skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your only chance is to release it to the world and hope it gains someone's interest enough to invest time looking into it.
Have you looked at Dhall? I do not think Nix the language would ever be preferable when compared to already existing configuration languages.
> Taking the law into your own hands just breeds more violence.

As a nice but nerdy kid who got in trouble at school for half a decade or while teachers turned a blind eye I'm not so sure.

The problems immediately stopped once I stood up and used necessary force to make me a less attractive target. Even the bully in question seemed to get something valuable out of it.

Edited to remove as many personal details as possible while keeping the story intact.
> both natural and artificial persons have responsibilities as well as rights

the problem with legal persons is that we hold them to the same standard as a natural person but their ability to do damage far exceeds anything a natural person can do. terrible decisions are being made by groups that do not reflect the individual. Many crimes are committed by legal persons are only punishable by losing trust from shareholders (lying to investors is much easier to get away with for legal than for natural persons - e.g. they're not crimes for legal persons in the same sense), a natural person would often go to jail for similar actions. Tobacco industry or oil industry would have no executives because they'd all have be doing time. the Sacklers would be hanging from a tree, and Elon Musk would be have to pay taxes.

> Seems to me this "personhood" concept mainly muddies the waters

there is nothing wrong with designating whole regions as off limits to humans. Ban any form of tourism or commercial exploitation etc in parts of the world is the only option IMHO.
pointing gun isn't necessary. As we know from for example many police shootings mere presence of a gun even at a minimally tense situation is usually already perceived as a threat even by well trained and used to guns people.
Who is the most accurate world chess champion?
> You have the advantage that all existing production Nix code is known to terminate in short order

You don't really know this - there are many code paths in nixpkgs that are never touched during Hydra evaluation (various overrides, user-facing flags, packages marked broken and so on). We think it might be possible to slowly move towards more static analysis of the existing Nix language, but this is a little bit further down the road.

(Note by the way that we have a "runtime type checker" for Nix, but it is mostly an experiment: https://code.tvl.fyi/about/nix/yants)
It is inherently a difficult process.

Firstly, true references are very hard to come by. That makes debugging hard already.

Secondly, color is not just a property of light. The same lamp, with the same spectrum of emitted light can appear to have a different color to you depending on the surroundings. During daylight a lamp might look yellow-white, but when looking at the same lamp at night when you have your normal lamps on in your home, it could look blue. That is because your eyes 'adjust' how they see color depending on ambient conditions. This way your eyes always see a white sheet of paper as white. Instead of it looking yellow under warm light, or blue under very cold light.

Things are even worse when considering the color of normal objects. The 'emitted spectrum' of an object depends on the spectrum of light that falls on the object.
Take two light sources. One being 'wide spectrum' and white the other being a mix of a few wavelengths also looking white. Two objects could appear to have the same color under one lamp, but look different under the other lamp.

And the above situation is also still affected by the general color of your surroundings.

Hence it is quite hard to even say what 'color' an object has. Or even what color a light source has. Generally the approach is to standardize. For light that means specifying the 'color temperature' (and tint) of your ambient light. To ensure your eyes are adjusted to a known light situation.
For the color of objects, if attempts are made to specify a color, it is specified under a specific broad-spectrum light source. But I believe generally they are defined as 'this mix of pigments'.

This means that for objects, it is essentially impossible to take the color of an object and make a second object that has the same color, unless you know how the first object got its color.
Then you should write a blog post, not a tweet.
Nix is a much older language than Dhall, this seems like a weird argument to me.
spotify isn't free, I pay for premium. but they're hellbent on destroying user experience. finding albums is now difficult than it used to be. it auto-plays on web, all of a sudden. the web app is now more buggy than before.

end of day, it's all the same shit.
But 40 hours with or without lunch breaks? Based on the stereotypical 9-to-5 job, in the UK lunch breaks seem to be paid, so at a guess there's only 35 to at worst 37.5 actually worked hours per week.

In Germany on the other hand lunch breaks typically aren't paid, and a 40 hr week means 40 actually worked hours, plus however long your lunch breaks are (half an hours is the legal minimum for an eight hour workday).
It might be better to just get at account from an account reseller for a few pennies.
* There's also no stack-relative addressing mode (unless you move the stack pointer to the X register).

* No instructions to push or pop anything besides A or status flags.

The combination of all of this basically means there's no good way to do local variables on the 6502. IIRC the C compilers typically reserve a bunch of memory for a separate "C stack" to avoid these limitations, but this is rather inefficient in terms of both performance and memory use.

Idiomatic 6502 assembly tends to have a mindset of "all variables are global", with only a few bytes for temporary/intermediate values that you have to juggle around carefully and deliberately.
Yep, we'd like that, too! Our current thinking around the evaluator design incorporates the idea of evaluation with/without a Nix store, where using the language itself (e.g. to generate JSON structures or whatever) should be perfectly possible without a store.
I'm really happy to hear that. Thank you.

When I started out, I only wanted to make some small contribution somewhere. It's really surreal that there are people rooting for me now. I'll do my best to continue to contribute in ways that I can.

You can too, by the way. There's not a lot of difference between me and you. I believe in you.
I like your actual scenario. I would probably have done the same as you, and yes it would probably be absurd to actually pay a lawyer money for that situation. Less absurd to just refuse to talk without a lawyer (This refusal does not obligate you to actually go get a lawyer unless and until you get some sort of subpoena or summons, or are arrested)

In this case you had a cop who is actually willing to go back-and-forth with you until you discovered what was going on. Absent that, you absolutely would be right to say something like, “without knowing what’s going on here I can’t answer any questions.”

Your initial example of “you look like a criminal we’re searching for” is way more fraught with pitfalls that can be avoided by not cooperating.

Also, I should be more “assertive” at work…
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> To me, it feels like C/C++ has a barrier of entry that's significantly higher than that of other languages: e.g. everything from JavaScript and Python to those like .NET and Java.

Ex C/C++ dev here. I deliberately moved away from working with them in my career (first 10 or so years doing it, last 10 years doing anything but). Not just because "C++ is hard" but because "C++ is intrinsically unsafe in multiple, treacherous ways".

I still have tons of respect for programmers who choose to stay working with C++, but I decided long ago it wasn't for me.
My main worry about doing this personally is that it would be a form of "golden handcuffs". I'm pretty sure I could persuade my current employer to let me do a 4-day week (for a pay cut), but I'm also sure making that a negotiating point for future jobs would be problematic (at least while a 4-day week isn't standard or widespread).

Also, money.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) v2.0.0 has been released
pretty sure the people who wrote the vulnerable code were experts.
I'd like to vomit when reading this.

Just FU to all invited in making Julian's life a hell.
I don't get how we can judge China for going full badass AMD meanwhile fight journalism.
Sick world.
Here are some better articles

https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/02/27...

https://culturalpropertynews.org/plundered-artifacts-from-ag...

The FBI seized his collection despite not being able to validate his authenticity of ownership. They couldn't actually prove he illegally obtained those items, in part because he collected these objects over the course of decades of his life (when and where laws he'd broken didn't even exist yet, and probably still don't), and because he also willingly gave up his collection.
In the UK a post code typically represents one side of a residential street using about 6 characters. It has proved to be fantastically useful in an era of satnavs as almost all you need to get somewhere short of the house number. Most businesses have a unique code which is even better.

It was designed to represent a bunch of letters for a postman.
My post on HN proves that I own it, but I am willing to sell you a share.
As someone who doesn’t design websites for a living, I’m always a little baffled by strong reactions to website designs, especially ones like this one that don’t look all that different from a million other websites to me. I have a suspicion that there’s a very wide gap between how website designers appraise a website, and how everyone else does. Just an observation.
I’m writing my own programming language that deals with this in a different way. You have your variables, and you have qualifiers like const or mutable. There’s also storage order qualifiers. When you say “bigend i32” that means a 32 bit integer which will be laid out as big endian in memory. But you can still use it normally, to the programmer it has no weird inverted value.

https://gitlab.com/xmdr/ananke/-/blob/master/drafts/example....

So far, progress has been a bit slow. I still don’t have a working interpreter, not to mention compiler, because I find myself tweaking the syntax a lot. Perhaps later in december it will have finalized enough for me to dare write it out.
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You can look at the pipeline of programmers and you will see a demographic pretty similar to open source. The usual story here is that this is also due to discrimination, which isn't based on evidence and should be dismissed without further comment.

I do think there are factors, large ones even, that keep some women out of tech and they aren't sourced in biology. None of these are adressed by the suggestions in the article.

I think the largest expression of sexism actually comes from people that suggest "solutions" like this. Using stereotypes now to make it clear in how I see positions like these. They wouldn't ever go into a nail saloon, complain about legal security or their behavior and cite it as the reason why they have difficulties hiring males. But it is with males that you insinuate discrimination. That sounds very well like prejudice to me and I also think the referenced studies came to prederterminded conclusion and are of little scientific value.

Most open source projects don't contain nudes, but some actually do. I don't think this is a problem. To think this is the reason women are kept out of the industry is nonsensical to me. I am missing even the hint of truth here.
Almost every takeover starts with this lie. I can't imagine anyone actually falls for it, it's just repeated by marketing types because it sounds good.
Technically it became Facebook in 2012.
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Is there a way to do FFI without having languages directly mutate each other's memory, but still within the same process. So all 'communication' between the languages happens by serializing data, no shared memory being used for FFI. But you don't get the massive overhead of having to launch a second process.

You are still depending on the called function not clobbering over random memory. But if the called function is well-behaved you would have a clean FFI.
His description is clearly about more than masks. You can't say "what's the big deal with masks" all the while ignoring everything that's happened over the past 2 years and will likely continue into the near future.
What made her so formidable?
Sounds like you’re having a rough time. I feel for you, pro or against Covid. There is definitely a cost to all this and it must be taken into account.

That said, there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Life in the UK, where vaccination rates are very high, is pretty much normal. Everything is open. Masks were optional until the Omicron scare, we’ll see how it goes. Nurseries, cinemas, restaurants all open, pretty much as normal (cleaner than in the past which is a win).

Maybe it will get worse again but let’s hope not.

Without making hyperbolic comparisons, life is much better net than it was under Bubonic Plague. We’ve seen the alternative to paranoid infection regimes, and it’s total chaos and overwhelmed hospitals. So we’ve been dealt a shit hand and trying to play is as best as we can.
Reminded me of this I read recently and found quite fascinating — http://knowingless.com/2021/11/27/frame-control/
sucking up to the donald trump of startups? people are dumber than we think
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You literally mention Java GUI apps in response to a post that calls out Android, a mobile OS and application ecosystem implemented in Java. The languages are not the issue.
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agreed. it actually might be used in court someday. considering they were under microscope and have said that they do not manipulate search results. this could be proof enough for a further investigation into google. i know some people who work for google may not want to hear that but, it's not gonna be ignored if the right people investigate google again
Fail-fast attitude can be attractive until you realize that the failing is not happening in the way you imagined. What if Facebook censors very inconsistently, AND people end up being indifferent toward it? Then Facebook will be a successful platform for manipulation, the polar opposite of what the fail-fast fantasy would project.
That was really interesting. I can’t believe how poorly the metal tin box did compared to real faraday pouches.
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Gamma is by definition non-linear so a CSC matrix can never account for it. Pretty much all color spaces intended for content delivery use some kind of gamma correction because as you say brightness is perceived on a log-scale and you don't want to waste any bits on stuff nobody is going to perceive.
The new modern/UWP apps in Windows 10, like the calculator and start menu, are written in C++, aren't they? They manage to be horrendously slow and bloated without C#, so maybe C# isn't the problem.
It's property of the state, and the church doesn't receive financial support or tax breaks, but it's still in charge of maintaining the interior and furniture of the buildings they use. Some of the furniture is property of the state (what dates from before 1905, but now always everything) and some is property of the church.

However, this is also a historical monument and the state has to ensure that they are well-maintained (including parts that are privately owned) and not disfigured, and can grant financial support for restorations when needed.
The most interesting thing is the C version is almost as fast as assembler version.
> the acquisition was blocked by ICANN

Putting it that way is very charitable towards ICANN. They only blocked it after much public outcry and after the CA attorney general started an inquiry [0]. There is no reason to believe that they won't try again after the frog is sufficiently boiled.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/17/icann_california_org_...
In Denmark, a law was recently enacted allowing (not requiring) employers to demand a "coronapas" (health passport). Many of the largest municipalities have availed themselves of this possibility (including my employer).

You have a valid coronapas if you've been vaccinated, had a negative PCR test in the last 72 hours, or had a negative antigene test in the last 48 hours, or have recovered from covid in the last 6 months.

The obvious problem (and the reason why cases are exploding) is that vaccinated people are spreading the virus because most don't bother to get tested (why should they? People were told that the vaccine would defeat the pandemic and many still believe this). Unvaccinated, otoh, are getting regularly tested and must self-isolate if they test positive.

Mass vaccination against an airborne virus is not the best way to defeat the pandemic. Regular testing and effective contact tracing is.

Vaccination should have been reserved for the high-risk groups (although even triple-vaccinated elderly people are dying, as are those with comorbidities).
I wonder if BREIN will contact me once I pass 100TB seeded on my gigabit fiber connection. At 85TB and seeding hard.

In the meantime, TPB is never hard to find. I haven't used it for a while and easily found https://thepiratebay10.org/ which still works here in .NL.
I get proper gapless playback in Spotify and have had it for years. To be honest I can't remember a time it didn't work. I listen to quite a lot of classical music and avant-garde music where albums are basically one song divided in multiple tracks, they work seamlessly.
The post says it's not the same person, talks about two Don Millers.
Some truth to that on a national level, but what about the communal level? Wouldn't your whole nation be a better place if its counties didn't have to spend money for solving the same problems over and over again (and put the money into other infrastructure instead)?
Hey, thanks for the reality check. This is really helpful advice.
> Yes, but usually that’s done with respect for what’s already there, not “hey we have millions of donations, let’s throw all this old junk away and install a multimedia show for tourists instead”.

There’s always a complex dialogue between maintaining what exists, cost, and adapting to new practices and ideals. Where there is massive destruction, though, that usually shifts the balance far in the direction of new designs, because cost no longer heavily favors the status quo.
Surely there's a world where not every cop is bent on convicting the first guy that comes up in the conversation and every piece of evidence is seen as fake?

It's totally true that you can give cops ammo against yourself without realizing and you must be very careful wrt lying and saying the wrong things.

But there also has to be some kind of middle ground.
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A good start would be to know why Google doesn't already penalize their rankings, as they have done with many others who have gamed their rankings.

Yes, Pinterest does SEO like anyone else, but their ranking seems just outrageously overvalued.
> You can't say "what's the big deal with masks" all the while ignoring everything that's happened over the past 2 years and will likely continue into the near future.

No I'm not. You're the one ignoring the vast majority of what I wrote. I explicitly addressed the restrictions during the pre-vaccine, mid-vaccine, and post-vaccine periods. They did not all summarize to "it's not that bad"; only the present (i.e. the post-vaccine period) did, and that's what you addressed. Now you're clearly misrepresenting my comment while mixing them up and adding in speculation about the future, and this is pretty unproductive, so I likely won't be replying further.
Is there an easy way to run two profiles of firefox simultaneously? As it stands I use FF with a bunch of extensions that limit what it can do (uMatrix, cookie zappers, etc.) and then occasionally when I just want to quickly view something I open it in chromium (and I also use it for youtube). But if they're going to cripple ad blockers (among other things) I'd rather just do it all in firefox
Works well on desktop Safari
Nowadays, everyone builds their own rabb.it clones. I built mine in 2017 before rabb.it died.
but i'm not sure about the premise of that statement.

I think it might be a generational thing. I know a lot of 'mediocre' programmers in their 40s and 50s who learnt C++ as their first language and never bothered to really learn anything else (possibly some C#). I'm sure none of them have heard of the JetBrains Survey.
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Indeed. This is why I find 100% unit test coverage can actually be harmful: it gives you an illusion of safety.
In japan the owners just put their family name there. I guess some of these tech owners dont want their family ethics being confused with what their business does

Jack should not have used Block, it should be either called "@jack" or the address of his bitcoin wallet
Brand confusion is never a good plan. Block, Meta, alphabet, who cares? It's Square, Facebook, and Google that are the big brands these companies have and that they are known for with billions of people (well not Square probably). Only a fraction of those people would be able to name the parent companies.

Facebook owns Whatsapp, and Instagram and a bunch of smaller stuff as well. But Meta is just not a great brand. It's a vague ambition at best. That's the problem with this rebranding. Google did it because they had a bunch of aimless acquisitions/spinoffs, none of which since managed to rival it's money maker Google, which continues to be the place that is associated with their successful stuff (Android, Youtube, ads, etc.).

Facebook is doing it because their Facebook brand is imploding due to years of mismanagement. It's a dead zone at this pont. I check in once a month and then leave in disgust. Absolutely nothing going on there whatsoever.

Square on the other hand is a successful product. Nice growth. Nice brand. Worth going all in on. The stuff they acquired pales in comparison. Why mess with that brand, create confusion and awkwardness, etc.?
The only way WikiLeaks could accept donations when they were cut off from traditional finance. Yup, sounds like Herbalife.
I really don't think Facebook should be in charge of making speech moderation at this level of specificity.

Social media platforms have become the public squares of the 21st century, and as such we need to treat the right for free speech on those platforms as important.

That doesn't mean we can't change these platforms to favour desirable engagement. If our physical public square were very small, everyone might be reduced to yelling to hear each other. So we make our physical public squares large and open! Maybe if we put a tree in the middle, it will calm us down and help us engage with each other.

But we will never appoint a public square moderator who arbitrarily decides what can and cannot be said. Neither should Facebook.
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it will neuter but not outright kill it. as much as google thinks they can get away with