skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, it's not really random, but it can certainly feel that way.

I can throw the pedantry right back at you though: I didn't quote a percentage of randomness so I made a true statement. Some degree of randomness is present (if nothing else, it would be the percentage of readers having a bad day at that moment). So there :P
This is a perfect fit for darknet admins, being able to nuke all digital evidence when arrested has been a thing for ever. Often it works by closing the laptop.

It might also be useful for whistleblowers, although I doubt that there is any advantages over strong file and disk encryption.
I would like to research this, I imagine the death of American heavy industry must be a significant reason for the stability despite population growth.
How will you prevent a USB device to present itself as both a keyboard and mass storage and then type commands that copy data?
> my statement holds true for any Ruby framework

Are you sure all Ruby frameworks use the same "path w.r.t. metaprogramming" as Rails? It's been a while since I looked at them but I recall many priding themselves in the difference back then.
> Pairing is probably better than two solo devs if both pairers can handle it.

Man, am I the only one that absolutely detests pair programming? Not only do I find it socially awkward, it completely kills my productivity.

Software development is often about building a very complex model in your head and then figuring out the changes that need to be made. Having to dedicate half of my mental bandwidth to handling social interaction is just devastating to that process.
I don't believe in the rights of private companies to do just anything they want to workers. Most people don't - look at the popularity of indoor smoking bans. Most also agree a private business shouldn't be allowed to deny employment or service based on race. There are many, many such examples.
That's not really a good example of science demanding deference, or "blind faith". It's a silly catchphrase that's maybe worded a bit poorly.

I've seen a few things quite concerning, specifically with COVID. However, the overall message (that I'm guessing you'd disagree with) to trust the experts, isn't necessarily a call for deference/faith either.

The concern is that people will go out looking for validation of their preconceived biases, listen to misinformed parties, possibly with perverse incentives, or political motivations. It's not all about shutting down discussion, as much as keeping the crazies from preventing the public from gaining herd immunity.
There's a grand bargain where tech companies are granted immunity from user generated content in exchange for moderating that content. Apple's move is to try and maintain that bargain while moving to E2E encryption.
I'd strongly suspect that we'll see a cycle for this over time. Fast Java incremental builds, minimally typed languages like go, and IDEs which actually worked for most statically typed languages ushered in the current trend of favorable static typing views.

I'd bet this lasts for as long as static typing remains fast and comprehensible to the average dev just trying to get something done. I suspect language designers and library builders will add more typing foo until builds are either slow or the code becomes a mess of factories, traits, monads, functors, and other constructs - ushering in a new wave of dynamically typed languages which "just get out of your way".
>Imo, it is also completely absurd to frame it as condition too.

Oh sure, that too. I was just going for brevity in that part. As per my first paragraph, I'm not convinced that aphantasia is a natural category, which would be necessary for framing it as a condition.

(Although I'd maybe say I'm more "on the fence" than "convinced its absurd" -- I'm open to the possibility someone can come up with a clear test, I just don't see it and don't expect anyone to.)
I would have thought they continue the practice but because of the bad publicity will remove all mentions of it. Is it confirmed they won't scan user files? Because I would assume that they still do.

As for the negativity. That is based on experience with large tech companies.
I have a mycroft mark1. It is based on the rasberry pi, and as they are wont to do the SD gave out (or got corrupted in a power outage?) and I haven't tried to fix it after a couple years. It works, but it is tricky to get it to wake up, you have to be close to it and speak up, no using it across the room. It is a neat trick, but I never found a use for it that was worth making it work.

I backed the mark2 on kickstarter which they have been promising is better and will ship anytime now - for a few years...
In software, where there's a will, there's a way.

Darknet Diaries has a cool episode about the dark cellphone industry: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/105/
I'm tired of hearing this same statements... since bitcoin value was less than $100.
It feels like we're tradespeople being paid like businesspeople because we're in demand right now and it could change at any moment.
For many people, it's more than just a jab, it's 1-3 days of being quite unwell.

I have no underlying health conditions, but I've been bedridden by my 2nd shot and booster shots, with a high fever, fatigue, dizziness, and aches for at least 48 hours. My partner who is immuno-compromised is worse off, generally being very ill for 1-2 weeks after each jab. Her case is somewhat different though, as her situation is just all round unfortunate.

I'm not saying I won't continue to comply with all health advisories for vaccination or other public safety measures, and I'm not saying vaccines aren't worth it for society. But it's not "just" a jab.
Google is free to set their rules and we are free to complain about them.
To me, the fact that it seems simple to roll your own HTTP 1.1 implementation is more of a downside than an advantage.
This has been proposed here a few times, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29368127

As NoPie comented there

> Our science is not that good.

> Basically you want a virus that really is a vaccine. The current vaccines are far from perfect because apparently we don't know how to make them better. Expressing such a vaccine as a contagious virus would not better but would only create more risks.

And I replied:

> Using "live" virus is a problem. For example there are two versions of the polio vaccine. The injectable uses inactivated ("dead") virus, and the oral uses weakened("live") virus.

> Both are safe, but in the oral one the virus can go to another person and cause no problems, and then to another and cause no problems, and after like a year jumping hosts it can mutate and become dangerous. Now most of the the polio cases are caused by virus that mutated from the version of the vaccine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Vaccine-induced_... .

> The number is much smaller that the number of cases before the vaccine, but it's concerning anyway. So they are trying to discontinue the use of the vaccine with the weakened virus, but the it's better when most of the population is not vaccinated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule .
Perfect example of a caveat to "without sacrifice". For context, go really cares about having "zero values" - every initialized variable of some type must have a zero value.

The zero of Error is nil, so logically this would be Result(0, nil). But what do you set the internal state? It's not Ok, cause that int isn't used, and it's not Err either.

Option would work fine though and it would be amazing to map over options instead of nil checks.

I think you'd need to build Result on top of Option, it's naturally kind of ternary - "I have value" "I have error" "idk", either internally or externally.

What might be awesome would be if the Error were a slice type, nil would be "uninitialized" and empty slice means "initialized". still not...pleasant.
Increase in DDoS since Log4Shell disclosed
I am a non-stamp-collector! I wear that label proudly!
At least for Germany, that's just not the case. Wind is going quite strong this quarter, so strong that it easily offsets the lower-than-average solar generation. And that's mostly due to the weather – expansion was massively stalled by conservative administrations in the last few years.
Also nothing in Ruby that's called a "DSL" is actually a "special syntax". It's necessarily all just method calls on objects, ruby has no actual mechanism to introduce new syntax. So I'm not entirely sure what the OP is meaning to mean.

I don't know about Scala.
Finnish saunas regularly go to 100°C (210F). I can personally attest that fifteen minutes in dry 100°C air is very survivable, you just get sweaty. Meanwhile 100°C water burns you almost instantly.

Though it's worth noting that when talking about humans in air the humidity plays a huge role. Sweat cools your body through evaporative cooling, which works better the drier the air is. At 100% relative humidity you can't cool down and eventually overheat, at 10% humidity we can survive some ridiculous temperatures for as long as we can keep sweating.
Corporations also have the means and the connections to lobby the state, which ensures the regulations are more to their liking. All helping entrench the corporation.

The effect is that small competitors are kept out. They can't afford legal departments and legions of developers to match the regulatory requirements.

For now, the Internet is relatively unregulated, which allows alternative media and platforms to emerge. This is a good thing, imagine having just YouTube and Facebook forever.
I don't understand this weird fetishism with getting X demographic into software/tech. Naturally I don't think that any demographic should be restricted from entering the field, and everyone should be equally encouraged and provided the same opportunities, but more and more I see these pushes for trying to pump the numbers of specific demographics. If someone wants to join the industry, great. If not, also great. I think that to an extent these movements do more harm than good. Women should absolutely be made aware that tech is a viable career path for them as much as anyone else - yet it seems that as of late there's a sort of societal coercion that mimics that historically seen in gender dominated industries like welding for men or nursing for women.
I would respect more company and people that can admit to mistake and apologize and commit not doing the same mistake again. In this case Apple simply keeps people in limbo - you cannot be sure what they are planning to do with it without any public statement. They might as well tweak it a little bit, rebrand with different name and push it again as wrapped with different package.
I honestly don’t think you understand the data even after I explained it to you. Unfortunately this is why even basic headlines get misunderstood by the public.

Let me ask you a question. If weight had absolutely no impact on Covid then what expected percentage of Covid hospitalizations would be with overweight people?
You’re right. They’re all environment problems. But they frustrate and confuse the newbie (like me).
FWIW Java doesn't sacrifice compiler speed for generics, they're entirely erased at compile time which is cheap.

What they sacrificed was runtime correctness, because the type erasure lets you sneak invalid types into unsuspecting code. How much of a problem that's caused in the real world is debatable.
If we eventually define "civil rights" to mean "you have the right to stay inside your home and order everything on Amazon", we have a serious problem. That's where this is going. It goes way beyond the decisions of an individual company.

Regarding the status quo: Yes, mandates exist. The school example is a piece of paper you turn into the school office during enrollment and no one ever thinks about it again. It's not a status tracked in real time, apps don't have to be presented to enter buildings. And in most cases, people can file for exemptions if it really matters to them.
At my restaurant we save money by never cleaning the kitchen. No one should coerce me into doing something where it is not necessary. Cleaning wastes my time and money and it's my freedom to not clean! No one should take that freedom away in a free country!
Isn't the reasoning that few might die for vaccine, but overall it's a better result?
> be totally excluded from all civil rights

You don't have a civil right to employment at Google.
All governments use economic policy to express disdain. China is using old school ghetto slavery to help hold up their economy. The US doesnt feel like supporting the 'peoples' industries that profit from it. Id speculate there are plenty of DJI drones watching the slaves.
> violate their rights

Citation needed.
I'm not familiar with the specs but your question implies that each spec is independent of the others whereas I would assume that e.g. if you support HTTP/3 then you inherently support all previous specs too.
Now we are going to get in to more controversial regions of this debate.

We have to look at those 1,000 per day, and ask are they dying WITH covid or FROM covid, currently there is a monetary incentive for health providers to label as many deaths as possible as "COVID RELATED" which then enables them to collect some or all of their costs from the government

>>We obviously won't be wearing masks until the end of time, but only until the virus is under control.

here is the rub, I do not believe it will ever be under control, what number is your target for under control? clearly 1,000 is to high for you (even though i suspect the real number is lower), would 300 be acceptable? Because that is "bad" seasonal flu level (for which we have had in the past with out this type of response) but I some how doubt you would say 300 deaths per day is "under control"
This isn't true though. Police can search with reasonable suspicion in all kinds of circumstances, Terry v Ohio for instance allows for the police to stop and frisk someone on reasonable suspicion of them being involved in a crime and armed. I haven't seen any citation that a game warden can enter your home and search your freezer on reasonable suspicion and all you've linked in a Quora answer by some guy who's qualification is "published author" not a lawyer or a legal opinion.
If a game warden has reasonable suspicion that you are committing a crime they can pretty clearly search say a cooler you have with you when fishing, trying to say this means they can enter your house and search it is an unfounded leap.
Yeah I have one RGB light that uses a ThingsTurn module (which iirc is based on a w600) and I couldn't be arsed to swap out the module for a ESP.

But I have 10 (8 in use, two on hand incase I ever want another lamp/secuirty light around the home, well atm the spares are in use for the christmas lights, but will go back into standby status after the lights come down.) of these ultrabight poundland sockets and all of them are ESP based. (though the ones I've recently added to my collection couldn't be flashed with tuyaconvert and needed some surgery, the last 2 in my collection I couldn't be arsed and just left them with the Tuya firmware and use the tuya API to control them, but thats my own lazyness not that they cna't be done.)

For ceiling lights I use shellys so I could retain the use of the wall switch to control them.
Obvious bad faith arguments and wrong information get downvotes.
New study shows that 90% of the adult population feels that most of the rest of the adult population are not fully emotionally developed (sidereel: Fundamental Attribution Error said to still be at large)
Probably nobody!
One of the advantages of rising secularism is that you don't see many religious holdouts eschewing thoughtfulness and nuance, but you sure see a lot of their interlocutors doing it. Why try to have a reasoned conversation with someone when you can just tell them they're not worth talking to? Why try to understand their point of view when you can just bluntly tell them they're wrong without so much as a reasonable argument? On Hacker News, it's the faithful irreligious who have abandoned reason, logic, and rationality in the discourse.

You're that person in this thread. Congrats.
Yeah, I loved the popup over popup right upon opening the page.
Well, given I share the same "race" of most UK people (I'm a while Italian), I guess it's not racism. Just the UK government didn't handle it very well in my opinion. For instance now they want a new lockdown after months where everything was possible without any care. And this is just the last data point. Removing the wait is another instance of a not very focused mindset in dealing with the pandemic. That the final stage of waiting slows down you 23% is very unlikely under a bit less rigid parameters. You can say: sit if there are sits, otherwise if you can wait staying on your feet, and as 3rd option wait in your car in the vicinity. To remove the wait looks like nonsense: an illusion of pragmatism. Now, since many other things the UK government did looked like nonsense, including the first idea of going for herd immunity, you have to admit that another nonsense is not completely improbable.
Are you really claiming an indoor smoking ban is a counter example to a vaccine mandiate? That's some interesting logic.
You are free to not work at Google, and you are free to not take part in society if you dont wish to participate in the societal contract.
Oq: A jq wrapper for handling YAML, XML, JSON, etc. with jq filters
Ruby programmers still use the features, even if their framework doesn't
Yes.

As a bonus in this particular case, it limits your time in the higher temperatures of the corona; the spacecraft gets time to radiate heat and cool off before the next skim through.
What about the rights of a private company to discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, etc?
Some of the India offsets are huge.

And the numbers are too small to read, and reading numbers on a graph is mixing System 1 and System 2 thinking, anyway.

I agree that the graphs would be better and still impressive even anchored to 0
You bring one of the most hypocritical pages on the Internet as an example?
Many laptops but not all laptops.

I've noticed many lower end have one soldered and one removable. Drives me crazy because then you end up with more RAM but less performance, so have to choose which hit is worse.
> Only if you manually or deliberately set up some styling for it, will it start to look sensible

I used to love those Javascript/jQuery widgets that attempted to create a whole new bespoke alternative to native form widgets, but I much prefer the OS to style them for me, since the JS (or even CSS) variants can break and look/feel borked on different devices. Inherited system UI FTW
I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not even saying we need mandates. All I'm saying is that the numbers I've seen very strongly suggest that if 'all' would be vaccinated, we'd see a lot less pressure on health care, which during the last peak was where we hit the wall. I see that as an argument for mandates, not that it outweighs the arguments against.
During school, our AI class had a guest lecture from Monaca Lam talking about Almond [1]. I personally don’t have much interest in virtual assistants, so I haven’t actually tried to use it, but curious to see if anyone else has heard of it or worked on the project.

[1] https://almond.stanford.edu/
And you are not free to attack whatever I build when I depart from your society.

And I am free to kill you if you do.
You are depicting humans as agents which respond to emotion and, at most, "rationalize" instead of vetting. That is gratuitous, defeatist and a generalization. That some people are capable of some degree of openness, and also of intellectual integrity, should hopefully be a given experience.

A hefty part of education and social interaction should bring (at least some) abilities in emotion control, intellectual integrity, and, first of all, reflection.
In 12+ years it worked every time.

I understand it didn't work for you, but it does work for me.
The teachers who teach 30 kids / year x 20 year avg career = 600 kids, on average 10% go on to become coders, so now that one teacher is responsible for generating 60 coders each of whose code goes on to "run thousands of times a second or 24/7 even when they're sleeping." They are more levered in impact than most coders will ever be and yet remain under compensated. It is a sad state of affairs.
What if they weren't democratic because Communism is incompatible with democracy
> You will get a vaccination every 6 months for the rest of your life or be totally excluded from all civil rights.

This is like the free speech debate. You have the right to say whatever you like. Other people don't have to put up with it by listening to you though. Just as if you don't get a vaccine, other people won't want to work with you.
Storing Solar Power 101
The trend throughout history, starting with the Magna Carta and most recently the Supreme Court case on prorogation, has been the slow but sure loss of the monarch's personal powers and the transfer of those powers to democratic bodies either parliament or the executive.

One of the arguments in Miller II was that the monarch cannot be allocated any discretion to refuse a minister's order, because if she possessed that discretion then it would jeopardise her position as a politically neutral head of state. It is not that the monarch chooses to exercise powers on the advice of her ministers in fear of causing a constitutional crisis, but that her powers can only be lawfully exercised at ministers' direction.

As far as the monarch's veto on legislation affecting her (Queen's consent), this is not a legal power of the monarch but rather a privilege granted to the monarch by parliament. If parliament decided to rescind that privilege it could do so.

It's important to distinguish between language which describes the monarch from a symbolic point of view, and the actual constitutional reality. Symbolically the monarch is the personal manifestation of the state, but legally she is not much more than a rubber stamp for our democratic institutions.
Removing all reference does not mean their surveillance infra is off your phone.
> Companies are requiring the vaccine because they make employees less likely to miss work due to illness.

Then if I don't want to get a vaccine, I'll sign an agreement that if I get sick and miss work, I don't get paid, and that's the end of it.
The fight has always been about people's beliefs. and the actions they take because of those beliefs. Very few people care about what you believe in the privacy of your own home, it's when people take those beliefs and act on them in the legislature, courtroom, police station, schools, etc, etc. That's how it started, that's how it will end. There hasn't been a significant change over time.
I know just enough about that shit to not want to go ANYWHERE near Neuralink or the 'Metaverse'.

Which is sad because I love the idea so much. Plus I remember the Web before advertising, I don't even want to think of what they'd do with NL or the Metaverse. I can see them doing things like trigging shots of adrenaline so I feel appropriately angry viewing 'Red/Blue Team Bad' video stories.
Why can't companies mandate a lobotomy then? After all it is just jab in the brain. You hardly notice it if you receive it...
In that sense, HTML also "runs the whole modern world".

If you're talking about HTTP 1.1 and not thinking about the complexity of TLS, you're ignoring more than half the LoC in the stack.

I like QUIC because I was never going to roll my own TLS anyway, so I might as well have TLS and streams in the same package.
SF already has free community College. It also has free public Healthcare for the poor (or at least did). Last time I was aware, they changed it so that only illegal immigrants were eligible for coverage.
Or speeding tickets and parking fines.
> violate their rights

Can you talk us through exactly which rights you think are being violated?