skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marketing of Facebook was of no use when Facebook was laying flat not so long ago. It shows which department should really have a definitive voice in product metrics.
A while ago there was a post about Gmail not filtering obvious spam. It's back
People pay for services because it's work that they are unable or unwilling to do themselves

Building things that people will not pay for is called a hobby.

You're not entited to an income from your hobbies.

> This is a story about me dreaming

Yup

> 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0 (kwcodes.com)

You didn't even try to finish 2 of the 5 projects
You didn't even do anything in 2 of the 6 years.

Your title is clickbait. Seems like you want attention more than you want money.

By comparison, looking at my github, I started over 50 projects in last year and finished a dozen of them. Hobbies all of them and I didn't expect to make a dime. If you want a reality check, head over to https://itch.io/jams. You'll find 10,000 hobbies projects not making any money.
A bunch of unsupported conjecture does not a conspiracy make.
That's a horrible reason to use a language for teaching.
Scientific Realism and the 'Pessimistic Induction'
I love Louis Rossman's video about why he does not use Apple products. Near the beginning, he talks about how he worked in a recording studio, and people would bring in background music they wanted to sing along with on MP3 players, and he was used to just copying files off. Which worked just fine until he encountered his first iPod:

https://youtu.be/sfrYOWlKJ_g?t=163
We should make some islands with this technology. Maybe it could help solve the housing crisis.
There is not a blatant malice in TCG per se, mainly a neutral desire for control and by proxy profit.

The originators of the idea were thinking of DRM and came from the content industry. I don't think it's a neutral technology at all.
Hint to Spy Game where Brad Pitt plays a Journalist as an active CIA agent was no mistake.
It’s weird, in Florida we do this almost every year. It’s not a big deal.
He literally chose to be there - skipping bail to do so.

It's like saying that a criminal on the run hiding out in the woods is being tortured.
lol ... I guess I'm being down voted by people getting medical advice from podcasts?
True, but you have to remember that until relatively recently, the idea of owning a 556/223 AR platform was pretty far out of the mainstream.

People who liked guns hunted, and or owned things in calibers that overlapped between hunting and the military (think .308). They had revolvers, or full metal frame pocket pistols for self defense.

The standard today would be something like a glock 19 (plastic frame, 19 rounds of hollow point, small size) carried concealed in an appendix holster. Now often with a red dot sight and a rail mounted tactical light. There are dozens and dozens of AR (using the term very broadly) manufacturers out there today, pushing everything from systems designed for suppressed cqb (think short barreled suppressed .300 blackout) to long range precision shooting (ar-10/6.5 cm).

These kind of options, and the hobbies/communities they enable, didn't exist at the consumer level even 10 years ago.

The inflection point seems to be the sunset of the assault weapons ban, but it took quite a bit of time for this stuff to become mainstream.

The old guard supported by a base of hunters and sport shooters is aging out, and not growing anywhere near as fast as this new generation. The needs (and opinions) of someone out on regular elk hunts range pretty far from someone who wants a firearm for self defense.
So you admit this claim is just based on your hunch. This makes it a malicious lie.
There are lots of places where it can help, but to give one example consider the Java 8 Optional type.

It’s great for avoiding nulls, but you get excessive nesting with many isPresent checks. Do notation can fix this.

The language even provides a bind function, but no reasonable way to use it!
You miss "anomalous". I.e., it does not happen to almost all other people who eat identically the same stuff. Indigestion and diarrhea are common responses to dietary allergens. Thus, onions make my sinuses bleed and cause indigestion.
> We live in a post-privacy world because Apple and Google happily pass your data back to world governments in the name of stopping terrorism, or whatever the social cause du-jour is.

To illustrate this point, Apple gives up users' data for about 150,000 users/accounts in the US[1] a year in response to government data requests.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
Damn that's impressive. I could see that on the floor of an important building. Somebody make that happen!
In Finland this is sort of institutionalized and brick & mortar -ized. For example Helsinki has an official recycling center (kierrätyskeskus) AND some more-or-less private chains (UFF, FIDA). They all operate on the principle that people drop stuff off they no longer want, and without compensation - "donations" - that are checked, priced, and placed on a shelf or the display area floor. Complex items like home electronics can be tested and then tagged as such. It's a marvelous system for keeping perfectly serviceable goods in circulation, and it not incidentally provides donors the satisfaction of their stuff finding new homes.
The Wayback Machine seems to be suffering, as well:

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Easy bounties to test a wallet app
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PayPal and Pinterest?
If you were PayPal why would you be interested in buying Pinterest? If you were Pinterest why would you sell?
Sydney firm claims leadership in chip development for IoT market
> Even with some significant headwinds on social media, gun culture influencers have huge audiences, slick media production, and run the gambit from highly technical to meme fueled gif parties.

As I read that, I heard the words and voice "If you've ever been ..." bounce around in my head. It's the start of a phrase uttered by a very popular YT gun channel on youtube before each video.
You're doing it wrong.

You're supposed to write a long tale on Medium titled "Here's what happened when I tried to order food over the phone from a restaurant"

Then make a Tiktok Video about it tagged #lifehack.

It's the only way the loafing class will believe you.
Sadly, they didn't have any such rule about impersonating healthcare workers or weapons inspectors, making vaccine outreach an extremely dangerous occupation for charities and making treaties that rely on inspections extremely difficult.
An assortment of specialized languages in different paradigms would probably be better than a single multi-paradigm language. But I was assuming the "CS 101" case, where you're just trying to get a feel for code and probably don't want to be overwhelmed with learning several different languages at once. In this context I think laying a foundation with a single versatile language makes the most sense - a "sample platter", if you will - and then later courses could dive deeper into different paradigms using more specialized languages (where those paradigms would already be familiar because of that base language, but they'd get brought into more clarity).

Another advantage of laying this kind of foundation is that even if the initial course stuck to a limited set of features, students could then go out and use the things they've learned and explore other features adjacent to them at their leisure, without going too far outside of that initial comfort zone (and - maybe most importantly - using the same tooling/environment setup, which can be the biggest barrier to new programmers who want to try out different technologies)

I'll admit though that this is mostly speculation on my part
That's C++, not C. two different languages. Further, that was introduced in C++ '20, which means it's relatively recent and thus not as widely supported as some of the older compiler extensions to implement a popcount intrinsic.
I spent the better part of a year trying to talk to folks here where I live about masks, preventives, vaccines and social distancing. Nothing made a difference.

Gen. Powell's cause of death was covid. He was in several high risk groups.

If he got ran over by a speeding car and died the next day would you insist his cause of death was his age?
Paywalled. Can anyone see how much they got?
Hazy memories that are lost forever and causing my now lifelong general anxiety was the result of 10+ years of smoking marijuana.

YMMV, my 20s are lost to time, and I guess I needed to get to the stage where inhaling it was playing a panic attack russian roulette to finally get serious about quitting that awful herb. It definitely was fun the first few years.

But sure, there's someone bound to tell me there was something wrong with me, and that for them marijuana was a panacea. To be fair, I did not respect it, but neither do the stoners nowadays who think THC and CBD are a miracle cure for any problem and that it's perfectly, 100% safe.
Not the parent, but presumably it would allow for fancy monad stuff like Scala's Cats Effects[0] and Zio[1] which can make async programming easier to follow without having to introduce async/await

[0]: https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/
[1]: https://zio.dev
> seems to be antithetical to the principles of a strongly-typed language. So does this now reclassify Java as a weakly- or dynamically-typed language?

Var and type inference are neither antithetical to static typing nor do they make a language dynamically typed. They're antithetical to the verboseness of Java.
Other google domains serve different 404 pages on different URLs sometimes, for example:

- https://www.youtube.com/djhjwhfkffs

- https://www.youtube.com/varz

- https://www.youtube.com/abortabortabort
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1452309133928054799.html
Why use system Python base environment for production stuff, especially knowing that it will EOL eventually and mayhem may follow? Again, pin your environments using conda, pipenv or whatever else, in which case your base Python version wouldn't matter.
Great channel and initiative. Here's the blog post linked to in the video: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1-results
"And the US and England"

When you are doing the information from the inside thing, you do need to get your players in line.

England?

I'm English ... and Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and tangentially Irish, not to mention German (check my username).

The country is called Britain, the Great thing is only to distinguish from the other Britain - Brittany (part of France). You might as well call everyone from the USA as Texans.

Julian Assange spent rather a long time here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4992504,-0.1614713,3a,75y,...

He was not tortured in the embassy - he was a guest who gradually outstayed his welcome. He was always treated well. As you can see Harrods is just to the right. This is not the roughest place to be a prisoner in Christendom.

Whilst he was in there, there were always several Police stationed nearby. They stood in doorways and kept watch. Probably a boring job but nice and simple. The whole thing basically costed the UK tax payer a fair old wodge and obviously Ecuador too.

I know that area and what goes on because I run internets for some flats nearby.
Here's a little paper on the geometry

https://github.com/johnalexandergreene/Geom_Kisrhombille
I used to drink cubes of Pepsi per week...like over 20 years ago. My explanation is that it contains aluminum ions (or some other chemical hint) from the tearing of the tab. This is why it tastes better on the earlier sips. If you leave soda out and it gets flat, the small difference is still there for at least half the can. Ultimately, since aluminum is a neurotoxin, it's probably very bad for you over time.

Fountain soda is noticeably different.
Please don't take HN threads on boring generic tangents (by making grand shallow claims), and especially please don't take HN threads into tedious programming language flamewar.

Also, you broke the site guideline asking people not to go on about downvotes in the comments. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to them in the future? We'd be grateful.
Yea if you read the article, it is actually more like 5 side projects in 4 years (took a 2 year break). That is way too many projects to try for real results. Nothing to take away from the effort and learnings though. I commend people who try to build anything. However, most people give up too quickly. It takes months or even a year or 2 to really get traction on any project if you want to be serious and I am not talking VC funded but bootstrapped. Yes the risk of doing something for 2 years is big but you need to do a lot more customer discovery/validation than just 2-3 months before you give up.

If you just want to learn how to build stuff for fun, sure do 5 projects that quickly. But if you want to build anything to make money (even if small), you must spend more than a few months on it. That is why software developers are not all entrepreneurs because even though a lot of us can build stuff, we don't know what to do with it.
Deep Blue Cannot Play Checkers: The Need for Generalized Intelligence
It did, and it was the same people who refused to social distance, then refused masks, now refuse vaccination.

For now, kids cannot be vaccinated. Just like some immunocompromised people.

And yes, the pandemic would have been defeated. The math says yes, and more impressively, our experience says the same thing. There is a reason you don’t see epidemics of Polio, small pox, etc. anymore: vaccines. (it’s almost done for measles)
I don't really have anything off hand.

But code primarily slowed down by pointer chasing down big maps, which is MillenialMan's complaint and fits my own experience, will absolutely be sped up linearly.

A bunch of cores sitting around waiting for the next HAMT node to come in will not interfere with each other in the slightest.
My point is that if they're allowed to operate in China, then they have to bend to the will of, and collaborate with, the CCP if they want to remain there.
> neither the US or UK have ever imprisoned and tortured a journalist from a major publication (unless I'm overlooking someone).

This was in the news just last month: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soldiers-burst-in-the-bac...

> A Belfast-born writer who has been a consistent critic of IRA violence has revealed how the British Army subjected him to electric shock torture outside his family home in the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict.

> Journalist turned novelist Malachi O’Doherty describes in a new memoir how soldiers first threatened to shoot him, then dragged him through a hedge, kicked him and eventually resorted to inflicting electric shocks to try to extract information about the local IRA.
Holographic Process Uses WiFi to Generate 3D Images
One the one hand, I'd observe that most people's side-projects, aka hobbies, were never expected to make money. Short of opening a shop your pottery or whatever wasjust something you did.

On the other hand I recognize it's somewhat privileged to just shrug off making money with "side hustles."
Yeah, fair description. Still think your calling us "extremists" is comparable or worse tho. It's more that "one of us" is more "people who think the government has no business regulating guns" than "people who own guns".

I disagree, bump stocks are largely a gimmick and automatics are "military weapons" because they've been so limited for the populace. I don't see the problem with "fudd" to describe people who care only about their guns.
There was an issue I ran into with regular Java, JDOM 2 Documents, One thing saves a reference, the other thing snips a piece out to use in the response... oops, the first reference points to a snipped Document. Worse, that behaviour changed without interface changes between JDOM 1 and 2, and it mattered to the code I was editing. Easy enough to fix with a ".clone()" but still... it's not just parallelisation. Immutable data would mean immutable to weird action at a distance like that. Thankfully the unit tests caught it before it could have gone live.

(More precise issue... JDOM 1 lets you splice a piece of A into B while it still is part of A. JDOM 2 insists it be detached first. Detaching it removes it, and that removal can be seen through a reference.)
Absolutely agree with you, 5 users here, 5 there and you will have hundreds in 1 year, 500 after 2 years and so on...
This happened to me with my side project hostbeat.info. I have started it bcs some of my friends wanted this kind of service. Then I have realized that I can do it as a multi-user SaaS. I was expecting thousands of users in the first month, still don't know why :) (perhaps I made it free of charge?)
Made a post on 3-4 forums/discussions, etc... scaled my server to handle load almost to 10.000 daily active users. And.... 2 registrations happened in the first month. This was not expected and hit me hard. But later on, as you write, it started to gain some traction. One user per week, 2, then 3 users. Sometimes 2 new per day, the other day or week or month nothing. Sometimes I am surprised that some big player on the IT market has registered and is also actively using it (2 largest telco operators in DE and AT fe.) I don't care anymore about profit or userbase. I'm happy with it as is and sometimes users are sending me emails and thanking me for such service.
For those curious, Garand Thumb.

https://youtu.be/FlHsVQDbyx4
> it's become a fairly multi-paradigm language at this point

It's still very much an OO language with borrowed features.

> a multi-paradigm language is exactly what should be the defacto language in curriculums

Debatable. Multi-paradigm languages without a strong focus can overwhelm someone completely new.
as noted in my sibling comment, this isn't a problem in practice. the misguided commenter wants to assert 'science', without regard to the nuance of the situation. the legal system, while imperfect, doesn't generally look kindly to this kind of tenuous manuevering. the question is whether it has enough integrity (and ingenuity) to negate this sort of decrepit evasion.
As a child when there I did not know that ...
but I knew the name

https://trademark.trademarkia.com/irving-75613723.html
>The government’s ability to prevent software distribution is limited significantly by the first amendment. Selling “a tool for hacking” is fine, selling “a tool for committing crime” would be illegal, but that distinction just comes down to picking the right marketing copy. The government can however restrict the import and export of software quite broadly.

An interesting point. Given the vendor and customers for NSO's products, Federal law (in the US) would apply, rather than state law.

That said, an interesting parallel would be possession of burglary tools[0], which is a crime in many places in the US. However, given that "burglary tools" are generally just tools (e.g., bolt cutters), intent or mens rea[2] becomes important.

Presumably, a similar argument could be made about tools like nmap, nc, ettercap, metasploit, etc., since they can be used for legitimate purposes, even though they're also used for site intrusions/compromises.

NSO's tools, presumably, are mostly used for the latter rather than the former. I'm guessing (IANAL) that's one of the rationales used to restrict sales/exports.

Is that a convincing argument to criminalize activity and saddle it with strict liability[1]? I'm not so sure, but I'm also not a DOJ lawyer.

All that said, I don't think it's all just "marketing copy." As with most things, context and nuance matter. I make no judgement WRT the appropriateness of such restrictions, as I'm not in possession of all the facts.

Even so, while I tend toward the free flow of information, there is something to the idea that if you're caught at the back door of a jewelry store late at night with bolt cutters, that implies mens rea much more than having bolt cutters in the toolbox in your garage. YMMV.

[0] https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-140-35.html

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_liability

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea

Edit: Fixed typo.
> They are among at least 51 lawyers at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office who have either left or been fired since Boudin took office in January 2020, according to documents obtained by the Investigative Unit – that's about a third of the department's attorneys now gone.
This is a nice overview of common types but I still don't understand the "why" of some of their names, such as the difference between a .38 and a .380 (It's the same number!)
The other mp3 players didn’t get MPAA’s approval because they allowed copying music, ie “they were tools for piracy”.

Apple’s system was genius: It could only synchronize with the system it came from, making it a peripheral of the computer, not a node in a network. This restriction lived on for the iPhone, making Apple fans curse and Android fans laugh, when a computer was required to install an iPhone, for years and years after it wasn’t technically necessary. But binding with 1 (one) computer was the agreement if Apple wanted to host music under benevolence from the labels.

Apple would have never been able to get agreements with music labels if the iPod had been open. And thus, it lived on, while all other mp3-player brands died.

It is a consequence of the music industry and an emergent property of IP laws, not a standalone decision from Apple, as opposed to making all their products closed-source, which they don’t have to.
Every school has been requiring vaccines for decades. Hardly unprecedented.
Towards 3D Human Pose Construction Using WiFi [pdf]
What would you recommend on Hilbert spaces to someone who has worked through Baby Rudin?

Thanks for the insightful comment by the way.
At one point Pfizer paid out the largest health care fraud settlement in history of 2.3 billon (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...). It's a shame many people would consider me a conspiracy theorist for not placing my full trust in the company.
Thanks, that makes sense. IIRC, I read about this either in Bertrand Meyer's book Object-oriented Software Contruction, or in the Eiffel language's docs, some years back, though I may not have known about it as an application of the Liskov substitution principle at the time, or even later, although I did read about the Liskov principle later :)

And I may not have grokked the Liskov principle when I read it, either, but thanks to your reply, I now have a glimmering of what it means, and will look it up again :)
Curious, which gun de-regulation measures were publicly supported by gun control advocates?

Or for that matter, what "reasonable" abortion restrictions were supported by pro-abortion advocates? Somehow all the abortion restrictions turn out to be unreasonable, and all the gun control restrictions are always reasonable.

I don't follow these debates too closely but put them in the "culture war" bucket, rather than the "public policy" bucket.

The object is to defeat your enemy, not to make optimal public policy. Facts and figures are recruited to make the other side look bad and worthy of contempt, not to determine which policy is most effective.