skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. But for myself, I like it when the structure of the code and data structures exactly fit the need. Like the old quite, “show me your header files and hide the C files, and I will understand your program.”
Do you have so little respect of your fellow man that you think they are incapable of thinking? A big part of the spending was designed to float businesses during lockdowns to “flatten the curve”. The idea being that paying people to stay home would reduce risk of infection. They are pointing out this outcome did not happen.
If you're good at finding the problems but not solving them, youre great for the product side of things

There are roles other than engineers that have their own level definitions
Psychological Operations (United States)
Could you both maybe stop? We get it, you contemptuously disagree with each other.
I ditched analytics entirely when I realized they didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Stat dashboards are skinner boxes that get in the way of doing the work of trying new things, getting feedback, and using it for the next thing.
I agree with them on most issues. I appreciate them raising and theorizing about their more fringe issues. What I don't appreciate are their tactics and aggressive enforcement.
I think it's been hugged. No luck for me.
These cases of just crossing the threshold are not that interesting to prosecutors unless affecting some company with a lot of political capital. If there is no restitution, no safety implications, no children harmed, and the case is a bit confusing, why take it? Prosecutors prefer to take the slam dunk cases where any normal person can agree it was an intrusive or fraudulent access.
I found fly.io was slow and hung when trying to deploy. I might try it again in a year. Vercel definitely just works and has been a wonderful experience using NextJS for a side project
What I want to know is how fast other producers could ramp up production by as much petroleum as Russia was exporting to the West at the start of the invasion.

(I am restricting my question to petroleum because it is much easier to change the destination of an oil tanker than it is to change the destination of natural gas.)

I'm also interested in how quickly the German economy could replace the natural gas they have been getting from Russia with petroleum.
It's not a loophole it's tax fraud. Not reporting your income does not make it legal. In the end if your income is low enough you'll mostly be offset by the standard deduction anyway.
Add the old subdomain to avoid the mobile stuff. The link is a subreddit of people complaining about being stalked and then trailing off into other conspiracies.

Edit: old.reddit.com/r/gangstalking
This is just called semver or semantic versioning. https://semver.org
> Can the human just submit applications for those works endlessly? Even in purely practical terms, will the copyright office at some point just ban the human for excessive submissions?

Copyright does not need submissions or applications. Copyright is automatic in most (all?) jurisdictions which respect copyright in the first place.
It is so good I forget I use it. Thanks for the reminder!
But the reason why so many historical figures were tutored or homeschooled is because there was no adequate public education system. This is confusing correlation for causation. Indeed, Bertrand Russell wrote:

> The method of a hereditary leisure class without duties was, however, extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of the class had been taught to be industrious, and the class as a whole was not exceptionally intelligent. It might produce one Darwin, but against him had to be set tens of thousands of country gentlemen who never thought of anything more intelligent than fox-hunting and punishing poachers.
There's no option to just signup via email. When you enter email it redirects to Google OAuth which asks for other permissions as well like:

Know who you are on Google and associate you with the personal info you have made public
I always thought Universal Analytics was the new product and GA 4 was the old product. That's how naming usually works ... go from numbered releases to continuous rolling releases. Not until a few months ago that I realized it was the other way around.

Really poor product planning.
No. Simple data extraction is what a contracted penetration tester does, because they secured (here's that word again) a contract that limits their liability when doing simple data extraction. Poking around to find out how severe a vulnerability might be is how you manage to get yourself in civil trouble even when you're testing a site that runs a bug bounty; god help you if you're doing it on a site that doesn't have one, or, worse, hasn't really ever heard of one.

People share a lot of really bad advice about security research. The best advice you'll get from people that don't work in the field is "stay away" and "don't try to help"; it's cynical, but at least it's not going to get you sued, like following this kind of "poking around is a white hat norm" advice will.
> The GA4 data model is also completely different from the GA Universal data model

Which is an abstraction that tries to handle old GA use-cases and the Segment/Amplitude style use-cases but does neither well.
14 Companies Offering Sabbaticals: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/42136-2/

77 Companies that offer sabbaticals: https://fairygodboss.com/career-topics/sabbaticals-77-compan...
Deep Quantum Learning
The argument is that 1:1 instruction, or tutoring, is a superior way to acquire knowledge. Having lots of information available is great, but not a substitute.
I see. Thank you. I thought these purchases had stopped years ago when in fact the balance has never been higher.
That was pretty straightforward to me: COntainer LInux MAcos
This seems like a rather silly form of protest. Delete people's files and the only thing you're creating here is more hatred directed at yourself.

If you want to sabotage all Russians for some weird reason, just introduce a race condition that's masqueraded as a compatibility fix for the Russian locale.

If you want to send out a message, take a more peaceful approach. Create file or print out a translated message like "<Citizen name>, age <age>, was killed in the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine on <date>" in Russian. Add a link to a picture or a news article if you want. Still a pretty annoying move, probably universally considered in bad taste by most people, but not illegal or destructive. Add something like "the economic recession is because the Western world opposes the Russian government" to make that clear as well, because the immense inflation will probably hit random citizens hardest. Best case scenario you're informing some ignorant Russians stuck behind state propaganda, worst case scenario you piss off some Russian nationalists who will stop using your library.

In the end, this is just another demonstration of how dangerous modern dependency management is. NPM has been through leftpad, colors, now node-ipc, and there's still no way to prevent it from happening again.

I don't know of any language ecosystem with a package manager that doesn't have this problem as well. Perhaps the more boring/slow software dev requiring OS package managers, because Debian maintainers tend to be a little more level-headed than random Github users? Take your pips, cargos, gems, gradles, composers, and you'll find exactly this vulnerability.

The general consensus seems to be "it's impractical to validate all the code we're pulling in, so there's nothing we can do", which is kind of crazy in my opinion. Yes, modern dev does pull in a billion dependencies for every framework, but doing nothing just isn't a problem.

We're one NPM hack away from global catastrophe as long as we don't find a solution for problems like these.
Your first point is only valid if the government doesn’t spend that money or uses it to pay down debt, a dubious assumption with the US federal government.

Your second point is wrong: you can continue to run deficits without printing money. You just have to find lenders in the marketplace willing to buy your bonds.

Yes, the Federal Reserve is buying vast quantities of US treasuries right now, effectively monetizing the debt, but the sequence of events you describe isn’t typically how things work.
I thought they meant Security Operations Center
I’m not taking a stand, I’m just saying it sounds like the copyright office is saying (b) which is counter to what you wrote.
Emitting Application Events in the Context of Bulk Operations?
slacktivism
I don't disagree that having a good cross-reference/indexing setup is wonderful. I'm fortunate in that most of the projects I've worked on are sensible enough that I can at least narrow down the couple of locations it might be in, and where it's not so easy, it's at least something where "oh yeah, all the interesting code in LLDB is actually in Plugins/" can easily be slotted in the brain. (glibc is another horrible one)

One of the things I've considered doing is putting together a recording of fixing a bug in a project whose source I've never seen before, as the only way I can think of to explain how to navigate a large code base without accidentally skipping several steps of "I apparently memorized the layout of the monorepo without realizing it". This plan is defeated by... not having a code base I can use for this where I haven't actually poked around its source before at least once.
> Bitcoin, gold, and anti-fed fanboys have a tendency to have a poor understanding at best of global economics with very basic misunderstandings like thinking that bumping the rate bumps the rates of all previous bonds.

Discussion on this post is worse than the usual level of discussion here, and the usual level around these topics isn't great at best. Hard to discuss monetary policy with someone who doesn't know what monetary policy actually is.
I don't trust Docker and never will, it's better to just download the official binary and install the Daemon into a Linux VM then configure it using docker context.
Most employers would give you some choice over your work machine don't they?
Developer Productivity Matters (2021)
>also to the military.

No need to put it that way as if you don't understand the priorities.

We'll check back in a few years and see if I'm wrong about the trajectory. Btw, I've been right about most tech companies, 2013-2015 leaks made that clear.
I’ve been following their progress on this RSS feed:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/feed/

Strong recommend if you are into RSS.
I believe there were Illustra engineers who exercised options
shortly after the Informix acquisition at the end of 1995 (at $36/share)
but either couldn't immediately sell shares or choose not to
thinking the stock value would go up. They owed taxes on their
gains (about $30/share) but shortly thereafter the stock crashed
leaving the shares worth less then the taxes owed. The stock only
continued to decline in value after Informix restated earnings and
the extent of their channel stuffing became known.

https://www.edn.com/toxic-accounting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Corporation#Phil_Whit...
I wonder how true that really is. My only personal experience is being held up at gunpoint by some dude tryin to steal my only computing device that i couldn't afford to replace.

My politics haven't changed though.
Pretty sure at least 1% of the random shitcoin/memelord stuff went to advancing humanity too. Probably more.
I needed some 40 lbs sacks of rocks to finish up a project. Just a few more. There is store between my home and where I worked at the time. I checked online, it said over 500 in stock. This would be over 20,000 lbs of rocks sitting around in bags. They had exactly zero in stock in the store.

The website said "over 500", the store had zero. This is the equivalent of thinking you're a millionaire but finding out you can't even purchase a McDonald's dollar menu item.
I have a house and a kid and I have quit on principle before.
Arbitration is why we can't have nice things.
I’m not sure if these are included in the 3% figure but I’ve also recently been encountering videos which still exist but have had their audio force muted weeks after uploading for undisclosed reasons.
Producing hydrogen is not very energy efficient. Electric power would have to get much cheaper to make hydrogen cost competitive with fossil fuels. While hydrogen has sightly higher mass-energy density, the tankage is larger and more complex so the total mass savings is limited and there's a significant drag penalty.
I thought that was just me. Just learned that in this article. I actually was not using some stuff that said they support GA4 because I thought they were legacy. Sounds like a branding fail to replace "universal" with a random number.
> Sometimes I think this sounds conspiratorial, and surely isn't happening.

People often read these types of articles and think "this can't be right." Without researching the topic they cannot fathom a government would do such a thing. The CCP's "United Front" organization sponsors many of these actions.

However, the fact these things occur is very open source, well published (including in the CCP's 5-year plans), and verified in many academic settings. You just have to read some researched documents or books (if interested, I can recommend plenty), and not rely on your own intuition based on living in a Western society of what the PRC would do. They are taking advantage of democratic principles and using them against us.

The media does not heavily report on it due to the clear externality of spurring, or appearing to support, xenophobia against Chinese citizens. However, everything I read intentionally takes the time to point out that their issue is with the CCP and not the Chinese people, as most authors lived in China and love the Chinese culture. We can point out wrongdoing by the CCP without extending those views towards the Chinese people who live under the one party system.
Thanks for the info anyway, good to know an option may exist.
There needs to be a minimum threshold of creativity for something to be copyrightable. It's a low amount of creativity, snapping a photo at a painting is even enough for copyright of the photo of the painting being recognized by the photographer, but there needs to be some creativity.

A computer isn't doing anything creative at all so shouldn't have any performance copyright. Calling a computer's work creative would be like claiming my pants are being creative when I put them on in the morning. It doesn't make much sense to me. The designer of the pants might have copyright, but the pants themselves do not.
Have you read his books or just his tweets?

1-line methods is taking things to an extreme (though you can write a lot of logic into a single line in Ruby, so maybe it's not as crazy as it would be in C...) but I found the discussion in his refactoring book about reorganizing methods and naming things very illuminating.

It's an idea so simple it sounds stupid sometimes to try to explain to people, and yet, I never stop seeing new code that could be improved by something as simple as methods with accurate names.

E.g. I've seen a lot of stuff like:

```

// This does X

[some obtuse nasty inline regex or five-layers-deep nested object call or otherwise crazy individual line of code]

```

That maybe eventually gets detached from that comment line and now there's just some nasty line that nobody on the team understands anymore that can't as-is be easily tested in isolation from a bunch of other stuff.

A perfect opportunity for a one-line method, that can have a descriptive name and can have its own specific tests.

And yeah, again, that's the extreme case, but most codebases have tons of opportunities for 5-10 line methods being extracted with helpful names. If you find yourself writing a comment to describe a block of code, maybe make that comment your method name instead. And sometimes you try it, and realize "wow, it's hard to extract these methods without an insane amount of input params and return values for each bit" and maybe that's an important thing to realize about the code you're looking at anyway. ;)
You mean Robert Del Naja?
How does that ‘choose’ statement work? Did they just extend the C syntax?
idk man, C is catching a lot of hate lately, but I honestly don’t see why. C is a fine programming language, in fact, outside of maybe the lisp, logic programming, and concatenative language families, C pretty much is the only programming language. Every other language really just wants to be C while fixing a lot of problems that aren’t actual language problems but rather programmer problems. If we were all perfect human beings C is suitable for any task and would be flawless. But programmers make mistakes and often attempt to code in languages without actually understanding the language (a good example of this is not understanding memory models) and tons of modern features do not exist if you remove C as the motivating, negative factor they were a response to.

And sure, because of the way things shook out, programming languages have to speak C in order to do something useful as fast as possible, but if you carry this sort of argument to its logical ends, it amounts to the same thing as saying “I would love programming if only I didn’t have to compile to machine code” ASM has the same problems—architectures have different instruction sets. Or further, this is like complaining about the fact that you need to code against a particular fundamental design scheme like von neumann. This is just the nature of computing and different ideas and markets yielding different products.

Also this article makes a mistake of criticizing C on the grounds that it’s now a protocol and poorly designed as a protocol while simultaneously admitting that it wasn’t designed to be a protocol—so it seems a bit unfair to call these “bad design decisions” on those grounds. Furthermore, it’s a lot easier to make these sweeping criticisms than to effectively solve what is not only a massive technical but also social problem.
Seriously? They're shutting down Google Analytics? Deleting all data six months later? The replacement is a completely different product with the same name but no migration path, and wasn't even the default option less than two years ago?

The Google deprecation team has really outdone themselves this time. I really would have thought they'd deprecate Gmail before Google Analytics! I've got to imagine there are legal reasons behind this, because no product team could sincerely believe that this is a good idea for the product, right?
There is a stage 1 proposal for BigDecimal.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal
Also you created that account in 2016 and only have one comment, this one. That's a major red flag.
Why does Google keep breaking backward compatibility?
I feel like tossing in a radical idea here: instead of carving up time zones, just ditch all the step functions and smooth it all the way out. Make local time really local: solar time, as a sundial would show [1]. Noon goes back to its intuitive meaning: the moment the sun is highest in the sky [2].

Our current system comes from a world of mechanical clocks. It made sense to ditch the sundial for a pendulum-driven display that worked rain or shine, and a spring-wound gadget you could carry around. But now our phones and even watches have caught up in their ability to accurately model the natural world -- they have the location information they could use to calculate the sundial time. There are already apps that do this [3].

Since this local time is just that -- local -- it should be understood that it's only useful for local things. When to wake up and go to bed, when to meet others in person, etc. For any coordination across different places on Earth local time is clearly not suitable, and we already have a solution for that: just use UTC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time
[2] https://pbfcomics.com/comics/high-noon/
[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solar-time/id1100646247
Computation is one place where increased efficiencies seem to have only very limited impacts on other process efficiency. There's also been a tremendous tendency for gains to be eroded through additional ancillary compute tasks, as well as malevolent applications.

Where do you see computation having delivered actual real-world increased efficiencies on the same order of magnitude as the increase in compute efficiencies?

From 1960 to present we've seen 60 years of doubling every 3 years, roughly 20 doublings or a millionfold performance increase.

What compute-driven applications have seen 1-million-times efficiency gains?

What overall economic impact (GDP increases) have these created?
I think that intent matters. Misinformation is dissemination of information that may be misleading but wasn't necessarily intended to be misleading. Perhaps the author themselves lacked the pertinent data (or really believed what they were saying). That is distinct from disinformation, which would be intentionally deceptive. Regarding material omissions, it would only be misinformation if the person disseminating the information did so unknowingly. And hypothetically it would only take one person to inform the author of the material omission and naturally further publications with the same material omission then count as disinformation.

I think the hair-splitting is due to the fact that majority of memes associated with one side or the other are not outright false, but are conditioning people to a particular pre-determined conclusion. In other words, if you're interested in battling mis/dis-information, you have to recognize the over-arching agenda and attack that, not rebut/censor every meme and thought internet randos and robots see fit to post.
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.
If I could design my own cross-language ABI, I'd make these differences from C:

* Use fixed-size types instead of the 5 types for 4 integer sizes (is long 32-bit or 64-bit?)

* Allow multiple return values [so you could use multiple return registers, especially on non-register-starved arches]

* Allow unwind ABI (C has no way to permit unwinding!)

* Dedicated types for pointer + size for arrays

* Dedicated string type (i.e., distinguish between &[u8] and &str in Rust terms)

* Something that allows for vtables would be nice

* Something that encodes ownership (and eventual deallocation) is also potentially valuable
Hydro-formed "Escopette"-style valveless pulsejet?
They run as efficiently as a turbojet (w.r.t. specific fuel consumption), and Mach 0.7 is way beyond your "couple hundred miles an hour".

It will be burnt up by the time it runs out of fuel, though.

For a good one it has to be hydro-formed out of seamless pipe, which is likely hot-stretched (like wire drawing, but using an induction heating coil in place of the die, and independently controlling the feed-rate and the pull-rate) in advance to retain consistent wall thickness in the engine despite being cross-section after hydro-forming. Also probably incremental hydro-forming with grain-structure-fixing re-heating between stages.

The hard part is just that most of the work is in making the hydro-forming dies/tools, not then using them to cheaply produce more engines.
The only reason I've ever installed GA on any website was to get higher rankings on the Google ad sales pages to get better CPCs (including Reddit). That moat might be bigger than you think.
This seems really primed to get people to ask "if we are rebuilding it anyways why not consider other analytics servies"

I imagine you'll hear a lot of that in the near future
Cover up is never the solution.
Why did you immediately jump to a malicious scenario? Is that what you imagine curious people do?
What was the Fed’s outlook a year ago? Was anybody predicting 8% inflation?

Forgive me for my skepticism, but these guys are at best guessing. Most likely they are straight up lying.
Matomo is probably the leading alternative.

I'll in the process of looking alternatives as GA4 is a step back. I suspect alternate analytics companies are going to love Google for this decision.