skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no distinction between "regular" and "error" control flow when it comes to reasoning and understanding, they are both control flow, they both need to be planned and synchronized in the programmer's head.

The arguments I give is for why Throw/Catch is a terrible control flow construct, a throw is an extremely dynamic goto that searches the call stack for its label, not guaranteed to be there by the way, and a catch is an extremely dynamic call that can resume control from any point underneath in the call stack. I don't know about you, but sounds to me like a disaster waiting to happen. Java tried to tame it by trying to incorporate exceptions into the type system, but it's half-baked and also comes with a big glaring hole called Unchecked Exceptions.

Errors or no errors, a bad control flow construct is a bad control flow construct. Error control flow deserve the same treatment as regular one.

>I find code that's full of ifs and multiple return statements and global error state variables to handle truly exceptional conditions

Two wrongs don't make a right. Ad-hoc error handling is awful, but so is Ad-hoc exception handling as well. There is plenty of error handling mechanism (either built-in to languages or as an architecture over boring code) that is not both.
I guess that depends if the Snowflake sales team has been able to touch base with them about their migration to the modern data stack.
Why? Maybe the world really is that bad.
All this because Intel couldn't pay market rate for SWEs. Lol
Don’t ban private jets – make them a green testing ground
Another reason I suspect is that it's a lot easier to prove identity in-person.

Bank suspects you of fraud? Forgot your password and don't know how to reset it? Need to do or confirm a large transaction? Any half-decent banking app will require a lot of verification, because who knows if it's you or some hacker in a foreign country.

But if you show up to your bank's physical location and your face matches your ID, they'll let you do much more much easier. It's a lot harder for a fraudster to reasonably disguise as you or create a fake ID with your information, especially if they're from a foreign country and don't have a US passport.

Maybe not everywhere, but I can at least confirm with my local bank. Occasionally I get locked out of my account and I find they're smart and don't encode any information (Account ID, username, etc.) in any of the emails they've sent to me, so that in case someone steals my email they can't get access to my account. I also know it's harder to do large online transactions, like transfer money between bank accounts. But if I go to the physical branch, I can reset my password, deposit or withdraw cash, etc. and they are very kind and don't ask for much info.
I think this article's mention about MiniDisc is wrong -- they are probably talking about MO disc instead. (MiniDisc wasn't widely used as data media as it required a less available unit for writing those. MO, in other hand saw big adaptation in Japan, at least as much as ZIP disk did elsewhere.)

At least for MO, it looks like they are nixing them earlier than floppy disks, as manufacturers are no longer making drives and discs for it.
There's a video with sound in their GitHub repository's README. It sounds sort of like three short bursts of sound, with the second one warbling between a couple pitches.

https://github.com/uw-x/watercomms

Direct video link:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/174899/173208820-4...
So? That's how research/research culture works. People mock the [Citation Needed] culture on Wikipedia but it is still far better than "no sources presented". Wikipedia knows that it can't be "objective" so long as it is edited by people with "ulterior motives" and the usual other biasing faults of being merely human. The tools that Wikipedia has to counter that are requiring sources to be cited so that future editors have tools to dispute the claims and by doing that in large aggregate policy they hope to "trend better" over time.

I point out the primary sources part of Wikipedia especially because I very much understand Wikipedia is edited by humans with all their quirks and faults and it is worth not just starting at Wikipedia, but also all that "boring footnotes part" at the bottom of almost every Wikipedia page. Even if it has the same problems as the rest of the data in Wikipedia, it's still so much more information beyond the top-paragraph summary which is all many people ever read of Wikipedia. But critically, that's the part of Wikipedia that most embodies the "Reading Rainbow spirit" of "but you don't have to take my word for it". That's where Wikipedia itself reminds you that it isn't the final word on a subject, but the first word, the summarizing word on it, and points you to other places to explore.

Even if "less than half the sources are credible", a .490 can be a startlingly good batting average, depending on if you are talking Baseball or Cricket. In this specific case 50% of 107 is still a chance at maybe 54 good and worthwhile and credible supporting claims. That's still 54 different places more to start your own research with than you had before you got to the Wikipedia page. Even though anyone can add citations to claims, it's still far more organized than "let me google that for you" because it's still likely human curated and not just whatever SEO has made the machine algorithms happy this day. It's still a good suggestion to start there with those sources. If you are arguing that you maybe shouldn't stop there, then absolutely, I agree, but the above poster was asking where to start, and the poster above that gave them one place to start with 107 leads of further places to start. I thought that was a useful reminder, regardless of what you think the overall batting average of Wikipedia is.
If you read enough Italian Elite Theory and some Nietzsche it pretty much comes down to a strategy to become the master class/elite of a society. Instead of earning status outright, another approach is to agitate for it using masses of people to prop you up. Hence identity politics designed by some hopeful elites to recruit masses of wannabe but never will be elites wrapped in a formal claim of justice or some other such emotional nonsense. The actual issue is “I want power over others”.
So with MetroCards going away the privacy implications of this are pretty big.

Check out this thread on Twitter with more info:

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1565734877957394434

Highlights:

OMNY is not a project of the city. It is a system
operated by the private organization Cubic
Transportation Systems. Cubic has quietly taken over
the monetization process of the majority of
major US and western EU cities

OMNY says they won't disclose your data except
for potential sharing to law, "safety", and
anti-fraud related entities, "affiliates and
subsidiaries". OMNY is owned by Cubic subsidiaries
include military service providers, & cos that
serve the international intelligence community

Cubic is owned by Veritas Capital. Veritas Capital,
among other things, helps run the DHS's biometrics
database. Their CCPA statement says they collect
and share information collected from "portfolio
companies" that includes Identifiers.

Twitter thread has much more specific details.
Ok then, would you consider markup languages declarative, XML... XSLT?
That’s what my hacker would say!
What would make AWS even better
What an odd statement. I had shoulder surgery not all that long ago and they prescribed me 100 Oxy's (far too many) and I took one of them. I was woken up with waves of paranoia and nausea... obviously the dosage was too high. I'm 5'7 and 170-180 lbs, so not large. I took Acetaminophen for about a week and was fine.

If I was to say that no one cared about suffering because people are prescribed Oxy for pain simply because it makes me nauseas and paranoid, that would be ridiculous on its face. People simply react differently to different medications, including marijuana.
When I visited New York (a long time ago), I recall there being an official fallback code (I think 99999). Surely not the most intuitive design, though.
> I don't think that kind of scolding - which is what it comes off as - is productive for solving the problem of "X is not accessible", because it presumes the problem is unfixable.

Of course the problem is fixable. But in the meantime, until it's fixed, a disabled person could fail to get a particular job, or even lose a job they already have, due to an inaccessible application. It's important to remember that the stakes are really that high. If we want to prevent that from happening, I think it's worthwhile to try to persuade application developers to not use inaccessible GUI toolkits, particularly for new projects. We can do that at the same time that we work on making more GUIs accessible.
You're kidding, right? There are a lot of Linux users who are screaming for system tray support on many apps. My college is totally on board with Office 365, but I haven't owned Windows in over twenty years. I inherited a Windows desktop in my office, but it mostly stays powered off in a corner.

My system tray has Slack, Discord, Teams, and VLC pretty much all the time. My taskbar often gets rather loaded with how I switch between workflows, and I've already got the Outlook PWA stuck there doing nothing. I was really hoping I could eventually have a native Outlook electron app (I feel a bit iffy installing a third party solution), but instead I'm gaining another app that sits there 90% of the time doing nothing.
You could take someone's identity details and use them to get a death certificate made.

This is very close to "stealing" your identity — in that you yourself don't have the ability to use your identity any more in any useful way, because your identity is now (legally) dead.

Then again, they don't possess it after that point, either. So maybe it's more like "identity destruction" or "identity defacement."
> But I'm confused. Your employer collects "screen time" metrics, so they must care how much time you actually spend working.

This conclusion doesn't follow. I don't know what they do with them, for which employees, and under what circumstances.
That's the roadblock: there has to be a way to appoint the governor-general-replacement (aka president?) and no-one can quite agree on what that should be.

Let's not even think about maybe tweaking the powers of the role, or even codifying that any exercise of those powers should be transparently reported to the electorate (as per a recent/current scandal).

The fact that the political class controls the process of defining all these rules, and no-one trusts the political class to do what's right for the country (vs. right for them and/or their backers), means we're stuck with the current system, which is at least a more-or-less known quantity.
>>has a large amount of cultural baggage from quite frankly medieval times

>I wonder what exactly you mean by this.

I was at a festival last night - the screens by the stage were playing ads in between the acts (that itself is a topic for another day!).

After a cringe-worthy advert for the UK (that I didn't even recognise it was so far fetched), there then appeared a public information message in Portuguese. It said (and I do my best to translate):

"What is the place for a women?"
(pause)
"Wherever she wants it to be"

Full credit to them for trying to drag themselves into the 21st century, having mostly avoided the 20th - you can see what I'm getting at.
I can answer this actually.

I bulged a disk in my back, new job, no health insurance. My boss was a friend and knew I was a weirdo. I would bike (!) to work, take a keytip of ketamine, program for about an hour, lay down, do a gravity inversion (had one shipped to the house we were using as an office), do another minimal key, I could get three, maybe four of those out of a day.

I hate the effect of opiates except for the part where they make physical pain go away, and even if I had a doctor at the time, to get a scrip, it was a non starter for getting work done.

Worked out ok, still use a standing desk, lift weights, my back has been at least nominal every since, no surgery. I don't recommend it, the bulging disk part, and I'm not here advocate for off-label use of controlled substances, ketamine is habit-forming and can be quite destructive. It was effective however.
Thanks for all the comments and for sharing your experiences as well.

We are writing up some content about free tiers as a follow up based on the feedback we got from this thread. Looking forward to sharing it.

We just shared a follow up article on how to deal with repeated trials that expands up on what we included in this article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32696631
https://upollo.ai/blog/when-users-repeat-trials
Casinos are two steps ahead of ya: https://casino.betmgm.com/en/blog/facial-recognition-in-casi...
Not all lisps are declarative, but a lisp certainly can be declarative.
How many people are saying that?
Art directors routinely execute artistic/creative tasks themselves. In many cases it's just title inflation.
And you're strawmanning. That's not what I said at all. Please do not put words in my mouth.

I said that this action by the EU will not result in more sustainable consumption, which seems to be the reason behind it. I wouldn't oppose forcing phones to be more open in order to increase their lifespan, but I also wouldn't expect that to increase sustainability.
Bol.com gives me hope that Amazon competitors can survive by excelling in their local market.
Wealthfront terminated pending acquisition by UBS
I don't think that's what the network does...
I highly recommend checking the GameHut channel (https://youtube.com/c/GameHut).

It's the channel of the Jon Burton, the director of the Traveller's Tales, he worked on games like Sonic 3D Blast or Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. It's full of interesting stories with technical details about how things were achieved on old hardware or why were they done in some funky ways.
I remember early twitter thinking RT was some guys initials and was so impressed at how popular and cool he was. Everyone was tweeting him and he seemed to be everywhere

Then I learned what it meant.

Never meet your heroes
Laziness, and purely functional go a long way toward declarative.
The place I work now has a really wonderful policy: maternity/paternity leave can be used in a part-time fashion. People who are recent parents frequently come in for a couple days a week, or a few hours a day -- as they think will work best as they try to balance two worlds.

Now, don't get me wrong -- for a few weeks after birth, you're injured and shouldn't be working at all. At all. And for a few months after, you're in an intensive time of bonding and sleep disruption, and outside demands should be kept to a minimum. I found that my time of maximum stress and exhaustion with my three babies occurred when the babies were 3-7 mo old. So be gentle to yourself; it's a marathon. Minimize work commitments. I tell first time parents that all the stuff you want to do, that you want to get back to, that you feel like you lost... you can do it next year. Take a baby year. Nobody ever listens to me, but... ;)

Anyway. Don't threaten any of that with part time work. But if you have a few hours of the day to give to the company, it lets you really get done the stuff only you can do, and gives you a break from baby baby baby all the time to boot. I have found that such an approach forces me to be efficient. Turns off I can hand off some tasks I thought I couldn't, or can scale back some I didn't think were scalable. In turn, I'm a lot more willing to come back to work a lot sooner if it's not for a full day.
The NYT will also criticize those apps, a whole lot you can find here: https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/sports-betting-daily-fant... That collection (with the not-so-sunny title "The Dark World of Fantasy Sports and Online Gambling") has various news about the industry plus features with titles like "How the Daily Fantasy Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers."

One could argue that they should accept fewer advertisers in general, but otherwise seems like nothing to see here re: RobinHood vs FanDuel or whoever. Unless there's a specific case of "RobinHood ads were rejected while FanDuel ones weren't or such" that would be more interesting...

Personally I don't really agree with the idea that a publication should be expected to have a monolithic, religious-level fervor or single-voice to their editorial positions. I would sooner want to crack down on advertising-funded publications in general.
I’m retiring from the military with a cross section of skills that seem to be in demand for semi manufacturing, so have had a few conversations with recruiters. The wages on offer weren’t terrible, but given the best offer came from San Jose and it was right about a mortgage on a 3/2 after taxes I’m not sure if that’s sustainable comp.

That said, there are other comments here about semi manufacturing pulling from defense and it seems to be true, as even before I’ve started applying those are the companies reaching out with offers in hand.
He is trying to sell Proof of Stake because Etherium is migrating to it.

It has as many flaws as Proof of Work and is even less decentralized.

Blockchain is a rotten technology anyway so there’s nothing good to see there.
This article makes some inane points.

1) The SuperDome has had a corporate sponsor (Mercedes Benz) since 2011. It's not like Caesars caused them to sell out.

2) No legal Pennsylvania sportsbook is advertising (or even offering options to bet on) B league Argentinian soccer. It's very likely the gambler in the article was on a grey-area offshore sports book (e.g Bovada), and legalizing sports betting helps combat those.

3) Sportsbooks paying $18 in total on two $10 bets is known as the "hold" and it's basically a transaction cost. You could make the same argument about poker (with the rake) or stock trading commissions. If there's a cost per transaction in an otherwise zero-sum game then money is being continuously removed from the total sum.

4) When you are betting in a non-exchange context (the case for all U.S based books), the sports book is taking the other side of the bet. They may try to balance the book, or lay off bets, but they often do end up taking risk on one side. This is advantageous for the book when done correctly.

5) Sports Betting is the only gambling option where you are betting against the house in a situation where the true odds are not known pre-facto. This is very different than blackjack or roulette where the odds are known beforehand, and the house can ensure the odds are always in their favor.

6) This means that sportsbetting is hypothetically (and often in practice) uniquely winnable in the long term. If you are better at determining the true odds for an outcome than the sportsbook, then you can have positive expected value.

7) If the above wasn't true, then sportsbooks would not have to limit winning players (which frequently happens). Sports betting is basically the only gambling option where the house does not always encourage/want more betting volume from players.
There is an underlying anti-nature about the way humans are going about our expansion, however.
Yes, that's a good one. He goes on to say"Of course, if Bitcoin actually gets attacked, I do expect that the political will to switch to at least hybrid proof of stake will quickly appear, but I expect that to be a painful transition."

which I thought was funny because he's tweaking them a little by saying they're eventually going to have to accept PoS anyway
Yeah, mostly your comment just got me curious about the details.

It’s interesting how it’s basically the same problem as securing an onion service (how to ensure no route to the machine on the clearnet).
I own an ecommerce company, I've used 3PLs, and I just can't see how you could have a meaningful market for this (and to be clear I mean the current product at openship.org, not everything that you're describing).

It's basically a many-to-many connector of storefronts to 3PLs. The problem is very few people have multiple of either, let alone both. Nobody's on Shopify + WooCommerce + Wix and fulfilling from Shippo and Vistaprint.

Unless you have someone with multiple options at both ends, this isn't needed - there are 3PLs that can integrate with multiple storefronts and storefronts that can integrate with multiple 3PLs. No need to pay for a third party connector to do that.

If there is a company out there with some complex need for multiple of everything, it's probably big enough to have a dev team to integrate all their services anyway.

The bigger picture that you describe is interesting in theory, but it misses the point of Amazon's value. Amazon has infrastructure, sure, but what really matters is they have customers. I sell from my website, but I'm also on Amazon because all I had to do was list my products there and people started buying them. On my own site, I have to acquire those customers.
I’m saying this outcome wouldn’t have been prosecuted had she been a man. She’s being sentenced for being female, not for fraud.
As France Swelters, Private Jets Come Under Attack
> The only way to get anything off off it is with a floppy or an IDE HDD reader.

Another way is to dump the data in hex to the serial port, and write a serial port reader for your modern machine. That's how I transferred files from my old PDP-11 to the IBM PC in the old daze.
Iron was originally produced without melting it at all. Instead, iron ore was reacted with reduced gases, and a flux (limestone) causes the silicate contaminants to melt instead. The solid iron that's obtained (sponge iron) is then forged into shape (and also beaten to remove residual silicates.)
> Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter

Completely disagree. It protects the end user, and if another license is absolutely necessary, they can negotiate for it or create a different service tier.

AGPL with paid alternative licensing is strictly superior to MIT for start-ups.
Very nice but keep this in mind, the tech is the easy part. Getting a whole community who contributes to it in the long term is the hard part.

The genius of Linus Torvalds wasn't that he started an OS. Although, that was smart on it's own. The genius was that he was able to motivate a bunch of people to contribute to the project for decades. Learn how he did that and you can have a solution that can change the world.

The best part is that there are a bunch of people that are willing to help. You just need to create a project where people can contribute to move it forward.

Good job and good luck.
What aspect of lambda calculus is not declarative?
> Eventually there will be a revolution if the wealth concentration trend continues.

I think surveillance and drone/robocop technology will make popular revolutions a thing of the past. People will be actively monitored if they even smell slightly rebellious to an algorithm, will be warned if they seem to be taking themselves seriously, and will be imprisoned if they don't have the appropriate reaction to a warning.

People need privacy and private ways to communicate in order to rebel. All of our movements will be monitored by our phones and street cameras with facial recognition. Cellphone conversations will be terminated with a warning if the algo detects Russian/Chinese/Iranian//North Korean/French(since 2031) propaganda being used to sow discord and evil.

We'll get back to remembering that wars, even civil, are when inbred princes and kings argue, not people with healthy genetics.
> For example, when we've had to get into the fine details of filesystem permissions, we've found that most everything we do takes different handling on Windows.

Amos was right

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
> Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though.

Not doing something because you might get too big is not sound reasoning.

When you get too big, that's the time to worry about it.