skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason is that long experience with exceptions has shown that exceptions work really well for propagating errors out, but they don’t work well for recovering from errors or handling them in a structured way.

That's why you use a condition system like Common Lisp[1] - conditions can be recovered from using restarts. The thrown condition signals the kind of error (or, even, exceptional non-error circumstance), while the defined restarts provide various error-recovery strategies, from which one can be chosen programmatically or manually.

I think that this part:

> In most programs, you have some kind of invariants that you are maintaining to ensure your data is in a valid state. It’s relatively straightforward to ensure that these invariants hold at the beginning of every operation and that they hold by the end of every operation. It’s really, really hard to ensure that those invariants hold all the time.

Can be fixed by adding immutability - instead of mutating your program's state in a low-level function, either generate a "transaction" object that is finished and applied to some other piece of state, or an exception is thrown and the whole transaction object is thrown away (or a particular loop could be restarted, or the program could be entirely restarted or quit, etc., depending on what restart you choose).

This:

> The problem is that exceptions make errors invisible, which means that programmers don’t think about them.

Can be fixed using smarter tooling (or checked exceptions, but I don't think anyone wants those) that ensures that you handle exceptions/conditions, unless I'm mistaken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Condition_system
Pirates in the EU Parliament Nominated Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize
Does Caddy support generating HTML files? I use Hugo for a few websites that I host on S3 + CloudFront and am very happy with AWS handling the back-end part this stack, and wouldn't want to switch to a server that I would now need to manage.
Aurin: AUR Packages Installer from AUR Website in 1 Click
> (up & down, didn't see a single car with manual adjustment that allowed this),

My 2010 Kia Soul has manual seats that can go up and down.

Although when the Kia Soul was first introduced, Kia threw almost every feature they could in it to win market share!
I am presenting the first working preview of the tool I created to install AUR packages directly from the AUR website. I named it Aurin and it adds an "Install Now" button on AUR package page to install it in a click.

After receiving a few suggestions on r/linux, I implemented it as an applciation handler protocol instead of a continuous running daemon. Also, the "Install Now" button is added to the View PKGBUILD page instead of the main, as some people pointed out that could be dangerous. So, you can now read the PKGBUILD before installing the package.
Been there done that. Advertising is a problem most non technical users aren't aware of (as a problem) and often they're used to it, but if you install an adblocker, they indeed see that as a change, therefore "you and your damn adblocker" will get the blame for each and every problem.
In my opinion the only options are to either leave their browser as is or just installing Ublock Origin without telling.
There is something we could have on cars since at least a decade or more and that I don’t understand we don’t have : HUDs.

I already saw one in a top-end car and it’s absolutely practical. I can’t imagine that it costs anything to embed that in a car (it’s just a monochrome, really bright LED screen) so I assume manufacturers just want to keep them as high prices options.
100%. I think about this balance constantly.
While not under $20k, the Subaru Impreza and Crosstrek are currently offered with a stick shift on the base trim, and for the Impreza Sport ($23k) it's offered standard with a stick, and an auto optional.

This may change soon to only be the WRX and BRZ with a stick shift next year, but currently their lineup is rather competitive for AWD compact cars.
Rhymes with Retch
I want to say they stopped it in 2018? I don't remember the name of the program, and searching "google paying for no ads" brings up a ton of unrelated adwords stuff.

I payed $5/mo and they would roll over unused funds. It worked pretty well, except that it would still show where the banners were, just blank whitespace instead of an ad.
>"the wifi is slow”, AT&T will shift to data and they will detect it’s an international call and bill you as if it’s a regular international cell call.

There is an option in iOS called 'Wi-Fi Assist' (Settings > Cellular > (Scroll to the bottom) > Wi-Fi Assist). It will, "automatically use cellular data when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor."

Make sure that's disabled. It should also show you how much you've used (mine is showing 522MB).
Until the motor fails, or the tracks became "crusted", and you have no ability to adjust it anymore.
>free

You pay, just not with money! (insert evil laugh)
I would totally run an ad blocker that showed me static text or image-based ads. No JavaScript, no animations or video, and I'll happily view ads.
I see this problem in other things too. I wanted to buy a radio, but the only option I have is an boxed in android phone running apps and a DAB receiver.

I only need two functions, a knob to change channels and one to adjust volume. If I need to play music, some aux input would be nice - that’s it!
you assume everyone, me included, is complaining, and that Roku doesn’t track either. That’s the same mentality that people had about Google in the early days. There’s a need for embedded solutions, better design, lower costs, etc.
If I had to guess, it sounds like they just aren’t “into” photography; not that they actively dislike it.
In my life I have seen only a handful or road signs with bullet holes in them.

None of the roads signs around me, or in of the areas I grew up in or lived in had wide scale bullet holes in them (Mid-west USA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
Recent TV ads for Slack have that notification sound. So annoying. Like police sirens in radio ads when you're in your car.
I know, that's part of what I try to tell people :-) it does require a somewhat beefy desktop/laptop though, and most folks are used to doing everything on their phones these days
Aren't the people who use adblockers by definition those who are irritated by advertising enough that they wouldn't buy the products and services being advertised? If anything ad people should love things like uBlock Origin, it means they're not wasting their ad spend on people who aren't going to buy their products anyway.
It sounds like you have Wi-Fi Assist turned on, which does exactly what you describe. To quote what it says in my settings tab - "Automatically use mobile data when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor".

To turn it off, on your iPhone, go to:

Settings > Mobile Data > Scroll to the very bottom > Toggle off Wi-Fi Assist.
i bet if they just hung a $20 piece of iron with a target painted on it the problems would cease. People will shoot at the target and spare the expensive fiber (unless they're specifically targeting the fiber which i bet is rare)
The person said they don't like photography, not photos. My presumption is they don't like the overly "art" aspect of it.
I reject that hypothesis. Open dialogue is not what's harmful and those who seek to silence or censor have never ended up on the right side of history. The only thing that works over the course of time is fighting bad information with better information.

Besides, no one could do as much damage as the official sources have done to themselves throughout the Covid pandemic. People are just forgetting the mountain of misinformation they spread. Starting with "masks don't work" and "closing travel is racist" and "the possibility of a lab leak is a crazy conspiracy theory". Big tech actually banned people for that and yet still think they should be the gatekeepers? Where is the humility? That's an environment not unlike that of Gallio. Which the church and priests who assert themselves as the source of truth while expelling the heretics.
Sorry, correction too late to edit. The state troopers were hiding tricks of PPE from the feds.
I’m not very familiar with JRE but your comment makes me curious about his influence and following. What made you stop listening after 2018? Did he adopt some new ideas? Would be interesting to know if his audience has changed much in the past couple years.
I know :-) I constantly have to explain that
More like a physical and real terminal instead of a terminal emulator, displaying up a shell once the computer sends you the connection bits here and there.

Also you could interface modems by serial and you could send commands over the wire. More like telnet than ssh.
"Main" _is_ a better name for that branch though. It's shorter and more intuitive.
And unfortunately, you're never really sure on Reddit, either. I found I was too willing to put those, what, 5-10 voices telling me to pick a certain brand up on a high pedestal, because they seemed like real people. They didn't sound like advertisers. But, honestly, how hard is it to fake 5-10 accounts to push your product, or buy high-karma accounts?

My go-tos are sites like Wirecutter, where it seems like the hit to their reputation would be too high to be blatantly bought-out, even if they'll generally only hawk products that can be bought on Amazon or other sites that give them affiliate money. They're not always perfect, but I trust that they're trying to do what they set out to do.
> I would imagine margins are pretty thin these days if you run a magazine website. Advertising revenue isn’t what is used to be and the money they make for each visitor is probably the lowest it has ever been

Webmasters need to diversify their income streams. Obviously AD revenue doesn't cut it anymore. You need to implant affiliate links, do paywalls, paid subscriptions to content, and sell merch on a Shopify-powered site that is separate from the main magazine/blog. Ghacks for example sells software and services on their deals subdomain[0], but I'm not sure if it's that profitable.

[0] https://deals.ghacks.net/
All claims I've seen that Malone is "the" inventor of mRNA vaccine technology trace back to Malone himself. He possibly has some real claim to be "an" inventor, among the top dozen or so contributors of early advances that ultimately enabled the present vaccines. It's also possible that the contribution he's claiming as his own was basically his supervisor's idea (Felgner's), and Malone is just the one who did the lab work:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w

Either way, I'm pretty sure Malone's claims about vaccine safety are dangerously wrong. After literally billions of doses of mRNA vaccines, the adverse effects he's been warning about simply haven't materialized. The rate of those effects isn't zero, and surveillance at mass scale has identified adverse effects that the original trials weren't powered to detect; but for now, the risk/benefit ratio for the vaccines looks highly favorable. Malone's baseless assertions otherwise are causing real harm.

That said, please don't take anything above as a defense of Fauci or of censorship. While I'm pretty sure that Malone is dangerously wrong, this pandemic has repeatedly demonstrated that the mainstream consensus can also be dangerously wrong--so like the Royal Society, I'd rather tolerate false information from the contrarians than risk a false mainstream view that can never get corrected. That doesn't mean contrarians are automatically (or even usually) right, though.

"Follow the money" may sometimes be a useful standard, but I don't see the relevance here. Fauci appears to get his money from the government, where he's the single highest-paid employee but still earns less than countless anonymous tech workers. This seems more to me like a matter of prestige, ego and power for both men.
I think the author is just becoming old? Like who mounts their phone on the car anymore on a new car?

My 2020 Kona Electric has a pretty intuitive and responsive touchscreen, buttons for climate control, and CarPlay is nice to use? All the smart driving features like emergency braking and lane centering have saved my butt multiple times as well.
I've been getting the vibe (which is being reinforced by the downvotes) that there's a sort idea going around that we've reached some kind of critical juncture in online discourse where mere dissent doesn't work, or somehow is not good enough, when it comes to combatting mis/disinformation, and thus the only solution is silencing anyone who says anything outside of the accepted orthodoxy of "truth." I find this general mindset more broadly harmful than any specific ideas that are touted or espoused by any content creator.

when did we start implicitly believing in the societal necessity of Truth Police?
Taxis definitely are built for a different use profile and they go more miles. Ford taxi version of Crown Vic had an hours meter.
What is the rising human cost? The only real data they presented was that sports betting is now legal in 30 states when it used to only be legal in Nevada. Gambling and other addictions have always had a societal cost.
What Does Google's New Cookie Policy Mean for Online Privacy?
It’s not some grand conspiracy lol, it’s just that they bundle features together to save on costs. Henry Ford did this a century ago by only offering the color black.
Here's somebody with an "opposite viewpoint" (ie: educated knowledge of actual facts) going on his show. Lemme know how well you think it turns out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150390
Elon, Linus, who's next? Maybe the real Satoshi Nakamoto is the Satoshi Nakamotos we made along the way.
I don't mind having a smart car, in fact, I like most of the "smart" features - lane centering, adaptive cruise, emergency braking, TPMS, lane change cameras, auto headlights, auto wipers, etc.

But I want buttons and knobs for everything I use while driving.

I probably wouldn't pay extra for built-in navigation (it generally comes with other options that I do want), but I've found it useful a few times when I was outside of cellular coverage.
Oakland is fairly densely populated urban area. 30k subscribers is an other way of saying, that people living in an area of roughly 3 sq miles depend on a single cable. Redundancy for last mile isn't economically feasible for any infrastructure.
Slower than a Pi, and it's not even close... ouch
I've been involved in more than a handful of interviews where it was clear that the candidate was wearing an earpiece or getting answers from someone else. Never hired an actual impostor like in TFA, but the signs of someone cheating the interview were pretty clear.

All we had to do was go off script and we'd have a good idea about how genuine the candidate was being.
I'm a dumb dumb. Didn't realise that about the name. That's really neat
This has been my position for a while on so called "vices". Prohibition is ineffective and often does more harm than good, but allowing companies to advertise these products to young people and those who are susceptible to abuse is a net negative for society.

Worst of all are government run lotteries. A state run lottery may be preferable to one run by organized crime, but running millions of dollars worth of ads with product tie-ins (Harley Davidson, car companies, cruises, etc.) all while claiming to "support education" is outrageous.
Yeah thanks, that was it.
Treating this transfer of WETH as just 'money' is an overly simplified model that is going to get someone burned in the same way as this reddit user. You are interacting directly with low level APIs that are irreversible while sending a lot of money to them, without knowing what they do. This is NOT good, and believe anyone without thorough understanding of these risks and how ERC APIs work should NOT be doing this.

There is an absolute need for cleaner UX on top of this with assurance/insurance to avoid this scenario (both of which exist and are being improved regularly). In the same way you don't directly interface with SWIFT APIs when doing bank transfers, you should not interface directly with ERC20 approve/transferFrom APIs in Ethereum, unless you really know what you are doing.
I think the interviewee proxy is probably located in a non-US country where they wouldn't be able to work for a well-paying tech company.

They could also be doing it for cash on the side. A few hours of interviews a week for a significant chunk of change.
The equational and two column proof formats aren’t the same. Perhaps you should read Dijkstra’s monograph’s section on it to understand the differences. And to say they are somehow isomorphic is to miss the point entirely. Sure “x is equal to y” means the same as “x = y”, but even the traditionalists recognize the merits of Recorde’s notational device, even if they fail to follow the greater implications thereof.
Maybe, but that will take many decades
Er, or not. Just checked; while the Titan IV is no longer in use, it was hydrazine til the end, in 2005(!) I was thinking of the Delta family, which did go from UDMH to hydrogen.
I type "reddit" after the query and Reddit usually has good recommendations.

Yes, advertisers can and do try to invade subreddits posing as "real" users to promote sham products. But I haven't seen this actually working: sometimes Redditors recommend products which are way too expensive (still good quality, but the extra price really isn't worth it), but if someone recommends a genuinely crappy product, they get downvoted and replies saying "don't buy this"
I run a Discord server that focuses on the tech side (Java, TDD, Hexagonal Architecture). It supplements the things I do on my Twitch live coding stream (https://JitterTed.Stream). We have weekly book study groups, an "office hour", etc.

(You can DM me on Discord for an invite if interested: JitterTed#4770)
> I'm sure a huge amount of American material depicting the English or French would be considered racist if that standard were applied

I think what you are missing here is that there is no history in the US of genocide against people of English or French descent. The US has a long history of exploiting American Indians, forcibly relocating them at gunpoint, or just killing them outright.

Part of what made this possible was systematic dehumanization of American Indians by portraying them as ignorant savages who were incapable of being "civilized" due to their race. This is the exact dehumanization that Disney was engaging in for laffs in Peter Pan.

Obviously, we need to do more to make up for this history of injustices against American Indians. But I find that those who speak loudest to justify racist caricatures against them are the ones least likely to want to do anything to redress those injustices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Massacres_of_Native_A...
It is. Emulators emulate the CPU everywhere.
Yes but data is data, it doesn't matter if I use 3G/4G/5G to talk to a server down the street or across the world, I've never heard of (consumer) bandwidth billing like this.
And global warming was much milder when we had more pirates in the world [1]. Correlation is not causation. In the same period, YouTube's management style and public-facing attitude have changed dramatically, Google's general attempt at being the "good guys" has pretty much vanished, and beancounting has taken over as the guiding principle in many respects. I have zero reason to believe that had Adblocking not been a thing, there would have been any significant difference in the frequency or intrusiveness of the ads YouTube shows.

[1] https://swizec.com/blog/pirates-downfall-causes-global-warmi...
My grandfather had his house and car in a trust for years so when he died, everything immediately went right to my mom. There was some concern about ex-wives and dirtbag relatives trying to take things in probate so a trust helped keep everything safe. He wasn't that wealthy but he had enough in assets that it was worth hiring a lawyer to draw up the trust.
My experience with hustlers is that they do alot of work to not work.
Illegal copying in music composition focuses on melody and lyrics. Reusing similar grooves, chord progressions, instrumentations, etc., is commonly done in many genres.

It might stand out more in music like this, because, in the worldwide history of music, this sort of synth-pop-funk-disco-whatever was reasonably isolated to a few years. Compared to, I think similarities in, say, blues or baroque music doesn't stand out as much, even if in fact there might be a lot more in common between pieces.
There are multiple long standing "Project 0" efforts in the US that aim to get pedestrian fatalities down to 0.

They have a range of goals including reducing Urban speed limits to 20-25mph and adding more safety features to cars.

Sad fact is modern giant SUVs have very poor rear visibility and children are just not visible if they are behind the vehicle. Backup cameras are the only reasonable option aside from "stop driving obscenely oversized vehicles."

(Another solution would be changing current laws so that 3 row station wagons were legal again, right now SUVs and Minivans fill a need that the 3 row station wagon used to, but it was legislated away long ago.)
Neat DIY guide Overall.

Are there commercial offerings of something similar to this? When I was homeless, I used an MSR international stove for cooking (can use gasoline, kerosene, white gas). It cost me maybe a day or two of day labor to buy it. I know building DIY stuff can be difficult for homeless, whereas coming up with $10 or $30 from doing some odd labor can be easier to come by than acquiring the tools to build things. It'd be cool if they can find a way to sell these.

I'd be curious in knowing as well what the risks are from using denatured alcohol. I would be very worried about vaporous methanol contaminating my breathing area, but perhaps that fear is unfounded.
At my Big Corp (tm) we've had HCL and TCM send one candidate for interview and drop off different people entirely. HR caught on when HCL started dropping off men when we had specifically selected several women.
Me and my family members have had multiple window motors fail, due to leaves falling in between the window and the gasket, on completely different car manufacturers.
Firefox for Android supports uBlock Origin
Buttered.
> Twitter use to be a place to find folks of common interests, but its been flooded with political and other highly annoying topics that I prefer to avoid.

Unfollow those people. It doesn't make any sense to follow a lot of people and then get angry about the content they're posting.

Like I said, if you let your follow list grow unbounded and you never go back and remove people, you'll eventually be flooded with content you don't want to see.

See someone posting politics and topics you prefer to avoid? Unfollow.
Humans and machines draw for totally different reasons.

Machines don't have any concept of a tournament. Humans go into drawn lines and get rid of tension in order to play the tournament meta-game. Since draws are worth so much, it's often a good idea to just bail out with a draw.

A lot of human positions wouldn't be drawn by machines, they would keep hammering the opponent.
Is it though? https://www.npr.org/2021/12/01/1060027395/robots-xenobots-li...