skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? 90% of the garbage circulated on facebook is republican qanon conspiracy theories at worst, and tabloid reactionary garbage at best.
Javascript would be amazing with s-expressions and hygienic macros. One of the biggest missed opportunities in our field.
If only 1 person has entered a round and the round is ended, that person would just receive their money back.

That said, it's not explicitly necessary that anyone be able to end a round. I could have constrained it to only the players in the round, but I thought this was also an interesting twist.

The project is still very much in it's infancy though, so I'm definitely open to ideas (including the name :D).
I've thought sometimes that an objective measure of "software quality" would be the number of files that you have to change in order to make a change that management thinks is small. Alternately, that would be the number of "modules" such as Maven modules.

I worked on a search engine in which one might have to change 9 or so maven modules to add a simple feature since you'd have to change the hacked version of Solr behind it plus the front end and multiple servers between Solr and the front end, some of which management could give no clear reason for why they existed.

That's not good.
"You could always leave, but how many times will you leave a good paying job, an awesome team or a role that could jumpstart your career when things become uncomfortable with one person? (This isn’t to say that you should suffer toxic behavior at work, there’s no excuse for that.)" -- Karen Cohen with practices that can help you improve your relationships with your teammates. When I feel upset, one thing I've started to do is asking the other side "What am I missing here? Can you share your concerns with me? What would convince you we are the right track here regardless of how we approach it?"
We just started using freshdesk to field support calls a few weeks ago and I love it. The ability to update tickets with notes or direct communication with the user who logged the ticket is just nothing short of a miracle. Fantastic product.

(Edited typo)
Suppose there's a macOS exploit found that makes use of the unlocked bootloader. Are you certain Apple would actually patch it, and not just lock the bootloader? Sony famously did that to the PS3.
As a corollary:

“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” - Alan Perlis
I once saw the kind of support emails a friend got while working CS for an encrypted media storage service. Every single day, someone new was demanding, many times threatening legal action, that the company recovered their encrypted media. It was set up so only the user had the keys, and there was literally no way for the company to recover data without them - something that was a particular selling point of the service, constantly made explicit in many different ways and places. I wouldn't have believed that things were this bad had I not seen it first hand.
The Taliban Are Searching People’s Phones for English Language Messages
A blind acquaintance of mine seems to do just fine with just earphones!

(I'm joking obviously but this fact does amaze me. Him working on his computer consists of a keyboard, earphones, and the computer unit.)
I try to avoid postulating about places I've not been to. I was born in Sao Paulo, under the reign of military dictatorship, at that (look up its relationship w/ the US if you feel like filling your daily dose of WTFs).

The "3rd world" denomination is not something I came up with, and I certainly don't want to be the one drawing more classist lines as some attempt to distance myself from folks in Liberia or Myanmar or Afghanistan or whatever, as I'm sure they're already going through enough crap as is.

South Bay is, as far as I can tell (I only lived there for a few months), quintessential North American suburbia. It's not that different from Toronto suburbia, to be honest; my wife wants to move to South Bay if we end up settling around these parts. The house prices though :/
When sending torrent links (Ubuntu / Arch iso even), FB blocks it. Usually they show a red exclamation point on the message for me so this is quite weird. Of course, this is one of the reasons I don't use FB anymore.
Elsa Dorfman was my landlady in Cambridge. She was a hoot and a half. Sadly passed away a couple years ago.
I buy good beans and have good equipment to make good coffee. Because a good cup of coffee is good.

And then I let it go cold and drink a cup cold too. Because even cold coffee is coffee and coffee has caffeine.

And then I microwave the third cup, usually for too long, so it largely evaporates and develops an interesting aftertaste (and also becomes an excellent laxative). Because the headache doesn’t care how it tastes and who can be bothered to make fancy new coffee several times per day.
No it couldn’t. Microsoft doesn’t sell Windows for ARM.
Of course they don’t, or people wouldn’t have to be reverse engineering things.

But it doesn’t affect your hardware warranty.
> 99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions.

Actually, different languages do make this part different. Because you might glue together something other than "call", i.e. good functional languages have abstractions that blur the code and data boundary.

If all interesting ideas were at the expense of code reuse, learning new programming languages would be a fools errand. Improving the last mile of whatever you are doing is an O(1) improvement of total cost — it doesn't even show up in productivity expressed as a rate.

The real compelling belief behind programming languages is much more exciting, namely that we can express better ideas together in reusable ways, invest that productivity into better languages and rolls, and repeat that process ad infinitum. This is a crazy railgun of a concept.

Incidentally, this is why startups as PG likes are a failed way to advance technology. Startups, focused on a limited 5 year window and that last mile, are structurally incapable of working on generalized infrastructure. The proliferation of b2b over b2c on recent years belies that, but replacing the current ossified FOSS Monopoly (our commons) with b2b bulkanization could restore competition in the means of production, but that bulkanization will also prevent the code reuse that create enough payoff to power the continued reinvestmemt.

Tl;Dr PG sees good languages as a way to do one-off great man history-style heroic inventions, I see good languages as a way to unlock factorio-style continuous high capital investment.
Can you cite specific problems with ZenDesk? Or name competitors that do things better?

Or are you making a general comment on software, not specifically ZenDesk?
Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination
You can ”exploit” macOS by disabling SIP, which requires about as much effort.
Not really. It's a bit slow but on mobile it doesn't really matter as I am not downloading huge amounts of data.
So, you definitely agree then that the Post Office should be using public funds to run a messaging service (similar to messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, etc), right?
This was such an interesting video, and was really well presented, too. Big kudos to the creator, I never thought I'd be this fascinated by a compost pile!
Reddit was also silently removing comments containing joebiden.info

Not sure if they still are
Amps aren't really relevant here, I have a wrench that will consume considerably more amps than that if you're able to supply them.
They don't hand them out when underway and don't enhance that morning cigarette. I guess you could stock up before leaving port or just drink the coffee.
We tried fresh desk, but left disappointed. We now use Zammad, written in ruby by one of the lead devs of otrs, which used to be awesome before it went closed source (ish).

unlimited users and agents for the cost of a $5 a month VPS
`You can also type Meta characters using two-character sequences starting with ESC. Thus, you can enter M-a by typing ESC a. You can enter C-M-a (holding down both Ctrl and Alt, then pressing a) by typing ESC C-a. Unlike Meta, ESC is entered as a separate character. You don’t hold down ESC while typing the next character; instead, press ESC and release it, then enter the next character. This feature is useful on certain text terminals where the Meta key does not function reliably.`

Taken from: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Us...

I'm really not sure that this counts as 'well documented'.
Basic TLS is sufficient to stop your employer from MITM'ing your personal email session as long as you control what certificates your machine trust.

Which, on almost any employer-issued device on a large corporate network today, you won't.

Personal stuff goes on personal devices with personal connectivity and uses personal accounts with personal security. Work stuff goes on work devices with work connectivity and uses work accounts with work security. Contaminating either with the other is just a recipe for bad things happening, often for both the employer and the employee.
That’s showing 120 murders across just sate prisons. “ 1,291,000 people were in state prison, 631,000 in local jails, 226,000 in federal prisons, 44,000 in youth correctional facilities, 42,000 in immigration detention camps, 22,000 in involuntary commitment, 11,000 in territorial prisons, 2,500 in Indian Country jails, and 1,300 in United States military prisons.[8]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

So it’s 1 in 10,000 per year aka a 1 in 500 shot of being murdered in a 20 year prison sentence which seems dangerous but still unlikely.
No, it's also possible to set a firmware password, which pops up if you try to boot from any disk other than the startup disk. If you also can't log into any user accounts on the startup disk, there's no way in!
I don't remember that. I only remember a lot of black, bitter brew.
Funny you should bring up SQL. The "learning how to think things you couldn't previously think" resonated with me also, specifically when I realized that SQL would be so much better if joins were values instead of language constructs. I can't imagine I would have come up with this thought if I hadn't been working in Racket with the substitution model (as taught by SICP) fresh in mind.

Sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 in my side project demonstrate what I mean by "joins are values": https://docs.racket-lang.org/plisqin/Refactoring_Recipes.htm...
Do what you will with your own time, I’m no longer convinced that learning “weird” languages is an effective way to become a better programmer. From my experience as an IC and as a manager, learning how to write better is probably a better investment for professional growth, second to that would be better distributed system design.

If it pleases you, feel free to learn whatever. It’s why I know Rust and Haskell personally. But as career advice I am much more dubious, even though I once agreed with you.
What flavor of think do you suppose they filter for?
This would hilariously slow if it used a blockchain.
iPhone but after CSAM mess, not as much
The freedom of movement in all three dimensions. When I was young, I had a sports car. After going flying, that sports car always seemed to be boring and pedestrian. It also seemed slow.
sending a message with thedonald.win triggered the same behavior at some point
Hacker News does it. Reddit does it sitewide. Individual moderators do it sitewide. Shadowbanning is an essential tool for moderation, for dealing with trolls, spammers, abusive people.

You can argue the tool is being used too widely by Facebook, but it is silly to pontificate against the practice as a whole.

You reaaaaallly would not like the uncensored internet.
The fact there are known workarounds for certain problems shouldn't prevent us improving and fixing the underlying causes (in a step-by-step, backwards-compatible way).

With that said, I'd rather not see Emacs go all-in on threads or GTK, since they generally feel like WorseIsBetter anti-patterns:

- GTK 2 seemed OK, but unusable for me due to the 'display disconnection' bug. GTK 3 is full of red flags: a constantly moving target, little thought given to third-party applications, pretty much killed off third-party theming, etc.

- Threading is famously error-prone, which is completely unnecessary for high-level languages like Emacs Lisp. Co-routines, async/await macros, delimited continuations; even an actor model would all seem like better fits.
I wish it would be easier to use Bitcoin Core with multisig hardware wallets, as it's much more thorowly reviewed as other wallets. Partially signed transactions were a huge step forward, but there's still a lot to go to get rid of other software for managing large amounts of Bitcoins.
Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war
Ford has a debt to equity ratio of 4.7.
>You reaaaaallly would not like the uncensored internet.

Respectfully, speak for yourself.
> Arca Swiss, isn't related to Alpa Swiss is it?

* https://www.arca-shop.de/en/
They have specifically strengthened the motors in the sliding door to cut the average adult person in half if they take longer than 30 seconds to exit. (lol I like your example scenario)
that would be seriously impressive!
What are “the right reasons”?
It’s Other People’s Money making the bet. The worst that happens is Rivian fails and post-IPO equity investors lose everything. Founders, early investors, others getting liquid took money off the table (presumably).

You’re not losing or betting against yourself if you got liquid and someone else is holding the bags.
I loved this tweet by Ross Gerber

"So that makes tesla worth $8 tril by these metrics."

https://twitter.com/GerberKawasaki/status/143129811631815884...

Some valuations are truly difficult to grasp.
In the case of non-toy runtimes in general to be honest.

It's one of the simplest and most commonly implemented peephole optimisations - perl has handled it for as long as I can remember, I'm pretty sure cpython does, etc. etc.
> It's one thing to censor

!!!

Are we nonchalantly accepting its OK to censor and moving on to the argument about deceiving users?

Edit: should add more context to this. I don't think we should be casually OK with censorship. Next thing you know, FB will silently(or not) start censoring political opponents, activists they don't like, etc. I am quite unsettled by how the west is doing the same as China. Censorship is just casually taken as granted now. I don't think counter arguments hold for "private platforms". At some point, it becomes public square when a billion+ people use your platform.
If it means people like the Kardashians can disappear off into obscurity, I'm all for it.
The three "score" sites are partnered - and possibly funded - by Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax.

The "scores" are only loosely related to actual credit ratings, which are somewhat context/application dependent.

In reality the sites are mostly just marketing fronts for various consumer services - credit cards, loans, mobile and energy contracts, and so on.

They're notoriously aggressive about getting you to log in and keep checking your score. Partly because this looks good for partner engagement metrics, but also because it trains you to keep checking your score in an obsessive and gamified way.
Hi! Just noticed this post :-)
I started the game in the late 90’s and open sourced it in 2001
The previous versions were win Mac Linux but the current dev team has been focusing on Linux right now.

At the time there were some mod communities like privateer Gemini gold with a polished release and Vega Trek; those also had windows builds that also work on wine. You might need to install into a folder with read/write permissions.
Making an OS (x86) Chapter 7 – Cross Compiler, Bootloader, Kernel
Hi jwmhjwmh - thanks for posting this. I just wanted to add, for me, two important features of a utility like this are 1. to accept input from a pipe, and 2. to specify a delimiter. My usual use would be

data source | processing | plot

E.g. a csv, cut or awk, then either print the data or plot. The features I suggested make this workflow easier, but I don't know how common that is. I'd be interested to know how other people would use this.
"A blue tit is a dominant species - it tends to win in interactions and fighting for food or quarrelling for nest sites," explains Dr Lees. "Whereas species like willow and marsh tits are subordinate. They tend to lose those in interactions."

This doesn't quite square with what I recall was presented on a recent "Spring/Autumn watch". That's a BBC nature program - well respected and properly science focussed. It can get quite unpleasantly natural: for example it does not shy away from the effects of predation in all its gory forms.

I recall that blue tits depend on a particular insect, which is or was currently scarce due to weather. Nests failed wholesale and second clutches didn't happen. So blue tits are currently having a bad year in the UK.

Now, willow tits (I thought) majored in willow ... OK let's at least do a quick search: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/b... So where I live (Somerset) isn't in it's resident area. There's quite a lot of willow here and in Dorset to the south. I don't associate the midlands and Wales with willow, so there you go. Also I would have mis-identified one as a coal or great tit.

So, given it was a shit year for blue tits - I've got off my arse again: https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a36603... what do you do?

I suggest that in the first place, we feed the birds as best we can. To do that, the very best thing to do is provide the environment for insects and all the rest of the bottom of the food web to get cracking. We might also supplement that with caches of the sort of things that get a bird through tough times - dumps of seeds and fruits.

I'd like to see way more research on these things and way more direction to willing civilians. For example is a "bee motel" really helpful and why? What can we do for blue tits - please read the section "WHY ARE THERE LESS BLUE TIT NESTS THIS YEAR? THE SCIENCE EXPLAINS". It turns out the current years decline is complicated and the blue tit does not seem to be very generalised or able to adapt.

Worrying about blue tits being bullies seems a bit crass when the poor buggers are having a pretty shit time. Willow tits - no idea how they are doing this year. Perhaps they are seeing a resurgence now that blue tits are laid low.
On rewatching it I'm certainly not as impressed. Maybe I was just enjoying watching some anti-hype for once. Currently reading https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/starlink-is-a-... which seems more optimistic but http://tmfassociates.com/blog/2019/12/12/reality-and-hype-in... less so
I find it is always instructive to ponder how intelligence services or law enforcement had to work prior to the high technology we have these days.

If a government body wanted to know where you were - always, they would need to send a team to watch you.

This could be made much easier by recruiting a coworker or two, a neighbor or two, to keep an eye out if you did something other than what was expected.

Informants help scale the system.

If they wanted to know who you were contacting, they would need someone to tap your phone (in one way or another).

Your mail is easily intercepted and checked.

All of it would consume resource that were not endless.
There were limits on how many people Stasi could watch at the
same time, even with informers.

Now, nearly all of this can be done without any human resources being spent and truly little cost overall.
It even worse retroactively. Where were you two years ago in December 12?

That would be hard to figure out for even a nation state in 1930.
(Unless you were already being watched).

Now it is trivial.

It is available to the US, and all Western nations,
as well as most nations at a certain technological level.

The US uses fragments of it to kill people on a regular basis.
Without any bothersome judicial oversight.

I keep thinking that Stasi leaders would have continues orgasms if they had access to the tools that are available for a nation state now.
If you like this and want it set to music, check out Akira the Don's "This is Waterwave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiXG2cAajs
For me, working on a project that I feel has a high potential for success gives me the 'motivation energy' to continue writing code after already having spent hours writing code at work. It just doesn't work for me if I'm not working on something motivating.
How is this different from booing you for saying something stupid/wrong (or otherwise disliked even when smart/true) in a public venue. If anything, downvoting seems more honest and less "censorish" than booing, because you still get a chance to respond.
I've got some GPL things you could poke on, if you'd like. My name @gmail.
My experience has been different - Apple support asked me to email them the invoice copy of purchase to verify ownership of an Apple device.
Sadly! I was just looking for the MacOS download link :(
Haha, this rickrolls the Covid treatments public conversation. Well done :) For the scolds out there, it presents credible work on 'randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial from May 15, 2020, through the end of January 2021 to evaluate the effectiveness of X in reducing viral shedding among nonhospitalized patients with mild to moderate COVID-19' demonstrating antiviral activity of drug X.
What’s the difference between the two systems?
'This is just no way to live': what it's like delivering parcels for Amazon
I realized the narrow-mindedness of both co-workers and management in my 40s so I realized I need to be the boss and then I won't be discriminated against.

The other thing that works: DO NOT work for American companies - foreign companies are far more enlightened and less bigoted!
Averages like that, including for the US population, are meaningless. Your chances if you live in Englewood (South Side Chicago) are dramatically higher, while if you're in rural Utah, somewhat less. Same for prisons.
I had a similar reaction. I specifically remember sharing a pornhub link (it was not porn, but a movie someone had uploaded to the site) as a joke, but it wouldn't send. I guess the difference here is what's being censored.
People use these things as alternatives to SMS or even the telephone (for audio chat). It would be absolutely ludicrous if telecoms started shadowbanning their customers, if Facebook wants to act like one it should play by the same rules.
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current investors get a markup, leadership cashes out. if they can do it and market is frothy, derisks and may be years/never they could do it again, esp at these levels
Not ZenDesk specific. Not software specific.

It's a general business/market life-cycle pattern.
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