skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early in my career when I was learning to program I was discouraged by reading OOP code. I found it hard to follow. Deciphering the value of this by just reading the code felt like trying to translate some lost ancient language from stone tablets. The more I put off learning OOP the more it felt like unnecessary decoration.

Here is an example of a real world utility item with lots of decoration: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3098/3142471026_1c8f659c46_b.j...

I would rather do other things then spend the time digging through decoration when debugging.

4. A fourth item I should have mentioned above is avoiding long builds. Early in my career as a JavaScript developer the front end space was seen as a toy where you send the children to play. All the serious work occurred in some bloated server side Java application. The Java developers never seemed to get anything done as they were frequently waiting on builds that could last more than an hour. When this madness later crept into JavaScript via gulp, grunt, webpack I avoided it. I could not see the value in slowing down my speed of iteration. As a result my code was dramatically smaller. It contained less unnecessary bullshit. Now I have a 5 to 10 second build in my applications due to TypeScript, which does slow me down a little but it allows me to plan and scale the features of my application so much faster that it’s still a strong added value.
Mercedes Benz developing own operating system for 2024 launch
> Anyone who has used a computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) knows what a file browser looks like.

Just nitpicking here, but a lot of people who started using GUI on a "smart" phone have no idea what a file browser looks like. They know what a one-dimensional "photo" or "document" browser is, but they have no idea both are "files" that are stored in "folders".
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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Collective thinking before collective action:
https://github.com/rene-tobner/unity
> It is a convenient narrative

It's also not he narrative the content of the article purses ;-)
If downtime is permitted, I just write a script to migrate the data and run it. I prefer to write this script in SQL, but if that’s not possible I’ll just use Haskell or shell. Often I can use this approach with no downtime leveraging a proxy server/load balancer, if the migration is quick.

If zero downtime is required, I write the code to migrate the data to the new schema. Then update the app to write to the new schema while reading from old and new schemas. Then in a subsequent deploy after data is migrated, I write code that removes support for reading from the old schema.
Samsung Mobile Unit Will Be Reviewed Internally as the Performance Plummeted
The popular attitude to the pandemic is set by politicians and the media.

If those groups want urgent action on climate change, they will get it.

Those groups wanted lockdowns, and they got it (along with most of the $5.2trillion printed in the US alone since the pandemic began).

This not a new concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

The question is, why don't the elites want urgent action on climate change? Presumably the answer is that they're still making too much money under the status quo, or have not yet aligned themselves to exploit the transition to sustainable energy and transport.
I imagine co2 not being perfectly mixed and maybe wafts of it hitting the sensor? The overal trend is clear though. Try transforming the data with a moving hour average or something.
> This is exacerbated by a tendency of many people to actually require systems to not fail on bad input but instead try to make as much sense of it as possible so that now compatibility requires you to make the same guesses as to what the user actually meant.

Isn't this Postel's law in practice? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

There's a competitive advantage in handling bad input, right? I'm not saying it should always be the primary consideration and certainly not in security situations, but I think that competitive pressures are how we arrived at this situation.
Surprised to see it still uses R rather than Python
[Sorry for the looooong delay. I missed your reply last week and I just saw it yesterday night.]

Now I'm confused. I had to read the link carefully and try to translate the experiment with polarizer to the experiment with the double slit.

I'm still not sure, but an important point is that in a usual double slit experiment there is a single slit before that acts like a collimator and ensure the photons have no preference for each slit. Let's suppose you see isolated in lab B:

* If you add the collimator, then all effect of entanglement are destroyed and you see the usual interference pattern.

* If you don't add the collimator, you have and ensemble of particles that go to each slit, and cause no interference pattern. It's not necessary to add a polarization rotator to one of them.

* If the experiments are far away, ¿does it count as an implicit single slit collimator? I'm confused here. I'd prefer a version with only polarization or other property that is not mixed with the setup of the experiment.

As I'd said before, I'm now confused.
I hope it works when I disable javascript (it's no code after all).
They have to have hashing on the phone to support the new parental control option for Messages. If parents enable this option, it checks incoming images on their child's phone against the hashes, gives the child a chance to reject matching images, and if the child chooses to accept the image notifies the parents and gives them a copy of the image.
People have been using this for years; they're used to it, it's in their muscle memory. People really don't like it if stuff like that suddenly changes. I think that's reasonable and normal.

Whether using ^K or ? is better or worse is entirely besides the point.
Most users didn't have Pentium systems when Win95 came out or for a long time afterwards.

At least the vast majority of customers we had to support had 386 DX's or 486's.
> false positives is much more worrying

This is an argument for me to not start using iCloud keychain. If Apple flags my account, I don't want to lose access to literally all my other accounts.
It has to do with the way Apple advertises being a herald of privacy.

Also your links say that Google and Microsoft scan e-mails on the cloud. Not phone storage as in Apple's case.
not the OP, but I'll propose that the code inside methods is largely procedural code, and this is one level (what you need to learn first), and then how it's organized is a whole other world subject to much debate.
(even given SOLID DRY OOP etc.)
From the donation page:

> Contributions go to MZLA Technologies Corporation, a California corporation wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. Funds will be reserved for use in the Thunderbird project. Contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions.
Number of values would be much more interesting. An image is big, a bloated json somewhat big, and compressed or not compressed? (actually the compressed size would be more telling)
While you're right about the change in meaning of "meat", mincemeat did actually contain meat, the kind with four legs, well into the 19th century.

And of course it still does, in a way - suet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIABSdupWdI
When you write that out, the idea of getting 'Apple ID's for your kids doesn't sound that great.

Register your kids with a corporate behemoth! Why not!? Get them hooked on Apple right from childhood, get their entire life in iCloud, and see if they'll ever break out of the walled garden.
I ask this question in earnest - what's in this for Apple, why is Apple doing this?

I haven't seen anyone who likes this direction taken by Apple. Why would they do something that has the potential to detract from their product demand. Apple always said "We're different - we sell you our products, we don't sell your data." Now, they're giving away the data and for what? Child safety - I don't buy it.

I remember when Apple refused to help law enforcement unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter is California. Why the change of tact now?
I find davmail to be the best way to access exchange. It connects to exchange and sets up local proxies using pop, IMAP, SMTP, and calDav.

Then I can use whichever client I like. Otherwise it's just bouncing between which client has had the exchange plugins updated most recently.

As a bonus, it's distributed as a jar, so you can download and run for the latest support, even on an LTS of a Linux distro
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The problem goes much deeper than these adversarial examples. The main issue is Solomonoff Uncomputability (or the No Free Lunch in Search and Optimization theorem, or any of the other hard limiting theorems).

In short, it’s not only that you can devise adversarial examples that find the blindspots of the function approximator and fool it into misprediction, it’s that for any learning optimization algorithm you can abuse its priors and biases and create an environment in which it will perform terribly. This is a fundamental and inherent feature of how we go about machine learning — equating it with optimizing functions — and we will need a paradigm shift to go around it.

It’s curious to me how most of these results are known for decades, yet most researchers seem dead set on ignoring them.
Coldfusion?
Do you mind if I ask where you're from in the UK? I find that there's an awful lot of variation between different regions. For a few years now, I've lived and/or worked in London, where chatting to strangers is not the done thing. But travel to certain parts of the north of England, or Scotland or South Wales, and the norms are much more like what you describe in the US. My father was from South Wales and he loved visiting the States, where he found people to be open and friendly and willing to chat, just like they were where he grew up.
That's the issue - apple devices run an opaque blob signed by the entity developing it which is also is in possession of the source code which it does not share with anyone, so users can't inspect it to see what it actually does.

For comparison in a Linux distro:

- everything is built from source on distro infrastructure, users can inspect any an all source code of everything running on their machine
- software updates are transparent and not enforced, user can read changelog or compare source code of the updates
- software updates of individual packages don't usually go directly from upstream open source software developers but via a package maintainer in the distro, for each distro
- if an upstream project introduced fishy stuff like Apple is doing would almost certainly be noticed by either one of the package maintainers or users due to changes in the source or in software behavior, alerting others to do source code analysis and stop the attempt from affecting users
Rooted is related in that some apps will refuse to work, or will disable features if they detect that the phone is rooted.
> designate your partner as a child

This is way too much work to gain hardly anything. It's just as easy to just log into another device with their iCloud password and literally read everything they send. Less work, more result.
>The company claimed the system had an "extremely high level of accuracy and ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account".

>Apple says that it will manually review each report to confirm there is a match. It can then take steps to disable a user's account and report to law enforcement.

They say all reports will be manually reviewed, so the blog post, while painting a scary picture, doesn't really paint a picture that matches the reality of how this works - ie automated systems flagging up with no human intervention. I know the blogger tries to illustrate how human intervention isn't enough, but in this case we're talking about a human just comparing an image with another image, not a hypothetical lazy legal department "playing it safe" instead of doing due diligence.
Adding feature upon feature to a language that does not have a good foundation generally leads to disappointing results. My favorite examples are Javascript, Perl and C++.
> Isn't "glorified WYSIWYG editor" basically what nocode is?

Does bubble also handle deployment/infra?
Just in case you don't know, it's rhyming slang that stuck around. Richard -> Rick -> Dick. William -> Will -> Bill.
To list just a few such slipping projects outside the software realm:

* Space Launch System

* Boston's Big Dig

* New Berlin-Brandenburg Airport
I don't like Lex Fridman's podcasts because his interviews are way too long and he cannot and does not want to keep them concise. Interviews are no different from books in that respect, length does not equate to depth. On the contrary, the short ones are usually the gems. There is nothing worse than university professors and billionaires talking for hours about things they don't have much insightful to say about instead of talking for half an hour about the things they know best.
Ever thought about all those governments and complexity? Simplicity for unity:
https://github.com/rene-tobner/unity
That record doesn't look so good when emissions are billed where they belong: to the consumer, not the producer.

> About half of Britain’s true carbon footprint is made up of [international travel and the carbon produced overseas to make goods that are used here], according to a report from the conservation charity WWF.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/16/britain-...
” A high level of quality in software is not important unless you're entering an already well-served market. I wish it was.”

I’d say better way to say the same thing would be ”Unless you are building something truly innovative and unique that people must use anyway no matter how bad the experience is, software quality matters.”
It does handle many orders of magnitude more users than this thing does though. As a site that is the source of many hugs of death, it's serving a hell of a lot of traffic, mostly successfully.

It could serve even more traffic if it was less bloated of course.

EDIT: Some random stats from 2019 suggest that they're handling ~1000 pageviews a second on average over a month, and a view can take >100 requests to load. Combine with surge load and you're dealing with some serious requests per second.
Yeah, you expect it from Google and MS; Apple was the one tech giant that promised to value your privacy, so now that they've turned on that, there are no mainstream options left. Hence the strong dismay.

(Honestly Apple probably doesn't really have an option -- the govt wants this, and I'm sure they can exert all kinds of leverage to get it if Apple doesn't comply.)
Not just my friend, my friend. Everybody who worked on encapsulating the mRNA vaccine knows why the compound was not allowed for human use previously, and why they've all had to show the same diligence (because it caused clots which lead to stroke-outs and heart attacks in animal trials).

Your link shows what exactly? That yes, the majority of people with Covid currently, and majority of hospitalized (severely ill other words) are fully vaccinated.
Go check out CDG Commerce / Quantum Gateway. API and customer service is FANTASTIC! They’ve been around a VERY long time and actually care about their clients. It’s more traditional processing, but they work with a great number of online businesses.
It's a measure to attack the distribution and consumption of child porn, which is a driver for its production. It can also help provide evidence in unearthing child porn rings. Seems obvious.
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Yes, this is the main problem with SFOS.

I think it is because of the USA's allowance of trivial patents which act like a trade block.
Taking risks and switching jobs. This has exposed me to new ways of thinking and the ability to compare and contrast the different solutions I have seen in my previous experiences.

In a sense , when to move to a new position you have to prove yourself again, and it also keeps you from becoming complacent .
Some time ago I removed a whole bunch of packages from my system I hadn't used in a long while, and turned out I also accidentally removed the "pciutils" package which turns out to be a runtime dependency for Firefox's hardware support.

Without it, regular things were significantly slower, especially if images were involved, even on simpler sites. Just installing pciutils again instantly made a huge difference.
Yes, if database supports it (I guess every major ones now do) then it's great. Postgres's transactional DDL seems like great fit.
And my point is that the only way to provide visibility over what is being looked without distributing the material would be to implement some type of ZKP
Yeah, they would never do that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant#Controversy

Key quote near the bottom:

Due to errors or acting on bad or faulty tips without double-checking information, Chicago Police Department has raided many wrong addresses.

So yes, raids without double-checking the information (i.e. looking at the picture that lead to the tip) has been happening quite recently.
Compete on Quality, not on price.

Competing on price is a race to the bottom, competing on quality is a race to the top.
That's kind of limiting and exclusive. It sounds great for the next Clubhouse or Yo, but it seems like a dead end for anything serious like banking or any service that takes inclusion and disabilities serious.
We could, but the people who think long term are going to be much more worried about where the energy comes from, full stop, rather than the climate. If there is enough energy we can survive anything comfortably. Cities can be moved. If we don't crack that nut then even a pleasant climate will probably see a lot of bloodshed.

At any point in this journey the climate problems could have been brushed aside by going nuclear. If we aren't going to go nuclear, then we've done the sensible thing and waited for renewables to be cost competitive.
Why is there an otherwise helpful response to this that is already downvoted to [dead]?

edit: It's back now, but I notice this happening a lot more than it used to. folks, for pete's sake if you find something inaccurate or unsupported in a post that causes you to want it gone, at least support your point with a comment for folks like me. Clueless people like myself end up wondering what the hell I just walked in on when it's dead comment after dead comment that otherwise seem like rational points in an interesting discussion.
«О чем вся великая русская классика? Об абсолютной невыносимости российской жизни в любом ее аспекте. И все. Ничего больше там нет. А мир хавает. И просит еще… Для них это короткая инъекция счастья. Они на пять минут верят, что ад не у них, а у нас. Но ад везде, где бьется человеческая мысль. Страдает не одна Россия. Страдает все бытие. У нас просто меньше лицемерия и пиара.» -- Пелевин
Yes, I read about the historical aspect a few years ago.

This said, I am still amazed that someone is fine with that (some "Richards" I discussed with presented themselves as "Rich", and some willingly as "Dick")
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You can work remotely for UK fintechs. They secure round after round and offer share options.
Only a small minority of people are asexual. I'd be shocked if a substantial part of that third of people are asexual.
That's a great visual presentation, but not really an innovation. The CodeScene tool has that built in together with a set of deep analyses on top (see https://codescene.com/).

There are several public conference talks that cover this visualization and related use cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl4aZ2KXBsQ
Thank you for taking the time to explain your point of view.

I suppose this is just the unavoidable result of too many immigrants arriving around the same time. And when they have their own communities, they have no reason to integrate into the host culture.

Has Germany done anything to reduce the number of new immigrants coming in?
I was installing it from the website just by clicking on the template. The installation was not what bothered me but the overall responsiveness and loading time. I’m based in Berlin, might have been the roundtrip time.
Same, crashed rather recent phone as well
It’s only when you go well past the hour mark that you start to get the unscripted stuff that you wouldn’t normally hear without getting to know the person.

You see, for me this is almost always the stuff I don't care about. It almost always ends up either rambling personal anecdotes and the two of them sharing 'funny' stories or two people pontificating on subjects way outside their areas of expertise. Both of which are completely uninteresting to me.

Two blokes chatting bollocks about stuff they don't really understand is only fun if I'm one of them.
So you call me a moron, and then you go on to compare stabbing people to not getting a vaccine...hmmmm.

People are largely unvaccinated in New York city (70% unvax), and yet, somehow, we don't see people lying in the streets (at least not from Covid). Hmmmm. Could it be that people's immune systems are functioning despite the human hubris and hysteria?
I wanted to try it out but the page keeps on loading.

Maybe that's the final stage because there is no-code, so nothing will be shown.
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The whole schema was architected for that.

I'm all for progressive taxes, but fuck system where Comarch CEO pays fraction of my tax percentage.

I'm not doing it tho, 15% ryczałt (lump sum?) is low enough to not care, and ipbox seems like tax trap. I'm not paying money to villains like Memcen to lower my taxes.
Xsolla cites growth rate slowdown as reason for layoffs
For Mozilla Common Voice, it looks like even Bokmål isn't listed as dataset yet. Language packs have the advantage that a single dedicated user can come up with the entire thing, but for voice collections you need a large variety of different people and ideally tons of them. For any language with a small native speaker population, even a rich one like Norway and especially a fractional subset like Nynorsk, getting enough speakers to participate in open source collection efforts will remain a challenge. Purportedly, even for commercial companies it's hard to find enough Norwegians willing to speak a few sentences for a nominal payment unlike most other countries.

Luckily, speech recognition research is making some good progress on dealing with low-resource languages so hopefully we'll see some acceptable models made from the little available open data that's out there.