skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We planned on going for 2 years, stayed 3. We could have definitely stayed forever if we wanted to (I'm European so no visa issue). We came back as planned because my wife's family is in SF and we always planed to get back closer to them.
It's not really an optimization detail, it's because Java doesn't have user-defined value types. The primitives are there because they're value types copied from C.

(Java is a memory-safe variant of Objective-C with all the interesting features removed.)
The actual title is "In the 1800s, This British Isle Was Covered in Groves of 12-Foot-Tall Kale"; it's not clear why it was edited.
Legally, yes. In practice, debt collectors (which originators of debt of all sorts will quickly dump unpaid debt onto, even medical providers who don't want to wait for patients to cough up the funds due) will take advantage of unsophisticated/financially illiterate citizens to coerce payment, even if there is no obligation to pay.

The fix is straightforward: require evidence of the debt upfront, and if you're attempting to collect on debt you can't verify was agreed to by the person you're pursuing, damages are substantial (say, $1M per occurance). Make reporting of violations via the CFPB frictionless.

You will see debt originators rapidly standing up robust identity proofing systems (having customers come into a branch with their IDs), and asking Congress to legislate their implementation (Login.gov and similar for private enterprise, with the end game being a usable national ID system such that Estonia has [1]).

Tangentially, current risk management in this space between identity and finance sucks. I worked with someone to get liens off their Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions report (which mortgage originators use for compliance purposes with conventional mortgage underwriting guidelines as it relates to foreclosures and real estate fraud) that were on their report for almost 8 years in error. It took a CFPB complaint for Lexis Nexis to remove them with citations from an attorney to state statute, and this data isn't classified as consumer reporting, so it's almost impossible to obtain financial recourse/damages for these occurrences.

[1] https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/4737/id-systems-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29980189 (HN thread of the above link)
Large, peer-reviewed research study proves ivermectin works
Yeah that's exactly what they mean here.
Cool, then it can point you to scholar.google
> I have repeatedly, your inability to observe data from the CBO and BLS is not my problem

So we have this scenario where either

1) you can't explain how my points are wrong, and direct me to read some blogs you like.

2) you don't want to

In either case, why are you even responding? If everything on the internet is self-explanatory, everyone should agree. So why aren't we? This is why we explain how something is wrong, and support it using data from mutually reliable sources. You repeatedly sidestep this, for whatever reason I don't know.
Proof to whom? Shouldn't you be developing things your customers need, not some pet project you enjoy working on for its own sake?
What kind of market share does the Pixel business have?
I don't understand what your point is. Sure, people of abuse shared property, tragedy of the commons and all. What does that have to do with the fence?
Would love to read more about this because my understanding is that the increase in M2 money supply is a big part of the current inflation (very simplified - it's way more complex when looking at money velocity and supply chains in general).
I still use a Pixel 2 as my phone and I had no idea it was EoL. I've been using this thing for more a year after it is apparently not getting security updates. That's extremely fucked up that this isn't communicated to users. Many people I know are using androids that are totally out of date. This is a giant security concern I now have for our society.
If these colour meanings are older than ~80 years (presumably they are), then maybe the association is between aka (red) for increases and ao (grue) for decreases, or in English, both green and blue for decreases.
By upstreaming you mean Android project, not Linux right? E.g. not to mainline?
I haven’t personally benchmarked it, but I know it’s available as an eslint rule (all exported functions must have declared return types).
my thoughts exactly. another example would be the "Japanese post office"[1] which has a symbol "〒" for japanese postal mark. There is a "european post office"[2] emoji as well with a brass horn on it. Both are meaningless to North and South Americans (correct me if I'm wrong).

[1]: https://emojipedia.org/japanese-post-office/
[2]: https://emojipedia.org/european-post-office/

note: notice how /european-post-office redirects to /post-office
For all those that need to get around the paywall.

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Tim Cook reportedly stalked when at his home
It depends on the font. Some fonts have it in red, some in blue, some in green, some in orange. I think it's reasonable to think that cultural differences played a part in the variety of colours used by different fonts.

They seem to be gravitating towards blue (specifically, the colour most westerners consider blue), though.

https://emojipedia.org/chart-decreasing/
Even Star Trek TNG didn't have a true post-scarcity economy.

At least 5 things were key parameters in their economy and were scarce:

- dilithium crystals, which were used to power ships, and thus also powered the replicators

- Enterprise class ships were definitely scarce/precious

- labour

- land, especially on Earth

- hand-made goods

STTNG didn't have a money economy. That doesn't mean they were post-scarcity.

The closest analogy on today's Earth would be the unmetered water connections that some towns have. Just because the water isn't metered doesn't mean that the water supply is unlimited.
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Changed to the article title on the website.
I can summarise this article in 1 sentence:

Before destroying/removing/deleting something, make sure you spend sufficient time to understand why it was created in the first place and if you can't, then leave it intact.

No need to spread 1 piece of butter on a whole bakery worth of bread
The answer to this is kinda complicated.

In general terms, it is Apple's OS, and they can do whatever they want on it – so yes, they could display a green chart in some countries. I don't think any platform does something like this today, but it wouldn't be too crazy to add.

If we want to talk standards, the Unicode Consortium defines the emoji set as well as loose guidelines on how they should be displayed. The platform implementing them is free to choose the specific designs and pixels, however, so nothing wrong with a red or green chart (or both).

Going into technical details, an emoji is a unicode character (or set of characters). There can't be different "emoji languages" since emoji is a language. There can be fonts that render different emojis differently, but it would be interesting/weird to interplay that with regular text fonts that you may otherwise use in the same document. And then do you allow users to switch emoji fonts? Or use different emoji fonts at the same time in the same block of text?
Yup.

And also on-point, when are management and coders going to realize that much data should be treated as toxic waste and destroyed, rather than kept forever, just in case we might want it?

This guy had an ID theft, prevented it from going forward, but the payday lender had his info in their DB, and so the second time around somehow actually authorized the bogus loan. If they hadn't stored the info from this person who would NEVER deliberately be a customer, the bogus loan would not have happened.

And all that trouble caused so some thief could net a measly $1000.
Async with explicit await is basically just syntactic sugar for continuation callbacks. The "virtual stack" that results can thus be expressed entirely in terms that the C ABI understands: a callback is just a C function pointer + pointer to the struct representing the virtual stack frame.
Programs are proofs and so this follows from Godel's incompleteness theorem. But "invalid program" needs defining.
Lived there for years & never knew about this.
> “Poverty is only now starting to decline”

More like: progress has been made at extreme poverty ($1.90/day) and now we can upgrade our expectations to start to address basic poverty ($30/day).
I think it's telling when you call this "asking permission". You should never need to "ask permission" to give customers some small amount of value with a short turnaround.
I'm of the opinion that if the problems outlined in the article happen, it was because of poorly defined work. A senior engineer should be able to work on something with no communication for a week and it be correct. If it isn't correct, the work was not defined correctly prior to starting the work. Daily updates and frequent collaboration are not the solution; they are a stopgap masking unclear requirements.
Yeah I agree yours is much better
Not if you include adequate housing and freedom from abuse in your calculation.
Regulatory capture through the "Fair" Credit Reporting Act. Go read it - they've legislatively exempted themselves from the standard time-honored tort! Similarly to how medical providers can nonsensically create post-facto arbitrary bills instead of needing to create contracts like every other industry.

Curiously, political pushes for reform never advocate for getting rid of the corrupt laws, but rather creating a whole new regulatory regime whose corporate giveaways will only become apparent down the line.
You can watch the episode even if you don't have cable TV by clicking on the [Use a free pass] option once you click on the play link.

As someone who has spent years creating music and entertainment materials to promote my label music, it's gut wrenching to see how exhaustingly impossible it is to reach people through honest and organic means. That being said, I'd much rather have natural growth even at the cost of failure because I feel it's a bit more authentic and rewarding to succeed without resorting to complex and quite questionable industry tricks.

This documentary shows that there are real people and passions behind promotional efforts, but these efforts have also destroyed so much of what made music discovery a special and rewarding thing.

After seeing this episode of Black Market (With the late Michael K. Williams hosting), I figure it's a timely topic to discuss and find better solutions for musicians to be heard. If even big industry is resorting to these practices only money wins, but music we listen to will suffer greatly, and become even more synthetic, sterilized, and generic than it all is right now.

There's also great bits on bots in retail and social media promotion as well. Watching this show has greatly helped to ease my mind on the very abstract and undercover world of modern scams. I sleep much better now knowing how those kinds of schemes work and that they're not for me.
What if Germany just put a bigger pump at their end, turned it on so the gas was going the other direction, and lit that motherfucker up?
New Logitech mechanical keyboards described as “conservative”
The challenging part of this is that knowledge work is intangible and uncertain. Showing progress is difficult, especially with low context. So we want things to be perfect or finished or at least to scope. There's a lot more that goes into our work than commits, PRs, and completed tasks.

Second, "showing your work/progress" should be async. Otherwise, it's taxing for both parties as it requires a request and then some sort of feedback.

People though are generally curious and want to know what others are working on, if they can help, how it aligns, etc. Having that ongoing visibility into each other's progress makes it way easier to build off each other.

What we need is a simple, async way to share progress--outside the scope of tasks or timelines.
even worse, verizon won't unlock the bootloaders on the now unsupported phones so you can't even install a third party supported rom.

also, i don't care how much fawning comes out of the press... the pixel 6 is an enormous impractical behemoth that barely fits in half my pockets.
I self-host on a small-ish VPS. I don't really have to deal with spam, mail-in-a-box comes with pre-configured spamassassin. I haven't had issues with deliverability. When I created the box I did a scan of the IP and domain, found out that one antispam provider was blocking my IP, I sent a request to unblock it explaining this is my new IP I just acquired, they unblocked it. That was the last time I had to deal with deliverability issues, in any case I have an automated warning that I set up on MxToolBox. Let me know if you have more questions.
There are some whistleblowers indeed, but for the most part many dominant tech companies semiopenly proclaim these groups to be "dangers to society" and many admit to use "throttling", shadow-banning, and "machine learning fairness" to reduce the exposure to these thought crimes.

The only reason there are limited numbers of whistleblowers is that Tech companies actively brainwash their employees to think that the marginalized opinions are just some "small dangerous fringe nazi thing", similarly to how the commenters I replied to seem to think.
Most HN users can afford the cost of an annual DXA scan. It costs less than $100 to get an accurate body fat measurement.

The nice thing about DXA scans is that they can distinguish between visceral versus subcutaneous fat. For most medical conditions it's the visceral fat that's a real killer.
Yeah, the lack of specification for Typescript is quickly turning into the Achilles heel for the web tooling ecosystem. Several projects got the parsing part done, but a lack of specification and the relatively fast release cycle means it isn't really feasible to invest into actually implementing the meat of the TS compiler, so everyone is stuck with that last remnant of critical tooling running slowly.
I often find the `## Usage Examples` heading in manages to be most helpful, too.

~Examples as Integration Tests as executable notebooks with output and state assertions may incur less technical debt.

How to manage containers with [MicroShift] k8s/k3d with systemd might be a good example.
foo[1] is undefined (literally the undefined symbol), in JavaScript index-out-of-bounds is ok.

Although i don’t know if TypeScript asserts that x[i] is T | undefined if x is T[] and the length is non-trivial. In strict mode this would be really useful as you can just do x[i]!, but it requires you to think a bit about index-out-of-bounds or at least throw on the undefined case.
> but they do understand that an old iPhone seems to work better than an old Android that cost the same at release.

I suspect that the majority of Android-using techies that notice this are either on a faster new phone cycle than 3 years, or have already priced that difference into their total value calculation.

I also strongly suspect that the average customer does not indeed understand.
Definitely not a personal inspiration, but I can't recall where I first heard the idea.

> For it to make sense they would need to (for example) refer to (say) a table as 'he' later in a sentence. Do they do that?

I don't speak any Romance languages beyond high school Spanish, but I assume that's the case.
For a fun experiment, try Google finance with the Japanese language tag (https://www.google.com/finance/?hl=ja). Even knowing about the switched colors, it still fools my eyes. Goes to show how deeply ingrained the usual red/green assignment is!
Sounds like you need to move to a lower col area, figure out your finances, or change your standards then. My wife is a teacher and I make pretty close to what she does. We own a house, we don't have any loans, we make a perfectly adequate living that allows us to do almost everything we want to do. Teachers are not living in squalor. They get very good retirements and plentiful time off for family.

The solution to your problem is not force a certain section of the population to work and give their salary to you so you get to "pursue your dream". Why do you get to do what you want while others are forced to keep your power on and your sewer system working daily?

Decisions have consequences, if you want something then you will need to sacrifice in certain areas.
Hard agree with this. Humans are always going to insert human biases into the systems we design, so I think the only way we can really get past those biases is by going several layers of abstraction deep. I actually suspect that the first AGI will behave eerily organically when we take a look under the hood. Evolution is the ultimate optimization function, and it made organic brains work a certain way based on a cost function. I'll bet we'll see patterns in AGI that remind us of biological brains, but with stark, alien components mixed in and structures reorganized to be more efficient.

All in all I'm just incredibly excited to see how this line of research plays out and desperately want to get involved in it myself. I was actually considering learning JAX just the other day specifically so I could look more into the topic, but I'm lazy so I never got around to it.
I would disagree - No one ever really assumed Sony would go out of business from a fundamental standpoint. They may have gone through a period of diminished value and failed projects (laptops, smartphones, etc.), but the PlayStation has always been a hit, the media arm has always been a 'Top 4' player, the headphones were always category-leading, the camera sensors were always top notch, and I'm sure I'm missing many other aspects of their business. If anything that brings to mind MSFT (who's always led in core areas, but has also had periods of diminished value and failed projects).

On the other hand, many people thought Nintendo (as we know it at least) might go belly-up in the Gamecube and Wii U eras. There was real talk of them becoming a game dev with no hardware if the Switch was as much of a failure [0]. Similar to the talk around Apple post-Newton, pre-iBook.

[0]https://www.gonintendo.com/stories/376204-after-the-failure-...
Tesla Now Runs the Most Productive Auto Factory in America
I personally really disliked how iOS hides the underlying filesystem and directory from me so I never went back to iOS. I have an iPad I received as a gift and while it's really nice in terms of usability, I don't like how cumbersome transferring files is in 2022. The weird quirks of Android are smaller issue if I can just mirror the entire internal storage to my installed sd card. I also dislike how the web browser on iOS is so locked down. Having an operating system behave really similarly to a desktop operating system makes me stick with Android in the long term. The open nature of Android means that the "missing" features can be added relatively easily, like the DAVx⁵ and ICSx⁵ apps. I also use FolderSync to sync phone/sd storage with cloud backup. In fact FolderSync can talk directly to NextCloud.
It's great to see "I'm still exploring X" called out as a standup antipattern. I've heard and (hi Zach!) said this many times.

... But I've generally heard it most frequently from the tech lead and/or manager at the standup. It's easy to justify: "as the TL/M, my work is ill-defined, meeting-heavy, complex, externally-focused, and long-term! I'm not just building a feature! It's hard to describe!"

In my experience, this culture percolates with lightning speed: more junior folks immediately understand that to be senior and high-status is to give vague updates (often with a dramatic sigh and a self-deprecating joke about getting nothing done).

So it's good to exhort feature-building ICs to show incremental progress on that feature, but I think this article should have a heavier focus on the most senior folks at the standup.
Touching you tongue to both terminals of a small 9V battery also tasts bad and sour. I've done it several times as a kid, checking if a battery was (almost) empty :)
Foobar had good options for using the filesystem as the library structure. Some of the options were user-made plugins rather than something available out of the box, but it all worked very well.
I believe you truly have bought the full narrative. I’m boosted I’m not anti vax but I’ll give you one data point that contradicts your claim:

South Africa vax rate is 52%. Their health officials have declared it to be mild.

It’s mild.
(For those who aren't familiar with 1967 humor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro&t=17s )
The Japanese post office symbol could almost be a Tesla dealership, to American eyeballs.
> Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings.

And today's rich are doing even better than that, so there's no harm in taxing their wealth, right?
One problem, other comments hint on the same thing, is that poverty is not an absolute, it's relative.

We would consider ourselves poor if we lived as a family of five in a tiny early 20th New York immigrant's appartment, even though we'd be much better off than a feudal peasant living in a straw hut with no electricity and a distant water well (the "working class" of its day), which in turn would be must better off than some early aggrarian iron age person (even an upper class one). So, in some sense, poverty must be estimated with regard to access to the standards and niceties of the era (and is therefore connected to inequality).

In another sense, poverty is also qualitative and cultural, and working as a factory cog in a sweatshop for $3 dollars might be worse than living as part of your traditional tribe (and their lifestyle) for $0 dollars. And yet, we herald people whose native lands have been plundered (or whose local e.g. farm income has been destroyed by cheaper imports) and are forced against their will and to the detriment of their lifestyle, to seek work in the cities as a triumph over poverty.

What can be measured well, is whether we have greatly reduced hunger and childbirth deaths and such metrics.

But poverty is too flexible and abstract a term to say we have "ended" it. Else we'd have already "ended poverty" when we moved from the caves to early cities and huts too - as everybody had raised their income levels and owned goods and such. And yet, poverty just reappeared in a different relative level.
lox ;P
I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it
Just a small inconsistency. I see both of these forms:

Cafés
Café's
The last year proves this wrong.
It's much more sophisticated than cloning - it's only cloning the changes between the databases instead of the full databases. Ie 10 x 1TB database is only taking 1TB on disk.
How Belarusian railway network was hacked
Exactly. It's obvious how printing money out of thin air induces inflation.
Yeah, it sucks. In my case, the manufacturer program is so incredibly bloated it would take literally minutes to display a window on screen. I have no idea how that's even possible. My quality of life significantly improved after I ported what I could to Linux.

This software must be talking to this controller somehow. Apparently there is an ACPI mechanism that allows reading and writing to EC registers. I never figured out a way to intercept this I/O. Do you know a way?
Chesterton's fence is about attempting understanding.
If the Russians were blindly copying the space shuttle design, how is that attempting understanding?
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I'm sorry for my ignorance, but could someone give more context on this? I don't understand what "denatured alcohol" is, how it relates to tax avoidance, or what illegal use people are finding for it?
> I don't believe it's known for certain outside of classified circles what was to be brought back.

Given that many details of the keyhole program were recently declassified [1], is there any chance we'll get to know the true nature of the shuttle program? (And if so, when might it happen?)

[1] (a decade ago) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon
The highlights from the report about the Ukrainian startup ecosystem