skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To you that might be obvious. The compiler can't infer what your intentions were from your code.

How does the compiler know what my intentions were when I multiplied two floats? Maybe I intended to receive a partridge in a pear tree.

Intentions are not relevant here. What's relevant is what makes sense for a multiplication operator to do.
I am not a radio engineer but I understood CDMA wasn't even a very good technology.

American CDMA was not competitve with internationally used GSM (well, no competition existed those days so America kept using it.)

3G (WCDMA) was not a great standard. Very energy-inefficient. Operators are happy to shut it down.

In 4G it's no longer used. What about 5G?

So Qualcomm being the Microsoft of radios? Dominating the world with 2nd class technology and first class shady business practices?
Even more value in exceptional education. So why go to elite university if its not providing that?
you guys having trouble filling this role? you've posted the same thing since last august, I remember because I was looking for clues for upcoming game releases!
> I can see how apps have been designed to promote that kind of behavior, but how did they end up getting us to demand it from each other? I missed the memo.

I think it's just an extension of how things were. To me, this is the online version of people dropping by your desk with a "real quick question".

Heck, even e-mail, which is overtly asynchronous, has some people expecting answers "quickly".
Their costs are $1/80 searches, and the pricing is subject to change. It's hard to offer a service for $120/yr that costs them $300/month.
Interesting. Can you recommend a book or an article on this?
Interesting, just went to the channel to look and the comments are full of people promoting a scam amazon crypto:

https://amazonwt.com/

Interesting to see the scams play out in real time. To be clear it looks like bots on his channel not something he is actually promoting. His content seemed not that bad? Extremely clickbaity for sure.
Even Minecraft, which is written in Java I’ll give you that, uses LWJGL which does have natives that behave in odd ways across platforms.
Is drinking to the point of unconsciousness or running around naked trying to hit people legal where you are?
i wish they were popular examples :/
To be fair, replacing an expensive diploma mill with a free/public diploma mill isn't that bad an idea. Probably just too "socalist" for North America. Imagine if everyone could have access to higher education without going into massive debt!
there was even better study published recently about how significant part of "long COVID" patients have various mental issues similar to people you works previously call hypochondriacs

"Increased risk for PASC (long COVID) was noted in women and those with a history of anxiety disorder."

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905
If they didn't give a crap about CP, what the heck did they think OP did?
They go because there is value in the stamp of approval. Harvard's role in the economy is to certify people as being in the top x% of quality. If you are in the top x% and qualify for their stamp, it's certainly worthwhile to go get it, unless you think that you are so exceptional that you can do without it. And some people are, and do, but you generally have to be an order of magnitude or two above x to be certain of that working out for you.
The article correctly points out that the Greeks didn't have a concept of "homosexuality" in the sense used today [1], and that the more accurate word for the Greek practice is "pederasty". [2]

Yet, they put "Greek homosexuality" in the subtitle.

[1]: "For the Greeks, the concept did not meaningfully exist at all; the social identities we today understand in the West as a gay man or a bisexual woman, for example, simply weren’t something that people recognized."

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece
Yeah, carpet doesn’t match the drapes.
The metaverse already exists, Im in an elevator in Hong Kong and you're prob in your toilets in Idaho. We speak in a language that I'm not native of (Im French) about subjects that barely concern France or China.

So, what more magic can we add to the internet? Bulky headsets you can only use home, 3D avatars with no more mood cues than a forum smiley ? Micropayment for vanity objects not worth more than my karma count on reddit ?

Facebook lost it when they started this nonsense.
What is worse than being interrupted is spending days in deep focus only to find out at the end that you made a foundational mistake that invalidates the rest of your work. Through no fault of your own you could have the wrong understanding of what the user wants or how it fits in with other parts of the system. Being able to quickly sync up with the end user for a change or validate your ideas with another developer is so valuable.

If you need to wait a day to get a response from anyone, you either have to drop the work and do something else while waiting (breaking your deep focus). Or assume you are right while waiting and risk throwing out a days work if you are wrong.
But in software, integers are _not_ a subset of floats. There are numbers that can be represented using an n-bit integer that cannot be represented using an n-bit float, and vice versa. Converting between the two automatically can lose information.
I think you’re assuming that just because we’re updating the image via kubectl (which itself is invoked via CD pipeline) that the infrastructure isn’t codified and persisted, which isn’t the case. You can (and should) still have your infrastructure manifests saved in your infra repo/directory and version controlled; that’s orthogonal to how you update the current image version.
You can also make errors when you multiply two floats together. Why then should Rust allow any operations at all?
> Your profit came at someone else's loss, though. Gambling at a casino and winning means the casino loses money.

In both cases, the money comes from someone else’s loss. The casino’s money, is money from someone else’s loss. It just has a middleman (the casino).

I guess I just think it’s weird to suggest that the casino is somehow more moral… when they’re the same.

A pig with lipstick on, is still a pig.
tried it in recent days, don't really see any difference compared to Brave Search
I always chose meaningful, interesting work over higher pay. I regret it.

Advice to my younger self would be: get rich (financially independent) first, then follow your passion.
Ya, it's certainly possible that we have too few elite universities given the population, or that there's a mismatch there for the absolute numbers. I don't mean to suggest the current arrangement is exactly right.

I just meant to argue against the naive view that we can expand eliteness by letting more people into Ivys, or make more Ivy schools.
Aren't most browser chromium based? A part from very niche, barely updated older browsers I can't really think of any.

I may be completely wrong though. In that case, are those other webkit projects able to run on linux/windows? And How hard would it be to port Orion?
I have the _exact_ same problem, and I've never had it with any other mail provider. They say Gmail is 'the most advanced'. I may be wrong but I don't remember them being as bad going back, so I guess their advancements aren't working.

I mean, Paul Graham seems to be doing fine with a simple[1] algorithm. If I remember correctly, most mail providers used to do the same thing as he described.

"Good security means constantly staying ahead of threats, and our existing ML models are highly effective at doing this—in conjunction with our other protections, they help block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching Gmail inboxes" [2]

That may be true, if you don't consider false positives.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html

[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/ridding-gmail...
> A big, big part of what makes Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "great" is that they've been the foremost works of English literature for hundreds of years. They're known to everyone who attended school in an English speaking country

This is far from true, except in the sense that such people know the name "Shakespeare". The percentage of people having ever attended school in an English speaking country who can recite one sonnet by Shakespeare is going to be... low.

> they've shaped and influenced our language [and] culture

Sure, that's true.

> Being familiar with the works of Shakespeare is necessary context for a thousand phrases and references that you'll encounter every day.

But that isn't. Most Anglophones, as noted above, already aren't familiar with the works of Shakespeare. But they don't have problems understanding phrases and references that may ultimately trace back to him. You can learn words without learning how the words came to be, and in fact that's the only way you can learn words.

(On a side note, this is exactly the problem with the "classic" TNG episode Darmok. The universal translator can translate any language without any prior knowledge being necessary. So it can understand that the sounds the aliens are making mean "Shaka, when the walls fell". It just doesn't know what "Shaka, when the walls fell" means.

But that's not how language works. The episode itself makes it very explicit that the aliens speak a language in which Shakawhenthewallsfell is a single word meaning "doom, defeat, and despair". You don't need to know the story of Shaka to know the meaning of the word.)
If you have high school students you see how destructive and toxic the marketing machines of these ivy league colleges are to young students. I think they just hired ex-tobacco marketers, or some soulless and evil equivalent. They only care about one thing - pumping up the denominator in their acceptance ratings.

Taking the endowments from these leaches is a fantastic idea.
Aspects of this idea will probably not work out, most especially the math, from the first few answers. The baby that HN has in the bathwater is the infrastructure aspect. The arguments for physically centralized educational institutions as a necessity rather than a luxury good are very weak outside of programs with practical physical components, which I would imagine to be a big chunk of STEM and the fine arts. That sort of physical infrastructure — labs, studios, theaters — is itself much more distributable and interchangeable at the undergraduate level than in the current system. The technology to hold lectures and seminars remotely is fully mature, and even if physical needs remain, those needs can be met by local infrastructure. Pedagogically, development of wider course standards and more sophisticated modes of course credit assignment are both feasible information-architecture level projects, and all these things taken together could transform education from a credential gateway implicitly knitting social networks designed to retain power to a ubiquitous more cloud-like environment focused purely on the learning, scholarship, and research that is needed to actually keep the wheels from falling off society.

A lot of people are less welcoming of OP's style now that the ranks of the very online are less exclusively populated with socially primitive young men jockeying with each other for imagined status, but aside from the ludicrous belief that he might have solved major problems by taking a half-assed crack at them, he's not wrong to be going big on this. Of course everything we come up with is going to be impractical bullshit. At best some posters with real and interesting knowledge will be rustled out of the bushes. But people should be thinking about the gap between what we actually need, what we actually have, and what could be done with the means at our disposal.
hello@mycatchall.com

Or if for a specific forum - hello_slashdot@mycatchall.com
It took me months to break the addiction. It's an idle game and years later, I'm only halfway through the content. I am sorry, I should have added a warning.
In order to make _some_ things safer, every type system must make _other_ things impossible. There is, as far as I'm aware, no real way around that.
Yes, the cashier's check is fake. And they will never meet you at the originating bank. I've even had cashier's checks mailed to me from my Craigslist ads. Called the originating banks and they verified over the phone that the checks were fake.

When I sell something on Craigslist, it's cash-only and they have to meet me at a public place and pick up the item in person. And I verify the bills are not counterfeit before I hand over the item.

This is what it's come to. Probably because the police can't be bothered with minor fraud nowadays, and the criminals know it.
No input mechanism from the thread, but maybe soon.
> At the end of the day the vote is tallied and entered into a spreadsheet and uploaded to a central place.

There's no inherent need for spreadsheets or computers. It takes much less effort to manually, on paper, sum the vote totals from N districts, than it did to count the votes in each district (given the reasonable assumption that N < number of people per district). From here it's an easy divide-and-conquer to get the sum for the whole country.

> Why do you have any more faith in a paper based system?

Because attacks against paper are much harder to scale and much easier to detect.

> It's fully trust based.

No, each step has multiple observers, independents and competing parties, to make sure there is no cheating. At least it should have. At least it can have them, while a computer system cannot - it's a black box, and no one knows fully how it works, or if it was swapped with a different black box since the last time it was used.

Even the vanishingly few people who understand the formal proof that the program running on it is correct (something no computer voting system has in practice yet had, but let's be generous) can't say for sure the compiler wasn't backdoored, or if silicon trojans were inserted at the factory, or if the CIA asked Intel to make use of their management engine to compromise the machines of the people who implemented the voting algorithm, or if Microsoft or a state-sponsored hacker altered the votes of a significant number of people at time of voting, since they connect to the voting server using their laughably insecure personal computers.

You have made your democracy rely on a massive supply chain, where compromising any link would give an attacker at minimum massive influence on the outcome of your elections. And for what benefit? What is so valuable that is worth this massive risk? Saving one drive per voter, every 2-4 years?
Selling data?
... straight to jail! ;-)
Please stop using batch files grandpa. PowerShell has been around for 15 years now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Smith_%28engineer%29?wpro...

(The linked page is light on details)
Many people consider 'dumb' more offensive to use as an epithet than than fuck is.
I think this is overrated. I went to a rinky dink community college. It was a very urban school (meaning, no grassy hillside campus, we were in the middle of NYC and students had jobs and families to go) and did not have a campus life, so I didn't make many connections with my other students. I still ended up with a great degree in CS and a great job. For sure if I went to a campus I'd have more opportunities to network and maybe be further in my career, but I achieved success without that.
Been using a catch all email domain since 2005. I've not had any major issues with it.

The entire "calling up and having to explain the username" thing is few and far between. Had that conversation in person and over the phone dozens of times, at most I get a little ask to verify I spoke correctly. Customer support doesn't care. They have people calling them up with an email address of "420hotcock69 at something dot tld". The entire "your company name at silly domain dot tld" generally doesn't phase them.

Mispelled accounts? Rarely happens. Copy and paste the domain. Use a password manager. The only time I have trouble logging in is when I can't remember if I used social auth or created an account.

As for getting email accounts purged? Don't bother. Stop using it for whatever legit reason. Then set a filter to mark all email to that user@ to be sent to spam/deleted. Problem solved.

The ONL time I've had issues was a few random systems that had funky rules for verifying fake email addresses. Oddly they sometimes look for their own domain name in the email address. So I can't use the exact domain name at those.
... "In fact, an ARC chain can be counterfeited,[3] so ARC processing applies when receivers trust the good faith of ARC signers, but not so much their filtering practices."

Hmm, article references an e-mail post by good old John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers for over 30 years, who has some interesting things to say:

"[If] I were a certain kind of bad guy, I would take the two seal ARC chain
from a message from a virtuous sender, replace the message body and
>From and Subject line with my spam, add a fresh new i=3 seal and blast
it out. That ARC chain is 100% valid, even though the messsage is
spam."
this is very old info, but back in the 80's, finding a solid lead--a person who was in the market to buy a car--was worth around $150 of marketing money

Tim Horton's sells donuts, so I doubt comprehensive data about where you are wrt donut shops all year comes close to that value even 35 yrs later
Looks awesome. I might want to try to use it. Do you have image search? Or more importantly, *reverse* image search?
Harvard is a good example of artificial scarcity. They have an extension school[1], where they advertise that you'll be given a Harvard education, by Harvard faculty, virtual or at the Harvard campus. It has somewhat open-enrollment, and thousands of people enroll every year. They're happy to take their money, but the students aren't allowed to say they're a Harvard graduate, they have to say they're "Harvard Extension School" graduates.

Harvard knows it's whole mystique is based on elitism and the artificial scarcity it creates by denying people admission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Extension_School
From scanning the page it’s a little bit confusing what the scope of this actually is:

A new protocol specification that fulfills the goals of working in browser environments (no trailers) and is more debuggable? Seems to be like it - but then it wouldn’t really be compatible to regular gRPC and gRPC-Web.

A library which implements the new protocol and the existing ones? Apparently from how far how understand the page - but probably wouldn’t fulfill the „no-bloat“ goal too much.
Others have mentioned Wesnoth, Oolite, and Cataclysm: DDA, but Angband and all of it's variants hold a special place in my heart. MAngband, ZAngband, TOME, all drew countless hours from my youth. FreeCiv is excellent. I think the name has changed (or it's been forked?) but Tremulous was a lot of fun.
To be clear, I think your points on the lock-in are sound and the sales 'tax' effectively of a realtor etc.
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I was "born" after Struts was "obsolete" (so I had my honeymoon phase with Spring/Hibernate until I fixed so many mistakes in companies I decided using smaller surface tools and closer to the metal queries would actually save time) and never touched JSF :D CGI for me is prehistory loool.

However, employers dont need to be involved in choosing a framework or not. You ll notice that usually its the little bees building their resumes that bemoan non stop about migrating from react to vue or vue to react :D

I never heard a sales guy tell me: WHAT, it works fine, is cheap to maintain and has no stupid 10k levels dependency graph in npm ? I ll stop making money on this until you completely "standardize" it into a moving sand on npm. And dont forget a pipeline of 3 transpilers, you wouldnt want to write in a browser-native language, caveman.

I do use requireJS to split in nice files and import easily though I admit.
Which seems wrong, somehow.

If I have 500K cash (no other assets/liabilities) and rent my place, I have a NW of 500K (according to this). If I go out and buy a house tomorrow, my NW is now $0?

The primary residency exceptions drive me bonkers. It should be counted just like any other asset.
Yeah, what could be so hard about buying a 50 billion dollar "big computer" and hiring 10,000 PhDs for an online platform that doesn't exist yet? Ha!

It's real for sure though, this is HN after all. The general idea of free public universities based on an open curriculum is good, but whatever the OP is talking about is not going to get us there.
Given the extreme impact of age on outcomes, it would be more accurate to compute years of life lost vs national average life expectancy instead of a simple count.
OpenTTD is probably my favourite, but let me put a classic that I really enjoyed into the mix: XBattle [1]. Real-time strategy with an emphasis on area of control and supply line “flow”. All while “abusing” X11 to get multi-player support. It gave me many hours of joy at the Solaris boxes we had at university in the mid 00s. My only concern would be whether it counts as open source with its home-made license [2].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20011128105604/http://cns-web.bu...

[2]: https://paste.sr.ht/~ninjin/fdd615d6e32e1316014dece892128697...
Probably. Professional musicians are unable to distinguish between modern violins and Stradivari. It’s just hype. The key point is summarized in this very article: “In fact, a 2012 double-blind study of 21 experienced violinists found that most of the subjects preferred playing the newer instruments; the Stradivarius ranked last in their preferences. Most of them couldn't tell the difference between the old and new instruments, with no significant correlation between an instrument's age and its monetary value.”
Tell that to the domain admin that keeps overwriting my work laptops registry to not allow powershell scripts to execute..
Trying to build an App to improve book based learning experience
https://bookera.org

Looking for Publisher / Author to collaborate with
Fun fact: sns.amazonaws.com has no DMARC record. Basically all alerts from AWS can be forged or end up in your spam folder and you have no way to know they really came from Amazon. You might say: oh, there's probably a good reason they don't have DMARC, right? Apparently the reason is it's a feature request that they haven't gotten to. And SNS has been around for 12 years.

If I'm a hacker trying to phish someone into giving me their AWS creds, I'm faking CloudWatch alerts that say RDS is down and linking to my malware site. Because real CloudWatch alerts already end up in your spam folder (because no DKIM), no way to know if it's real or not unless you closely examine every link before clicking.
The theory that Putin will go from a "Special Military Operation" to launching nukes seems extremely remote. Besides, is he willing to armageddon his country because some country sent Ukraine long range missile launchers (which some folks are concerned about)? That seems a bit off the rails in terms of foreign policy theory. I cannot see how he would ever hurl nukes as long as his invasion is making progress. Now is the perfect time to load up Ukraine with the weapons it needs to eventually drive back Russia to it's internationally recognized borders, despite Moscow's blustering and bullying.