skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s apply that here.
Guy at the bar is telling war stories, you aren’t sure He is telling the truth, sounds like a tall tale…
You never served in the army so you’re not sure… But your gut is telling you He is a liar.

What do you do?

Nothing. Because you are not in a position to know better. It’s your unsubstantiated guess against a possible lie.

If you are coming to the conversation in good faith, you don’t start with an accusation of lying. You share your doubts and ask politely for more information.
Nah, it's definitely the hygiene thing. Pools often forbid food and drinks at the deck for the same reason: if someone dirties the pool water, they basically need to close off the whole pool and recycle the pool water for a few hours, which is super inconvenient for all parties involved (and obviously embarrassing for the parents of the kid who made the mess). You'd be surprised at how often these things happen.

Ask me how I know :)
> but no mention of the fable when I learned it in Japanese

I personally learned of it from the Japanese game "Ace Attorney".

There's a spear/shield ornament somewhere as evidence, so the game spends a decent amount of time introducing the myth to the audience. The myth is seen again in Trigun (impenetrable shield was one of the enemies that Vash took down), and again in "Rising of the Shield Hero" where Shield-guy's biggest rival is the Spear-guy.

A lot of Japanese media talk about this spear-vs-shield story. If it was a myth borrowed from China, that still makes sense. (Aesop is Greek after all, but still influenced English).

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My overall point is that some words reference stories rather than the actual meaning of the word. Learning the underlying stories can help when learning those languages.
>The value is in that it is not provable

do you have proof that it's not provable?
Objdump can read .exe files:

$ objdump -f rufus.exe

rufus.exe: file format pei-i386
architecture: i386, flags 0x00000103:
HAS_RELOC, EXEC_P, D_PAGED
start address 0x007cfe70

Edit: Windows can list the contents of a macOS .app as a directory, as they are little more than that
That is an absurd guilt by association. Hitler does not own all references to a composer that he enjoyed posthumously.

By your logic, the Nexus Institute and its guests are neo-Nazis because they had a Wagner-themed round table discussion.

https://prometheanartists.com/new-events/2019/11/9/nexus-ins...
Can only speak for ourselves, but at Solar Monkey we make software for solar panel installers and consumers. We have plenty of fun challenges! Like figuring out how to make it easy for sales people to design (electrically) valid solar panel set ups, as well as determining whether systems perform well for consumers based on yield data (with both analytical and ML models).
> Going to something like formula1.com r

Not sure if this is because i'm in the states, but 'manage settings' has a 'reject all' button for me[0] and it seems to work.

0: https://i.judge.sh/0vCJB/q_nQ34wtjO.png
I lived in a small town in Texas (2nd Most Conservative city in the nation) and everyone across both aisles thought it was a joke.

Granted, yes, I'm also a leftist.
"Falling for someone" can mean both "falling in love with someone" and "to be trapped/tricked by someone" according to both my experience and my go-to dictionary [1] [2]. "Falling for something" is clearly in the realm of "being tricked" according to [3] (but that source also puts "falling for somebody" squarely on the "love" side of things [4]).

So I would say that, while you may have never heard it used that way, it certainly has that meaning in practice to many people. Don't judge the robot so harshly.

[1]: https://dict.leo.org/pages/addinfo/addInfo.php?aiid=En842ho0...

[2]: https://dict.leo.org/pages/addinfo/addInfo.php?aiid=EKHR2Car...

[3]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fall-for...

[4]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fall-for...
The agenda is that families should not be left to starve and freeze because of flawed economic arrangements.

I share that agenda. I expect everyone to share that agenda
I think if people hold secret beliefs in their hearts, and those beliefs have been carefully introspected and are not coming from a place of ignorance or hate, then people need to express them, no matter what they are.
One caveat: every time I use !important, there's at least a clear reason why ("X" library is doing stupid stuff) and you could be surfacing this like any other tech debt. Often, 'spaghetti css' is an easy excuse to not even look into what's going on.
OK but presumably Howard Hughes built his empire while he was not yet crazy and incapable, so it is not a good example for what you wanted to say.
> It's denying reality to claim that "freedom fries" were a joke. It was not a joke for those who started it and spread it.

The joke was on the people who took "freedom fries" seriously. There are definitely Americans who believe that, usually in red/right leaning America that many of us have no experience with but are we are definitely apt to ridicule and parody.

> It was not a joke for those who started it and spread it.

Yes, that's why they are deserving of ridicule and parody by the Simpsons among others in the states.

> The Simpsons are a satire but what they satirise is what some people really do and think.

I think you understand, but for some reason you are misattributing intention.
Chemical from tyres linked to mass salmon deaths in US found in Australia
That's a fallacy. There is no agnosticism when it comes to earthquakes, weather, economics, or physics. Every single person on this earth makes day-to-day decisions based on their mental models of how these things work. You just described a model when you wrote "...no buildings near volcanos." Make no mistake, that is absolutely a model of where volcanic eruptions occur, it's just a very simple one. Now here's the question: what do you mean by "near"? Is it within 20 miles? 100 miles? As you try to answer that question, you are refining your model. Just saying, "Well, you know, it's just near" is a cop-out. It's not very useful.

Do you perform work in exchange for money? Then you believe your currency will hold a reasonable amount of its value until you get paid, and you might believe that based on things like the currency's historical performance, etc. That is part of your economic model, and every single person who participates in the economy has a model like that. The difference in the academic discipline is that one should be precise in one's descriptions (which is what the math is for) so if they're wrong, they have no wiggle room to make ad hoc adjustments and pretend their model was actually right. So if anyone wants to criticize mainstream economic models, the real criticism should be that they aren't precise enough.
In-line css takes priority.
I always use Apple Maps, but once in a while if I'm in an unfamiliar city and the Apple Maps directions seem suspiciously weird, it is useful to have Google Maps app for a sanity check. (directions to a particular pier at the Seattle waterfront were insanely incorrect via Apple)
Technical debt in CSS seems to be both more inevitable and less problematic than application code. By the time it becomes a problem, either marketing decides on a redesign or the latest frontend lead wants to use a new framework.

So “screw it, this works” seems to be an entirely justifiable methodology.
Pretty much agree with this sentiment, but it is techincally correct that Gadaffi's death was partially responsibility of a very loose ally (National Liberation Army) of a couple NATO nations (US, France, and UK). These NATO nations supplied equipment to anti-Gadaffi forces.

Of course, the way it was worded was to ensure it was technically correct while sending an entirely different message. The best kind of propoganda.

It's worth noting nukes don't necessarily stop a civil war. Gadaffi's murder was one of the most poetic pieces of justice witnessed in the modern era, a blade shoved up his asshole perforating his internal organs as a beautiful piece of red-soaked art representing the fruits of his metaphorical fucking in the ass of protestors who were systematically shot.

Of course the idea that Gadaffi was actually a murderous psychopath (one with many domestic enemies) who orchestrated the killing of innocent protestors (who later joined overthrowing domestic militias with only the loosest affiliation to NATO nations) challenges a strongly held world view of some romanticists and is therefore very hard to swallow.
The use of RPA is to allow companies to contract cheaper people to do development job.

Every 10 years or so you will find the industry trying to sell GUI programming tools. Managers will love it. It will sell a lot. Then people will start to see the brittle applications, that it is impossible for 2 people to develop at the same time, that you can't see what changed from 3 versions ago etc.

Then you will have to point your manager to the the 1986 article "No Silver Bullet": https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> The most common use of “tracking” cookies is just to be able to count unique views for your site, which I think is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do.

Sure, and I don't remember if this is currently legal without need to notify/ask, but I think it should be.

As long as the tracking data is legally and technically isolated to only domains/apps/devices controlled by the same entity... Most people have the expectation that a website/business will be able to remember them across visits from the same browser.

But people will not necessarily have this expectation of being recognized across domains or different devices - indeed most people won't know it's even possible - so anything facilitating such identify/profile correlation should be considered illegal tracking by default. The specific technical method of creating the correlation should not matter. Honestly this could extend to non-web profile building as well.

The exception, of course, is if the user has self-identified by logging in.

> Other examples of where cross-site tracking is useful is for preventing online payments fraud. You have a similar IRL version of this where your bank will freeze your card if it sees purchases being made in different countries simultaneously.

True, completely agree. There are already blanket exemptions for certain uses in the GDPR and those should be extended as needed for use cases that have legitimate value. Cookie law should be changed so no need to ask/inform the user about these use cases other than in the website's privacy statement, where such tracking should be stated.

Industries handling such tracking data should be regulated and audited to ensure proper handling and use of the data. Again I think this should be applied as a broader principle, and I think for example loyalty programs should be also audited to ensure compliance with legal uses of the collected data.
I studied some philosophy as an undergraduate. My understanding is this:

Ethical theory tries to answer the question, 'what should we do?' (e.g. death penalty or not?)

Moral theory tries to answer the question, 'why should we do that' (e.g. 'because god says so')

Metaethical theory tries to answer the question, 'what is the 'theory of knowledge' behind that moral theory?' (e.g. 'are there moral facts at all?')
Or we'll designed monolithic, or well designed fp or well designed op, I think we hate companies who use op as way to make bricks for prisoners and not the paradigm in itself.
Oh, I did just remember there was a huge backlash in my hometown because of the Dixie Chicks speaking out against the war. My hometown was particularly upset b/c it was also the hometown of one of the Dixie Chicks.
They've just added this position to our school called "Research Faculty". They are soft money supported and have no teaching load. Often they will be attached to some research institute.
The boom in late-19th century haunted house stories can be attributed to CO poisoning from dicey gas lighting systems...

https://pacificheatingcooling.com/2018/12/27/carbon-monoxide...
For me, I consider the main reason for Starlink to exist is to make use of SpaceX launch capacity. SpaceX focus on assembly line production techniques and reusable rockets to bring down costs per launch only make sense if you have a lot of stuff to launch. With Starlink, they create their own demand.

SpaceX is probably very happy to have a "competitor" paying for launches. By itself, I have some doubts about the profitability of Starlink anyways.
> which would trigger a direct NATO response.

In spite of everything that has been said about this: or not. I'm not convinced that NATO is going to actually deliver on its obligations, after all, if we're willing to let a country of 45 million people be invaded and murdered wholesale I have a hard time convincing myself that NATO's obligations will suddenly make everything different if for instance say Estonia (much, much smaller) would get invaded.
> Load limiters allow for continued operation of a furnace, a few lights and small appliances (but only one at a time). If too much electricity is used at once, the limiter will trip — turning off the power all together, until the meter is reset physically by the client or remotely by the distribution company.

Ok. Freeze or starve. A choice.

There is no place in Hell bad enough for these utility companies.
I think 5 yuan is the sample price. Surely this thing can get very cheap.
I don't know why, but all this story made me think about C memory allocation and undefined behavior.

Perhaps should I ditch hooks for Rust?
That isn’t bad for their first entry, but they need to do better, fast. It’s unclear if those numbers include a load, but the EPA testing within model years should be the same across brands, so when the Lightning’s competitors come out, their range numbers should be able to be compared.

I almost said that the ranges would be comparable, but that could also trigger the usage of the word that says the ranges are similar or roughly the same across brands would be more or less the same, which isn’t what I meant at all. Somehow the concept of comparing things gets overloaded in the usage, and things that aren’t the same get equated or weighed against each other in ways I didn’t mean. Words and their contexts are weird like that.

> With 320 miles of range, the extended range versions of the F-150 Lightning will be competitive with other electric trucks on the market, including the Rivian R1T (EPA-confirmed 314 miles) and Hummer EV (estimated 350 miles). But starting next year, we’ll start to see some longer-range electric trucks, including the Chevy Silverado EV (estimated 400 miles) and Tesla Cybertruck (estimated 500 miles).
If you think about crypto for a bit, it is not such a far fetched idea. It tackles the issue of a fair initial distribution.
Didn't watch the video because video explainers are a waste of time unless you're illiterate. But from the description, the title should be "this guy can't upgrade the SSD".
I would disagree on brexit. Am British and brexit sentiment predated the campaign by quite some time. Also many people eligible to vote for this and holding such anti EU positions were elderly, so if the Russian influence campaign was entirely online they would all have missed it.

Maybe Russia funded some campaigns, not sure. Maybe they were able to sway some voters, again, not sure. But my impression is that there was already a sizeable portion of the population pro brexit. I'd be more inclined to lay this at the feet of Murdoch than Putin.
Yes, you can. Not everyone, not all beliefs, but it's certainly not futile to try.
The main thing it didn't account for is two decades of graft and mismanagement's influence on operational readiness and troop morale.
Yeah names in FOSS are so self defeating sometimes. It might sound superficial to the more practical/technical people who are usually behind those projects... but it has a huge impact! It is starting to get better, and the era of naming everything after weird obscure inside joke acronyms seems to be behind us.

(I get that we need to keep software fun, but you can have a lot of fun with nice names too!)
It’s more speculative to assume that Snowden isn’t a puppet of Russia at this point. I can guarantee Russia isn’t letting Snowden stay there with no strings attached.
Humans created dogs out of the wolves best able to communicate with humans.

It's been a consistent artificial selection pressure.
I think most specifically the call out in the article is: the Hooks that React provides are extremely "low-level" (and intentionally so) and while you can do everything with just raw low-level hooks, consider returning to higher level hooks. The article provides some simple (Typescript type-safe examples) of higher level hooks. It also recommends that Redux/MobX/Relay/etc are still very useful higher level tools, even or especially in hook-based components in React.
"as opposed to building proper systems integrations or rebuilding the underlying legacy app entirely."

Spinning the blame around a bit, I've often thought that part of the problem is we keep building GUI toolkits that hate this usecase. If they supported this better, the RPA stuff would be less awful.

Appletalk almost did it, but my impression is that it is dead now.

Websites have decent support for it, but trying to use it in practice still involves a lot of little compromises everywhere. It still breaks pretty easily, and the workflow is bad even when you learn all the tricks.

But there's a lot of useful code buried in GUIs. If there was a way to write scripts against the UI, in a discoverable, testable manner, this would be a much more sensible strategy. And you wouldn't necessarily have to hire developers just to maintain a "real" solution.

But we persist in treating this as a fifth-class citizen in our widget sets, so... here we are.

I mean, yeah, it would always be a bit of a tech debt pit, but it doesn't have to be anywhere near as bad as it is now.
Yes; the quality of such upscaling is noticeably worse than just doing proper upscaling, especially when it comes to text rendering. IIRC macOS does it this way because it historically only had integer upscaling, and when apps depend on that, changing it can be a major break.
This was my overall thought as well. When I get myself into the type of trouble he's describing, it's usually because I either designed the effect poorly or it's simply doing too much. I also find that I'm abstracting certain complex effects into Redux Sagas more and more which solves some issues around effects depending on the result of other effects- not all processes should be triggered in this way.

It took me a long time of grinding on various effects scenarios to figure out efficient, easy to understand solutions to complex behaviors. That said, I do agree with his points on under/over subscription... that is still something that frustrates me, especially when the linter wants me to complicate something that seems unnecessary.
Props are outside the boundary of concerns for a component as far as allocation go. You react to value and identity. The parent component is the one concerned with actually giving you the correct props. Very much like a function call would work. You can provide a signature or a contract, but you are not actually expected to deal with every kind of abuses, especially things that fall outside good practices.

Perhaps it is a concern in bigger codebase. AFAIK, there is no method to enforce this kind of contract. But documentation could be a big help. Like documenting how changes to a prop impact the behavior of the component - like the common `initialValue` and `value`.
The variant I'm familiar with is "Congratulations, your rabbit is pregnant!"
Soft money supported versions are fairly common - mine's got a substantial hard money component, which is what makes it rare and honestly a little bit wonderful.
Princeton team simulation: plausible nuclear war between US and Russia (2019)
Chinese prisons are completely separate things. These are more like concentration camps for people who aren't branded exactly as criminals but somehow need re-education through labor or indoctrination.

I have no idea why you are comparing them to US prisons. Chinese prisons compare to US prisons, and both are inhumane.
You are assuming that the OSS engineer is available for hire as an employee.
A good example of this, in English, is the meaning of the phrase "O.K.", which is "oll komplete", a funny 1700s-era meme when newspapers (at the time) would misspell words on purpose.

Most of those misspellings have been forgotten, but the most common: Oll Komplete (All Complete) was so common, it became ingrained in our language. Today, everyone knows things are Okay, despite not remembering the original story.

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Still, learning some degree of stories helps remind us that not all words are to be taken literally in a language. That meanings are assigned based off of shared experiencnes.
> These NATO nations supplied equipment to anti-Gadaffi forces.

>> Moments after it was reported that Gaddafi was killed, Fox News published an article titled "U.S. Drone Involved in Final Qaddafi Strike, as Obama Heralds Regime's 'End'",[49] noting that a U.S. Predator drone was involved in the airstrike on Gaddafi's convoy in the moments before his death. An anonymous U.S. official subsequently described their policy in hindsight as "lead[ing] from behind".[50]

>> Because Libyan rebels had consistently told American government officials that they did not want overt foreign military assistance in toppling Gaddafi, covert military assistance was used (including arms shipments to opposition). The plan following Gaddafi's death was to immediately begin flowing humanitarian assistance to eastern Libya and later western Libya, as the symbolism would be critically important. U.S. sources stressed it as important that they would "not allow Turkey, Italy and others to steal a march on it".[51]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Muammar_Gaddafi#For...
I searched for "meter ring load limiter", and found this product: http://www.brooksutility.com/products/75

So the utility installs a 10-30 amp circuit breaker outside the customer's house. Should be enough to power a gas furnace, but if they draw more than 1200-7200 watts (120V*10A to 240V*30A), the breaker pops and they have to go outside and reset it.
We can just agree to disagree then. I'd find libraries all the time on github which had class components using state in weird ways you wouldn't expect.

It sounds like your org could use some simple guiding principles and code reviews. You seem experienced, this shouldn't be a big problem. Maybe help guide your junior devs?
OK so criticisms heard.

What is a solution?
If Apple offered Metal alongside third-party APIs like Vulkan, I wouldn't be so quick to draw conclusions. However, they made the move to muscle out open graphics APIs from their desktop OS, and the only assumption I'm left to make is that they're directing people onto their own proprietary API in an attempt to lock down their developers and users. Again, if Metal were available on other platforms, or had actual competitors in the space, I wouldn't be so harsh. Until that is the case, it's the same as Apple's App Store: an undeniable walled garden. You can disagree with me, you can cite dissenting opinions if you want, but it's no different than the rest of Apple's product strategy.