skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone I knew was more than happy to use AOL to surf the World Wide Web

Which was a service AOL didn't really provide at first. Only when it became a kind of ISP.
they're not tonedef, theyre powerdrunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
Yes, people with no money have trouble investing money, I'm not sure where I stated otherwise. But sure, let's continue down the rabbit hole of analyzing a group I referenced off-hand for the sake of a hypothetical example.

wrt my comment about 401ks
- they are often opt-out these days in part due to regulatory maneuvering on the part of the C-suite to protect their own benefits (e.g. safe harbor plans). Including folks with a 401k as "participants" in the stock market vastly overstates their actual investment activity and participation. More telling of actual participation is that 86% of households in the US don't own any individual stocks - most people with a 401k have it invested in whatever the default managed fund is.

Convincing some portion of that 86% to participate on their own in the stock market is the parallel I was drawing - those with resources to participate in a financial system, which has lower barriers to entry than they might anticipate.

"This is a fundamental social policy issue and not something you’re going to solve with blockchain magic."

This conclusion is so orthogonal to the literal content, and point of my original comment that I can only recommend you reread it and start from there.
This was not possible, the Allies had all agreed on unconditional surrender so no separate peace could be carved out.
Is this an Airflow killer for simple jobs?
Interesting that they don’t define free. I prefer my freedom of privacy over your freedom of expression, so which wins in a pithy contest?
Maybe Etsy, or re-seller sites that have used clothing.
Lol at your clearly biased and sophomoric response.

1. He became an internationally known figure over night. No doubt he gets paid for interviews, appearances, books, op-eds etc. Probably lives a great life in Moscow. Plus he has a "word" on things, people value it. He got all that by doing his act.

2. CCP does not exist? Just going to plainly say: lol. Russia is an oligarchal-controlled country. They use nationalism and "Orthodox Christianity" as a cover for their deeds. Exactly how Christian were the operations in Chechnya? Truly lol at your response.

3. Give me one example of these metadata collection programs beings used to illegally prosecute and imprison an American citizen in America? Seriously, find one. You can't say "its gonna happen!" as proof that it is happening.

Overall 0/10 counter on your part.
Exactly. And even if you're doing "nothing wrong", that's not the point. It's all about how the surveillance data is going to be used and interpreted. Oh, you say you didn't commit $CRIME? Well, our data says otherwise, and computers don't lie, bye.
No; that helps. Planes tend to crash into things, not get rear ended. Facing backwards means they aren’t flung forwards into things.
And its being used for FSD where time units take on any meaning imaginable so Dojo can almost be up and running soon for a few more years and we will get excited journalists and Youtubers the whole time
Good. I ruined my damned brain playing stupid first person shooters for disgusting amounts of hours from like age 12-22. Aside from the social life i lost out on, I really think my brain is permanently deprived of chemicals.
Sure but I mean it's centrally registered in the central WHOIS database. Of course the registrar has whatever data you put in their order form, that's obvious enough; what I mean is that they still forward your personal info to a central registry and the only thing GDPR changed about the WHOIS database is output filtering, or in SIDN's case not even that. I find it totally weird and invasive that this must be centrally registered in the first place (I grew up with my parents telling me not to use my real name anywhere online, let alone put it in a public database; maybe the problem is that I wanted a domain as a teenager and now it weirds me out?). Using privacy options means my paid-for domain is now not legally mine and I can't make use of any dispute procedure because the registry organisation has nothing in place for when my real name is not tracked in their database.
> Have you clicked on try now?

That is hilarious.

Apple has become the very thing they criticized, or even worse. Microsoft had nagged me twice (one notification, one "try Edge" when switching to FF) about Edge.
Unfortunately you can't open iCal calendars in the Outlook clients anymore.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/calend...
To clarify the above post: with books, novels were probably meant specifically. Books that only served entertainment purposes.
"When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves."
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992
To be fair to the Democrats, though they rarely deserve it, Trump did attempt to overturn the election and has actively worked to create doubt about the results. Sure they made claims, but their claims have been proven correct as time has passed.
That’s a little too extreme. They should just suspend the developer of Safari from posting to the App Store until Safari follows the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. If you treat it like every other app, then it’s all fair.
I can describe my own objection to international travel to restrictive countries:

Australia was a model for success, until a cab driver in Sydney contracted the delta variant. Much of the country is now in total lockdown, while the army patrols Sydney streets and daily COVID cases continue to rise exponentially, far exceeding any previous COVID outbreak in Australia. There is no ten billion dollar program to develop vaccines for new variants, no path to eradication, and no way out of the continuing crisis except to ignore it. Therefore, I expect that this situation of mandatory quarantines, mandatory vaccination proof, mandatory negative test result proof, and multiple new-variant outbreaks and lockdowns annually will continue until politically untenable, and I conclude that countries instituting hard lockdowns are not places where I want to live or travel, until they eventually reform.
Ok, so can you show that directly plundered/stolen wealth actually helped much?

Setting up trading posts and controlling the beginnings of truly international trade over 200-300 years ago... I would think that would set a country up well moving forward, and somebody eventually had to do it. British were one of the first.
This reminds me of the "Do Not Disturb while Driving" notification, where, despite not ever planning to use the feature, I had to turn it on, then off, to get the notification to stop showing up.
Some of the things Xi is doing is making me happy.

I'm with him on this, gambling, and even flapping a few billionaire's egos/finances.
Actually, Pascal has slices

They are just so obscure, I forgot about them and no one uses them. No users, no problems

They are not part of the normal type system. You cannot declare a variable of a type slice. Nor a field. But when a parameter of a function is an (open) array, you can call the function with a slice of an existing array

That avoids most problems

The backing array exists when the function is called, and the function cannot store the slice, so the slice cannot outlive the array. It is like the function borrows the array. Only problem is if the function gets another reference to the array, through a global variable or something, and resizes it
No, there are not. Intel services are abusing their power and will continue to do so.
Because it shows that the trademark was rejected.
That's mine main contention.

PFOF price improvement might be hundredths of a cent (per-share) off of a 3-cent lit spread. But, if PFOF were banned and all that volume were lit instead, the lit spread might actually be 2 cents, so you'd be saving $0.005 in this universe compared to the one we live in.
Well I'm rooting for them, battery density has kind of stalled at a chemistry level it seems, I haven't seen as many exciting announcements like there were in 2020.
This is a good point: the number of such incidents is so low the cost (including social resistance) doesn't make it worth it.

I would like it because I mostly sleep on the plane. Also I take a lot of transoceanic flights (or did pre covid) which seem to have more turbulence than transcontinental ones (perhaps less discretion for rerouting, especially ETOPS flights?).

I miss the back-facing seats which I always chose when I had the option, as they are much safer (except for the risk of flying debris).
Is it just me or did this not age entirely well? I really appreciate Joel’s writings, but in a kind of very specific way .Net did actually turn out to be the big deal it set out to be, along with Java. Modern spreadsheets are just message-passing machines, and somehow Messaging companies are gigantically valuable. Yes, astronauts are expensive, perhaps overcelebrated and often wrong… but somebody has to do it right!? I for one am glad we’re not still emailing Master-Spreadsheet-FINAL(1)(1).xls back and forth to get things done. I rather like millennials like Ryan Dahl that saw the potential for Javascript to be more than a browser scripting language. I may have even been something of an astronaut myself (an “idea man”… my team would jeer)- but I’ve come down to the earth and dig my hoe into the soil these days. I think we’re better off with some good astronauts out there, at least sparingly.
I hope that you will be able to export your Pulp game to be played in a web browser, like PICO-8. If this framework will require the physical hardware it will unfortunately be relegated to a tiny niche.
Yeah I'm currently on a free trial of startup plan :)

Dunno what I'm gonna do next. Interested in becoming an angel? :D
Back in the 1990s, the video game company I worked at would hang a couple of extra void pointers in every class just to, you know, store extra things that are needed as time goes on…
> They also allied with them

As your own link states, this wasn't an alliance. Also if you read the "background" section of the article, you'll see that they very much saw Nazi Germany has a major threat and wanted to contains them early by allying France and Britain.

But France and particularly Britain instead prefered trying to appease Germany until the last minute with the results we know.

The non-agression pact might seem cynical from the west point of view, but if you put yourself in the soviet shoes for a second, it was a logical move.

As for your second link it's really not very assertive, most of the claims made early after the war were rebutted by historians later on.
The Capstan Equation
>I've read about studies that say that musical training (which is often believed to translate to improvements in other cognitive aspects of life) doesn't actually correlate to said improvements, and I suspect that the same might be true for games (e.g. solving game puzzles doesn't necessarily mean you get better at school math or whatever)

Lots of unchecked assumptions. I'm only taking issue with the music assumption. Do you have a counter to the studies you have read?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180326140244.h...
Regardless of orientation they have four point. As I noted in a different comment, I miss the rear facing seats; I used to choose them by preference and on trains or other vehicles with rear facing seats I always select them.
This is from February and inactive now. The top post calling apple out for violating their own guidelines is gold though, even though that's obviously meaningless
This version of the dark pattern is specific to Safari, but both Microsoft and Apple have been doing this ~forever with their operating systems' respective "learn about what's new in [OS version]" notifications. Microsoft in particular has been doing this since at least XP. (Source: installing XP thousands of times at a computer recycler as a teenager.) Heck, Ubuntu has even done a few of these from time to time—for a while there was one for Ubuntu One.

In all cases, the way to get rid of these kinds of out-of-box-experience pop-ups is to assent to them, then immediately close whatever presentation window gets opened. The OS here is like a bureaucrat covering its ass—it doesn't actually record whether you fully watch the presentation, it just needs to put a checkmark beside "got the user to open the OOBE presentation" and then stops caring.

Not to say any of this is acceptable, but it's been "a thing" for a long time now, and we should really be looking at the how-and-why of the larger dark pattern here, rather than just this specific implementation.
> This is not an "industry-standard" way to program in C++.

It absolutely is a de facto industry standard way to program C++, and has a name: PIMPL (Pointer to IMPLementation). It has that name, because it's famous.

It's probably less fashionable in newer code bases; probably someone whose head is up in C++20 will probably scoff at this, and certainly at any version where the secret is hidden by void *.

It provides a good way to wrap C API's in C++.

And, speaking of that, the technique is basically the spiritual equivalent of what happens in many a FFI module in languages other than C++ too, where some C handle is represented as an opaque foreign pointer, which is wrapped in some object native to the language.
Doesn't Apple review its own apps to ensure they follow the appstore guidelines?
"Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else."
I'm not saying short lenses are necessarily bad, btw. I just think it's interesting that smartphones have had this effect.
Oh yeah, it totally happened in the us, just recently. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-shot...
Statistical speaking, areas with higher rates of blacks have higher violent crime rates so it is possible cops are patrolling the black areas at a higher rate. This would lead to increased police which would lead to increased harassment just because there are more cops.
Wouldn't a private window achieve the same?
There's no need for mental gymnastics, it's a lot easier to simply argue that educational games are educational. But this doesn't contradict what I said: that most games are not structured in terms of didactic value.

I do, however, want to specifically call out the learning value of an R-rated game: if you are learning to read from it, that says absolutely nothing about age-appropriate didactic value of the game. At that level, the game ought to be making you solve quadratic equations or something along those lines for us to even begin entertaining the idea that they may provide any actual didactic value.
I don't really understand the place of panics. It's not really up to a function to determine whether its error is unrecoverable (especially in the case of a library), it's up to the caller. And an unhandled Exception is, practically speaking, a panic. So it seems to me that Exception covers both use cases.
I didn't realize you did it as a learning exercise, and in my comment I endorsed doing it as a learning exercise, so we are on the same page

I think everybody should do one as a learning exercise, thumbs up.

but I also think everybody should learn to use pointers in C, but I don't want to read about it every time. The important thing about implementing a Lisp (do it as a metacircular evaluator) is the simplicity exposes some deep truth about the language. But the simplistic Lisp expressions that you can then type into it are not interesting Lisp, except to the implementor.
I wrote my own duplicate file finder way back in the days.

I did the obvious trick of binning by size before trying to compute any hashes, and was mildly surprised to find how few out of my ~million files had exactly the same size.

For multiple files with identical size I just did the full file MD5, we only had HDD's back then and we all know how much they like random access.
Well what counts as a trip? Surely a trip down the street to a Bodega would be safer than flying across an ocean.
I'm almost certain the parent is not an AI. Perhaps it's just that I have no idea what they are talking about.
Shanidar Cave
or maybe it's because most people are not using tor browser and do not vote for links they can't open
Far from snark, this certainly seems to reinforce the point. We have two levels of response, where one level is called in for more dire circumstances (life or death) and correspondingly has equipment capable of handling a worse situation.
What do you actually know about China's governance and democracy? How do you know your flavor of democracy is really better than everyone elses?

Chinese people actually like their government, and no they are not brainwashed.
Did the article switch the dodecahedron and icosahedron? It specified that the icosahedron is optimal for 12 points and the dodecahedron for 20 which seems backwards to me.
For .ca in Canada, which is administered by CIRA which is a non-profit corporation, the following is the policy:

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When doing a WHOIS lookup, you can find details such as:

Status (i.e. if a domain is currently available or registered)

The creation, expiry, and updated dates

Registrar information

Registrant information*

Administrative, Technical and Billing Contacts*

*The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of non-individual registrants, such as corporations, is displayed by default. The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of individuals, such as Canadian citizens or permanent residents is not displayed in WHOIS per the CIRA Privacy Policy. Generally non-individuals are public and individuals are private.

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* https://www.cira.ca/ca-domains/whois
You do realize the article is referencing the linked EFF comparison?

https://www.eff.org/files/2017/08/02/domain_registry_whitepa...

Then only the TLDs are listed which "only avenue for domain takedown is through a local court, rather than through an arbitrator order or trusted notifier".

Additionally countries that are part of the 5 eyes, 9 eyes or 15 eyes, see picture at the top of the article, are out, too.

For the EU part, I think it has to do with the EU tendency of surveillance laws. On the one hand the EU claims privacy and security as a main goal and the other hand they try to backdoor E2E encrypted messengers.
I don't think even Alan Turing himself ever envisioned this.
Interesting; this was the position they had us all adopt.

They also moved the "old"* people in the exit rows and asked a couple of us young men to take their places. Back then there was no pre-questioning to see if you're willing and able to open the exit windows. Interestingly, they gave us special instruction which was: "Don't open the window unless I [flight attendant] am disabled. I might not be opening it for a reason."

* probably around the age I am now, or younger, and I don't feel old. But I am a lot fitter today than people my age tended to be 30 years ago.
I still refer to the nav screen in the car as a minimap. Using it feels completely native.

Unlike some games however I can't drive using only the minimap...
It is to save time by not reading the whole file for files larger than `thresholdFileSize`. The code calls it fuzzy hash.

The author says that they tested it on 172K+ files and it's safe, but I still wouldn't trust it enough to delete files from my filesystem.
I don’t mean this to disagree, it’s a genuine question: to what degree can one really conduct a public poll about the relative merit of the Chinese government within China? In the US, there’s no credible argument (or at least no widespread belief) that saying bad things about the government to a pollster will get you incarcerated; as an outsider, I don’t know that the same is true in China.
The system is absolutely stacked against everyone but those with money. Janitors can start their own business? With what capital?

> But by and large people aren't complaining because their life sucks, they're complaining because someone has more than them.

They are complaining because life sucks. Housing, healthcare and education are either unobtainable or will sink most people into a life of debt. That’s not complaining because someone has more than you. That’s asking for the bare necessities to not take a lifetime of labor to pay off.
It should be rewritten using APFS and some kind of APFS version of `ZFS send`

More likely is Apple launches a Mac cloud backup service because they are all about services revenue these days, not helping you do things locally.
I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing. Way more non deadly police are a good thing in my opinion.
They won’t. They’ll be mentoring other juniors and then onto management long before then.
There's a schism obviously; some practices are obviously abusive and should be stamped out. Interviewing is a two-way process though; I would much rather someone employed such a tactic in the interview because then I could not accept the job instead of showing up and realising how bad it is.

At some point it turns out that you have to do things you don't want to no matter what you do. That's the nature of our interconnected reality.
A large part of how you experience something is the context though. If people tell you something is great before showing then you are more likely to find something great about it, etc. So with that reasoning a large part of art is just telling people that it is art, it isn't the work itself but the belief that it is art that creates the art.
What other languages would you like to see (besides Japanese)? (Genuinely curious)
Final Episode Feat. The Dream Machine (Stripe Press)
Final episode feat. The Dream Machine (Stripe Press) is live. Covers JCR Licklider, ARPA, Xerox PARX, TCP/IP, and lots more: https://luminary.fm/episode/mitch-waldrop-on-the-dream-machi...
> PIVOT

The postgres dialect has it IIRC.
The highest paid pianists in the world make roughly the same as the highest paid esports players. Both groups are exceptionally talented and driven multi-multi-millionaires with massive fan bases. These things can be attractive to some people, even if the source of the attributes is videogames over piano.
You do have control over them because, indeed, you have the private keys (and the NSA too, reminds me of the Facebook setting "only me+NSA" (only three quarters joking)). You want to run v2 domains? Go ahead, but the people that want to visit your legacy addresses must use the legacy software. It seems like an inherent risk with software-controlled domains that the (old) software (version) might not be used anymore.
One of the most interesting things about China related discussions is the flood of people who will arrive and post points/arguments with various levels of false equivalency with "western" law/practise/etc. _Not_ that you are doing that, maybe, but thats one of the challenges in these conversations, who is being genuine and who is not?

China _is_ authoritarian, denying that is ridiculous. The CCP creates laws that individually or in part can benefit its populace, but are often or solely pro cadre or their personal interests.

That democracies have corruption or vested interests (whether "positively" motivated or not) influencing laws does not make the process or the results equivalent.
With the previous macOS versions I had similar difficulties trying to get rid of the notification popup offering a “quick tour” of the OS after an update. In Big Sur the only persistently annoying popup is the one that appears for not gracefully unplugging external storage. It gets triggered by a power outage and it haunts me for days or weeks and then it randomly goes away. Pretty annoying.