skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a simple one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/se7t5p/i_saw_the_t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/secvqz/i_stood_...

A subreddit with 480K users manages to upvote the topic 1.3K times with 78% up ratio. A subreddit with 1.7 million users upvotes a similarly themed topic (expressing a different opinion) only to get it 555 points with 91% up ratio. Ten times the difference in engagement.

This is the norm. Reddit bans the fuck out of people with opinions that don't align with the hivemind. You can search HN for "reddit banned" and see a limitless supply of stories. At one point they deleted two thousand subreddits in one go.

I'm not going into certain topics magically not appearing anywhere on Reddit, because it would require a significantly more detailed examples, but it's a thing as well. It is the Truman Show for public opinion.
I'm glad that Microsoft agrees with Linus on: "Don't break userspace"

The Apple way might have been to take away those old Config Panels with no replacement for years, or ever. Or breaking third-party File Explorer extensions and forcing devs to rewrite them.
Those horror stories are mostly propaganda amplified in echo chambers of people who have never been to Dubai.

Take this "slavery" nonsense for example. There is literally no difference between migration regime of a low-skilled worker and a highly-paid "expat". Rules are the same and they are way softer than, for example, H1B.

Millions used to be spent on smearing Dubai, so we will be hearing echoes of those "horror stories" for many years.

Other horror stories, which are not propaganda, are coming from cultural deafness. A Brit gets drunk, engages in sex on a public beach and then cries about "savage laws" when gets arrested.
When in Rome, do like Romans, but some people think their view is better than anyone else's. I've seen Brits who think British laws should apply to them wherever they go.
When Edgar Sengier amassed Shinkolobwe Uranium prior to the Manhattan project, was the sensitivity less because the bomb did not yet exist?
I use real ethernet cable for database things every day, no question; many people are accustomed to an HDMI setup at their desk, with a carry-home laptop, right?
No Man’s Sky will continue seeing updates for the foreseeable future
Thanks for the link, much appreciated
Compilers are why we can write in C++ instead of assembly. The related fields of interpreters and language runtimes are why we can write in Python.

The optimising part makes languages that are faster to develop in run fast enough that they can actually be used to build useful things.

Bugs introduced in that stack are horrendous to run down, easy to introduce and broad in fallout.

Rather a lot of our modern tech world is built on compilers. It's a great example of where compromising on engineering capability scatters costs and breakage all the way through the system.
Every software engineer should learn UI design
Sure, why not. I'd rather be eternal post-doc than eternal "individual contributor" at some ad company (although the latter sure pays more).

And I'd rather be eternal post-doc, than time-limited post-doc and suddenly 40 years old and having to find a new career.
By that logic, we need to ban peer to peer file sharing, encryption, and the internet at large since they are also platforms that allow for crime and pyramid schemes.
I don't think that GLONASS, at least the military-grade stuff, can be hacked or spoofed, but since radio frequencies are well-known any adversary can just pump enough noise to make the system unusable. This vulnerability is not limited to GLONASS - any satellite positioning system is vulnerable to "pump too much noise and it's unreadable without space-grade stationary equipment", which is already demonstrated by Iran versus satellite television and radio.
Chris Bishop and others were working on this with neural nets for the Tokamak at Harwell back in the 1980s which illustrates just how difficult this problem is.
Aye, and that sucks, but (1) he did his thing before the Data Protection Act 1998 let alone GDPR, and (2) violations of medical consent are different from and (IMO as a generalisation) much more serious than violations of data processing consent. Not sure what laws he might have violated, though I think he would be breaking one if he calls himself “doctor” at this point?
Indeed, I purposefully compare 'free market people' with Communists, both live in an imaginary world where human relationships are mechanistic like APIs.

In their world everything is perfectly rational, there is no such thing as imbalance of power, market leverage, collusion between competitors, etc. In modern concience people clearly understand how an all-powerfull state can turn tyranical, but when an all-powerfull company turns tyranical it's always a surprise!

So you will get "let free market do it's thing without government interference, remove safeguards, guardrails and regulation." Then free market finds that the best way to make money is to form cartels or illegally abuse people who can't afford a layer, or to sell digital eyeballs and organs that require a subscribtion to work and it's a surprised picachu face all over again

For some reason these people are madly in love with a system that is basically just natural selection / evolution. They go around saying how planning is pointless because you can't be wiser than evolution is anyway. They seem to forget that evolution had 6 mass extinctions and that 99.9% of all specieces have gone extinct.
Visualizing Consumerism
A visual exploration of our obscene consumerist culture
Windows excels at development if you're using Microsoft tech. Virtually all other tech stacks are at a disadvantage on Windows. WSL and WSL2 were created largely to address this gap.
I don't understand how this is profitable? I'd read that many coal plants were being kept running purely because the grid owners were allowed to charge on a cost plus basis, and closing coal would save consumers billions. So how can these plants be cheaper than solar and wind?

Is this somehow a dodge of carbon fees or regulations because it's not going to the grid?
From my perspective and direct experience, it’s widespread porn use, which has extremely detrimental effects on your dopamine system, which leads to something you might term ‘lack of charisma, confidence and vital energy’, which leads to less people having sex due to confidence/charisma issues and lack of any drive.

By my experience and observation, porn is really bad for oneself, and it’s really addicting. I’m a millennial male, and at some point, all four of us in my friend group realized and mentioned we are addicted to porn.

I still have addiction issues, but I’ve managed to reduce my use on average to once every 2-4 weeks from 4-5+ times a week, and the benefits to my entire life and being have been immense immense immense.
Which is all about what they look like, really you're being pedantic beyond irritation.
It definitely does not work that way for me. No matter which role I am, a lot more effort goes into following what other person does then when I do it by myself. This is like saying that two people hugging while each is using just one leg are faster, because they have to focus only on one leg while walking.
First of all, that's the UK.

Secondly, there is a lot of hand waving on that page. The bottom line is that if I take a picture of you in a public space like a park and publish it without a misleading caption on my blog, you have no real recourse (although the reality is that if it was just there for no particular purpose and you asked me to take it down after the fact I probably would).
You can run Linux at my company if you want, there are probably two dozen or so engineers who do so, out of a few hundred. I'm still a fan of my mac personally, although i run plenty of Linux servers.

I know that it's not at all unusual for people to run Linux at Google where it has a lot of internal support, and i think there's a fair amount of adoption at Facebook
Fullmoon – Redbean-based Lua web framework deployed as single file
If you want apps you still have to sign in with your apple id though.
And why can't an arbitrary set of genetic and cultural traits have a name? Everything else in this universe can be broken down to an arbitrary set of something. Why for e.g. call somebody an American when it's only a person living withing arbitrary lines on map?
It's interesting how many of these are geologically or geographically presumptive, or will be immediately obvious to people in certain areas.

I was able to answer all but ~5 questions because I'm a pretty simple area and I think most people would be able to answer most.

Does that mean I'm attune to nature or environmentally aware? Not at all. I would say much less so than the average person in the world since I almost never have to consider nature at all here.
We've gained information and further confirmation of this specific issue.

The underlying patterns which precipitated that thread continue.
See here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/flower-powered-bitcoin-miner-...
Is that why you think they are called greenhouse gasses? OMG
WSL is fine, but it's lack of IPv6 is sort of a show-stopper for sysadmin work. If you're only using it for the coreutils then more power to you, but I still think I'd end up reaching for the trusty Arch Thinkpad when work needs to get done. To each their own, though.
You’ve got a point, which is that kickass compiler people often love PL so much that they’ll do it at a deep discount.

I’ve found this on average to more true of “niche” languages: Julia, Haskell, etc.

C++ compiler people much less often fuck around on their comp.

In my experience.
Oh, they have ways of combating that. Like gerrymandering, closing voting centers, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years they pass laws to take us back to only letting land-owning citizens vote. Anything to keep themselves in power.
Had to switch to reader view. “X” was invisible.
> Write down what you eat for a while and its calories. Weigh yourself daily as well and write that down too. If after a week your weight went up: Your calories are above your TDEE. If it went down: Your calories are under your TDEE.

Not necessarily. It is important to remember that water weighs ~1lb/pt and there are a lot of things that affect how much water your body is carrying at any given moment. Depending on your body mass, it is not unrealistic to see 5lbs of fluctuation in a single day. On a calorie restricted diet your body will tend to retain water (because it does this for pretty much any stressor), so you may actually see a slight increase in body weight at first even though your TDEE is above your caloric intake.

A more reliable approach, in my opinion, is to do the TDEE calculation for your target weight and set that as your calorie limit.
The planet will die, but at least we have these nice plants and these coins.
From the article:

> A complaint filed last year to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties by a coalition of immigrant advocacy groups and the Texas A&M University School of Law details the harrowing experience of three migrants deported via Omni Air, alleging that ICE “is using The WRAP in a manner that constitutes torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in violation of the Convention Against Torture.” The complaint is based largely on interviews with the deportees conducted by Towle. One man recounted that after being thrown to the ground and shot with rubber bullets, he was placed in a WRAP and loaded onto an Omni flight, where his body remained locked at a 40-degree angle for about nine hours. “It was so painful,” he said. “The position was very stressful on my body, my muscles were shot with pain the entire bus ride and flight back to Cameroon.”

> Two other men deported to Cameroon and interviewed by Towle recalled a similar experience on an Omni flight: “My lungs were compressed, I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t sit up. I was immobilized,” said one. “My body was in so much stress. I shouted, ‘You’re killing me!’ I truly felt I was meeting my death in that moment. Six officers, three on each side, picked me up and carried me onto the plane. They plopped me down, like a load of wood, across a center row of seats.” A third man included in the complaint told Towle that he was placed in a WRAP and left on the tarmac as other prisoners were loaded onto a flight transferring them to their Omni-run deportation. “They attached a cord from a buckle at my chest to a buckle at my feet and they pulled my upper body down so my face was in my knees. I could not breathe well. I was completely immobilized.” He added, “The day I was put in The WRAP by ICE, I wanted to die. I have never felt such horrible pain. It was torture.”

That reads like Omni was indeed "implicated in alleged torture of immigrants" to me. How do you read it differently?
It’s really the opposite. You hire people at a discount and give the 3-7% raises within a band. It’s a forward process that incentivizes performance.

I find it funny that people in tech get squirrely over annual raises, but don’t have a problem with multi-year vesting schedules with massive payouts.
> People say it’s Windows that excels for development (because of Visual Studio)

Depends on the development you're doing. .NET or C# -- Windows, hands down. That's about it.

Besides, I prefer JetBrains IDEs anyway, which are platform agnostic.

And I'm in the same boat, macOS for work/development, loonix on VMs/servers, and Windows is strictly for gaming.
>I think you mean ‘ensured’.

Yes. That is the correct word.

It's funny to me to make this grammatical error in a wordy post about a dyslexic person who fat-fingered things. The character differences, "i" versus "e", between the two words are both typed by the middle fingers of opposite hands.

Your post shows the value of having a second set of eyes on your work. Thanks.
I'm not a serious gamer but the only computer gaming I do I do on my mac. Cities Skylines for example.
Thanks for chiming in, that makes sense! I probably would have put the prefix before the quotes, so it matches `@"..."` and the usage in C++ and Python. But there is probably a reason why that is not possible:

var s = xml"""<Book><title /></Book>""";
Going from the oldest UI elements Win11 currently has, IIRC it something from Win2k, all the way up to React Native, Windows is becoming a living museum of UI.
> Visual Studio is on more platforms than Windows

No, Visual Studio for Macs is a rebranded Mono thing, it has nothing to do with the Windows Visual Studio. There's no VS for Linux.

Of course MS had to complicate things by naming their electron editor Visual Studio Code...
Hard to remember that YouTube was once not owned by Google.
Ok, interesting that you think anything in life is voluntary. We'll see how history judges the affair, in my experience the only way to disseminate truth is to close down the forum where arguments are held: previously books, now the internet.

NATO is responsible for accepting memberships and keeping their promises, and we are responsible for consuming other peoples energy: mostly our own childrens enegy.

Either way, the only way to avoid conflict is by living frugally. So that holds no matter what.

To think that defence can't be offensive is plain wrong. Do you remember the Cuba crisis?
Biden seen issuing crypto oversight exec order next week
Thought I would clarify, I also use an Ethernet connection. To the dock.

Do you basically pop open your laptop with just an Ethernet cable connected and work like that for 8 hours?

Sounds terrible to me, neck pain from constantly looking down at your laptop screen would not go well for me. External monitors mounted at eye level is the way to go.
Citation needed. My stepson's father rarely paid support. He owes my wife and son tens of thousands of dollars. The best the courts could do was wage garnishment, but then he'd just quit his job and move across state lines.
Well. Cold reality is that even 5-year old kids know what sort of company MSFT is and what sort of people work for them. He acted like an useful fool, got treated like one. I even smirked a bit at his misery, even though I am normally not that kind of person.

Had he instead reacted to the phone call with some extremely aggressive licensing, maybe even a software patent, now he would be discussing the terms of the out of court settlement and choosing a color for individual seats in his new 7-series.
Oh, I should have mentioned, I mob program every day at my current job, and pair programmed every day at my previous job, and both were very successful and enjoyable jobs.
The way some people pair is really more similar to rally driving than you give it credit. I hate backseat driver style pair programming. Strong-style is very different and more like right-seat (I’m in the US, so let’s say not-driver seat) driving. https://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/2014/06/llewellyns-stron...
Just do keto diet or carnivore then. Will be a lot easier. You have to give up the cake.
Irony.

A linked article describing a scientist trying to rigorously find out how weight changes and energy expenditure and diet are connected, revealing the little we do know and the vast sea of what we do not know.

The discussion here: full of anecdotes and bro science berating one another "that's not how it works, it works like this", "I personally do this-and-that", "you just have to x-y-z, it's that simple".
Sex is the peak of human connectivity and intimacy. It is literally the reason you are here today.

If you aren't good at sex or have bad sex, practice. That includes becoming physically fit to increase your stamina and strength during sex with your partner.
Some commentary would have helped me. I don't read (or write) rust but my understanding:

* an untyped, unchecked region of memory is modeled by `let mut mem = Vec::<char>::new();`
* First, a fixed range of 16 bytes in mem is allocated for the password to be read
* Then the password to check against is allocated and stored in mem
* Then the input with embedded `'\0'`s is read into the range, without respecting the BUF_CAP
* Finally, the two regions within `mem` are compared for string equality

There were no unsafe operations, but an "undesired" result can occur.
> This is way too early though.

It very likely is.

> I’d compare them to Microsoft during the Windows CE PDA area.

I completely agree. Smartphones turned out to be as much of a hardware issue (capacitive touch screens) as a software issue. AR won't go mainstream until someone releases something revolutionary, which will likely be an AR smart glasses device that looks like a pair of normal eye glasses. This could be Meta. My money is on Apple.

> By the same token I think Meta’s vision is right, but I assume they are rushing ahead full steam because they clearly see it as an extremely tough race for them.

I think it comes down to whether Meta's suite of applications (Facebook, WhatsApp, & Instragram) are still popular once consumer AR becomes viable.
A field is more delicate if it needs to be enlarged (into a larger field) for all polynomials with coefficients in the field to have roots. There is rich and intricate structure in the possible successive enlargements.

For the field C of complex numbers, all polynomials already have roots so there is no need to enlarge. In that sense the complex field has much less structure than the smaller ones (Z, Q, R).
You might try an other diet that‘s more filling and creates less cravings. So less carbs and more protein and fat. I don‘t think that willpower really works in this regard long term. It only creates frustrations.
You have bsdgames. What else could you want?
Apache. And winget-cli is licensed under the MIT license. So although the licenses are incompatible, the end result would have been the same even if Microsoft had simply forked winget with the Apache license, although in that case they would have had to credit the original author, and the lack of credit is the original author's main issue with how this was handled.
Compiling their example with the Arduino toolchain seems to fill up about 90% of an Uno's 32k flash space. I think that rules it out as usable on anything that doesn't have a larger amount than that.
> Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop?

At my workstation, yes: Ethernet is so much faster than WiFi, and I like to use a real keyboard and mouse with a KVM, and the whole setup is USB-A & HDMI. Maybe in the future I will have a USB-C/HDMI/DisplayPort KVM, though.

> When I am working mobile, in a coffee shop or similar, I never use the ports.

Me neither, but I prefer to do my work in my home office, so my laptop spends most of its time in a stand, hooked up to an external portrait monitor, keyboard and mouse.

> An external mouse would work with Bluetooth

I would never use wireless with a peripheral. Batteries, security (for a keyboard; far less of a concern with a mouse), pairing. Just say no to RF, and yes to wires.
If I go on a backpack, I'll make sure I have paper and downloaded maps, have checked the weather forecast, have maybe told someone where I am, maybe have a paperback with me, etc. but mostly I won't have researched if I'm likely to have cell reception or not and that wouldn't factor into my decision about where to go in any case.
worse still is using this on ios at least is a nightmare as swiping/scrolling sideways didn’t work so you have to click the numbers
Ok. Is there any reason you can’t spend 10-20 dollars on USB-C cables to replace your USB-A cables?
You’ve switched the conditions for taxation here: the GP suggested value to society, not adherence to preexisting laws. One of the standard refrains when justifying internet piracy is that intellectual property is actually a net harm to society, so I don’t think the connection you’ve made follows.
It is related to italics.

I often use _phrase_ to italisise. This seems to trigger the left/right arrow key bug semi-regularly. This fix is to find the Teams icon in the Taskbar, right click and Quit.

Then restart Teams.
Yes, even in a thread like this there are people that don't know how to behave. FWIW I did not expect to flag a comment in this thread, but you managed to cross my threshold.

And if it is so aggravating to you, why do you keep coming back?
Going out on a limb here, read far worst brand/product names here in HN, so this doesn't surprise me, no matter how silly it sounds
pg, dang, and all others who work behind the scenes, as well as the scores of commenters and submitters who challenge by seeking to understand.

I too am a beneficiary of this neo-polis of tech and philosophy.
> not requiring a local partner for business

Are you sure this is a good thing? It opens the country to foreign economic exploitation. There's a reason China required it for so long.
They recycled old power plant. That is a huge CO2 offset, building new plant would had huge emmisions.
Yes, that's an important takeaway, but

> I even smirked a bit at his misery

smirking at someone for getting rolled is low.
> That analogy is just yet another way how to shut up people who dont like the process.

In that case explaining why you like anything is a way to shut people up who don't
>Honestly, I was more technically savvy then than I am now 4 years into working at a large tech company.

The usual reason I see for down leveling is because being technically savvy is not what companies actually look for. I'm talking most jobs rather than being in an R&D division that is PhD heavy.

* Understanding the modern SDLC in a corporate environment and best practices. Academia often doesn't do things in a way that would be considered good production practices outside of it. Both from a process and a technical (CICD, heavy testing, layered frameworks, etc.) point of view.

* The culture of academia differs from corporate which means that while you gain soft skills they are biased versus what you'd get in a corporate environment. That can have subtle or not so subtle impact on decision making.
Okay, what metric are we using to determine "value to society"?