skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ah...this has been debunked?

> The story so far as I know is that "multiple US intelligence agencies" told Congress that (in 2016) people working for the Russian government hacked the DNC and provided the emails to Wikileaks.

Assange is the one publishing the secrets of "US intelligence agencies," so they don't like him very much. Given this conflict of interest and the knowledge that they'd never be asked to provide any actual evidence, their credibility is low.

> Mueller proceeded to indict a lot of Russians who allegedly were involved.

He indicted actual Russians, who are in Russia and not subject to US jurisdiction. The expectation was that they wouldn't show up in court and prosecutors would never have to prove their allegations.

Then some of the accused did show up, so they dropped the charges against them: https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/justice-department-drop...

But even ignoring that they never proved it in court, that still doesn't imply that Assange reports to Putin or had any knowledge Russians were involved (if indeed they were).

"Sources lacking in credibility make claim without evidence" is debunked by Hitchens's razor.
> at this point its still correlation only

There is no correlation I'm aware of. Two things happening around the same time isn't correlation. Furthermore, changes in crime rates across the country are similar regardless of the local DA policy (per the FBI's crime report), which would indicate a lack of correlation with bail policies.

> In October 2021 alone, the increase was 356% over compared to October 2020. Not only do these dramatic increases represent retail product thefts – they include increased assaults and armed robberies of UP employees performing their duties mov

Crime for one private business isn't data supporting a correlation with actions that affect the entire city.
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> If you believe you are in such a discussion, explaining is just providing a larger attack surface.

Only if you lie about your objection. Otherwise, maybe it can get overcome and you can engage in a win-win transaction. That is, it's not in red, it costs too much and it's not available delivered Thursday are all problems that may be solveable.

Now, if you invent a problem for something you aren't interested in at all, that's an issue.
I recommend changing the keyboard layout silently when someone is looking over your shoulder.
You are innocent until proven guilty.
> I'm only aware of one case where the US government, without warrant, actively hacked its own citizens using a 0day

It’s perhaps a bit broader than your definition there, but illegal exploitation and subsequent whitewashing of personal data by law enforcement is common enough that is has a name. Parallel construction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Another point. For me, being caught zero times doing an illegal thing is a world apart from being caught one time. The chances on you being caught the only time you ever did s specific illegal act is so small that you pretty much go from assumed innocent if you’ve never been caught, to probably guilty if you’ve been caught even once before.

(That’s not an “assumed innocent “ in its legal context, I 100% agree a court should assume 2nd, 3rd, and 100th time convicted people are “innocent until proven guilty” and the prosecution should need to bring a strong enough case ignoring previous conviction to get a fair judgement. But if you’ve been caught using illegal methods before, I’m going to assume it’s something you have convinced yourself is ok, and you’ll do it whenever it suits you so long as you consider the chance of getting caught is low enough.)
Am I the only person to whom significant portions of this sound like complete nonsense?

> We are realigning the Talent business to focus more on customer employer branding and company awareness needs, and moving away from job slots and direct hiring. This will tie the product closer to what we offer through Stack Overflow Advertising [...]

I have no idea what "customer employer branding" and "customer awareness needs" are. I don't understand how this is a "realignment" of the talent business -- it seems like it's an abandonment of it.

> how can we leverage our unique position to solve real, meaningful problems for our users and customers?... the talent acquisition space is not one where we have a strong competitive advantage

A significant portion of the world's developers are visiting your site every time they're looking for answers to technical problems that may come up daily and that's not a competitive advantage?

Every time I've gone on the job market in the last decade+, I've looked at jobs on stack overflow. Nowhere else has delivered me more interviews with places that I'd plausibly want to work.

This has to be some weird fallout from last year's sale, right?
Some vaccinated people still get severe disease, and others even die (both at significantly lower rates than for the unvaccinated, of course). The reasons why this happens in some cases and not others is uncertain, and, accepting the Bayesian interpretation of probability as I do, I would describe that as reducing the probability of disease (and also death). Put differently, you cannot tell a priori whether being vaccinated will definitely stop you dying, but you can observe that the a posteriori population level rate is reduced. You are correct that it also reduces the probability of transmission.
For me this is everyone else figuring out why the web 1.0 was so great. If you have your own place you have to make an effort. People might still visit but they will not return if there is nothing interesting going on.

Platforms in stead use a system of guaranteed readership. Effortless publications that look like they belong because they are consistent with the rest of the garbage heap. (Advertisement is the biggest turd. If there are ads there is even incentive to keep the content crappy enough.)

Its like being invited for dinner by a friend vs a soup kitchen. Why is it not the same? Why are the people at the soup kitchen less friendly? -- are you kidding me?

Moderation has to be the most obvious advantage. If you bring the hate you wont be invited for the next dinner.

It feeds back into it self: People who don't run websites just for fun fail to understand or appreciate what it takes which makes their judgement unreasonable. They desire others to live up to standards they themselves do not meet.

A professor publishing on twitter?

> Exposure to hate can help legitimize hate, in part because our views of the other political groups becomes biased.

This was the whole point! Expose one camp to the most stupid argument made by the other camp for ENGAGEMENT!

On your own website you wouldn't just quote the most stupid things you've found on the internet.
That's why I said "personal" property.
When you say tech industry pays more, I'm assuming the effective long-run hourly earnings of poker players is way less glamorous than it looks from an outsider seeing highlights? Doing a basic google search led me to https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ranking/6737/, which seems to suggest that 81 players earned over 1mm USD in 2021. But presumably those players don't earn that YoY, and even if they did, plenty more software engineers earn > 1mm USD per annum, so this seems to support your conclusion. OTOH, I have no insight to the home games or whatever sources are not included in these rankings, so I'd love to hear a little more.
What does single payer system have to do with UBI? Americans also have medical insurance and they also pay for it one way or the other. The UBI tax would come on top of that. The same thing as in single payer countries. Your are not disproving inglor_cz's assertion in any way.If anything you confirmed it with an example of socialist countries.
It is noteworthy in that none of the actors are recognizable from their roles in other films.

My son saw Ex Machina and Ep 7 almost back to back and didn't notice. He was astonished when I pointed it out. "Shouty Guy" and "Emo Guy" were his names for the principal Empire heavies. No one will guess wrong about who is who.
faith /feɪθ/

1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

Science is not something you have faith in. The entire point of science is allowing your beliefs to change when presented with evidence. That's the exact opposite of "complete trust". If anything, the only thing you need to have faith in is in the validity of your own experience - and that's a philosophical dilemma, not a scientific one.

Doing science means knowing we're probably wrong and will learn something new tomorrow - but we're probably at least a little bit right and that will have made our lives better until now.
they pray the sociopath away :)))
Because a world war every so often was a nice break from the monotony of everyday life?

Nuclear weapons achieve something utterly unprecedented: they make the leaders afraid of the consequences of war. We're arguably better off with them. Disarmament is neither responsible nor realistically achievable.
It's actually an awful idea. The whole benefit of working for a large company is that you DON'T need to sacrifice outside of your 9-5. This is that outdated grind mentality that managers sell to convince people this is needed to get ahead before they hand out promotions to their mates anyway.

Secondly, and I don't mean to disrespect you in any way, but if you're self-taught, and your prior experience is one man jobs working on small sites then I wouldn't expect the quality of your code to be great. I would be wondering how much time it would take to ensure whatever you build is really readable, documented, fully tested, maintainable, in line with the company's current tech stack, performant and scalable.

The benefits of working at a large company is that they have products that run on massive code bases that are, for the most part, REALLY STABLE. They move slowly, but they also move surely. New code won't be scrappy and volatile. Old code can stagnate, but it's because it hasn't broken in years. All of these things are learning opportunities you can take with you even if you strike out to start/work at a startup.
Object Pascal/Free Pascal then is the obvious choice, it is The better C.
Notwithstanding that, because of the fallibility of humans, subjective matters of conduct arise. For example: because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed divorce, but from the beginning it was not so; David was an adulterer which was punishable by death, but repented and was forgiven; mercy triumphs over judgement. As Jesus said: be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect. Unfortunately, we’ve all already failed.

No scripture is a matter of one’s own private interpretation, but many matters beyond that are, because we complicate matters for ourselves by our imperfection. A lot of the stuff in Paul’s letters he wrote to help resolve such matters.
Before Macworld NY 2002 the "Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null" ad was already running in national magazines.
Yeah, if you have the ID's as null. But why you would do such thing in the first place? Have the ID be "serial primary key" and you'll never have null values in there ever!

Btw, that's the second optimization you learn. So you telling me that in your case, you have null values in your ID's? You should be fired trice then.

Since you're hell bent on doing tests, do one with a dozen millions rows, just ID and a varchar as columns, and in one case have the ID have nulls, and in the other case be like I said. Then see the difference when you run "select count(ID) where the_varchar_column = 'Steve'" vs "select(star_sign) bla bla" and come back to me. Image would be appreciated. Then go rewrite your DB structure and the query when you realize the performance
Successful programs tend to attract reimplementations, and those are probably written by different kinds of people than the originals.
It's not that hard. DigitalOcean has good guides.
I really want it to be good enough and socially acceptable. It does feel like going somewhere else. But I have checked back on five versions now and each time it loses my config or drops or rearranges monitors.

I got sold by that blog post some months back but it’s still just a novelty — that dude’s tolerance for suffering to put in 40-50 hours is unreal (or sponsored).
1. buy the drive

2. plug it into my system via a USB drive adapter

3. format the drive

4. run the program I wrote to copy the files I want to back up to it

5. unplug the drive

6. plug the drive in next time I want to do a backup

7. run my program again, which will only copy over changed files. You could use rsync if you prefer

8. unplug the drive

Error modes? I've had disk drives fail now and then. I have a 10 lb sledge hammer I use to render it unreadable by anyone but the NSA, and throw it in the trash. Buy another one.

I suppose I'm not really understanding your question. But it really is this low tech and simple.
"Burner" seems to perfectly describe the use case: the phones are acquired for a particular situation (presentation to privacy-hostile government), used to minimal effect for the duration, and then discarded (burned). Just because they are not buying drugs with the phone makes them no less "burners."

I agree with your second point as well: I think many people have a clear case to use "burners" in their everyday lives as privacy becomes harder to come by.

Gotta keep the flip phone market alive somehow!
Very good intuition - defauldict seems to be the best option if you have control over the building of the dictionaries and you think missing value handling is in play. I've updated the post to reflect this.
svelte is probably the most common english one
Do they want to vote in Israeli election? Do they even want to live in a democracy, let alone in a binational country together with Israelis?
What happens when you get hit by the next log4j and all your systems are compromised because you didn’t do even basic due diligence?
Nim/Zig/Crystal - these three languages look the same to me for some reason
There is one https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/ (I liked it)
Is that an Apple thing? Because I've definitely worked on large-scale commercial projects where changes to everyone's includes were routine.
Oh gosh, I had to try and figure out an Apache config file some time last year - it was a real slog trying to figure out what was happening thanks in no small part to the poor documentation of their pseudo-XML.
I don’t think these are the same people.
Too many shared hosts with LAMP not updating their stack in ages, I suppose.
>"This is just a horrible event for the Tongans," he says. But "it could be a benchmark, watershed kind of event in volcanology."

What I find most curious about this event is that nobody seems to really care about... the Tongans. No charity drives. No on the ground footage and interviews of news crews rushed to the scene. 100,000 people just had their lives destroyed and everyone is "cool! how big was it? this is great for science!"
The line is very, very easy: if it is in the language, you can see it represented syntactically in the source code, and programmers using the language write it there. If not, not.
Uh, no, they can't change history and take back the words they put there 20 years ago, or decide unilaterally that those words actually meant something else. The matter of whether a work has been successfully dedicated to the public domain (and when, and in what jurisdictions) is a matter for a court, not a matter to be arbitrarily decided or revoked at any time by the (at the time) copyright holder. It's a matter of words, interpretation, and copyright laws and treaties. Everyone has understood it to be public domain, this matches all the statements on all their documentation, and it would be ridiculous for a court to find otherwise.

The "open legal question" of whether you can voluntarily dedicate something to the public domain does not mean there is open slather to anyone who has done it to choose what the answer to the question is. It means it is open to a judge to decide the question once and for all someday, and then that question is resolved for everyone. I don't even know if your assessment of the question's unresolved status is correct.
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This is really hilarious... I just followed the third given example (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/absdcon2017/database-conclusions.htm...) and that's how it goes: "the simplicity of SQLite is a lie". Ok, thanks, I'll pass on the "BCHS" stack then. I now consider this website satire.
Hot take: all these body tracking apps do almost nothing to actually help you be healthy or improve your life, and the only reason that people feel a need to use them is because advertising has convinced them that it is “part of a healthy diet”.

Whether or not they invade your privacy, they reduce your idea of your health to a set of numbers that are divorced from the actual reality of your life and your overall wellbeing. Just abstain!
With exception of C++, they certainly aren't.

C++ type system is impossible to fix while keeping backwards compatibility, so static analysis tooling is the only possible solution.
I had problems trying to read text with a Valve Index have to look at it just right to not have blurry edges. That's 1600 resolution, newer headsets are in the 2500+ range.

But it was neat using my desktop through VR although I did it briefly. I could not see myself working in it. It took me a while to get used to motion (not get sick) but that's not as problematic when you're looking at fixed screens/sometimes moving your head.

Edit: will add I work on a 34" curved monitor so space isn't a concern for me
Clang and Visual C++ static analysis tooling can be represented on the source code via C++ attributes and blessed library types, so...
First covid then gym equipment, 5G is the worst
They was a way different time and a different Apple.
First write tests without touching existing code. Once tests are complete, do refactor.
Wrong. Misdemeanors are crimes
I was around Apple pre Next and people there were already afraid of Steve
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Fable is the well known F# to JavaScript compiler. It's also the name of a studio game and is a very common word associated with story telling.

I'm curious. Why did you choose this name for your product? It will be an SEO fight trying to push this keyword association to your product up the Google rankings.
I can't remember exactly which smart device it was, but I think it was my Wyze Watch that asked for wayyyyyy too much information during setup.

Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job?

I got you to 1) show the time 2) have alarms that I can set without using the phone, like in bed 3) monitor my sleep 4) check my heartrate and saturation when I exercise.

There's literally 0 reason to have my birthday, so I went by january 1st :)

But it shouldn't even have been asked in the 1st place.

> what we've allowed to become commonplace

We should not allow it anymore. A smart device that insist on having an app on a phone to be usable won't get my $$$.
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I’d wager a good portion of my salary that a skilled BCHS developer is slower than a skilled Django/RoR developer to build a usual web app (with auth, payment gateways, admin panels, etc). Not to say BCHS doesn’t look like a laugh to use.
Well because it's a Jewish country. And one of the only countries in the world threatened with annihilation by some of its neighbors. When 77 years ago Jews were indeed being exterminated all over the world.
This very unique situation warrants someone to at least be careful with the tone and choice of words he uses when criticizing Israel.
There are some silly performance claims in there, but I think my favorite part is "An Unicode text console is both a danger and a waste. The right mode for presenting a large variety of complex glyphs is graphical mode using a specialized program."

That console's already using multiple megabytes just as a frame buffer. Some extra fonts are not going to be a problem.

(Also how exactly are they pronouncing "Unicode"?)
Does anyone enjoy horseshoe crab? I've had it once, and there's very little edible meat. Seems more of a novelty than sustenance. (I may have been eating it incorrectly.)
Somehow I still see .htaccess files in projects that aren't that old (and in a few cases never used Apache).
A little late to answer, but yes, there is research suggesting that periodically looking long distances has health benefits, including preventing near-sightedness. One could reasonably expect mass adoption to accelerate rates of vision problems. Here's one high level summary/starting point: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/looking-to-the-dista...

There may be a way for VR headsets to help with this, depending on why this occurs. For example, if the benefit comes from focusing on a distant object, headset screens may be able to simulate this. If the benefit comes from looking at physical objects, headsets may need to make it easy to quickly move the screen out of the way of the eyes.

What would be best, though, would be for us to figure out how to get past this glut of required information work and digital entertainment so we can spend more time away from screens--my opinion, of course.
Obama while retired still has a lot of sway in the party. He had a lot to lose politically if Bernie ended up making Obamacare look like the joke that it is. Furthermore we know from 2016 wikileaks that the donors are very adamant that if they didn't stop Bernie then they might as well not call them ever again for money. I'll never forget the leaked voicemails that had donors literally screaming at Democratic leadership to stop Bernie at whatever cost. Looking back, while Bernie's team did a superb job in 2020, I should have realized that you cannot beat a system in which the other side controls the strings.
well, a M.2 2280 slot (presumably one that's NVME capable, not SATA only for storage) is just a PCI-E slot in a weird small shape.
I know that US courts do some weird things sometimes but "The author disclaims copyright" is abundantly clear, and also the author has made plenty of public statements clarifying exactly how that is to be interpreted.

The situation in civil law countries and especially countries that have inalienable "author's rights" is much less clear and hostile even to the SQLite copyright release.
Problem it's an OS without multithreading[1]. One of the biggest Emacs problems, IMHO.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ghq1yx/lets_get_real...
I've noticed that many articles in the financial news are obviously written by bots.
It's just easier and less risky to not commit crimes, the people who do commit crimes are almost always doing so as a result of some fundamental failure by society to give them tools to earn a living some other way.

If you were in their situation, you'd do exactly as they would, you just had a better situation in your life. We owe it to them to give them that shot.

I know it's easier to blame these people for their choices, but in a lot of cases, there never really was any other choice for them. "Just don't do crime" isn't really a choice you can make when nobody explains to you what else there is to do that gives you any real shot in this world.

I'll repeat, because it's important: you'd do exactly the same thing these people have done, if you had their set of experiences.
Of course they predict that. They want the deal to go through so they can cash in on Nvidia's sweet, sweet buyout offer.
Yeah I remember starting a project with Apache in 2017 I think, and when I was discussing the (very quick) move to nginx it appeared that Apache's default settings are great for a personal home page and not much else, while nginx's default settings seem to handle a moderately busy e-commerce site (or more) with no trouble at all.