skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > The France 10Y Government Bond has a -0.082% yield.

> (Germany is -0.433% and the US is 1.289% for 10Y)

To put this into context: The Euro/ECB's interest rate is -0.50% and the USD/FED's interest rate is 0.25%
This is not about technical quality. They just don't look or have anything interesting in them.
Also got the Album splitting with one Album from Genesis. On top of that, Apple Music deletes tracks from my library, claiming it has no license - but those tracks were ripped from CD, no idea how I could get them back, I do still have the original files on my Mac.
Isn't that just declining the call? It'll only go to voicemail if you let it ring out?
Why does it take longer to QA their work? Do you not QA "the good developers" work? Why does their work need to be fixed and re-fixed? Do you not have a test suite?
I can take a look at it. How do I contact you?
My doctor's surgery is a literal unknown caller, they don't send any caller ID at all.
Here in Ecuador most of my immediate friends and family have moved to sharing photos and videos in private whatsapp groups.

So they've moved away from Facebook the product, but not Facebook the company.
I always used to turn my phone completely off since the early 1990s. Now I only have one because some financial institutions require me to have a mobile phone, otherwise, I would not own any sort of phone. Phone calls bug me. Texts bug me. Emails bug me. I keep my phone in a Faraday bag, leave it buried way down in a desk drawer. I never see it. It's in the Faraday bag so that no signals go in or out. On the very rare occasions that I MUST use it for those financial institutions, I bring it out for a minute or two to get the pass code. I have to spend $180 per year on something that I use maybe 5 minutes per year.

Everything else I do on my VOIP. So I only check stuff out very rarely. People can leave me voice mail and texts there. And just send my email to my desktop, too.

And, no way am I going to allow Google and every other company they sell my information to let them know where exactly I am every minute of the day. That's just gross. I know I can't be 100% private these days, but I do what I can.
Bad law, this basically kills the online gaming hobby for people under 18. I think there is a lot of value in online multiplayer games, personally. People aren't robots, they need a way to relax, and I find it an amazing way to have a bit of competition in my life when I struggle to fit in anything else.

I watched an interview with David Harbor and he made a really amazing point. ( David is an avid poker player ): D&D is a lot like poker, in that it doesn't get REALLY good until you've been doing it so long that you get the feeling you should REALLY be doing something else.

I feel the same way about gaming. I play a lot less anymore, and that is because the way to play a game is to dive in and really immerse yourself in it for a few hours straight.

Hell, you can't even get warmed UP in an online FPS game in under an hour.
I just signed up and started listening, for free, no problem. So I don't think new signups are off the table. At least, they weren't two hours ago.
Most people who fall for spam and scams are vulnerable. Its better to be mad at people who make money preying on people with dementia, or by threatening scared people ("Hello I'm from the IRS.."), than it is to be mad at the people who get tricked.
Yes, it is better to observe then implement. But travelling is currently not an option.
I was hoping to read an article about free range goats but instead it's about programming languages. On Hacker News, of all places.
> If a 4 year CS degree isn't enough, then people who do this have no idea what they are doing.

I’ve interviewed many people with 4 year CS degrees who can’t really code. I’m not sure how this happens, but it definitely does. I disagree that having a CS degree should excuse candidates from coding interviews.
4400 dead on D-Day, total casualties, much fewer than in outright failures such market garden.

Whilst without D-Day the allies would still have likely won but it quite likely would’ve involved nuking Berlin and far more massive air raids an German occupied Europe.
To justify any arbitrary regulation imposed on children.

No child owns his own life or decision making. Typically parents make most decisions, the government makes some others e.g. mandatory schooling, setting standards that parents most abide by if they don't want their children taken away from them (sufficient food and shelter etc.).
> validity of software licenses to be enforced under French copyright law.

Neither does the US (as far as I know)

What happens in the us is that a termination clause in the GPL contract leads to a termination of the contract and only then you can sue for copyright violations.

So my guess is that the difference of law or the interpretation/application of it lies in how/when the termination applies.

> cannot be enforced in similar jurisdictions

They still can be enforced it's just based on a different legal basis, which in general is much less costly for the offender and might lead to less "damage payment" for the offended.
It is probably an evolved trait. Imagine a scenario in which we had 100% adoption of a choice and the choice killed the population.
Contrarians keep the species alive and sometimes they die and sometimes they don't.

Some people don't want blankets, Syphilis (multiple times to multiple groups Guatemala and Tuskegee)), or other government help.

Is the vaccine one of those? Probably not, but I can understand the skeptical faction.
Each case should be judged according to the specific circumstances, I am just saying that in general men and women are different and in some cases men will not see certain situations as abuse unlike women. There is no point pretending otherwise unless people are caring more about advancing some agenda rather than actually solving the issue of rape in men's jails.
Given the targets are Iran and Belarus, I’d guess the “hacktivists” are US State Department contractors.
The website says “will be taken offline beginning September 7”, so I guess you can enjoy your 1 week free run?
When I worked at SpaceX I had one of the saddest comp packages I've ever had in a long career. I left for a competitor and got 35% more just walking in the door, plus I don't have to deal with an inhumane company culture. I honestly don't know what Elon is going to do when he runs out of people to chew up and spit out.
nah, its was pretty clear racism. he was well dressed and had absolutely nothing suspicious about him(he even carried a diplomatic passport) the only thing different about him or I was his skin color and i walked through that same area many times, all hours of the day, wasted, and never once got stopped.
I recommend that you try webp instead of gifs. they will probably look better.
recently interviewed with Robinhood. Their phone screen started with a system design interview, but man I felt so uncomfortable using the tool that they had shared. The interviewer created a text box in the tool and copy pasted a multi paragraph question. The font sizes were little too big, I had to constantly scroll up and down to read the question. After brief introductions, giving previous work/project summary, understanding the question, stating and clarifying my assumptions, writing down product requirements, identifying tech stack, I was already 25 minutes in for 50 minutes interview and from there on I was told to speed up and within the next 20 minutes, I was asked to make it scale, fault tolerant and all this even before I could properly illustrate and communicate my design. It was very confusing to be constantly switching between different design paradigms before being able to explain one. As expected I didn't clear it but at the very least the recruiter later did follow up and I communicated my feedback on the interview. Hopefully they take these feedback and make the interview process better.
It's right under the paragraph about the "plandid," and it seems to be a perfect example of that, though the caption makes it ambiguous re: intent.
> It shows me that the simplistic method of "advertise to people who have already bought our product" performs vastly better than any of the other sophisticated targeting that advertisers like to tout.

Well, yes, it performs better, but only to people who have already bought the product. It's not surprising that this would perform better than whatever sophisticated ML-based targeting system they use over the general population.

> If a large proportion of those ads are retargeted that means the market has decided that the vast majority of advertisers are less confident about their targeting systems then they are about a simplistic, vaguely annoying heuristic.

Again, this isn't surprising, and I don't think it leads to the conclusion you're making. I think you're getting tripped up because you're not considering the denominator here. There's nothing odd about the fact that a single ad impression shown to a recent purchaser of your product would perform better than a single ad impression shown to someone who has never heard of your product (but perhaps is targeted using something more sophisticated based on their Internet traffic). It's also not odd that the ad publisher would pay a lot more for the former impression than the latter impression (and thus recent purchasers would see a lot of the former type). What's important to note is that the ad publisher is most likely showing orders of magnitude more impressions of the latter type than of the former.
Now, the nice thing about the TOEFL score is its reputation: When you are going to study into a University (from Oxford to Liverpool, from Harvard to Queensland), if you are not a native English speaker, the university asks you to take a TOEFL (or equivalent) and get a score higher than X. As long as you provide that score, the university won't ask any questions. They don't doubt your English proficiency skills.

They should. My university had a minimum TOEFL score requirement. The number of grad students who passed that requirement, but then couldn't write a coherent English sentence to save their lives was still incredibly high.
I'd really like to have a proper answering machine for mobile: where the caller is audible whilst leaving the message, so I can choose whether to pick up (unlike voicemail). Audible calls would be fine at home; on the go it could be limited to a headset.

I've looked into this before, and even hacked around a little with the freesmartphone.org stack back in the day. I've switched from OpenMoko to PinePhone since then, and haven't taken a proper look at its telephony stack yet.

From Googling around, it appears that there were a few Symbian apps for this; and that Android's permission model doesn't allow any app to automatically answer calls or access their audio.

PS: Based on the number of siblings talking about spam/scams, it sounds like that's a real problem in the US. Thankfully I've never had a problem with that on my UK mobile, despite having the same number for 22 years.
Phone calls require real time audio processing I’m extremely bad at. No matter what I do, my brain won’t stay focused on a call and I constantly miss words and sometimes entire sentences.

Video calls are usually better because I can lip-read to some degree. I miss less. Text is the best, because I can re-read something that didn’t process correctly.
The minimum required amount of power to them.
> Game text is usually not structured with any didactic value in mind (other than maybe appropriate usage of furigana in Japanese in consideration of target audiences). A lot of game categories don't even require any reading beyond recognizing words (which is somewhere between kinder and 1st grade level reading skill)

> Also, even in games where text actually matters, you're typically spending a large amount of time doing other things (killing monster or whatever). In addition, the notion of games-as-reading-material ignores a fairly common phenomenon: a lot of people simply spam `A` to skip over dialogues - and even get stuck on one-off gimmicks that rely on reading the text carefully for instructions or clues.

This is a consequence of modern gaming trends and by no means an issue with video games themselves.

There are a lot of game categories that provide or even require extensive reading. We don't have to accept _all_ games a beneficial; it's not like we use magazines and tabloids to teach reading comprehension either.

There are games where killing monsters isn't the primary goal, or even if it is a significant aspect of game play can be averted by finding alternative solutions, usually through the in-game lore.

Deus Ex was a great example where several bosses could be entirely side stepped by reading emails throughout the game (though to be fair, only a few of them actually required _reading_ the email as opposed to simply discovering it). Arcanum is another that if you pieced together enough of the backstory and paid attention to the dialog you could talk the final boss down. There are even more out there, as you mention, that offer hints to puzzles and gimmicks, some of which even present it as a riddle ensuring you read and understand the text rather than just found it.

Sure, a lot of people will skip these things and save-scum or post on message boards to get the answer, but that's not much different than CliffNotes everyone used.

If you want to use video games in school do the same thing we do for books: Select the games the offer quality reading and evaluate based on comprehension rather than completion. You can even require students submit save files to verify they took the reading path.
Given the delay on basic and simple features between WWDC and iOS releases; I find it hard to believe they’ll launch a completely new music experience app in 6 months.
I really wish there were a PKI system for this stuff.

I.e., my phone has a set of public keys, and it will only ring if someone with a valid private key calls me.

If I want someone to be able to call me, I generate a new key pair and provide them with the private key. If anything sketchy starts happening, I forget that public key.

Or, perhaps more practically, use something like asterisk to prompt them for an extension when calling me. My extensions are 10 digit numbers, and I whenever I give my phone number to someone, the number includes a unique, hard-to-guess extension.
Phone calls are super rude. You demand that somebody else drop whatever they are doing and answer you right now. On top of that, if the person you are calling is with somebody, not only do you interrupt the person you are calling, but you interrupt all the people that person is with.

I mean I still use them because sometimes it is the easist way to accomplish something, but no wonder people are putting their phones on mute.
One thing that we're trying to hit is the actual quality of the generated questions/answers; there's an immense amount of variance in internet content at large and it's difficult to ensure high-quality content without some kind of supervised QA (aside from some kind of hyperparam grid search). We were able to achieve some control over quality through rule-based heuristic filters on our generated questions, but we're trying to make this more robust.
What if I also do networking on my computer? Will my monitoring solution magically do packet manipulation without my input?

eBPF is not just for monitoring.
The example is strange and contrived. I couldn't torture the logic enough to demonstrate how readability breaks down with exceptions. Reading through the comments, I realise that even if the code is unreadable with exceptions, it can be rewritten to be readable.
I updated the article to highlight not only readability, but also compositionality. I also tried to draw parallels with Promises (which are also monadic).
I tried to target the article to intermediate programmers that may not already know most of the concerns raised in the comments, and I surely can't cover enough space on error handling without writing a book.

Thank you for the comments. I've learned more from reading the comments.
Its spoofable, right? I think thats the current problem, you can't really trust caller id to be accurate.
Many years ago I was a huge fan of Music Brainz. I found a mis-named album info one time, submitted a request with changes to correct them, was rejected out of hand for an innocuous reason, and never went back. Which is too bad. As an idea and as a model, I love it. But you need the right culture/tool as well.
> Addictive time-wasters are an aid to authoritarian government.

They're an aid to control; however, the government has interests apart from control. If the government feels that it has sufficient control, but worries about economic output, it may prioritize economics over control. Ultimately government needs to achieve both.
That last point is what gets me. I very much want my org-agenda to be linked to the calendar app on my phone. No easy way to do this, so far.
Old guard. VLM is in the right. As a kid i was a terror. Killowatts of power. Irressistable! But we decided, ricky and i, to stick to fm. I do not believe we were loved.
Choosing a Docker base image for your Python application
do people really just text their families instead of talking on the phone?
My doctor's office, and their whole medical network, uses MyChart. All appointments, appointment updates, notices, lab results, prescription refill requests, etc. are handled via MyChart. The doctor's office never calls.
How did õ affect SMS? Count as multiple characters?
My father spent a chunk of the war in the Pacific with the New Zealand forces.

The Americans had a pattern: bombardment, storm beaches, fight fight fight....

The New Zealand forces used this to their advantage. When they had to take an Island they would row ashore in the night with some howitzers, sneak up the beech. They knew where their enemy camped, relative to the beech, where they were waiting for teh naval bombardment to start, then stop, whence they planned to go down to the beech and machine gun the American troops coming ashore.

The New Zealand forces would already be ashore, dug in, and wake their enemy up with howitzers from the shore based dug in positions.

All his life he had a contempt for American culture based on that experience. "They depend so much on technology" he would say.

Yes. They (the Americans) had a lot of experience. But they were not the best.
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Didn’t this exist with the PE designation in software engineering in the US?

https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/may-2018/ncees-en...
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I don't think I can explain to you by showing an example. Also, I type this on a phone and don't have access to my collection.

A good photo looks interesting or has something interesting in it or comes with some interesting context.

These are more or less random photos taken with a bad camera. That's it.

Now, I don't say you need good camera for good photos. You can make interesting photos with any camera. And you can also use bad camera for interesting effect.

But, again, these photos don't show any kind of plan, thought, deliberation, interesting subject, context, technique, nothing.
Reminds me of how too long ago they ended up hiring someone with a very controversial background, and quickly backpedaled on the decision. Seems like they need to take a long look at their hiring practices
I mostly use it for family that is on there. The "feed" is horrible, filled with ads and timely things always appear out of order. Stuff from neighborhood sometimes shows something from 3 days after something occurred higher than something today.
France is not the EU.

France law applies in France, not any other EU country.

Rulings likely would have been very different in many of the other EU countries.
Well, what's next? Foreboding accuracy!?
There are some content regulations so transmitting "in the clear" for all to read is generally demanded by the .gov.

Groundwave HF paths technologically don't have much of a symbol rate limit. You could talk from ND to SD using a quite fast symbol rate as long as its a groundwave path under 25 miles or so. There are limits, but they're huge.

Skywave "ionosphere bounce" paths have massive multipath issues although slow enough symbol rates can make it thru without too much intersymbol interference. These paths are worldwide.

Even with existing limits, its quite trivial to transmit a modulation that has too fast of a symbol rate for skywave / international paths.

I guess I'm just pointing out the existing rate limits are "too high" often for international communication. You could turn 10M into some kind of short range local wifi I suppose, but all anyone more than a hundred miles away would hear would be noise / interference due to intersymbol interference and multipath.

Supposedly, in my grandpa's day, the government regulated modulation method to a precise detailed level so if you're only allowed to transmit 45 baud ITU2 encoded rtty FSK, specifying a dozen of one or 12 of another is the same thing, just depends how you say it. Then they removed detailed mode regulation "do what you want, grandfathering in existing users".

Regulation can take awhile to change with the times. Again, supposedly in my grandpa's day, wattmeters were not accurate enough to be useful so the government regulated DC input power because voltmeters and ammeters are accurate enough for a ballpark guess. See also peak power vs "peak envelope power" aka PEP measurements for analog single sideband voice. So bringing it back around, at one point symbol rate was a reasonable proxy for old fashioned rtty fsk bandwidth regulation.
It's such a nuisance in choral music as well. There are about 1 million canticles, by hundreds of composers, to hundreds of settings, sung by hundreds of choirs, scattered across hundreds of albums. Good luck finding anything even slightly off the beaten path.
It'd be a fantastic story if this lead to Chinese kids who are interested in gaming developing hacking & programming skills to get around the limits.
In my experience, declining the call sends it straight to voicemail.
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It's a PR outlet & HR funnel for Paul Graham's startup mill. What did you expect?

(I'm banned btw)
There is a way to download a copy of all iCloud photos as a zip files.

https://privacy.apple.com/account
I don't think it's over, yet. Avgas is still very much in use.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
Network. Then network some more.

Talk to people, find out what their problems are, what their opportunities are and what they need to follow those opportunities.

The upside of this is you will quickly validate an idea AND when you go to market, you will have a large network of potential partners and customers.
The issue is, if you have a local area code, you get spam calls from adjacent numbers all the time. I have a Seattle area code due to living there many years ago. I don’t know anyone in Seattle, so spam is immediately identifiable.
I don't think it's bullshit. I think Navy Admiral William F. Halsey did say those things.

"The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment. . . . It was a mistake to ever drop it. . . . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it. . . . It killed a lot of Japs, but the Japs had put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before."[1]

Those are the facts... GP made nothing up.

OTOH - the Cold War should be ample evidence of the West's distrust of Stalin and USSR generally. I think it's entirely plausible the motivation to drop the bomb included Soviet deterrence.

[1] http://www.doug-long.com/ga1.htm