skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re illiterate or deliberately avoiding the issues I’ve highlighted, then all the best to you and your kind.

We’ve established that there is presently different outcomes for the same actions under European law. Ie, if you send IP addresses today to AWS, you could be deemed to be doing something illegal overnight subject to 4% of global revenue or 20 million euro fines.

This isn’t about cents or decimals, jackass. You know very well this is about coverage.

Under the FDA or any US agency, you have an option to appeal to an independent branch of government whose decisions are binding. Here, we see the opposite take place in France. Lawlessness. Monarchy. Being run through the bureaucracy. You can’t even bring yourself to admit that the CNIL arrogantly brushed off effectively the SUPREME COURT OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE. You say it’s a “mistake”?? Are you fucking kidding me? Deliberately doing to opposite of what your oversight agency rules is abuse of power.

Can a European citizen simply ever say “yeah, fuck the GDPR, I know that’s a law, but I won’t follow it, doesn’t apply to me?” Of course not. So what gives the CNIL the power to ignore their responsibilities under French and European law?

Even after being blocked by the Council of state, they chose to target an individual company with the exact thing that they were instructed is legal and they should not be interfering with. Respect laws only when you like them?

Clear abuse of power, horrible precedent for democracies and rule of law everywhere and most European assholes connected to politics i speak to behave the way you do, try to brush it under the carpet? Anyone with half a brain will be aghast at what is happening is the EU and if you clowns think discourse that defends assholery from the bureaucracy wins you any favors or makes Europeans lives any better, you more stupid than I’m giving you credit for here.
Quantum sensor can detect electromagnetic signals of any frequency
I think the point is it's counterproductive when people run with their emotions. E.g. interrupting some local Catholic mass may feel like a good vent, but it hardens people against you even further and drives reactions at the polls which is the only thing that matters.
If I may Viral, I suspect one takeaway from Yuri's criticism (at least it was a takeaway for me) is that with multiple dispatch correctness bugs like the ones listed are hard to find (impossible even). How would you respond to that criticism?

In my opinion, better tooling to assist with such cases would help tremendously. Adding support for interfaces to `Base` would be a great start. What are your thoughts about this?

Also, it's been a while since we've seen a roadmap on what the core team is working on? What are the next big features we can expect from the language and what is the approximate timeline for that? Having answers to these questions would be extremely helpful.
An Unfortunate Experience with Rust
I recently wrote a HN reader and decided to forgo handling comments for reasons you mention, including the obscurity of comment karma scores. I focused on the story browsing side of things, and the links to comment sections take you straight to HN’s comment page.

Link to my app if anyone’s curious. Red question mark in upper left corner of page goes to its “about” page:

https://www.thnr.net
So we should close failing schools, but schools aren't the problem? Just trying to make sense of your argument.
> Is it "cancel culture" to say "we don't want nazis to work here"?

I find people throwing around the word "nazi" in this way incredibly offensive. Every time I hear a non-Jewish person throw this word around as a political accusation it makes me sick to my stomach

and why does it make me sick to my stomach? Because it shows how people have become so detached from the atrocities of the 20th century that they have the audacity to throw around that word and use it as a political tool. Please find a different word to describe people you disagree with
Yeah, as a clojurist this made me laugh: just like people will naturally feel an urge to fill up conversational silence with words, people can’t seem to be able to go without their classes for more than 5 minutes.

I don’t have anything against classes in theory, but I’m of the opinion that 99.9% of classes out there just shouldn’t exist.
Lets talk about IMG Academy. (2018)
It’s admittedly a snippy, snarky, kind of cryptic comment and I probably deserve more downvotes than I got on it.

In a more measured tone: there is, in my opinion, a kind of creeping anti-intellectualism that’s been slowly-but-surely gaining ground on HN for the last 5-ish years.

We used to just really openly admire and respect iconic pros in this business, we used to openly acknowledge that some of the software work we talk about is pretty friggin elite and few of any of us will ever even work on some of it.

Whether it’s Linus or the TailScale pros or John Blow, I’ve seen people get gang-tackled by the “no one ever uses this LeetCode stuff in a real job” crowd repeatedly in the last week.

Knowing how to use “git reflog” to do surgery on a fucked-up repo isn’t necessary every day, but when you need it, you need it bad, and there’s nothing outdated about how knowing how the damned tools work.
One of the best parts of those difficulties was that markets emerged from within the player base to provide conveniences around them.

Necromancers could summon a player's corpse if they were within some distance, like 500 meters. So Necros would camp out near famously tricky areas, and offer to pull corpses for 10 platinum pieces ("10pp") a pop.

Enchanters and Druids were the only classes with a teleport spell, so likewise they'd charge a small fee to teleport players across the continents, like from Qeynos to Freeport. Sometimes a chanter would spend an hour or three grinding out teleport runs like an Uber driver (we didn't know that analogy - uber wouldn't exist for another 10 years!) to make some extra cash.

And there was no auction house at all. The de facto auction location was a big cave in the desert outside Freeport. Players would all meet there and post in the general chat, hawking their goods:

someguy: WTS Swarmcaller LEGENDARY bow for ranger 1k
coolwizard: WTB pally helmet
lesscoolpriest: WTS leather pelts 5g each

As a kid, I'd spend time in the that zone just trying to swap and find good deals, buying low and selling high, just because I found that lots of fun. I never really was great at that - there were always a few legendary big-deal traders who had tons of capital and thus tons of good equipment.

Fun times. I miss that sort of emergent magic.
*the formerly more attractive folks
It’s cute you think they haven’t been doing that for years. I live in the Bay Area and my city track every single vehicle that enters or exists the city limits.

But why steal plates when you can steal the entire car?
> must not condition participation in any activity on a child disclosing more information than is reasonably necessary for the child to participate in that activity

That may prevent gathering data about, for instance, their performance on other related skills.

> are strictly limited in how they can use the personal information they collect from children. For example, operators of ed tech that collect personal information pursuant to school authorization may use such information only to provide the requested online education service

How about using their PII to link data sources together? That might be done for the improvement of related systems, rather than to provide the educational service used by the child. I mean it’s arguable, but this could create a real chilling effect.
Woz is an absolute hero of mine, and if you're reading HN and he's not a hero of yours, then, boy, I don't know.
I'm not entirely sure how high your sarcasm knob was turned up for this, but I'm choosing to interpret it as stuck on high.
Why would they need their own app when they have good APIs and enough people to create perfectly good third-party apps for them?

The only reason I can see is monetization, with your own app you can control the user engagement better.

I specifically don't use their app because I explicitly don't want all the fluff features they've added over the years. That's also why I still use old.reddit.com.
listen to recordings on this page...

https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2018/06/04/hitlers-secretly-re...
I wouldn’t say heroin addicts act with purpose to cause inconvenience. They do cause inconvenience, but that’s not the purpose of their actions.
Are you amazed that the people who use the software you build use it without understanding the underlying data model? Probably not, because you understand that the reason you make software for them is so they can use it, instead of manually doing all the underlying steps your program does for them.

Just because a tool is intended for engineers doesn’t mean it isn’t “hard” if it requires way more learning than any other tool in that engineer’s tool chain. Git is hard, even if you happen to have mastered it by now.
They were supposedly spreading north from Mexico if I remember. To kill us all indeed.
> In 1989, David J. Wineland and his group at NIST observed the quantum Zeno effect for a two-level atomic system that was interrogated during its evolution. Approximately 5,000 9Be+ ions were stored in a cylindrical Penning trap and laser-cooled to below 250 mK. A resonant RF pulse was applied, which, if applied alone, would cause the entire ground-state population to migrate into an excited state. After the pulse was applied, the ions were monitored for photons emitted due to relaxation. The ion trap was then regularly "measured" by applying a sequence of ultraviolet pulses during the RF pulse. As expected, the ultraviolet pulses suppressed the evolution of the system into the excited state. The results were in good agreement with theoretical models.
> Shortly after, the FBI began monitoring Aaron Swartz and he was arrested for downloading academic journals from MIT in an attempt to make them freely available online.

AFAICT Swartz never said or wrote why he attempted to download all of JSTOR. Even close friends like Lawrence Lessig only speculated as to what he may have been wanting to do with that data.

But I suppose this kind of lazy writing and lack of standards is what passes for news these days at the New York Times' router that could have conceivably forwarded the packets for this medium.com article.
> i.e. you wouldn't let an idiot or a hot-headed person control a nuclear warhead

Uhhhhhhh… don’t pay too much attention to politics do you?
I/O and memory access are the same thing for the 6502. All it can do is read or write from a bus with 16 address bits and 8 data bits. The environment/motherboard might have memory that responds to some combinations of those address bits, and it might have something like say an NES PPU that responds to other combinations, by handling those writes as tile or sprite data and generating a video output signal.

You could hypothetically make a 6502 with a wider or dual bus, so that it could read or write more than one byte per cycle or both at the same time, if whatever else is on the bus on the other ends of the reads/writes is compatible with that. In that way you could speed up executing 6502 instructions by more than just increasing clock speed.
Just found these:

https://groovyhistory.com/killer-bees-1970s

https://blue-succubus.livejournal.com/83977.html?
I have a different take: The main problem with reddit is in how badly it's bungled its several different redesigns over the last few years, and how it's slowly ruined its users' experience in misguided attempts to drive mobile traffic to its app.

Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app:

1. Navigate to subreddit. Find out which of two (non-NSFW) or three (NSFW) "experiences" reddit decides to give me on mobile.

2. Depending on experience, jump through hoops including random "get the app!" prompts, failures to load content, failures to load nested comments, and outright refusal to display all the content in a thread unless I install the app.

3. If on an NSFW subreddit, and on about 50% of "unapproved" non-NSFW subreddits: Be blocked from viewing any additional content by an unremovable prompt. (Often, content loads in before the prompt, so you enjoy about 30 seconds of looking at your content before it's blocked.)

4. Give up, and go to old.reddit.com, which is ugly and not designed for mobile, but at least works okay.

Desktop isn't much better, but I have long had browser extensions installed that redirect everything to old.reddit.com on most of my browsers, so it becomes less of an issue.

If reddit took away my ability to use old.reddit.com, I'd probably stop browsing the site within weeks.
The Dark Side of South Korea's Economic Success
My wife shared pencils with her peers when she was in grade school in Indonesia. They had one math textbook for her whole class. They copied their homework questions out of that book by hand so they could take them home.

Four out of the fifty kids in her class went on to become doctors, 10 became engineers, two of which now work at SpaceX. Resources are not the problem. Discipline and motivation are.

The solution is simple, but few people have the guts to implement it. Sad, but true. I think outcomes in a lot of these failing schools would be better if we took money away from them. Make them focus on what matters and give teachers and administrators the power to discipline or expel problem students.
Vehicles are the only things that use traffic lanes.

Pedestrians are the only things that use sidewalks.

Heroin addicts are not the only things that use parks, unless your neighborhood is very disjointed and sad.
Then why contribute to open source if you want to still be a gatekeeper? In that case better to fork it and work in a private repo.
As far as side projects go:

I was a 100%-RSS-news guy a few years ago, but found myself more and more looking at twitter for a certain kind of news content (mostly rants about how bad agile has become). But I kind of hated needing to use two apps to get my daily content fix. Strangely Twitter didnt provide an RSS feed for the raw timeline feed. So I build myself an Twitter2RSS thingie.

https://twissr.herokuapp.com/

Go / Postgress / Heroku
For RSS generation: https://github.com/gorilla/feeds (looks stale now)

Was a great learning experience as I was teaching myself Go back then. Dont use it much these days anymore, but its still working, which I find incredible, since I basically havent touched the thing for over 6 years!
How is that a response to my comment? Why would it matter whether they have the purpose of causing inconvenience? It's not an element of the crime.
The middle part is always what I tell people, yeah you locked the door but did you lock your window panes?
Caution, this link wipes your browser back-button stack. I don't know how that's allowed by browsers and standards, but it's super hostile.
The zero page is small enough to fit into a single vector register nowadays. Since the zero page is used like a register file, that alone could be a big advantage.
> In either case it's up to the U.S. legal system, i.e. government.

This is an incredibly misleading way to describe the difference between unsecured deposits in Coinbase and FDIC insured deposits. Because the U.S. Government is involved in both bankruptcy proceedings and FDIC liquidations, there's no difference in how likely it is a person will be made whole? No, that's not how it works.

> Of course they can still go bankrupt. But then, again, the U.S. courts would decide what happens to their assets and yours.

Right, but Coinbase has explicitly stated that in the case of bankruptcy, users with deposits are considered unsecured creditors. In the case of bankruptcy, your assets are now coinbase's assets, coinbase's other creditors can go after the assets you deposited and you are last in line to salvage whatever is left.

Coinbase wanted people to think it was as conventional and safe as any other federally-insured brokerage because that's the only way they were going to appeal to the average casual investor. But they aren't a brokerage, and you're fucked if they go bankrupt, which is the reason coinbase stock plunged in May when they updated the risk disclosure to their quaterly statement.
People complaining about Reddit remind me of that quote from Bjarne Stroustrup about computer languages: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” A lot of people use Reddit. I've been on since nearly the beginning and seen it go through various phases. They started getting serious about moderation after Gamergate and they're still serious about it since they want to attract advertisers. The edgier content has gone to 4chan /pol/ but even that site has moderators called janitors. I really don't know where the extreme stuff has gone and I really don't care because I'm glad I don't see it anymore.
Wouldn’t closures and let’s say “type-driven” also support your definition?
It’s quite tricky as sometuple.fun() and fun(sometuple) might as well be interchangeable. If you really want to support a formal definition it would probably be best to have it in denotational semantics… not an easy task.
It reminds me of a 'well done' essay by an unimaginative 15 year old honors student. Someone not talented or really smart, but someone able to grind out the work. Maybe not even unimaginative, perhaps they were given a task by the teacher write about a type of prejudice that affects our world and they came up with this as a way to subvert expectations. Although this kind of subverting expectations is also like the lowest level of imagination, which wouldn't matter so much if it were done well. But the essay is boring.

Assuming it was written by an adult I would not argue its merits, but make fun of it.

Assuming you are correct it is by an AI, which I think you probably are, it's pretty impressive - looking at this page https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html makes me think you are correct because of what it says at the bottom "Stakedy is a product from digital people within Celody. Celody is a digital world powered by music."
Olin Shivers' dissertation advice is also very short and pointful:

https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/diss-advice.html
It has nothing to do with being bald or short or tall or anything else. It has to do with other people needing to define their own self worth based on someone else’s traits.

Someone is bald and you have tons of hair. Boom, you feel better about yourself. You are super tall so you must be better than anyone else.

Don’t define your self worth based on other people. Base it on yourself and the life you are living.
I cannot buy into a wholesale generalization that mods are power tripping people who deserve our contempt because they are lonely.

There’s all kinds of motivations for being a mod. I rarely find a sub where mods aren’t dealing with far more BS than they are putting out.

If I don’t agree with how mods handle a channel, I leave.

I think it’s important that we question the usefulness of blaming society for the lack of quality in “default” content. Yes, you’re funneled into these channels. Yes, Reddit is seeking to get people to consume them. Yes, the interest of advertisers override all others. Yes, Reddit constantly inserts unwanted subs into my feed.

Yet Reddit is still a place I can curate to the subs that align with my interests & values. it’s not dead yet.

I don’t expect any social media platform to give me the defaults I want. I’ve accepted that I can take responsibility for the content I consume.

What I’d like is to build tools that enable people to more easily filter for that content. I believe we need stronger filtering tools, not weaker.

This is where I do wholeheartedly agree with author - the loss of Aaron and RSS feeds was the end of the cyberpunk movement in the browser based web.

I don’t know if web3 genuinely offers a second chance, but I do know that I will continue to want the ability to learn from thoughtful people of all walks of life. That requires the ability to filter out everything else. At this point, I’d rather select keywords to filter than to surface & happily pay for the privilege.

I’m so tired of being spoon fed the empty calories of outrage.
I would really prefer to humanize those people and develop systems in place so they can find the help they need, rather than having sleeping in what is probably the safest possible place they have access to, from a personal safety standpoint.

If it makes you feel better about your own society that society would rather hide its flaws from public view than actually solve them, find solace in the fact that the blight and detritus you identify would also be solved if those people were given the treatment they deserve.
Yes. There are billions of cells; collectively DNA degradation will average fine. Now it is just a matter of time and money.
Close, but you have the wrong incarnation of SCO

SCO was founded in 1979 by Larry Michels and his son Doug Michels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation
For what it’s worth, I’d only heard of the one you’re saying nobody has ever heard of so I thought it was a useful comment. What others are describing as soul mates I have heard described as an expectation of love at first sight, whereas soul mates are like the old couple that’s been together for 50 years (or one that’s on their way to that).

Since people seem sensitive about it I’m not trying to say one or the other is right just sharing how I’ve heard the terms used.
Because that's the language of the very statutes cited above.
I think a guy on heroin in a park could easily not be noticed. This exact scenario happens harmlessly in major cities. You're overestimating the danger of happening to be in the same park as that person.
> Soon a local started pushing the city to get involved until it was finally condemned, as the owner didn't want to sell it to someone who would use it.

I find it a bit sad that we have a political system that so strongly protects proprietors that they can choose to let a building fall into condemnation instead of just... let people use it.

Why shouldn't people be allowed to just... move into and maintain a building, if it's otherwise not used?
The cost is 30-35 billion CHF, which comes out to 31-36.5 billion USD. Privately funded, interestingly enough.
Yeah, I think this might have been one of the reasons why no one created an initiative to stop this. If instead they proposed a surface railway a few communities might have objected.
I had a ‘special’ mailman at NASA Ames in 2007-2009. This guy was the best mailman ever; he was 100% focused on his job and did it with the seriousness of handling CBRN materials. You might wonder how someone can go from good to great at mail handling, especially to someone that doesn’t send or receive much mail. There were lots of unexpected things. Address errors always got to me. Mail was sorted by ‘importance’ in the box. Hand delivery of government mail and warnings about anything anomalous. I got the feeling that you could give this guy any small job and he would study the minutiae intensely, finding ways to get better long after any ‘normal’ person would have gotten bored and started thinking about something else. I see a lot of problems when people don’t employ them well. They often live institutionalized and do odd jobs part-time like grocery bagging. At Stop’n’Shop, they are switched around and perform poorly. At the Westford Market Basket, there was a special bagger that had a rough first few years, but learned everything about the store, and ended up managing it, superlatively imo. 100% focus on whatever they are told to do for years at a time. My mailman would have made a great project manager, a set of well-defined human tasks that are almost always ignored and subverted because of the power that comes with the position. Imagine a person in a power role that was actually focused on doing their job right.