skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ruling party is risking a lot, IMO

The alternative is catastrophically worse.

Even conservative estimates of PRC adopting western strategies of vax and opening has 6-7 figure deaths due to quickly overwhelmed medical system that's underdeveloped relative to west. This was pre-Omicron and assumes high mRNA vaccine penetration, which has utterly failed at preventing spread / breakthrough infections with omicron. It is looking like "superior" mRNA is as useless as traditional vaccines at preventing spread and comparable in preventing death, assuming developing literature that traditional Chinese vaccines has robust T-cell response for preventing severe cases. Which makes covid-0 the far superior choice for PRC, if it can be maintained. Simply no amount of vaccination will avert massive deaths in country of 1.4B that skews old and has marginal medical resources. Presently there's no better option than covid-0. Harsh lockdowns sucks for those going through it, but flip side is propaganda from overseas Chinese diaspora relaying the circus of western responses that's essentially resigning to herd immunity despite promise of mRNA magic of ending the pandemic. Omicron has completely vindicated PRC zero-covid strategy. Again, if it can be maintained.

Of course long term, herd immune countries can return to normal sooner. The path is harder for PRC. Who knows what the end game is, I think maybe hold out for hope that even milder variants will evolve and open up for herd immunity then. Either way, dodging original and delta strand was worth it considering lockdowns only ever affected a small fraction of the population after initial country wide quarantine effort. Even now most of PRC is relatively open.
Cool. I was mostly curious if you're related to John?
No, because exiting the block early (e.g., with return) won't run the cleanup code.
Would love to play it again. Enjoyed Kirby a lot on the original Game Boy 30 ago years. Unbelievable.
There is much confusion about the Greek color theory, and I can imagine that for this reason there is also lots of confusion about which word is used for which color. The Greeks with their arts were merely interested in representing humans accurately and not interested in making landscapes. This might also explain why there is not much attention for the color blue in the writings that survived from that time period.
Is there any detailed explanation on these points? I only find this exact quoted list in my searches. Seems that the original was also only a list of these points.

"Give up blood sport" - Why? Did martial arts for 10 years, helped a lot with some other points in these list, especially the self-awareness and decency (humble-ness?). Or do i misunderstand this point?

"Live memorably" - That's straight up a wall tattoo quote, isn't it? /s
You misunderstand. If tomorrow interrupting TV shows was banned you'd get 30 minute product placement fake "shows" instead. Imagine the TV show equivalent of autogenerated search spam clickbait.

This is probably not what you really want.
> he must do this, he must do that.

how about you do it for him? like forking and maintaining your own copy of faker.js and all the nodejs packages you are actively using in the first place?

ad hominem does not help your argument.
This is the best article on Android app reverse engineering I have read. Thanks.

Some more details on this step would be nice:

> I currently have an iPhone so I installed the Android Emulator on my Linux machine and install the app on that. Then I launched mitmproxy and started intercepting the traffic from the emulator.

Is this also the emulator from Android Studio? It would be very nice to intercept app traffic, without the need for a real device, but I have never been able to get it working.
Interesting to see the origins of X. Were there really 10 versions before it got to X11 and why did the version stop there?
I'd like to build a raspberry pi based MAME machine for my college, but to get a box to actually put the machine in, its either a lot of time and effort to build one (I do not have woodworking skills, nor the desire to learn) or a lot of money to buy a shell, which I don't have. So it will likely stay a daydream.

It would be nice to see people playing together in the lounge, though.
The advantage of "defer" is that it's explicit. It's right there, and it's crystal clear when it will run.

The "implicitness" and hidden nature of destructors is a disadvantage, it's the unpleasant way it can introduce behavior which might be surprising.
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia want to beat Apple Silicon. Here's why they won't
The Universal Language: Reliability for Non-Engineering Teams
You know that the opened token is linked to the initial client session. You can unblock that session and the user can proceed in the non-isolated browser. You have this workflow with codes anyway: the user must open an email then go back to the browser and type in the code. With the link you will save on the typing.
I think we should normalize expressions of awe and curiosity about other people. It's hard to do without sounding ridiculous. A model that helps me is, "I like the state that that person's brain is in. I'll let them know. If I'm lucky, my communication of appreciation might shake out some generalizable knowledge that I have not encountered before."

A good set of people to practice this on is doctors, teachers and Twitter users you admire.
RUBY on RAILS could have been so much edgier XD
Due to a recent-ish move, I have gone from ~20 years with a gas cooker to induction (with about 6 months of halogen in-between). Induction is pretty good. It lacks the visceral feedback of "how hard am I driving this specific ring/cooking spot right now" that a gas flame has. But, it probably offers more precision.

Not tried a wok, yet, though.
Temperature is proportional to kinetic energy only in specific conditions. In its more general definition, temperature is how energy changes with entropy. You can have temperatures tending towards infinity, and even negative temperatures.
World’s 10 richest men doubled their wealth during pandemic
I think resistance to algorithms is about failure modes. If an algorithm becomes standard and you are an edge case then you are in trouble, much the same way you are in trouble today with companies that have automated customer support and make it hard to contact a human being. Losing your email account is annoying but not being able to have a job is worse. Automated systems are designed to avoid mistakes but are bad at correcting mistakes. I would argue that even with humans involved the hiring process is harder to some people, even discounting bias, just because it is more or less standard but at least they have hope in the variance that remains.
True, but SQL is (for better or worse) the de-facto standard query language for relational databases. The alternatives are all very niche.

I would like a better alternative, but it would need some very significant benefits compared to SQL to gain any traction. SQL is just so entrenched at this point that even NoSql database engines are adding support for pseudo-SQL query languages (which is really the worst of both worlds - the clunkyness of SQL syntax without the power of the relational model).
Perhaps if the user has a slow old CPU we could also order them a new one on Amazon for use only while the game is running too...
So we moved from “defer” to “using a different language, with different semantics, and use the non-standard finally”.
American is large. Some DA's are soft. Some are hard. LA's is definitely way too soft. It's dropping the standard of living for common working class people.
I think it's a very good point but you also aren't going to convince a lot of people without offering concrete solutions to the immediate issue. What are they, in your opinion? I personally think if the company kept its trains moving and/or had better fences, it might prevent the thefts in the first place. But if your idea is let's not prosecute theft and focus on reducing economic inequalities, I'm not sure I buy it!
From memory as a rough estimate: When I had traffic influx from Reddit and HN it peaked at around 10 page views / second. Maybe 50k views in total including long tail?
Your early-on blame towards George Soros (a magnet for conspiracy theorists, and with an article from 2016) does not help your comment. It’s fine to disagree with progressive prosecutors, but support for them has not been growing from a single person’s political campaign contributions.
Have a look at "Family Link". It is not perfect, but it can limit usage of apps and the whole device to specific times (and more).
> It’s completely valid to distrust password managers.

Is it, really? And at the same time to trust one's memory? For memorizing hundreds of long passwords? Don't think so...
Thanks.
It looks like complexity increase deliberately aimed at maintaining market monopoly. I can't rationally believe than tens of thousands of pages of documents are needed to display just a (however complex it is) UI. It's a UI engine, after all, and nothing more.
There are one-handed keyboards available, like this one. [1] When typing, you hold the space bar as a modifier key to type the mirror image key from the opposite side of the keyboard (so a "D" is typed by holding space bar and pressing "K").

I have the left-handed version, which has a smaller footprint. I bought it years ago and was able to type about 3/4 of my normal speed, including code. The price appears to have skyrocketed — I paid around $100, and it's now $600. Hopefully your employer can cover this!

1: https://matias.store/collections/ergo/products/half-qwerty-5...
> It is easy to do that though - set up a database.

I think we have really, fundamentally, failed to communicate here. I’m 100% sure we are talking about different things.
Or just keep trains moving. I'm shocked that US freight trains are left parked for so long in areas known to be theft-prone with poor fencing. I don't think these kinds of thieves would risk their lives going after a train running full speed.
That's not relational, that's closer to a NoSQL store.
Reminds me of the Debian Deep Learning Team and their recent thread about ML being incompatible with Free Software values and principles

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/8bc4a2fdb2a0619d1d8214...
When they have to invent a new term "food insecurity" and your country leads the world in obesity, you know people aren't going hungry in the normal sense of the word.
As an FYI, I don't belive that's a correct use of the term "fungible".
Then you hit the hell of having to interact with some system (almost always written in Java) that's using some 20 year old SAX parser that barfs if the tags aren't in the exact order it expects.
My understanding is that most of the people struggling to feed themselves make too much money to qualify for assistance, but too little to reliably feed themselves.

Obviously, those people aren't making too much money (as documented by the IRS and/or banks) by robbing trains.
SpiceDAO wins a $3M auction to buy a rare book of Dune
Well, George Gascón was DA of San Francisco before moving to LA (and he was replaced by an even nuttier DA, Chesa Boudin), and the Mayor of San Francisco went to the remarkable step of warning LA about his dismal record. They can’t say they weren’t warned.
There's also literal evidence from the original article that these criminals know they won't be punished and can do it with impunity.
Dress code is nothing like a vaccine requirement. Two completely different things.

The government admitted the reason his visa was cancelled was because they're worried about public perception. In a country with already 95% fully vaxxed, they're worried about "anti-vaxxers" drawing inspiration from tennis players! It doesn't add up unless you allow for an embarrassingly irrational government.
Oculus under government probe for anti-trust violations
I agree they should be read by humans, but (and I feel most comments are missing that point) a standard format would help with that.

Having been reading resumes a lot lately, I always breathe a sigh of relief when people hand in the standard latex template, with maybe only the colors changed. The structure is immediately familiar and easy to navigate. I could use a client app that presents a hypothetical standard data format in such a way. My colleagues in sales or customer success on the other hand seem to prefer other formatting styles; they could look at their candidates in that way.
I would see it more as a different and better way to store the same and additional information. In a RDBMS an index is already storing references in a tree format. If you map that to files and folders you now have basically the same thing as a file system.

Doing it more as a DB enables the OS to use the knowledge from RDBMS for efficiency, which I'm sure rivals the best file systems and it's possible to create multiple indexes and views for other use cases.

Our current view on file systems and the knowledge we have is heavily influenced by slow spinning disks, while RDBMS have leveraged RAM a lot more. With todays fast SSDs the file system operates in a reality that is more like RAM than a slow spinning disk.
What your proposed analysis misses is the cost savings from the deterrent effect of all the crime not committed.

To a large extent this is happening because people believe they will not be punished. If a group of criminals were actually locked up for 10 years, it would discourage others from committing the crimes at all in the future. That’s where the real cost savings - and value to society of punishing criminals - is.
I have used family link, it's kind of all or nothing deal. I want the ability to define block schedules.

I want to be able to put some sort of delay when opening time wasting website so that it is not as addictive.
One part of the relational model is that all metadata itself is available as tables. So there is a table containing the foreign key relations. You can write a query that gives, for each table, which foreign keys point to it. You're not required to looking at the default view.
I think the author is using "DOS" to mean "Windows Command Prompt" (cmd.exe and Win32 Console subsystem)

Incorrect terminology, but an error I've heard people make again and again and again, pretty much constantly ever since Windows XP came out. In Windows 3.x/9x/Me, the command prompt actually was MS-DOS. In NT/XP/Vista/7/8/10/11, it is not DOS any more, unless you actually run command.com under NTVDM (only possible in 32-bit Windows, support for which is gone in Windows 11)
Underrated comment. There's simply too many people who don't care at all about the rules or about participating in a functional society.
I'm kind of miffed that a 2018 JS book doesn't include Map and Set as they're fairly core data types :-/
You guard your cargo, plain and simple.

If the thieves are back on the street, you're still on guard, what difference does that make? It's not like the guards should expect to go on vacation because they arrested a thief.
What about recipes though
Don't fully trust AI in dev work /yet
"Purposive" is a word that I've never seen used before, but it's actually in the dictionary, and one of the meanings is as a synonym of the more usual "purposeful": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purposive
I don't see how Apple's block syntax would be any better.
Speaking of red squiggly lines in Word/MS products. Is it just me or has the grammar check gotten incredibly worse the past 2 years? It keeps complaining about odd grammar forms and suggesting I replace perfectly valid word-structures with shorter ones? The one I encounter most frequently is the suggestion to replace "in order to" with just "to", which is incredibly frustrating as they mean two different things entirely.
Thanks @mayilian. Yes, I sent him an email earlier to pg at ycombinator dot com.
Something I've noticed in my (tiny) country: after almost decades of silence, many key works of classical literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy) have been kind of suddenly reprinted in our language during covid time. I also find myself standing in front of our classics shelf more often during the pandemics. May well be that the soul needs "universal, time tested wisdom" to cope with the crisis.
> If someone robbed a train in Denmark would they go to jail?

In Denmark, would the robbery happen in the first place?
Coming from someone who cant spell "tough luck". Lol
> failed state
> noun
> a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control: if we turn our back on the developing world we will see more failed states.

This is not the UK based on Brexit or Boris Johnson or anything that entails from them.

Will the UK still be in the G8 after Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister? Yes.

- Will the UK still be in the G8 long after Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister? Yes.

- Will the UK still be in the G8 after Brexit? Yes, it is.

- Will the UK still be in the G8 long after Brexit? Yes.

I also think you could change those questions to their opposites in an alternate reality, i.e. Jeremy Corbyn and staying in the EU, which is probably why I find your view to be overwrought. There are plenty of states outside of the EU that are in the G8, and though I don't agree with much of what Johnson has done, the likelihood it will transform the UK into a failed state is utterly absurd to me, and clearly, to any majority that counts, whether it is UK voters, those who put money into the UK, and every other nation state.
You can: with a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo Switch Online subscription (€ 35/year for a family plan) you get access to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulators that come with a number of vintage games, including Kirby's Adventure and the Super Mario Bros. series.
The relational model also covers transactions. You could imagine opening multiple files, writing data to them, and rolling back a.k.a. reverting to the old situation if something goes wrong. This would protect against file corruption, and would also be interesting for e.g. installers. E.g. a transaction could cover all file changes, registry updates, etc.

Windows did this for a short while, but I believe it was removed again. I don't know the exact reason.
IIRC New York is also going in that direction as their DA recently announced similar policies.

Clearly I do not have the level of understanding to have any idea what is going on, but the fact that this is happening is so many major metro areas in the United States seems completely absurd to me. Is it just a case of the criminal justice system completely buckling under strain?
>"crazy outside-the-box madman"

I like that so much that I dare not copycat it.
> Gmail .. should be on the list as well, because creating email addresses there is so quick and easy

GMail does antispasm. It’s easy to create a disposable gmail, but it is much harder (I supposed) to use that address for outgoing spam/fraud/etc.
Fungible is very fungible.
Couldn't we run experiments to discover whether they really have this role?

Like for example choosing an island with mosquitoes (and far enough from other lands as to not be rapidly repopulated) eliminating them there and seeing what the effect is in the ecosystem?

I wonder if something like this has ever been tried.
"It's just a prank, bro"
Atari ST source code repository
Slightly pedantic, but Napoleon wasn't France's leader yet during that time.
You could say the same about FLOSS. And it succeeded.
A shared secret is not an attack vector though, a reused secret is. If you reuse an asymmetric key, it will identify you across the world. But if you don't reuse an asymmetric key, then the point of asymmetric cryptography is moot and is no better than a password manager.
thank you for the insightful and detailed reply.

making this game i've envisioned is more of a carrot on a stick, a clear goal that forces me to learn loads of different stuff on the way. whether or not the game itself ultimately materializes is not as important as picking up new skills, and i definitely don't see myself working in the games industry (nor the IT industry).
> But let's not pretend that every C program is a video driver, a AAA game or a web engine.

While true, the culture in C and C++ circles pretends otherwise, hence why we have unsafe by default and safety as opt-in in those languages.

The sky would fall if we lose that 1us.
There is no proof that anyone they arrested had their charges plead down. The mayor, govenor, and DA says they're charging criminals for felony crimes. So who do we believe?
To be out for blood is to seek revenge. I read "Give up blood sport" as a caution against doing so.
> I don't se why they chose function over scoped so please enlighten me

I don't like it either, but it allows for a simpler syntax, consider e.g. "f = fopen(...); if (f) { defer fclose(); }". You'd need special syntax for the defer to escape the block.
Although this example is a bit forced, because usually you'd return from the function on error anyways.
I happen to be a woodworker when I'm not a software developer and FWIW, and building an traditional-style 90's plywood cab (with some affordances; how you mount the panel is an Open Question) is pretty trivial stuff with a drill, a jigsaw (if you want rounded corners), a few pieces of sandpaper, and a circ saw (you'd need a router for traditional T edge banding but you can get flat edge banding right on Amazon). You can get the tools on Craigslist for $40 to $60 if you look hard enough. The consumables (hole saw, drill bit, screws, dowel, glue) are maybe another $20 to $25), and a couple of sheets of plywood are the most expensive at about $60 per. Not the cheapest thing in the world, but firmly in beer-money territory if you've got interested friends.

(And then you've got folks like me who drop a thousand dollars on a gizmo to not have to think about the construction process nearly as hard, but shhh, we're cautionary tales.)

I can't help you with the not wanting to learn part, but, having never built one, I'm pretty confident I could do it in a day. Pretty confident that it's a weekend project for a couple of college kids. And learning how to use your hands is a pretty rewarding experience, I find.
What do you mean by "the" standard LaTeX template?
But that is also why I included a source for that note about Soros in my original comment. Commentary on George Soros is often labeled as conspiracy theory, but the reality is that organizations (PACs) funded by him have made campaign contributions to the very DAs that have implemented restorative justice policies. This isn’t a conspiracy theory - election law requires public disclosure of their campaign contributions. Both left-leaning (https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-prosecutor-ca...) and right-learning (https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progre...) news outlets have covered Soros’s investments in getting progressive DAs elected.
You could do this with the factory pattern, applied to a template type. Though, if you would do this for the whole range of say, an int, you would probably blow up the compiler. How is that done in languages that do support this? Or does it require shipping the compiler, so that you can run the compiler at runtime?
It is interesting that something 'not the ultimate window system' can last almost 40 years already, though it also seems like Wayland is getting close to critical mass of adoption?
> Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.

The problem is I can deliver a lot and others can't so I quite often expect more of them since I expect them to deliver as much as me.
It could. Maybe california should send their criminals over to Denmark to see what happens.
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