government Gateway test environment. Draw your own conclusions :)
On Endianness
> It seems true to me that working with the Rust borrow checker is eventually fruitful, but there is a micro-case where working with lifetimes seems like a lot mental overhead with little gain, compared to a built-in garbage collector available in Lisp.

I fully agree. In the past year I have worked in Rust a lot and while quarrels with the borrow checker have definitely gotten more and more rare, they still happen occasionally. It's not that the borrow checker presents a reason which I think is incorrect or invalid, it's rather that it's sometimes difficult or just tedious to encode the proof that what you're doing is actually fine.

That said, there have been situations in which I was absolutely confident my code would have been fine if it weren't for the meddling borrow checker, but it actually wasn't and it helped me catch bugs.

Fortunately there is a bit of an escape hatch: if you want to, you can just start reference counting and get close to the experience you'd have with a proper GC. For example, there's nothing preventing you from implementing a reference counted linked list and writing

LinkedList::Cons(word, words)
Tool truck these days are for suckers and everyone under 35-40 knows it (everyone over 40 knows it too but fewer of them will admit it). Back in the day the price differential was less and the quality differential was more and a lot of people are stuck int their ways. People will still pay for tool truck convenience when they need to though. Most people have a mix of everything from Harbor Freight to Craigslist/ebay/pawnshop to tool truck to Home Depot to Amazon. Nobody is really buying expensive tools on the regular because that's a lot of money. People will generally buy expensive power tools when they see a good sale or have a specific job to justify it.

The white collar internet loves to blindly fetishize "quality" tools but professionals are always trying to strike a balance because every buck spent on overhead is a buck you're not getting paid and having breadth of tools is often more important than quantity since having the right tool matters a lot more than having a nice tool and if you don't buy nice tools you can afford to have the right tool more often. For secondary "luxury" tools that just make a job faster (like a ratcheting box wrench) many people buy the cheap stuff whereas tools you only use when you really need them (like flare nut wrenches) tend to be higher quality.
Odds are good that they are physically in the store somewhere, but nobody knows where, because they are on a pallet on a shelf sixteen feet up in the air.
"let me be the guy who points people to an alternative project when someone is trying to present theirs"
> * The file data

Except on some filesystems really small files can actually be stored directly within the inode, so even that's not always true.
Why have some places suffered more Covid-19 deaths than others?
I mean that describes me. But if you don’t have the mental acuity and length of short term memory required to solve these problems…
Or they could go really old-school and provide a look up table...

sin(x) = y

for a variety of values of x.

Or, even nicer -- instead of having a correct numerical answer, they could write the answers as formulas. Then you wouldn't need to know the actual values at all. (Then again, this could also be a pain).

But some combination of the two should be possible without needing manual computation.
Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases model:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

That's showing hospitalisations rather than cases, and most scenarios show the peak in early August. Hospitalisations lag cases, and it looks like early August will be right: we haven't seen the peak yet.
My dad ate lots of guava fruit in his childhood in his native country. He buys a few whenever the local grocers have them in stock. About half the time, the cashier keys them in as limes (about 1/3rd the price) and he doesn't realize until he's home and reads the receipt.
I am not saying it had nothing to do with it but there were multiple factors for sure.
You know, I never thought of using AA/NA to find the best places in town before your comment, but it makes absolute sense.

Funny how life works.
I had a similar experience. I had to ask the self-checkout store clerk whether each banana was $0.25 or if it was all the bananas. They told me it was $0.25 per banana.
You are right, trust is the most important thing here.
But nordigen does not want my money for their service. Instead they want to sell what looks like APIs for ML over your transaction data. So they at least have a good incentive to use my data for training their model.

ofc, I dont know what they do with it, they may be cool ethical ppl just doing a cool thing and my mistrust might be totaly misplaced.

But I have to trust another entity that proxies my connections. Another link in the chain.

And I dont really want to hit on nordigen here, as I said, I dont know them, I have not read that whole website and havent looked in the details.

For me its more about the generell problem. I find it sad that a service like this seems nessassary.
Good use case for using tabs and setting a low tab size. But still
Sure!

Zoom made over $600M in profits in 2020 alone.[1]

This awards members of the class at most $25 - which might materially mean something to an individual (unlikely), but is virtually nothing; furthermore as an accounting line item for Zoom, this is literally not worth batting an eye at. Yes there will be knock on effects of "better training" and scrutiny of messaging/security both internally and externally, but it will effect practically 0 change to their overall bottom line or revenue/profit projections, and there is obviously no legal precedent set or oversight changes that will aid end users moving forward. yay.

What does all of that cost? $21M[2] to law firms. I won't go into the insanity and inanity of billable hours and the profit machine of law in this country, but that point is simply to underscore that those legal firms are the second winners in this. Despite their position and goal - ostensibly and in name only - of aiding the members of the class in seeking a just and fair reward for wrongdoing and bad faith by Zoom.

Meanwhile, as others have commented, reputations and contracts have been burned and sullied, and doubtless money lost along with that, but our legal system is not interested in trying to attach responsibility or reparation to those effects (because they can't necessarily be proven as fault of Zoom).

So the ultrarich get ultraricher.

[1]https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/0001...
[2]https://www.reuters.com/article/zoom-settlement-idUSKBN2F30W...
As another poster indicates, that's specifically not the case. Most possible arithmetic problems of reasonable size aren't anywhere in the dataset, but it can solve them with pretty good accuracy.
I would bet that 90% of the California population is within one hour of a gun store. Handguns and rifles are legal and easy to buy if you don't have a criminal record.
I've only ever seen it done in legally dubious ways to skirt paying benefits for 3-6 months for new hires in entry level positions.
Not really; it's like stoplights. You're going to be interrupted and therefore notice the red lights, and just sail easily through and thus not notice the green lights. Likewise, you're going to notice the pain points, but need to take a minute to reflect to notice the benefits.

Really, if repeating the same justifications convinces people, then the problem isn't the justifications.
Can't say that different namespaces are a sign of Lisp showing its age. At least in my mental model, it is convenient to know that a single symbol can name several different things in different namespaces at the same time - e.g. a variable, a function, a type, and a few more that are possibly defined by the user.

Enforcing the "strictly one meaning per symbol" paradigm seems pretty self-defeating to me, since even in a Lisp-1 users can - and eventually will - create their own namespaces, implementing a Lisp-N themselves.
Yes, but you can easily find it for less than that. Here is one for $282 on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B088NQXD8T

I'm sure you could find even better deals on eBay.
It's not unthinkable, but continuing this line of thought, is it unthinkable that China makes a point of upholding all contractual obligations leaving TSMC's customers unaffected?
The Havana Syndrome Mystery and How the U.S. Plans to Solve It
This looks great! Had to do this once, if this could be extended to make web requests or send the output via a post request to a remote server somehow, it could be used for remote logging.
While I do agree the CA bar is tougher than it should be, a lot of the low passage rate comes from graduates of less-than-stellar schools. If you look into passage rate per school it’s naturally much better at the higher ranked universities.
how about opening an issue instead of complaining?
I think, the big issue with dynamic typing in popular languages like PHP and JavaScript are the automatic conversions.
Sounds like they're creating a lot of waste.
From your writing above, I can see you are not from Tamil Nadu and that you need to educate yourself more.

Would it blow your mind if I told you that Shiva (or Vishnu) was not even worshipped by Tamils or in the ancient literature till it was brought in from the north?

The real religion of the Tamils is akin to ancestor worshi. Later, all the religions started invading and setting up roots ( actually Buddhism/Jainism took roots before current Hinduism came down ).
I was the victim of a property crime in SF and I never reported it. Why would I? No follow up by police. Same with neighbors.

Your stats are reported crime. Not actual crime.
What do you find to be your greatest challenges when marketing to existing partners in this space? From an engineering perspective, it seems to be a "no brainer", but I'm curious to hear the push back or objections (if any) you've received.
It's been a long time since I had to use the identities but looking over them quickly I don't see how they help you get the approximation of cos(70 deg) knowing the 5 basic values that I memorized back in school of (0,30,45,60,90).

Even if getting the answer needs a calculator the process to get to that point is still testing the algebraic/calculus/trig/geometry skills the test is supposed to test. You can often get rid of the need for a calculator by formulating the questions carefully so the numbers are simple to work with but sometimes you can't do that easily.