skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ten years ago I went through my Apple collection to remove those RTC batteries when people started reporting that they were exploding. I have an Apple "set top box" prototype- didn't have one with a ROM that allowed to actually function as a standalone system, but it was still a really neat artifact. The battery had exploded and turned the inside of the case into a rusty mess. That was a painful moment of realization. I also lost a Mac Classic to a bursting battery but I managed to get the batteries out of my other systems in time. I also have a Bandai Pippin and since that's also basically a Mac it's also got the same RTC battery, and luckily it wasn't all that hard to disassemble non-destructively to remove it. Those batteries did tend to last a really long time, and I imagine in some systems the clock is probably still keeping time until the moment the battery melts.

If you've had old Apple systems on the shelf for a long time- or an Apple IIgs which also had a battery-backed RTC- get those original batteries out!
Cool! Does anyone know of apps similar to this for Chinese?
I've seen many analytics frameworks that try to capture whatever device identifiers they can get their hands on. I bet half the apps on your phone use one. And this has been an accepted practice in the industry for years. Why do you think Apple and browsers have been slowly removing access to these IDs? I tend to agree that such data collection is unnecessary and unwanted, but if a product or service is putting that shit in their software, and they call it out in their privacy policy and users consent to providing that information, then I don't see the legal problem. Though I certainly wish we would make laws that disallow such practices.
Than day? Yes. Colder than Minnesota? No.
Trolling is online speech used to deliberately upset others. That's it. That's what it means. It has a clear definition.

You might have wanted to say that no one can agree on what speech is trolling and what speech isn't, but that's not because the word is vague. It's because people disagree on the deliberate and the upset part.
> Also, this theory would suggest that eunuchs, self-identified men who voluntarily undergo gonad removal, would generally come to identify as women, but this is not the case

Not necessarily, there are other possibilities, for example the mechanism might not be lack of male hormones, but elevated female hormones, or environmental contaminant analogs thereof.
I wouldn't say I was cheering; I was simply acknowledging that, though difficult, Twitter certainly has too many employees for the amount of revenue they're bringing in, and I am skeptical of claims that Twitter will cease to function as they go from 8,000 employees to whatever the new number is (2,500 seems to be the latest)?

There's certainly internal knowledge that is lost in a transition of that kind, but the amount of money Twitter was burning makes no sense, and while reducing numbers of engineers is risky (and complex systems require more engineers than most people assume), I completely believe that Twitter will be able to sustain the technical operations and move quickly in shipping product with a mere 2,000 engineers.
Crypto collapse: BlockFi even deader, crypto miners going broke, Sam will not sh
I was enjoying the image of a fetus busting out a needle and thread to stitch the rupture closed. You ruined it.
>The reality is which almost everyone can see is that memory safe languages are pretty much always what you want to be using for new code.

Not everybody is writing security-critical code. For some things productivity and time-to-market is more important and security is not enough of a concern to justify dealing with a language with horrible compile times and a self-righteous, dogmatic community.
The issue is that a large number of their users have had iPhones for close to a decade now. 5GB worth of photos is absolutely nothing.

I pay the $0.99/mo for extra storage but every time I do it, I wince a little and it costs them literally pennies to avoid giving me a bad taste in my mouth. I wish there was a way to self-host iCloud backups.
They are long to type and hard to read. They are so inconvenient to use that nobody uses them, even developers of Rust. Take source code of Vec as an example [1]. They use wrapping addition instead of checked one.

For comparison, in Swift normal arithmetic operations check for overflow.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/vec/mod.rs.html#1773
I learned Git using "Pro Git", which is also available online here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

I'm not sure if it's the "best" because it's the only one I've read, but it did give me a solid understanding of Git.
Stop Building Isolated Metro Systems in 2022
The problem here is that that implementation was written in plain old C and is super unsafe, and is NOT C++. I don't know why C keeps getting confused with C++ because the two are basically totally different now.
This might help me cut down my Coke Zero consumption. Thanks!

Can you suggest any reputable sources for keeping up to date with these best practices, from a consumer PoV?
> Software is more complex than it was.

In some cases software quality suffers not because of the inherent complexity but because it's changed for the sake of change.

One example is the Books app that was updated in iOS 16. The update brought some new features but also changed the UI/UX for no reason, making it unpleasant to use. There's no dearth of similar examples with Google's apps too.
>"Build the wall" wasn't about high-skilled visa-having and tax-paying tech workers. Separate issue.

Wrong. The issue is immigration, period. Trump's voters are too stupid to tell the difference between high- and low-skilled immigrants. They're nativists: they want only "real Americans" (i.e., white Christians) in America, and not more people who don't fit that mold.

>Nobody's really campaigned on "the H1B system should be a byzantine nightmare" but somehow that's what we got.

You got that because the system, just like any long-running software system that gets hacks upon hacks and never gets a proper refactor, turns into a jumbled mess over time. The system was never fixed because there is no political will to do so. Other countries have leaders that aren't always fighting with each other over every single thing, and decided together that they want more high-skilled immigrants to help their economies because they recognize the value such immigrants bring (they can look at America's 20th century history to see this, after all: look how many tech companies were started by immigrants, for instance), so they cleaned up their immigration policies to achieve this goal. That's how it is here in Japan: immigrating as a skilled worker is extremely easy. It wasn't like this 20 years ago at all. Since the leaders wanted it, and the people weren't opposed in any great way, it got done. America can't do that: the leaders are too divided, and the voters will punish anyone who tries. The Dems can try it, but the Reps will oppose it. Any Reps who don't will be voted out by the MAGAts. This is why things are the way they are in America.
Hmm, perhaps. I actually don't spend as much time on social as it would seem. It takes very little time to dash off a tweet. It's almost like a background process that runs in my mind, and it helps me think through things and shave the edges off of my thinking.

There's also probably a dopamine hit that I get from it that I'm not as aware of being a driving indicator, but I don't believe it negatively impacts my ability to run the company.
Most tools today do some part of what Flash did but far better. Godot's scripting language is a ton better than ActionScript, practically all animating and spriting programs are better, too. Except for Vector animation, I have no idea what happened to that.

But not a single one has the same 'all in one' nature that Flash did. Back in the day, people who'd never even think of making a game could be exposed to it and eventually make one, now everything is more specialized and compartmentalized. The smallest webgame engines I see still have 5 MB of bloat, too, whereas a decently big flash game could be 500~ish KB.
>If they’re saying that C++ can’t be saved, maybe they’re worth listening to.

Google's one of the worst C++ shops because their code standard basically forbids using modern C++, and their C++ is more like 90s Java than modern C++. It's no wonder they want to get away from it.
The C128/D came out before the A500. If you were in Europe, you got it at the tail of of 1985. In North America, 1986. The A500 was released in North America in the fall of '87.

My point is the C128D was available when the Amiga 500 wasn't.

The Amiga 1000, however, was out at approximately the same time. And it cost far more than a $200 jump. It must have been highly confusing for many that were trying to decide what to do.

"Should I go for the "3 computers in one" for less AND still have access to my C64 software? Or do I buy a computer "from the future" and start from scratch?"
Replying to my own comment to say that I've spent my evening reading up on the controversy, looking at the ads, reading the SCOTUS decision, studying Borremans.

I'm pretty sure this is just a more digestible, mainstream version of the Wayfair human trafficking conspiracy theory.
This isn't based on anything except for intuition, take it or leave it :).

Like most things - eliminating the highest points of contact likely would suffice.

Daily habits are the ones that matter.

Are you drinking from a plastic water bottle everyday?
Is your water filter plastic?
Are you drinking coffee from a keurig or similar?
Are you storing food in plastic containers?
Are you heating food in plastic containers?
Are you using plastic utencils?
Are you using plastic lined pans?
Are you buying food wrapped in plastic?

Etc etc.

It's a good starting place...then get your sperm tested, it's not prohibitively expensive.
I bought a new iPhone SE a couple months ago after 12 years of using android phones. I was shocked by how quickly the battery drains. Its on par with the original Samsung galaxy S I had in 2010, and completely inferior to every other android phone I've used including a low cost motorola.

Googling around looks like the battery is only about 1800 Mha. Not sure how regular iPhone is, but my guess is iPhone SE users who have been using them for years don't realize how bad the batteries are.

I turned off 5G, keep the phone in "low power" mode all the time, and turned off cellular data. All that helps and it now resembles a bad android phone. I'm not a big phone user so while its annoying for me, it isn't enough of a dealbreaker to go get a new phone.
> This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs.

Of course. Just like I war against your beliefs, whatever they may be. I war against all the beliefs.
Love the real life example.

No matter how good the top players are relative to the competition tho, I feel like a large playerbase still raises the skill bar to a huge degree. There's a ratchet effect where someone figures something out, other people copy, and it breaks into public consciousness through influencers and popularizers. Then on the tail end, regular people regurgitate it for years like it's new information. (Getting sick of hearing about cognitive biases and product-market fit and dunning kruger, ffs). I've seen it with dota over the last 10 years. Pro players were always good, but now bad players are good and pro players are better. Not to mention the motivation that comes from seeing other people work hard.

When it comes to stratego, watching the linked games (from an armchair!), the human players looked relatively sloppy. Overusing scouts in the early game, too eager to trade, noticed a piece being forgotten about once. Not to say I'd be better, but it definitely looks like the scene is "for fun" and not so serious.
> NOTE: down to 36% from 65% because of moving from C++ to Rust and other memory safe languages

Imagine if in any other field, a process or technology were developed that cuts the number of high-severity issues in half.

For example, a modification to the standard anesthesia protocols that demonstrably reduces anesthesia-related fatalities by 50% in clinical practice.

And now imagine, in reaction to this revolutionary development, thousands of anesthesiologists publicly said things like "what matters is not the technique but the skill of the physician", "good anesthesiologists don't make mistakes like that in the first place", "but this new technique takes 1%-3% longer than the previous one" or similar.

Utterly unthinkable, isn't it?

Yet in software engineering, this is exactly what has been happening every day for more than a decade.
In the US you would install a house water softener that would soften the water when it comes into the house. It would only be used in areas with hard water. Our dishwashers usually use hot water rinses instead of cold water like European style ones, the hot water heaters will soft the water before it gets to the appliance.
When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
I downvote nearly every comment I see by default. It makes the few I upvote that much more special.
Right... but here's the hilarious (for a pirate) bit.

AACS knew player keys would leak and hardened their system against it... but they didn't realize that BDXL readers, which existed before 4K Blu-ray was released, could actually read 4K discs with modified firmware. Also, said BDXL readers had no Secure Boot and could be easily modified.

With a modified player (which they didn't expect), you can read directly from the disc the data, which is (at the end of the encryption chain) encrypted with a per-disc key that is unchangeable. Normally this wouldn't matter because you can't read the disc directly - but with the modified player, you can. The player key goes through a long, complex process to end up with that unchangeable, unrevokable unique disc key. The pirates solution? Keep the drive keys when they discover them secret, and just generate the disc-unique keys and post them online for every disc. Then, with the modified drives, every disc in the list is permanently broken, and AACS LA has no idea what drive key is leaked and can't revoke it.

And so here we are... AACS LA doesn't know which drive key the pirates are using, and when disc keys are generated, the disc is cracked forever. Worst of all worlds for AACS...
I feel like freezing should get you a set of 10 one-time defrost codes. When you apply for something, you give a defrost code to the creditor and that lets them punch through. When you run out, you can re-authenticate and get more.

The normal unfreeze process could still work, but frozen really should be the default, rather than this weird freeze / unfreeze business you have to do. What we really want is to grant one creditor access one time.
They could definitely build in some trash compacting trash cans that have underground storage(built below the sidewalk); then just add the ability to collect and service those systems to whatever waste collection service the city gives the bid to. It would just be initially expensive and probably take a few years to bring online but would probably end up being an effective solution to clear the streets of waste as long as the waste management company doing collection was good at servicing the bins and people actually used them. The challenge in the US is often getting people to use the services that are provided...
Thank you so much, I'm so glad you like it!
We have gophers in our field. There is one single feral cat in my farm that’s is rather good at catching the gophers. Chihuahuas too do a great job.

We set up some owl shelters and raptor poles. Snakes, cats, raptors are all predators. All of them unavailable in cities where rats don’t just survive, they thrive!

Gophers are a big problem. As it’s an organic farm, pest control options are limited. A few years ago, someone came to test their sonic gopher eradication system. Using sound waves. I don’t know if that would work for other rodents.

Squirrels are just rats with a bushier prettier tail. We love squirrels. Weird.
These are pretty cool, but I think you underestimate how much trash a 600 unit residential complex creates.
Beating quicksort alone is almost always as easy as swapping insertion sort once you get down to around 14 elements. This is used by C#'s quicksort (which also swaps to heapsort after a depth of 32 IIRC) and also in Timsort in JS, Java, Python, etc.
Did you stop reading before the “food insecure” part? That someone manages to successfully keep a child alive to adulthood does not mean that child has been well provided for.

But sure, if we wish to create a fictional story about a 21 year old raising 3 children on $15k a year I guess we can refute anything.
> The non-pouch detergents disappeared

? I still see them everywhere. And a quick Amazon search for “cascade complete” lists gel as the first result and powder as the third.
> It's easy to make the argument against charter schools when the "majority" of people supposedly using them are using it for "bad" reasons, but what if the situation were reversed?

I don't think that's a persuasive argument. You are assuming a (by your own admission) hypothetical situation which is different from where we are now, and ask "But if our situation is different, would your position change?" Well, of course it will. Would you rather want people to keep their positions when the situation changes?

Besides, if the kind of people who'd teach creationism get hold of the government, they wouldn't give a damn about what their predecessors thought of public education. Nobody's going to say "I was planning to teach the nation's kids that the earth is 6,000 years old, but my neighbors fought for the rights of parents to teach their kids that the earth is 6,000 years old, which showed me the error of my ways."
So, that to me sounds like equity in the parent company of an operating business. Which may well be a very worth investment! But not for me on the risk/reward scale.

I’m not sure why you’re bringing up the commodity ETFs, but 100% agree with you, those are a mess and I personally wouldn’t touch them.
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I have, and through many years of training (and more importantly, tons of hard work + raw talent on their part) have watched a few become very senior engineers / senior leaders in engineering management. This was years ago and they were from one of the bootcamps that only gets paid if you get a job as a software engineer.
I live in Tokyo: there's no dumpsters here either, nor alleys. Trash is left on the curb for the trash trucks to take on the appropriate day. Until then, the trash is kept inside usually; condo buildings for instance have trash rooms on the ground floor for storing and sorting trash. There are almost no rats.

I think the issue is just basic cleanliness. NYC doesn't have it. There's trash everywhere, so that breeds rats.
> let me know how those precedents and legal arguments work out

They would work out in such a way as to respect the law as written. The law as written in Texas is to outlaw abortion.

A Coinbase vs Apple lawsuit would likewise work out in such a way as to respect the law as written.

That's the point I've been arguing. What's yours?
At this point, I feel you are understating the perniciousness.

"We will expose you to advertising and claim for a time to conduct ethical oversight, but when the revenue is large enough, forcing the advertising on you will become our primary business. We will enable the surveillance economy and take money from any source however dubious."
It is a teen magazine.
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Resume:
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Not a godly software dev like the rest here lol. Just trying my luck for any kind of opportunities if you have some general/entry tech role that needs a competent tech guy. Honestly open to anything like documentation or whatever I'll take a $20/hour salary too as long as I'm learning something with future prospects. Very fast learner. Thanks for reading! :)
You forgot the guy in the $2M one bedroom apartment who now has a supposedly rat proof dumpster parked in front of his window. He’ll be thrilled.

Also, Inevitability, homeless people will figure out how to pop the sealed rat proof door open, throw the trash on the sidewalk, and setup shop inside. The NYPD will laugh, and some judge will grant an injunction forbidding eviction of the resident pending a hearing.
Any actual prototype one can check on. It seemed the one is all by them. Or I miss a link somewhere?
I read Schild's Ladder as an ebook in college, didn't pay attention to the author... Years later, I came across his other works and realized who wrote that; I too am a huge fan of his works.
Plenty of things that are “all natural” will kill you in the blink of an eye
Why not ask all the nations shelters (especially the killing ones) to ship all their cats to nyc? Why is NYC above the age-old rat mitigation? Works for Istanbul.
That'll be an interesting job. AI generated code bug fixer. An AI generates all code in bulk and then it's handed to you to fix the 'subtle' bugs they introduced. Those bug fixes go back into training the algorithm so that the bugs die out over time!
Maybe they never activated it, but they certainly planned to do so: https://brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-deal-f...

I didn’t follow up on details on this, so I guess they changed their plans, that still tells me what they think about ads.
Having quota does not guarantee you get the resources. Commit is supposed to (but not really)
I asked my startup advisor how to reach $10k MRR
Yes, I tried it, I think it would be good if you're not picky.

I couldn't get into any of the stories, so my sub for two years just expired. Might resub if I can get some discipline.

For now I'm reading through books on my own that are interesting.
See my other reply. The reason I believe it’s architected this way is to have a good tradeoff between timeliness and overhead cost. Full correctness at global scale would involve serializing all billable events through a series of global transactions, which would bring performance to a crawl (e.g., 10ms just to synchronize the metric).
I've heard the province of Alberta eliminated their rats and keep them gone, though that still requires constant vigilance.