skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF-86 doesn’t ask any questions like this. They’ll send out agents to collect more in-depth questions that may probe situations like this. They’ll also ask friends, neighbors, family etc about all sorts of things. This isn’t really the kind of question a self-reported form can answer (except for the most obvious questions like debt problems). It takes a human who can synthesize various statements to get pictures like “this person could be blackmailed” or “this person can’t keep a secret.”
I think this is article illustrates everything that's wrong with society. It just goes on and on about fixing problems, without even mentioning why the problem is there to begin with, let alone preventing those problems.

> Better ideas might come from communities for whom “normal” was something to survive, not revert to. Many Puerto Ricans, for example, face multiple daily crises including violence, poverty, power outages, and storms

Yeah, let's normalize pandemics, why not. We should continue to live in a perpetual state of fear, and just get used to it, because that's how we can best be ready to respond. That's crazy thinking. Why did this pandemic happen to begin with, and why isn't that priority in order to prevent the next one? Nuclear power seems to follow this logic, let's prevent the nuclear disasters, but for whatever reasons viral pandemics are not, and we must get used to them?

I guess society must be rotting from within for people to accept this line of thinking. Nothing can be fixed by addressing the root problem causing the issues, we must instead address the symptoms nonstop forever, making the corporations and government (increasingly the same thing) more and more responsible for our lives.
> “Your thoughtful plans indicate you are not amateur,” the FBI wrote to Toebbe. “This relationship requires mutual comfort.”

LOL, I like to play with salespeople because I know their responses are scripted. So although I like being commended on my intelligence, I change my job title and pedigree just to see if that gets the same accolades

“You’re a lightbulb repairman so I know you’re smart, you can see this offer is the best for you” says the person making an offer that is not the best for me.

Helps me keep a clearer head in negotiating
Living in Japan for more than 5 years I've never felt anxious about being surrounded by people not like me. Maybe because I come from a country where all kinds of people live. My idea of my tribe is quite broad..
I don't think it's hard set thing. It depends on one's own view of humanity.
I've certainly made some old ladies anxious with my presence at the start of COVID however.
Lack of language skills, and all the results of that is more a contributor to difficulties of being a minority.
Yes, but sometimes software comes from people who are generally trustworthy. Free and open source software from official Linux distribution repositories has a very low chance of being compromised.
The total population of those 3 regions amounts to 50 million, less than 4% of China.
If anyone is sponsoring Andreas please use GitHub sponsors if you can as he gets the most money through that.
this shit can't be healthy

there is a reason why sextoys that are sold are using medical grade materials
When I was coding for 16C71 all the C compilers were buggy. It's one reason never call them the good old days. We are so luck to have the tools we have today!
This page should definitely have a "end of free public updates" column as is shown on the "Java version history"[0] page, so it's clear updates stop much sooner than the LTS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
I think you misunderstand the art of storytelling.

It's not about trying to give an accurate historical account, the focus is primarily entertainment.

It's been like this for thousands of years.
Wait. Some people still get put through a complete nonsense pseudoscience polygraph test for clearance?
What always fascinated me about this sequence was the huge (multiplicative) gap between the exponents: 2^127 - 1 and 2^521 - 1.

If that property continued after 2^20,996,011 - 1 the next one would be around 2^86,133,241-1 which is bigger than the (provisional) 51st Mersenne prime, so we'd be stuck at "40th verified Mersenne prime found in 2003".

Which really makes you wonder about the density of these primes in exponent terms ...
iOS, is short form for iPhone OS. i in iPhone, doesn't really stand for something (it's derived from iPod, which was derived from iMac). Accoding to wikipedia, Jobs said the "i" stood for "internet, individual, instruct, inform, and inspire".

Given that the abbreviation isn't literal, "internet OS" is not colloquial and you will confuse others.
It was sort of magical when switched capacitors put all of this into a single IC. I've built a number of supplies over the years using a venerable 555 timer IC driving one side of a 1:1 transformer at about 1MHz, then rectifying it on the other side and using a linear regulator to get the "negative" voltage I want. The real trick is to understand that ground is only a concept not an absolute :-)
Axial Flux Motors for Electric Vehicles
Ah, I see that you responded with a source on behalf of the person making the claim. Although my sentiment still stands - the source doesn't support the claim.

"So those sources are cleaner per gallon of fuel than a gas-powered leaf blower, and they don't exhaust quite as close to living, breathing people."

Per gallon. Lawn equipment is is a tiny fraction compared to these others. Airports tend to be in cities, power plants tend to be close to population centers, most people have a road in front of their house... sounds like those are close to people, output more overall, and are used more frequently than once every week or two.
this isn't true at all. only canadians who received az as one of their doses (less than 10% of the population) are not recognized as vaccinated in the usa
It's a natural property of the pyramidal structure of most organizations. At the bottom, there are many people in a similar situation to sympathize with, but at the top, there is only one CEO.
That's amazing. Wish there was something similar for the JVM and V8.
We'll always have the screenshot
You say it will never get any traction, but cryptocurrency’s global market cap is $2.28T right now and growing. This has a lot of vibes similar to when dropbox was first announced. Even if you don’t find it valuable or believe in it, surely you can see why a group of people might.
> A priority queue that favors end users "farther down the process" is nice for load shedding.

Another pattern from the networking world, one which Facebook wrote about, is CoDel aka Controlled Delay (switches tasks to lower timeouts when the work-queue begins to build-up) combined with adaptive LIFO (processes last-in tasks first when under load, but FIFO otherwise): https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2839461
And that site directly contradicts the OP's claim:

"Canadian citizens, permanent residents or persons registered under the Indian Act and foreign nationals eligible to enter Canada under another entry exemption (such as foreign work, study, compassionate grounds) will not be denied boarding or entry, but you:

won't be eligible for the fully vaccinated traveller exemption

may face additional delays at the border for public health questioning

may be subject to fines or enforcement action"
you not missing anything. The LI I enjoyed some 5-8 years ago is nothing like LI today. I got literally blocked twice because someone was spreading misinformation re vaccines, and when I point it out that LI is not even a place for this, I got reported by so many anti vax that my account got automatically suspended.
Yeah I don't know how we could possibly validate that. It's similar to, but not the same as, measuring this in North Korea.
My guess is that it's merely the common human trait of valuing immediate emotional desire over the intellectual knowledge of future consequences. People do it all the time when they eat, cheat on their spouses, press the snooze button, drink, or spend time posting on Hacker News.
I'm curious as to why they have 'this.' to access class fields.

JavaScript uses this because the architecture for accessing fields predates the existence of classes (even then I feel it should be extended to allow fields be accessed without 'this.' if the field and usage exist within the same class definition.)

Surely a compiler should be smart enough to not require a 'this.' if the name is in the scope of the class and not hidden behind something like a parameter with the same name.
> Attribute lookup in Python is [...] an enormous tar pit

Spot on. Python is widely described as a simple language, but the complexity of attribute lookup is one thing that shows that's not true at all.

Many things in Python are easy, such as adding `@property` above a method definition to turn it into a getter. But `@property` is far from simple - the way it actually works is very complex (for example, properties have to be data descriptors, because non-data descriptors cannot override object attributes of the same name).
Folk like that always see themselves the hero.
Mostly language design.

Guido van Rossum doesn't appreciate FP and he really genuinely doesn't understand it. That's not to say he's dumb or not a nice guy or anything. It's just not his area. And this is reflected in the language.

His attitude of you have to be "really smart" to understand FP is a mistake.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/08/25/2115204/inter...

https://blog.finxter.com/about-guidos-fate-of-reduce-in-pyth...
I’m currently in that 1,2, 3 trifecta and it’s very challenging most days. It’s been a tough year: co-founder quit along with a few others and investors loosing patience, but I’m trying to keep everything together.

I haven’t given up because I believe in what we’re doing (most days) and I want to see if I’m capable of turning this thing around.

I appreciate this comment a lot. Thank you.
USSR dissolution and declaration of independence by ex Union states = Russia doesn't have the same legal claims at UN anymore. Whereas PRC has maintained legal claims over ROC at UN, it's still a domestic issues where interests on both sides of the strait matter. So yes, it really does work that way if one subscribes to the Westphalian system that west seems to advocate. Being a representative government has no baring on it. Post war order / UN is based on understanding that countries can do whatever they want domestically. And PRC/TW civil war is dejure a Chinese domestic issue no matter how much people pretend otherwise.
You are the gullible and ignorant victim of western anti-china propaganda. Many independent studies have been done. They all show very high approval ratings. Higher now, after the pandemic.
Yesterday I read that HN is filled with business posts, today that it's filled with political posts. I can't see any of either on the front page right now.

Dang has some classic comments filled with links to countless people insisting in the strongest terms that HN is intolerably and totally far-left, far-right, and everything in between. People see it as whatever they are not.

If you don't like political stories, then hiding, flagging them is not enough, or just not reading them? I'm sure whatever the topic you could find people totally sick of that topic and wish it was banned on here. You find the discussion boring?! Don't read it! Why isn't that enough for you?

I don't find that talk of "the wrong opinion" helpful.

You find downvotes on certain comments very unnecessary?! Your proposal to ban politics seems like a vastly larger downvote/flag, on a whole subject area.
Yup its like sorting through YouTubes 7 trillion 'How to make an omelette' videos. You know there are great ones in there but its a crap shoot what gets found.

More awareness reqd about the Explore-Exploit tradeoff.
> FB free to operate as now in the rest of the world

Actually no, it'd be fully subservient to CIA and Five Eyes in general in that case. More so than it is now.
This is false. You can fill in the required information online without a mobile app, and print out the ArriveCAN receipt or write down the 6 character code. There's no need to use a smartphone.
People seem to have completely forgotten the difference between circulating antibodies and immune cells. If somebody had Covid-19 a while ago and didn't have exposure to it they may still have immune cells but no circulating antibodies.
aws cli v2 is such a sad story long live awscli1!
> There was a secret in the app store. You could make the application name really really long. And the search engine on the App Store gives more weight to the application name rather than the keybookwords defined. So we put a really long application name, "make awesome music videos with all kinds of effects for Instagram, Facebook, Messenger”. And then traffic came from the search engine. That's how we initially got started.

Longer app length = more random/other stuff matches = more views
Without lockdowns and other measures you'd have half million children that lost at least one parent.
I can imagine many other motives and methods. Many people are torn between risking their careers, freedom, and/or safaety, and doing the right thing by blowing the whistle.
I'll go forward and offer my own interpretation: highly creative people experience the process of creation as something that comes _through_ them, not _from_ them, that's why Bob Dylan calls them "stenographers". I think most people have experienced some glimpse of this when you lose yourself in flow, wether you are dancing, coding, or writing. Norm doesn't understand that calling the author of his favorite passage a stenographer is actually praise, because he means it comes from a higher source than the ego. One week later he understands the koan and tells Dylan, who laughs.
Oh no doubt. The technology definitely already exists. A wonderful algorithm that all the security agencies use.
LFS is good for learning, but if you want a long term maintainable solution, use Gentoo instead.

(Disclaimer: 18 year Gentoo user speaking)
I was wondering where all the traffic on the repo was coming from after months of inactivity lol.

Most comments (so far) are asking "why?". Its honestly a fair question, what does this language offer that others dont? Nothing really, this project isn't anything serious I just wanted to have some fun with it. Regardless, I'll put up a why section.
well, i'm talking about recognition as the Chinese state understand it, of course no private organization can "recognize" a state in an official, diplomatic capacity, that's hardly the focal point of my statement. let me know if you have a better word for it. alright.
I use debian on servers and their Jdk has given me 0 issues

I develop on arch and they have a great jdk system as well.
I do not recall it being FOMO. It was 2GB of free email when Yahoo and Hotmail were offering what, 20MB or 200MB?

I also recall Google offering some combination of IMAP/POP/email forwarding/"send mail as" features whereas Yahoo/Hotmail did not, but I do not recall the exact features that Google offered that the others did not.

It was a superior email service, from a company that was growing by leaps and bounds and was obviously going to be huge, so you also wanted to grab an email address without too many numbers.

I would have thought Google requiring invites was simply so that they did not get overwhelmed by demand all at once that they could not handle.
Babysitting is not "nothing." It's one thing to get paid and go fishing a la
Peter Gibbons, it's quite another to sacrifice your circadian rhythm in the
service of your employer's uptime.
Correct. I am a Canadian who recently traveled to Canada. I filled AriveCAN out at home, printed it out, and brought the printed receipt to the border.
> to think that an IaaS platform must cost something in payments per month to some tech company. It does not.

I agree fully! As you explained, it can cost several full time employees and their payrolls and their HR and their management!

Edit: And before someone misses the point, I'm not saying the math never makes sense for in-house, but to me the inexperienced take is thinking either approach should obsolete the other...
The thing with Go is that I find the syntax very ugly to look at however it is so convenient to install, run, deploy, make performant applications.
There’s some folks who will run their sentences through google translate and back between languages with poor translation coverage to strip identifying writing styles.
>may be subject to fines or enforcement action

What does this mean? What's "enforcement action?"
> We’d like to apologise for the confusion and anger generated by this situation.

I don't see anything wrong with giving a real apology like "We apologize for releasing a game that violated our no-DRM policy, which applies to the base game and any DLC, and we're offering refunds to everyone who purchased it."
Everybody is focusing on what happens on top of the CPU, but very few people talk about what happens beneath it.

Datacenters are fucking expensive to build and run, buying network and compute hardware is a pain in the ass, maintaining sufficient capacity to sustain growth while operating on a 3-6 month deployment lead time is atrociously expensive, and that's without all of the financial calculation around depreciation/taxes/etc.

The fact that cloud providers are able to ball all of that shit up into a flat opex rate for a server is unbelievably attractive.
It’s a standard practice for a
tier of Top Secret security clearance.
Reflection and class loader shenanigans to shoot them selves in the foot.
It would be slightly more accurate to say that you receive a new copyright in any new material in the work, not that your copyright is extended on the old material. Under U.S. law at least, a significant alteration of a work results in a derivative work under law, and you are correct to say that it is entirely reasonable to place an updated copyright date on that work.
They also cost less and provide more total light. Wasn’t a no brainer for all the people that fought for it.

My landscapers work 12 hour days. How would they charge a battery mower 10+ times? It’s fine for a homeowner but not so great for a pro
Quill outputs HTML, you could probably wire-up a html-2-md to convert the output from quill.
I think society is full of three or four things that are essentially mentally enslaving people:

1. Diets of processed food, carbs, sugar, etc.

2. Alcohol

3. Dopamine jerking online content and social media

4. Porn

By mentally enslaving, I mean people are running at a hugely reduced mental clarity, which is stopping them from living life to its full potential. They are essentially living on automatic, with reduced ability to have agency and be agile about how they live

Personally I think number 1 (diet) is the easily the most underated.
>It'll be enough to matter to him. Future wages can be garnished.

civil judgements can be discharged via bankruptcy.

>I don't want a job where I'm required to be a milquetoast.

Isn't that the problem? There will always be someone who is willing to be a milquetoast, hence why institutions are caving to the slightest pressure from twitter mobs.
Machine Learning (specifically its application to Brain Computer Interfaces).

I'm sure all of about 2 HN readers will be shocked to discover this!
Software for Math Research
Tibet used to be the pet project of Hollywood and US mainstream media, until they were told to shut up about it.

See Google trends [1]

This is a very real influence and it's pervasive due to the fat one side speaks with one, directed voice, the other there's no coordination at all: leaders of nations, provinces, universities, corporations, NGOs, uncoordinated.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=t...
I turn on NPR from time to time out of curiosity, and immediately regret it. It _used to be_ balanced, but now it's full-on hard left. It used to be that there actually was some diversity of opinion on NPR. Nowadays you don't even need to guess what points of view you will hear about hot button issues - it's hard left without fail. IOW they have obviated the need for themselves by making it possible to foresee what they will say without tuning in. That said, that's how it is with most media nowadays not just NPR, including this very site. It has become socially unacceptable to surface dissent.
Yeah, I think in game dev there was also a culture of understanding that leaking that stuff just hurt whoever was working directly on it.

Back when I was in industry we all knew what everyone else was working on including big IPs and next gen console stuff. That might have also been a factor of how small and tight nit of an industry it was.
Roscoe Forthright.Square-Dancing on the Wide Rings of Saturn
Here is a sci-fi short series for Grown-ups! (No watered-down fantasies with boobs and vaginas covered up.) The stories appear in a comic book, book, and video formats. CHEERS! Enjoy!
The crucial difference with Rust's Result (I don't know Zig well enough) is that Result isn't about control flow.

Exceptions unavoidably and deliberately change control flow.

Suppose you're in a loop twiddling zarks. In Rust, twiddling a zark gives you a Result and if the Result isn't Ok then that's an error. But Rust doesn't care what - if anything - you do with the error, it just won't allow you to pretend the error was Ok (because it isn't). You can count up all your Results and consider what fraction were Ok. You can filter out any that weren't Ok. You can ignore the Result altogether. Or, if you find one that isn't Ok you could give up twiddling zarks immediately. Rust doesn't mind, Results are just data, do whatever you want with it.

But in a language with exceptions, checked or not, each time there's a problem twiddling a zark the exception jumps the program to somewhere else to "handle" the exception - and it's on you, the programmer, to manage that, by e.g. wrapping the zark twiddling in a try-catch block.
I kept a few of those chips to show my kids. They're really works of art.

The PIC16C84 was one of the (if not the) first MCU chips to use EEPROM (precursor to flash memory), so I didn't need an eraser. It became a favorite of hobbyists. Programs were so simple, that assembly language wasn't really much of a barrier. I only started using C later, in fact, to teach myself C programming.

Before that, I made a board that combined an 8031 (8051 without built-in ROM) and a 28 pin EEPROM. My programmers hung on the parallel printer port of a MS-DOS machine, and were controlled by code I wrote in Turbo Pascal. Ah, the days. ;-)
I almost always read the articles I comment on here, or a least skim them.

But I don't click on something every time I come here. I skim the front page and the "new" page several times most days but probably only click a link an average of about 5-10 times a day.

I come here when I'm taking a break from coding. I take a lot of short breaks.

The thing I love most about HN is the wide range of topics people share here. I find stuff here that I just wouldn't come across anywhere else.

That and the opportunity to see what others think about and add to those topics offers such a great way to learn that HN is one of the very few sites I do visit every day.

And the main reason I visit it is to find links to click on. Next would be to read the comments. Much further, but next after that would be to comment on the subject and content of the link.
Nutanix is getting pretty good at this. My enterprise style company switched from AWS to nutanix this year, we bought three all nvme/ssd nodes with 1TB memory in each.

We were heavy EC2/RDS users, now we run their NX whitebox nodes with their KVM based hypervisor, and their database management platform "Era".

Everything is one click for deployment and upgrading of things, down to stuff like upgrading the SSD firmware, NIC firmware, etc. It auto migrates the VMs around hot, and does one node at a time. They also have a kubernetes platform called Karbon that seems to be pretty good.
"Your ambitions blind you to the nature of reality."

https://youtu.be/44f3mxcsI50?t=1445