skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrongfully Convicted make up 2-10% of Incarcerated Individuals
It’s actually possible to switch off ads in the DuckDuckGo search settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
Brave is Chromium with more web features and more privacy and crypto stuff that is turned off by default.

It has Web Torrents, IPFS, Tor, built-in ad blocking, etc.

I just don't understand how someone can be "mad" at a feature that is turned off by default, especially when most browsers ship with literal spyware turned on.
weight and aging a paradox part 1 (without the quotes) is first place on Google for me.

Seems like google only fails on politically sensitive topics like unpopular opinions about COVID. I suspect they might be using a filter, or even a different ranking system for certain keywords.
If you have to write forceful "It's not dead! Really!" blog posts, it kind of gives away the Weekend at Bernie's game.

Snark aside, to try and add something more useful, having seen languages rise and fall, it seems that "not growing" or "gradually losing ground" are kind of what people label as "dead". If lots of people aren't regularly starting new projects with it... it's not healthy.

I wrote something similar about Tcl years ago: https://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went...
The larger private planes use kerosene, but smaller planes use gasoline just like they always did.

The difference is that new gasoline planes can work with unleaded.
Oh, holy ignorance! You clearly have no idea how this works. To get a clue, check daily trading volumes and compare them to market caps.
VR makes most people nauseous and this is going to be far worse.
I am watching from afar and seeing the B grade movie that is Facebook crash and burn.
If the oil & gas rights on >1,100 acres were sold at auction for only $2,500...that suggests that (at least in the minds of the other bidders) there is d*mned little worth the effort of trying to extract there, to generate any "greater good for society".

So why not let the tree-huggers buy up leases on a bunch of neigh-worthless land? Far better than them spending their money on lawyers, to sue real oil & gas companies over the real wells that they're busy drilling & running in worthwhile locations.

/conservative viewpoint
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> what's the long term plan?

If BTC held at these levels for the next 20 years, I wouldn't mind. As long as it holds it own against inflation, it's a pretty nice store of wealth.

If it goes another 10x, I won't mind either, obviously. But I really don't need it to: it's got other advantages.
s/GAMA/GAMI/
Anyone have a layman's guess as to what is driving it to hit these ATHs?
Rumor is, it will be the Scheinhardt Wig Company.
I find relating things to litature like that kind of silly but VR is pretty amazing these days and the quest2 shockingly nice to use

3d interaction clicks with people, i'm not suprised they are doubling/tripling down while leading the market
As an entrepreneur, what would you like from your investor in that initial pitch meeting?
This solution works sometimes, but it's not great if any of the fields don't have a sensible default.
this. Our job is to write profitable code. Not beautiful code.

There's a balance; too much tech debt and the code isn't profitable. But too little tech debt is not profitable either.
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I remember Cfront (C++, ye olden times) being called both a "compiler" and "translator". Does this really matter?
Same on Win 10 21H1 19043.1288
ssh -V
OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2
I love this article. I’m a firm believer in the strengths of well-written code, even in the age of “move fast and break things.”

One of the points this touches on is idiomatic code.

In front-end development, there are lots of resources for organizing and styling components for cohesion across a website. For some reason, there’s rarely a consideration to do this for the back-end, at least in the dozens of applications I’ve worked on and contributed to over the past few years.

The last few larger teams I’ve been on (15-50 developers), I’ve had the responsibility for putting together best practices (or at least better practices) and style guides for the back-end. While I love doing it, I wish they were a forethought rather than an afterthought; only done when shit has already started hitting the fan because of situations that look like this article alludes to. Developers at these organizations have regularly reached out to me periods of time later showing appreciation for putting them together - so I must have done something right. Even developers that were hired after I no longer was with the organization.

You could argue that the back-end is more complex; it is. But for the majority of operations in your very typical application (glorified CRUD on some flavor of an MVC framework), there’s always a dozen ways to get the same result. Asking your framework to do things that it doesn’t explicitly address is where the hairiness comes in. Things like how to build this complex query based on four different contexts? How to represent a form from an object that isn’t backed by a row in the table? How to handle business logic in a way that doesn’t just involve copying a controller method into an object and invoking it, and then copying that object into another object when I need to do the same thing in a slightly different context somewhere else? How to format this string in a way that won’t require me to make changes to the seventy-two different places we currently have it when it’s not always in the view-layer? How to architect a feature that lives by itself in the monolith?

Answers to these questions may be easier to find here on HN, but my typical colleague isn’t on HN (for better or for worse :)). Just like the typical web application is mostly CRUD.

“Best” or even “optimal” solutions to these questions is often a matter of opinion, but in regards to extensibility, maintainability, and legibility, there’s usually some symbiosis. Such agreement is something I keep front-of-mind now. Does that mean I’ll forego putting together these guides? No, I enjoy writing them because I enjoy having them.

I love Breath of the Wild’s choose-your-own-adventure format, but less so when I’m pumping out code.
> anybody who can game the leetcode exam

The best CS class I ever took made all previous exams available to us. They also assured us that our exams would only include questions that have appeared before.

The only way to game that was to learn everything. Leetcode exams, especially at places like Google, are effectively the same thing.

This is good because it levels the playing field. Anyone motivated enough to learn the material can break into the career.
Having just experienced a pair of these, it was incredible. I don't have extensive hearing loss beyond what being a teenager listening to music too loud will do for you, but the way these headphones relayed "normal" sounds while rejecting "loud" sounds was one of those - "why aren't these more popular?" moments. It felt truly superhero-esque.
Spielberg is a better director than Cline is a writer.
A purely private system could be imagined where individuals could seek redress for damages.

The private property argument generally doesn't give an owner the right to interfere with another property owner's use of property. Private courts and contract law are often promoted as part of this argument. Even within the public law system there are noise ordinances.

One difference might be where a manufacturing facility is causing quantifiable damages in the form of pollution, yet a public regulator such as the EPA determines that the pollution is within their guidelines. In this case the property owner may have little or no recourse against the pollution. Another case could be the state building an interstate highway through a neighborhood, causing pollution and diminishing the quality of life for residents.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/campaigns/i-81-story
The infinite stupidity of the human race
Reddit is effectively used as a covert propaganda and advertising machine so its absolutely not in their interests to provide that functionality sadly.
You can say the same about Putin in Russia or Erdoğan in Turkey - they also "won" their elections.

It is pseudo-democracy, where all the supposedly independent institutions (judiciary, legislative, academia, press, etc.) have been coopted and/or are under the thumb of the dictator/"elected leader", and what matters is not who votes but who counts the votes (and whose candidates and votes are suppressed or ruled 'illegal').

In the case of Hungary and Orbán, that parliament that you mentioned, back in March 2020, gave him virtually unlimited powers with no end date [1].

These virtually unlimited powers include:
- State of emergency w/o time limit
- Rule by decree
- Parliament suspended
- No elections
- Spreading fake news + rumors: up to 5 yrs in prison
- Leaving quarantine: up to 8 yrs in prison

So, that's how.

On a side note, I congratulate you for responding. It is really disappointing to see on HN that any mention of how democracy itself is under attack and in serious danger of being lost results in downvote hordes without comments. There is either a big bunch that doesn't want to hear it, or doesn't want it to be heard. At least you engaged in the discussion, so thx!

[1]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/europe/hungary-viktor-orb...
Ah, thanks. That's short and does almost what I want.
Hopefully US hospitals follow the lead and get rid of that dumpster file known as epic
You do know that Google does search bubbling, so your results aren't the same as anyone else's, right?

"I could find it on Google" is exactly as (in)valid as "It works on my machine"
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> He stated that they were not doing well and he knew time was running out. It's do something drastic or be passed on.

The Galileo Seven maneuver.
More evidence that humanity really is the most idiotic it species. Cryptos are trash
Most likely related to SEC allowing futures ETFs to launch as of yesterday (creating more exposure to retail and retirement accounts), but overall there continues to be inflation pressures across the world that are driving some people to buy it. Others are simply speculating.
It's delicate. The noob me chased after new tricks with much more enthusiasm than the current me. Over time, priorities change, and now I just want to get stuff done and for tools to get out of the way. I'd appreciate new tricks that bring quite a lot of benefit to my workflow, but the little tricks I'd rather let fly past me.

If the tools such as base environment changes way too often, I'd be annoyed as well - not because I don't know how to make the colours go away or set up the proper aliases - but the fact that I need to do it and pause my actual work.
It shows that empty anecdotes and emotionality are much more important to entrepreneurs than analysis, facts, logic and reasoning.

It reinforces my worst suspicions, to be frank.
Historic scientific notation bug foils WAF defenses
Central banks around the world printing trillions of dollars and handing them out?
Volatility.
plastics and plastic byproducts
Millions of lives and $Ts in health damage has been done and continues to be done by lead[0]. And it was largely avoidable because the dangers were known.

99 years ago the League of Nations signed a treaty banning indoor leaded paint. The US, of course, declined to join and it took another 50 years before it took action. Concerns were raised about leaded gasoline, industry steamrolled the science.

And it was just a couple of months ago that the final country (Algeria) stopped producing leaded consumer road fuel.

For a good history see

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lea...

[0] An Update on Childhood Lead Poisoning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645046/

As many as 500,000 US children (2.5%) under 6 years have BLLs ≥5 µg/dL. Each lead-exposed child costs an estimated $5600 in medical and special educational services.7 Lead exposure-related cognitive impairments cost an estimated $50.9 billion annually in lost US economic productivity.6
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Not really a joke, that’s actual history. Reagan signed a gun control bill into California law in direct response to the black panthers protesting under arms.
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Remember, slavery itself was normal only 60 years earlier (and was abolished via a civil war, not a popular vote). This massacre, which had the support of many citizens, some businesses, and some government, is still in living memory - there are thousands of Americans alive today who were ~5-13 years old at the time. Ideas take much longer to die than people do. Considering all this, it seems clear that the long tail of evil and hatred in the US will linger for at least many decades more, maybe centuries, but hopefully shrinking the whole way.
I would like this plus the ability to specify per-field defaults on structs like

struct Foo {
bar: String, // No default
baz: Option<u32> = None,
}

I think this would give us 90% of what I would want from first-class named parameters.
It will be cringey if many pitches suddenly incorporated some kind of emotional outburst to get attention. One investor confided to me that watching some of these pitches is like “passing a kidney stone”.
I live in a county with emissions standards. Vehicles over 25 years old are exempt. There are reasonable ways to implement rising standards by exempting older ones.
This line of reasoning is akin to someone giving up on their diet entirely because they ate a single cookie.

Might as well open the floodgates! There’s no point anymore.
stock to flow.
It's not necessarily that it's an uneconomic lease (I don't have any facts). But that initial payment is not the value paid to the government. The lease bid is premised on the risk of exploration, and the huge royalty payments to the government that accrue from any production. Tying up the ground with the initial bid without exploration and production locks away all of that value. To be equivalent, the environmental bid would have to offer the NPE of all of the royalty revenues that would have otherwise been produced, discounted for the likelihood of discovery. And there's no way they could afford that. Natural resource production comes at some cost, but it also produces huge benefits to society. Nobody wants to see a hole in the ground, but everybody wants schools and roads . . . and, yes, gasoline. Lease bid fees are not relevant to the conversation.
When OP talked about it being broken, I suspect they meant something like “With enough knowledge of the complexities of international timezones, as well as the psychology internal to administrators and the public, it is clear that this specific approach cannot solve the problem for everyone world wide without an amount of amount of public shift that is borderline impossible. (For reference, see the XKCD comic about creating a unifying standard)”.
Not sure how it will be bigger than mobile. In public I won’t be donning one of those headsets, but I will pull my phone out to comment on hacker news, or scroll news articles, etc. I don’t think my scenario is unusual.
> The only reason this person was able to get this lease is that this area is uneconomic to produce from.

This is an important point. This much acreage would have cost $28 million in the Permian Basin.
Seems like they’re making up their own definition. I think most people consider a transpiler to be high level => high level
while a compiler would be high level => low level

Nim, JavaScript and C are all high level languages. Do they gain something from being labeled as a compiler?
There are all sorts of cases where you have a simple script that's perfectly fine, but you want to just add two fractions, or store a bit of binary data in a variable. I think those are reasonable expectations, and I don't think that "rewrite it to {Python,Ruby,...}!" is really a great solution (partly because for some simple tasks writing it in Python, Ruby, etc. is a lot more work). "If you want it, then this is not the right tool" doesn't strike me as a very strong argument for missing basic features such as this. For advanced complex features? Maybe. But not this.

I also don't think shell scripting is quite as bad as people make it out to be, or rather, one of the reasons people hate it is because they use bash or POSIX sh, and yeah, that gets problematic fast. The point of the article was to demonstrate that actually, you can solve a decent chunk of the problems and get something much less problematic without a lot of effort, while still retaining the key advantages of shell scripting.

However, even if we exclude all of scripting: you can't write your ~/.{bash,zsh}rc in Python, and it's useful for interactive usage as well.
Its unhealthiness directly correlates to its profitability, so nothing to do with capability.
There’s a large number of people who only care about immediate perceived convenience, and don’t think about the implications of a continual slow eroding of privacy/freedom. Privacy really is freedom. They just don’t think anything bad will happen to them personally to have zero privacy, so why should they care? It’s like the race to the bottom type thing with product quality (and more) when people just want the cheapest product
> well, we can expropriate the wealth of billionaires if we need to” been an opinion

The fact that it's not an opinion, doesn't mean it's not an option.

People other than the far left don't want to do it, just like people don't want to treat a paper cut with cortisone off the bat.

You always have the optionality to do it later, if needed be.
This. A thousand times this. Unfortunately very few seem to believe that this scenario is possible, even after pointing out that’s exactly how the Nazis operated. The response is almost always a variation of “It will never happen here.” At which point, I lose a little more hope for the future of humanity.
The only way to know for sure is to test a few soil samples from the yard and dust samples from inside the house. Also test the water, especially if it is well water.

If you plan to have kids there, the test might be worth it for your peace of mind. If there are no kids I would not bother.
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The thing is, anybody that actually followed that industry in any serious way and had any technical understanding knew that that company was full of shit.

A number of stories were already floating around from former employees.

The company was the most obvious scam I have seen in my life. With minimal intelligence and just 10 min of listening to the CEO made clear that it was a scam company.

Sure they went threw the effort and and gathered that stuff up and did some research, but it was hardly some master-journalism that was required.
US dollar hit all time low compared to BTC.

US dollar has been hitting all time lows compared to most (all?) asset classes. It even hits lows with regards to basic consumer goods these days.
Or perhaps somewhat un-FOCUS-ed.
No, I don't think there's an excuse for anyone writing this badly.
I couldn't bring myself to swallow his explanation for throttling scientific advancement. The trisolarans use a device that meddles with the results of particle experiments, to make the results super unexpected, so the scientists will commit suicide out of desperation. Make their experimental results so curious and interesting that the observers don't want to live anymore. To me that doesn't jibe with human nature one bit.

I also never really understood what the motivation was for projecting a countdown timer into that guy's optic nerve, other than a hackneyed Dan-Brown-level suspense device.

I wish I'd read this on paperback instead of e-book so I could flip back to some more of the "wait. what?"s and "?!"s I would have scribbled in the margins.
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Work visas are used as a method of coercion by US companies, and Facebook knows how effective employees can be when they are coerced.

I knew of a professor with a work visa who spoke out against a University policy of oversizing certain classes. They revoked or did not renew his visa (or however the termination of an employer-sponsored visa works), and mid-semester he had a nervous breakdown, was forced to short sell his house, and was forced to go back to his home country.
And yet, still no progress in stopping readers from submitting dupes or searching first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930809
I often use NaNs on purpose to designate “unknown”, and its properties of “infecting” computations mean that I don’t have to check every step - just at the end of the computation.

R goes even farther, and uses one specific NaN (out of the million-billions) to signal “not available”, while other NaNs are just NaNs.

Its properties, used properly, make code much more simple and sane.
well. even my uncle invests now. a rural dude from the middle or nowhere in southern bavaria...
Thanks for the excuse. Adding to my LinkedIn profile (hey I was born before 1990 you know) now.
^ Exactly. Give me an amazing business idea - I can make it work with the crappiest of code. Give me a terrible business idea - I could not make it work John Carmack.
I think the most noticeable difference is that `$foo` doesn't word-split unless you do `${=foo}`. Beyond that, I don't think one would notice they were using zsh instead of bash. In most ways, zsh is pretty much a superset of bash.
Just use Ungoogled Chromium. I'm also the kind of person who's made uneasy by crypto involvement, and Brave's developers have lambasted me in the past for asking why such a ridiculous feature needs to exist in the first place.

Oh, and 30% of your Basic Attention Tokens go straight to lining Brendan Eich's wallet. I'll just browse on my own, thank you...
On that note, taking bets that their new brand name is "Facebook+".
I don't have to wait ten years. Unless you reject the Church-Turing thesis, then on your definition everything is math, which makes your definition vacuous.
The companies paying Kail know enough to never mention this to anyone else at Netflix. They know what they are doing. And this is why it is common in industry--it's commonly undetectable, and, sadly, that alone will influence many folks' moral compass heading.

One point that was mentioned that was interesting was...

> "When an inquiry from the Netflix CEO ensued, Kail falsely denied that he was formally working with Platfora."

This data point suggests that Kail was pushing underwhelming or otherwise odd-shaped vendor products frequently and/or persistently enough that people at Netflix suspected he was a shill for vendors. The fact that Reed Hastings is presumably calling Kail out for this means the bad smells were pretty powerful. Kail probably does not have final boss-level skills at reading the room.