skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all reasonable, but you're a lot more certain it's the full answer than I would be.

For #1: New people come to technology all the time. They don't understand passwords yet, so if something is better than passwords it can make inroads.

For #3: It's not clear to me why this is the case, besides just that it has always been the case. It's really un-ergonomic to create and maintain passwords. It just seems the alternatives have been even more so.

(Interestingly, I don't think Coinbase actually gives you a keypair you can use to login to stuff...)
Speaking from experience, you vastly overstate the extent to which your "very basic" and "incredibly basic" personal stylistic expectations prevail in academia as a whole.

Regardless, I don't really care if an academic thinks they concluded something from evidence or they just think it as a matter of opinion. A lot of the time, they don't know the difference anyway. They can present their evidence and I'll decide if I believe whatever they think or conclude.

I know academics. As a class, they aren't especially rigorous, precise, or deserving of epistemic privilege. Some are, but there's far too much variance to make broad brush statements.
>The gender equality was portrayed by the company and therefore picked up by the parents. Nothing to do with what little boys thought of girls.

I know. Legos has two modes of advertising. One targeting parents, the other targeting kids. Both were accurate in their objectives. However the article itself fails to understand the psychology of kids.

> This is big part of why we have lack of females in STEM since for example "girls" Legos shows they should just worry about beauty salons and not rocket ships.

Don't want to turn it into a huge debate about gender stuff. All I can say is I disagree. Male and female preferences influence the advertising and the advertising in turn does influence preference but to a much lesser degree. Many studies show that the interest is innate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox

You can disagree, but there's no point in turning this into a debate... let's just agree that there's controversy around this area and definitely a lot of interest groups seek to color this area with their own agendas.
The cartoons were originally removed because they depict Chinese athletes graphically murdering people.

Many people, myself included, view them as offensive, crass propaganda that will just further irrational hate against Chinese people.

Since Trump was elected, the US has descended into what I can only describe as hysteria about China, which I think will be viewed in the same way as the McCarthy era is viewed today. The hysteria is fundamentally driven by deep insecurity about the US losing its geopolitical preeminence, which it has enjoyed since the end of WWII, and it is aided by a jingoistic media that uncritically propagates nationalistic narratives.

The hysteria is not driven by anything China itself has specifically done. China hasn't launched any wars in decades, and has essentially just been focusing on its own economic development. Inside China, the view that the American public has of China is incomprehensible: living standards have been getting steadily better, and most people are optimistic about the future. But just the fact that China is growing is viewed as a strategic threat in the US, and since Trump, Bannon et al. came in and initiated a confrontational policy towards China, US public opinion has taken a dramatic turn.

So I don't view this as an episode of the university "kowtowing" to "CCP" demands. It's just another example of grotesque propaganda, which caused a reaction on campus. The university initially decided to take the propaganda down, but now has been cowed by an opposite anti-Chinese reaction in the media and on social media, so the propaganda will stay up. Anyone who thinks the "CCP" controls dialogue in the US hasn't been paying attention over the last 5 years - the anti-Chinese messaging has been intense.
I agree but, ... how much of that is Steam's connivence vs you getting older and actually having $$$. I remember in my teens and early 20s I was mostly broke so it was piracy or nothing. Note: not excusing my bad behavior, I'm pointing out that my situation changed over time from "can't afford it so piracy is more compelling" to "can afford it so prefer to spend $$ a game than deal with hunting for warez"
Would batteries in the bands be A Really Bad Idea?™
I'll second Debian. I toggled between Ubuntu and Fedora for 10 yrs. Too many dodgy updates on Fedora, too much "is that package a deb or a snap" on Ubuntu. After working in RHEL based companies for many years, I switched to Centos and fought the out of date packages (sometimes building stuff from source) until the IBM takeover. Debian has been a good middle ground with newish packages that I rarely have to fight to get my work done.
Can someone explain why this is being downvoted? Or at least explain why MAME has never reached 1.0?
There is the old apocryphal story of how eBay was started with Pez dispensers. But in 1997 when MAME launched, 99% of eBay was CDs of ROMs, and Beanie Babies. eBay gave no fucks back then (people were buying and selling kidneys) and most people were on dial-up, so buying CDs with 1000 ROMs on it was heaven.
Pay-to-continue is a concession to the reality that an arcade is designed to generate money. The balanced and high-intensity gameplay gets you interested, the continue feature just takes your money. The solution is to never continue! Try for a 1 credit clear.
Yup, pretty much. If you want a static analysis tool to be able to actually parse your C code and see it like the compiler would, it needs to have all the info that the compiler did – header files, defines (including ones passed in with -D options), what the working directory was, what environment variables were in effect, etc. Otherwise there are all sorts of problems like:

- Is this code even used? (Maybe it's only included for some specific configurations, or #ifdef'd out)

- What does MAGIC_MACRO(x,y) do? Maybe this is only in a header file that's generated at build time, and you can't understand/analyze code that uses it without knowing its definition.

- What compiler version was used? Code may be interpreted differently depending on the compiler (particularly if gcc or clang-specific extensions are used, but also just due to things like compiler bugs or idiosyncrasies)

Coverity wrote a nice article about some of these issues back in 2010: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-li...

> Law: You can't check code you don't see. It seems too trite to note that checking code requires first finding it... until you try to do so consistently on many large code bases. Probably the most reliable way to check a system is to grab its code during the build process; the build system knows exactly which files are included in the system and how to compile them. This seems like a simple task. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to understand what an ad hoc, homegrown build system is doing well enough to extract this information

[...]

> The right approach, which we have used for the past seven years, kicks off the build process and intercepts every system call it invokes. As a result, we can see everything needed for checking, including the exact executables invoked, their command lines, the directory they run in, and the version of the compiler (needed for compiler-bug workarounds). This control makes it easy to grab and precisely check all source code, to the extent of automatically changing the language dialect on a per-file basis.

[...]

> Law: You can't check code you can't parse. Checking code deeply requires understanding the code's semantics. The most basic requirement is that you parse it. Parsing is considered a solved problem. Unfortunately, this view is naïve, rooted in the widely believed myth that programming languages exist.

> The C language does not exist; neither does Java, C++, and C#. While a language may exist as an abstract idea, and even have a pile of paper (a standard) purporting to define it, a standard is not a compiler. What language do people write code in? The character strings accepted by their compiler. Further, they equate compilation with certification. A file their compiler does not reject has been certified as "C code" no matter how blatantly illegal its contents may be to a language scholar. Fed this illegal not-C code, a tool's C front-end will reject it. This problem is the tool's problem.
Apple hit with another fine as Dutch regulator says it’s ‘disappointed’
'I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call Cargo Cult Science. In the South Seas there is a Cargo Cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land. So I call these things Cargo Cult Science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.' - Richard Feynman, 'Cargo Cult Science'

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
https://maskray.me/blog/ has plenty of solid information on the LLVM and GCC/Binutils toolchains.
No idea what you're talking about, not interested in debating efficacy of vaccines on here, just pushing back on the idea that calling Joe Rogan anti-vaxx is an "outright lie"
The data doesn't imply that ~everyone has long term effects because we don't know the distribution in the non-hospitalized cases.

> if you have symptomatic covid, it takes you a long time to feel "normal" again.

The non-hospitalized group in this study includes both symptomatic and asymptomatic.

This comment thread is a bit weird, you seem to be attacking me on an emotional basis. I'm interested because I think this data shows a good correlation between severity of disease and severity of long term prognosis, that's all.

I have an interest in knowing this, as we all do, because like basically everyone else, I've had coronavirus, and if the data shows that this now means I have an elevated risk of heart issues I should be careful with things like heavy exercise. I don't think it does based on the correlation shown (I didn't have severe coronavirus), so it's actionable information.

If you disagree with my assessment that a 2x multiplier on a rare event is not worrisome, that's fine - that's just like, my opinion, man. :)
Per my other comment, I think you are correct, they weren't really solving the right problem. I dont know what problem they should have been focusing on, but the end result didn't seem to hit on anything for me, understanding that maybe I wasn't the target customer.
Wow, so many discussions about removing the phone number completely and now that's what we get instead.
> I was under the impression that laptop batteries usually have on-board memory for holding charging parameters and such, and if you remove the cells, the memory contents gets lost and you cannot charge the battery anymore?

Some do, most don't. I've yet to see one that was that tricky, though I would suppose there must be manufacturers paranoid enough to put that in.

> Do you need a spot-welder for this?

If you want you can buy cells with strips already spot welded on so not necessarily. But it certainly doesn't hurt, they're not expensive though. K-weld is one of the better ones.

> And how do you get the battery pack open, since they are usually glued shut?

That can be a bit tricky depending on the manufacturer they may have the whole rim glued shut or maybe only a few strategic spots. I've yet to find one that I could not open, but some do take a bit of patience. And once you know how a particular model works the next one usually goes ten times quicker.

I realize that what is easy for me may be hard for others, but this being hacker news and the fact that there is a substantial intersection with the maker scene here I don't think such a subject is out of place.
That's of course one thing he apologized for. And in context it could easily be excused as humor, though of course I would hardly fault anyone for taking offense at such a crass and unbecoming "joke".
What's the expected clock rate for the logic? I think I missed that for context. The output is probably latched into the DAC at tens of khz, but there's so much bit serial stuff and time shared logic like the oscillators that it's much higher internally? Does it reach mhz?
I had to think about it a little before I posted. Part of me is perfectly willing to superimpose my cultural norms ( how US dealt with 9/11 and integrated it into its history being an example of that ).

I am just interested in history of Rome. If a Roman expert could chime in, it would probably be best since it is just a speculation on my end. In other words, I am no expert.

That said, while I am willing to believe that propaganda effect alone was probably worth the trouble ( not to mention the unpractical nature of killing your own troops ), it is difficult for me to believe that the concept would have survived this long without..uhh.. reinforcing it.

I did find some interesting sources, but I think this conversation[1] covers it well from several angles including ones you suggested.

In other words, I think it is possible.

[1]https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26019/how-common...
Rails views are frontend code. The assumption “front end = JS” is a false equivalence, and one only relatively recently promulgated. Overall this article reads like someone who doesn’t quite understand how inexperienced they are; this mistake confirms it.
Ah, yep. You're right. I overlooked that part. It looks like it's truly non-reversible—even if you don't care what the resulting input is.
is it a path or is this case a fluke? that's the question.
E-CNY: The Product
The ads-even-with-premium is why I no longer pay or really use Spotify. I moved back to just using VLC for my music stored on my phone.
It also protects against the opposite effect: in an environment full of scams, you get run out of business for being honest because you have a hard time competing with the scammers.
Well, I know a lot of people, so, my sample size is statistically significant.
One of these posters depicts a Chinese athlete curling a virus towards the viewer.

How is that not a racist dog whistle?
Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment
I mean, I don't work in mental health, but if somebody has mental health issues that they are dealing with, and they buy an "expensive placebo" in the form of talking about their problems with a professional, and it helps... that seems like a successful treatment, right? I'm actually not even sure how to define placebo in this context.
This is a classic bait and switch strategy that recruiters use. They have contracts for 3-4 "sexy" 1M+ positions open, so they dangle them in front of you to entice you into a conversation. Once they have you on the phone, they ask you for a resume they can send around to all of their entry-level positions.

IMO these recruiters are a big waste of time.
I think both are truly believing that criticism is racially motivated. Unfortunately, history actually tells us in both cases they kind of have a point. I think we have to accept the fundamental critism of our criticism until we have actually proven we aren't racist.
Here is a related story. I should mention Tines or OP has no relationship I know of with Salesforce, for background Mulesolft is a cloud focused integration platform owned by Salesforce, who's big feature is visual mapping, visual workflows, etc. (of course it is more complex than this, read up if you are interested):

I attended another meetup/training, Mulesoft was really pushing their web only visual workflow/mapping tool. And the instructor goes over the entire song and dance, and I said to him, that I was having real difficulty even understanding what type of problem this tool would be good for in a real-world situation. And he takes his glasses off and says to a room full of maybe 30 or 40 developers, that this tool they had been pushing so hard should NEVER be used in production, its only real use was for sale demos and maybe, maybe, doing some sort of POC which would need to be reproduced in 'code' at a later time. He used weasel words to say all of this of course, but his meaning was clear. This was 2018~2019, not the stone ages. So, I wasted that evening (there would be more) going to a sales enablement seminar billing itself a developer learning workshop.
Yes.

Here's a good perspective on the situation by someone who was cheating: https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/4k17n8/confess...
Large amount of “old man yells at cloud” going on here.

Lego is still fantastic. My kids love them. They can build a cool ninja car or a police plane or a house. And later recombine the three into a fantasy jeep-truck combo with a ramp.

The bricks are durable as f*ck. They learn fine motor skills. They learn to read instructions. They get creative. They role play.

There’s really no need to gatekeep Lego.
Girard has a very casual relationship with evidence for his theory. For example, he says that both Oedipus and Jesus were scapegoats, with (IIRC) Jesus being scapegoated by his own followers. If you point out that that's not what the accounts say, Girard says that societies that scapegoat don't say out loud that they're doing that, so the accounts won't come out and say so. That lets him read pretty much any account as evidence for his theory, and the fact that the account doesn't actually say that as further evidence for his theory.

That is very much not how evidence works. But if all you've got is an axe to grind, I guess every text looks like a whetstone...
I'll add Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing": https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ . Helped me change my views towards Windows (for the better) many years back and it's a good read anyway.

... and while here, I may also plug my own: https://jmmv.dev/
Indeed. People in literal prison stay fit this way.
Hopefully this will give the 20+ Amazon recruiters that email me per week a bit of leverage so they sound less desperate
> I can't imagine Cook being unable to do it.

…and he has: AirPods, M1, Apple Watch, cleaning cloth…

Also some failures that made it out the door, like HomePod…

I’d like a little more focus on quality and consistency but that would mean stepping off the annual treadmill. Which they could do everyone a service by being the first to do so.
Whoa, that’s big
I found that my email has the same problem my real world has: it isn't that hard to keep stuff organized when it is clear where each thing goes.

When it is not clear, or there isn't a good place to put it, stuff starts to pile up.

Once I have figured out where it should go, which is 99.99% of the effort, actually getting it there usually isn't that big a deal. You can organize 500 emails in an hour if you have set the systems and the shortcuts up - less if you can do it with filters.
Can someone tell me why you'd pay one dev $350k/yr and another dev $90k/yr? What is the measured difference between the two?
Ok, but now that it's not tied to phone numbers anymore why do you still need one to sign up?

And why has this been "in the works" for years? It's certainly not that hard to implement. Many less capable and mature messengers work without a phone number.
Hey there,

I am in a similar situation as you. I've partaken on a regular basis for decades but during the last two years, my consumption had gone up by a considerable amount. I also quit drinking during this period (also on a regular basis for decades...) so that was part of my mental justification for the habit. There's also a global pandemic and it can easily feel like the world is on fire - so we need our vices, right?!

Right now I am going on 6 weeks without THC. I feel mentally sharper, more motivated, and less depressed overall. Honestly I feel like the last few years of my life have been wasted in a hazy fog, and that can be overwhelming, especially since I'm not a spring chicken anymore. But it has been much easier after the first two weeks.

I was surprised by some of the intensity of my withdrawals. I was eating probably 1g+ of distillate in edibles a day, so my tolerance & usage was definitely above "average." I barely slept for the first week or so but my sleeping patterns are now back to normal.

Exercise, meditation, yoga, and reading books I really enjoy has all been helpful. ZzzQuil or Benadryl can help when you really need to get some sleep. Vaporizing/smoking CBD/hemp flower is also a relatively healthy replacement and could serve as a new pairing with your AM coffee.

Best of luck!
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Hmm... I got Moderna shots. Am I gonna melt into a puddle..? Real talk though, what's wrong with Moderna?
Seems like it would be a lot better to realize you have a problem with management if your base (developers in this case) can't be retained or evidently bribed. Something is clearly broken in their organization, I mean holy shit 350k???
> capital injection from YC

We raised a series A in 2019 led by Green Visor (who has been excellent btw, and with us from the start)

> it seems like you've been building for ~5 years ... i'm guessing it cost quite a bit to develop

Yep, you're spot on that it's a complex product. The biggest cost has been making it feel for the user like it's not. What that boils down to is an enormous amount of iterative feedback and development w/ the industry. Between that and the regulatory process, a lot of the "cost" has been more duration than cash burn. We've kept things lean from the start in anticipation of that.

> unless you built out all of the components yourself

We've developed the tech in house, with some hands on help from our friends at Imandra mentioned in the OP. On the research piece: that's been happening in the background for many years, and we're definitely building on the shoulders of giants in the worlds of mechanism design, algorithmic game theory, and deep learning. We're lucky to have some great academic advisors involved (like Kevin Leyton-Brown since the early days) as well.
Yes, and I often recommend it to people trying to make similar life changes, but I already cycle 6-10 hours a week and do plenty of other stuff, yoga etc. Not only do I feel like I'm already fully utilizing the benefits of a physical regimen, since I had been very much in the habit of combining that with vaping sessions it's now yet another thing that I have to get used to doing without enhancement. This one hurts, really. Scratch an athlete and you will find someone very strongly opinionated about their optimal personal chemistry. Sometimes this manifests as a strict adherence to sobriety but at least as often (in my experience) it's a schedule of substances which ranges across the spectrum from licit to less-than.

Thank you
I think you're right. The limit has been frozen at 15GB for some time, and even if you just use gmail at some point you are going to hit that, at which point I imagine many will upgrade to avoid having to delete potentially valuable emails.

I think most people now look at email as a total archive of all their communications through mail - not a 'mailbox' they prune and delete every so often.
> The reason you can is because in a society where freedom of expression is curtailed, there is (and always will be) a difference between what an authoritarian government declares and the opinions of its people, even if many people agree with the authoritarian government.

This is very abstract. Can you give a real world example of what you mean? What country should China closer resemble in your ideal world?