skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have also found this to be true. Very surprising and, frankly, hilarious. I teach an intro to programming course to grad students, many of them freshly minted undergrads.

I've had to explain the concept of downloading files, file system directory structure and other basics. These are students are at a pretty good school, studying to become data scientists!

The reason is exactly what the author in the link says. They grew up with smart devices, but apparently not desktop/laptop computers.
>There was a segment on how to properly "go public" about why you quit, which is arguably a career limiting move dressed up as virtuous political posturing.

If someone quits because their workplace is sexist, perhaps the motivation in going public is to warn people. You framing this as not being anything but virtue signaling (without using the actual phrase) and use it as an indisputable fact to back your point up strikes me as being the same sort of thing that people on the right claim the media engages in.
>Pointing to a provision in its terms of service that purports to bind even former users of Facebook, Facebook also demanded that I never again create a tool that interacts with Facebook or its many other services in any way.

I want to know 1) what this ToS clause is and 2) how this is even possible?
I assume Q1 is just a service called Queen - it excels at everything and looks amazing doing it.
Jabra owner goes after gaming with SteelSeries acquisition
The coordinated push against WFH has been something to behold. They’re not even being subtle about it.
I don't think too many "peasants" would be able to make $15/month from it, much less any actual gain.
Communist Russia is a terrible example if you want to argue against capitalism/private companies/"bosses". Everyone there was equally poor (except for a tiny elite, which was slightly less poor), and the system worked so badly that it imploded.
I think it heavily depends on what type of goods you are buying. I've not seen issues for basic consumer goods, but in my professional role laptops and other goods that require chips are experiencing some significant delays. Steel roofing for the gazebo I'm building doubled in price, steel tubing for welding has gone way up and orders are delayed. My argon tanks for welding cost 25% more to fill today than pre-covid. Hard to say how much of this is shortage vs price gouging though.
The coffee getting cold and the beans going stale are inefficiencies that arise because of entropy. The latter are true opportunity costs though.
It is not a crime in the US to fail to delete posts encouraging crimes, up to and including genocide, outside the US. In practical terms, US law enforcement cannot monitor for this in foreign languages. Even if US regulations prohibited this, enforcement would be difficult in practice without Facebook's willing and diligent cooperation, and some tool smithing on Facebook's part.

There are vast areas that are legal, surrounded by areas that are unenforceable, further extended to areas where consequences are cheaper than compliance. Facebook can allow all that to happen. Should they?
A trap for your dream world were you suddenly get google size ?

Because I have a 1 million unique users video streaming service still running python 2.7, using a few servers. The thing has a mobile version serving a different media on the fly, encodes user uploaded videos, features comments, tagging, and even has machine learning detection of content now.

It is still maintained by one single person, and he is not a professional dev.

And I'd say it's already very rare to reach that size in any project, in any company. Hell my last 3 paid projects as a freelancer have less than 20 concurrent users. And that's professional. That's people's real life.

2 out of 3 IT projects fail, no code is even shipped. I would worry about the scaling later. Once you do have the problem, pay the price for more hardware or a rewrite, you made it!

And if you do know for sure you will have the problem (you already work for a GAFAM), then not choosing python is ok, it's not a trap, it's a trade off.

But for the vast majority of us out there, having an easy, solid, battle tested and clean language with a huge ecosystem is worth a 10000 times more than some scaling potential in 5 years down the road.

I have seen so many big C++ or Java project fail I don't associate any language with big and failure anyway. I've seen devs arguing about the purity of this in Haskell, or that in Ocaml, and nothing gets to the end user because it's never perfect, or it's a toy, and doesn't handle IRL.

But what powers most companies ? Rail apps that you won't upgrade ever, but are still running. Spaghetti PHP code and wordpress that just won't dies. Horrible SAP scripts, VBA macros and excel sheets that actually deal with your real data.

Because they shipped. They did the job.
Lucky you! And I've recently had a bad experience with Cloudflare support, but I'm still making my offhand comment, because recently an AWS sales rep told me that the formal support process for one of their enterprise products is, paraphrased, "post to a discussion forum, and if I'm not on vacation, I'll see it and escalate internally to get you support" in as many words. I actually restated it to them to confirm and they paused noticeably before unhappily saying "Yes, that's correct". So it'll be a while before they earn back my respect in that particular regard — I may be upset at receiving poor support one time, but it's still better than not even having a ticketing system available from the other.
Does any one else get the feeling that many environmental pieces are just Chinese propaganda used for economic warfare?
I haven't used it, but having experience with IntelliJ IDEA and GoLand, they are slower and more cumbersome. In SourceInsight you click on any symbol and immediately you get xrefs, the function's source code (if it's a function), etc...
Just congratulations.
Facebook is a public company. What happens if OP buys a share? Facebook bans shareholders now from using the product they partially own?
What do I put in my Pi-Hole to block these?
That's what my solution is. I am not going to get into pins and get cargo crates to solve such a simple problem. I just resort to unsafe. But then at that point...C++ is easier for me.
> Ok, let's admit it, writing bad Python code is very easy, as it is in every dinamically typed language

Writing bad code is easy in most statically typed languages too.
I gave Go a try recently and it was a quite pleasant experience. I don't see why I wouldn't use it for greenfield work over Python.
I feel sorry for this person.
Scientology: did some alien make a bet that he could get the daftest religion ever to take hold in 1950s America?

"The Underground Bunker: Latest News"

https://tonyortega.org/scientology/

"Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Remini:_Scientology_and_t...
You can read through this SO question and the top response does a good job explaining the possible solutions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32300132/why-cant-i-stor...
Wow there must be less toxic parts of Facebook. All my friends and family post is the "kind of content that mirrors this article's sentiment".
Declaring Language in HTML
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> I've seen the curve and the pain it's caused, and would never use it for any code that needs to be performant or actively developed on the multi-month or year timescale

Typed python is safer and more maintainable than Go. Slow as a dog, but it's really a hard choice when choosing performance and a bad type system with a half baked language vs a good language with a good type system that is a bit of a drag on performance.

And you really don't have to go all in typing. I have worked on gradually typing code bases and it pays off from day one almost.
> Once you've memorized all the mistakes in the Scandi or London system

What's a good book for this?
OP is referring to the improvement in cars over time. Something I just barely remember the tail end of (and I'm not old). Over the 20th century, cars went from something you basically had to be a mechanic to own and drive, to machines where you push a button and steer.

Until modern engines under computer control (1980s) it wasn't guaranteed your car would start when you turned the key. Especially in a cold place like here. Pop the hood, fiddle with the carburetor, fiddle with the fuel ratio, apply a heating pad. Something like that was the morning routine for my father's old pickup truck.

Such unreliability would immediately result in such a vehicle being discarded as defective today, but it was pretty normal back then. I seem to recall far more "sorry I'm late, but the car wouldn't start" even in the 90s than today. Of course, getting rid of the handcrank to start was probably the biggest improvement but that was before my time :)
Being angry about it isn't the same thing as arguing that we should make it illegal.
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This would be really cool to make a crypto currency miner that uses webassembly and websockets to infect webpages with.
Not exactly analogous though. They didn't need to know how to fix their cars to get through high school assignments. How the hell did kids turn in essays and whatnot? I doubt they were printing them. Or was literally everything done in Google Docs?
Do you still get the random sponsored posts though? Honestly that's the bulk of my junk. I don't even follow these posts, they just appear because I guess other people fitting my demographic profile like to watch these and fb shoehorns them in. Maybe I can set up a ublock rule to catch these but knowing fb they are wise to this arms race already.
Because those orders have to be paid for. When the bill is due, what good is a warehouse full of finished products nobody's buying?
Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)
I'm not saying the Republicans have better sources of information or that they're better informed. I'm saying the mainstream news outlets are completely undeserving of our trust considering how agenda-driven and partisan most of them are. My contention is "trusting the mass media" is not inherently a positive quality.
Yes, it is different. With a car, no matter how modern, you still (used to) command where it drives you. In a smartphone, someone else makes this decision for you. (Or at least someone else limits your options.)

There is obviously a difference between not knowing what a URL is and not being able to read assembly. Both could be seen as "arcane details of computer knowledge" that enhance your autonomy when using a computer, but one is in principle accessible to 95% of the world's population without much effort, the other is a highly specialized technical skill.
Language is fascinating. I was chatting with a friend from India and used the phrase "time is money." She looked at me with a funny expression and asked how I knew that. I explained the origins and meaning of the phrase and she laughed. She said that in her mother tongue the word for money sounds just like the English word "time."

I wonder how many of these localized, regional dialects will be lost over the coming decades.
My family comes from a country that only economically liberalized in the last 25 years. Trust me, popularity is _not_ a capitalist thing. Capitalism feeds into pageant show dynamics, absolutely, but popularity is still a driving force in non-capitalist economies.

There's nothing wrong with playing around with these concepts for purely recreational/artistic reasons, but I don't think that's where OP is coming from. OP talks about their reasoning in a sibling comment.
Yes. Often you'll do 3 - 5 tastings a week, sometimes even two in a day so spitting really helps keep the alcohol intake down.

The thing that really gets you is palette exhaustion though. Taste 40 ripe Cali cabs and they all start tasting the same after a point...
Theory: most of the Facebook Hate in the media right now is largely due to it being one of the main critical outlets against said media and those who align with its preferred point of view. It is the everyman’s antidote against them.

If the dominant viewpoint on FB was the opposite viewpoint a la every other social media outlet, we most likely wouldn’t be having these discussions about FB right now, or at least not anywhere near this degree.
Not entirely true -- Bell Atlantic became Verizon after it ate most of the baby bells in the Northeast.
"Regulation and red tape" is a very hard problem to solve. I don't see a clear path to low-regulation nuclear power due to its political toxicity and the actual need for safety.

Just look at the Seabrook Station power plant in New Hampshire. "Two reactors were planned at Seabrook but the first unit didn't begin full operation until 1990, a full 14 years after the construction permit was granted, and the second unit was never built due to construction delays caused by protests, cost overruns, and troubles obtaining financing. The difficulties led to the bankruptcy of Seabrook's utility owner, PSNH."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabrook_Station_Nuclear_Power...
I sometimes have trouble with the idea of “creating wealth”. I am not sure if people like Bezos or Gates have created wealth but instead have managed to funnel wealth into their pockets. They may even have destroyed wealth by suppressing competition and potentially better ideas.

It seems the real wealth creators are inventors and scientists who create new things . From then it’s more if zero sum game between different businesses.
Sorry but I flatly don’t respect legal systems that don’t respect property rights. In the Anglo-American tradition and countries which are also Anglo-descended or Anglo-influenced and some other entirely separate legal systems as well, property rights are a big deal.

And a core fundamental principle of property rights is the right to exclude.
You can know that, sure. But any "concrete, proactive, and fundamental changes to the system" require first deciding what content is "okay" and "not okay". Or somehow stopping people from spending time on Facebook products, which just moves the problem to TikTok (or whatever social network takes it place).

I see it as either we allow all content or no content regardless of the effect, any other method has facebook (or again a human moderator or ML model) deciding whats okay and not okay for our eyeballs to see. I don't want that.

We can't depend on tech companies to fix human societal issues. People have been spreading misinformation on the radio and tv, political division by partisan "news" sites, and children's mental health is affected when they compare themselves to peers in school. We can't blame facebook for these.
The reality of the situation is that if Facebook makes any changes everyone will jump ship to another platform and the cycle will continue.
0.02% BAC per drink is wildly underestimated. many people will reach the driving limit of .08 after 2 drinks

there’s a chart on this dmv page that shows you have to be 240lbs to get .02 per drink

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/california-driver-han...
It's even worse than that because Azure has block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs.
Imagine how much more popular it would be if it wasn't banned/feared/frowned upon.
Smartphones are basically computers with training wheels. People who never stop using training wheels do not know how to ride a bike.
That’s not what base load is referring to.

Nuclear designed for load following vs base load has real physical differences with base load being cheaper to construct as a trade off for being less flexible. At the extreme end it takes several hours if not days for some nuclear power plant designs to safely go from standby to full output.

Peaking power on the other hand is designed to go for long periods without being used. They generally get paid for being standby capacity even when not in use. Similar to a generator at a hospital, they need to sit unused for months only be tuned on in at worst a few minutes.

Peaking power is the economical option for heatwaves or other extreme power demands. At the extreme it might actually be a backup generator pulling double duty. So what if it’s running on diesel if it’s only tuned on for 100 hours a decade fuel costs aren’t that relevant.
"They can drink a lot of alcohol and still have a relatively low blood alcohol level."

Any sources for this? My understanding is that an enlarged liver does not process more alcohol because the enlargement is typically fatty deposits, cirrhosis, and inflammation. I did find an article that says alcoholic livers can produce a different set of enzymes to metabolize the alcohol. But it says it produces a different buzz, bit nothing about faster processing.
Lynx: A standalone VR and AR headset from France
Really the big issue here is not lack of ability but lack of will.

Look at the Tea Party and the DSA; they have enough motivated bases to form parties of their own, but their strategy is to co-opt and purify the existing mainstream parties. Equivalent movements in Spain decided to make their own parties and Podemos and Vox became the next two largest parties in Spanish elections.
Twice in my life I've had to hire a lawyer. One took wire transfers and the other took checks/money orders.

The vast majority of attorneys require the establishment of a retainer account (and in most jurisdictions it's one of the criteria to tell if the guy is officially 'your lawyer' or not yet)

And yet a lawyer is exactly one of those things where you say "oh shit I need one right now".

There's a reason the saying goes 'cash is king'

Good luck with your credit card
they have blacklist function on their smart contract so basically they control in terms of blocking the supply they print on other people crypto wallets
Impressive people still use Facebook given it only has communist dipshits.
I call B.S. on that one. How do you think large commercial accounts make posts on facebook and instagram and other places? It's not from writing and posting right then like you and I. Social media managers use third party tools where they can write a bunch of posts in advance and have them drip fed out at peak hours over time. That's automatic tooling too, yet facebook tolerates it because advertisers rely on it rather than users like the case of the OP extension.
Walmart focuses on fast inventory turnover in their stores. They get paid by customers at point of sale, but pay suppliers months later. During that interval they can invest the float and earn interest. So to a limited extent they literally can lose money on every sale but make it up in volume.
Virtual reality through a new lens: RF5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye
Yes, that's a fair criticism. If I were to rewrite this article today I would try to make this clearer. I think at the time, having recently seen Gibbs speak, I found his argument compelling. But I clearly could (and should) have done a much better job communicating it. Mea culpa.
Edge is already eating Mozilla's lunch on the desktop and Brave is growing.

I think the big thing about VPN is that its value is predicated on others being shit. Stuff like Edge Collections, Brave's privacy respecting Search/News/Talk/Rewards(tips) stack, Vivaldi having built-in RSS and notes, and yes Pocket all provide direct value to the user. A password manager is direct value, as was Send or whatnot.
Just curious, but how strong are those campaigns actually? Do they do the door-knocking, the ads, and the voter registration?
How to make your first Open Source Contribution?
Nothing beats manually copying hundreds of lines of b&w code from a book and missing some syntax and having no idea why.

Actually, punch cards beat this.
The GIL has already been removed in at least Jython and PyPy.

PyPy is 4x faster (on benchmarks), no xp with Jython.
I think you are trying to twist what I said, but I will grant it could be read that way if you really want it. From one inspection to another, things wear down. It could be a note in one report, a concern in one following, and even a must repair in a future report. Again, no hoodwinking necessary. Corp says that they are not going to do anything at a recommended status, and only consider things indicated as required. For example, the recent Texas debacle where the plants were recommended to weather proof their facilities but elected not to do it for something they felt the costs were not justified.
It kinda makes sense to me. Anyone is allowed into bars (21+ of course) without any expectation of making a purchase. The bar is still allowed to kick people out
I think you should be able to invest in your IRA however you like, but there really should have been a limit on how much is tax advantaged. Or perhaps just a limit in terms of how large disbursements can be while still being tax advantaged?
Actually, no, cigarette advertising has been banned in many countries.
And the answer is "Facebook should NOT have the right to do it".

Facebook has made itself a public utility. And public utilities should be nationalized.
Someone who is just learning chess will likely be able to beat the old them with 99% probability after a few days of playing and learning.

Someone who is ranked at around 1200 and really commits to improving can likely beat the old them in a couple of months by memorizing a few common openings and practicing drills/working on fundamentals.

Someone who is a dedicated chess player and ranked above 1800 may never be able to beat the old them with 99% probability.

So if someone says they improved by 600 points, certainly that is meaningful to them as an individual and it means they can basically beat their old self, but it won't be very meaningful to me.
If they could have worked out a deal to license MacOS X in the late 90s, it would have been a real game changer. Its too bad Jobs would not give Dell reasonable terms.
I think we were at a sweetspot around the 2000s... The windows XP era.

But this is most likely my own familiarity bias?
Ippm – Interplanetary Package Manager
Chrome apparently already has similar suggestions in the address bar.
Jobs was pretty bold asking Dell for a royalty of every Dell PC sold.

I'm curious what a world like that would have looked like, where you can choose between OS X and Windows when purchasing a computer.
Older folks have been baskets of knowledge my entire career. You sit down with an old grey beard, you're going to learn something, and hear a great story. But they haven't always been valued to the extent they should.

I don't think this new phenomonom changes things. These kids are still smart, and their knowledge is infiintely practical. But they might not be up to speed how it works under the covers. That takes some expereince, and time. The kids have alot of value, and i'd hire them. But the old guys are still needed to keep the high level stuff functioning while the kids learn.
No, they are not. They still have protection from disease but they may get infected.
LibreWolf is also available as an AppImage. After reading this news today, I downloaded that AppImage, started it up and closed it down (just to create a profile folder), and replaced the default contents of the new LibreWolf profile folder with a copy of the contents of my existing Firefox profile folder. I then started LibreWolf up and went into Edit-->Settings and inspected all of those (they didn't carry over for some reason so I had to check and edit them manually). Other than that, it's working fine so far: my old tabs / extensions / passwords are all here, and I'm writing this comment from LibreWolf! (I've kept my Firefox profile folder for now just to be safe, but have otherwise uninstalled Firefox.)
Snark aside, it depends.

Corporations are so used to applying arbitrary values to ephemeral things on their balance sheets that I think such a mentality seeps over into highly skilled employees in some cases.

In other cases, the business's viability is determined by how many minimum wage (or better yet, off the books entirely) laborers can be obtained in a given week. See: every construction project in every US state, for example.