skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me OOP is weird. I never understood what people mean when they say it is close to how they think. It feels like a way to obfuscate the flow of code and requires to make decisions about what thing should have which responsibility and relation with which other thing and building weird hierarchies that will bite you back in the long term.

Relations between Objects change, customers don't know what they want, change is always pain with OOP.

Now people say, composition over inheritance. Right, but isn't that the point of functional programming?

Functional programming maps to how I think. The most important questions is always: What data structures do I need? Get your data in order and the rest will flow naturally.

I don't use functional programming because I am a math nerd or something, I am not even good at math. I use is because it is composible and easy to understand. I can refactor without any fear of side effects.

Now is pure functional programming practical? For some tasks, sure but yeah not always. Imperative programming gets stuff done. Work with the strengths of both.

The thing you are not used to always feels weird, that is a problem with you not the thing you try to learn.
All of these projects AFAIK involve enticing a company like TSMC to build new plants, not building their own competitor in the market. I don't think there's any appetite in Europe to invest tens of billions in building their own chip industry.
That might not matter.
This is how the bank I used to work at ended up with app loads taking almost a minute. People don't intuitively understand the impact of transitivity and exponential growth. It is a very, very bad idea to make a habit of using retry-with-backoff as a default for error handling. (That's before we even consider the semantics of errors in stateful programs, the virtues of 'let it crash', etc.)
This. The biggest changes were the rapid increase of nationalism and the low brow security theatre at our airports. Almost all security procedures and implementations were borrowed from Ireland and Israel’s learned lessons. I do think 9/11 added lots of stanchions, by an order of magnitude, but that doesn’t count as architecture imo. Sad to see fast company publish this.
But if you know you will regret not doing more adventurous things then you minimize regret to correct the course.
I never had a blackberry and miss it anyway. I loathe touch screens, you can't call anyone if it is raining, they are fragile, touch keyboard is super fiddly and I hate typing on it and so on.

I got myself a Kaios phone but unfortunately the manufacturer was so stingy on RAM that it keeps crashing every five minutes, so I am using a hand-me-down Android now.
Microsoft confirms running on an Apple M1 'is not a supported scenario'
Did you ever use any of the newer BBs? The experience was much closer to that of the iPhone.
Dune 2 The Maker 0.6 Released
How to prepare: do yourself a favor and stop ducking doing business in there.

And give a lower priority to any supplier or buyer with a good CCP's corporate social credit score.

Can't wait for first WTO lawsuits to hit CCP.
How to Make a New Beginning Meaningful?
Stop rationalizing it? So we should make rules based on our feelings instead? Of course it matters why. There is no freedom at all costs, because at all costs would be a lawless badlands. You're already knee deep in a society full of rules that you willingly follow and benefit from every day, now society has a new problem and we're navigating how to figure it out, that's going to take some rationalizing.
I have fond memories of flirting with the girls who worked at the A&W at my local mall, and getting free hotdogs, in the 90s. I didn't even realize they still existed let alone sold burgers.
JFC, that's what you're dog whistling about?! That Ashley "all men are bad and I won't apologize" Williams got fired? Good riddance, and you can go with her.
I had a Blackberry Classic. The Android support was kind of garbage - but the physical keyboard was incredibly easy to type on and the trackpad was really helpful, and yes, the thing was built like a tank. I was once out running near some train tracks, had the Blackberry in one hand (I had no pockets and was probably using it for a stopwatch or a map or something), tripped on something, hands went out in front of me... and I broke my fall by slamming the Blackberry right into the steel rail. It was fine.
Mathematics and Organized Knowledge
For any ordered system, there can be a mathematical description of its structure and relationships.

So, can human knowledge be organized into an ordered structure that can be used to statistically measure an individual person's state of knowledge? (A map of knowledge as a standard of measurement to evaluate a person's level of understanding)

I'm aware of Knowledge Space Theory and Bayesian Knowledge Tracing. I'm asking whether human knowledge, as a whole, can be organized into a tangible hierarchical structure of nodes, sub-nodes, etc. whose relationships can be mapped in a reasonably doable way.

To me, the use of mental models, first principles thinking, scientific reductionism, and the abundance of freely available knowledge (Wikipedia) would make this a not-impossible and very-rewarding task. If we divide knowledge into science (discovered) and philosophy (made), it'd be easier to organize scientific knowledge first, then move on to making the complex organization of history, philosophy, political science, etc. (As the saying goes, the laws of planetary motion are simpler than the history of Sweden).
> Sometimes you just want to pass an error up the stack to be handled at some other error boundary.

Right, but I think the idea is that the programmer should think and decide every time whether that's what you want to do. I haven't programmed in Rust, but I suspect that people use the ? operator more than is ideal because it's so easy.
I am positive that electrons are matter. Never heard your claim before.
That is a scary trust violation... Good for you that you went the extra mile in advance and not in hindsight.
My first thought was the pandemic and Brexit, but according to the article the employment numbers are back to where they were pre pandemic. So it's only Brexit? A lot of seasonal workers left before the pandemic and are not coming back?
We preempted this by using Stripe radar along with our own tools. The fact we had only one charge-back in 3 months which we won, speaks to the efficiency of our protection mechanisms.

Finally, all bigger software shops face this issue so we are not unique.

1. https://kinsta.com/blog/credit-card-fraud-stripe/
As a daily user of -> and ->>, I am curious what you find awkward about them.
No. Dumping is selling below the cost of production, with the intent of driving someone else out of a market. This is just normal price competition. It's a good thing.
Booster shots aren’t needed in the same way that masks weren’t recommended at the beginning of the pandemic. Not because they don’t help, but to save supplies for other people (health care workers for the masks, foreigners for the vaccine shots).

I still plan to get a booster ASAP though.
> make it impossible to enforce laws.

Rich people already have that advantage, why not give the same advantage to the little guy?
Offtopic but I'm amazed you can legally hand out free (virtual) credit cards like these without anything close to a banking license.

The sales pitch, to pay for services anonymously, would make it trivial to use this service for money laundering. I hope the website is lying about how private those transactions really are.

I'm also a little sketched out by the fact the business resides in Wyoming while the person writing the blog says that Stripe wasn't available "in my country". The company has two directors, both of which are a vague "Cloud Peak Law" company which owns a bunch of unrelated LLCs, but no reference to any foreign owners. That's not very confidence inspiring either, in my opinion. I can find a similarly named company from Nigeria but there's no clear connection between the two.

Edit: the company's Cloud Peak Law P.C. "director" is a service used by a Wyoming company set up specifically to allow anonymous registration of a business, set up there specifically because anonymous businesses are allowed by the state. I wouldn't be surprised if one of this law company's other clients used their anonymous-business-as-a-service for something sketchy, causing Stripe to go up the chain and mark the entire Cloud Peak Law "person" as unreliable and disputed. After all, going by the public record, the company is actually run by this law company, not the person writing this blog post. That may be why Stripe is able to claim a dispute that doesn't exist in their own management system. I don't know if that's the reason, of course, because there's little transparency from other side here.

I don't think Stripe should be lying about the nonexistent disputes, but if I were to design a money laundering detection algorithm, this kind of stuff is exactly what I would watch out for. I'm guessing Stripe's machine learning triggered on this company and that they just picked a random TOS bullet point to end the contract by knowing that you won't be able to sue them for it anyway.
I don't think so. Regret, anxiety and worry all invoke analysis which you may not have done otherwise. Sure, too much may be detrimental but so is not enough. I don't think any of these basic common cues are optimal at zero quantity.
Monero shines bright in a world where privacy is constantly being eroded.

I very much want to live in a future where there is a digital payment method that’s as anonymous as cash. As far as I can tell Monero is the front runner
I hate when a law or legal decision is aimed 45 degrees off like this. Letting manufacturers bundle their fucked-up version of Android is a bad thing. What we need is mandatory unlockable bootloaders so the users can load whatever they want on their devices.
Buddy, your business is selling "privacy cards" and "virtual cards" which hide the identity of the person making the transaction.

It's a massive money laundering red flag, it's not at all surprising that Stripe doesn't want to deal with you.
If only there were people willing to move to your country from their current bad situation, so eager for citizenship they’d take on any job.. it’s almost an arrangement too good to be true
BB10 had integrated messaging. WhatsApp and other third-party apps were fully supported.
Yes. And the rmb is rising relative the usd and euro. Point is they have plenty of space unlike the rest of us.
Yeah but it’s 2021/09/14 21:10 where I am, perfectly big endian for me
>or the McDonald's app

Excuse me? McDonald's app considers itself security critical now?
Not this year nor last. I live just outside Oxford and visit Bath regularly and both have been quiet compared to normal.
We were never particularly armed in the first place.
German weather service does offer ensemble weather forecast. You can find it here - https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/nwp/icon-eps/grib/. DWD also has excellent documentation.
> The proof is in the pudding: "we can't find local workers willing to work for these low wages so we'll import them from abroad".

Everywhere in world there are labour shortages, because we just ended lockdowns 3 months ago. In other places they are blaming the shortage on the young being lazy or on unemployment benefits, with the same scientific rigour. So I’m still waiting for a proof (not a pun or an anecdote) that immigration reduces salaries.

> A lot of EU immigrants come to London to work in tech/finance because they offer higher wages than pretty much anywhere on the continent (I was one of them).

Which means that EU nationals living in the UK earn more than the locals, so they can’t be driving salaries down. Unless you hypothesise a fantasy counterfactual where Jack deChav, who’s now an underpaid bartender, would have become a software developer and would be earning 6 digits if only Carlos de Perros, S/W developer from Malaga, didn’t steal his job.

> But the working class is pretty far removed from the effect of professional-class immigration.

Whatever the working class is in the UK, if they believe that immigration reduces salaries, they are far removed from any modern notion of truth.

> The UK has many other structural problems so collapsing the whole Brexit discussion into one dimension is a bit of an over-simplification, though if you asked me to do the PCA, I'd say the main cause was "protest vote". (Pre-BJ governments weren't Euro-sceptic.)

I’m not collapsing anything into anything. I’ve read a false statement “immigration reduces salaries” and I replied to it. Incidentally the UK has been playing with “hostile environments”, euro-skepticism and Brexit and yet real salaries are still below 2008.
wrapping the error at the source is sensible, but if you need to pass the error five levels up before reaching the function that's actually responsible for handling it (e.g. retrying after a period), I find the wrapping becomes superfluous and further obscures the intention of the function. Rust's `?` operator works well here.
There will still need to be the option for a locked boot loader though.

If I’m Snowden, knowing my boot loader could be unlocked and a key logger side loaded isn’t reassuring.
Rural areas aren't so bad off. Satellite and boosted cellular internet are a thing, and that covers the education, entertainment and business opportunity categories. Health care and shopping are infrequent things that you can drive for as needed.
Now that I think about it, I'm curious about the reliability of this result. While it says that the majority of participants "questioned the price of [the] burger," it doesn't explicitly state that all of these people questioned the price because they thought 1/3 < 1/4. There are also no hard numbers provided in the quotation, and we aren't told anything about the methodology or sample size.

It seems possible that people questioned the price, not because they were confused about fractions, but because they thought that the burger was too low in quality to justify the same price as a McDonald's Quarter Pounder.

[edit: While they say that A&W's burger outperformed in blind taste tests, those taste tests could have had methodological differences (or even just a different sample of the population) that would make it impossible to compare their results to those of the focus groups.]

[edit 2: New Coke also outperformed regular Coke in blind taste tests and was also priced the same. But it was a massive failure, and not because of mathematical confusion.]
ExoDos has provided a similar effort[0] on a lot of the most famous game studios of the 80s and 90s. Well worth a read, I myself printed it out enjoyed it immensely.

[0] Exodos is located on the-eye.eu
As someone with a pre-launch SaaS who just signed up for Stripe, reading this has me shook up a little bit. I'm Stripe-integrated for payments, and poised to go through Stripe Atlas soon, or at least I was.. Now I have no idea what to do. I know that OP's story isn't spotless, but what if it's my thing that gets in this situation too?

I wish I could say I'm joking but I don't need this right now, I'm ~90 days out from launch, I should be tweaking final touches, not building just-in-case backup integrations with other processors.
Like rust, but purely functional and garbage collected.
Disagree because you’re already getting screwed by the rich. Being anonymous doesn’t divorce from the “getting screwed” class, but it continues to aid the rich.
I understand what you are saying, but that simply is copyright under a different name. You are suggesting that someone should have the rights to control how others may copy their work: copyright.
I think they are security wise very closed, bootloader is encrypted or something
so hard to guess if that would be possible. Still would be nice
> Microsoft could perhaps look into allowing digitally signed apps to change the associations automatically (a single summarizing OS confirmation prompt might be wise), and non-signed apps would have to instruct users to manually change things.

I don't think that should be acceptable until Microsoft provides a way for developer to sign their programs at no cost.
Witness J, Pine Gap, "The Boat People", Australian Genocide. Australia as been a police state since the beginning.
Whether or not this is the case here, this statement resonates with me on a few uncomfortable levels.
When I visited family in the Philippines every dam mall or street market I visited you saw Oppo, Vivo, Huawei and Apple stands.
It was kind of a shock compared to here in western Europe.

And from what I can gather Chinese EV car brands are now just entering the European markets.
The EV car market has pretty much has been a hard reset of the car industry where new players and old player need to duke it out.
Its kind of exciting as someone with a Asian background to see so much happening in Asia to the point im planning on using the next 3~5 years to learn to read and listen to spoken Chinese.
Just so I don't have to see it all through a western politically and racially biased lens.
You're not seriously comparing craft root beer with the HFCS-laden crap that comes in a 2-liter plastic bottle, are you?
See the FAQ: https://scikit-learn.org/dev/faq.html#will-you-add-gpu-suppo...
Creative AI: On the Democratisation and Escalation of Creativity (2016)
Stevey's Tech Talk Videos
Or, alternatively, the business (issuing virtual credit cards to consumers, seemingly worldwide) is pretty different from truebill.com (subscription tracking, yes, but doesn't issue cards, AFAICT) or Ramp (issues corporate cards instead of consumer cards, where I would assume there's a bit more due diligence).

https://justuseapp.com/free-trial-card claims that one of their main selling points is

> Access the American market

> Our credit card comes with a U.S. billing address, so you can unlock features restricted to the U.S or Western markets especially if you don't live there.

Isn't this just straight up fraud?

Admittedly I'm not familiar with any of the services mentioned, so correction is welcome.
I am sure Intel and AMD relize that being x86 is no longer the advantage it used to be.
Now an actual incident:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/30ptcb3b0s2w

Workaround seems to be related to disabling an AMP-related feature, bizarrely.
Sounds like you’re extrapolating his argument. He said most Americans have measuring cups. I would agree with this to be true. How many people have you met that don’t have measuring cups?

This article is a distraction from what really happened here - insanely bad marketing. Third pounder is a terrible name for a burger. It’s derivative and implies gluttony.
The levels are stored as 6 bytes per "brush" (i.e. block): 1 byte per each x, y, z coordinates and width, depth and length[1]. The y (vertical) resolution of these values is a bit higher than the x/z resolution to allow for stairs while allowing for bigger levels on the horizontal plane. So the level files are not directly stored as a grid, but as a collection of axis aligned blocks.

The collision detection however builds a grid out of these, so the game can quickly look up any position within the game world[2].

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/q1k3/blob/master/pack_map.c#L78...
[2] https://github.com/phoboslab/q1k3/blob/master/source/map.js#...
> What I don’t understand is why they couldn’t write a clear email explaining their position so you would actually know what’s up.

In some cases, it’s forbidden by law to reveal to someone that they’ve been flagged for money laundering.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/1020.320

> No bank, and no director, officer, employee, or agent of any bank, shall disclose a SAR or any information that would reveal the existence of a SAR.
Yes, and it isn't alchemy, since no gold is created.

It is tautology.
Engineers create 3D-printed objects that sense how users interact with them
Europe has evaded classical market economy by importing more people who'd work for lower wages at the slightest hint of any labor shortage.

Pre-immigration such people would be called scabs.

Now that you have Brexit, raise the wages. That's why people voted for it in an unusual recognition of their self-interests.
aq & taliban are both the result of a chain of events you can draw to the post meccan siege shift in power among the saudi elite to the clerics that led to the mass establishment and funding of salafi madrassas abroad, sending young men and funds abroad to the afghan conflict, etc. the taliban come directly out of these madrassas. they are part of the same great cultural current which is at its root a dialectic between royals and clerics in ksa. wahhabism is an exonym but is a perfectly valid descriptor.
Financial Management for Technology Entrepreneurs
Cash is the king. It's perhaps the only reason why most entrepreneurs fail in their journey because they don't have cash to pull through their entrepreneurial journey. Is there a way out? is there something that could be done to manage capital effectively? Can an entrepreneur manage his finances optimally till his venture starts generating revenues? These are questions that not many entrepreneurs think or stuff no one teaches them which leads to the failure of a lot of ventures. I have personally seen such ventures languishing over the past few years. That is exactly the reason why I wrote this blog to talk about how technology entrepreneurs can effectively manage their finances and how much funds are required to get into entrepreneurship. Check it out and let me know your views on the same

https://saurabhsaha.substack.com/p/financial-management-for-...
It's not about the nationality of author. It's about where they worked from and with whom. Except Ruby which failed, all the languages you are talking about where developed in the USA.

Van Rossum moved to the USA in the 90s, got funds from DARPA and went to work at Google quite quickly. Stroustrup developed C++ while at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Lerdorf moved to Canada as a teenager before going to work in the USA. Hejlsberg made C# and TypeScript at Microsoft in Seattle. Yukihiro Matsumoto could be an exception but as you rightfully pointed Ruby always remained somewhat niche even after its move to Heroku in San Francisco. James Gosling is Canadian but did his PhD in the USA before developing Java at Sun. Wirth did its PhD at Berkley before moving to Standford where he did most of the work on ALGOL W what would become Pascal and did multiple sabbaticals at Xerox PARC.
Sandbox escapes are part of most serious exploit chains nowadays. They make things harder for exploit authors but absolutely do not fix the problem at a fundamental level. iMessage runs in a sandboxed environment. Doesn't stop the exploit in the article from getting root.
This is not the intended use for stripe issuing at all, and would lead to stripe handling thousands of disputes from companies trying to charge cards with 0 balance after trials end.

I can see why they blocked it.
It's maybe an unfair bar for open source projects, but I'd love to see a third party audit of the source code (and binaries). Downloading a binary that all of my network traffic goes through is...trusting. (And I have done so the past - dd-wrt & tomato; and, sure, it's not a ton different from using out of the box firmware from e.g. Tp-Link or Ubiquiti)
That's a weird take. Society wants stability. Having large companies companies use a random number generator to determine whether they will arbitrarily blacklist (and thereby try to destroy) smaller companies isn't leading to stability.

Yes, society doesn't break down. Just as it doesn't break down if 1% of people were murdered each year. But society won't accept 1% being murdered. And once it's public enough, they'll also not accept that companies do stuff like that. Case in point: banks are tightly regulated exactly because of that, we need to rely on them to handle money efficiently, so we don't want randomness in their processes. Maybe it's time that Stripe & friends get more regulatory oversight as well, since they don't seem to be capable of managing themselves.