skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America is a huge country, with a state and local laws that are inconsistent over both geography and time.

It can be true that we over jail and impose longer sentences in some places, in some past eras, and/or for some crimes, to no good effect, while also in other places, other times, or for certain crimes, under punish such that there is zero deterrent effect when there needs to be at least some.
non-profit doesn't mean no money, and from what i've read, Signal does monetize.
The "recall" will just be a software update. But still, it's odd. The owners should be able to take responsibility not to produce sounds that can cause negative effects to other people.
So Walmart profit is more important to you than people not starving?
Sand mining causes significant environmental damage, and there's a shortage of sand from the less-delicate sources.

Also, I imagine it takes a lot of energy to go from "we found this on the beach" to "this is ultrapure silicon for use in solar cells". We have essentially unlimited aluminum too.

The purpose of recycled cans is saving energy and reducing pollution from extraction. I do wonder whether it's easier to start with glass from beverage bottles than from solar panels though.
Money laundering? Fundamental incompetence? Pick any reason honestly, they all make the same amount of sense. I've never understood why Mozilla bought Pocket.
I think the point of the statement is less "nobody out here is monetizing it on YouTube" and more "you'll meet all sorts of interesting people out here and most of them just live the way they live, no incentive required."

Sure you can go on YouTube and live vicariously through a young white dude with a cute girlfriend in a flat bill cap and Oakley sunglasses and a 100k RV shilling products at you and starting every video with "what is up guys hit the notification bell down below", and maybe you can imagine your life being more like that. Maybe you'll even learn a thing or two about gardening or cooling an aluminum box in the summer. But actually getting out there, you'll find a ton of people actually living interesting lives without a gopro on a selfie stick.
Some other countries don’t consider possession of a minor amount of drugs, clearly intended for personal use, “a drug crime”. Of course your numbers will be higher than others, if you count things differently.

Treat addiction like an illness, not a crime, and your numbers will fall in line with the rest of the countries, quickly. Moreso if you get rid of those for-profit prison system while you are at it.
I use aliases to ensure that emails from providers go into their specific inboxes. Example credit card statements to `Myccinfo' (not the actual name).
Thus new mail arrivals stand out on Thunderbird's `Folders' panel.
> This shoplifting epidemic is happening because no one is going to jail for this.

Is that true?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/17/walmart-shop...
http://liberouter.mobi/
Right Time to Thiel [video]
Java needed labelled loops because it deliberately did not include goto, so I don’t really see the argument. If you have goto then you don’t need labelled loops (this is a much less bad argument than ‘if you have goto you don’t need any other control flow’ as using labelled loops and using goto are similar) but it might be scary to have all the freedom of it.
Zulip is great in concept, but the execution lets it down a little. "stream events" for example sounds awfully techie. The UI is not very pretty, fonts are small, etc. It's not clear where to start a chat in a brand new (or empty channel). If they focused on UI for a few months they'd have an easy winner, but in its current state I've had two separate non-techie teams look at it and recoil, and go back to Slack.

(Also, Zulip should try to compete against NextDoor - but to do so they'd need more control around content expiry once the storage limit was hit. No neighborhood is going to pay $7 per user, so the free offering needs to be compelling.)
I have also been receiving a lot of these to my inbox lately. Usually the sender is a creative version of some common name. Some examples from the last three days:

Mariya

Lorreyn

Kerol

Medison

Silviya

Primrouz
Could be hardcoded?
Why should arithmetic be more or less context free than anything else? It's defined by axioms and definitions as much as the rest.
Kind of, though:

In the past stores had Loss Prevention departments which were tasked with this stuff. It's never been the case that nobody shop lifted, its just now that the economic race has led retailers to externalize and cut costs.

It's very, very annoying to have some mall cop following you around, so now its a camera, later it will be many more and much better cameras with a lower paid employee with much less engagement with their occupation. I reject that it is an impossible task for national retailers.

I suspect walmart has a workable model: They move stocking into the shopping hours and use all of their employees as a micro-scale surveillance network.

Why should society foot the bill for for police and such to watch private property like this and essentialy persecute the population because the national retailers don't want to invest in the cost of doing business?

Inside of a store, it's completely reasonable and totally possible to just have an employee around.

Policing organized crime is the job of the FBI, if my knowledge of this stuff is a little bit correct. All of this surveillance garbage we've been ignoring for decades was supposed to solve these problems, but it is clearly not capable of doing so.
Blockchain and the New Custom Compute Group
"Is Europe equal to France?"
I am not sure when they made it free to use (and not sure under what terms exactly), it's part of their most expensive TFC offering and always has been, but why do they believe that people are interested in a closed-source project, that's pretty much not used anywhere else, unlike OPA? I am a TFC commercial user and I'm not interested in using Sentinel as if I decide to switch to Scalr, all that work would be lost of the license doesn't allow me to use it, and if the competitor platforms don't support it due to the licensing constraints.
It's simple: absolute vs relative. For you Mozilla is in a relative sense the best because they take the foremost stance about privacy. For me being 'privacy first' is an absolute thing: it precludes you from doing a whole raft of things that Mozilla has done. So for me they lost the title, that doesn't mean they aren't still the best.
Yeah, there's a lot of distros that ship Cutefish DE packages. Manjaro has a community edition with this DE, and you can install at anywhere. Its' better for the long run.
From the article:

The top five cities for organized retail crime, in order, were Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York and San Francisco.

By “the DA” you are probably referring to the DA of the #5 city?
Yes, I was actually impressed most by how it figured out how to navigate the pronoun minefield successfully.
Doesn't the Bible also state that Enoch and Elijah never died?

If you're a Christian, doesn't this mean that you believe that they are both still alive and are world's oldest humans
> (800) 444-4444: automated number announcement circuit

Is this meant to announce your own number back at you? I called from outside the US and got a very different number from my own, which is fascinating.
Happy 70th Birthday Dad
"It depends"

First, are we talking about what _is_ or what _should be_?

Second, what is the business logic behind the choice of Date versus Time to represent data (a data point or a segment) in the timeline? And is that logic consistent with the original design, and therefore with how the data have been collected?

There is more, of course. Lots more, some touched upon in the article and comments.
There's that.
It was a main plot point in the modern movie series. What's the wrath of Kahn?
> This is problematic because not only do we get an extra read

I don't understand why you're speculating on this. The author provided the assembly that only has 1 read.

FWIW, I just tested this on my machine. I get the following results:

Intel Core i7-7800 3.5Ghz / Ubuntu 20 / g++ 9.3.0
Rolled loop : 2.08 Gflops | 16.7 GB/s bandwidth
8-unrolled loop : 2.48 Gflops | 19.8 GB/s bandwidth

Here's the unrolled assembly (8 iters), with -O3:

.L3:
addl (%rdi), %eax
addq $32, %rdi
movl %eax, -32(%rdi)
addl -28(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -28(%rdi)
addl -24(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -24(%rdi)
addl -20(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -20(%rdi)
addl -16(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -16(%rdi)
addl -12(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -12(%rdi)
addl -8(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -8(%rdi)
addl -4(%rdi), %eax
movl %eax, -4(%rdi)
cmpq %rdi, %rdx
jne .L3
I'm purely making an argument against the reflex to demand harsher punishments. If harsher punishment always worked to deter criminals, we'd have the death penalty for every crime.
Sorry, I find this funny though I can relate. Not wanting to spend "family time" in front of a screen when your preferred alternative is to work/play in front of a screen.
It's been a few years for me. But at the time, write anything you want to bring in to DVD-R (write-once). Including system updates, documentation, open-source libs, etc.
Xband
But he's not entirely wrong. Stewart calls out the NYT for being wrong on Iraq; and they were. Today they are still the newspaper of record (for a lot of people) and they're still devastatingly wrong about all kinds of issues, on a daily basis.

I have a deep contempt for the motley collection of anti-(vaxxer, masker, etc etc) that have surfed to the top of a wave of distrust and ignorance. But I'll concede that even they have some points about how, for instance, the CDC had abominably bad communication about masks in the early days of the pandemic, and the "trusted" sources wholeheartedly amplified some obviously stupid ideas.

... that said, I think you're right. Stewart wants to make this issue all about him and his past valor in the fight for truth, all while implying that it's somehow wrong to even try to establish who's right. It's a dumb take, and I can only hope he's not in the early stage of some Scott Adams-esque drift into misinformation cult territory.

As for my own answer to "who to trust", I daydream about finding some new subculture that contains experts who know very different things than I do; people I can look to, to tell me "this is how it is" about any given complex issue. An idealistic dream of what the internet could be, basically. It's possible to sort of get there through a patchwork individual blogs / newsletters / etc, but it's extremely high friction and time intensive, and that hasn't improved much in 20+ years of life on the internet.
Most of the people I've seen on here tend to downvote based on opinion not quality (against the T&C's / guidelines), and the 'implied verbal slap' (I disagree that it is that, but what the hell, I'll humour you) barely qualifies, after I've seen anti-vaccine, holocaust denying, brutal and weird tin-foil hat disagreements rise to the top. If you pay attention to the content that is posted on this site that gets upvoted, you'll realise the guidelines below are very literally guidelines, and that the "small verbal quip" was done for a small amount of emphasis and as a turn of phrase, not specifically to smite you or meant as anything of the derogatory sort.

So I'm sorry that you took offence from it, but it seems like one of the least important things one could take offence at on this website
Couldn't find a license file in the root folder of that github. I found a license in a cpp file buried in the sec folder. You should consider putting the licensing for this kind of project in a straightforward and locatable place.
"git pull --rebase" is not "git pull", it's a different operation. I agree it would be a better default to rebase instead of merge though.
I've been using simplelogin aliases (both their domains and using my custom domain) for every new website registration or online order since I learned about it a few weeks ago. It's been excellent.

It isn't for organization, but for spam prevention, privacy, and being able to tell who leaked my email if I start receiving mail from an unexpected source.
Wait. "Work servers"?

People use Discord for work chat?
I'm not sure why the human is put off when the computer refers to him as "he/him", when the human literally told the computer to refer to him as "he/him". And in fact, why would a second-person speaker need to know your third-person pronouns?
Did you call directly, or use a calling card or similar discount call service?
A list of date/time/calendar quirks and oddities:

https://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com/
I got 17bn, but with constantly changing prices a rough figure is fine.

Here's the previous day's block reward and current price.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/

The other thing about mining is the their costs are in hard currency, so there's not much opportunity to "hodl".

Those mined coins need to be sold once the electricity bill is due, so to maintain a stable price bitcoin needs an ongoing net dollar investment proportionate to the current price (taking halvings into account).
With a side of sodomy.

Prison in America is unjustly violent. The only thing I agree with progressives is that, if there’s no room to jail someone humanely, they shouldn't be in jail.

This to say, the homeless doesn’t want to go to jail for a warm meal. He knows his local DA isnt punishing crime.
I did not know that! Very interesting! Although, I do think that having some differentiation makes sense.

For example, I'm sure Vermont's winterization needs would look very different than Texas'.
I recommend watching the full video. I don't think he's against renewables but trying to frame what they really are in a more realistic manner.
I don’t know what the economics were, but it may have been a soft landing / acquihire. I’m sure some people believed in the business case, but the driving force for the acquisition may well have been a VC that wanted an exit, a well-connected founder, etc.
If property values skyrocket the landlord can (will) sell the building and kick you out.
Both candidates are Republicans. It’s a primary race.
The article you have provided is from 2018 and primarily deals with a single individual that had several other outstanding warrants, it has no bearing on what was stated prior.
Directly from my mobile phone.

I wonder if the number I got is the notional phone number of a virtual international trunk line or something like that.
If X implies Y, it is not necessary for Y to imply X.

"There is no such thing as an ex-FOO" does not imply that it is true for any value of FOO..
If you've got enough, yeah you can
Same experience here! It was such a great first intro for me. Learned basic programming concepts but could quickly put together something "real" feeling. It was a nice middle ground. The Pascal aspect was pretty ergonomic for a neophyte, and the GUI design really was unparalleled.

Dabbled in UIs after: GTK, .NET, etc. All disappointing and awkward. Do web dev for internal tooling when I have to, but I don't enjoy it. I do backends but mostly stick to lower-level systems stuff after falling in love with K&R and Unix early in college. Well, and firefighting prod performance problems.
In 2020 i got a 27" mid-2011 iMac with maxed out specs (i7, 16gb, 256gb ssd, 2tb hdd) this way (I was dumping my electronics there when I noticed some guy unloading the iMac).

Of course at home I found out why it was dumped... the left half of the screen's backlight was defunct, turned out to be a torn off connector that I could resolder and it had the infamous radeon gpu issue: flickering, distortions and crashes depending on the chip temperature. Fixed that by rom hacking [1] a dell nvidia quadro MXM-card off ebay for 30€ and replacing the radeon module.

I sold both the broken radeon mxm-module and the working iMac for 35€ and 380€. Succeeding with the repair was very rewarding, it will run for another couple years, I learned a few things along the way and made some buck.

[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card...
One of my favorite _rudimentary ideas about mathematics_ comes from philosopher Cathy Legg describing the work of Charles Sanders Perice:

_"Perice had a hypothetical interpretation of mathematics. So mathematics doesn’t talk about what’s actual at all. Mathematics makes no positive claims. Mathematics just tells you if you make this hypothesis, then this must follow. So mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions."_

If you get your head around that, then apples and McGuffins are both permissible.

Episode 81: Cathy Legg discusses what Peirce’s categories can do for you
https://elucidations.hum.uchicago.edu/Legg_WhatPeircesCatego...
FFS. Drowning out one sound with another means more sound, you’ll have people’s attention.

I don’t even know the mandated warning sounds I’m supposed to attend to. If USG requires these sounds, it should mandate that we all know what to listen for.

Sheesh.
I’d also like anyone who promotes harsher punishments to actually go through the system for just a day before they insist on locking others into it.

Getting arrested permanently changed my view on our justice system. It was a nonviolent offense, related to a paperwork issue, but it resulted in a bench warrant being issued for me.

If I hadn’t just received several thousand dollars in my account from an unexpected windfall, I would not have been able to pay the jail fees. Not fines for the ticket - which was completely dropped - the jail fees for simply being arrested.

The total out the door cost to get arrested was north of $2100 for me. You can beat the case, but you can’t beat the ride.
I believe, that China has no territorial claims on Chinas biggest economical partner US, but China has historical claims on territory of Russia. In a long game, China is waiting for Russia to become weak(just like Russia attacked Ukraine when it was weak), to claim(without fight) what is rightfully Chinese and what was stolen from them. So far, Chinese are getting all the resources from Russia and they will continue getting them even more in case of conflict. If Russia goes to war, it weakens itself - all according to Sun-Tzu teachings and in any case China is winner - it takes time, but the way is more important than short goals. Look on a globe and think of China as expansionists - the only best territorial expansion route to them is into Russia and Kazakhstan. It is a dream come true scenarion, that Russia is trying to be ally - or perhaps they realise, that this is their option.

Why would China be involved in this at all? This war disrupts Chinese non-military takeover of Silk Road territories, where they are dominant economical force already.

The only losers in this play are Russians, where only "brightest" of them think of such crazy scenario, that you are proposing. People in a way do not differ from lemmings - even millions of them can be wrong on their way down from cliff. But, while they are running amok, they have a goal - for that moment.
The word of big business is truth and doubting it is a conspiracy theory? That’s a bit of a leap.

Anyway, TFA links to more reading in its final paragraph. Look for the link in the following text:

but: An analysis of crime statistics and other reporting by The Atlantic cast doubt on what it called the "great shoplifting freak-out," citing "fuzzy data" and asserting that what's being lumped together as shoplifting is actually a variety of violent crimes.
> we can see how a really well written very complex electron app like vscode behaves

yes, very much worse than the average Qt app in my experience in terms of responsivity, load time and general UI performance
With GCC (now the GNU Compiler Collection) for instance, it's the same compiler for C and Fortran, just different front ends. The statement isn't useful, anyway, as it doesn't say compiled Fortran will be faster. Given the complex type, and restrict in current C, the main feature of Fortran that might help is arrays.
> With BTC, there’s no underlying asset.

lolwut

BTC defines computation/energy as a tradable asset -- that's literally the whole point of it.
Tell HN: Voting on HN Fails Silently
If you upvote or downvote a post on Hackernews, and it failed (e.g. because you have hit the 1-request-per-second limit), there is no error, and the vote silently fails.

Only if you refresh the page will you see that your vote actually didn't go through.
I've been pretty happy with https://pinboard.in/

It doesn't have fancy graphical previews and stuff like that, but it works and archives page contents for an extra fee.
I use Discord a lot and I agree that it's bad to use it for anything that you can't afford to suddenly lose (though people still use Google and Paypal too).

I do think a modern chat app is a value-add for fast moving (tech) companies. It is a nice hybrid between sending an email or knocking on someones door for a chat.

And as for the 'chat commands', they're usually just thin wrappers around the UNIX style tool. It's maybe not the most reliable way, but it does have a low barrier and there's not much lock-in. I used to have my server email myself whenever something needed my attention, but now it'd probably use a Discord bot for that.

However, I still wouldn't use it professionaly. the lack of self-hosting (privacy) and archival(bots can solve this pretty easilly) and restricting DMs (see slacks previous issues) makes Discord unsuitable.
A retired Russian general's criticism may signal a larger problem for Putin
There's a few:
800-437-7950

800-223-1104 (passcode 910777)
Because they get paid to do it - they literally make money from fighting fires
Mozilla is the best of the rest, and it's fine to use it instead of Chrome and still be critical of Mozilla.
When Postgres blocks: tips for dealing with locks
Also- it's a lot harder than it looks. Give it a try, but you will be sore after a couple of hours if your body isn't used to the motions used in curling.
Without more context, they are incomparable. The author only says they came from a UI and a database - but what do they represent? And what UI did they come from (i.e. what information did the user have when choosing the date[time] components, and how were those components encoded into a date[time]?). How are they being used now? I suspect the author is withholding some of these details to make a more interesting conversation (or to describe a "general case", but unfortunately there is no such thing as a general case for date[time]s).
Inflation: Same Storm, Different Boats
Ultimately, this is the same problem as “is ‘04’ > 3”? That is to say, you can only properly compare two things of the same types, and you can either implicitly or explicitly cast.

The easiest option is that comparators should only work on the same data type, to avoid any ambiguity, leaving it up to the user to do explicit casting, and throwing errors if they don’t.

Of course, like integers and decimals, maybe it makes sense to have implicit casting, but it’s unintuitive to me if “‘2020-01-01’ > ‘2020-01-01 12:000’” should be cast to two dates, two timestamps, or two timestamptzs. Even if a language allows implicit casting, it’s probably an area where not doing it as a author is a smell.
That's just the standard formula.
I suppose you're not suggesting that people whose ambition to become business leaders is hindered by high rent turn to running criminal rings?
> multiple dispatch means you don't need to give your functions awful names (looking at you cgbtrf) and instead can just name them for what they do.

Fortran has ad-hoc polymorphism, and 63 characters maximum length for names. These should be enough to keep the user happy in this use case.

(The programmer still needs to write separate code for each version of input types.)
Influencers among Computer Scientists [dblp]
This is interesting, but not necessarily exciting.

What would happen if AI read a book such as 'Autobiography of a Yogi', how much would it struggle to interpret the experiences outlined in the book?

Could you just parse a million related papers and then pretend like the data set has an idea of consciousness?