skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people of concern other than undocumented workers. There are presumably lots of people in one point or another of the healthcare pipeline (H1B's, green card holders, other types of working non-citizens. In light of an imminent boom (if you will) in demand for healthcare (especially elder-care related) we should probably be doing everything we can to encourage them to stay.
Unfortunately Facebook has no choice. If you do not make your platform appealing for popular people you will have a hard time attracting their followers there.
Sounds anti-competitive on Microsoft's part.
I see a cookie popup, I click Back. I'm usually visiting out of curiosity, and the content is nothing special. TrustArc is one of the worst - I can't reverse too quickly.
is there also a subreddit for programming/hacking/zip quines?
That's not what the stat is saying. You seem to be mis-interpreting it in the same way some of the other people were.

Take 1000 people who are vaccinated. Measure how many get infected in a time span T. Calculate the ratio.

Take 1000 people who are not vaccinated. Measure how many get infected in a time span T. Calculate the ratio.

In the UK the infected:non-infected ratio is higher for the first group than the second. That should be impossible as it implies effectiveness is now negative. Possible root cause - the (relatively small) group of people who refuse to take the vaccine are refusing because they know they already got it, and thus have natural immunity, but the vaccine doesn't build immunity that lasts, so as time goes on the vaccinated group ends up getting infected anyway and having to fall back on building their own natural immunity. That's just speculation but otherwise it's hard to explain what is going on here.
I've been using C# since it was released, and I'm a huge fan.

But I can almost guarantee that native AOT doesn't appear with dotnet 6 - they've been promising it for several years, and it's become Microsoft's Duke Nukem Forever,
Absolutely. I've wasted hours doing things that, if I'd been shown the way Microsoft wanted me to do them, I'd solve in 10 minutes, but instead I need to spend a ton of time trying to figure out why the new variable on my model isn't binding correctly because I didn't realize they need to be properties.
I like the comparison, granted it must be different for different people (ie, individual relationships to tobacco/alcohol). Social media repulses me, but with the other two I enjoy but am suspicious of.

I’d rather have someone tell me about the last cigarette they had than the last social media post they wrote.
Well I didnt want it to come to this, but COBOL it is then...

On a serious note, at least right now it is quite a niche language that appears to have more demand than supply, so might still be a good idea. Even better in fact if its at least attempting to be modern
And Gett is dependent on the taxi cartel, its excessive price, the black market of taxi medallions, etc. It's a nonsensical market and we're overdue a shared transport option. Good luck getting around on Saturday.

All because it's illegal to take money to transport someone from A to B without an exorbitant license for no specific reason.
> let's say that some integer must be between 10 and 100, do you use type checks for this?

Yep. In particular, I would use:

- A "wrapper" type around an unsigned byte (we don't need negatives, or a whole machine word)

- A "newtype" feature, to replace the wrapper with a Byte after type-checking (Haskell calls this "newtype"; Scala calls this "opaque type aliases").

- A private/unexported/scoped constructor, to prevent arbitrary Byte values getting wrapped

- A "smart constructor" which checks the bounds of a given Byte, returning a 'Maybe MyBoundedIntType' or some other type-checked error mechanism (Scala's 'Try[MyBoundedIntType]' works well).

- Polymorphism/overloading to call that smart constructor of various numeric types (char, int, long, signed, unsigned, etc.)

In Scala that would look something like:

opaque type MyBoundedIntType = Char

object MyBoundedIntType {
def apply(c: Char): Try[MyBoundedIntType] =
if (c >= 10 && c <= 100)
Success(c)
else
Failure(new IllegalArgumentException(s"Value ${c.toInt} outside range [10, 100]"))

def apply(i: Int ): Try[MyBoundedIntType] = Try(i.toChar).flatMap(MyBoundedIntType(_))
def apply(l: Long): Try[MyBoundedIntType] = Try(l.toChar).flatMap(MyBoundedIntType(_))
}

In Haskell:

module MyModule (MyBoundedIntType(), toByte, MakeBounded(..)) where

newtype MyBoundedIntType = MBIT { toByte :: Word8 }

class MakeBounded t where
mkBounded :: t -> Either String MyBoundedIntType

instance MakeBounded Word8 where
mkBounded b | b >= 10 && b <= 100 = Right (MBIT b)
mkBounded b | otherwise = Left ("Value " ++ show b ++ " not in range [10, 100]")

instance MakeBounded Int where
mkBounded i = toWord8 i >>= mkBounded

instance MakeBounded Integer where
mkBounded i = toInt i >>= mkBounded
The elite use facebook?
Facebook is the most explicitly duplicitious sociopathic company in the tech sector. Many companies are sociopathic, especially as you get into pure finance companies like PE firms, but few are as duplicitous as Facebook.
France gets 70% of its power from safe nuclear energy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-ele....
I would also add that Greek was more philosophically sophisticated. The Greeks had a rich philosophical tradition and the resulting terminology was beyond what was available in other languages.

Even today, following centuries of scholasticism, the Latin translations aren't always adequate enough for the task. Take "logos" and "verbum", for example.
You're getting downvoted but they actually did this with Youtube. So the answer is yes its possible.
Decisions like these seldomly are about engineering alone.

France didn't embrace nuclear out of the goodness of their hearts - they wanted to become a nuclear power, and needed the infrastructure and specialists and so on to become one (establish study paths, and give those students the prospect of jobs so that they actually choose the new paths etc.).

Now that this isn't of strategic importance anymore, France lost interest in nuclear plants (just look at what gets built in recent decades in France). Because nuclear power by itself isn't that interesting, mostly because it is so hugely expensive and inflexible.

Germany was never allowed to get nuclear infrastructure because they started two world wars, and at the time no one was interested in Germany having nukes for the third attempt. Even research alone wasn't allowed for decades after the end of WW2. That's also the reason why Germany has no capacity for processing used fuel rods and does this in France to this day - its dual use tech.
That is a textbook example of a choice.
You can drink a lot when alone.
Elite in the title might make you think they mean a politician or celebrity. It’s really Facebook outsourcing to “XCheck” who has 5.8 million memebers and somehow avoids Facebook’s “moderation”.
Oh no, not the "potential!" Please, I had completely forgotten that Microsoft owned npm until reading your comment. There's no more "potential" there than any other product/service from any other company, and Microsoft has done absolutely nothing to indicate that they will screw with npm.
Can the government take back all those sweet sweet tax deductions they provide in exchange?
Tried it, got paywalled anyway. I was not logged into Facebook at the time, if that matters.
I agree that it's a similar "luxury good" as "functioning healthcare". And the poorer countries - especially a few decades earlier - were (and are) "choosing" not to buy functioning healthcare before they can afford it - they do devote their limited resources in a balanced manner to various other priorities as well despite paying a price literally with blood and the lives of their children instead of devoting all their resources to more healthcare. As the society grows wealthier, they can and do fix basic healthcare issues (e.g. child mortality) as soon as they can afford to, but simply saying "functioning healthcare needs X money, do that now" is not helpful.

If a person can't afford adequate dental care, they usually don't sacrifice their rent and food to get it, they generally do without, even knowing that it would cause their future self much suffering. The same applies for global warming. As you say, the people who can least afford to pay for clean energy etc are the ones who will also be most impacted by heat waves, declining air quality, and natural disasters - and that's it, they will choose not to pay for clean energy despite the potential of being impacted by heat waves, declining air quality, and natural disasters some decades later. That's the choice they are going to make because that's the reasonable choice in their situation, they can't afford to sacrifice today for the sake of tomorrow.
I don't recall exactly where I saw it, but I remember reading something where some tech guy "solved" the problems with prison with some nightmarish scheme of solitary confinement, Soylent(tm), and VR that he probably spend all of then minutes thinking through. That was held up an an example of how clueless and unintentionally malevolent tech people can sometimes be when they let their enthusiasm for technological solutions go unchecked by anything else.

So now that might become a real thing, brought to you by one of the shittiest and exploitative companies in existence.

Edit: here's the original article https://medium.com/@shanesnow/how-soylent-and-oculus-could-f... and this might be the critique I read: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2016/06/22/the-worst-thing-i-read...
Or rather, as is the case in any transition, as you move to the new you still continue to rely on the old, so the entire system continues to fail if the old fails.

This stops being a problem once the transition is complete.

But that’s to a great extent the definition of a transition.
So would renewables, but even without that they are becoming the cheapest option.
It's not quite as good as it seems, because we have a lot of kids in Ireland, but it's still massively reassuring.
I don't understand the way their enforcement works. I've reported videos of people literally setting live animals on fire and been told there was no violation, but my wife called someone a "loser" and got a week long ban.
This was posted here dozens of times. That's what I'd call «spam». Wish I could report it.
Rain on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring
Once you have them, is there any reason why you would want to ramp it down, other than trying to justify the existence of wind turbines?
> In a written statement, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said criticism of XCheck was fair, but added that the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.”

Would be great if us plebs could get the privilege of accurately enforced policies.
A life worth consuming on social media?
Wait, what? Isn't it a definite violation of android rules around usage of intents and actions?
Well of course. Why wouldn't they? Money and friends aside, they have to do it for people who wield power like China's upper echelon or the NSA. If they say no, they will be shut down in those markets.
This is similar to how some homeless people will turn down the offer of a temporary bed. Having a night in a clean bed just makes the following night feel worse. Once you're used to it, it can be easier to live with discomfort, or dull it with booze/drugs.
Maybe its "hard" because any coherent definition that would allow entities to be definitively classified as conscious or not, at least without sufficient wiggle room, would offend too many people.

What do you mean babies less than a month old are less conscious than a fancy toaster? What the #@@&$+ is wrong with you?
Rust is such a bloated, insane design-by-committee language. It's actually still surprising to me that corporations are defending it and using it. I sure won't.

It's also just so dang ugly to read. If Perl and C++ had a mutant offspring, I think it'd be Rust. And that's just not respectful to Perl!

I'm really happy that Zig is doing so well. I'm planning on contributing a little chunk of money to the ZSF whenever they get a 1.0 landed. I do think there are some lessons to learn from Rust about formal methods as foundational building blocks in a language. I'm eager to see Zig mature more around the memory-safety side of things.
>“We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly,” said the confidential review.

Why do we even have the collective fiction where corporate messaging around a sore topic is treated as trustworthy? Especially with companies that we know lie all the fucking time?
I quit sometime last Spring. I don't know what happened but I finally was able to.

I think I feel happier because I have lower expectations and my small successes feel big in my mind because I am not comparing to others.

For example, a few minor home repairs over the weekend feels huge to me. I really feel great about them. One of my best friends is a carpenter and I know shouldn't compare.. but I think I do it unconsciously.

I still have social media accounts. I posted a last message once I knew I wasn't going back to social media.
Apple says privacy is a human right, too. Companies failing to put their money where their mouth is has become par for the course.
I also tried brightsky.dev, but it is limited to weather stations in the MOSMIX system. IRRC only Germany. In terms of forecast quality, MOSMIX should be great!

One goal of mine, would be to provide historical data of the past months to enable users to run their own statistical forecasts combined with weather models. It is actually quite easy to use measurement data and correct forecasts using simple machine learning models like random forrest. If you compare wind speed measures and forecasts, there usually is a simple statistical error that can be reduced easily. Maybe in the next month I will to some tests and example code
> from a box of carbon switches

"To find out, David Beniaguev, Idan Segev and Michael London, all at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, trained an artificial deep neural network to mimic the computations of a simulated biological neuron. They showed that a deep neural network requires between five and eight layers of interconnected “neurons” to represent the complexity of one single biological neuron."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...

Beside this there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephaptic_coupling, chemical reactions and maybe even quantum effects.

And then you have to think about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism and so on.
Racket GUI Screenshots
Good.

Uber is a unsustainable business built employee exploitation to effectively pay them less than minimum wage while flouting "freedom" to bait the people in the worst situations. This was known from the start. Meanwhile subsidising rides with investor-cash to effectively bait-and-switch society. The recent-ish price hikes are only a start.

Anyone repeating their PR should be ashamed. "gigs" are cancer or wait, this is hackernews so "Gig-economy considered harmful" is the correct nomenclature I guess.
I guess I was thinking more about small to medium sized businesses. A business with 50-100 employees has to enforce government social programs but there won't be any c-suite golden parachutes.
Why all this gatekeeping around citizenship? Why is 5 years the right number and not 2? If someone is going to live in your country long term you may as well give them citizenship sooner so they feel fully bought in as early as possible. And France has made the calculation here that, yes, garbage collectors that worked straight through the entire pandemic are both (a) vital and (b) likely to stick around long-term at this rate, so may as well officially recognize that now.
Yearly acquisitions and naturalisations (blue bar) from French National Statistic Office:

https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2381644
I suspect it is automated. A computer can easily flag calling someone a loser. Not sure if FB has burning animals as a automated flag yet.
I usually pride myself on my google-fu, but this one has eluded me. I also remember this essay.

Do you remember anything more about the essay that would help me find it? There is so much information and blogspam about their for the {nicotine, addiction, cigarettes, voluntary, chooses, sociability, constraints} results.
An array of small modular [nuclear] reactors (SMRs) could be set up to switch parts of the array on and off over the course of the day to scale with load. Small plants have shorter ramp-up and ramp-down times, as they move around smaller amounts of working fluid, and power lighter turbines which thus have proportionately higher friction/lower inertia.

Of course, this is a lot less efficient than having one big nuclear reactor pumping huge turbines; but it’s possibly more efficient than other forms of peak-load generation, which is the key issue.

Plus, any given individual SMR would produce a low-enough wattage to be able to reasonably divert/“dump” power from it into an practical-to-construct-anywhere sink or battery (e.g. building-sized pumped storage, rather than huge dam-sized pumped storage) for handling ramp-down discontinuities.
About four years. I'm averaging around 10k lines per year in the journal, but I tend to separate large logs out into a separate file in the logs directory and then link to it from the main file.
Sorry you had a rough experience but unfortunately that's not really actionable advice. Since the virus is now endemic all of us can expect to be exposed multiple times in our lives regardless of what protective measures we take.

What treatments did your doctor prescribe during the infection? Unfortunately many physicians still aren't treating it aggressively enough with monoclonal antibodies and other therapies.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/ant...
>Again, Windows is no longer the bread winner of Microsoft and desktop Linux is comparatively irrelevant to Microsoft considering it represents like 1% of the market.

If it's not their breadwinner then they should port over their office suite and the Windows API to Linux.
Apple is not forced to allow other payment systems. News outlets got that wrong in their initial reading.
Unit tests are valuable if you are doing some sort of "computation". If all code in question is doing is plugging x into y, then unit tests are useless and integration tests are where the payoff is.

If you have code that does both plug and compute you should refactor them so that computing and plugging don't happen in the same place. Doing so will reduce instances of hard to test code.

In general controllers are plugging code not computing code, so integration tests tend to be the more appropriate choice.
How unfortunate it is that such a thing is seen as a "rock and a hard place". Making less money might just be the worst thing possible for a corporation like Facebook.
a huge fraction of nurses and other hospital staff are immigrants on work visa, particularly Filipinos. they are not undocumented but many would like citizenship.
Opioids and Cigarettes Are Both Harmful, but Opioids Have Valid Medical Uses
Facebook should be banned on DNS level…
More recently? Bitcoin's initial release was 12 years ago, which isn't too far off from when 3D printing first started hitting the scene. 3D printing has changed the world, but because there's an expensive printer to get access to, vs Bitcoin's accessibility as pure software (you don't need to buy mining hardware up get into Bitcoin) means its reach has been limited to the corners of the world that has them.
Ok, so who cares about "moral value"?

If I have an AGI friend, and they behave exactly like human and does all the things humans do, including having morals indistinguishable from humans, and having feelings indistinguishable from humans, I am going to treat them as a human.

I am definitely not going to treat them as "screwdriver" just because some philosopher somewhere said they have no "consciousness" and that they have "no moral value".
Rg3d 0.23 – Rust game engine – Custom materials, shaders, PBR, HDR, and more
There's a long explanation but the summary is that FORTRAN was one of the first languages that targeted the highest computing demands so there was functional and financial interest in making it highly performant. Hardware was often designed around FORTRAN and a tight relationship over decades between those who wrote FORTRAN, those who wrote compilers and tooling for FORTRAN, and those who sold hardware for FORTRAN to run on in large high-performance/supercomputing worked together make things run stupidly efficiently and had decades to do so.

C has some similar legacy but came a little later to the game and wasn't as intuitive to people driving the money in computing as they were with FORTRAN. It's also heavily optimizeable from a performance perspective but often missed the initial buy in and momentum, though developed much of its own.

So FORTRAN has a lot of investment and strategic advantages to be used for things like weather modeling, at least for specific underlying libraries. Modern work tends not to start from greenfield in FORTRAN, it often starts in C or really a high language like Python to provide theoretical proof of concept and just write/use wrappers to highly optimized codebases like those for FORTRAN for the numeric fundamentals in the model. Lots of scientific glue code these days with not a lot of stuff making it into optimization levels like you see in BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, etc.
In most countries Taxi drivers cannot refuse a passenger hailing them. Its difficult to enforce and they normally claim they did not see you but they must take you:

UK:

"Cabbies can be penalised for refusing passengers"
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/newsroom/2019/8/3/c...

Canada - Montreal:

https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/bur_taxi_f...

"Le titulaire d'un permis de chauffeur de taxi ne peut refuser d'effectuer une course"

France:

"Normalement, un taxi n'a pas le droit de refuser une course sauf si vous êtes à 50 mètres d'une borne de taxi et qu'un taxi attend à cette borne"

https://www.europe1.fr/societe/taxi-ce-qui-est-legal-et-ce-q....

and so on...
That's why they're on my "wouldn't work for them if they wee the last tech company in the entire world" list. That list isn't long, but, FB is near the top of it.
Could you expand on (or link to) that healthcare re-framing? Thanks!
bribing part of the voters with some sort of climate tax dividend is a sensible policy

It's not really a bribe. If running your leaf blower pollutes the air that others breathe, is a (tiny) payment from you to those people not simply compensation for (tiny) harm you've caused? A carbon tax dividend simply manifests this concept (though aimed at carbon instead of pm2.5)

It's always seemed like a really promising policy that drives many of the right incentives, but getting it passed seems impossible.
Hadn't read about garbage collectors but given that it's a job that's hard to recruit for and has a higher accident than most jobs, it makes sense. It's the kind of job that non-immigrants tend to not want to do.
I will jump on this bandwagon and say color me not surprised.

The issue is emblematic of a bigger issue though. General trust in our society is generally down. It stretches beyond the sectors normally understood as BS ( advertising, HR come to mind ), but moved to corrupt just about everything else out there. We are a point, where the only organization that is somewhat trusted is military.

That is not a good state of affairs.