skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be okay even if the evil won, that happens often. but there is something sinister when the book seems to not portray as evil, what is evil, or glorifies it. would you really want the glorified protagonist going around murdering, oppressing, being racist, etc etc with no indication that there's anything wrong with it? whether the book being discussed does so, is a different debate.
Ha! This whole thread made me recall that story, but I couldn’t recall the title, and figured I’d never find it by the synopsis alone which I remembered. But here you’ve posted it - thanks
Yeah fair. But I think that any gc language for microcontrollers should have a couple features:

1) A compiler flag or similar optional static check that throws a warning if you have dynamic memory allocation. In scripting languages it can be easy to do accidentally

2) A way to block the gc from happening in a time critical section of code, like how you can disable interrupts

3) Some guarantee on the maximum time gc will take
Ehat exactly do you think would have happened in Hong Kong if the protesters were carrying AR-15s? Eould the Chinese just have said "sorry, never mind, clearly it's our fault", or woupd they have cracked down really hard?

Not that this whole "armed people against the government" thing works in the US, after all the Jan 6th insurrection wasn't an armed mob storming the capitol. Despite being from groups that are peretty well armed.

No unorganised group of people will ever beat state actors just by being armed. Another counter point that often brought up is the rose of the Nazis and how the Nazis took away the guns first. Wrong, because there loads of illegal militias equipped with military grade weaponry around that time. It was exactly those grouos that enabled the Nazis rise to power and formed the core of the SA. The Nazis took the guns awau from the SA, a long with the leadership and the whole organisation, once they were firmly in power.
> Well, what is the recourse for legitimate businesses then?

Maybe try selling it?

Paramount refuses to sell Star Trek in my country, or let other people sell it, thus Paramount gets no money from me.

My understanding of region blocks in the US with sports games is they are often blocked but there's no way to subscribe to ESPN or whatever to watch it because another broadcaster has the rights to show it, but have decided to show it later that night (not live), or not show it at all.
When the government behaves worse than a criminal, it is only heroic to expose its crimes. Especially heroic when you know it's a violent, arrogant and vindicative government.
Toit and Ruby are both inspired by Smalltalk, and there are certainly similarities in the syntax but we felt that starting 20 years later we could do a lot better than Ruby syntax.

In particular, Python basically won the significant-indentation argument. Since all programs are formatted with correct indentation the punctuation is redundant clutter.
So for a new language it just feels right to go with indentation instead of curlies.

We also wanted to be free to add type annotations and other enhancements, so it was never going to be compatible with Ruby anyway. And we didn't want to raise expectations of Ruby-compatibility that would immediately be dashed.
IME you can stay still and stare back for a minute and they will back off.
I killed my startup
Am I supposed to see a dip at the end? Hmm maybe if you squint quite a lot!
Haha, I had fun making this a week ago, to learn more about the inverse:
"Number of 'layoff' posts on HN vs NASDAQ"
https://imgur.com/a/v4qPut5
Yes, that is really a Democrat position, along with opposing signature checks on postal votes, supporting sending out unsolicited mass postal voting forms, opposing removing people who've moved states from the electoral register on the state they left, dismantling any system for identifying people recorded as having voted in more than one state, and fighting even the most basic checks on their programs for literally paying workers to fill out voters' ballots for them. The stated justification for all of these is the same: not doing so is an evil attempt to suppress the black vote and disenfranchise black voters. The ACLU and the non-Fox News media generally support them on this. American politics is wild by European standards.
I was a kid at primary school when the Falklands war was underway, I remember how the teachers were telling us Argentina was bad for invading and we should support the armed forces. We had to draw pictures of the Falklands conflict from images we might see in the papers, because I was made to draw silhouettes of the Navy boats!

Even at Primary School here in the UK, kids were being propagandised and I bet it still goes on today, most recently with the Jubilee!

The Royal Family have the nickname "The Firm" here in the UK, but it also extends out the wider military forces and members of the armed forces both active and retired, as a term of endearment for themselves when they are intimidating and harassing members of the public in an organised crime syndicate manner.
I would like a DOOM for Xterm's Tektronics graphical terminals.
True, but you can think of it as a Brooklyn Nine-Nine reference if you prefer.
CDK code also isn't executed at runtime. Even if it somehow is slower to develop and harder to debug (maybe if you're new to it), it's ideal that you have more of it than actual app code per line. That implies you have substantially less app code than you otherwise would, which (of course) is the entire purpose of these cloud-based abstractions.

The amount of app code involved to stitch Kinesis, Lambda, and S3 together is minimal. The amount of app code to solve the same problems without them is orders of magnitude more plentiful and complex, which is why we avoid it.
> When you put something out there, you should strive to do right by your users.

We clearly disagree here.

I also like when some open source author is responsive after they put something out there. And I myself try to be helpful as well. After all, one of the reasons for me publishing things as open source is to attract a community that directly (through patches) or indirectly (through issue reports) helps me to improve the thing I made. Win-win!

But demanding this is actually actively hurtful to the ecosystem. To put it bluntly, would you prefer that somebody just doesn't publish some nice piece of software they wrote to scratch some itch they had just because they have no time/energy/desire to then provide support for users? I don't. I want them to publish it anyway. Maybe somebody else can pick up the maintenance. Or not, but at least it's out there.

> I hate this philosophy of yours with all my might.

"Hate" is a strong word. This is pretty sad.
Ghettos wouldn't exist under anarchy. They are a byproduct of capitalism. It's not like abolishing capitalism would abolish ghettos right away, but if you remove the capitalist hierarchy there are not many reasons left for minorities to marginalized.
I think they mean that it is very useful to “cache” these primitive results, but it is absolutely possible to regenerate them if one is missing or the like.
The fact that you can buy votes for $300 does show a fairly fundamental issue in the system
The disappearance of staff makes sense.

I’d have thought integrated security would be far more secure since the baggage goes and stays behind the secure boundary until the conclusion of the trip vs being retrieved, checked in, retrieved, checked in, etc
A while back (probably 10+ years) I read a cool article on the cat and mouse game between cable TV hackers and the security team at one of the big US cable TV companies. At a certain point, the hackers had the upper hand and had broken the security of the smart cards which were in use. But the security team turned it round by delivering a sequence of small, seemingly innocuous OTA updates to the card software, locking hackers out of the population of valid cards. Or something like that. Does anyone remember this article/event?
Initial Game Offerings: a failed Initial Grifting Opportunity
To be fair, there is a difference. Censorship means suppressing information and carries a connotation of "the government doesn't want you to know something". Filtering is one way to achieve that, but it can also be used for other purposes.

Blocking illegal content isn't censorship. It creates the technical framework and weak precedent for censorship and I agree we shouldn't do it this way, but it's not more censorship than seizing a bunch of copied DVDs at the border would be.
Great. Now you’re reinventing JSDoc which is demoed here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/javascript#_typ...

What we’re talking about, though, is the reason the ES6 arrow syntax exists. And it’s not just because of “this” binding. It’s because JS developers are lazy. What you’re suggesting is extra characters. And clutter.

These days if you pick a JS project or dependency and try to ignore the ones written in TypeScript, you’ll be left with very, very few viable alternatives. Do JS-only projects exist? Yes. Plenty. But the number of modern JS-only projects are far outnumbered by the number of TS projects, and the discrepancy is only going to grow over time.

What’s sealed the deal was TypeScript adhering as much as possible to JS standards and not inventing new runtime conventions and weird syntax. When they made that pivot, to a JS + types approach, that was genius. It helped everyone remind themselves that TS was JS with types, and not something different like Dart.

Taking this another direction, the power of TypeScript has been its ability to evolve as a language without breaking JS compatibility. If you bake types into JS, you risk breaking compatibility with some improvements to the type system. By keeping types out of the runtime, only the developer toolchain needs to worry what version of Typescript might be required to build a particular package. We don’t have to invent a way of marking some scripts as v3 and others as v4 TS.

Until now, JS has been largely future-compatible while TS has rapidly evolved and occasionally broken existing code. It’s of course possible to add types to JS, but are we convinced we have a perfect type system to do so now, or could it not wait and evolve a bit first?

We can always make a backwards-compatible language change later, such as a syntax to turn on or turn off runtime checks.
I think the win for 3 (browsers) was to displace IE?
The problem with rabies is lack of political will.

Vaccinate the feral dogs. They will make a queue waging the tail, come to you and eat the vaccine from your own hands in 5 seconds if you show half a sausage. Save lottamoney in healthcare later and human lives. End of the problem. Vote me.

Or if you are more ambitious, caught them, mark the vaccinated dogs with a tatto or a ear tag, and give the poochie the whole sausage before releasing it again at their home, so people can know what dog interactions are safer and what need more care. Thus you avoid losing money vaccinating two times the same dog.

"should kill all the dogs because rabies" is stupid. Ecology models predict that that would spread faster the rabies and would made people less safe in that sense. You want territorial animals remaining in their territory.
Ask HN: How to setup startup research interviews with executives
Hi Guys,
I working on a startup that revolves around developer hiring. For this I want to conduct a survey with the Hiring Managers, CTOs and staff that is involved in the onboarding of Developers. In the begining I want to target the startups and small to mid sized companies. Can you please suggest what is the best way to approach these people? If any one of you is able to help that will also be great. Please share your contact info.
Built an automated credit decision support system for a major financial services institution that used workflows. We needed masses of legacy data systems integration, rule based descisions and human task coordination.

This system was built with Microsoft's Biztalk around 2006. It performed very well in production, but Biztalk had quite a few gotchas that needed to be creatively worked around in development.
Commenting does not necessarily equal complaining.

They're simply saying that it doesn't have a windows release and so they use a different client.

As for their comment on why, I agree. This doesn't link to any news.
Here is the complete file if you are curious: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/share/misc/airpor...

There are ~2,000 entries vs ~11,000 assigned IATA airport codes
the hope is ChromeOS…
Such terrible writing.

It mentions how the machine didn't work very well with high frequency (female) voices, it sets up a tense moment where there were only women working in the office and an agent called them, it builds the tension with
> "We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.

And then.. what happened next? The author deviates and doesn't conclude the story! Is he a 7th grade high schooler, this is their level of writing...
If we were to stabilise on a framework, I don’t think Java/spark is the right one. It’s notoriously fickle fragile to run, it’s obscenely resource heavy, often not actually that fast, and it’s construction is locked into a set of implementations that have aged poorly-you basically need a JVM wizard to tune everything correctly for you, and you need to run so much supporting infrastructure that I think it greatly erodes the benefits of spark.

> "the new stuff" which could either all be on the same platform or much more likely spread across a number of platforms.

Yes. I’d like to see more variety in approaches, more variety in specialisations, and for interop between “platforms” to occur at a slightly “higher” level (I.e. maybe common sql dialect, common set of messaging/interop protocols).

I think rather than pouring all of our effort into a singular platform, we should put our effort towards improving our tooling and languages so that it is more straightforward and viable to build these platforms.

Everyone language has got their own web-server framework(s), I see Spark et al as the web-server framework of the data space.
We have literally not been there, and done that.

> but more public housing projects

Who brought this up, other than you?
> and 6% were retested and did not fail the second time

Really hate this but not surprised to see it. At work we've strived to stop our vendors doing this but they simply don't get it. If they find a marginal part during their n seconds of low-stress testing, we are going to see that same failure within a few minutes of turning the full product on. We don't want those parts! Happily pay to not have those parts, the re-work cost of a fully assembled board is huge.
Yes. I’m a poll inspector.

Spoiled ballots go into a separate lockbox. At the end of the night everything is tabulated (winners, losers, provisional ballots, spoiled ballots) and posted at the voting precinct. The spoiled ballots box is sealed and taken to the election office to be inspected. This is for 1 state. Every state manages elections differently.

BTW, if you can sign up to be a poll worker. It’s a thankless job that takes 1 day a year. Most poll workers are retirees and I was one of the youngest there.
We'll find the answer to this question at the end of the year when manifest v2 extensions are removed
I go back and forth between digital and hand-written. Hand-written seems more thoughtful and I can more easily include diagrams (a lot of my journals are about game designs and how the game rules have been altered between playtests, so diagrams help illustrate the game there), but it just takes so damn long to write and my hand often cramped up.

There'd be days I'd be writing for 90 minutes straight, the same amount of text I could type in probably a third of that time. I also eventually like to transcribe the handwritten to digital as well, so I'm typing it eventually anyway.

Pandemic really fucked with the habit though, and so far I haven't been able to get back into the groove again. Maybe switching to handwritten again will help.

Here are my stats by year:
2016(Hand):9K, 2017(Hand):47k, 2018(Hand):>9k (not all transcribed), 2019(Digital):123k, 2020(Digital):47k, 2021(Digital):11k, 2022(Digital):7.5k
>For the vast majority of it's existence, the 5th republic has had proportional representation in the legislature (only changed with Sarkozy, who instituted 2-round elections - IIRC).

Uh, no. The Fifth has has two round legislative elections since its beginning. The entire reason for it was that the Fourth and Third showed what an overly powerful parliament caused, as well as the relative instability of having only a single round to elect députés.

Hence, the Fifth was started by a former general who thought that putting immense amounts of power in the president was a good idea. Because clearly counter powers are overrated.

Additionally, french legislative elections can have a very peculiar situation where the second round has three candidates, but that requires a specific amount of votes and to all be extremely close. I believe there's 10 of them planned this year according to polls, over 577 circonscriptions.
Hey @stefanvdw1, thanks for the heads up we'll solve everything in the first actual MVP.
I had to hit the clear filter option to see games listed
I visited 4 airports that aren't in the list. Do you think I can add them to the list? Never committed before to OpenBSD so I do not know if I compute as a "OpenBSD developers" in "New airports can only be added by OpenBSD developers who have visited an airport and thereby have verified its existence."
Understandable, I had it break once during opening a pop-up third-party website while verifying a credit card transaction - very annoying indeed. But through some tinkering managed to catch and whitelist the third party site later (it was timing out so no easy feat) and haven't had similar problems in a while.
One solution is to make Spain pay for the retrieval plus charge them an astronomical finders fee. Spain can then keep whatever is retrieved, including the colonial baggage.
Those games are still going on, and according to various sat-tv forums recently movistar is fairly successful at it.
You were cruel & wrong & malicious this time. Again. Added nothing I nor who I was discussing with hadn't already actively agreed to already. Meanly.
Why do you think this is the future of software?

Wouldn't it be easier to have the provider manage the software/infra rather than having to do it yourself?

(I don't think you're wrong or anything. Just curious as to why you feel that way.)

Also, another example would be Ghost -> https://ghost.org/
As a Spaniard, I think Colombia should keep it. It would be really nice if they gave us a few pieces, so maybe we can put them in a museum, but I think it's understandable if they want to keep it.
Would it be somewhat correct to say that the Sun (or generally stars of similar type) is approaching that Q=inf at this stage of its life?
If Google decides to remove addons then it would start losing users fast, and I think we’d find a fork that kept them more than viable. In this sense chrome is very different to for example Internet Explorer where no such fork was possible.
Ironically, part of that gold came from Spain. History is complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_gold_(Spain)
I don’t know, it is entirely different to sort of become an addict of a specific problem until you solve it vs the day-to-day’s life work addict.

There are plenty of geniuses who did terribly in work/academia, etc, or who were literally outcasts from society.
No, that isn’t what is going on. There’s no filter. It just updates the display at 60 Hz. If you simply pause the video you will see the result: the last eight frames are all visible at the same time, getting fainter as they get older. It makes every moving object look like it has a trail of ghosts following behind it.

All LCD monitors have this problem to some extent, but cheap LCD monitors are the worst. This display is about 4× worse still.

Update: Here, a screenshot: http://db48x.net/temp/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-09%2000-59...

This is taken right during the arm movement as she throws the apple up at the beginning of the video. Since she is drawn in black on a white background, the image of her arm from the current frame (at the top) is super faint. The pixels in the apple will never reach full black because they were supposed to be black for a frame and then go back to white next frame. They started darkening, but they are already being told to lighten again. The apple essentially disappears during this motion, and it’s supposed to be the focal element of the scene!
If you use Github only for its repo hosting capabilities, sure. But there is CI, issue tracking, discussion history, the OAuth server and everything else that is built around the repo hosting and is used to lock people into the platform.
I can register as an assessor for free (both for me and my city). The cases where cities have to pay for some is extremely rare. If you live in a city with even a hundred inhabitants, the chances to find at least one that is interested in their democratic process is already high.
> People good at their jobs because they do their job: nothing on github

Even better if they have both, worked on open-source projects or have created useful open-source software used by other companies and are already working in their other job(s) or have personal real-world projects they can point to; which those are clear advantages and a simple quick filter to use.

No need to ask about frivolous leetcode questions around re-implementing sorting algorithms or wasting more time asking the candidate to write proofs for those algorithms where realistically you're going to just import it from a library or look up the solution on StackOverflow.

Unless you're Google, a FAAMNG company, university or general research related position or if the position isn't for a typical CRUD application development, then there is little to no justification for wasting everyone's time on pointless leet-code puzzles and this applies to the majority of companies.
This exactly what this is :) - Without some basic analytics you are flying blind, but that shouldn't come at the cost of your visitors privacy either.

We use our own platform internally and I'm not sure how we'd get on without analytics in all honestly.
I found writing out how my ideal day will go (by the hour) when I wake up helps me focus and avoid distractions.

Just one column of hours from 6h00 to 20h00 for example and then write an activity associated with that time in second column (eg finish this document).

Even if I don’t look at the page throughout my day my mind has already been primed to do what I would want to do in an ideal day. Deviations from ideal are expected, but I find the deviations are smaller than when I don’t anything on paper.

Perhaps a next step would be a section below that reflects on the day.
Libraries used to be where you could obtain detailed maps of your area. Great stuff for planning invasions (which both sides were always doing).
On macOS qBitorrent is unusable if you hit a certain bug that regularly freezes the whole app. In my case, maybe due to that bug, it was also corrupting the downloaded data (which I didn't think was possible due to integrity checks).

I've switched to Transmission and never had any issues with corrupted data or freezes again.
Plus the black african slaves brought by the conquistadores.

A truly mixed area. This mix gave way to a second generation of "mestizos", "zambos" and "mulatos". I imagine those words are problematic now, but that's what I was taught in school in south america
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Although this is better than leet code, PRs have been shown to be a poor way to prevent bugs. I find they are mostly useful for disseminating knowledge.
You could also just replace all that with a paper ballot.