skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most things, anti-democratic activity is a spectrum rather than black or white. It seems fairly obvious to me that there is a large gulf between the two parties on that spectrum.
Did you ever consider mulching them directly into the ground beneath them? Good for the soil and helps the grass as well. And it's nearly free.

My neighbors spent the last week chasing leaves with bags and paying for pickup. I sent the kid out with a mower for an hour and my yard looks nearly the same.
Who are the victims in this case? Have you ever wondered why the Palestinians are protesting? Might be worth looking into that one.
Even AOL instant messenger did this. It would exit the window but still leave the application running with an icon in the systray area adjacent the clock.
Nvidia hit with class action suit over melting RTX 4090 GPU adapters
I quite like the recording included on the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vaka_vanha_Vainamoinen.og...
> does Alt-F4 not do the right thing on Windows

It usually closes the active window, but Discord does close the entire application for some reason.
Yes, that much I agree with - having an ongoing voice call with no active window is definitely not normal behavior. Even playing audio with no visible window is strange, but recording is even stranger.
I was really interested in this group when it was first starting out--I definitely think more intentionally developed cities aren't a bad thing and it'd be an interesting concept but this 1) reads like generic tech bro on ketamine claptrap and 2) is laughably vague for a company that has raised millions and been in operation for more than a year.
Saying "this is shit" is the easiest thing in the world to do if you're the big boss. What's more difficult is figuring out a way to fix it.
Instead, how much would it cost for the IRS to check everyone's returns reconciliation against employer statements?
Me and my colleagues will be affected by the end of Z library and co related projects.

Here in Brazil and for sure in most second and third world countries, people don't have money to spend in books.

You can argue that people can go to the library, but in most cases it's even expensive to take a bus or taxi even a Uber.

I'm a law student at an university in brazil. Law books are really expensive.
Even though my university have a library, sometimes it doesn't have the books that the professors ask us to read.

Since I found z library I could have access to most of books that I needed.

I do know that the writers and publishers have costs and they need to make money, but I don't agree with the fact that we have to pay to have knowledge. It's more like if we don't have money, we can't have knowledge.
The one big battery is easier and faster - in large part because you can't lift that yourself so you have machines to do the work for you. For AAA you could design the same machine, but odds are you didn't.
If there average payout is 5,770 per employee and the average salary jump while changing jobs is 10-20%.

The math is pretty in favour of having a wage conspiracy, thats without even considering the cost of not being caught.

Chance of being caught * average salary * cost of poaching * average salary rise due to poaching * number of employees / fine

Maybe my napkin math is wrong but the chance of being caught has to be very high and the average salary or number of employees very low for it to make any sense.

And being google and apple in california, the employee and salary is not gonna be low...
I have a tiny book called How To Code that teaches the very basics of pure JS. I’m also recording a video that shows me coding up an application in pure JS this week. It is a raffle app that takes a list of names and picks one randomly. It will use HTML, CSS, and pure JS with nothing else. No frameworks, no compile or transpire step, etc.

Reach out if you’re interested. I won’t publish the video for a few weeks, but maybe you could preview it and give feedback or ask questions.

My email address is in my profile.
Oh trust me: I did. Entered all in different chat windows, forms etc.

I guess you know what the result was, since I came here (and got the solution in minutes!).
Yes, the "pull the cable from shore" thing doesn't work well for simple reasons.

This is what the cable looks like with the ferry pulling itself across:

_-OOOO-_
____________/ \__________

This is what it looks like if it is being pulled from shore:

---------------OOOO-_
\__________

The cable has quite a lot of friction with the bottom and can pull the ferry without lifting up and blocking half the river. Boats still need to be very careful around ferries like this, but they can still coexist.

These ferries traditionally used to be "chain ferries" which had even more friction between chain and river bottom.
The optimizing backend for Rust and C++ is common. So if it didn't get optimized in Rust, it is very likely it wouldn't be in C++ as well. However, the code style of those two codebases might be different. IMHO C++ code is traditionally a lot more pointer and heap allocation heavy than Rust code. Rust makes moving stuff very convenient and using pointers/references quite inconvenient. Therefore showing heap allocation profiles would help us understand if those differences are due to actual compiler inefficiencies or different memory management patterns used in the source code.

Also rustc code has been written in different times than the majority of clang code. That might as well affect the copying patterns. Move semantics is actually a quite modern thing in C++ (and not default like in Rust).
You mean for Discord I assume? That is strange indeed - though of course Windows has always allowed apps to modify any kind of behavior they want (for better and for worse).
Yep, that's typically how this works - there's a small immediate fine for the current issues, but there'll be rapidly increasing fines in future if the issues continue beyond a reasonable timeframe to get this fixed.
A better title IMO: Elon Musk’s Brutal Management Style
> The rest of the article seems to try and affirm the interface argument by jumping into syntax and compilation arguments.

For the purpose of that post I'm loosely defining interfaces as "runtime polymorphism". The article "jumps" into syntax because that's what I'm trying to show, there really is no argument that I'm making about the abstract idea of an interface.

As stated at the top of the article (and in other comments here), if you want vtable style interfaces, you can have vtable style interfaces: just make a vtable and use it, the language won't stop you :^)

> I fail to see how this has anything to do with Zig or abstract ideas of interfaces.

Yep, that's because the article was never about abstract ideas of interfaces. It does pertain Zig specifically because it shows off a new language feature: `inline else`.
I've tried Linux (usually Ubuntu) every other year for ~15 years. Weird stuff like this is the norm. You can sometimes fix these things by searching SO + forums, and C+P terminal commands.
If you set up a company that accepts money from Chinese citizens and let them do stuff online I am pretty sure your company will be subject to Chinese law, yes.
Any pricing for your cloud service? Right now, the only concern about retool for me is the price.
If you are a business, that does business in some other country, you also have to comply to their local laws. Even if you don't have a presence there.
Grabs popcorn

It will be interesting to see the fallout on this one. Will Qualcomm require licensing for AV1 implementers? How does this prevent AOM from retracting access to patents Qualcomm needs from other companies? Did Qualcomm literally approach every other company with private negotiations? And so on...
I agree with you in principle and I think that the EU is basically extorting American companies, but in your example all that information is stored in your phone, while in this case the information is stored in Discord's servers.
One of my key issues is being (sorry for the technical medical terminology here) a bit of a manic depressive fuckwit. Manic me gets big ideas & plans things, and being all excitable he tells everyone about said intentions so that the rest of me then feels the need to find a way of making happen! I do it to myself more than there being other people to be resentful of.
Can confirm that those numbers seem to be mostly up to date.
Both Walmart and Amazon are notorious for disregarding minimum wage laws as an example of 'big fish'. With the fines usually applied this is just the price of doing business for these companies.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/275064-supreme-...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262294/amazon-flex-wage-...
Ask HN: Does no-code plugins have a market?
So I have developed few no-code automations using combination of Airtable + Make(previously Integromat) for some of the use cases like Social media scheduling, parsing candidate applications from a Linkedin job post to name a few.

I feel there's a decent one-time effort which goes in making such stuff but it definitely saves time later on. However unlike pure SaaS, there's a bit more setup which a user will need to do to get this up and running.

I believe there's a market but wanted to check here. Will you pay for no-code plugins (assuming you already use no-code tools like Make and Airtable)
The point of GDPR is to defend the user.

Tech companies aren't your friends, they only want your money.
What baffles me is people being outraged by this fine like they needed to pay that, not a billion dollar tech company.

It is justified because what Discord didn't implement can harm the user. it can harm YOU.

People easily forget that Internet is for everyone. Even for people that didn't grew with a computer, even for people that are not developer.
Tarsem Singh's next movie The Fall is visually similar (though in another genre), so watch it too if you didn't already: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/
It's still outside the norm on Windows I would say, even though I understand why they did it.
I think they ended up fixing this, all the deleted users I can find resolve to UID 456226577798135808.

Although, messages that used to @mention the user don't have their UID mangled (since @mentions are really `<@userid>`), so it'd be easy to correlate someone @pinging a deleted user and that deleted user responding to the ping. Seems like fixing this would be pretty challenging (logistically and computationally) given you'd have to arbitrarily edit other peoples' messages.
GPU drivers for NVIDIA graphics card have been a bit of a hassle for me, I'd love to see a version with (proprietary) NVIDIA drivers included, like Pop!_OS provides.
> It would at least force them to be honest about the fact that they're effectively turning the internet into a legal-regional network rather than a global one.

This happened a long time ago. And it was started by the US, I'm quite sure.

More than that, the American way to manage the "global network" is basically to impose US laws everywhere in the world.

You can receive DMCA notices outside the US, for example.

Or even crazier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.

Someone arrested, in the US, for a "crime" in another country, that wasn't even a crime in his country.
Prioritize your work by importance, not urgency.

Work only on the first item on the list until it's done.
Did the users choose to install the Discord app (or run a random command?)

How are you supposed to confirm "user understanding"?

Does the program need to require a tutorial/training before it's being used?

A user's ignorance shouldn't be a software distributor's problem.

If the discord app didn't have a system tray, and hid it's process from the Process List someway, maybe you have a point - this is just ignorance across the board.
This is cool. Is there a way to support data stream?
"This challenge will be returned in the response and you must verify they are the same."

Ummm, "MUST"? (emphasis is mine).

Too bad that we cannot somehow make this requirement word a "SHALL" as this leg of the "ceremony" can easily be overridden by a malicious JavaScript function(s).

Unless these JavaScript scripts AND its references HTML pages are also:

- under the protection of nonce hash values,

- complex CSP properly scoped,

- older WebAuthn protocol made client-side rejectable,

- its server-supplied JavaScript logic gets pre-tested in its client browsers prior to the ceremony,

- CTAP1 properly rejected, AND

- the browser is also deemed provably secured from an nonce override.

Awful lot of conditions such that it reminds me of the children's game of "Jenga" (a tower of stacked rectangular blocks) ... reaching for the sky.

Surely, our large pool of esteemed and well-trained web ninjas can handle this seemingly "nuclear-safety" checklist with relative ease. /s

More must be done to streamline this before web integrity gets properly and safely restored in these days and ages.
World Philosophy Day: 13 questions for our century
Some questions I need answered, that have yet to be answered in the article, or the comments here:

Does Discord have an officially established business presence in the EU? That is, do they have an office? Employees? Remote workers officially living in the EU? A business license of some sort?

One of the large questions here, entirely separate from the validity of the technical issues is of jurisdiction, and the answers are extremely unsatisfying.

Edit: Yes, I understand that the GDPR claims jurisdiction. But this isn't my question. My question is also not, "does Discord have customers in the EU", or even "...run servers located in the EU".

My question is only, "does Discord have an established business in the EU?" I was unable to find an answer with a short search, and I'm unsure where to look.
The difference for me is that the meat of an algorithm is intentionally designed whereas the meat of a neural network is not. When training a neural network there can be some intention, but it's not the meat of the resulting "algorithm".

When thinking about this it's a bit like if I submit an application on fiver to write code for me that takes me from A to Z. I get the code back, I don't understand it and I didn't write it, is it still an algorithm? All of the same can be applied to a neural network.

Is natural selection an algorithm?

Is how the universe works an algorithm?

I think it's useful in every day life to distinguish what humans do and what something out of human control does. It can also be useful to be a bit philosophical and lump definitions together, but this only works if everyone agrees that they're doing this in a discussion.
I don't understand why you are being down voted. I disagree with you that they provide quality though. They don't. It is also the case that the company that hires them provide any quality. All are in it for making money with lowest spend and quality that they can get by. Very few obsess over quality and ones that do are vertically integrated to control quality in each step of the process. Very few American companies are like this.

The engineers who complain here don't have any influence in the decision making or otherwise they wouldn't be crying and complaining here.
I have family that works for DOL's Wage & Hour division. The amount of wage theft is _staggering_. They are chronically understaffed and overworked. Plus, every time a Republican administration comes into power, their enforcement power gets severely limited, except in the most egregious cases.
At this price it's as if the buyer expects that those sandals were the secret to Jobs' success, and by wearing them they too can become a genius tech entrepreneur.

Which is ridiculous of course. It was his turtlenecks that did that.
> Does Discord even have a corporate presence in the EU?

They keep bothering me to pay for Nitro and just pushed a notification that they've added new payment options for my country, so they're clearly targeting the EU market.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts despite me clearly having my feathers ruffled a bit.

Do you mind sharing, if you were formally diagnosed with autism? And did you have any developmental delays as a child? If so, how did your parents deal with those?

Based on what I've seen from friends and family with autistic children, and how their lives and family dynamics diverge so drastically from the established well-trod tracks of parenthood traveled for centuries, looking incomprehensible to outsiders, I don't believe it's possible for the current rates of autism to have been constant throughout history. There would have been some similar phenomenon to autism parenting known to us (though not necessarily by that name).
Why are most CS programs so bad at teaching programming as a skill in itself?
Before people start pointing out that "CS is not programming", let me say, I am well aware of that. I am not saying a CS program shouldn't have subjects like Discrete Math, TCS, Compilers, Type Theory, etc. But along with all that why not teach them the skill of "good programming". By that I don't mean only syntax of popular languages. I mean the art of solving problems using programming languages.

All I am saying is that majority of the undergrad population will be employed as a coder somewhere directly or indirectly. Very few people will go to grad school. Then why do we just touch upon programming in most schools? There are schools where a typical undergrad Algorithms class has no coding assignments. Ofcourse there are schools where there are courses with extensive programming requirements. I am not talking about those. Those are exceptions.

Just as an analogy, can a person majoring in architecture not do drawing or designing? Even they have courses that teach principles. Then why are CS programs so practicality averse? Why not accept that programming is a good and powerful tool and like any other tool, the mastery of it can be taught (through guided practice and not only lone practice). Lone dedicated practice is important. But someone who has enrolled in college can expect guided practice from their program. Don't say, that it is the job of companies where they intern to teach them to get better at programming? What legal or moral obligation do they have to perform that as a duty?

Is it because most academicians are bad programmers (it may be a fact, nothing wrong in that, don't get offended, I'm just asking)? Or are there other reasons.

There will be people who will point out the exceptions to my topic. I am very open to hear about those experiences too. Maybe we will get to know about some great teachers, books, courses, etc.
Also the scaling isn't linear. A bus that transports 100 people doesn't burn nearly as much fuel as 100 scooters.
It was also Queeq's substandard performance.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny
The overwhelming feeling I get from this interview is one of cynicism and nihilism. In his mind it's okay if he did shady things because everyone else does. Everything is broken, everyone is corrupt, everything is shit, so fuck it... basically.

He more or less admits that the effective altruism stuff was a sham.
Very much doubt that'll happen. Most likely outcome is a settlement check and a very tepid statement to undo some small amount of the damage to Mick's reputation caused by Marty's statement.
This is a good thing. The more outwardly toxic the reaction against cryptocurrency grifts becomes, the less outreach these ideas will have, and the less people will be affected by them.

At its core, it's a form of herd immunity. You don't drink bleach, not because you know personally what drinking bleach does to your body, but because society has told you what the consequences of drinking bleach are, immunizing you against the idea of drinking bleach.
I am seeing a lot of hate on the internal tooling. Can you elaborate on that a bit more?
Not from the Eternal OST, but I can't think of a song that gets me more pumped for a big lift than BFG Division from the 2016 soundtrack.

The two DOOM soundtracks made me reconsider what "metal" and "electronic music" mean to me. His use of electronic sounds in a metal-ish context was a breath of fresh air to me. I love guitar driven music, but Mick pushed me into new territory and his work is just legendary.

Annoying that Bethesda has to play these stupid games.
I'll offer a counter-example, to give you a bit of hope. I'm in my 50s. In the last 5 years I've gained one close friend and a handful of new friends in my social circle. Age is no barrier to forming friendships. You must be intentional about it. But new friendship happens throughout our lives.
That means you can't sell your Solana USDT, which means Binance is getting ready to dump their Solana USDT bags.
Somehow I missed the part of the "very easy to understand and straightforward GDPR" that prohibits this. I've been saying all along that this regulation is dangerously boundless, but I can't wait for someone to justify to me why this actually makes total sense.
I started a new job, I’ve been going into the office occasionally, and I’ve made a few new friends already. It’s a breath of fresh air. Everyone I’ve talked to that’s gotten covid recently says it’s basically a cold by this point, so it’s not worth worrying about. President and Fauci said the pandemic is over months ago. It’s time to get out there and live again!
On Elon Musk, Twitter, and Hate
Pop_OS! It's not without its bugs too, what isn't? But I've had far fewer major issues like the one noted in the link. System 76 and community, maintain it specifically as desktop Linux. Unlike Canonical which is much more focused on enterprise, server, these days which is why I think we've seen desktop Ubuntu slide on quality.
if they want it to work as you posit, they should not save all the date in Discords systems, but create a distributed chat system.
How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
> The only popular program I know evil enough to override Cmd-Q is Chrome, and I blame Apple for the failing.

TBF I've been saved a few times from losing all my browser state by accidentally hitting cmd-Q.
I don't know but this site is weird: https://forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/2015/...

It seems like AI generated text on "ancient languages"
We can, but if we do it without any historical context, then it will mean that basically everyone who ever lived in the past was immoral (and it will most likely also mean that we'll all be considered very immoral by people in the future), and I can't see that being a particularly useful point of view.
What OP was suggesting is exactly what you get. You can see results at the level of any manager and zoom out recursively.
> A user's ignorance shouldn't be a software distributor's problem.

Deliberately causing user's ignorance should be a software distributor's problem.
They’re still going to be used against children though.
K8s logging at scale: from kubectl logs to the PLG stack
Testing weapons on Palestinian civilians in a barrel has been a winning economic strategy for Israel, I doubt they'll voluntarily stop.
APL died for the same reason Perl is fading: it is a write-only language.

Those symbols look cool. But they're not very far away from Brainfuck.
"nobody is using this warp terminal as long as it's closed-source"

Lots of developers use Terminal.app, so that clearly isn't a real problem. There's no obvious reason why developers would be willing to buy a closed source IDE, operating system or cloud services but not a terminal emulator. I think people are reacting more to the login requirement than anything else.
I find it extremely concerning that they mix e-government and electronic voting. The former is obviously a good idea, while the latter is an existential threat to democracy. Estonian citizens can now no longer audit the validity of their elections in the way that paper ballots have allowed.