skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I started using Safari and iCloud Private Relay, hiding my IP address, this no longer works, since the IP they see changes a lot and is only vaguely in your area. I think FB etc. knows the address range of the IP that are exposed and just gave up using them as it gives no useful information.
In a decent language enumerated types are strictly better than booleans because they have names. Closed and Open, or Paid and Outstanding, or Safe and Dangerous are better than true and false unless you really meant true and false.

my_bills(Paid) avoids the step of reading the function prototype to find out what my_bills(true) means.

In some languages you can make piecemeal changes to upgrade from booleans because the language is happy to silently coerce between a two state Boolean and a two state enumerated type. This is probably bad news for correctness because it means my_bills(Open) might not even raise a warning but it's convenient.
Ah, my apologies. I'm a Brit.
These teams could beat the current English side, I'm sure
> The legal wheels are grinding on Amazon for a while because it’s a unique case in america. American courts check if something harms consumers...

It’s not unique at all. The old trusts that were broken up at the dawn of antitrust (that’s where the name comes from) were of a similar structure and even more dominant.

The “consumer harm” test (really “short term consumer cost” test) was a deliberate crippling of antitrust doctrine during the Reagan era. The process is only now starting to return to its roots.

Consumers can be harmed by a low price when it is predatory, either to drive out competitors (so price can go up later) or to transfer business to a monopolist who can charge higher prices elsewhere and/or stave off competitive technological or entrepreneurial threats. This doctrine blessed such predatory tactics while pretending to be a high-minded consumer-friendly approach.
Isn't Tailwind the one where you write inline styles with classnames instead of inline styles? How's that good?
If this wasn't preceded by months of angry letters explaining when and why the security would be repossessed, then yes. Shitty.
However, if the owner was made aware that the vehicle would be reposessed, then obviously there isn't much else the lender can do.
The owner has (hopefully) already dodged several opportunities to simply drop the vehicle off.
Sounds like "Mein Pfand" to me.
Also, add value. A lot of those earlier attempts were derivative ("let's replicate a tech news site") or get-rich-quick-schemes ("let's mash together two services via a script and see if anybody buys it").
“LGTM” as a service :)
Susceptible to fraud: Why it makes sense to regulate charitable crowdfunding
Maybe for you. For others it can have all or any of those other things as its primary purpose. One important thing for me is that it prevents or at least mitigates unilateral insider attacks by having two people required to change code.
Yes, I think it should eventually if you haven't stashed a reference somewhere.

Python has both a reference count and a GC so in simple cases it will often be cleaned up as soon as it goes out of scope but if you create a cycle it may take a while. Relying on the GC to close open sockets is a great way to run out of file descriptors when bursts of work happen.
working fine on YouBroadband..
"but they have AI".. probably not. Probably the same linters and scanners that we all know + cheap working force reviewing code manually.
Why don't you say what you're thinking instead of disguising your opinions as questions?
Folders: A text-free language encoded into the file system (2015)
It's a rare case indeed where I'd be willing to let a third party in on business logic plus the whole source code for something I was developing. I love talking shop but if I'm really having a problem with a structural issue, it's hard to imagine someone outside giving any better advice than people inside who understand the lay of the land. Meanwhile, it's a pretty much totally unacceptable security risk. So what's the upshot to this over an internal code review?
My biggest concern is for the people relying on the big platforms you mentioned but not using them to build their own lists and lines of communication with their clients.
But anytime it sends a ping, it reveals the fact that an iOS device is near. If it's a public place where lots of different people pass by, then that information doesn't identify anyone. But if you place an Airtag at a private location, eg. near someones home, you can use it to detect when the people living there get home.

Now maybe you don't worry about side channels like this, but I really think that it should be up to the individual user to decide whether they want to risk something like this or not.

It's quite telling that Apple does not ask people to opt-in to the Find My network, while every third party app needs explicit user permission for any kind of Bluetooth access.
Ants Do Trigonometry: A Problem for Darwinism
Between listening and reading physical books, probably average 1.5 hours a day. It has increased from about zero in the last 2 years since I've taken my reading interests more seriously.
I'd get it -- J&J is already known to be weaker coverage, and Omicron spreads so easily that the odds you get COVID are fairly high if you interact with people regularly. If you're looking at it from a sickness perspective, the expected value of sickness without the shot is probably higher (lower chance of many days of feeling bad vs high chance of a single day).

Single person anecdote: I was quite sick from J&J and had zero symptoms from my booster. So just know it's not necessarily guaranteed you'll be sick from this one too if that's your main concern.
Hmm, what about education? I've learned a bunch through thoughtful reviews of my code by other devs.
China Wants “Universal Suffrage” for Hong Kong After Sham Election's Low Turnout
It's definitely a great time to build websites, but saying they _NEVER_ have been easier to make... I'm not 100% sure about that.

Yes, tailwind might make css a lot easier, and github copilot might make coding a lot faster... but is this really easier than in the early 90ies, when you could just type <html> into notepad and make a website that didn't require any CSS or images or JS or even more than just the most basic html tags?

When it comes to reading a blog or article or consuming any other form of textual information on the internet - I find myself increasingly enamored with "Reader View" in Firefox, which basically ditches all the crap, and displays the web-page in a default-style, as if it was just the most basic html - just like that we did write in 90ies.

Of course this doesn't hold true for any webApps that do more than just present textual information (and the occasional image) - but why do project like ViewPure exist? There seems to be at least some demand for getting rid of all the clutter.

Is tailwind really easier to work with something like - let's say - pico.css? Of course if you want to do super-elaborate layouts, then probably yes - but if you embraced a more minimalist approach?

Isn't Hacker News itself a really great example of a website that successfully uses only very basic html with very, very little styling and fancy extra features?
I would not argue against it being yours before reposession. But whose car is it after a legal repossession has started?

I would argue that once the repossession clause in the contract has been activated (criteria has been met and bank decides to exercise the right) then from that decision forwards the bank is now the owner.

Possession is not 9/10 of the law if a contract says control reverts to bank under a condition that's clearly been violated.

This is not a game where if just hide for X time then contracts expire. It's not a game of tag, where "it doesn't count" until a reposession has been completed "fairly". You don't need to give someone a fair chance to avoid the consequences in a contract.
That’s them transferring their knowledge to you :)
The registration is with the police. The bike manufacturer just has to stamp a serial number on the frame
I find this true on podcasts; I'm normally a 1.3-1.5x person listening to podcasts, except "No Such Thing as a Fish". That one I go slower on, just because they seem to talk quite quickly, comparatively.
Every other month I see old products going from "disposable" to "with deposit". So I don't think so. The latest for me were the tiny juice bottles from Rewe. 25c Pfand.
Isn't paper peer reviewing broken ? Want to do the same thing with software?
> alternate platform, such as Whatsapp

Doesn't FB/Meta own WhatsApp?
I think for some subjects and some teachers, swapping homework time and lecture time can work. For example, if you are learning calculus, it may be more efficient for the teacher to assign reading a section of a textbook as homework and then in the classroom work through a bunch of problems and proofs using the homework material.
Until early this year, anything by Atlassian broke without third-party cookies because of how they did their SSO.

They finally fixed it this year. Made it impossible for me to login on my Firefox browser.

Sony Playstation website also broke until like three years ago with third-party cookies disabled.
Good code reviews are superb for helping teams accelerate into new technology areas, frameworks, languages, and integrations.

As a top of mind example, when a team wants to spike on migrating from C++ to Go or Rust, including using libraries and porting services, then I see very high value in paying for skilled contractors to do code reviews-- because what your team is gaining on-demand upskilling.
Yeah. This seems to be missing from the current conversation.
This is a game changer.
>That's why we don't let people give themselves driving licenses for instance.

I really liked the analogy, thanks.
> Thousands of people see an apartment building's facade every day, so what does blurring it on Google Maps give the residents, privacy-wise?

Same principle as with password hashes were you might prefer a slow hashing function with a work factor.

I don't necessarily agree with the streetview restriction, but also don't really mind not letting Google make pictures.

You actually don't need to put your name on your doorbell, but that at least has very practical advantages for yourself.

Berlin is a failure of government since time immemorial but I am not familiar with this law.
The only time I can see this being useful is on solo developer projects, and solo developers probably can't afford it.
Good luck. I already reached my breaking point with omicron. I am not taking a booster at all. It is quite clear that this will never end. We have to send a message to the authorities.
Cookies, including first-party ones, that are not "strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user" still require banners under the ePrivacy Directive [1]. Ex: if you're counting unique visitors with a first-party cookie, you need to gather consent.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

(Not a lawyer)
i thought code review was to assert dominance and to block as long as possible for yak shaving reasons; But I do like your version of it! Happy holidays~
Honestly this seems like hell.

I'd rather work remotely for a US company and move my ass somwhere like Brazil or Nigeria or Philippines or Thailand.

You'd maybe feel the boredom and the lack of power in the decision making and the shame of having to report and reply "yessir" .

But once you clock out you can then be the boss of the hood and recoup all frustration accumulated during worktime, throw the weight of the mighty USD around, which is even more exacerbated by the tech salary as well as the possibility to invest every excess in the S&P500 so that you can keep on keeping on.

The west has essentially very few people (and diminishing by the day) and each and everyone of them have a telegraph pole up their you know what. It should only be used as the money making app
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I understand how the example can leak a resource from the OS standpoint, but I don’t understand how this ends up being a memory leak for the Python process.

It’s not the first time I am hearing about memleaks for a GC-ed language, and I never really understood how it was possible. Would anyone have a super simple example?
Personally, I try to read physical books 30-60min a day on average and most of the time do so (more on weekends and holidays).

I haven't read much literature until I was ~24 years old. As a struggling young adult self-help literature somehow guided me towards ancient philosophy. The logic and simplicity of language in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" blew my mind and from then on I started reading more and more primary source philosophy and related articles online, which then also lead me to "philosophical" literature from great authors like Dostoyevsky, Huxley, Orwell, Steinbeck etc.

I am now 27 and low-key addicted to reading great minds. Being occupied in science, reading great non-technical books vastly expanded my horizon and has been having a significant impact on my worldview.
> it's the do-not-track header. It's on by default

The DNT header isn't on by default in any major browser.

(Additionally, the spec was abandoned for a bunch of reasons including not being able to agree what constitutes tracking)
The US making plans to replace all of its lead water pipes from coast to coast
I'm not sure if it's only because I'm on mobile, but the "enter your email to download" thing gives me weird marketing stuff vibes. I find it a weird touch on open source software I presumably can get without giving them my email.
I've yet to see a company ask for feedback once they were done pushing out a half baked API. And if anyone uses it, they do get plenty of feedback. As far as whether the code is internally badly written... if the guy writing the code can understand the suggestion, he's probably already done it or decided why not to do it. If he can't understand the suggestion, then it's a waste of money.
Yes, it is more of a bio-weapon.
Probably the most relevant difference is humans forming prestige hierarchies alongside dominance hierarchies with larger brains able to store more of the resulting cultural accumulation being partially downstream of that. Knowledge transmission is always imperfect but if people try to learn from the guy reputed to be the best flint napper you can support a lot more technology than if everybody just learns from their parents.

Learning from non-kin isn't unusual in the animal kingdom. Monkeys seeing other monkeys drop a mix of sand and grain in water to separate them and then copying that is a classic example. But deliberate teaching of non-kin and the way we use language to help with that teaching is pretty unique. An octopus might have smarts comparable to a feral human, but not to an acculturated human.
We did exactly this in a Cybersecurity program at Georgia Tech.
How EFANI Raised $1.3M from Customers Using a RUV
> there are the decentralization maximalists who think that blockchain will make tech platforms obsolete

I doubt blockchain is a silver bullet. I really liked Kleppmann's work on local-first software / CRDTs. It seems a lot closer to something practically usable at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qytg0Ibet2E
I have only seen it once (or maybe it was a sequel). It had been dubbed into German, which was fine as the kids (we went in a group) were too young to read anyway.

As soon as it was over I wanted to flee the cinema but the rest of the parents waited for the credits and excitedly commented, “oh, that was John Cleese”. “That was Cameron Diaz”. Etc.

But the film was animated and the voices were not of those people!

Decades later I still don’t understand.
Often the booster is a half dose, so you may not be as affected by a booster as you were from the original shot(s).
All these deposits are so low. Germany has 25 cent on non-beer plastic bottles.

Which means when buying a 1,5 liters bottle of water, the bottle is worth more (25 cent) than the water in it (19 cent).

Bottle collectors are quite common, haven't met any rude ones myself, but they are even speed-collecting trough the trash cans of trains stopped making stops at the station.
Hacker News still uses tables - for layout!

But it always loads super fast, and it just works.

We figured out how to display text on a web page decades ago. It's a shame more people aren't just doing it the direct way anymore.

(Applications are a different matter obviously)
I tried it, it started the download and gave the enter email box at the same time. So its optional.
In other words, it’s ok for some things to be “decentralized enough”, as opposed to fully decentralized (whatever that means).
In the same thread, there is France with a price of 645€.
I don't understand why a country loaded with nuclear reaction can beat Germany in price. Or maybe does it mean that the neighboring country are willing to pay France this much because they are desperate, but in this case why not buy the electricity from Germany at 432€ ?.
The carbon credit is not imposing the cost, it's ensuring that the person who causes the cost pays for it, i.e. that it is priced correctly and people can make decisions based on that. As a result it increases efficiency.
Yes.

I was a repo man in the 1980s. When we'd get the repossession paperwork from the bank, we'd also get a copy of the car's title. We'd take that paperwork into a dealership and they would cut us duplicate keys.
That’s impossible to prove, because not talking about it intentionally is self censorship, but by definition it wouldn’t be talked about so there’s no way of knowing.
That's why ideally you have someone in your team who is trusted by the platform team to do what needs to be done to unblock your main goals/tasks. The platform team of course can help (or hinder), but the ability to do your own stack helps uncouple problems, helps teams progress.

Ideally there's an equilibrium. Some teams will inevitably be outliers, but the majority will benefit from the platform.

There's always a degree of sharing/coordination/communication. After all the teams are part of the same company. (Eg. when it comes to data access, API stability, it's a must to coordinate. Though famously Amazon "simply" solved this by a companywide mandate, requiring everything to have an API, and there's probably some story about their stability too.)

So, in any case the coupling should be loose. Basically an almost wait-free (but at least lock-free) algorithm.
This is actually a very important point: international trade can and does bypass many local regulations. For example, a lot of countries banned slavery and child labour, and yet import plenty of products created by slavery and child labour in other countries.

And we don't talk about this nearly enough. Everybody loves being able to buy super cheap clothes from sweatshops in Bangladesh. Everybody is still going to enjoy the football world championship in Qatar, played in stadiums built by what's effectively a form of slave labour.

We should definitely enforce our humanitarian values also through our trade and other agreements, otherwise they're meaningless.
I'm all for this if the person reviewing my code will know the context, history and all the details and conversations we had as a team.
But in order for that to work, I'd probably be taking most of this reviewer's time. And obviously in order for them to get up to speed with our practices, conventions, architecture, code style and whatnot, they'd probably need to start by doing a whole lot of development on our project first. At least several months. They could probably not do anyone elses code review then. So we'd have to pay them... one full time salary to be this coder-and-reviewer type person. I wonder what this service should be called.

I think I might be onto something here. "Full time developers as a service"
I agree with your observation that none were original ideas but I would blame more on poor execution and lack of patience.
This lends credence to the educational reform that I always found the most compelling: kids/people should be reading the chapters for the lecture ahead of time as their homework, and doing the practice problems in class instead of a lecture, so the teacher can actually help students work through problems (rather than parents who don't know the material).

A brief review/lecture at the end to tie together all of that practice intoa coherent story then wraps it all up.
You still can build a simple web in 1 min with Next.js and with greater speed.

Pico.css is for zero customize website. Once the website requires customization, it does not work. Tailwind is easier.
So how does this change "Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law" :) five-tenths? :)
There is no such law that requires you to put your name on your doorbell in Germany. You are free to use Santa Clause or whatever. Perhaps the post man will at some point put dog shit in your letter box but otherwise there is nothing that would compell you to use your name.
No (or rather, I have never seen this where I live in the US), they have a lien on the title. You still have the title.

Source: Trying to get a bank to remove the lien after it’s fully paid off can be a real source of frustration.
Cons: you might be sick for a day. (Had very bad reactions to the shots and this one lasted 1 day - but I caught something else before/after...)

Pros: seems to help against Omikron. And given the speed at which it spreads you don't have time to wait for updated shots or alike.

JJ was particularly bad in not catching it, and even worse after 6 months. Get a booster or have a close to 100% chance to catch Omikron.

Official communication is often skewed by availability. E.g. Germany didn't order enough BionTech but got plenty of Moderna so they announced that Moderna is way better.
Just check the numbers and forget about anything else in the news. Numbers are like a weather forecast. Read it, prepare, put it aside.
> average age 28 SA vs 40 UK

I think this is definitely part of the explanation.

> A lot of immunocompromised people in SA (AIDS)

Wouldn't this mean more deaths or am I missing something? Are COVID deaths in AIDS patients attributed to AIDS not COVID?

> UK has most of it immunity from vaccination which was mainly targeting AC2 receptor. It's possible that natural immunity or Sinovac (attenuated virus) has better protection than mRNA vaccines - not confirmed.

Okay, so should we perhaps not be pushing vaccination on healthy individuals? I had a COVID infection early on in the pandemic and I've interacted with infected people since and not caught it. My sister who's younger than me (in her 20s), but was vaccinated before being infected has tested positive for it 5 times. Perhaps just a coincidence but odd that she's so much more susceptible to it.

> SA is doing fewer tests.

Sure, but deaths are much lower too.
And I’m guessing their reviewers work for free, like on Code Review Stack Exchange?

Or are these people working for relative poverty wages overseas?
Despite EU court rulings, Facebook says US is safe to receive Europeans’ data
My credit union has a lien on my car. The title is in my name.

I guess it's different mostly in name though, they still have strong rights to the vehicle.
See, you rage against the Cookies - I rage against the braindead politicians who made them basically mandatory and a legal framework that allows malevolent actors to use even slightest hints of (disputable) violations to ruin me if I don't have a banner.

It made me a proponent of leaving the EU. Not because I don't think European unity would be beneficial, but because the current implementation is deeply faulty and little more than a convenient scapegoat of national governments pushing through changes they are too afraid of doing at home without democratic oversight.
If everyone should use a VPN, everyone should also use a browser that obfuscates all this personal data.