skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay so if its legal why are they getting denied? We already have extremely addictive substances that are legal (ethanol and nicotine) and nobody is really being denied those but people still smuggle them across state lines from places with lower prices (sometimes to sell for profit)

And of course then if someone is attempting to obtain something which they are denied by law, it is no longer legal so by definition it is illegal

The statement you make is rather circular and doesn't say much.
I think we are still in the 1998-1999 phase of crypto. In Internet terms, that was peak Pets.com and Kosmo. All of the money being made right now is from first-mover advantage and marketing. But value isn't really being created.

It is important to recognize that many of the ideas weren't necessarily bad at the time, they were just 100% optimized for moving fast and capturing eyeballs. Now Pets.com came back as Chewy.com and Kosmo came back as Instacart.

Most of the winners (assuming there are some) simply don't exist yet. There may be some Amazon/Googles in there - if so, they are getting some press but aren't necessarily winning the hardest right now but are building the hardest for tomorrow.
Walt Disney owns their amusement parks and seems to do okay balancing capital costs and visitor demand. Why should anyone think governments have a special ability to own and operate airports?
I completely agree and see red flags in how the parent describes their interview technique.

Interview questions with one solution "that’s pretty clever" are IMO, bad. Even cliche "easy" fizzbuzz. Ok...so you know modulo.

Rationing out hints towards that "one weird trick" sounds slightly like a cat toying with a struggling mouse.
only to discover that the countries you are flying to don't accept antigen tests, and that stock you just bought is useless?
The thing is, back when Kazakhstan was a Soviet republic, Kazakhs (and other muslims) only accounted for about a half of population, the other half was made of christian Russians, Germans and Ukrainians. [1]

Now demographics has changed and the role of Islam risen, but it is still very far from being a concern, compared to other Central Asia republics:

"As did its predecessor, the 1995 constitution stipulates that Kazakhstan is a secular state; thus, Kazakhstan is the only Central Asian state whose constitution does not assign a special status to Islam." [2]

Of course, some extremist do exist in Kazakhstan (what country they don't?), but their influence is very minor - this is indeed very secular country and not only in constitution, - and I do not think anything close to Arab spring is possible. My biggest concern is Russian intervention, frankly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kazakhstan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Kazakhstan
Yep. It’s also sort of an indicator that you won’t be able to read all social queues, such as being left on read. So it’s practically a social disability to not have iMessage.
He has said that a lot of people involved have a conflict of interest, and that physicians are being suppressed.
My Twilio account was suspended, Cannot access console. Keeps loading and stuck
At that point get into manufacturing and embrace submarine drones that can submerge to deep depths for long periods of time.
This isn't true. You can refund on flight cancellation.
Great, only criminals will be against this.
you should really round 69.69 buttloads up to 69.7
What “legacy” software are you still forced to use that you wish would die?
or you know, people just like the experience of using an iPhone better. is it really that hard to believe?

I'm tired of people shitting over teenagers as if they can't even think at all.
The US left sees far right groups as evil Nazis with only destructive motives, and far left groups as noble warriors for whom the ends of equality and social justice justify their means.

The US right sees far left groups as evil Stalinists with only destructive motives, and far right groups as noble warriors for whom the ends of security and defence of homeland justify their means.

It’s very rare that you see either of the following viewpoints

- both of them are made up of human detritus of the American system and hold back progress

- both of them are commendable groups made up of passionate people
It’s not because of the color. It’s because group SMS sucks. Messages arrive late, out of order, or not at all.
>> Cross-modifying machine code!

>> Intel tells us we're not supposed to do that

> ehhhh I think I'm okay.

Much further down the text we discover it’s not as gung-ho as that: every switch involves two mprotect() calls (per affected page) to enable and disable write access, which entail TLB and cache flushes on all cores, and per Intel manuals this is actually pretty OK (except of course flag flips affecting multiple places in the code, including because of inlining, are non-atomic, so the guarded code needs to be ready for that; this is mentioned in the description as well). Intel do warn you self-modifying code is slow, and of course a multicore TLB flush is orders of magnitude slower than even that, but for a switch that is flipped manually, how fast do you really need it to be? It’s not like your systems are running close enough to their limit that the millisecond it’s going to take will cause the work queues to clog up.

I was also somewhat dismayed by that passage in the introduction at first, but all in all I’m surprised by how much I like this. I mean, I don’t think I have the problem this is supposed to solve, but provided somebody does, this solution has a refreshingly straightforward vibe. The kind from the primordial regular expressions library that implemented a JIT compiler by just writing 7094 code into an array[1]. You need to flip a jump, you patch the opcode byte. Why not? It’s a byte, it’s not like you need a complete machine-code generation library to change one.

[1] https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html
There's not much reason to smuggle it because you can just set up a legal business to buy or grow and sell tobacco or make liquor or other alcohol products. There is some smuggling that happens to get around high prices or local bans but this isn't anywhere close to the scale of the legal market.
This isn't true of flagship android phones which are more comparable to the iPhone. For example, my Galaxy S9 continues to work excellently besides the aging battery.
I should bring in my Pismo running Mac OS 9.2
Get the battery replaced from Apple. It’s like 60$ and the phone comes back like new.
$14 is more than a day's food budget for quite a few low income families. Not everyone can afford to speculatively buy antigen tests.
And if your daughter has green bubbles, all the mean girls are talking trash behind her back.

I don't need statistics to know there's a teen who committed suicide because of it.
My Mom has a 7 with the latest version of iOS. Never had to replace the battery for some reason (she’s very easy on it).

I often use it when I’m around her for some reason or another. Works fantastically. My only complaint is that between the smaller screen (compared to a FaceID phone) and her having it in zoom mode (easier for her to read) the screen feels cramped.

But performance wise it’s not an issue at all. Nice and smooth. She’s not playing high end 3D games or editing video so it works for her.

Only reason she’s thinking of upgrading? The cameras have come a LONG way in 5 years.
Heh, interesting. Perhaps that problem would self-correct after a while; if the payoff for a patent was lower, fewer would apply and there would be less of a backlog... Hmm, looking into it, https://www.uspto.gov/dashboard/patents/pendency.html measures a bunch of different things, but it seems "traditional total pendency" is the main metric, and it seems to be about 2 years on that at the moment. Of course, if there's high variance, then that could mean that a bunch do take 5 years.

That said, if a patent is pending and no one knows when it'll be granted, is that not enough? Would competitors really introduce their own patent-violating version, knowing they may have to suddenly cut production if the patent goes through? Do they do that today?

At any rate, those delays seem absurd; presumably they're due to having a backlog, due to the USPTO not employing enough people, due presumably to them not having enough of a budget. Not that I'm in favor of giving money to patent-granters, though. I wonder if a fee paid by the patent-holders—say, a small percentage of the revenue from selling patented products—would be a reasonable way to fund it.
Perhaps you could add a clause “if you don’t fly the slot, then you pay most of what you would have spent on the flight”—high enough to ruin the perverse incentive, but low enough to encourage not making the flight unnecessarily. And perhaps an arrangement that most of the surplus goes to some charity or other.
Perl is what I am most proficient in, and have already completed various AI projects with, but my colleagues tell me it will be worth it to learn how to program in python, even though I will be set back in the short term.
He’s saying if he books the ticket and decides that he doesn’t want to fly for whatever reason, he’s not getting his money back if the flight doesn’t get canceled but that doesn’t seem to be the case for the airline.
>Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in.

This factor alone probably explains why teenagers amplify Apple's market advantage. They have a stronger impulse for conformity with their peers: ie, they tend to all use the same phone as their friends. Coupled with the fact that most of them have more than one social group they identify with, it makes it unlikely that a social subnetwork of teens all using Android could survive the competing peer pressure from neighboring connected social iPhone subnetworks.
Yes, they are well-known for having attrition targets.
I'm reminded of the scene in The Matrix where the controllers to the gates of Zion are in a simulation managing the processes. [0] Instead of managing things outside the matrix via a terminal/monitor, they're given a virtual environment with their controls. Your comment makes sense to me!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJDNUcIvxH8
I have boycotted EU and Hawaii for the past couple years. It has not been worth the hassles to reliably obtain papers.

Florida and Texas have been enjoyable. As AOC knows, no paperwork hassles there.
You are forgetting the biggest feature: You can actually leave an iMessage group chat. An SMS group chat will keep texting you as long as someone keeps it alive. To stop getting them you have to individually block every user.
yeah but i can't buy adderall either
I wouldn't say they're irrelevant. POS tagging and dependency parsing are still useful for data science type applications, if not for full-scale natural language understanding. Maximum entropy and log-linear models aren't gone, they've just reappeared in a new form where the features come from neural nets.
You realize if everyone was a "prepper" then you wouldn't have any tests either, right? Supply doesn't magically increase if people flood the stores a month or two early.
I really like the SKB pens.
The third person was the police officer that was called to the scene and took a statement from the victim. That's how police reports are written.
There are antigen home tests valid for travel (https://www.emed.com/airline-travel); you take the test on a webcam and they watch for the entire 15 minutes until the result appears. If you move/obscure the test it is invalidated.

Not sure if there are proctored PCR versions. They'd have to go in the mail to a lab, but the test proctor could watch you seal it with a uniquely marked seal or something; that should ensure the sample that arrives at the lab is the same as the one you swabbed on camera.
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Until you're spending the salary of a large fraction of your engineers on hosting costs, there are much bigger things to worry about than hosting costs. AWS is user friendly and a lot of engineers are familiar with it, so developer productivity is strongly in its favor.

Also, you know what you're getting security-wise with AWS, and no one will blame you when your website / service goes down because AWS is down.
> Last I checked, some building codes allow equivalent 1:1 tradeoff with classic rebar - even though the basalt rebar is stronger.

Basalt rebar has a much lower elastic modulus, so when it fails, it fails. Steel on the other hand has a much larger elastic region - where the steel stretches while still carrying the same load. Part of the benefit of reinforced concrete is elastic failure - essentially every (properly) designed reinforced concrete structure is designed to fail with the tensile side of concrete cracking while the steel rebar still caries load, giving visual evidence that the concrete has failed. This is called elastic failure. This works because steel has a large ductile range. Basalt rebar doesn't fail the same way, so substituting it 1:1 seems inappropriate, regardless of it being stronger (per unit area).

I did find one random study[1] that substituted basalt rebar 1:1 with steel and compared the failure modes, and found that basalt-reinforced had cracking load essentially the same as a steel-reinforced, but a much larger ultimate load. Interestingly, the higher ultimate strength more than makes up for the much lower elastic modulus.

[1] https://www.icontrolpollution.com/articles/investigation-of-...
Right--being cool is being different from people outside of your particular clique. It's a group of people all being different in the same ways. Goths, punks, jocks, etc.
SMS is indeed trash. Unfortunately nobody seems willing to go out of their way to accommodate the minority of android users in their friend group. My techy friends use Signal, but efforts to get people to join me there have been quite fruitless.

My sister joined matrix, but she didn't remember her password the next time I tried to reach her there.
Thanks for the link. As an old INT 10h man myself, this was a great blast from the past.
As long as people that eat foods with added sugar and excess carbs are also banned.
Curious, could you share specific examples of that pork barreling?
Oh, a project baked by a German ministry and some crypto scam?

Highest trust levels given here… ;-)

On a more serous note: Germany is a digitally failed state. I can say that for sure as I'm living here my whole live.

Just everything that involves state authorities is a big failure. It's all nepotism, burning taxpayer's hard earned money for extremely doubtful projects that fall apart like a house of cards when you look askance on them. One IT related failure marches after the other. There are literally no success stories. It's not only a popular joke that Germany's government IT is made up of fax and printed internet pages. That's actually the truth! (We had to learn this once again the hard way during the pandemic…)

So if an IT related project has a federal ministry badge on it you should be at least very skeptical. (Or even better, you should start running not looking back). This, paired with advertisement form the Ethereum foundation, is more than enough for me to assume this is a complete failure. If I would be willing to spend time looking into the details I'm very sure this would turn out to be some complete useless nonsense. (As the "five block-chain" COVID check-in app with a central privately hold database in the back-end lately; which of course failed miserably. Since than the joke is that every new government IT project needs to include at least five block-chains, otherwise it's not worth it). Long story short: The people giving away money for such things don't have the slightest clue about anything IT related. They constantly make business with the most scummy "partners" resulting in usually hundreds of millions of euros getting burned for literary nothing (besides the partners, and other friends of the involved politicians, getting rich in the process).
The Koei strategy games on NES ran in a bytecode virtual machine. The actual game program would be written in C and compiled to the virtual machine. This allowed them to use the same codebase as the computer versions of their strategy games. As for why they use a VM rather than compiling to 6502, my guess is it saved ROM space (for example a 16 bit memory + memory add would be one instruction instead of 7)

More information: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15931
Ye, I always disable non-security related updates on pretty much all my hardware, then do a update once a year for new features on some stuff.

Recently got access to Windows 10 LTSC from a company I worked with and installed it on my workstation, super fast compared to the modern version I was using (LTSC build is 3 years old IIRC) and didn't find any downside compared to 10 Pro, so can recommend that for any dev that feels like their machine is too slow.
I was a huge fan of both the Moto line and the SE - but I'm currently using the Google Pixel line and it's my favorite so far.
In the US, iPhone SE is not $400, there are numerous carrier selling refurbished iPhone SE for about $120 and brand new for $180 with 3 months of service. Thus iPhone even brand new is not as expensive as it appears on Apple website.
Metapolitics
James Clear Quotes
Thank you, that explains it!
Stick of Gum-Sized Keyboard
Important exclusion:

> The new rule is only for goods and services transactions, not personal, such as paying a roommate for rent or reimbursing a friend.

Also, false (I think?) exclusion:

> It also excludes anyone selling a personal item at a loss, such as a couch bought for $700 and sold for $650.

PayPal will have no idea if you're selling at a loss or not, it'll be reported either way if you classify it as a sale, meaning you'd have to deal with the 1099-K either way.
Procrastinatory Doom Loops
> Total war refers to the mobilization of the entirety of a country or society

Welp, by this definition, covid isn't war. At least half of society seems to be doing nothing.
I mean, why do you think that certain crowd has gravitated to iPhones and not Androids?
As a decade long Android user that switched to iPhone when the 13 came out, I was expecting that but I've actually been pleasantly surprised. The new shortcuts app in iOS offers a surprising amount of customizability and scripting. True, you can't replace the entire launcher like with Android, but I've found it to be much less of a difference than I thought.
As others noted, probably because once you disable password authentication you're cutting out the ability for most bruteforce attempts to work.

However, I still think it's valuable for the following reasons:

1) It can slow stupid attackers down, e.g.: those that don't abort a bruteforce attempt when they see password authentication is disabled. Judging by my logs there's lots of those still out there.

2) It keeps the SSH logs less cluttered.

3) You can use it to build a set of hosts to consider blocking permanently.
They can use that filter all they want. It's less filtering I will have to do, to not date shallow people.
Exactly. Always read "fines" as "business expenses" if it's in this context. Especially w.r.t FAANG, in which case it's laughably small business expenses. Occasionally they'll be serious but never enough..
Pixel devices can have after market OS images flashed. Samsung devices are locked up.
I've replaced the submitted title ("GitHub Successors") with a phrase from the page that says what it's about.
Because one side wants a white ehtno-state, and hand waves over the genocide that always happens when they remove an ethnic minority population, and one side wants to stop getting shot by police. It’s not quite the same.
So … what’s your alternative?
> my Android phone becomes unstable after about 2

What do you attribute that to? Is it software updates that slow it down or some kind of pile up of junk that somehow slows it down like Windows 95 used to get?

> On top of that you have constant tweaks and changes…

Yeah, that exists on the iPhone too. Can’t think of anything off the top of my head but I promise you they make things worse sometimes with redesigns and take a few point releases (or even entire releases) to fix them.
It’s amusing that the people who howl loudly that blocking foreign IP ranges is an absolute failure have zero problems with blocking all IPs but a certain few.

I’ve yet to determine where the tipping point is.
> Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc.

Never thought of incorporating this in the terminal emulator. I just use a command line client for my usual password manager. Any reason you can't do that?
I’m an autodidact and I hate myself, I’m laughing!
I think that's a great reason to throw out the hard and harder medium questions.

I've never ever even heard of an interview problem where a b-tree or RB tree was required to solve it.

But my point stands that there are a ton of great little questions that involve very very basic data structures and tree traversal algorithms that you can use to glean quite a lot about a candidate.

You're absolutely right that asking a candidate if they can solve a 2D DP problem isn't telling you anything other than if they'd either seen this problem or they are good at this algorithm. I'm stating that you can learn a lot and eliminate some bad folks by asking some basic coding LC questions.
> Python is the most popular language on the planet because it’s a dynamic language, not in spite of it.

Disagree. It's popular because it has an uncluttered syntax - "executable pseudocode" - and simple semantics - "explicit is better than implicit", "there should be one obvious way to do it", and all that. Metaclasses were never particularly Pythonic (if anything they felt like a more Ruby-style way of doing things, and the ascent of Python over Ruby is a reflection of that difference).
The biggest costs of server bandwidth are due to transmitting data over large distances (since the internet backbone operates on a sender-pays model when unbalanced traffic is involved in peering). By locating CDN nodes globally, Cloudflare can ensure data is sent near the last mile and thus inexpensive to send. Unless ISPs decide to shake it down the way they do with Netflix of course.
Jest let your kids and their friends old have at the world.
As bad as it is for any developer at Amazon, I have to say that I'm going to feel more sympathy for the people in the warehouse who are told to get back to work when a line worker dies of a heart attack in the middle of their shift due to stress than any developer who can always leave and get a fine job somewhere else. The precariat in those warehouses need collective bargaining more than any developer, anywhere (except for maybe game developers).
It will probably happen but if that were enough to make for a bad idea, there wouldn't be any good ones.
The apparent difference is security update only vs newer Android OS version.

Most non flagship Samsung shipping today with Android 11 will only get Android 12 then security updates only. So technically Samsung only provide 1 year, if security update counts then Apple is still supporting iPhone 5s, a phone released in 2013.
>Cooperative threading is a disaster. It doesn't scale

It doesn't need to scale because it solves a different problem. It find extreme success in UI and graphics programming where UI systems are dominated by a single UI thread for synchronization. GPU have been single threaded until recently.

You can argue you do not like it but I can't see how you can argue against it's success.

That said, I'm pretty interested to see a popular multithreaded/pre-emptive UI framework in the wild.
Terrapin – A language agnostic shell with namespaces