skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> designing a human process around pathological cases leads to processes that are themselves pathological.

The Leetcode interview is surely one of these? Designed to catch out that guy who can't reverse a linked list, the kind of thing that pretty much never comes up as a real job requirement?
If you excuse piggybacking on your comment - this and other advice is super context/market dependent. Before you try following it try to talk to people in your market segment first to figure out how much it applies to your specific business.
I guess for a lot of jobs it's not actually that relevant who does it, as long as someone does.

In fact, as a freelance contractor, I have the legal right to send a replacement software developer if I'm not available. Of course I won't, because I know very well that in software development this is never going to work, but technically I'm a company with a contract to send someone to do the job, which means my responsibility is to send someone capable of doing it, not to do it myself. In practice of course it's always me, but contracts often specify explicitly that I could send a replacement, in order to make very clear to the tax service that I'm not an employee but a contractor.
The tyranny of the majority is not an anarchistic idea and yet is exactly what is being invoked when the argument is made that it's acceptable to ignore the concerns of a minority population because doing otherwise would be unfair to the majority.

I think this quote from Tocqueville explains it well: "So what is a majority taken as a whole, if not an individual who has opinions and, most often, interests contrary to another individual called the minority. Now, if you admit that an individual vested with omnipotence can abuse it against his adversaries, why would you not admit the same thing for the majority? Have men, by gathering together, changed character? By becoming stronger, have they become more patient in the face of obstacles?"

What matters is not how many supporters each side has but what the merits and demerits of each side are.
> There are so many ways to write R that can actually be very fast.

But it means that you have to work with arrays. For me it often means breaking the flow of my (code) explanation to migrate to other data structures. Sure it is then fast, but it gets less readable and harder to update.

Now, I'm a programmer at heart, so I think in the "functional" paradigm, not the array/signal one. There's some "impedance" I guess :-)
Well, depends on your interpretation of QM, and whether you consider measurement to come under the purview of QM. I like to keep measurement separate from QM, since we don't have an acceptable theory to explain it. We don't even agree on how to define measurement.

Parent comment saying "nature is inherently probabilistic" is false. At best, you can say "nature may be probabilistic". Saying "QM is perfectly deterministic" is fine because nature ≠ QM (although this is my opinion, maybe others disagree).
Interesting. But how would one test "know" about the next one, especially if they are in different compilation units.
Yeah Jurrasic Park, that's exactly how it felt for me too.
Note that generators are not designed to be used indoors, and are likely to lead to major health risks and even death if you do so. Not even in your garage.

Be careful out there!
It's a matter of sovereignty who you let in and under what conditions. There are some treaty specifics, but as far as Americans are involved, it's those treaties, and you're free to renegotiate them
Correct. However, Brazil's gasohol program was developed as a response to shortages produced by the 1973 oil crisis. Sugar cane is plentiful in Brazil, unlike Nebraska; it was not chosen for its carbon properties.
So, Koka?
If it isn’t such a big deal why doesn’t Canada just let them have a pass?
I'm saying that people in general are bad at filtering and ignoring bad content. I have no experience with corporations doing it - I don't have a Facebook account - but I certainly am not pleased with the way journalistic bodies filter for content. I package them separately from general "corporations" because supposedly that would be their specialty. Rather, all I see is agendas being peddled.
Dutch markets authority adds €5m to Apple’s dating app payment penalty
The storage of the backup medium should be in write-only mode. So, once written, they cannot be changed.

That will help.
I hate your font, but upvoted you to celebrate the diversity of human perception. :-D

I think it is wild that so many of us have these very strong, yet radically different, opinions.
Just because many privately owned apps are bad, does not mean the concept of apps is bad. If the government in theory can offer a "secure" open source channel for me to do my business with them without having to go there or pay for postage, why not use it?

And why do we still believe that paper docs are secure? Someone needs to look at them and can just as easily "lose" them, too.
Any more advice for picking a lawyer to someone who doesn't know anything about law? Also if you're bootstrapped how in the world can you afford them?
How would you identify similarity though when you know nothing about the encoding?
you might also enjoy swimlanes.io
You do have to use the command-line and there is a single hoop: the `--new-instance` flag. I agree the situation could be made "normal" user friendly and it isn't right now.
great wholesome story but i feel a bit creepy entering the life of these people like this.
Currently I see Mozilla as existing only to appear there is no monopoly.
I'm on Arch Linux.
There's a lot of fraud with the printed/pdf variants, so they are not accepted anymore. How an app prevents such things, I have no idea.
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Iowa has the first primary every year in the US[1]. Iowa produces more corn than any state[2] while being 32nd in population. Corn is very important to people in Iowa and as long as the first two facts remain the same, corn will continue to be highly subsidized and supported in other ways by the US government.

[1]https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2024-primary-sche...
[2]https://www.cropprophet.com/us-corn-production-by-state/
> If you want to find out more about the team’s work on the application of network analysis to the State Papers, see their articles Metadata, Surveillance, and the Tudor State, and A Tale of Two Snowdens: Dataveillance in History

That's the point apparently.
How does failscout solve that?
> Kill the subsidies and that whole industry slowly dies. That would be a good thing. Maybe repurpose the subsidies to have those farmers do something that actually is more productive and less harmful.

So once we've put all the farmers out of work and declared success, what do you suggest they do that is "more productive"? Should they lease their corn fields to crypto bros?
So Trudeau is a terrorist for terrorizing those who simply don’t want to get vaccinated.
sell it to insurers to bar people with genetic disorders and predispositions from acquiring
life, disability and long-term care insurance.

GINA prohibits discrimination on genotype by health insurance and employers, but those kinds of insurance are left in as loopholes.

(I support the California system, it helps a lot in medical research, I just want the loophole patched.)

source: https://archive.fo/SHfBT
Drat:

> To a first approximation, it is an implementation of the AWK language; many common Awk programs produce equivalent output when passed to frawk.

So it sounds like it's (intentionally) not a drop in replacement. That's probably reasonable in context but unfortunate in terms of making adoption harder.
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nimp
I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that right now, it just works. And when it doesn't and something else "just works" people will use that.
And watch you’ll see mandates dropping in states where midterm elections are coming up for folks, cuz the mandates are stupid and people pretend to like them to impress the other people pretending to like them, but nearly everyone just wants to leave clown world.
> Welcome to linguistics!

I've been trying to run away from bad computational linguistics for ten years after making a wrong turn in college. Wish I'd stuck to CxG!

Sometimes I actually think people post these kinds of articles here to ruin my mornings. Did you see the one on the Voynich manuscript where they'd decided it was in Hebrew and done a bunch of maths to it and then, when the person they asked who actually knew Hebrew said "this doesn't make sense", they'd put it into Google Translate and accepted the spell checker's suggestion and then put that as the conclusion of their paper? Fun times.
The language that was originally created for one-line scripts in the browser.
The Overview page has plenty of details explaining the differences and why they exist: https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk/blob/master/info/overview....
> Also, it's possible to make college/university admissions very much anti-discriminatory simply by making them exam-based, and preventing those who check the exams from knowging who did the exam. This is how the system should work.

Think about that a bit more, and look at countries that do that and what their higher education system looks like. Consider for example Mexico what percentage of students by ethnicity get into UNAM, what the exams look like, where the exams are offered and where the exam preparation schools are, how much the prep schools cost, if there are ways around it that favour certain groups. Many countries do this, do they have a better or fairer representative sample of students in their higher education, or just students who have been competently trained to pass an exam? An exam is one potential way in which students can shine, but it's unlikely that the person ranked at position 1 is Pareto dominating the person at position 2 on literally every axis.
It's heartening to hear how remote work is helping to even out global wealth inequality.
How many issue that was raised in here that was solved like in day or two? seriously even twitter and reddit has this power.
It's kinda hard to kill those subsidies when farmers have been used to them for 50 years, and it's a big political sticking point. The USDA exists to create more export crops. For the US, this might challenge that. That's also why the FDA can never rule that sugar or HFCS is harmful, it's a major American product, and that would be admitting that it's faulty.
> I don’t have the answers but suspect privacy and security may be the angle to take.

They are close to being best here.

Fix extensions is on top of my personal list.

But so far you get moderated (edit: for advocacy even, what an irony given the title of this post!) if you try to remind them about the parts they broke a few years ago, see all the hidden comments at the bottom of this bug for an example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447

Personally I am moving to LibreWolf these days (Firefox with minor fixes). LibreWolf can halfway expect to see donations this spring. If they also fix the extension API it will become a "must have" product for me.
How would a statically typed language be a drop-in for something that isn't?
Add 4740180 to the list of silly magic numbers
We might consider doing that if we see a big demand but currently the economics of adding those languages doesn’t add up for us.
Yes, this is pretty high as far as tax is concerned, and unlikely to get introduced soon. However, it's still less than 50 cents a gallon. My point is that it's highly unlikely that "couple of dollars per gallon" is "a reasonable carbon tax", because carbon tax so high will be greatly exceeding the actual cost of CO2 emissions. "Couple of dollars per gallon" means at least $2/gallon, so $220/tonne CO2. That's enough to cover direct air capture of CO2, which is hardly the most cost-effective way of carbon capture.
Brave is led by Brendan Eich, you know who.
Those numbers seem so much saner than the US.
Or... and I'm just spitballing here... perhaps switch to more productive crops? I would hope that no one believes we need fewer farmers here in the U.S. (we need more, IMO), but don't incentivize them to produce more of a given type of crop than actually makes sense.
> Just to add, back then Firefox had an army of advocates installing Firefox on their family’s and friends computers, basically making them use it. Google co-opted the same arm just four years later with similar marketing to get everyone installing Chrome on their family’s and friends computers.

> They need to find a way to get that to happen again. I don’t have the answers but suspect privacy and security may be the angle to take.

This worked because, at the time, Firefox was genuinely, and more importantly, visibly better. You can't honestly say that about Firefox nowadays, and after Mozilla's management laid off tons of their engineering talent, there's been no plausible path for them to get there.
To paraphrase my brilliant cofounder, mentor and tough sparring partner:

"The biggest lie you techies tell to yourselves is 'Build it and they will come'. Nope. Nobody ever comes by. I've beaten competitors with the better product again and again. Know why? Because marketing builds growth, growth builds revenue and revenue enables hiring brilliant people to fix your product, all the while the brilliant product people are still waiting for customers."

Let's say I've have been having kicked my ass more than I can count on some beliefs I've had, but I yet have to regret working with him.
I mean, search by state would also pull up results in Buffalo, which would be hilariously far.
The lottery that had a positive expected value
But isn't accessing bookmarks exactly the same in Chrome(ium)?

Firefox: 1. Hamburger menu > 2. Bookmarks > 3. Manage bookmarks
Chrome(ium): 1. Three-dot menu > 2. Bookmarks > 3. Bookmark manager

In both cases you get a list of bookmarks on step 2 and you get a full, searchable, editable view in step 3. The global shortcut for the third step is the same in both (ctrl + shift + o).
Can you answer this question: In the case of business failure, will customers lose their existing 20 years they paid for and have to pay the new management company all over again?
> Actually you were the one using the fallacy. Because you are attempting to demand an exact cutoff point, which is not necessary. The law does not need to define exact cutoff points ahead of time.

Again this is incorrect. I have not “demanded an exact cutoff point” at any time.

> Instead, the law can consider those questions, as they come, in a court case/trial.

So in other words you’re making a claim and then your defense of that claim is “the law will decide in a court case”. Ok… lol.
It's iOS only.
What do you mean by that? Adding “script” variant only for language-specific keywords? I think we could consider doing this… the tricky part is to know what language you’re using so it looks like different ligatures depending on the language.
> I don’t want to engage, lest I get sucked in. :-)

Was about to suggest this
> Not everybody know the theory behind each PCA's formulation...

It's a language meant for a specific domain. Expecting domain knowledge in said domain is not a failing - it's logical.
i always thought that ethanol from corn is just a primer, just to jump start the ethanol usage in ICE while the efficient production tech - like ethanol/methanol
from biomass - bamboo grows really fast - gets developed. We didn't get that tech and instead got EVs. Not bad. For the synthetic fuel which will still be needed by the hard-to-electrify industries like for example aviation - SpaceX anyway will have to develop an efficient way to produce synthetic methane, so that will come in time.
Technologically it very well might have been possible far, far earlier. The computer in Shuttle are very complex, more complex then what is needed for a simple Falcon 9 70s style.

NASA shackeled itself to Shuttle, a expensive failure of a project and from them on the basically didn't develop anything new for 3 decades.

The millitary if anything is where such thinking should have been happening. The went threw many iterations of rockets.

A few reasons why they never managed to go reusable. Reliance on solid boosters, once you have them reusability is not really practical.

The millitary also simply doesnt care much about cost. What they care about is reliability above all else.

And you would be suprised how much engineers buy into constraints. The reality is that after a while the status quo of the industry you work on is simply an assumed constraint. Nobody asked engineers the question 'how do you get 100 tons to orbit per week' or whatever.

As Musk puts it, the most difficult part is asking the right question. Nothing is as harmful as smart engineers spending lots of money and time answering the wrong question.
I've had a very positive experience with Keycloak and given its low barrier to deploy I don't really get why Auth as a service exists. I've seen more install/setup magic invoked just getting vscode configured. (slightly tongue in cheek).

Mind you, data residence and provenance may be more important in the use cases/applications I'm familiar with.

Then again, it is good to see a healthy standards based Authn/z ecosystem - good luck to all.

EDIT:
After reviewing the site closer I'm not seeing anything about standards compliance.
I got punishment for messing about in class and was instructed to"write lines"...

Something along the lines of "I must learn to behave in class and listen to my teacher" 100 times...

I asked if I could type the lines rather than hand-write...

4 lines of BASIC later.
Hm, I think there might be a few factors at play here.
First of all, the piece of string just seems to work more than good enough. Why bother with something that'd add manufacturing and design cost, be harder to repair and is less adjustable to the pilots/clubs needs(/opinions), when what we're currently doing is fine and costs literal cents?

Also, I'm not sure that it'd be even possible to do that much better. You need something light, flexible and visible. Almost sounds like the definition of a red piece of string. And then you need to attach it somewhere useful (where you can see it, ideally without looking at your instruments etc), which in most cases would be the canopy. And then you need to somehow affix it. The piece of tape holds well enough during flight, and anything more permanent could be annoying during maintenance etc or might attack the material of the canopy.

Changing up the design might also be annoying at the least, since you'd have to relearn a bit.

In the end, there's just not much wrong with the string. I works, it works well, and changing it is just not worth it.
We are looking into this and might provide a solution soon.
Now let's expand it beyond dating apps, and make the penalties escalate till apple no longer has a monopoly on app store payments.
Recently I found my regular news sources became a bit tendentious. The news I remember from 15+ years ago were merely facts told austerely with ostentation, leaving much of the conclusions to the audience. I found something similar on https://worldview.stratfor.com/. Pure facts and analyses, relatively free from political perspectives.
All valid complaints. Regarding the first one, redefining structs, you can wrap them inside modules and reload the module. It's not as ergonomic since you will need to qualify the structs with the module name.
Until your startup is a full on company with multiple hires, consultancy work is revenue and can be a source of other business ideas that you might hire people for and make into another reliable revenue stream.

I know a handful of people who started with creating websites, then took some consultancy work and now have an entire different software company. They used those two things as a bootstrap to get going with opportunities that presented.
> We can break codes by cryptography

Modern cryptography is really good. Without quantum computers, it's unlikely a 16384-bit RSA key will be broken in your lifetime by a motivated actor.
Although I agree it's not better, it's also not worse. So there's a case to use the web browser that will improve your safety and privacy.
He didnt brag, he answered a question about what their goal was. This is simple editorializing.

He didn't say 'We are awesome its so cheap'. He was asked to project and explain what they were working towards and did so.
Do you think your tax evasion options are similar to those of the wealthiest man in the world?

I certainly hope your morals aren't similar. He has a long track record of daring regulators to come after him.
I was talking about bash scripts. But outperforming C with Julia is perfectly possible. Julia JIT compilation means you can remove overhead of a lot of function calls which C cannot do. A simple example would be sort taking a function pointer doing object comparison.

High level functional style code with things like map and filter can frequently be JIT compiled to optimal machine code.

Fortran is considered faster for numerical code than C and well polished Fortran libraries like BLAS is already getting outperformed by Julia.

For typical systems programming with need to tight control of memory and real time system C will still have the edge. But for anything crunching lots of numbers like data analysis or machine learning Julia will likely outperform everybody else.
We are aware of some windows related issues on non-hidpi displays. It’s the price to pay for less geometric shape of glyphs unfortunately.
I remember that!

Shortly after they had two extension competitions with large prizes.

Some fantastic extensions was created and bootstraped the extension ecosystem.

At its peak even what later became the ubiquitous developer tools across all modern browsers was just an extension to Firefox (Firebug).
Node.js trademarks move to OpenJS Foundation
earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469233 with link to source code
No problem, glad it was helpful!
Non peer-reviewed preprint from August 2021.

Meanwhile we have the CDC showing that:

- previous COVID exposure + no vaccination is 3x smaller incidence than vaccination without covid exposure

BUT

- previous COVID exposure + vaccination is 2x smaller incidence than without vaccination

arguing that "I got exposed to Covid so the vaccine is not useful for me" is factually incorrect. I had not been clear enough in my objection. So protesting vax mandates have even one less leg to stand on.

(at least here:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...).
NYC 90s republicans would be proud of this extreme broken windows policy. Interestingly the murder rate in Japan is down 90% from the USA murder rate, while the GINI coefficient is 30 and 41 respectively.

There are many other factors that can account for a crime increase of course, but I wonder if this kind of policing is helping to keep crime down. And I wonder if Japanase think so and support these policies.
It's better in terms of configurability. It's going to become even better when Manifest V3 comes around because ad blockers on Chrome will no longer be as effective.