skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> look like they are desperate

They should be. I'd be happy to see more desperation from them if it means more users, more investment (not from Google), and more chances at staying afloat.
Not really, I've learned a lot from the PostgreSQL documentation and various Stack Overflow answers.

Like with everything, getting experience and your hands dirty will make you far more knowledgeable. There is no silver bullet.
Brave always looked shady to me.
Even inoring that I don't like Brendan for personal reasons. There is something nauseating about using "privacy" and other nice-sounding words to pump your own crypto-currency.
I may be misunderstanding things here, I'm open to positive arguments about this.
No- ownership determines disposition of property, not government.

For instance, in most jurisdictions, a dispute between two (claimed) property owners can only be decided by them, in full agreement, with the courts stepping in only when a stalemate is reached.

But the judge can only decide the dispute, and can't, for instance, arbitrarily issue an order giving the property to a 3rd party, or decide a dispute where one of the parties haven't first come to the court seeking that resolution.

Similarly, a property owner can summon police to help enforce their property rights in the case of a trespasser, but police can't arbitrarily enforce the rights of 3rd parties without request.
> Universal Nil: no. we need less nil not more. Nil-safe types would be a better answer.

Everyone needs optional values, due to Go's poor design the closest to this is to use nil.
You can promote only specific warnings, for example -Werror=format.

This way you can still use the compiler to stop you reliably from committing unwanted code constructs.
Is Brave really that much smaller than Firefox, these days? Firefox has lost a LOT of market share over the last 15 years of Mozilla basically running an "eat your vegetables" campaign for their primary product.
Well, yeah I guess that's an absolute solution. But the clip more or less makes it such that any jostling below it is muted, so you only have to worry about the individual wires going to each driver. I find those don't get touched that often. That said, my use is practically always sitting in front of a computer. If I were doing other physical activity I'd probably get the cheapest Airpods and forget about it.
That might exacerbate the problem. When the profit margins are reduced companies will go even further to chase the limited revenue and allow even more outrageous content. The main thing that is very obvious, is that the content that does best is outrage content full of false information.
If you never ask for change, you’ll never find any.
TV wants to and at times is starting to do many of those things.
Your choice definitely won’t change the course if you choose to contribute to the current course.

“Hey, this boat is sinking. Will this one bucket of water I throw out stop it from sinking? No? Guess I’ll just do nothing then. Maybe I’ll pour some more water in. That’s the way things are going you know.“
I believe the concept relies on a city that is designed with special access lanes/roads that must be built to accommodate.
Are you saying you have your new-tab page set to a `file://` URL that points to an HTML file? If so, that's a pretty excellent idea. :D
Pharmacy chains CVS, Walmart and Walgreens face reckoning in opioid trial
I mean it's marketing material, of course there's a download link at the bottom
> It means your code may fail to compile on future compilers using your provided build scripts.

Which is an advantage. If the compiler issues a warning that triggers your -Werror then your code may contain bugs. A new version of the compiler may introduce a novel optimization step that causes code that takes advantage of some undefined behavior to crash. The way to detect this is to read the compiler warnings.

Essentially, you the developer have only have two choices. 1) Users complaining about random mysterious crashes. 2) Users complaining about not being able to compile your software. 2 is always preferable to 1.
> I side with the view that ontologies are merely useful tools in epistemology, subject to modification and qualification as our knowledge increases

This is incoherent. How can knowledge even exist if there are no natural kinds? What exactly would you be knowing in their absence? One can be mistaken about a particular predication, but knowledge isn't even possible if you deny the reality of natural kinds. Knowledge presupposes universals and universals presuppose natural kinds. I don't even know what is useful about natural kinds if they don't exist. How could you even talk about usefulness in their absence? You've denied the very possibility of even having a measure of usefulness!

You seem to be taking a vaguely Kantian view of the world, except that you've gone further by denying that the categories of the mind are fixed AND that noumena are real. Kant himself is incoherent. If noumena are unknowable and all we have are phenomena and some mental schemata, then why posit noumena in the first place? What's the justification? In your case, how would you even make the claim you've made?

Look at this statement: "I think the fact that we are self-aware makes it difficult (in the "it's not helpful" sense) to revoke our individuality if we participate in something bigger than ourselves." Putting aside the revolting notion of revoking my individuality like some collectivist (sorry, I'm a person, I have individuality, thanks), who is "we"? Wouldn't that denote at least suggest a genus, if not a species? That's just the beginning. Even if we accept that science reifies some things (which it does; science is to a large degree instrumentalist, but I know that only because I am capable of theoretical knowledge), that still presumes the existence of natural kinds and a broader capacity to know them. Science just becomes a way of organizing data for practical purposes (like laws that classify shellfish as fruit or whatever) and less a theoretical enterprise interested in knowing things as they actually are.

The only workable solution is one that assumes the mind can know reality in principle. It can make mistakes, it can be in error, but it is capable of knowing. Skepticism is unworkable and nothing is worse than a kind of domesticated, halfway house skepticism that fails to notice the non-skeptical baggage that's being smuggled in through the backdoor to produce this half-hearted in-between. Either accept that knowledge is possible, or accept insanity. You cannot coherently straddle both.
My first post was in 2004, and shortly thereafter my second was something railing on Bush. you’re right, facebook has always been inseparable from politics and current events.
A 30 min car drive in city traffic is often a 20 minute bike ride.

I don't think a car is going in mud. A rain jacket and overpants solves for rain nicely.
They sell replacements for cheap; I had basically the same experience as you and had a very sad moment, then yeah, (re)discovered filters and everything worked again. They also come in different tunings if you want to try and tweak things.
oh hi! hehe sure :)
Have you tried comparing the weather on a date with the weather on the same date but one year earlier? I heard an anecdote that it's actually one of the most reliable ways to predict weather but I kinda doubt it... and I am too lazy to actually check whether it is.
dang, thanks for the shadow ban
Crazy how firefox uses so much more ram comparatively speaking.
Study confirms superior sound of Stradivari is due to how wood was treated
Video games often have an international audience and go to great lengths to support accessibility and multiplatform support, ie. supporting both tablet and desktop. It's laughable how bad many enterprise UIs are that fail to handle different locales, or issues displaying right-to-left text and assuming everyone is using an English speaking standard desktop environment, whereas many indie games manage to handle these things very well.
Oh gawd yes. Monitors and video cards and laptops all seem to come with different combinations of audio and video ports and I am enough kinds of geek already - I don't Want to be a/v geek.
Ideals are just long term benefits
Consider taking a look at Airtable.
> native advertising or do product placement

I'm sure people will figure out a solution. Maybe some machine learning thing that identifies brands and just deletes them.

We already have extensions such as sponsor block.

> Google is removing web APIs and actively making its browser poorer

Yeah, that sucks. I've already switched to Firefox and I also keep Brave around. Google made it easy for me when it killed sync for custom Chromium builds.

> controlling the web standards that is making it increasingly technically difficult to block ads

What, really? Do you have examples of this? What web standards have they proposed that would make blocking ads harder?

> only Firefox supports an ad blocker at all and Mozilla generates 95% of its revenue from Google

I agree, that's a massive conflict of interest. I think Mozilla should work to solve that.

> We need better regulations

Agreed, but I still believe that technology is a potent and subversive weapon. The mere existence of ad blockers has forced these tech giants to change the way they operate. If we keep up the pressure, either we'll win and drive them out of the internet or they'll become ever more tyrannical in their attempts to maintain control, drawing more attention to themselves and hopefully inviting public condemnation and regulation.
I believe Parallels has chosen to ignore/sidestep the licensing issues by using the Windows Client ARM64 Insider Preview builds. We'll have to see what happens when the Insider Preview builds stop being produced.
You can write lists like that for pretty much half the genes in the genome. If you ask a pharma company to rank order genes they would like to get exclusively as targets these would be ranked in 4 digits if not 3. There’s a reason no lab bothered to discover it for so long.

Sydney Brenner said in the 60s that they already discovered all there is to molecular biology and leave the details to the “Americans” (1). These are the details. This work would have been pedestrian back in the 60s, it’s downright boring at this point. When people ask why science sucks today this is a great example. Not that this research was performed, of course someone had to at some point. But that people have been led to believe this is worth of celebration at this level.

[1] https://www.hobertlab.org/how-the-worm-got-started/ and https://www.genetics.org/content/165/4/1633
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I don't think we're talking about the same Roadster.
I wasn't suggesting that it is in anyway acceptable to spill oil, and I think it is interesting that in the same region the spill occurred there have always been naturally occurring seeps that release far more oil into the environment.

And it's also interesting that these companies have been passively capturing the oil from the seeps, which potentially reduces the amount of tar washing up on the shores.
I asked someone from Visionect (eInk maker) what was driving the price for large panels and they said the same thing: just not enough volume yet.
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In this case, the bug fixing is probably the lion's share of the work though - there's a huge amount of subtle edge cases involved in rendering text, and the Microsoft employees almost certainly know this. And the example that broke it isn't even something particularly obscure. We're literally talking about the output of the dir command, one of the first things someone is likely to do with a terminal window, not displaying correctly. He basically did the easy part of the work and lambasted some Microsoft employees as idiots because they thought it was more complex than that.
Yeah, but push comes to shove during shipping, people leave, and the pragmas remain in the code in various places.

At least if they are scrolling by then people can get fed up with that and take some initiative to fix those warnings. Or the new people joining your studio can come in and try to fix them.

It's much more difficult to get people to fix pragmas scattered throughout the code. Which ones were legit, which ones were put in at the last moment out of frustration, which ones were put in temporarily years ago?

I think a softer approach works better since people won't be so quick to work around the compiler by disabling the warnings.
That's not really any different than referring to the law vs a law.

They both work in most contexts.
yeah, i would be really sad if I was at the receiving end of this.

One guy is not 100% correct one day (because we overworked devs always are?), and the next day someone has written a blog text painting him as a subpar dev and now he is on front page of HN used as an example...
Most of the industry seems structured to keep devs at an intermediate level: resume-driven hiring, ageism, proliferation of open source that prioritizes easy over simple, little discussion of software design, complete lack of education/resources to move devs past that, and incentives that push people into management.

Another thing I realized when writing this: where do experienced devs congregate? (It isn't Twitter.)
You don't need to master it, but it serves as a map in your head. It will bring you in, in the worst case, an intuition on how things work. The "retain" part isn't an essential thing if you have at least the hints. Even if they are few, they are far more helpful than not having a clue at all.

I always recall two fundamental programming books and one DB design book I read years ago. And still, for today, my mind comes back to them, and it makes me faster when looking for documentation or just googling things more properly :)

Knowing a complex subject, even not deeply, is always a benefit.
The post mentions that guanine crystals are the same density as tetrachloroethylene liquid, so the crystals never settle to the bottom.
This simply would not compile because of "(mismatched types int and nil)". Solved already.

That's why I actually would prefer the "_" syntax:

var x int
x = _
_ = 42

if x == _ {
// this happens even though you've assigned 42 to _, yes
}
Assuming you're using GitHub: a draft PR has a comments thread, which you might choose to keep after merging; it can have linked issues (that close if the PR is merged); the draft PR is organised in the list of PRs so it has higher visibility than a branch (some projects have hundreds of branches but few draft PRs) and a more clearly presented one-line description, and you can promote it to a regular PR while keeping the comment history.

Overall theme: With a feature branch, you'll need to announce and discuss it somewhere else. With a draft PR, those are features attached to the PR.
I'm not trying to convince you, i'm merely stating that it's incredibly hard to look at the Tories and Brexit and come out with positive things to say. If that doesn't match your opinion, i highly doubt you'd reconsider based on an online discussion. Anyone who can overlook everything they've failed at ( be it on a diplomatic, personal or whatever level) - just the corrupt crony contracts they gave for the emergency Brexit ferries or NHS emergency supplies at the beginning at the pandemic and their violation of just signed international agreements by them would be game over for me - either sees things very differently ( e.g. agrees with their generic policies and is willing to accept utter clowns failing at being even remotely competent) or is too stupid/brainwashed/naive/etc. to even consider the reality. I can somewhat understand the first one, but neither can be changed IMHO. And i don't actually care, it's not my country, it's one that's really trying to distance itself from mine, so goodspeed to them.

And note, i'm not in any way saying the other UK parties are somewhat better or would do a better job, i don't have a serious opinion on them. But that does in no way excuse the clown car crash.
You may not change the entirety of your civilization, but you can at least be a part of a community that's living up to your ideals.
From the site guidelines, please don't talk about downvotes in comments. It never does any good, and it's boring.

You can expand upon your original comment without that part, and let the votes fall where they do.
Oh definitely get the replacement cable, I'm on my 3rd. I picked up their bluetooth neckbuds thing (this is the depth of my commitment haha) to try, but as soon as I confirmed the wires weren't replaceable I sent it straight back--instantly limited the lifetime to < 1 year.
That's an interesting way of viewing it. I use it because it's the best maintained Chromium fork out there that is privacy-focused and supports extensions from the store OOTB.
I don't care about nor use most of their "value-add".
Sometimes you don't know you have a performance problem until you have something to compare it to.

Microsoft's greatest technical own goal of the 2010s was WSL 2.

The original WSL was great in most respects (authentic to how Windows works; just as Windows NT has a "Windows 95" personality, Windows NT can have a "Linux" personality) but had the problem that filesystem access went through the Windows filesystem interface.

The Windows filesystem interface is a lot slower for metadata operations (e.g. small files) than the Linux filesystem interface and is unreformable because the problem is the design of the internal API and the model for security checking.

Nobody really complained that metadata operations in Windows was slow, they just worked around it. Some people though were doing complex build procedures inside WSL (build a Linux Kernel) and it was clear then there was a performance problem relative to Linux.

For whatever reason, Microsoft decided this was unacceptable, so they came out with WSL 2 which got them solidly into Kryptonite territory. They took something which third party vendors could do perfectly well (install Ubuntu in a VM) and screwed it up like only Microsoft can (attempt to install it through the Windows Store, closely couple it to Windows so it almost works, depend on legitimacy based on "it's from Microsoft" as opposed to "it works", ...)

Had Microsoft just accepted that metadata operations were a little bit slow, most WSL users would have accepted it, the ones who couldn't would run Ubuntu in a VM.
Do you mean traditional over-the-air television? Because I'm absolutely certain companies like Netflix, HBO and Disney tailor content to influence your behavior. Haven't you ever compared the Netflix recommendations for your account with anyone else's? And yes, "TV actually creates content themselves", but that means you'll be exposed to whatever agenda and viewpoints the stakeholders of the production company that creates the content what to promote, and only that viewpoint.
i use Raindrop.io
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With an affordable subscription, you have a nested folder hierarchy, and permanent cache of your bookmarked items
Republicans do have similar echo chambers. My personal experience, as someone who has moved from left to right but still hangs out in a lot of left leaning circles, the right tends to be more tolerant of dissent.

It's getting harder to remember life before the internet, but it was largely similar. Different pockets of people had different beliefs and tended to choose an echo chamber.

As you said, the circles are bigger now.

The other difference is that media is so less centralized now, the circles are further apart. The centralized main stream media applied a certain amount of social pressure itself that sort of kept the circles from straying to far into "forbidden thoughts". This has largely been destroyed by the internet.
That's a great explanation, thanks.
can you give an example of where typescript fails to protect you against nulls in your own code? (apart from the use of any
Ok, does this change anything about parent's main point that Facebook's core business is results in major society level issues?
First tropical cyclone on record pushes onshore in far north Oman
Facebook showed them the way
Apple Pay’s unpatched flaw can make payments through locked iPhones
I came here to specifically comment on this. How is this even a feature? Is taking a screenshot still that difficult on Windows?
Lets just all go back to calling them mentally ill.
Ok. But this idealism doesn’t work when Tesla has clear failure modes that simply shouldn’t happen during normal driving.

Humans generally do not give their cars haircuts by slamming them under a stopped cargo truck. They do not generally smash straight into stationary emergency vehicles.

We can’t handwave basic safety issues away by saying “in aggregate, they perform better than humans in most conditions.” The basic safety issues get people killed. Leaning on some “average driver” fallacy is a way to ignore issues core to the tech stack.
It's technically not a conflict of interest, as long as the revenue streams roll through different offices or partners. /s

Or as McKinsey puts it

> "across more than a decade of service to the FDA, we have been fully transparent that we serve pharmaceutical and medical device companies. McKinsey’s work with the FDA helped improve the agency’s effectiveness through organizational, resourcing, business process, operational, digital, and technology improvements. To achieve its mission, the government regularly seeks support from additional experts who understand both the government’s mission and the industries’ practices. We take seriously our commitment to avoid conflicts and to serve the best interests of the FDA."

In practice, just another example of questionable behaviour from McKinsey
>Most industries/sectors trend toward consolidation.

This reminded me of the discussion about how "mature" companies often struggle to innovate. The thought was that as companies mature, they tend to get larger and that size forces them to focus more on "maintenance" than innovation. So the way they "innovate" is by acquiring smaller companies (who are still in the innovation phase), resulting in eventual consolidation until a major disrupting event.
15 miles/hr is a realistic average speed in many cities. With its dedicated lane it could be quite competitive in terms of travel speed, just like bicycles.

But really the competition for these systems aren't cars or bicycles. They are mostly shuttle systems, so the competition is either walking, or a car that can't find a parking spot. Maybe public transit. With the highest speed being 5 times average pedestrian speed there are plenty of useful use cases.
If you are looking at switch feel, a switch tester can be helpful, like this one for Cherry switches: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098255FSH
That's why Bryan Cantrill wrote the Orange Catholic Bible..ehh DTrace
My view is that asking Facebook to tackle it is asking way too much. Indeed, I wouldn't want the government to try and control what people can communicate either.

Yes, it will take a generation for people to figure out how to navigate a world like this, but ultimately its the only option that doesn't end up with a centralised arbiter of truth restricting communication (where a dystopia will inevitably follow in a few decades).
Reminds me of how Amazon would only accept complaints about fraudulent and scammy listings if you'd fallen for the scam.
I'm 43 and I avoid Facebook because of the old people. Literally. The people around my age are posting the familiar tripe around COVID and whatever political topic dejour...often followed by a post announcing the death of their life partner from complications brought on by COVID-19.

I used to participate in groups and marketplace but the negative aspects of the platform readily spill over into those corners as well. Icky time-suck.