skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago, when I have been downloading the latest share- or freeware from Tucows, I've established a pretty good-working metric for when a software has jumped the shark for me personally. It was when a major release's biggest change has been the introduction of skins -- it mostly meant that the authors found out how to make them -- it has been the hype of the time after all -- and deemed them more important than other features.

I get the same feeling recently with Emojis. They might be improving the fun factor of your software, especially if it's of a communications kind, but shoehorning them everywhere else feels wrong on so many levels. I dread to think of how many man-years have been put into getting emoji everywhere, in font development, standard bodies etc. for a miniscule increase in whatever better engagement in chat software actually brings to the societs. In a way that's me getting older, but also the feeling we are exchanging something valuable for colorful (and animated!) icons, also reducing the emotions previously nuancely expressed by language to a placeholder which is subject to interpretation.
These lines are Dutch directness' kryptonite!

The website could come in handy if I ever need to translate some of these theatrics back to human speech. The ability to switch the variants around would be a nice to have ;)

Edit: removed unintentional rudeness, throwing OP a bone
Even in 1990. :) But, on Unix workstations in 1990, you'd still occasionally run an Xaw program, and Xfig was obviously a step or two above that. Xfig looked opinionated in a really advanced 1980s way.

I still occasionally used Xfig, over the years, when I needed to draw a diagram, and the other options readily available on whatever Unix/Linux box were garbage. Xfig somehow kept working.
lol https://youtu.be/d1JA-nh0IfI
Understandable. The original is correct that b is used uninitialized, but they don't clarify that it is a that is left uninitialized.
Tangent: Is there a reason why C and C++ compilers are dev-PC-OS dependent for ARM targets? For example, if using Rust to compile for a Cortex-M etc, the workflow is the same for Windows and linux: Install the `thumbv7` target using a CLI command, then `cargo build`. I'm trying to build an OSS C lib now for the same platform, and the Windows instructions involve WSL or Cgywin.
That certainly is a pain.
I love this. I quite like Swift.

I've been enjoying Elm for a few years, because it keeps me away from most of the bloat and churn in web UI tech / frameworks, and it's enjoyable (for me) to work in. It really helps to keep my sanity and avoid burnout. Your choice of Swift is really appealing to me... I'm not a huge fan of "apps" in general though. Still, I would guess that Swift will be around for a long time.

I'll add that it helps to be financially sorted (and no longer motivated by trying to become uber rich).
I'd always assumed his trader-buffoon shtick was to push the proles to trade a particular way so that his trader buddies could profit from the herd. But coin toss is probably as accurate and more charitable.
They assumed the government's software would do this:

(1) Purchase #1 for $25 successful --> reduce remaining limit from $10000 to $9975.

(2) Purchase #2 for $10000 rejected and refund pending --> DO NOT reduce limit since you know the purchase didn't go through.

(3) Purchase #3 for $9975 within limit --> allow purchase, reduce limit to exactly $0.

Instead, at step 2, the software seems to handle the purchase by unconditionally taking $10000 off the limit at purchase time and putting $10000 back later when the refund is processed. (And consequently, at step 3, it failed the purchase.)

There isn't an obvious reason to do it this way, so it's surprising. It seems like if you can reduce the limit, you can check if you've exceeded it and just fail the purchase and never modify the limit (at purchase or refund time).
HDMI ports and SD card readers ftw
It depends on the framework. I can tell a geometric figure is a square because it’s a quadrilateral with right angles and sides of equal length. You could ask me a question like “Is a rectangle with a side of length 1 and a diagonal of root 2 a square?” and I can tell it is.

Ask me “Was 1 1 1 1 produced by a random process?” and it’s impossible to tell in the way I did with the square.
You missed the parent’s point. “Equal 1s and 0s” is not a sequence; it’s a class of sequences. So the fact that sequences with that property are more common than the specific sequence “all 1s” is true but doesn’t answer the question. 11110000 is a different sequence than 10101010. The question this thread is exploring is whether 1111111 is more likely than any other sequence, e.g. than 1111000 in particular (or insert any other sequence). And of course the answer is no.
It’s not a sequel, were you expecting a sequel?
> stop calling me before my workday even starts

In what circumstances would you use this phrase?

If they are calling you out of hours, ignore it. They'll eventually get the message.
Calling this "disastrous" goes beyond hyperbole into a realm of parody, so I can only assume you're kidding.

A lot of the iOS 7 changes were positive, and those which were missteps were far from "disastrous" and have already been reversed.

If you have to go all the way back to a fringe product like the 5c, that kinda proves the opposite of your point, doesn't it? The 5c is the exception that proves the rule.

Nobody should be glad Ive is gone. It was a tremendous loss. For every decision you might disagree with, there were a hundred others that were spot-on.
None of these are a big deal. Did you consider that maybe spending a week figuring out design is not a bad idea?
Love it. This is an excellent resource for brushing up on certain parts of the API I don't use as frequently. I've been using Pandas daily for about 6 years now and to see how it's evolved over time makes me really proud of the community. The obligatory comparisons to other tools in R are cliched and seem to completely miss the point.
There's also this cool thing to look for:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

Up near z=115 and n=180.

Buut, looks like this beam won't get there yet and nothing on the horizon

"Radioactive ion beams (such as 44S) in combination with actinide targets (such as 248Cm) may allow the production of more neutron rich nuclei nearer to the center of the island of stability, though such beams are not currently available in the required intensities to conduct such experiments."

But maybe we'll get lucky!
I believe what pessimizer means is that while "all 1s" is not as likely as "equal 1s and 0s", it is just as likely as any individual string of 1s and 0s - for example, 111111 is just as likely as 100110.
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Perhaps. Best to talk to an accountant. fwiw mine are about 70 quid a month, they're generally good but have f'd up in the past so i can't really recommend them. Hence my advice to try and keep things as simple as possible for them.
The two creators continued the theme in their next works -- Davey Wreden's "The Beginner's Guide" is a 2-3 hour game and a powerful look at what it means to make art and how we interact with it through an epistolary-style series of nano-games ostensibly made by his friend Coda. It's the greatest game I've ever played.

William Pugh made "Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist," which is a goofy 30 min game where you arrive early to a game and must deal with that situation as it develops.

Both are absurdly creative, funny and/or touching, and obviously have the same creative fingerprints of Stanley Parable within them.
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I was just responding to nonsense about high failure rate of contraception, obviously male contraception is options are very limited.
Makes sense but I already have several years of experience using Freeagent by myself, and there's lots of accountants that advertise they use Freeagent too. If I don't need a specialist accountant, finding one that uses Freeagent seems a good idea and if it doesn't work out (you hear lots of horror stories) I can easily switch without the upheaval of learning new software.
There are some very interesting current developments in this area going on today with checkerboard public lands that are bounded on the sides with private land but touch other public land on the corners. Hunters will take ladders across from public land to a public land not touching the private land. There are some lawsuits from private owners saying this violates their property rights trying to stop it. If this is upheld, it would mean that only the private landowners have access to the National Forest
But I don't think most of the rewordings suggested here are going to make people want to interact with you. They make you sound like you run your every utterance by HR, legal, and three teams of consultants but they won't keep you from seeming like an asshole.
I’m really curious why people love working at startups when big companies pay 2-5x more and have less stress.

Is it that the uncertainty, stress, and more working hours are exciting? Is it actually just the lottery ticket aspect? I know startups have some advantages in terms of building something new and having more impact on the product, but it seems hard to outweigh the day-to-day unpleasantness.

I’ve worked at both and I’ll never go back to a startup. I’m really unclear as to why they appeal to people. Maybe those factors just don’t bother other people that much?
I have this too and really loved it. But now I just use the cheapest B5 notebooks I can find, for the refill paper was somewhat expensive. For organization, I use the postit-like flags to label pages, and sometimes I'll write a table of contents on the front cover when the notebook is full.
So any company that buys anything for a starting point and then changes it and evolves from there is not a real company? That is your opinion?

> that changes nothing

And you know this how?

> that he invented fire and the wheel.

I literally said they bought a machine and they are working iteration by iteration to improve it.

Who are you arguing against?
I'm not familiar with Algorand. Has it had any event that's similar in scale to what's mentioned in the tweet?

Every chain can scale until it can't. And then it's either high gas fees or centralization. If you solved this problem, adoption would not be your concern. But that's a tall order.
> the M1 era of Apple is the more exciting than things have been in years.

Abso-frickin-loutly. The 2020 MacBook Air M1 is the best laptop hardware device you can buy on the market right now. The battery life is amazing and this makes the laptop almost invisible since I am hardly ever struggling to search for power. The sound is great as well. Price per pound you cannot beat it.

My one small gripe is the black glass bezel, which turns into a distracting fingerprint magnet.

They do need to up their game on SSD storage. but I am sure the MBA's at Apple do not care because this drives people to buy iCloud storage. And if that is the case, they really need to work on iCloud because the syncing sucks.

I would certainly buy an iPad M1 if they let me run apps like LibreOffice, so they need to get their act together on software. Yeah, I have a lot of issues with their software. Software, IMHO, is where they really need to innovate.

Once Asahi Linux is stable I will probably abandon MacOS again.
I think your statement is correct in theory, but when you get into the actual practice of low-income housing, the lines get quite blurry and calling it a "mobile home" sure doesn't help. I'd say I'm more incensed at the idea of being told how to live on property that I putatively own, especially in a state that claims to have great respect for property rights.
That's not a valid reason why I can't use them on the P cores. Some motherboards can enable them on the i9-12900k, it works fine, but you need to pin to a P core.
> no-one is able to tell anything with 100% certainty

Including this very assertion? So it's possible that _someone_ could tell _something_ with 100% certainty?
Many distributed db doesn't have role based access control?

Imaging I want to build a p2p forum. There is an administrator, multiple moderators, members and visitors.

Visitors can only have read access. members can post, moderators can delete. administrator can promote members to moderators.

Can this be supported by distributed db?

I have checked a few, I didn't see they support that. Most assume the peers have the same permissions to access the db. They may be useful in a trusted environment, not in a untrusted environment.
Can we stop this silliness. Computers do not become obsolete due to them being difficult to repair.

They become obsolete because they become obsolete. Let's not just throw whatever we can find on the "right"-to-repair heap in an effort to desperately justify it. Justify it on its own terms. Or don't.
That's a lot of money to pay for a device that locks you into the App Store.
Interesting! If you don't mind me asking, what country are you in? I'm asking because I'm an American and I don't think I've ever heard of this.
This is the kind of veiled talk that I can't stand. I'm left trying to decipher whether the person is serious or what they mean exactly.

If my idea sucks, just tell me so and we can talk about why, don't beat around the bush with ambiguous politically correct words.
what did you use to scan them? did you have to remove the binding?
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No.

The most likely reason in your case is the build system of the library you want to build uses some mix of POSIX shell script and GNU Make, which is ... hard to get right on Windows. It's not C/C++ specific, through installing a cross C compiler on Windows might involve more work than rustup add target (or not, if someone did the work and packaged the toolchain as .exe installer).
Outlines are mentioned about six minutes into the talk, but it is, IMHO, heavy with context, so I strongly suggest you simply watch it from the beginning.
Better build the lichess.org of speed cubing
Rust only uses LLVM currently. WSL or Cygwin is because the compiler situation on Windows is a bit rough(VS doesn't support C fully), so most people use GCC there.
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Apple Park and Apple Watch. I worked on Apple Park and was in meetings with Ive. He was amazing.
Who would have thought that to reap continuously, you have to sow continuously...
The point the parent is making is that 1) represents a class of results rather than a single result, and any single member of that class is equally as likely as 2) or 3). Obviously the class as a whole is more likely than any other single result, but that's a different assertion.
Usually contracts have clauses about what happens in case of a merger or acquisition [0]. If you are powerful, say a wealthy star or a big corporation, you can push for terms that are favourable to you. If you are not, you have to sign whatever they put in front of you or walk out. I guess in this case, there was a clause in the contract that was most favourable to the company and least to the contributor.

[0] For examples, look at any SaaS company's privacy policy. Here is Figma's:

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, purchase or sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction, as permitted by law and/or contract.

https://www.figma.com/privacy/
[1] was my source, which looks like it's combining both undergraduate and graduate population demographics for the year 2020-2021. I would certainly trust the number you are sharing for the incoming class, but the graduate population may be much more unrepresentative of the US population. This [2] source suggests that may be the case.

[1] https://www.univstats.com/colleges/harvard-university/studen...

[2] https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/166027/harvard-uni...
Nice, I remember the initial blogpost but haven't followed progress. There's definitely friction working with JavaFX but you get so much for free. I don't have the aversion many Clojurists seem to have to accepting the bounties of the Java ecosystem, and I've been around long enough to be slightly leery of pure Clojure libraries that fail to reach critical mass (which, if we're totally honest, is almost all of them given enough time).
That's why the Western propaganda is so effective. Even the producers (let alone consumers) don't realize how biased and manipulated the product is.
Individually pirating from authors when you can afford the book is indeed something to at least look on suspicion if not outright critique for the consequences of consuming a work and not paying for it in any way. Publishing is cutthroat and lack of sales, especially new in a series or authors career, is basically used as justification to ditch the author and ditch the book series… in every way one is consuming the authors work as a fan and also working against the author producing in the future.

At the very least why not become a reviewer, that way you can receive advanced copies and in return write a review to generate hype for the book?
Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I usually use 'incompetence' or 'ignorance' rather than 'stupidity'.
Razer co-founder and gaming mouse inventor Robert Krakoff has passed away
Seriously, what the hell. Acting like this guy is blowing his future on a roulette wheel by getting some savings bonds.

Is anybody else just sick to death of the term "emergency fund"? If you go to /r/personalfinance, every other comment is reminding people to stock up their emergency fund. Towelie says, "Don't forget to bring a towel!"

I'll tell you about my real "emergency fund": In an actual, living emergency, every single dollar I have, in every account, even my IRA, and all my credit lines combined, are my emergency fund. That's the nature of an emergency. If I empty out some specially earmarked emergency fund, I don't tell the doctor to quit taking the bullets out of my spleen because I'm tapped. "Sorry, can't touch my HYSA!" (HYSAs are another butt bug of /r/pf)

What people mean by "emergency fund" obviously is their "don't stupidly overdraft your checking account fund", but they never spell that out.
But to be fair most wireless mice _do_ work just fine when plugged in, so the failure to make a mouse that for some reason can’t work while plugged in is also a part of their design.
It's basically an artifact of how GCC works.

LLVM is a library that happens to have Clang in front of it, whereas GCC still isn't really able to have multiple targets in the same binary.

Could probably be done but for actually assembling toolchains you generally only need one anyway so it's not that annoying most of the time.
> Practically speaking, no, there are not.

Yes, there are. C++ has constructors which ensure that uninitialized objects don't happen.

mynumber i; // i is initialized by constructor
mynumber j = i;

mynumber x = mynumber(1) / 0; // reliable exception is thrown

i * INT_MAX; // exception or bignum support in mynum
You're forgetting there appears to be a race condition at play. The third transaction was marked as canceled because the second has not finished processing and so is still counting against the total. There is no guarantee the govt system will check that again once 2 completes (in fact, I'd be shocked if it did). And by the time both 2 and 3 process, the window to buy looks like it will be closed per the author's post.
Ah. OK, in that case...

> When Kepler found a spinning object theory which worked, it wasn't overfitting.

Well, yeah, that's true, but the important thing about Kepler was not the fact that it was a "spinning object theory", it was the switch from a "circular theory" to an "elliptical theory". (Also the switch from geocentrism to heliocentrism, but that was Copernicus, not Kepler).

This is the sort of thing that the supersymmetrists are hoping to achieve, but have not yet achieved, most likely because nature is not supersymmetric in point of actual fact.
"To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful, I should answer ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. it is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it’s benefits, than is done by it’s abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. the real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time: whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.

general facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, but no details can be relied on. I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. he who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

- Thomas Jefferson, 1807 [1]

That's one of my favorite quotes that's becoming more relevant by the day. The reason, among many, is that that was written more than 200 years ago. It emphasizes that the brief window of media that many of us grew up within was some weird brief bubble of competence, integrity, and accountability that was for seemingly most all of the rest of humanity's existence, not the case. And we're now simply returning to the 'good ole days.'

[1] - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5...
I don't think I agree with most of these. The professional way to say "I told you so" is to not say it. If there are specific action items you can bring them up in a post mortem without pointing fingers.

If you feel like you genuinely need to let people know that something wasn't your fault (which would be a bit of an organizational red flag) that's an action item for you to make sure your interjections are more visible next time.
That's not how I remember it ;)

What I meant to say was less nutrients in same amount of weight/volume eaten.
there's more whitespace above 0x20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character#Unicode
Thanks, I was expecting a lot of "talk to an accountant" replies but you can't go into that blind imo because you need some base knowledge to ask the right questions and detect bad advice.
Startup Trail is Oregon Trail for tech policy wonks
You might be able to do something truly arcane using GCC extensions and maybe the __attribute((error))__ thing but realistically it either won't compile or you won't notice unless it's too slow.

The compiler constant folds fairly effectively anyway.
The last TP monitor I used definitely had a programming API, but I'm afraid that I've been retired from programming for so long now that I can't remember how I used it :-( You definitely had write code (or at least config files) to tell the thing what sort of transactions to monitor.