skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you point at the line before his statement that says “GitHub does a lot of things well…”, and say that you use the tool that best fits your development process, which is GitHub. The kernel uses a different development process which requires all of the information about a change to come from the commit message, making GitHub’s merge messages which rely on having access to other tools besides Git useless.
Somebody in this discussion pointed to nice library that might do what you want: https://propjockey.github.io/css-media-vars/
Which just blows my mind. At a total US development aid of $34 billion in 2019, China is the only country that even comes close. The US's giving in the last fifty years (including massive sums to China) has been unparalleled in recorded history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_countr...

Of course, that's just development aid. US blows away all other countries in humanitarian aid too: https://www.statista.com/statistics/275597/largers-donor-cou...
If you admit that, the issue becomes actual reality, not authoritarianism per se, and the comparison between the US and China becomes very uncomfortable when democracy is no longer a crutch.
> or example, a home NAS system that may currently only be using a small portion of it's capacity. People can then slowly fill that space overtime and potentially make some money from their unused space.

using my spare disks like this does not make sense when it apparently burns them out very quickly. i doubt i would recoup even the cost of a new drive
How to Explain Blockchain to a Poet
> I would take a 'great all around dev.' any day over someone I knew to be very knowledgeable about TS

Well that's what I don't think you get much in a tech test.

Not many tech tests probe your ability to understand business requirements, nail the acceptance criteria, work with others to develop test cases, or even demonstrate ability to integrate with other services.

Those sorts of skills are what set experienced devs apart from bootcamp graduates IMO. And those sort of skills are easier to talk about than to demonstrate in a single time limited test.
This is a very narrow view of the problem at hand. Let me show you another narrow view that illustrates why it's not enough:

- How many governments has the US toppled in an undemocratic process ?

- How many governments has China toppled in an undemocratic process ?

We could go on and on about this, to make a clear opinion on the subject requires far more than a single question.
That doesn't disagree with anything I said. Being careful in scientific inquiry is fine; saying, "we shouldn't research X at all, because maybe the knowledge would be used badly" is not.

If there were only possible negatives, it might be more understandable, but of course that's not true. Learning more about how genetics affect behavior could, for example, lead to better treatments for behavioral disorders.
The amount of commenting by people who have (proudly?) never used Tiktok in this thread is staggering.
Maybe, just maybe the measure of "growth" is wrong.

What a load of bullshit.
There's been this growing stance to ban international tourism. It's been popping up more often since I saw it for the first time a couple years ago.

I don't believe we're too far away from it being one of the next hate taxes to be passed anyways, unfortunately.
> Militarily, the US is allied with most EU powers (including France)

Wouldn’t this be an argument for preferring TikTok over YouTube?

There is literally nothing China can do to me as long as I stay firmly in the West. On the other hand, I could very well be sold out by Google to the US government, which could easily have me extradited from the EU.
The afghani could split into two
Somewhat relevant:

Predictions by HN from 2010 on the upcoming decade - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

Predictions by HN from 2020 on the upcoming decade - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278
If the news were that Linus was ferret-lover, no one would care. But Linus knows a thing or two about managing the Git workflow of a pretty large project, and he created Git, so I'd give him some (a lot of) credit.
Without declared wars... I don't think majority of countries have done that ones... Unless they were imperialist ones...
I doubt she was ever offered $1 million. And if this is the case it was likely at some weird conditions. Like the NFTs much reach a certain floor price.
Both generations of magsafe adapters were by far superior to USB-C. I feel like both ends are pretty fragile now.
Here's some food for thought on "further study":

* What percentage of your students hate math?

* How do you differentiate between someone who doesn't get it because it's beyond their mental skill level versus someone who doesn't get it because they'd rather be doing literally anything else?

* When you say "mentally disabled", what exactly does that mean in the context of a spectrum of ability levels across the species?

* There are a lot of reasons people might fail your class. What are they? What's the percentage breakdown?

* What are the dangers of thinking that not all people can learn math? What are the dangers of not thinking that?
As far as I can tell, Electron is the only cross-platform UI toolkit where it's even possible to get accessibility right on every OS.

At least for me, the story quite simply ends there. No, it's not the GUI toolkit I wish I had, but, if the goal is to develop for the 21st century, then I think that being accessible is the ethical choice. And, given the current tech landscape, that goal is satisfied by three options: Electron, developing three different native desktop GUIs, or deciding not to support less popular platforms.
Show me one exploit in the wild that you would download from Google Play or be affected by using an updated Google Chrome from the Play Store.

Just because security updates stop doesn't mean your device is immediately insecure and cannot be safely used.

The majority of the phone's actual updates come through Google Play Services.

Meanwhile, I can show you an exploit in the wild that affects virtually all iOS devices even though they're regularly patched up: Jailbreak methods and iMessage zero clicks.
It's clear to me that this belief has wormed its way into your identity somehow, and you're unable to discuss it in a detached and curious way. I'm sad for you that such is the case, but I am now more empathetic towards your colleagues who have to deal with your false assertion that some people are too stupid to learn the math you teach.

Also not for nothing, but "retarded" hasn't been a medical term for some time now, with institutions such as the AMA and SSA both replacing the term with "intellectual disability". The only remaining reasons you'd use it are either because you are thus uninformed, or you're signaling something...
Without commenting on the merits of your programming language, I'd like to give a bit of constructive advice on your presentation, which does matter a bit.

* Among other issues there are some spelling mistakes in your ReadMe. Proper nouns like Python, Swallow, and C should be capitalized. Sentences should end with a period.

* The example shouldn't be ultra-complex, but a small 5-10 line program to add an item to an array and print it out or something might display more about your language than a HelloWorld.

* A little better description of this could be useful for visitors. What kind of paradigm are you going for: is this object-oriented or functional? I can't tell from your ReadMe.

* I'd like to figure out why somebody would use this rather than something like say D or Rust or some other more established systems language that's a bit easier than some alternatives.

That said, props to you for making this and I wish you super well in this learning journey.
I dissent on the claim that medical personnel are least affected. Is there some subset you're envisioning? Do you somehow mean only particular kinds of affect?
I am not sure what "mentally disabled" means in this context.

I would be surprised that a psychiatrist would find it a useful term - in the same way that any doctor would not look at the paralympics and see only one illness / disability but dozens of conditions.

I am fairly certain there are Rain Man like people who can do algebra or calculus but would for most people sit under the term "disabled".

Perhaps it might be good for you to ask, "the people I see who can do algebra also can act in certain other ways, socially and mathematically. How much am I looking for people who can do maths, people who can do maths like I do, and people like me who can do maths"

Edit: yes I suspect I sit to the left of you, but the important takeaway here is not that some people are more "intelligent" than others (I agree for whatever definition we choose) but that raising the education level of all in society massively benefits us all. Oh and ranking peoples value in society based on intelligence is not a good idea. It's only just above ranking on physical disability, or your parents aristocratic connections.
What does that mean? The numbers show that a lot of companies are using Rust. Which numbers do you think make it seem niche?
I suspect as Dyson learned, Apple is also learning: it's not as easy as it looks.

Automotive is a hard game both in engineering and in building a reliable supply chain.

Tim Cook can definitely boast a track record when it comes to supply chain so they are in a _better_ place than Dyson at a guess.

here's an interesting thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/pgl51b/apple_reported...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs
Hummingbirds can smell their way out of danger
Look, there's a "valid medical descriptor" for grandpa who is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's disease, but this kind of thing is totally immaterial to people who are in school today. There's no way that they'd have that level of cognitive impairment. Saying that "some people just can't learn" so-called "advanced" math such as college algebra and calculus, or programming for that matter, is just pointless speculation with zero evidence to back it. Most likely they can, we just can't be assed to teach them effectively.
>I think the subtext is, "yet another scam perpetuated by the cryptocurrency community at large."

sounds like it's specifically the chinese crypto community
I believe for the most part the water is owned by the folks using it. Is there even a way for them to sell their water to a new city?
> There are also daunting challenges around long-term high-density human impacts upon the desert ecosystem, which serve important functions that are still not well-understood [1].

That's a rather odd way of framing it. For one thing, having higher density seems like a rather obvious environmental good, since it means less total natural area disrupted. If you refuse high density in some area, the people who would've lived there don't just disappear; they go live in some other area, probably lower density, in a way that hurts the environment even more.

And while there's obviously life in desert ecosystems, there's substantially less of it compared to most other ecosystems -- you could say the same thing you said of grasslands or forest or what have you, except it'd be much more true.
I think you're confusing induction versus synchronous reluctance permanent magnet motors with AC versus DC.

The motors Tesla uses are all AC, but you could also call them DC if you're referring to the whole motor/inverter assembly, which inputs DC from the battery.

DC motors aren't used much in EVs because the brushes require periodic maintenance and doing regenerative braking or running in reverse are both rather difficult whereas with a motor that runs off of 3-phase power, those features can be implemented in the software of the motor controller. They tend to be rather low efficiency, too. That said, there are some really powerful and cheap series wound DC motors that have been used to great effect in vehicles like the White Zombie.
It blows my mind how one of the most influential software engineers, creator of linux and git, is reduced to "just a famous person like Tom Cruise who constantly negative" as if he's actually enjoying it or worse, that we shouldn't take what he has to share into consideration because he's used to express his viewpoint.

Maybe Torvalds is just as positive as he is negative and the whole reason why you think that he's someone who's "unsurprisingly negative" is because that's the content that everyone is passing around. If this was just another of his normal comments you wouldn't even see it posted.
a bit more context for those that don't know the story (I didn't, and i'm into poker.)

( I don't know the info host nor their credibility, was just the top-most answer on google for 'Dan Bilzerian laundering')

https://easy.poker/dan-bilzerian/
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The single bit error in the discussion was intended to be an extreme example. Typically media errors involve entire media blocks. Often the blocks are missing entirely.

I have looked into this a bit and there doesn't seem to be any reason age could not have a recovery utility. It would involve some minor brute forcing to find the next block and block number. It could even skip any 64k block that failed the integrity check so that only authenticated data was recovered. That would be consistent with the general principle about not releasing unauthenticated data that age was created to enbody.
"By default, we do not keep any IP logs" is obvious to mean "We MAY keep IP logs"... I don't know how people read it as simply "We do not keep IP logs". It's on you if choose to use it and get busted doing something illegal with it. Protonmail is not or should not be a safehouse for criminals.
Re: one a day

By coincidence, earlier today I had the same idea. I was thinking about how so much of what you encounter in social media is biased towards people who post a lot.

In politics, for example, most people are relatively moderate. People who spend more time talking about politics are more likely to hold extreme positions. And people who spend the most time talking about politics are the ones who spend the least time evaluating their and others' positions. So the political social media is dominated by uneducated extremists with hot takes. (I admit this often includes myself, though I do try to put effort into my comments).

A possible solution to this would be reducing the amount of allowed posts per time, which would quiet the noise and give high-effort interactions a more level playing field. Of course, that sucks for engagement and interferes with topics like humor that benefit from low-effort contributions. I wonder if there's a client-side way to bias your feed towards people who post less frequently.
If you watch any of the multitude of “auditors” (people who record cops) you’ll have a better idea of how a lot of these adversarial interactions go.
I am not writing anything about small coding project vs cover letter. Tool that I used in my comment is comparison to show common traits of both ... like "white as snow".

Bad - small coding project will show that candidate is a bad coder, even if the code works.

Bad - cover letter will show that candidate has bad grammar, even if person put in the effort.

Good - small coding project will show that candidate can get anything done.

Good - cover letter will show that candidate is willing to put extra effort to get the job.
VS Code desperately needs an optional ability to have a toolbar with common commands, or to allow extension makers the ability to do so.

The complete disregard for normal Microsoft UX conventions is bothersome.
According to poker experts that I know, bots have long beat humans in multiplayer because they are better able to track what is happening with all players at the table.

After https://www.deepstack.ai/ beat no-limit heads up, poker bots simply became better than humans.
A more fresh job posting from Apple: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ou5szr/official_rrust...

Also: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=rust&sort=relevan...
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 Delta variant replication and immune evasion
I found a pretty interesting theory reading about Germany, since their property values are extremely stable:

'Local German officials, like local leaders everywhere, seek bigger budgets to provide more and better services to their constituents. What’s different about Germany is that the way to get bigger budgets is to increase local populations. And, as Professor Buettner says, “Ultimately, to get people, municipalities will need to support housing.”

The result is a system of incentives that is the opposite of “fiscal zoning”—the US practice of zoning land in ways that maximize local governments’ income and minimize their costs. In places with high sales taxes, such as Washington State, leaders zone more land for shopping centers. In places where residential property taxes are capped, such as California, they zone less land for homes and more for offices. In affluent suburbs, they often zone land for houses on large lots, excluding low-income people.

Maximizing property values is such a central concern of local government in the United States that Dartmouth economist William Fischel developed the notion into an entire political theory. His “homevoter hypothesis” holds that local governments are almost single-mindedly focused on maximizing real estate values, because homeowners typically vote their home values in local elections. German jurisdictions gain financially by maximizing population, not house values, and because renters outnumber homeowners in the country, homevoters are not the dominant electoral force in local German elections. Renters are.'

https://www.sightline.org/2021/05/27/yes-other-countries-do-...
Yeah. it isn't that just saying there is a difference between a 10 year old and a 19 year old

Edit: Actually, I think your premise is wrong. Children don't read words they don't understand "like muscle memory". The differences in meaning between, idk, betrothed, engaged, wedded and living in sin are superficial but they carry with them implications of social value, history and more. Children are supposed to read books and pick up context and understand meaning as they go along. We don't expect a 10 year old to grok calculus any more than we expect them to grok social/sexual arrangements. But we have different standards for 19 year olds - in the case of sexual arrangements it's obvious why. Perhaps less so for calculus.

Reading and comprehension levels are hard to guage for this reason - at a certain point the words are placeholders for political positions. And it's hard to tell if someone does not understand the word or disagrees with the politics. Please see every election for past ten years for reference
Eco-friendly in the desert and away from oceans... A sure way to have low fix and variable costs. Is this a remake of Ghost towns in China?
If you were suspicious that a drive was used before you ever plugged it in I bet you could identify it by immediately taking an out-of-the-box SMART snapshot and compare those values to a known good sample for that model drive. Drive manufacturers run tests when new, I doubt these Chia miners are trying to match up the powered on time and cycle count to a legitimate drive, they're probably just setting it to 0 and throwing it in a box.

Unfortunately I highly doubt the majority of these fraudsters will face any real repercussions. Maybe a few victims will be able to successfully issue a chargeback, after many months maybe PayPal and other payment processors will try to freeze some funds, but whatever happens the fraudsters will still come out ahead. They'll just start selling under a new name and continue for another 6 months.
I can't say I know much about the Linux kernel team's workflow, but sensible merge commits would be useful.
Oh! "Apple I" is considered obsolete :)
ZenHub! I love, as an engineer, that it layers on top of GitHub issues. So, in my general day to day I never leave GitHub.com or GHE, while project managers get all their shiny toys in ZenHub that plays nicely with GitHub issues.
I agree Binance trading against customers is bad. But that's not decentralized finance, that's just a centralized entity using a system it owns.

The idea behind DeFi is to power the financial system using auditable, open code, and to be able to switch between these systems with little friction.

Flashbots (more generally MEV, miner extractable value) are an ongoing research problem, I'm not familiar with recent progress there.
I have one of these (Key Lime). I’m using it to watch the videos for my WebObjects training course while I complete the classes on my Aluminum PowerBook G4.

https://twitter.com/mattl/status/1432507439929303042?s=20

Working optical drives in these older machines is an issue.
Bitkeeper : https://www.bitkeeper.org/
the phone would be a brick

Well, to be fair here, the phone would still be able to make phone calls and send/receive texts, so it would hardly be a brick.

As a practical matter, stuff like supporting a newer version of TLS is at the application, not the OS level, so the user would just have to get an update with their browser to be able to use newer TLS. [1] Supporting newer TLS, for a browser, is little more than recompiling the browser; even stuff like Lynx and newer builds of Dillo have current TLS support.

[1] Windows XP stopped being updated by Microsoft in 2014 [2] but Firefox up until 52.9.0 (2018) runs in Windows XP.

[2] The post-2014 point of sale updates were quite limited in scope, and can not be seen as general OS updates
Is it possible to publish exclusively on sci-hub? That would be a fun move.
It feels like I keep seeing same videos recommended over and over again. And it is not like Youtube does not know that I have watched majority of the length...
There are a bunch of planned new towns in the UK from the 20th century, as well as 'model' factory villages from the 19th. Some of them are really nice, some less so. Milton Keynes is the most interesting, I think. Well loved by the people who live there, mocked by those who don't, still successfully growing.
And now TODO_OR_DIE_SKIP is set in prod and will never be disabled.
In my experience the eBay/Paypal resolution process is so heavily weighted to the buyer you shouldn't have any issues returning it and/or getting a refund.
For those unfamiliar, Greg Kroah-Hartman is the maintainer of the Linux stable branch since 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman
Place it at the intersection of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to undo some of the Senate/EC slant.
The search function is atrocious. Some of the most visited, highly important pages will not be found with exact title matches.
Possibly off topic, but does anyone remember a very similar looking laptop but with a black and white lcd screen which was potentially touch screen too?
I've got half a memory of them from around Y2K but I'm now I'm thinking that I'm mashing together a clamshell G3 with a Palm Pilot in my head and it might not of existed.

I do miss the colourful, cutesy but extremely capable Mac's of the G3/G4 era. I'm sure it's rose tinted glasses on my part, but computing seemed much more fun and positive back then :/
> The only time linked lists come up is in interview questions.

Only if you don’t know what they’re for and when they’re useful. You can speed up Java a lot if you instantiate LinkedList instead of ArrayList when you can get away with it.

And you’re definitely not hired.
> If not voluntary, then forced.

Agreed. Collapse or increasing eco-terrorism is my guess.