skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please think through this particular scenario:

> A criminal deposits some eth and get some weth. You receive weth by some other means, and turn that in to get some eth. Did you get the criminal's eth? Or did you get the eth of one of the upstanding citizens using the contract?

There's no definite answer to that question. I really can't explain it any better than that, so please give that scenario some thought. If, in the process, you come up with technical questions about exactly how the contract works, I can answer them.
Were they any better at finding edge cases or was their non-nitpicking feedback particularly insightful?
> By your definition it seems literally everything is a "waste of resources"

Most activities use resources.

Many produce value and are not a waste of resources.
Because it works. Nobody wants to risk a big budget to create something new from scratch with the risk that it will not work.
> In other words, Covid deaths are getting underreported.

This may be true, but excess deaths aren't necessarily covid deaths.

We turned our society upside down for more than a year. Lots of other things might have been affected by that. You need to account for increases in suicides, pedestrian fatalities, untreated medical conditions and many other possible causes before you can confidently show underreporting.

(Not that I know that any one of those stats did go up, but I don't know that they didn't either.)
Exactly, the new Google
Docs is a great example of how it can can be done, but only by a company with the resources they have.

I have wandered if the solution is to use WASM to take a desktop rich text editor and make it available in the browser within a Canvas element.
This is not really discussed (for somewhat obvious reasons), but economic decline is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality, not an increase.
> use-case or potential use-cases where you need SSO in an early-stage startup

In general, keeping track of >1 passwords means giving everyone a password manager and also means you can't integrate with the rest of your endpoint security stuff (like if you use Azure AD, it can check if you are coming from a corporate-owned device and give you different privileges or let you bypass 2FA). There are more creative ways to get people to move to a higher tier rather than locking a essential feature up there. As it is, I can pay for your highest plan or just use PowerApps/Google's equivalent.
Perl was the tool for the job at the time no doubt. But the streaming pattern still applies no matter what language you use and really should be emphasized.

(I worked in bio as we were moving away from Perl)
The demographics that buy cars that are high on the performance per dollar spectrum are the same demographics who are going to think twice before or at least delay spending money to fix cosmetic body issues.
It's a pressure cooked consomme. It probably didn't taste great after packaging but there shouldn't be any microbes living in it after cooking and there's not much left to spoil/go rancid after filtering with the egg white
Generally, pedestrians have right of way, is what I was taught in the USA.
"I'm okay with this"

I pulled this out of your post because it's something I think about a lot of the individual changes. Individually, they generally make sense.

It's just that the sum total of all the individual sensible things is a large mess, getting larger every release.

I first used Python in the 20th century, and have clocked many thousands of hours with it overall. Now I mostly program in Go. (Actually, even after ~7 years part-time professional with Go, I'm not sure which I've used more yet! I may still technically have more time with Python. If I do, though, I'm close to the crossover.) Occasionally, I miss iterators, and with Go getting generics it's probably my #1 ask in Go. Other than that, though... I just can't help but notice that I don't actually miss that many features of Python very often. I miss Haskell features, I sometimes miss Rust features, every once in a while I'll miss something more exotic like an Erlang feature, but I almost never think "gee, I really miss this Python feature". It isn't that I can't see where I'd use them if they exist, I just don't sit there pining for them all the time. I consider this a big data point. I should also point out I'm talking about subconscious inclinations, it's not like I'm setting out and daily disciplining myself to not miss Python features. It's just a thing that happens or doesn't. YMMV. I'm probably more often grateful for a missing Python feature than I'm missing it (e.g., it's actually kinda nice after a certain scale to know what "x.y" does, rather than have to go resolving down an arbitrarily-complicated chain of classes, inheritance, method overrides, etc.).
Part of that is saying "this has been tried several times and it has failed". As in, you shouldn't try this unless you know why it failed before and why it will be different this time. That isn't on someone else to figure out for you, unless you want to task them with figuring it out for you I guess.

Honestly, if I worked for someone who got angry and called someone a moron immediately for questioning their new strategy I'd be looking for another job. Nothing is worth dealing with that kind of person.
That is a twisted mindset. Sure FB is responsible for the working conditions of its contractors.
I have! I even regularly contribute to a popular alignment application! Regardless, you’re absolutely correct and I should’ve chosen my words more carefully. Especially about the relationship to information theory. I meant “regular expressions, LL, LR, LALR, etc.”
Better explained has some great articles that are definitely worth checking out.

RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Betterexplained
> whatever your position is, you want all information to be free and for people to exercise their judgement. Reason will prevail.

Sounds like a simple solution, but I don’t know of any country that has 100% access to all information, so I don’t think anyone has been able to test your theory throughout history.

I’d argue that a large minority of people are highly persuadable and not near the unbiased, logical arbiters required to have an ideal outcome when presented with information. You can see this in the misinterpretation of valid information and the consumption and retention of misinformation. So, 1) I don’t think the human condition is as ideal as you describe where reason always prevails.

Also, most people agree that some content is too dangerous to disseminate, like content that can be used to create great harm or destruction. Like, blueprints for WMDs, or maybe content about how to breach security at a nuclear facility, or how to hack power plants, etc. So 2) there’s a line somewhere about what content is safe for the general public to consume but I don’t know any country or person that thinks it’s at 100%. So now the question becomes not if we should draw a line at all, but where to draw the line on what content is beneficial to the public.
Organizations with very deep pockets have pursued copyright cases against Google. Mostly unsuccessfully because Google's pockets are deeper and litigation is expensive.
Sub-Post Offices are basically franchises, and these are the ones affected by the IT disaster. Branches owned directly by Post Office Ltd. are referred to as Crown Post Offices.
It won't be named license mind you. For cycling mandatory insurance will be probably implemented very soon. For walking? I believe it will be a very long time until some license is needed. One idea I can think of is that maybe the government issued ID will be actually a tracker/payment/smartphone thingy.
But ... under "Licenses" in the footer it says:

"There are some things you can't do:

-You can’t use our products to create Templates, UI Kits, Dashboards, Themes and Plugins that are distributed on your website or other marketplaces and they do direct competition to us.

-You can’t deliver our source code to the general public through Open Source Projects without our written consent.

-You can’t use our products to create website/app generators.

-You can’t redistribute or resell our products source files as they are."

It's a bit confusing.
> I'd absolutely love to do that but there are only 2 or 3 monitors available on the market right now (...)

Or, you know, just use good bitmap fonts on whatever monitor you have. Bitmap fonts look crisp on any low-resolution monitor.
I graduated in 2018 from a state school in the USA.

No helping other students on assignments.

All exams are: closed book(this means no notes or textbooks with you during the exam) and done with a pencil and a BLANK white sheet of paper. I still managed a 3.75 CS GPA, but we were literally writing syntactically correct C and C++ on blank paper. Why oh why?

Early on before I had learned C++ well, I would get marked off something to the tune of -30 for missing a curly brace.

No one will miss that IRL when the IDE shows you the visual prompt that it's not there, OR you waste maybe a minute of your life if you forgot it when using VIM... -30 man oh man.
Guys building RC submarines are managing 300m with working camera feed over HomePlug.
Per a given unit of land, building up obviously has tons more living space than a single family home.
I figured that industry would use Clip Studio Paint EX?
Hold on. They arbitrarily pick a model and decide that all data that goes against the model is fake. This is pure garbage.
Divorcing Couples Fight over the Kids, the House and Now the Crypto
Honestly with me atleast in tech, not have to have physical connect and socially distance is wonderful!! Seriously people don't realize some of us see physical handshaking, fistbumping, whatever else they come up with is actually just a minor form of assault (Where you get to grab someone and slightly impose your will on them). I would not mind seeing physically greetings going away altogether.
Unity's dialect of C# is not really the same as .NET's C#. Even though they've made strides to keep their version of C# up to date, the way of doing most things is not the .NET way.

Unity has it's own dependency management, project system, runtime, idea of threading/parallelism, concurrency, networking etc.

Usually when one gets involved in some language ecosystem, the language is the small part, getting to know the libraries, and the idiomatic way of getting things done tends to be the emphasis. Here the ecosystems (Unity's and .NET's ) tend to be quite different.
edit- too close to battle lines, apologies and peace be with you today
Systray Hints: Controlling the system tray from the keyboard in AwesomeWM
And a bunch of sensors. Things like GPS, accelerator, microphone, camera, are pretty much standard even on inexpensive smartphones going back half a decade.
>including to avoid “drive-through” neighbourhoods without having to make the neighbourhood entirely impassable and a pain in the ass to residents.

I suspect that Google Maps and the like have worsened the level of driving through residential neighborhoods as they route you through a maze of residential streets to save (in theory) two minutes.
Dollars are not fungible, the problem is not that they are logged its that the potential exists at all.
I think some degree of "weeding out" is required. Just because you got into Fancy University College it doesn't mean you are automatically great at all academic endeavors. If you sail through Math 101 and 102, and run into a brick wall in Math 202, maybe you aren't as great at math as you think you are. Or maybe you need to work harder.

We tend to think of higher education as some sort of inalienable right to all peoples across the world, but it just isn't. Everybody has a ceiling. Higher education, and especially elite universities, should be for those whose ceiling is higher than the average bear.

That said, until you get into the later years of higher education, "weeding out" doesn't have hard and fast boundaries. Atypical thinkers may have a blind spot that needs a different teaching method, or possibly "departmental policy" is just garbage ideas ossified into departmental culture. It's always worth revisiting those Chesterton Fences to see if they need to be altered or moved, or even torn down.
I've definitely been surprised by the sentiment here lately that iOS devices are more secure. I don't know enough about iOS to evaluate that claim, but my impression of phone security is to basically assume it's been unlocked by someone even if most apps are successful sandboxed
Get there earlier and relax in the AC? Bring a change of clothes and a stick of deodorant? Cool off with water and baby wipes in the bathroom? Deal with being sweaty and smelly.

Whether that is worth it or not to you is up to you to decide. But you've just found another excuse for driving when walking is possible (not possible for everyone, but possible for some).
pre-apologize if you are looking to move beyond your past and I completely understand/please disregard my suggestion if that is the case... but tbh you sound like an ideal candidate to market _you_ as a brand. I'd keep doing bb and contact the platforms you are working on with your story. bb seems to be all about telling the story of how they can help people move out of doing things illegally and still make great money.

There are also a lot of podcasts/etc that would be happy to have you tell your story. Huge upside to that IMO with reach and sharing to help keep future people out of trouble.
I recall some older android devices with replaceable batteries did. If your battery was almost dead, you could plug it into a charger and swap out the battery for a fresh one.
Open book != google.

Most my CS exams in college were open notes / open book, but Google was banned.

> The purpose of such exams is not to test your memorization of the subject, but how well you understand it. The questions are more challenging, and are explicitly designed to see if you can take the information in front of you and synthesize or interpret it.

The obvious difference is the existence of Stack Overflow. Synthesizing a correct answer from my hand written notes is a proof of understanding. Being able to google a question and having the answer produced for you is absolutely not a proof of understanding.

Its the difference between letting a math student have a formula sheet, so the don't need to memorize all the different formulas they need to apply, and giving them access to wolfram alpha. The later makes the exam an exercise in copy / paste.
I think it's just broken in some cases for whatever reason. Like 9 months ago I mentioned trying out Tik Tok for some weeks and despite lots of "not interested", likes etc, I got swamped by 99% garbage, including videos I specifically said I don't want to see.
Big differences between xhtml and js-strict are:

- strict mode is a much more local opt-in, it’s difficult to opt others into strict mode, and thus the likelihood of respecting strict mode is high

- js is much less subject to embeddings, with xhtml even back then there was a long tail of CMS type content which would suddenly break the page hard and with no actionable recourse for the viewer

- finally strict mode came with a bunch of benefits e.g. new syntax / constructs, etc, for the person opting into strict mode, but unless you were an XML-head with an entire XML-based processing pipeline, what did XHTML give you? Additional pain when authoring content is about all.
Owning equities (through index funds) is one of the best ways to always beat inflation. They are the part of the economy that appreciates because of future returns, in future money, not past dollar amounts.

That said, most of current CPI "inflation" is not economy wide price increases, but comes from 1) car prices, because car manufacturers massively messed up and production is way down for the past two years, and 2) energy, which is from several global market issues. There's also housing, which is not in CPI, but that's also easily attributable to underproduction of housing since 2008 (and probably even for decades before that, honesty).

We are actually in incredibly good economic times, especially considering the massive destruction that the pandemic has wrought, and in the US, the lowered number of workers due to years of reducing immigration. I am glad people are not overly exuberant, but I with they were focused on the things that mattered more.
GiveSendGo Hacked as Names of Freedom Convoy Donors Apparently Leaked
I think I have to disagree with this one. I agree programming is cyclical.

But I don’t think we will get rid of CDN’s. I don’t see js going anywhere and with that, I think package managers and bundlers are here with it. I can’t see people going back to vanilla js (even if someone made a more modern jquery alt).

Why do you think start ups would go back to writing their own deps if the ecosystem is mature and said dependency wasn’t part of the core business?
This seems an irrational decision, as tech first companies also use c#, and you are ruling them out because of a general trend.
I agree and it amazes me. We are implicitly asking students who want to learn something outside of their area of focus to do so at a community college or for "no credit". Rather than risk their GPA on a course where the philosophy might be "it was hard for me so I'm going to make it hard for them".

The first day of my math undergraduate, in a lecture theater of probably 300 students, the professor said confidently and with joy rather than remorse.

"look at the person to your left now your right. They will fail out of this program."
What a uptight, insular and silly comment. When the American West opened up due to railroads, gold mining and cheap/free land. Guess who some of the first people to really commercialize it and make it viable for all future growth were? Get rich quick shills, wannabes, hustlers and desperate people looking for a new frontier for wealth.

It's not a pretty thing, but it's how interesting frontier territories grow and later mature into something better, be they digital or physical... The early commercial internet was also full of hucksters, shills, hustlers and so forth. What happens next is anyone's clear guess, but if you really want your precious crypto bubble to turn into something useful for the world, you might want to reconsider your notions..

What good is crypto if it stays limited to a narrow circle of naval gazers?
It's not just hillbilly preachers though is it? It's popularly elected state governments, roared on by media empires with massive audiences, passing new legislation which causes certain books to be pulled from school libraries by teachers fearful of ending up in court. (I do agree that the groups pushing for such outcomes do so in the guise as the scrappy underdog, but they definitely aren't "the left")

Arguments that this stuff is somehow inconsequential compared with the reckless horror of a media company editing the back catalogue of its highest paid public face don't come across as sincere defences of free speech.
I never would have guessed people would spend much time with teachers/professors outside of class. If I had to schedule more than 1 or 2 sessions I'd drop the class; clearly I'm missing something and may need to retake prerequisites instead of wasting time failing.
Much easier? most work I do is black and white.
Some problems should be given without solutions, because it will help a student identify when their use of solutions is becoming a crutch to help them solve problems. But as you point out, some problems need to come with solutions so a student can check their work. I assume this is a reason why so many textbooks have answers for every other question instead of answers for no questions or all questions.

With technology we can improve this by having an answer that is available only after the problem has been attempted, but the online answer checkers seem to introduce a host of other problems that make it unclear if there is any net advantage.
>Pythons massive advantage and the reason it’s so successful is it’s simplicity.

Yet, if you use it more than few years, you see how it's just a disguise.

Underneath superficial simplicity there's ton of leaking abstractions, semantics which designers designed themself into the corner, and gigantic C API that blocks any performance improvements.
It's sort of interesting (it actually doesn't seem to be very good, with an R2 of 0.4 and 80% sensitivity at the high end), but I can pretty much guarantee from the comments here that people have no idea what it actually says. Just look at the sibling comments here -- most are about whether or not countries are under-reporting deaths.

This is just more fuel for the eternal debate about Covid being bad.
ummm, a lot of it depends on scheduling conflicts. not that simple.
Not OP but I remember watching a movie "Who killed the electric car?" in highschool. It's about the EV1, an electric car by GM in the 90s. It had a range of 70-100 miles. If I remember correctly the movie kind of insinuates that the oil lobby ultimately prevented the model from releasing/selling well. So just based on that, the knowledge that electric cars are a viable substitute for a lot (in Europe I'd say most) of use cases has been quite readily available.

But that's the problem in OP's reasoning. Simply knowing that electric cars will dominate in the future is pretty worthless as investment advice. Especially when we are talking about tesla, which's stock price is entirely decoupled from any fundamental values. Today, I actually think that becoming one of many car makers is the best-case scenario tesla can hope for. It was always the question whether they can get enough of a head start in self-driving and battery tech BEFORE traditional car makers start making EVs. Those have decades of a head-start in every other aspect of car making. And to me it seems that most of them fully committed to EVs in the last 1-2 years. So will Tesla's advantage in battery tech buy them enough time to make cars that are as safe and reliable as traditional cars?

Also: I really don't know much about cars, so I might be wrong about pretty much everything I just said :) But it shows nicely that you can find logically sound arguments about future developments which are worth absolutely nothing on the stock market. Just look at the stock market since the beginning of Covid.
Whether it's a government or private company has no bearing on whether it's censorship. It has bearing on whether the censorship is illegal.

In other words, private companies are allowed to censor but that doesn't magically make it something other than censorship.
I like this. I'd like it a ton if I had a single feed that would aggregate my texts, whatsapp, my various email addresses, telegram, signal, skype, zoom, facebook messenger ...
You don't need to convince someone who already doesn't believe what they're saying. The overwhelming majority of people are not psy-ops operators or 4chan trolls.

If someone invents new idiotic positions when they are proven wrong, they look like an idiot, and even dumber-than-average people can tell. If those people believe, rightly, that their side is not being given a fair fight, they may not be inclined to update. And they will be inclined to move to a community where the truth is not given a fair fight.

>"The solution to bad speech is more speech" is a nice slogan, but it doesn't really make logical sense. The solution to confusion isn't more confusion. The solution to lying isn't more lying.

The solution to confusion is clarity. The solution to lying is telling the truth. The solution to bad speech is good speech. There's not a fundamental logic error there. If I'm wrong, it's on the object level.

There is logical error in using speech to say that more speech won't advance your objectives. If you don't think that speech can do good, why would you waste your time participating in it?
Your comment makes no sense but I take it you are trying to make some analogy between covid lockdowns and the killing of 11+ million people by the Nazis?

e: and now I get downvoted by people who didn't even see the original comment :)