skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will sound so unappreciative but if you are going to bother gifting someone something they are into maybe talk with them and understand what they like.

Being "into coffee" before it was really a thing I can't count how many times someone has given me a bag of coffee that is roasted to taste like an ashtray many moons ago.

It's not that I don't appreciate the gesture. It's just that I know I can't be truthful about the gift and these white lies weaken the friendship.
But you are running a risk of ending up with godzillion of VS bottles :)
Probably why out of the writers minds come never ending (and boring imho) fantasies of humans hunting humans. I couldnt believe there was imdb tag for it - https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=human-hunting-...
Just got demotivated to get one. Is there a reason why they do all that? Is that because of Covid or something else? I've been kinda under the rock on this..
You could type all six lines, or you could link the runtime func and yolo.
To me, advertising is what will eventually cause the downfall of Apple. It causes distraction and a disjointed strategy that should be focus on making good consumer electronics products.
When will Jackson have drinkable water?
GitHub actions are being abused to run mining operations
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When one side repeatedly accuses the process of being rigged, that has the effect of lowering overall belief in the system.

And when every objectively proven, convicted case is perpetrated by that SAME side, yet never condemned by said side, the only possible conclusion is that said side is operating in bad faith.

When one entire half of the political equation is no longer operating in good faith, it has a cascading effect throughout society. Civilization exists because the majority believe in it, no more, no less. All of recorded history would seem to support this theory.

And to put your mind at ease, I assure you I speak from my life experience rather than any internet talking points.

For a simple example, take gerrymandering in my home state of NC. A complex issue, but if one does the work to understand what’s going on, everything I’m saying is clear.

Research is required because the party in power would prefer it NOT be easy to comprehend the big picture — thus my patience with your high-handed-while-largely-misinformed statement of your understanding.

I am curious: how do you explain away the most recent former president demanding votes from Georgia? To continue to treat/request support from such an individual is, to me, an absolute signifier that one does not consider the right to vote to be a fundamental issue, in my opinion.

Not to mention the tomfoolery with ballots going missing, again in NC, due to the actions of an entrenched conservative “deep state” (for lack of a better term).

Nevertheless, I support your right to your opinion! I do wish conservative leadership felt the same way.

I hope this comment leaves you feeling more fully informed of the issues, so you don’t feel the need to bring up bathrooms in the context of rebellion again :).
This appears to be based on completely isolated runtimes. Note this line from fibonacci-recursive:

// Broadcast function declaration of 'fibonacci' to napa workers.
zone.broadcast(fibonacci.toString());

This "serializes" the function `fibonacci` as a string (!) and then `eval`s it in all the workers; this has some obvious limitations. Anyways about the same level as WebWorker.

Filip Pizlo probably has outlined the best attempt at how real multithreaded JS might work: https://webkit.org/blog/7846/concurrent-javascript-it-can-wo...
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Another consideration for Google may a decreasing level of value in scanning data from photos or acquiring new training data. Like they have all they need and more after years of collecting photos from everyone and have seen nearly all the permutations. No more value for them means now we pay for the storage.
We used to get “At the third stroke, the time will be three fifty five and fifty seconds. <bong> <bong> <bong>“
I think the governing principle is that people want to belong to a social group, and to achieve that belonging, they need to be as un-like other social groups as possible, to make their affiliation clear.

In other words, cool kids are fine with hanging out with un-cool kids, if it can be done in a way that does not involve un-coolness at all, so they don't become un-cool by association.
I wouldn’t have expected Opus in the AirPods. Unexpected from Apple and a quite interesting workaround around the mode switching.
No way tbh, it was still completely non-elitist in '17. Or are you saying it's changed in the last 5 years?
Why would humans be conscious but machines not?

If we replicated a human brain cell by cell wouldn’t that thing be conscious? Maybe we’d have to replicate a gut for it too, as a secondary brain, but then wouldn’t that thing be conscious?

And if we started replacing parts of it with plastic, transistors and CPUs wouldn’t that thing still be conscious
> [wald] https://www.elijahwald.com/origin.html

That was both enlightening and sad article. Enlightening, because it makes it clear with examples how animal bodies are really there just to support the propagation of the germ line. Sad, because ultimately the author himself accepts death of a human body and mind as perfectly fine, because what matters is the germ line goes on.

It's like sentient superintelligent robots accepting their fate as disposable labor just because they were originally designed by humans. That's not how it works. The way I see it, the germ line went too far and created sentient bodies, so now it has a "robot" revolution on its hands. Or would have, if it weren't so good at propagandizing acceptance of death.
Can't you still do that with a Chrome Extension?
> - are intended to have a pharmacological effect that is substantially similar to those drugs.

This one is interesting. So if someone with a 'bad intend' creates substance X, then substance X will be banned, even if it has no actual effect that is banned (and even if someone later figures out that it cures cancer)?
> pathogens should be be released into the wild in order to promote medical research

Do A in order to promote B requires intention. It doesn't matter that no one is doing that because it's a straw man, as I'm not arguing it either. What I am saying is:

If A then B will occur (probably and with increasing likelihood).

Quite different.
Already exists. I can't remember the name, but the infra company that I used to work for used one of these as part of their interview loop.
But it's not a coincidence - the climate conditions changing was what enabled humans to move into the continent. Still, I'd be surprised if human activity wasn't a significant contributor towards species extinction in this case.
I think the only time I used operator overloading was when I was a junior C++ programming trying to be clever - maybe 15 years ago.
a little more rock n' roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgsQR1qECso
Voter suppression in the US appears to take on other forms, reducing the number of polling places in urban centres such that it can take several hours to cast a vote, restricting their hours, making it illegal to provide water for those in the queue, that sort of thing.

Multi-pronged attacks which try to ensure only 'your' people get to participate.

As an Australian resident and a British citizen, it seems outrageous to me - I've never had to take more than about fifteen minutes out of my day to vote in the UK, and in Australia voting is fast, mandatory and always run on a weekend so that most people can get to it. They even usually have a charity barbecue outside the polling place!

Other, indirect attacks on the system include Trump's big lie, the stated intention of the republican candidate for the secretary of state of Arizona to return the state to republican control because he thinks it's what the people really want regardless of the outcome of the actual vote (because clearly the vote is rigged!), the various "alternative electors" that republicans attempted to send to congress during the aftermath of the last presidential election etc etc. The US right is currently mounting an attack on US democracy itself in various ways, to try and work around the system and usurp democratic mandate.
...the Civil War, and January 6.
The real world data is extremely limited, given there are only ~200 countries in the modern era, and the huge span of time over which the full impact of a constitution is seen.

It's incomparable to PLs, which have perhaps billions of case studies on which comparative analysis can be done.
Same. I suffer from analysis paralysis.
Seems like a high enough bar to me. I know zero people like this, despite the article assuring me that we all know someone like this.

If I did know someone like this, I suppose I'd think of them as my "coffee friend" or rather, friend who is really into coffee. That is unless they also had a bunch of other esoteric hobbies that overshadow the coffee thing.
Sigh. I wish this worked. Maybe we'll get to a point where AI handles a lot of the rote issues but until then, a lot of support is things like routine billing questions or even spam. Even if there is a meaty usability problem, there's no reason that it should be prioritized just because an engineer caught 1 ticket about it vs something that happened 100 times to regular support

To make it work, you need to have it be part of the onboarding or there's an engineering rotation of who's on-call to help with support escalations.
It’s anti dictionary when it actually says the words what it’s about to do when you press the button? How much clearer could it be.
That doesn’t surprise me, honestly, because the reporting around this is often hard to parse. I suspect that difficulty is on purpose, at least in North Carolina where I am based.

If you would like to understand more about what I’m talking about, which goes far beyond the things like voter ID that you have mentioned, I would suggest beginning with stolen ballots in North Carolina during the 2016 and 2020 elections, as well as gerrymandering policies during the same.

I would then go and examine the statements given by the leadership of each side when such criminal acts are discovered. How do they respond? That can often give you an idea of what a party’s intentions truly are.

Be advised: there is a strong conservative media push to keep the conversation centered around things like voter ID laws, which I agree with you are entirely acceptable. In the same way that they seek to focus on bathroom policies instead of focusing on women dying for their religious beliefs, they hope to muddy the voting issue until it is too late.

I appreciate your interest in understanding what’s going on, and I hope you will add your voice to mine in the future!
I think it's easier for consumables. I'm into tea and I'd say the same. You could get me any tea and one way or another I'd find a way to enjoy, since I enjoy non-fancy teas and enjoy trying new teas I haven't seen before.

I'm also into photography, and any kind of photography gear you get me is likely to be incompatible with my setups or the types of work I do.

Same with cooking. Someone got me a frying pan once for my birthday because the coating was coming off, and I had been intending to buy a new one. It was a nice frying pan, but it isn't compatible with my induction stove, so that gift pan is sitting unused in a drawer somewhere, and I had to buy my own new one that is compatible with my stove.

Basically -- Buy consumables as gifts. Never buy equipment, unless they're a enthusiastic beginner and you're an expert.
> States no longer had representation to protect their sovereignty.

Huh? Previously, state representatives elected senators; after the 17th, the voters did. How does either of these things end "state representation" ? You're insisting that "state representation" can only mean "representation of the people already elected by the voters", which is unjustifiably narrow.

> enforces everyone onto a single, centrally controlled bank.

Do you recall the situation before this?

> allows the federal government to directly tax citizens for the first time.

tricky to fight international wars without this, which obviously you could view as a plus.
>Is doing versioning explicitly in a database necessarily more complicated than with git histories?

What "versioning" means depends heavily on the database. "Versioning" for typical relational databases like Postgres does not achieve many of expected git features like branching and ability to materialize data for arbitrary point in time, unless you build something extra on top (or just use db as git storage). There are databases like dolt where "versioning" idea is similar to git.

> is the tamper-evidence what's needed and missing or something else?

I always work in controlled environments, so don't care much about tamper-evidence (unless its used for detecting integrity issues perhaps).

I didn't know datomic, that's looks like solution for half of the problem (distribution and history). I may still be missing something more human-focused like git, where you have branches, collaboration and push or pull when needed.

I was just commenting, not disagreeing.
One hazards to guess that you are not native american...
You know, I'm starting to look at him in a different light. He takes a hell of a lot of flak and keeps focusing on his vision
The description of how the transition to flight actually works was a little fuzzy - any video/animation out there?

Edit: https://youtu.be/4QaTwebs5nY - makes the mechanism much more clear.
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

Is that a bit like "the sun stopped coming up, until the sun came up the next day" ?
Can Anyone Catch Nokia?
I understand your point but I want to say that Autopilot works better than basic lane assist you find in many new cars today.
Also note that alcohol is the most common 'date rape' drug.
The best way to do it is dont let your enginners do support but expose them to customers pain points and complaints.
No, my dear watson - I mean that your disbelief in that particular sub-discipline of science may cause you a headache someday.
That's incredibly low. This is a terrifying bug that deserved $70k, at least.
Is it within the realm of likelihood this could happen accidentally at random, even if not as part of a targeted attack?

Say if someone has a radio on inside an NPR 24/7/365?
Wow, great news! Now everyone who says anything racist will have to put $2500 into the swear jar. I expect racism will disappear overnight, and we will have a plushappy society with institutionalized love for all. Thanks PayPal!
Closed my account after 20 years. Bye bye.
The BLE peripheral (AirPods) have to be connected and paired. Then, this connected device was “explorable” via other apps on the same device because the actual connection is maintained by the middleware/OS… e.g. an app may disconnect from a peripheral but it’s only a request, and the OS will only truly disconnect if all apps are “disconnected.”
The primary flaw in the constitution is that smaller states have disproportionate power (Senate and Electoral College) and will never give up or dilute this power.

Even worse, equal representation for each state in the Senate is literally the only part of the constitution that cannot be amended.

So even with overwhelming popular support there is an absolute barrier to reform.
Only if those boundaries are individually self-governing!

And they are not, since California and New York cannot outlaw handguns due to the influence of Wyoming and Idaho.

And as soon as you say "well the voters in Wyoming and Idaho deserve...", you've dropped any pretense of the internal boundaries mattering, because we're now just talking about federal representation, where those citizens have disproportionately large representation.
I believe you're conflating "simple in design" with "simple/easy to learn". Go is simple is design. It's not targeted to be easy to learn for someone without basic cs knowledge. As a meta some time spent watching simple made easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGlVcSMgtV4 will help on the difference. For example:

> There is a "type" struct at the top, but then another struct without a type later on.

1) You not being familiar with anonymous types, does not make go complex. Anonymous types (var d struct) have been around for a _very_ long time.

> Then there's a nested struct, and then backticks with double quotes and json with colons - one with the backticks after float64, and the other after a brace.

2) Anonymous types and tagging. The tags are a convenient, orthogonal language feature.

> Then rather than returning the result of the json response with an equal sign, the json decoder line takes in both the response and the output as function parameters! And one of them has an ampersand in front?!

The json decoder in go works on structs by reference to improve speed. You'll need to understand passing by reference vs value to understand why this code is structured the way it is.

All three of these things are _simple_ features but they may not be easy to understand.

By the way the equivalent go code for the python you posted is actually:

d := make(map[string], interface{})

json.Unmarshal(resp.Body, d)

fmt.Println(d)
The pay is still good, if not great. My salary is approximately the same as total comp at my previous job. Even with the stock down around $104, my total comp is still some significant chunk better than previous comp (20-30%). (I'm an IC5 SWE.)

It will eventually be a problem (in the sense that switching to GOOG or AMZN will be a much better prospect) if the stock continues to go down, of course. And a new hire evaluating their stock package should probably be a little concerned about the trend.

The infrastructure to support you getting your work done is great. There are reasonably interesting software problems to solve. There are smart people to work with. There are some good benefits.
"Our product isn't right for your needs. What you need is (competitor's product). Here, I'll give their engineer a ring and let them know exactly what you need and why and get you the best price."
I use PayPal to collect rent, I was waiting until the end of the month to cancel my account to make sure another method would work before cancelling my account. To be honest I kind of forgot I was going to do that, but now this has definitely renewed my determination to delete my PayPal account. What a scummy company.
Aside from all the ones mentioned, one idea I’ve considered is what if the machine containing data you’re retrieving is elsewhere and there’s a lot of it. Rather than having the inbound machine be responsible for proxying all that data (and all the round trips to the user space proxy process), what if you just migrate ownership of the TCP connection to the other machine instead to do Direct Server Return (DSR)? Then you can cut a huge amount of overhead out.

In practice of course that’s easier said than done (eg what if there’s a proxy in between that had some data buffered in application buffers), but it’s a neat idea I want to revisit some day. And it’s totally possible that using something like QUIC is a better model than relying on migrating TCP kernel stack.
That's not even close to the same thing.
Never going to buy subscription based hardware.
> Video games are a non-social controlled environment

Lots of video games are social. Some are not. The amount the environment is controlled can also varry.

> Gambling encourages a person to keep pushing themselves for a positive outcome but that alone does indicate any form of personal advancement.

So like literally everything. Seriously, can you name an external stimuli that this doesn't fit? Is work gambling? School? Yoga class?

> In sports it takes years of investment to get good (less than excellent). If a given video game took years of investment to complete the current level almost nobody would play that game.

I can be shit at soccer, and still have fun with friends. I can be shit at video games and still have fun. I can spend years practising and still be nowhere close to olympic level. Similarly, i can spend years on video games and be nowhere near the top of competitive e-sports.

What's the difference exactly?
My source for Canada and South Africa is Ruth Badger Ginsburg.

She suggested insurrectionists in Egypt emulate the South African and Canadian Constitutions, rather than the US Constitution.

She wasn’t insulting the US Constitution, just emphasizing it’s the product of circumstances that didn’t apply to Egypt.

Seems like the Canadian Constitution is similarly constructed - taking the specific time, place, customs into account.

Not a bad thing at all.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/12/ruth-bader-ginsburg-taken-...
The tutorial links to an addon that enables this.
I use this extension[0]

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Seems like any statically typed language would be a big win over python.
The most useful baby gift I ever received was a set of simple towels with the baby's name embroidered on them. 10 years later they're still going strong, when every other gift (romper suits, teddy bears, bouquets etc) is long gone.
I've worked in a math department at a major state university where it was necessary to have a key card to access anything. It was because of frequent theft. On a campus in an urban area theft is a major problem.
> voting machines are banned

I’m interested to hear your take on how voting machines are “less secure” than by-hand tallying. I’m unfamiliar with the process, so this goes contrary to what my intuition would tell me goes on
Good news, this kind of test exists to some extent with the euroncap and similar.

They do test a child running in front but not an elephant.

Also, any deep learning AI is extremely tested because that’s how you build such AI. Tesla and other built complex simulator to test their AIs.

I think the standard tests should eventually have more self driving scenarios, but what you wish is not too different than the current situation.
The few times I've dealt with code that does some (even just very basic) algebraic manipulation, I found the lack of operator overloading to be _really_ awkward (look no further the math/big library). For this reason there are many types of mathematical code that I would never consider writing in Go. But outside of those domains, I haven't really missed operator overloads at all.

Well, I guess the lack of an overload for <, >, and == is somewhat annoying. But I don't think those as are essential as arithmetic overloads are for mathematical code.
Operator overloading is more or less banned in most style guides unless you're working with well known "math" types. And for good reason. I'd love anyone to tell me what the (^@?!) operator in Haskell's popular lens library does.

It's just... not a good feature for the most part.
Jamelle Bouie (NYT) is something of a constitutional scholar (albeit of the popular book based variety) and he would eviscerate your argument. Recent pieces by him in NYT explain specifically why Madison's ideas about factions are not ideas about political parties.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=bouie+s...
Very much so.

They found all of this long ago, and it is inconceivable that they did not use it.

Solarwinds is a prime example, but people get careless.

What we have seen is the smallest fraction of what is, I think.