skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About the art, I think another perfect example is Grim Fandango. It was the first Lucasarts 3D adventure, at a time when the 3D (late '90) was a graphically inferior solution to 2D. However, they exploited the low polygon number, to give a special character to the models, like paper dolls. So the heresy of moving from 2D was instead a conscious artistic choice, strictly linked to the then-modern technologies.
The main issue with options is the time component. Now you have to bet on the direction and be pretty precise with the when.

Also, prices for these options (Tesla is a good example) aren't cheap. For example a bet that Tesla will be below $900 by Jan 19th 2024 will cost you about $250 / share at the moment. That means Tesla needs to actually be below $650 on Jan 19th 2024 before you make 1 dollar.

As long as you understand whats going on and what you are actually betting on, you are fine. But options have lots of 'gotchas'.
I think it's fair to say a nuclear power plant "uses" the water that it discharges its waste heat into as it flows out into a river or large body of water. If it didn't use that water, it would have to dump its heat somewhere else.
Size of the market vs difficulty of the problem.

I wrote a FORTH interpreter in about 3000 lines of assembler when I was in high school. It's not hard to write a LISP and it's entirely routine to write a simple PASCAL-like language in a compiler class.

The simple case I see is that if you completely understood the bitstream format of an FPGA it might not be hard to make something that compiles some kind of code to the FPGA. To compete with current HDL tools you would need something that produces photomasks, the cost of testing the system alone would be astronomical.
Man I wish I became a neuroscientist or something. Seems like there’s so much work to do in that field if we ever want to understand the human brain, which I have my doubts. I’d probably do it if it didn’t involve basically a vow of poverty.
It's cool and amazing that you still remember this. I mean last time I played this game was over 20 years ago ha! Ah yes the Helium balloon and this is the also the part Guybrush needs to shoot the dart right?
Yes, I tried to work with Zig long before Hare was even an idea. I had hoped that Zig would fill the hole in the ecosystem that Hare is designed to fill, but ultimately I felt that I needed to write Hare. I think that Zig is far too complex and essentially unbounded in scope. A language to replace C needs to be as conservative as C, if not even more considering the coming changes from C2X.
I haven't actually used OCaml in any depth, but I have found that F# tends to have quite good error messages. In the Programming Languages Coursera course, I found that SML has pretty bad error messages.
libav:

On Windows: download shared from here(1), unzip anywhere. Right click on the project, select "Project settings" (IIRC) then point to .libs you want to use (or add them all), add include path (ffmpeg/include). Done.

On linux (Qt): install with apt-get. Point to libs, add include path (in the .pro file).

The only complication is that you have to wrap the #includes with extern "C" {} if you are on C++.

I did it for both platforms the other day and it works. Super easy.

Cross-compile: on Qt you do it through packs you select at install stage. Sometimes it requires the runtime to be installed (like for Android) but it's not complicated.

On VS, I don't know today. I remember for Windows CE you had to install an SDK, and compilation/debug was out-of-the-box (F7 to compile, F5 to debug in-target). And I used Platform Builder for years, and I cross-compiled the entire OS from the menu.

On Arduino: select your board from the menu. Also, installing libraries is done through a menu. Pulled from online resources automatically.

But I guess I will not convince you. You'll come up with another challenge.

(1) https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases
Mullvad always seemed too good to be true. So that's why i'd won't use it if i'd had critical stuff to do. I do love Mullvad, but so aircrack-ng
I suspect HN hug of death
Jump: How memes can spark global mass hysteria (2020)
Unfortunately the folks that get to make these decisions are so removed from the reality of their company's every day tasks that all they can think is "if I don't see butts in the seats I bought, then obviously no work is getting done".
Business Impact of Code Quality [pdf]
I believe that's actually the wrong question to be asking.

If you've got an "opponent", you've already lost. There is nothing in the world that can force them to change their mind. Even if they're right, they're not out to help you discover that. They're out to change your mind.

Instead, seek out situations where you're not opponents, but partners in seeking the best way for both of you to live together. It's not about seeking "truth", which is something you should both be able to agree on easily. If not, one of you is arguing dishonestly. It doesn't matter which, because the argument isn't going to help figure that out. You have to go find another way.

The world is full of differing opinions, and there's no real way to resolve them. We all have incomplete information. Even with identical information, and goodwill to admit it, you can still reach different conclusions. What we need is not to "defeat an opponent", but to seek ways in which both of you can live with the situation. Which is plenty hard enough even when you're not actively considering each other "opponents".

You'll still have to grapple with the fact that sometimes the things you know are wrong. That's incredibly difficult to get around. It's the essence of science, and of any critical thought. You gain experience through learning as much as you can -- and not with people who have made it important to their egos to change your mind.

So my advice: avoid the situation you're asking about entirely. If you're wrong, you'll find out via somebody more helpful, who is capable of understanding which things you're right about and how your picture of the world is misleading. Plenty of such people exist, but they're not the ones making the most noise.
No, the "narrative" is not based just on Clinton's claims. There's way more than that. There's research into fake social media accounts, what they do, and who runs them.

To me, the one that really stands out was when sock puppet Facebook accounts organized a BLM rally and a MAGA rally at the same time and place. That seems pretty clear what the intent was.
Firefox 100 released with invisible scrollbar
A number of my personal sites end up blocked by corporate firewalls. It’s slightly infuriating. Even my own company. I got in a literal fight with IT needing to justify the why in why I needed access to my own website. Like I can live without it, but it’s nothing but my blog where I rant about tech. The why should be why is it blocked to begin with. The default state should not be blocked.
Yeah, Spec Ops: The Line was really good. Really good like some movies I've seen where I was like "that was great—I wish I hadn't seen it", but still, really good.
For you they don’t but for many if not most they do. To most consumers the products aesthetics is the only deciding factor between competing products
Happily, the streets are quite hot right now.
Parents want parental controls on their children’s devices, and that becomes part of their decision on which provider to choose for their children’s phone contracts. Vodafone is reacting to market desire for an optional feature, there isn’t some evil spooky ulterior motive at play.
What I look for in a language first is how good the support is for concurrency, and especially if it has a good, modern concurrent garbage collector.

A quick search brought up this:

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/pro-mailing-list-on-comm...

> This was primarily for the lack of good parallel, concurrent garbage collectors in Common Lisp implementations. The CL version of elPrep was actually still a tad faster than any of the C++, Go, or Java versions, but we had to work hard to avoid long GC pauses. elPrep allocates a lot of memory, and the pause time hurts a lot. We solved this by, basically, disabling the garbage collector, and reusing memory manually as much as possible, which turned the program into almost a manually memory-managed affair.
What's the proper course of action for folks like us? Report them to a GPL violations hotline?

I don't ask in jest, I just was arguing with CAT (yes the heavy equipment people) about getting ROM/sources for their Android ROM, which they've stated they won't even ship the .bin out of the company.
TypeScript managed to be more successful than Dart in the whole "compile-to-JS" space.
It is not totally clear from the article, but it appears Vodafone blocks a site as 'for 18+' when really it is a case of an incorrect certificate. To get round it you need to register with Vodafone.

At least google allows me to click away such warnings (while warning that doom is imminent).
Blank nodes are one of the contested flame warzones of RDF.

The fact that they don't have a reified instance means that they are open to collapse with other blank nodes in certain inference scenarios and makes a lot of problems as hard as graph isomorphism.

Much better to go with plain old UUIDs instead.
General purpose social media will be considered the greatest mistake of the early 21st century. Go back to topic-oriented discussion boards.

When you have no common topic around which to organize, then people have to search each other's personalities for commonality. And in doing so, they stratify along political lines. This isn't enough, so then they micro-stratify into various, rabid subgroups within those political wings.

But when you have the only message board dedicated to an obscure brand of motorcycle from the 1940s (or whatever, IDK), then you're stuck with those people. You're stuck with either having to learn to get along or lose out on your favorite thing.

Go back to topic-oriented message boards. You don't need identity continuity between all the message boards you are membered in. That serves the corporate surveillance state more than it serves you. You don't need people on Board A to see what you're doing on Board B. If it's important and relevant, you can tell them. You dn't need to be friended with all your aunts and cousins and ex boyfriends. That shit is weird, family is for seeing at Thanksgiving to remember why you hate them and then go back to being happy for the rest of the year.

Go back to topic-oriented message boards.
Retail traders should be realizing gains within 2-3 month intervals. Retail investors will usually hold for years and do average pricing until the next market crash
Always hated "alignment" in D&D. Your character is as they do. I was happy to move over to DragonQuest back in the day, did away with a lot of D&D's baggage to my mind.
Presumably the owners already have more money than they will need to live a comfortable life. Why not just give it to the employees?
TIL: there are no nuclear reactors in Australia.
I'd bet it's because the filtering vendor (Allot) sells a simple interface to the customer (Vodafone) that mostly consists of allowlist/blocklist entries manually added by support agents when someone complains.

There's probably a policy to dictate what content should be filtered, but in practice: a ticket is filed to block a site, someone looks at the ticket, in all likelihood it is added to the blocklist, and then probably ends up there forever until complaints are raised.

You could be correct that the presence of multiple x's in the URL makes it more likely for support agents to think "yep, this is probably sketchy, there's no harm adding it to the blocklist" - I doubt it's the original reason though.
Yet they fail to explain why that's a "bad" thing.
To give US-ians the correct perspective, radical left-wing isn't negotiating a countrywide price for drugs. It's nationalizing the pharmaceutical and biotech business.
Demand for straws in the EU is nowhere near the US. I'd wager the latter represents most of global straw consumption

Some quick googling shows Europe consuming ~24 billion straws / year⁰ while the US consumes anywhere between 64–142 billion¹

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0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/989916/consumption-of-pl...

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-b... (see Fact Check box half way through article)
This is absolutely crazy, almost an order of magnitude. What could've triggered this? All Postmark addresses suddenly under 'marketing content/spam' scrutiny?
Next pandemic? Covid-19 is a precise outline of exactly how climate change will go. May the odds be ever in your favor.
The GP's metaphor of a marriage is not applicable in this case, since a marriage is a friendship/partnership, and the corporate structure is essentially a kingdom. Options are limited if the king and his advisors aren't listening, or they listened and rejected the approach for whatever their reasons are. An open letter to the king probably won't change anything, but worth a try before emigrating.
Consume less, create more (2019)
Yes. As I reiterated many times in that thread, having your data stored in the heap does not introduce any immediate vulnerabilities, and this behavior is thoroughly documented in the standard library.

It is possible for two people who both take security seriously to come away with different take-aways. Once some CVEs are found in Hare you might have some fuel for your argument, but until then it's just speculation.
Have you tried a reMarkable tablet?

https://remarkable.com/

It's a 10.3" e-ink device with a really nice touchscreen surface that supports low-latency, high-precision writing using a stylus. It's Linux-based and is highly hackable with lots of open-source projects:

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

It seems to stand alone....

Yay e-ink, boo GPL violations.
They pay well because demand for engineers is high. Cost of living is high because engineers have bought all the stock in the area.

You've got the order backwards.
You break out the handy old electron microscope and check that the bits written are what you expect.
> And I got critically hit by his thrown pebble after clapping at a funeral.

That sounds epic.
> Go back to topic-oriented message boards.

This is essentially what Mastodon instances are. As a bonus, they can interact if they want it.
Isn't the power law evidence that it's not really about merit?

That is, when you measure individual performance (how fast they run, how tall they are, IQ, ...) it is almost always some kind of bell curve.

There are people who have more than a million times the assets of other people but it seems unthinkable that somebody is really a million times more productive, rather a person like that is getting a share of the productivity of 10 million other people.
I know someone who has one. It's surprisingly good and can display a few lines of text at once. It's not as big as the pebble but it seems like enough.
Apple also said that the developer can also contest the removal by reaching out to ask for an exception.
I almost stopped reading there, as it didn't seem honest or accurate.

It does get somewhat better:

> For Cobbe, the risks outweigh the potential benefits. The computer code doesn’t give us any insight into how algorithms were trained or tested, what factors or considerations went into them, or what sorts of things were prioritized in the process, so open-sourcing it may not make a meaningful difference to transparency at Twitter. Meanwhile, it could introduce some significant security risks.

So really this is saying that opensourcing a selection of algorithms isn't enough. Whenever I see something that says this is a bad idea or can't be done, I see the reasons given as a TODO list of how to actually make it work. What we want is transparency of changes. What's the goal, what's being measured, what's the impact of a change.
Seeing someone have to repair a Supreme hoodie kinda ruined it for me, not gonna lie.
speak of the devil: https://status.postmarkapp.com/

I wonder how/if this relates to the acquisition at all.
A bit off-topic, but probably interesting to folks reading these threads:
A quarter-century ago I worked at a little company that made networking ASICs. The guy who did "floorplanning" and layout had his own tool flow based on a set of scripts he had written over the years. Those scripts were written in Emacs Lisp.

I don't know why he picked this approach, although I suspect that he started out with a manual process on much smaller chips and then started automating it. Anyway, I had to compile a 64-bit version of Emacs to run on his 64-bit SPARC machine (back when its 6GB was enormous) so that it would work with our designs. (back then Emacs only used MSBs for its tagged pointers, so 32-bit Emacs could only address half a GB)

I've seen Emacs used for some pretty weird things, but so far this one takes the prize.
Many years ago, I used to work for Vodafone - and had some responsibility for their filtering stuff.

One of the main problems was that, at the time, it was all managed by Blue Coat. As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience.

Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocked. Although, again, that may have been by puritanical design.

Anything which looked like it might be used to bypass their filters (VPN, proxies, etc) were also blocked.

Ultimately, the customer isn't the user. It is the network who are terrified that Johnny's parent is going to go to the papers screaming about how the evil phone company corrupted their innocent child. That's all it is there for - to protect the network.
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I think there must be more to it than that. Rather, I'm sure it's necessary but I'm not sure it's sufficient. C# has all of that built-in, and actually even more, but I don't see that it's enough by itself to become broadly popular for web development.
Scientists Engineer New Plastic-Eating Enzyme
I was thinking of the place-based histories, physical and digital archives in this story, one couldn't happen without the other. In the future (or now I guess) can there be the same kind of confluence?
Still waiting on a Librem 5 from 2019, while the Puri.sm site claims it takes 52 weeks to deliver new orders. Draw your own conclusions.
If you were a school or other institutional user using this filtering service (which isn't just marketing to service providers like Vodafone), you'd probably have their root CA installed so your users see the filter error page instead of just an SSL error.
The size of the market was continuously growing from the 80s, we're producing more hardware with several architectures these days than before.
I go to work because I like exchanging labor for money. The marriage analogy is kind of crazy.

I’ve had eight jobs in my 25 years as an adult. It never took me more than two months to find a job I was happy with. It took me 15 years and one failed marriage to find a a spouse I was happy with.

When I have a disagreement with my wife, we compromise as equal partners. I’m not in any way an equal partner to the CEO of a 2 trillion+ dollar company.

Leaving my marriage necessitated lawyers, going to court, and giving up half of everything we accumulated together. Leaving a job required a form resignation letter with meaningless platitudes and a two week notice.
Lucas planned Jar Jar to be revealed as the Sith Lord in the second movie, that's why the character is unlikeable, but it would have been an interesting plot twist and would have made the first movie rewatchable since he place many little clues. Authors shouldn't be scared to develop their vision, and then create something to please them that will suck anyway.
also there a lot of implementations of "pointer/size/capacity struct" for strings in plain C
All those things you mentioned in the first two paragraphs are fixed by F#, however, it is still not popular.

The reasons in that case are that .NET was not originally cross-platform, which was a major blunder for Microsoft, C#, and especially F#. The other is that people have some weird stigma against Microsoft, despite it not applying in many cases. Although they should have started off cross-platform, the transition from .NET Framework, to .NET Core, and now to .NET 5/6/7 has been really impressive. That along with GitHub and Visual Studio Code, it's pretty amazing how much progress Microsoft has made for developers.

I just wish it would bring more people to F#, as it's sort of a Goldilocks language since it hits so many sweet spots.
Work and time contributed by open source collaborators on their free or academic time cannot be magically converted from one subsystem to another. It is honestly very easy to have progress on the aspects that spark interest while some subsystem are starved from attention when there are no full-time developers working on a project.
tl;dr. Is this some covid-specific bit of handwaving, or did the court outlaw ANY kind of mandated vaccination? Such as kids going to school, healthcare workers, those working in medical/biotech research, travellers to hot-spot countries, ...?
Thank you for the references, this is a very interesting perspective that I personally never considered before.

But still, I wondering if this should mean that WFH needs to be enforced at any company. Not every company can implement full WFH without disrupting operations, especially when working with hardware or when needing concurrent comunication between co-workers.

The article about black workers, mentions discrimination based (mainly) on their appareance. Sure this cannot happen if they work behind a screen. But the same would happen if we all were blind? Shall we wear opaque glasses to end discrimination based on racial features too?

We can also flip the argument. I see this as telling black people (or other groups), stay at home, and in this people will not discriminate you. Is this really what we want? We should make the world better by improving it, not downgrading it.
FWIW, a $4/m Exchange Online Plan 1 is probably enough. Or even the $1/m Exchange Online Protection if you don't have any need for a hosted mailbox. Anything that'll get you ongoing access to the Exchange Admin Center.

I use a single M365 Business Basic account, as a conventional mailbox, for one of my domains. From within the Exchange Admin Center there's extensive control over mail flow -- domains to accept mail for, inbound and outbound connectors for routing mail between on-prem mail servers. Best as I can tell, literally ongoing any subscription that gets you an account with access to EAC ought be enough to route any or all of your email through EO in either direction.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/compa...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/excha...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/standalone-eop/sta...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow-best-pra...
That still makes sense. Something can be more or less correlated with the broader market. It's very useful, actually: you can use securities that tend to not be correlated with the broader market to build a portfolio with less average variance.
I just would like something that allowed me the get "the feel" of a technical drawing software.
I’m a big fan of Justin’s work on Buttondown (though, as a newsletter creator, I tend to roll my own on things). He’s created a really unique service that a lot of folks who are sick of the Substack/Revue approach will find benefit in.