skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it?

"On March 21, 2012, Draw Something was bought by the gaming company Zynga for $180 million. The game's popularity peaked on the day of the sale, and the number of daily active users tumbled from 15 million to 10 million by early May."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw_Something
I choose to believe the comment you saw about logging was a satirical play on the idea that good code requires no comments.
This is great point, BTW. I always did not have time to "clean up" fonts - now I finally got it done. :-)

In my opinion, this should be _welcomed_ by WebDev community - this does improve privacy. In theory, DE court is right - your website should force user to connect only to itself.

I clearly see 2 ways of making this even simpler: use Lynx :-) or Tor Browser. The importance of Tor in today's business should increase. Yes, there are "shady" things there - but there they were in "clearnet" back in 90x ...

Makes sense.
For current status ("phase 3" as that link says is maybe not obvious enough), there is a solid spec and multiple implementations, see the "Fixed-width SIMD" line here:

https://webassembly.org/roadmap/

And here is an overview of this spec:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/simd/blob/master/proposals/si...
Move to a warm culture country. You will make friends and have a great social life.
Don't worry someone will make a machine learning model that discriminates ads from content and prevent specific areas from rendering.
Microsoft made a big mistake not just buying bungie after halo reach. The franchise and the studio were both at their very peak at this point. 343 is just not the developer bungie is and fans have been feeling for years that 343 has squandered their position. A lot of players to this day strictly play the bungie era games on master chief collection, and that release took a long time for it to be fixed from its broken state on release
> Rather than competing by improving their existing puzzles and/or creating new ones, they're just buying out the competition.

If this was a small business, I think I'd agree, but this was a fun side project by someone. If anything, it's a great payout for their side project that they may have never intended to monetize anyway, without breaking it for existing or future users (if they keep their promise of keeping it free and open).
I am really bad with transposing numbers. I'll often even have trouble correctly reading a 2FA code.

I always have to triple check numbers, I often try grouping them in a few different ways, e.g. 327895 I would read as 32-78-95 and then again as 327-895 just to be sure I have not transposed any digits.

Other than this sort of discipline I have not found a solution.
> - Languages that are compiled to machine instructions, vs compiled to VM bytecode, vs interpreted?

> - What do these things mean?

Languages are not compiled or interpreted, rather they may have compiler implementations, interpreter implementations, or both!

If the code is ever going to be executed, it needs to be converted to machine instructions at some point.

Consider Java - JVMs started out being like interpreters, but ended up more like compilers once JIT implementations became available, all without changing the language or the bytecode. Additionally, many non-java languages target those same JVMs.
I don't think the W4 is really much of a red flag. Someone with two jobs won't look significantly different from someone who has a high-earning spouse. Both will need to add additional withholdings to avoid underpayment.
Just what would the models be trained on? Machine learning requires you to have a corpus of mappings between peices of texts in two languages, each of which have been established to be close in meaning -> thereby requiring there to be no decipherment problem withstanding beforehand.

There are a series of problems in decipherment of Minoan scripts from what I understand:
1. The Linear A & Cretan script are undeciphered in the sense that we do not know what phonetics the symbols stand for
2. The Minoan language hypothesized to be written in these scripts is undeciphered in terms of vocabulary (given we do not know the phonetics of the letter symbols) & by extension its semantics. At best a kind of crude syntax can proposed for it based on patterns of the word-symbols in texts of the hypothesized language written in those scripts.
> I'm unfamiliar with UK Law... Is this actually a court of law or was this done through the Sheriff's department?

Interestingly there isn't really such a thing as UK Law; there is the Law of England and Wales, the Law of Northern Ireland, and Scots Law, the final one being applicable here. These three systems are markedly different, and for criminal cases there is not even a shared supreme court for the three jurisdictions.

In Scots Law the term "Sheriff" has a different meaning to how the term is used in US law enforcement. It refers to the Sheriff Court [0], a Sheriff being a judge.

> That said, I don't know if the UK has protections for free speech the way the US does.

It doesn't.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_court
If it's a piece of base64 that a random web visitor uploaded and then another one picked up such that it was activated as a request in their browser, the name which applies is: "cross site scripting attack".
App support for DjVu is the main downside. I see even the Internet Archive is backing off from their support.

PDF, IMO, is a horrible format, it's almost unparseable. I think we have to suck it up though and admit PDF won, and just deal with it by using tools like in OP's post to try to make the best of a bad situation.
Differences relative to what? A young and old colony are still the same evolutionary distance from their last common ancestor. Even if there was some change in mutation rate once a colony is formed, it would be really hard to measure the difference. Maybe diversity within a colony is a clue?
Probably also depends on if or how carefully you rinse before putting stuff in there.

I rinse things pretty well beforehand and use quick wash and it works well.
The Canvas Cares Not
Above all else, the creator deserves a seven figure pay day. I'm extremely happy for him. Everyone bringing value to the world deserves this outcome, we just don't all get to see it. (More often than not, our open source code just gets co-opted and we get a "thanks".)

In opposition to the platforms, we can create or play one of the million clones. Even non technical folks can find these.
10k years is not a lot of geological time so even if true, that could still well be in the early stages of a mass extinction.
> Why is Africa, the place where humans have been the longest, teeming with megafauna?

Because they evolved with us and evolved to respect the threat we pose.
> if they keep their promise of keeping it free and open

There is no "promise" other than "initially free", which almost certainly guarantees it will soon be hosted on NYT and require their subscription to play.
This project squats on the 0200::/7 prefix, which was originally allocated by https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1888 in 1996.
At selected RPM notches with accompanying max power levels, the RPM values chosen to avoid any nasty resonances.
Why the web version of Instagram is better than the app
I agree; but is sadness any sort of scientific measure? Does it have any place in an abstract or a scientific study? I don’t think so. It seems weird to me.
Took me a bit to track down what the guy was charged with[3]: The relevant words of section 127 of the Communications Act of 2003 [1] have not been changed since it was enacted and were directly taken from section 43 of the Telecommunication Act of 1984. [2] I don't think Murdoch and ISIS had anything to do with those, not sure about the Tories. Yet cautionary tales about electing face-eating leopards are never completely wrong, even when they are false ;-)

1: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127
2: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/12/section/43
3: court documents aren't published yet, info from media reports
There are several studies showing positive effects of ivermectin in vivo. Here is one [0] two [1].

One potential problem with ivermectin is it's patent expired in 1996. So not a lot of money to be made from a generic treatment that is cheap and abundant.

How far would Big Pharma go to secure profits? [2] Find out for yourself. Warning ignorance really is bliss and your worldview may be shaken.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33592050/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...
Wouldn't it be best to act as if it's fact, even without definitive evidence one way or another? Otherwise it's like deciding to not drive cautiously on a mountain road because your GPS isn't sure if there's a sharp turn ahead.
I disagree. Riley's tweet was clear and expressed her views accurately and sincerely, and Murray's tweet was sincere and a reasonable interpretation of Riley's tweet, which it directly referenced.

Riley wasn't slandering Corbyn by cheekily calling him a Nazi - although part of her defense was explaining how Corbyn is actually an antisemite (which would be irrelevant or even counterproductive in a case accusing Murray of maliciously lying.) It's her honest belief.

Murray honestly believes that Riley is stupid, and that Riley was showing her agreement with a physical attack on Corbyn. This can be a questionable interpretation if you realize that Riley probably hates Owen Jones, too, but it's certainly reasonable. Besides that, everyone had access to the Riley tweet, and could decide for themselves.

It's an unbelievably low standard for liability.

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> There are three major defenses against a defamation suit. The first is “privilege,” which typically protects journalists when they quote otherwise defamatory statements made by officials in parliament or the courts to allow for full reporting of issues of public interest. The second is “truth,” which protects the person being sued if they can show that what they said was true. And the third is “honest opinion,” which applies if an opinion was expressed and that opinion was held reasonably and expressed honestly rather than out of malice or to harm someone’s reputation.

> Murray’s lawyers believed they could defend their client using not just one but two of the defenses: truth and honest opinion. Was Murray not justified in inferring that Riley was equating Corbyn to a Nazi when she implied that the two cases were similar, especially in the context of Riley’s earlier statements? Was Riley’s comment not agreeing with Jones’s approval of a previous attack and suggesting it was deserved this time too? And was Murray’s view not expressed honestly and with the intention chiefly to defend Corbyn’s reputation rather than harm Riley’s? (Calling someone “stupid” in a heated exchange on Twitter is not usually considered defamatory, otherwise we’d have many tens of thousands of people facing enormous fines.)

https://www.mintpressnews.com/rachel-riley-libel-defamation-...
He's probably a German.
I agree wrt interactive use. I wrote a little tool that lets me search the parts inventory (in proprietary software) at my job (mechanic shop) with regex. It is a tremendous help to me, especially since some manufacturers have somewhat structured part numbers which are a good fit for regex.
I dunno... I2C bus was designed in 1982 and it is still in the wide use today, and no replacement is in sight (for the "low speed inter-board" use case).

The hardware world moves much slower than software one, and the if the designs work, they are rarely replaced.
We do in some cases though. The bison in the US were definitely killed off by European settlers.

Rhinos in Africa were killed off for asian medicinal customers.
Oh damn... I've seen this one too. As always this is doing REST api without understanding the nuances of http and its headers. The application service in this case wasn't setting the correct cache-control. A proxy some layers above happily cached it. Adding the cache-control didn't make a difference. The proxy had to be restarted (the cache was within its ttl so didn't get changed).

Ideally an api gateway should have managed the headers but ours didn't. Not at that time at least.
There's not much point to a 750,000 mile engine, as the rest of the car is worn out and rusted out at 200,000 miles.

> if we can have 80, 100, 150, perhaps even 200 mile-per-gallon combustion engines

Well, we can't.

Internal combustion engines have steadily gotten better, not stagnated.

In the 1970s, I heard all about oil companies buying 200 mpg carburetors to keep them off the market. My dad laughed at that, saying the military would never let patent law keep them from making 200 mpg tanks and stuff. Gas is a gigantic logistical problem for a mechanized military.
I don't think you can prove that this happens.
If nothing else it is an ad to coerce you into watching more shows on Netflix.
A not tiny font size can help. Supposedly dark themes help, but I’ve never found this true myself. Honestly, I don’t think there’s any real accommodation needed here.

As others have mentioned, it’s all about motivation. The longest books I read as a kid were programming books - I got through them because I was motivated to learn. I’d recommend challenging him with puzzles - find something level appropriate such “print a pyramid with base size n” or “draw a maze that doesn’t loop back on itself” for advanced beginners.
Reminds me of a business school story about minimizing hold times…so they started using mute instead and the manager got promoted.
>The fact is: We don't know what killed off the megafauna.

We also don't know that gravity works. All we know is that when we drop things they tend to end up on the floor. There have been enough experiments of isolated islands and continents being colonized by humans and having all their large animals go extinct within a century that the two are as correlated as anything we can expect in science.

The only reason to claim that humans are not the cause is an emotional one: to pretend that we have been at peace with nature in some mythical past. The alternative, that modern humans have always been an ecological disaster wherever they went, is not something that's palatable to many in the West since it means the noble savage wasn't.
Some applications dump ENV vars on failure (phusion passenger default config), or upload them to tracing tools. (Rollbar, datadog, etc)
> how the world could be

I already feel this way about Clojure vs other languages I know, or Ruby (what I get paid to do) vs Python (what I use when I must).

It gets tiring to know elegance and terseness and then have to use wooden clubs.

If Haskell is some steps further up the ladder, but opportunities to use it are very limited, it would make me even more frustrated.
Haha, yeah.

Amusingly if you just switch the wording, "ad-blocking is copyright infringement" is obviously logically false without further work required.
This is exactly my experience which lead me to create https://github.com/ysoftwareab/yplatform - with a consistent make interface https://github.com/ysoftwareab/yplatform/tree/master/build.m...

PS: quite feature complete but not yet well marketed so to speak. I'm actually recording an asciinema session this week in order for a visitor to grasp quicker the mentioned benefits.
> The organisation has a duty to serve all members of the UK.

> Removing language which degrades segments of this audience, is clearly within its remit.

If this logic stands, it can be used by any government/ organization as a reasoning for censorship. Well done.
I'd imagine the Venn diagram of people who will still be playing Wordle in a year and people who already pay for NYT Crossword/Spelling Bee/etc is... just a circle.
> Payment in kind: You offer a free service or tool, in exchange for data or data tracking. Example: Foursquare’s free SDKs for mobile app developers, which enable Foursquare to track mobile user location.

This is not payment in kind. This is bribery. App developers are bribed to abuse their users' privacy and personal security.

> Data exhaust: You collect or generate data as a by-product of your core business. ... email managers and personal finance tools all have visibility into consumer transactions; some of them use this to build data products.

Apparently ethics, morals, scruples, etc. are not worth even considering, from this author's perspective.
I'm surprised it's that high. I don't think I could do a long division problem using pen and paper if you put it in front of me right now.
I suppose tab autocomplete works in macos too? Or is the shell not that bash-like?
What do you mean by GPU code? Do you mean some code that calls WebGL?
> then hopped back into the human population

How likely is that? Do you think Omicron got very lucky, or are we just very lucky that (if the animal reservoir theory is correct) it only happened with Omicron?
I’m willing to bet if halo didn’t come to xbox we wouldn’t be discussing it today and still playing halo games 20 years later.
> Use GET for everything that can be cached and repeated without side-effects

*except when the query string is too big, then use POST
Most of science is looking at a bunch of evidence and hypotheses ("stances") and seeing which are least improbable given the available evidence.
I'm expecting ads and also a hyperlink in the sharing copypasta at the very least.
It's written in Scots which is considered both a dialect and as a separate language (though there's not really a difference)

https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/deid (also deed)
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/auld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

Just the accent would be covered by:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_English
Taking issue with the positions of others is a perfectly normal part of the scientific process. I am not sure where your definition of 'what science is about' comes from but it can't possibly be true, if you think about it for a bit.

As to the votes, there's a specific guideline about that kind of comment:

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
My microwave used to beep 6 times when finished.

Even if you opened the door it would still do all 6 super loud beeps. It became a race to get there with one second left to stop it.

Also every press of any key would emit a loud beep. Stupid.

So I opened it up and snipped the stupid buzzer a while back.

It's so much nicer to have a silent microwave now.
> slight inflation tends to produce economic growth

Baloney. I've heard that claim often, and it makes no sense and no facts are ever produced to support it.
How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid
The letter flipping reveal is a key component that adds to the joy of Wordle.
Gods. The thought police truly has arrived. Society will burn eventually because of this, when someone can throw me in front of a judge for typing something “offensive” on the internet.

Just dumb.
I know a guy who tried that.

He thought he was pretty good at his job and took a second job. His coworkers (included me) felt like he was slimy and was not good at his job.

Everyone was suspicious of the dude and finally one day his boss’s boss called him for an emergency, and he said the company name while answering his phone… the other company he worked for.

Company fired him, told the other company, and threatened to sue him. He paid back a good chunk of his recent salary (they didn’t need the money I suspect wanted to make an example).
So no pop culture references at all?

Jeez that sounds like an extremely boring crossword.
> But I resent that we live in a system where any independent creativity is exploited for financial gain.

So what's the alternative system? One in which creators of delightful projects like Wordle are prevented somehow from making money from their creations? That seems weird and bad.
>Absolutely sounds plausible, but it seems odd to leave out another competing reasonable theory if the intent is to survey the various theories.

To be fair, even the article suggests that "whichever idea a researcher favours 'often comes down to gut feeling rather than any sort of principled argument'", that "they are all fair game" and "everyone has their favourite hypothesis."

So there are a lot of reasonable theories out there; at what point do they stop adding other theories to the article without upsetting someone that certain theories were ommitted?

>Certainly they know stuff I don’t, though.

Maybe that's why they had the "gall" to not mention it?
It is really frustrating that I can't find a whitepaper anywhere on this website. Or a protocol spec. Or an RFC.
Hey Syrus, that's great to hear - I'm excited to see what WAPM has in store!
It makes zero sense, but yeah.

There was a thing not long ago where talcum powder, I think Johnson & Johnson, had some asbestos contamination (asbestos being another mineral that can come from the same mines, apparently). And people were suing because it gave them cancer of the uterus and other internal parts of the female reproductive system. Which makes you go: Wait a second. How the hell does that happen?

That's how.
I don’t get it you guys are smart enough to do this but not smart enough to bypass a simple ban? If your system is that good it should be simple to recruit proxy betters in mass to use their accounts to beat the system. Like there are whole discord communities of resellers that do that and sell their tools for really good money
> There are several studies showing positive effects of ivermectin in vivo

There are lots. And lots showing the opposite. Meta-analysis of those has shown that there are two factors with strong positively correlation with a study showing positive results for ivermectin:

(1) indicators of quality problems with the study, and

(2) the study being conducted where parasite infections known to exacerbate COVID and know to be treatable with ivermectin are endemic.

Ivermectin is a very good treatment for certain parasitic infections that make COVID worse, but there is very little reason to believe it is a good treatment for COVID aside from that. Which makes potentially it still a good component of treatment where undiagnosed parasitic infection is likely, but not more generally.
> Rather than competing by improving their existing puzzles and/or creating new ones, they're just buying out the competition.

The purchase of the game, for apparently "low seven digits", is going to spur tens of thousands of programmers to try to build the next Wordle. To try to capture some of that magic. That's how it works. There is absolutely nothing sad about this. And really the social magic of Wordle is retreating, so it's not like you were going to be anxiously playing your daily Wordle in six months.

NYT basically bought some hype and legitimacy. They seem flush with cash right now (didn't TFG say they were failed or something?), and seem to be massively overpaying for lots of things. They want to make people think of their games, so there you have it. Congrats to Wardle.
I'm no expert on the Japanese economy, which means I'm not ready to accept the claims about it at face value. Too many times I hear such claims about something I know about, and know why the claims aren't correct or the conclusion is not correct.
Dyslexic programmer here! Here's some of my tips I use.

ALWAYS ALWAYS close your parenthesis/brackets/quotes as soon as you open them then go back to write what's in them. So, if I write: func(arg), the keystrokes for me are: f u n c ( ) <- a r g and it's muscle memory at this point.

Color syntax highlighting is a must! It lets you know your keywords are correct.

Copy-and-paste variable names. Write them once and then get fast at copying them.

And then some preferences I like, not sure if they're related:

I prefer coding styles with lots of vertical white-space. I also rotate my monitors to portrait.

Also, I've always used a dark mode theme. I thought that was a nostalgia for the old DOS days, but seeing other people recommend them, maybe it's a thing?