skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big fan of automatic code formatters, unless they get somewhat more configurable. One simple example is line length. Usually a code formatter will break long lines, for example a function call with some arguments. But what if I have a log call there? Do I want to have that log span 3-6 rows, just because the silly formatter thought it is a long line? Well it is a long line, but I don't want to break it into multiple lines, as that would give that log call waaaay too much space. When the log call spans multiple lines, it distracts from the bits of code between log calls. Another example is, that these code formatters are often configured wrongly in people's code editors to reformat everything in the whole file. That adds lots of changes and people do not afterwards separate their commits for "only reformatting" and the actually important bits of their changes.

As PEP8 already says: "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds". An automatic code formatter is the epitome of consistency, as it applies the rules everywhere the same way. In many places it might give some benefits, but in others it will ruin the original code formatting. I am experienced enough to format my code in a readable way and I don't need it reformatted, just because someone has to try out some tool. Especially log calls. Those are a pet peave of mine.
What will is it obstructing? The will of the far left? Yeah. The will of the far right? Yeah. The will of the 90% that just want to live their life in peace? No. If you think the government should protect people and infrastructure so that they can exchange goods and services according to a common understanding of private property, then today's government likely isn't too far from what you'd like, and, therefore, the tension holding things over center is a blessing.
all things must pass is weird, because if it were a double album that just elided the 3rd disc there would be basically no filler on it at all, but that last third of the album is just not up to par with the rest of it at all. I think if you're willing to ignore that disc you can make the argument that it is the best post-beatles solo album. Those other two albums are also great and definitely in the conversation
mGBA is great, and actively developed.
Potatoes have many nutrients including Potassium which most people are deficient in but they also spike insulin without an equal rise in glucagon. Many people are developing insulin resistance and steadily heading towards pre-diabetes so these days folks are watching out for things that spike insulin.
Unfortunately Black goes with PEP8, and PEP8 recommends spaces. Guido made this call arbitrarily years ago for absolutely nonsensical reasoning (basically came down to that some people use shitty editors that don't handle tabs reasonably) and the entire Python community has had to suffer since.
Well of course your VPN won't work if the firewall isn't routing IPv6. That's a configuration problem and has nothing to do with IPv6 itself.
Despite all the negativity on this thread, I'm pretty happy to hear they are reconsidering. Quite different than when the FCC was ignoring comments on net neutrality.

Just saying. It's important to speak up.
> terrified at the thought of any sort of coherent national identity document system

If the outcome that they want to avoid is actually a global ID system, you'd think that a private corporation (that could offer its services to multiple countries, interoperably) would be more worrying to them.

It's not like, by opposing a government-run ID system, they've prevented the existence of an ID system that the government accepts (and could mandate nationally).
Perhaps those people have just read too many emails in the past that ended up being a waste of their time? Over time they learned to glance at things and predict what the rest of the email is going to say.

Think about those download websites where you have to find the download link in the middle of all the ads that are masquerading as download buttons. There's a lot of information on those pages, but people become really adept at spotting the real download button. The rest of the information gets ignored.

I think this is why some people insist on verbal communication when you're trying to teach them something. If they get a text guide then they will gloss over things and skip steps leading to failure. With verbal communication you're effectively there to keep them at least mildly focused so that they don't gloss over things.
I should have been more succinct here, as cyan is loosely described in the texts as a mixture of blue and green (two frequencies) or a color somewhere between green and blue. The author could have avoided confusion by selecting say 'green'.

However, there's no confusion about purple - in the video shown as magenta instead of violet as it is not on the spectrum of true colors (it being a mixture of blue and red):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta.
No you're simply wrong. Plenty of smart people have a sense of loyalty and want to do what's best for the company and their colleagues, not just what's expedient for themselves.
IMO C for GameBoy dev is a non starter. It's so different from other platforms that you really just want to control the instructions directly. Say you type "a * 5" that would just be one instruction on a regular cpu but it must be some more expensive function on a GameBoy. Even bit shifting can only shift one bit at a time, 1<<8 is 8 instructions. When programming in ASM it's usually that more instructions is slower so for a bit shift it might make sense to have a lut or something, C would hide it behind a single operator.
> cray was always cooler imho.

Nothing can be cooler than a computer with 65535 processors ;-)

And 1024 blinkenlights.

OTOH, you could sit on the Cray.
ctcp ping +++ATFYPM
Honestly, even after accepting the message there should be another confirmation step before viewing any and all non-textual content.
Maybe it’s different for other people but smaller text is much easier on my eyes with a 4k monitor.
There’s a clear feedback loop between the military and the politicians, it is absolutely not a one-way street of control. This is the entire premise of the term military-industrial complex. Military will always advocate for itself to get more funding and more use (as in, bombing things). And it will continue to serve as a successful launching point for political careers. Not to mention all the companies, fat off of defense contracts, that heavily lobby the government same as any large corporation.
Related article, where the IRS's use of face recognition was first discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996614
This reasoning has been invalidated by the proof that living ancestors can contribute to successful procreation and rearing.
none of the post-beatles albums are as iconic as the big beatles albums, but i think at least all things must pass and ram hold up very well compared to the classic beatles albums. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you either is better than abbey road or revolver (which are two of my favorite albums ever) but they are in the neighborhood
> Empty lines to delineate blocks.

Use comments to describe those blocks and their meaning, don't just assume everyone is thinking exactly the same as you are about the code organization (hint, they probably aren't). Where you see a bunch of logically separated blocks of operations I might be new to the codebase and just see a bunch of unnecessary whitespace. Describe what's being organized and why in comments.
It could be that the lack of maintenance is the issue. When I take my car to the dealer for an oil change it goes on a lift and gets looked over by a mechanic (I get a video of this, so this is how I know). Tesla it not a magic carpet, it has the same suspension, brakes, tires etc. as a normal car. How often a regular Tesla gets lifted and its undercarriage is looked over? Perhaps not as often as every 10K miles when an oil change happens on my car?

And a Lithium 12V battery is not more reliable than a regular acid-lead. You can get an aftermarket one for any ICE car and some come with it as standard. It's only good in a warm climate though because in cold weather it will lose charge quickly unlike an acid-lead.
Wait, are you actually serious? You don't eat fruits or vegetables because you think they are unhealthy?
I didn't know that about Māori actually, and I am one... heh.

Those universities you mention really need to take a hard long look at themselves because that's just fucking disgraceful. Jeez.
Interestingly (and somewhat confusingly), the number of the padding characters appears to indicate both how many (6-bit) characters are missing from the last quadruple in the output of the encoder and, at the same time, how many (8-bit) bytes will be trimmed from the last triple by the decoder.
Security of a platform is a numbers game.

If the cost of developing an exploit is lower than the market value of selling that exploit (either raw or productized), then the platform will be broken.

All companies can do is increase that cost - ideally to infinity (eg unbreakable). There are numerous ways to do that, and at this point I think it’s reasonable to think that the cost being hit is time rather than money.

There’s only a finite amount of engineering time available and how to spread that is hard. You could say that “everyone should be working on security”, but that doesn’t work because then people don’t upgrade (I recall multiple articles saying that people were updating to get even something as trivial as new emojis, but obviously other big features matter as well).

You could say “rewrite the unsafe code in a safe language”, which is not something that could be done in any reasonable amount of time, especially while retaining ABI compatibility.

So google, apple, ms, etc try to make the correct trade offs and improve the overall security posture of their platforms, but as long as there’s a market of organisations with functionally unlimited budgets the best they can do in the near future is increase the cost.
Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (2017)
No need to reduce minimum wage if we had a decent safety net. In reality, we do. Look how many people are "on disability", many of them could work. They are often trapped in physical labor because of the area the live, or lack of education. They are no longer able to perform this physical labor, so we pay them.
No offense taken, but it was not copypasta. It’d be oddly specific to be copypasta.
I think I figured out why: it’s easy for everyone to have an opinion about simple things. Complex things that are worth arguing about take more knowledge/experience and at that point fewer folks are qualified to argue about them.
Sorry, dunno. I’m happy to have had 1Gbps for so long and I’m pretty close to getting it most of the time.
The school seems deceptively named to make it sound like The University of Texas at Austin.
Not in front of the goyim. It never ends well.
Disable iCloud, iMessage and be super selective about what app or sites (in Safari) you allow to have rendering. Minimize code paths.

In other words, never provide inputs for unsolicited execution.
Apparently there is now an emoji for churrascaria. Yum...
I saw that recently. I would be interested in using it but it wasn't clear what level of compatibility it has or how many tests it's passing/not passing.
To find interesting people one must be interested in them first. It's like, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
>talking about issues like unaccountable police in the language of individuality, accountability, and law and order is generally ignored.

>The carrying narrative is instead "more training", as if simply training criminals better is all we need to get them to stop committing crimes!

Dont you agree that individuals are flawed? Some dated kind of homo economicus should't be your model of individuals. So how would you fix eg. the corruption of power, causing police men to overstep?
Indeed. Probably the most pertinent quote is this: "The main messages for nutritional advice have not changed: follow a healthy dietary pattern that includes abundant amounts of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts; moderate amounts of reduced-fat dairy products and seafood; and lower amounts of processed and red meat, sugar-sweetened foods and beverages, and refined grains."
The amount of bots in Twitter in favor of Russia and against Ukraine is insane
> With two goals, people will use one as an excuse for the other.

That's a necessary part of having more than one goal. If they weren't in conflict, you'd only have one goal.
Nah, I think people will pick the bullet point that suits them best, ignore the rest, and drop all nuance..

- Don't pick the first bullet point, pick the best :)
Absolutely. Email, password, secure image, 2FA seems more than good enough. It already is for everyone else in my online life like banks, medical services, and so on. Why wouldn’t it be for government services? Given that ID.me is located in the DC area, it seems a lot like this was forced through due to shady dealing.
Ukrainian government is concerned, but it has to balance the "defense" side of the problem with the "economic impact" side of the problem (considering that this "Russia will attack at any moment" situation may last for years).
If your firewall has exploitable outdated firmware, I might argue it's worse than no firewall because now you potentially have malicious code living on your network. Whereas if you don't have a firewall (on a home network) there generally isn't anything someone could get into anyway. "Oh I see port 22 is open." Great, there's nothing to SSH into anyway, who cares?
> 0.2$

Do you mean 0.02 or is inflation really running that high?
We can clearly hear the drums beating from across the Atlantic. A new adventure was already expected with the change of administration.
The truckers shutting down Canada's capital
It’s best to avoid _.chain, see https://medium.com/bootstart/why-using-chain-is-a-mistake-9b...
I was wrong, I looked at the source and forgot all the CP/M-inherited syscalls are supposed to lack an exit code. The MS-DOS 2 exit-with-return-call method works, and it looks like WSL2 can propagate that from its' Linux VM into Win32-land.

C:\Users\andrew\emu2>bash -c "ndisasm x.com"
00000000 B8214C mov ax,0x4c21
00000003 CD21 int 0x21

C:\Users\andrew\emu2>bash -c "./emu2 ./x.com"

C:\Users\andrew\emu2>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
33
You've completely glossed over the root of it here. The lie that Russia is going to invade Ukraine is the "Saddam has WMDs"

Every time the US media talks about an imminent "Russian Invasion", or suggests that they are not the ones instigating the war, they are indirectly instigating war with Russia by lying.
On the contrary, I think it's fundamentally useful to the ecosystem that there be a winner in the tabs-vs-spaces/how-many-spaces debate. Code snippets become portable, developers don't need to adapt when joining a new team, etc. Indeed, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#indentation has enshrined 4 spaces as the official recommendation. And when the best-in-class formatter enforces this, that's a good thing.

To be sure, I personally would have preferred that 2-spaces win out for compatibility with the Javascript ecosystem (so I am perhaps the furthest from the parent poster on the tabs-spaces spectrum!) but I abandoned my preference in favor of PEP-8 years ago, and doing so has opened far more doors for team productivity than it's closed.
Somewhat agree. If something is so long that it requires bolding or graphic design to bring out the main point, then it's probably better off shortening it or adding a TL;DR at the top.
Do you have any statistics to back up your claims of “more than half”? It just sounds like baseless attacks and dang said to be productive in this convo.
I am neither a money launderer, or organized (or disorganized) criminal . So your first statement is absolutely false.

In no way am I suggesting "crypto bros should get rich off selling product to poor people". The only point where any interaction with a crypto-bro may be necessary is in transferring fiat to crypto.

And your "fraud" comment makes me think you don't understand crypto. "Sending money to the wrong wallet" is a lame reason, it's the equivalent of giving money to the wrong person. Though there is likely to come a better/safer method, how many people have sent money to the wrong wallet by mistake?

The exposure of exchange fluctuations is real, but won't continue for ever as greater adoption leads to greater stability. You are also sometimes dealing in countries where the local currency is also susceptible to similar fluctuations.
In this respect the ‘US government informational position’ appears to be substantially correct. It really makes counter cultural sentiments seem silly if the _cannot_ come to the same conclusions about public health outcomes as government officials lest they be considered pro-government, doesn’t it? Isn’t it more charitable to both Young and Mitchell, as well as many others who might have plenty of grievances with government policy in many areas, to allow the thought that their agreement with a particular policy or policies might be a case if a broken clock?

On more specific issues like a handful of companies benefiting financially from the pandemic … I absolutely agree, but dismissing the entire thing out of hand is really throwing the baby out with the bath water.

No one is silencing anyone. Do you really think Joe Rogan will just disappear if he is dropped from Spotify? He has the reach and means to build his own platform if he really wanted to.
Engaging with Disengagement
Informatics an Ecological Algorithm Glimpse
Very much this. I will often times deliberately line up related operations to make the meaning clear. Black then clobbers all over it.
That's a great point. Do you have any specific recommendations of OSS alternatives that exemplify this?
They're not using these languages as linguae francae, though. They're treating fluency in Latin and Greek as a mark of a scholar's preparation in the field of classics. (Less charitably, you might say they're using it simply as a shibboleth.) Seems kind of pointless to me, since AFAIK it's a matter of convention and institutional inertia that so many disciplines are grouped together under that label. I mean, if I'm a researcher in the bioarchaeology of Cretan olive cultivation, what have I got in common with a student of Attic tragedy, other than the fact that we both took Greek at some point and belong to the same university department?
Are there overlapping genes in plants or animals?

I remember about overlapping genes in bacteriophages, but I though is was a weird trick because a big part of the bacteriophages is the DNA.
DAOs offering ownership interest via tokens is not an LLC with extra steps. It’s LLC++. An owner can easily sell their stake to someone else, write an option against it, etc. Sure, all those things were possible before, but now it’s much easier and generally programmable by anyone. That’s progress.
> I ended up contacting all of the senators on the finance committee... "we don't give responses to non-constituents"

That's a bit disturbing. Senators' work on committees affects everyone in the country, not just residents of the senator's home state, and one's own senators may not have a seat on that committee.
Eventually it wasn't under the antitrust settlement.
> Do I want to have that log span 3-6 rows, just because the silly formatter thought it is a long line?

Yes. I do not understand what’s wrong with it.

Code formatting is a political stance. It’s so much easier to adopt that than have everyone have slightly different opinions on how things should be formatted.
Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock
> Also, there's the minor problem that there's no video hardware.

I believe there were a few frame buffers available. IIRC, the movie "The Last Starfighter" had their VFX rendered on an Y-MP and they would require some form of pre-visualization during the production process, but transfers from render to viz could be achieved with network or magnetic storage sneakernet.
I agree on the need for configurability, but the counterpoint is that on a team of devs where everyone has their own IDE auto formatting activated, applying this to the whole file just for a tiny logical change would create a lot of VCS noise. Autoformatters ensure that what makes it into the master branch has no surprises.
On the topic of intellectual openness, a nonprofit doing great work in this area is Heterodox Academy (https://heterodoxacademy.org/). Their definition of the problem evident in Western academia (particularly the US) is worth checking out: https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-problem/
It has been established that there is a clear link between NSO and the Israeli government.
It's fine that you do need the services provided by the app store. So of course do keep using it. But not all developers need it. Some already have an audience they gained by other means, and/or would gladly do their own marketing and distribution, and to them, the app store and its rules, especially the ones that pertain to UGC, are just an asinine barrier they have to clear every time they release an update.

What I'm trying to say that it's nice to have a choice. You know, like on macOS. There's the app store if you want it, but you're also free to DIY the distribution of your app if that's what works better for you.
Not technically but an Israeli cybersecurity company like this isn't exactly two guys in garabge bootstrappy capitalist success story you're making it out to be. It most likely is filled with spooks, has deep connections with the Israeli intelligence services, and is full of ex-military. In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes spinning off hacking to a private company pays dividends, because they get blacklisted, as a private company, which doesn't greatly affect diplomatic norms. Also it allows Israel to sell exploits to regimes that might be hard to via government agencies. Afterall, it was "private" business that sold them, not the government, wink wink. A bit like so many "private" cybergangs in Russia have impunity to attack the USA/EU and sell and deploy ransomware there because, again, its "not the government, its criminals" but in reality they're defacto arms of the governments there or at least have strong ties to the government, pay them protection money, and often get marching orders from them.
This comment is truly on point and very meta — it takes a nuanced twitter thread and distills it down via the force of an authoritative source in a way that people immediately get the point.
Cured polyester resin as used in fiberglass reinforced plastic is soluble at room temperature using solvents like MEK or Acetone...
I would love an alta-vista rebirth..I have yet to see a search engine that allowed you do target searches so specifically. I also loved the 'near' keyword for dealing names - "john near smith" would match "john smith", "smith john", "smith, john" etc.

Search engines have been 'simplified' to the point they're useless if you actually want to _search_ and not 'discover' :-p
OK, but Linux is the default OS for the RPis. They spin their own distro based on Debian.
Thanks for the comment! I actually forgot to run clippy on these samples because they're so small; I'll fix up the code in the post to be more idiomatic.
But when being cold and hungry was the norm, life expectancy was much lower. Human life expectancy in the developed world is higher than at any time in human history.
Fortran – Programming Language for high-performance computing
Only problem I had with DDG is search results not displaying a create/publish date, that info is so useful to me to filtering relevant things
What fun is to manage your AIX desktop if you can't run smitty?