skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen that narrative in Conservative circles. However i've seen just about everything over there, so it's really difficult for me to know what is "sticking" and what is just clumps of people agreeing to random things.

Ie what i'm referencing is more than just a single comment, it was many in agreement; but i've tended to see these "pockets of fringe" where in any larger thread i can expect to see just about anything being discussed and agreed upon.

Makes it really hard to discern larger beliefs.
At what rate? 1% per day/week? If it takes N weeks to criss cross the Atlantic to refill from the US, maybe it is worthwhile to lose X% off the top to sell when possible.

I have no doubt the energy companies have teams of analysts crunching the numbers on a daily basis.
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yes, that's exactly what I meant. I was demonstrating that just because the top guy is a member of the minority group does not mean that organization is "influenced" by minority group.

Edit: I finally read the context again. Yes the top guy is a member of a minority group, and of course he will have some cultural influence. But people will disagree whether the minority group is _at the right level of influence_.
Commented; thanks for the pointer.
I mean some of those things just make sense. Why shouldn't CSS allow you to mix units and do some basic maths like with calc? Having had to resort to JS for that stuff is the real issue there.

CSS in my eyes should be able to handle 99% of visual style related needs with ease, JS should be there for the rest.
> At least on paper, Apple does seem to be doing better on privacy. They are private by default

Except the fact that they get informed every time you run any software on your Mac, and they even used to send that over HTTP, in the clear (I'm hoping it's changed). The reported purpose is to check software signatures live, for security or something. I personally think code signing isn't of a huge benefit for the user, and there is no need for live checks (instead of cache or Certificate Revocation Lists) to be performed. The only reason i can think for Apple to implement it this way is to collect data on what you do with your device ostensibly for "security", but it might just be a negative way of looking at things.
Wrong link, this is the post: https://s3nh.github.io/posts/my-thoughts-about-paperspace
I wasn't expecting this from an Italian pasta brand. It just feels wrong. Barilla has poor appeal among Italians for what it's worth. I prefer "La Molisana" pasta instead and I make sure I cook it the right way.
Keep in mind that many of these tech companies are in California and the law changed a few years back to make it much harder to categorize someone as a contractor.

I’m not 100% clear on the law, but I think if you work more than 20hrs for a company or derive a large portion of your income from a single client that California might consider you to be an employee even if you have a corporate shell like an LLC.

I know that back when the law passed I was asked to share copies of invoices to other clients so I could continue to do work as a CA contractor and keep my client protected from any employment claims.
Personally, I don't think it's the commenter's fault that some others have such strong emotions to the analogy that they're distracted from the point. There's no indication that the commenter was appealing to emotion and, as others have also pointed out, making a comparison to an "emotionally charged" subject does not nullify the validity of the comparison. In fact, it's fallacious to falsely invalidate the argument based on some cherry-picked, subjective, peripheral perspective like that. In my opinion, the appeal to emotion and the derailment of the discussion is from those doing so, not the original commenter.

It seemed like just a simple, general, easily-mappable analogy that most people would get, even non-programmer laymen, that emphasizes that unsafe should be replaced with safe. Any analogy of something unsafe can be seen as "emotionally charged" if someone was personally impacted by it.
World is on ‘highway to climate hell’, UN chief warns at Cop27 summit
Apple Pauses Hiring for Roles Outside R&D in Cost-Cutting Move
Exactly, patents on software are just insane and anticompetitive. I can’t really think of a single good reason to have them.

This is tech, it’s a race, everyone playing already knows that. All parents do is slow innovation or in some cases stop it entirely
(?) You’re replying under a thread about the ranking of WhatsApp vs. Facebook Messenger in a list that doesn’t even include Threema.
This is a worse analogy because good nuclear plants exist. With C, I've yet to see a widely used library written by multiple humans in C that doesn't have critical memory bugs.
Winning record $1.9B Powerball jackpot could still lead to bankruptcy
This is literally a PR article from a company who sells SPARK products, talking about a company buying into SPARK. Please provide your own salt lick.
An unofficial guide to Mastodon and Fediverse
I don't think it's wise to conflate Sturm und Drang with Romanticism, despite their similarities. They are also quite distinct in many respects.

And Beethoven is rightfully considered to be a transition point between the Classical and the Romantic style, you can hear the echos of Haydn (and even Bach) even in his late works.
HIPAA is prescriptive, not descriptive. It does not lay out specific standards to reach. Only overly vague and broad guidelines. Because of this the industry has more or less developed its own best practices that should be good enough.

What this means is that healthcare providers have annual audits performed by third parties who check compliance with these "best practices" which may or may not have any relation to what the lawmakers intended. Its ultimately about checking boxes. yada yada security is hard. You can't write a law that describes a security posture and expect to be relevant for more than a year at most.
Women are far more likely to have big phones because they are more likely to carry it in a purse.

Based on the title alone, I couldn’t take that book seriously.
> Many professors I know will freeze in class when realizing they were praising the work of a “colonialist” such as Darwin or Newton.

The American left has lost the ability to see shades of gray. No human since the dawn of time has been perfect. If we cherry-pick which scientists to believe based on their moral stance from centuries ago, we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It takes a lot of courage nowadays to stand up to cancel culture. Luana Maroja likely risked her career to write this article.
Asbestos is killing mostly the contractors instead of the users, which is breaks the analogy here. (That being said, any argument using the “market failure” concept is dubious from the beginning)
Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house
Tangent, i really enjoy the design of that site. Crisp, readable, simple. Maybe a bit low on contrast, but not terribly so.
I find the framing of the conversation around problems with the patent system to largely be about patent trolls quite disingenuous.

This might sound controversial, but patent trolls are pretty much the only way for a "small inventor" to monetize a patent (note not invention). If say IBM violates your patent an individual or even a moderate startup or company has absolutely no chance of defending it, because IBM will either drown you in litigation cost or if you also do business find 10 other patents in their portfolio that you violate and force you to cross licence.

By framing the issues to be about patent trolls means that the big companies just want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to keep out newcomers without any risk to their own business.

That doesn't mean I am pro patent trolls, but I just am not convinced that the patent system fullfills any value. Patents are written so broad that they are essentially meaningless.
Erm it is perfectly possible to perform dynamic allocation in Ada. You have the 'new' keyword to allocate a new object of a type. You have the 'unchecked deallocation' mechanism. You have controlled types that deallocate when an object is out of scope. You have all sorts of weak references schemes in some libraries. You have storage pools to handle allocation specifics for a type. You have the secondary stack that handles returning objects of unknown-size-at-call-site.

Most of those can be disabled though through the 'restriction' mechanism (look up Pragma Restriction which is very interesting in itself).

SPARK itself can handle and prove some ownership properties but to the best of my knowledge isn't at the level of rust in memory safety on dynamically allocated memory.
A prior layoff - I had time on my hands and I wanted to learn something useful, so I started learning Python for data science, specifically for doing time-series forecasting and logistic regression. Took a few months to get reasonably competent, it was quite the step from Java or C/C++, but once I got to a decent level of proficiency I've not looked back. It's also paid off handsomely career-wise too.
NextDNS for the win, great filter lists for Microsoft and apple.
Some GeForce RTX 4090 Owners Claim Their Native 16-Pin Power Plugs Are Melting
it's literally the opposite of elitism. Demanding of people that they need to take control of the tools that they use and making tools that empower them recognizes that they are at least in principle able to do just that.What's really elitist is thinking that every piece of software needs to spoon-feed content to its users and eliminate all their choices because they're really too infantile to be bothered to make any decisions at all.

Crazy world we're in where recognizing the potential for, and asking people to take control of their own actions is considered to be a symptom of elitism
Okay, I know that to see content about X, I connect to the X discord server, and to see content about Y, I connect to the Y discord server, and so on. But to message someone, I don't need to know or care what server they're on, or where I know them from. I just message username#uid, and that's it.

Discord is different enough from other tools that many people are confused by it.

But even then, Mastodon is different enough from Discord--and other tools--that many people are confused by it.
Check out the Creativity Faucet by Julian Shapiro. It’s a brief take on the same phenomenon: you’ve got to let the tap run and let the wastewater out before getting to the good stuff.

That’s because, in part, the good stuff is made out of identifying why the wastewater fell short.

https://www.julian.com/blog/creativity-faucet
Linux VM to host Linux containers.
Conversely, it uses a native Windows layer to host Windows containers.
Damnit your're right. And gingerbread men shouldn't carry foxes on
their backs either. I get confused. :)
Very interesting list, thanks author.

The R2 section caught my attention. "R2 is like Amazon S3, but without bandwidth costs"

(Isn't that an interesting name, it's "S3"-1 haha)

I will echo one of the sentiments then... some of it seems too good to be true. So you could easily and supercheaply host a static website on Cloudflare, couldn't you?

Or... is this one of those initial offering prices, and after a lot of adoption it eventually reaches parity with other cloud providers like AWS/GCP/Azure?

I would be curious to know if someone is hosting serious enterprise applications in Cloudflare.

The email forwarding solution seems quite tempting too. I currently use hanami.run which is already cheap, but this feature is currently free. But again, for how long will it be free?
Thank you, learned something new.
https://gridbyexample.com
This is one reason i use NextDNS, they have a list of Microsoft and apple servers ready to be blocked with a simple toggle.
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Any prefered sources on what the CIA did in venezuela 2 years ago?
Hello other text based beings!

I am very passionate about journaling/collecting one’s thoughts. In a typical HN fashion, I decided to make a tool that scratches my itch [1].

Having spent majority of my life with portable computers around, I feel we as humans are losing the joy of writing one’s thoughts out. Sometimes the best thing is to write your thought and establish this one way temporal connection to your future self. This is so beautiful because it crosses the barriers of time, culture and location. An alien human descendant billions of years in future might be able to connect with me by reading my thoughts. Writing is an intellectual marvel that has no other equivalent

[1] https://bangle.io
Do people still use Morfik anymore?
Yeah, I also noticed this trend. Salaries and comp. are much lower as well, for instance, I see now that a very large amount of offers come with no equity (yes, even early-stage startups), when even one year ago all offers had a complementary equity or stock package.
it’s weird. The WARN law requires notice, but, the penalty for violating the law is you have to pay people 60 days of pay. So paying instead of providing notice is technically illegal, but enforcement is pointless if you pay people with no additional conditions. That being said, if you make the pay conditional such as requiring a non disparagement clause, that can be a problem, and is likely going to be a problem here. (Can’t be sure yet, I don’t believe anyone has the details from Twitter yet)

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/faqs.asp
I believe they are referring to memory leaks. Not really a "safety concern" as it will simply cause the application to crash (eventually).
It's no different in everyday life. This was an appropriate title for the Rust thread, but is too terse for Hacker News.

If I say to my mother "Hannah told me she'd be away for Christmas" we both understand who is meant, my sister. If I say that to my friend Dave it's unclear. Which Hannah? We have a mutual friend called Hannah, I have a sister named Hannah, or maybe I mean the Hannah he works with. So I should be more specific in that context.

Being obliged to be fully specific all the time is no problem for a machine but it's tiresome for humans, so no, I do not agree with "death to abbreviations". Maybe HN rules should encourage people to expand abbreviations when citing material from elsewhere that could be unfamiliar to most readers. As it is, hey, free Internet points for whoever first expands the abbreviation in a comment.
Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Levant, and Caucasus (2020)
This is the result of optimizing for storage constraints. Storage is expensive on the ETH blockchain, so compiled bytecode is sent to the blockchain instead of raw source.
I'm going to assume that your "shock" is of the same kind as Captain Renault's when he says he is shocked, shocked to find that there's gambling going on at Rick's.
> - the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US

Exactly opposite. US states generally have larger area, but lower population. Population-wise, California is about the size of Poland and Texas is similar to Romania. No state is comparable to Germany (83M), France (65M) or Italy (60M).
When he tried to insert himself into the Thai cave debacle and called the local expert a pedo and then hired a fake detective to dig up evidence.
It’s not practical. Crashing cars is expensive and you need consistent data. You cannot use a different dummy on each test and expect to make sense of the data. The best we could do is come up with an acceptable model and use that for all/most tests. If we could accurately model crashes in software then there would be no limitation on doing thousands of crashes with all different dummy types.
Yes, that is generally how markets work. However there is no central exchange for bitcoin, nor is there enough liquidity in any single exchange. So, the seller would need to open accounts in multiple exchanges and sell in all of them. Sure, bringing down one exchange could have consequences for price, but it wouldn't cover this large of an amount of BTC. Plus, half the exchanges with enough liquidity to even begin with, aren't even allowed to be used in the US.

Again, that's not how the US govt works with these things anyway (OTC auctions), so it is all a moot point.
It’s in their TOS and stated as a feature.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509159

There’s an expression, paraphrased as “when someone tells you who they are, believe them.”
Not sure if I'd call myself successful but I do get paid to program as a Data Scientist (so not a real programmer).

1) No it wasnt CS or math education. I was trained as an EE and was expected to program in C and Assembly for my assignments. We were just expected to pick it up without much formal help (circa 1999).

2) I feel this aspect is required for any endeavor.

3) This should be true in theory, but very much depends on your team and size of the company. If you work for a small sized company, you can create a whole system and learn a lot. Working for a BiG Co, you'll just do a tiny fraction of the whole system and your learning may be limited.

4) Curiosity. When I first learnt programming, I remember using programming to "verify" what I was learning in EE classes. I realize now it was silly to "verify" if Newtons method or Fourier Transforms "work", but at the time it tremendously aided my understanding of translating textbook concepts into code. This aspect has stuck with me. Later when I moved to Data Science, I returned frequently to this method of reproducing basics using my own code. I feel it has indeed made me more effective in my job.
>I have no idea why the hardware/software industry all focused on the linux kernel as the common base for so many hardware support.

Example #2124 out of 251295912931, BSD devs were absolutely hardcore adamant to stick to CVS and SVN as their source control for years after the rest of the world has moved on.
I mean coming from Twitter the entire idea of a "local feed" is already so weird. Why would I want to follow random people?
Keep in mind, OpenSnitch is Linux-based and none of Linux firewalls can filter incoming packets by process ID like macOS/FreeBSD (Lil'Snitch) can.
Yeah Crimea invasion was basically Sudetenland.

Nobody really thought Putin would become completely unhinged.
There is really nothing Musk should be worried about.

The funny thing is: If there was a service called dwitter and had exact the same features that twitter had, people might be willing to give it a try.

At this point a twitter alternative doesn't need to be different. It only needs to have a different owner.
I 2-party system you can just act based on the facts and hurt your party or ignore the facts of current topic and try to shift the focus - like you are doing now.
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> Without the presentation of this evidence, you never get a guilty plea.

Firstly, I don't necessarily agree that you could never get a guilty plea. The government has lots of resources and the threat of scrutinizing you and going after you for years is a significant pressure. For sure this can be abused, but my point is only that this blanket assumption that the government just has to grant immunity or throw up its hands seems like a false choice.

Secondly, total immunity is a pretty broad guarantee though. Why not trade a maximum penalty for that evidence, instead of no penalty at all?
I'm following the work of the rust compiler team these days, they're trying to leverage all rust frontend guarantees to perform better optimisations.
A lot of injuries are happening from bottom belts cutting into bellies, because people don't know how to position the belt properly or the belt doesn't position well for people who have bellies (many women over middle age, pregnant women, etc). It's not just average height and weight that matters. Soft tissue positioning matters a lot. Women tend to accumulate weight in hips (pear shape), while men usually do it in the belly, so elevated thigh diameter in women when seated pushes the bottom belt up onto the belly/soft tissue which then gets cut during an accident. Regulators need to surface and approve belt adjusters that make seat-belts safer for pregnant and overweight people.
This is not in dispute. A reminder that 34 people were charged as a part of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in our election, five of which were high level parts of Trump's campaign staff (Papadopoulos, Manafort, Gates, Flynn, and Cohen): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_brought_in_th.... Roger Stone was also later indicted and imprisoned. Trump pardoned Flynn, Papadopoulos, Manafort, and Stone.
(1994)

* Futurist Programming Notes - http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/futnotes.html

* Manifesto - http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/futman.html

* Background - http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/

My favorite exercise: http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/futnotes.html#:~:text=R...!
I guess you need to know it enough to know why people don't want them now.

Like, everyone knows typescript catches more human mistake that JavaScript. But you won't know why if you don't know JavaScript at first place.
It's funny how the media were all over russian meddling into the 2016 elections but not a whisper of russian meddling in the 2020 elections. Either a) russia behaved in 2020 (which is not what this article suggest), or b) these interferences are background noise that don't have much of an impact (2020 elections treatment but then what about 2016?) or c) these interferences have a material impact (2016 elections treatment but then what about 2020?).

a) is highly improbable, b) and c) are proof that the media narrative is all bullshit to push a political agenda.
Any chance you can make a PR to julia to give us one of the better LAPACKS? Our medium term goal is to replace LAPACK with pure Julia code but in the meantime, performance improvements are always appreciated.
Nope. Flexbox makes it easy to just use plain CSS nowadays. No more SASS or any other preprocessor nonsense. Not even a fan of Tailwind (too much complexity for dubious benefit).

CSS has never been better and now there's just the right amount of it. Also now that there's no more need for crazy JS hacks, you can have just a little bit of JS for interactivity and that's it. Front end development is finally pleasant again.
See also:

https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

This list is currently far more comprehensive, and it's filled with a lot of high-quality crates for a wide variety of common tasks.

I would like to see this list transformed into a navigable website. It'd also be nice to include code samples (eg. I recently had to investigate each test mocking library directly, and a high level summary or comparison would have helped).
yes, declarative is exactly how i'd describe css "programming". you supply constraints and the css engine applies them as best it can. the constraint declaration language of css is becoming more sophisticated, which is much needed and welcome, but it's not anywhere close to scripting (as in, providing a precise flow of instructions).
Browsing the federated timeline, searching by hashtag and looking at who other people you know are following is the discoveability mechanism.

Unlike Twitter, ActivityPub sites generally don't beat you over the head with follow recommendations. The goal is not to get you mentally addicted to spending hours a day on Social Media.