skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or as the promoter of the airshow permitting drones to be used, I'd be calling every single one of them in to show me their drone and all footage acquired during the event. Any one of them raising a stink about it, I'd be providing their contact information to the authorities.
Why do you want them to write code at all, then? Why not just task them with writing user stories around the parameterized functions they need, and just let you figure out how to implement it all?
It's not trustworthy when a system actions a user's content without telling them. Free speech principles are also a thing.

The question is not what is getting demoted, it's how. In this case, it's being done secretly, and Twitter isn't the only one doing it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916414
>If there is now wide understanding that this happens everywhere, maybe we have a chance to build a platform whose express goal is to not withhold censorship actions from the author of the content.

I want to know what rock people have been living under all this time, that this sort of thing is news to them.
Yeah I refuse to buy the battle pass on principle. I would have probably bought them if it were just cosmetics.
AMD Explains the Economics Behind Chiplets for GPUs
The negative glassdoor reviews seem to be mostly if not almost from sales staff. Not sure what that means but it's a bit weird to see such a skewed ratio!
There was a time when C++ was merely "C with Objects." Those days are long gone. Those have been the two primary languages of my long career. The modern C++ I write today bears some similarities, but it like saying Latin/English.
Yes, any compiler-as-a-library software can't do this.

And compilers-as-libraries are becoming more popular these days since being a library makes it easier to integrate the compiler with tooling, like linters and IDEs / language servers.
Not so much guilt they turned themselves in though.
I guess it depends on your point of view. Deepmind as far as I am concerned is the one true success that Alphabet is funding. The work they do is truly cutting edge. They may not be good at making products out of their breakthrough research, but you can't argue they are the "beens" on the basis of that.
At least with WFH, the trend is reversing. People are leaving urban cores and moving to the suburbs where they can get more space for less money and avoid a lot of the QOL issues.

San Francisco is a great example. The once bustling downtown is losing business at a rapid click not only because residents have left, but also office workers aren't coming in anywhere near as often.

I predict it'll be a positive feedback loop. As more businesses close, QOL issues become worse, it'll accelerate the exodus. It's like a repeat of the 60's.
No, it likely wouldn't have a large effect on the GA aircraft.
I feel null isn't the real problem, the problem is the lack of semantics attached to null.

NotNull, or so called "null safety" makes it that when you know something is not optional, if a null is passed to it, you know it's a bug.

But when you do have null again, by making something nullable, the million dollar problem is back, in that you don't know why it's null?

Is it null because it's missing, false, errored, eof, leaf node, etc. You don't know.

In my opinion what we would need is union types, and simply never use null for anything, remove it completely.

Instead you could declare a function returns a Value or Missing. Or it would return a Value or False. Or it would return a Value or EndOfFile.

And similarly you could say:

User {
String|NotProvided email;
}

Where email on user can be either a String or NotProvided.

You wouldn't want the NotProvided, EndOfFile, and all that to be full on classes though, just like type aliases of some sort, similar to null in a way, but it adds semantics.

if (email == NotProvided) {
...
}

And the language compiler would error if you try to use it where it doesn't work without checking:

String email = user.email; // Error

if (user.email != NotProvided)
{
String email = user.email
} // No error
The HPy project [0] looks like a promising way out of this.

[0] https://hpyproject.org/
That sounds similar to my experience with the Python ecosystem (of which I have a profound dislike at the moment). If you haven't tried Mamba yet I encourage you to give it a shot; for me it has had a pretty significant impact on the time I have to spend sitting around waiting for Conda packages to install.
Rust's value proposition is a type system that can encode rules in a way that most other languages can't, some of which eliminate entire classes of low level bugs - through the borrow checker rules, for example. The power of Rust, however, is that you can use that same type system to encode your own business rules and design APIs that are safe in their specific domain much like the borrow checker handles memory safety.
I would say that's not a great example. I wrote literally that function as a utility in my project, and it was honestly kind of tricky. There's a big gap between knowing how to use a Promise, which is necessary and closer to an "idea what a Promise is", vs how to build one from scratch, which is nice but probably not necessary for a generic frontend job. It wasn't even really necessary for me, I just wanted to be able to pause functions with an await statement.
>but if you look at China in the 80s when there were no cars

No cars is an improvement. Cars have huge social costs, causing lots of deaths and pollution. China would be better off without them, at least in the cities.
New headline: “Billionaire doesn’t like to pay for infrastructure that helped make him a billionaire.”

To his credit that’s a substantially large club, he’s not alone.

(Edit)

To elaborate, he’s balking at a company having control over a platform that they built and charge for to help maintain the platform.

Every company wants to own and drive the platform, and that’s been the desire since at least the 80’s.

Tim would like to build a metaverse and own that platform, and doesn’t like that today he’d have to build it on top of other platforms and pay a price to do so.
Again, and I've made this point repeatedly now, my only claim was that 70% of the material was not making it prior to auditing and that a substantial amount of that was embezzled.

You continue to repeat the strawman that I claim 70% of the material is continuing to be stolen, when I literally never made such a claim. My original comment specifically states a timeframe. Why do you continue to ignore it?

The CBS article DID NOT retract the 70% figure, they corrected it to say it had improved since. Your claim that the entire figure is debunked is absolutely absurd, not even the source retracted it in entirety.

If 70% of the material prior to auditing was lost, stolen or embezzled and it completely stopped since, that's a gigantic scandal and a massive scam.

Unfortunately, you continue to strawman my claim by removing the timeframe context I specifically included.
What a useless distinction.
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> It's a game to some people. It's a challenge.

GeoWizard on youtube has a whole series where he tries to pinpoint the exact locations of pictures sent to him by fans. Pretty fun to watch:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_japiE6QKWqMVC3JbyONau_0...
They're still one relatively teeny investor in a company with a gargantuan market cap. Nobody really cares that much whether they hold or sell.

More likely, though I haven't read their letter in depth, is that their beliefs actually aren't that far out there - I mean, you probably aren't going to get pushback from anyone if you say "Google is bloated and needs to trim and focus". So they write a letter and make some noise, and then when Google makes some rather unsurprising changes they can say something like "look how influential and prescient we are", and that has value in the investment world.
I trust that payola pre-written content is still going up as usual, though.
Oh I know it's possible, I just don't think you should be doing that in an init system.
I took a freshman philosophy course
... and I've worked on Reveddit for four years. Less than 1% of Redditors know that all removed comments are secretly removed.

It's hard to make people care about this stuff. Most of us only start to see the harm of something when it's shown in context. Just showing that something can be theoretically harmful isn't enough.
Given I can still open and edit Word documents created 30 years ago I don't think that will be as much a problem as you suggest.
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California water wells are drying up in record numbers
I don't imagine they'll be pitching a crypto exchange startup to new investors either, but that's probably not a newsworthy statement at this point.
> Work life balance. When I was growing up in Tech in the ‘90’s - there was no such thing as work life balance. We loved what we did and wanted to succeed so we worked like crazy to achieve great things.

Because remember, it's only "actual work" when this guy is doing it

> Young people want it all - they want to get promoted quickly, achieve economic independence, feel fulfilled at Work, be home early, not miss the Yoga class at 11:00am etc. Having trouble scheduling meetings because “it's the new Yoga instructor lesson I cannot miss” or “I’m taking a personal day” drove me crazy.

Based off of my own personal experiences, the yoga instructor thing is a gross misrepresentation. Not only this, but a highly dismissive, caricatured way of talking about people you work with

> I have always been a pretty passionate guy, especially at Waze. After the acquisition, I was invited to speak on many different Google panels and events and very quickly, I began racking up my HR complaints. I used a four letter word, my analogy was not PC, my language was not PG… I actually stopped speaking at events where the majority appreciated what I was saying but the minority that was offended by something (words and not content) made it a pain.

I wonder if it ever crossed this guy's mind that maybe he is the problem. At least he's broadcasting his own entitlement under his own name for everyone to see
The US has retired planes decades ago that are superior to the best Russia has today, so no I doubt we really care about Russia's thoughts. China maybe.
>Same with cash. Which governments increasingly constrain, for this reason. Yet there are not as many people commenting enthusiastically about wanting cash to disappear / fail, or suggesting similar measures against it. (KYC, AML...) Why is cash okay, but _digital equivalent_ is not?

Crypto is not a digital equivalent to cash no matter how much you say it.

I can pay my tax organisation with cash. They explicitly list the acceptable forms of payment. I cannot send them any sort of crypto currency. Cash is also legal tender. There are times where not accepting cash could have legal consequences. I can reject crypto as much as I want.

I can't help but think these lines of argument are intentionally deceptive. If you just repeat it enough times, other people will as well.
Looking at the product page, guessing the money is in making deals with crappy IT departments to adopt it across whole orgs for the enterprise "advanced security and compliance features". In that case i would also expect to see a bunch of submarine blog posts on how terminals are a liability due to "shell scripts are shadow it", "disgruntled employees exfiltrate data with curl commands", "iterm2 lets users bypass MDM" etc. idk thr whole thing just seems gross
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Either you don't know what GA aircraft entails, or you've got a real misconception of the size of a drone compared to a bird.
How does one learn “production code” outside of industry? Are there examples of programs that do something with production code?
IMO that's fine, but if you want me to trust such a system, the author should see on their tweet some indication that it's been demoted.
> Then you are a bad judge of emotion.

Having knee jerk reactions doesn't show me you have control of your emotions. It's a sign of toxic personality and difficulty working with others.
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Not being able to run project that's using older Swift version on the latest Xcode is a terrible experience tho.
A swan can weigh 8 kilos, a goose can weigh 6, and DJi phantom weighs 1.2 kilos.

Multiple planes crashed with fatalities vecause of birds, as far as I am aware none have done so because of a drone.

The fear of drones had led to pilots reporting drone sightings at 10,000 feet in the middle of the Ocean, thousands of miles from shore.

"Several commenters noted that the AMA analyzed those reported ‘incidents’ and found that out of the 764 reported records, only 27 (or 3.5%) were identified as a near mid-air collision, with nearly all of those involving government-authorized military drones"
I expect that it makes sense to have the modelers do at least enough coding to test the common use cases/expected inputs for the model to validate it before handing it off to be "properly" implemented.
The P-63 has the engine behind the pilot.
> Most (practically all) aircraft do not have bullet-proof windshields (including military)

The P-63 did (example picture [0]), like many others that were designed to attack bombers and/or ground targets.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/3031666813
It's a bit more subtle than that. Understanding others is important. Blanket "there is too much x" or similar kinds of observations leave out the actual person writing and the context.

I read the stuff, and have read other stuff related to this discussion. Have had some conversations with others too. Those conversations are where "Maybe they are just being women" comes from.

Suppose my response was rooted in the exclamation not always being up beat and happy. That's context related.
Just so.

ETA: although this is much bigger than just MSFT.
This seems surprising. Most drones weigh no more than a medium sized bird and are made out of flimsy materials that shatter readily. Sure there might be a bit of fire from the destruction of the battery pack, but nothing that should be a major problem for a GA aircraft. Unless by drone you are talking about a Global Hawk? I would count that as a high fatality risk.
Those ideas should in theory be pretty easy to find:

It's the intersection of the sets of uses that (1) benefit from no government oversight, (2) absolutely need to have their ledger distributed and (3) perform better than whatever solution is currently used.

A lot smarter people than me have already concluded that the only use cases in that intersection are illegal.

You might argue that "it smells like tyranny then" and cite the transfer of value in and out of oppressive or failing countries, but that seems to be the single and only (and still illegal) use of crypto currencies.

The crypto defenders whose only argument is "JUST WAIT YA DIDN'T WAIT LONG ENOUGH FOR THE PROPER USES TO EMERGE WTFBBQ" - we've waited long enough I think.
That is business insight.

You can generalize that to say the average HN reader knows how to run anything better.

90% of management is equal to or worse than calling random() to make decisions. If the margins are large enough, and the competition is asleep, anyone can be a successful CEO.
Sure, there are add on emulation/virtualization software, but even built in backward compatibility is impressive. That's important for casual users with limited computer skills, system administrators who don't have to manage another level of abstraction, those on a budget who don't have to pay for an extra license just to run software they already own...
> high tolerance of overt crime

I'm curious what you mean by this, given the unusually high incarceration rate in the US.
You seem to miss, again, that there was already a complete Zig compiler coded in C++. Coding another one, in Zig, was strictly extra work.

People can write whatever they like in whatever language they like. We need not invent spurious reasons. Surely the creator of Zig already knows Zig; coding a compiler in it teaches him nothing new. He could experiment with draft language features in any program at all: nothing about the task of compiling Zig code is better for that purpose than myriad others.

Obviously the second compiler for Zig was done because the author wanted to. But having done so demonstrates nothing meaningful about Zig. It only tells us its author took time to code what we know, with utter certainty, was a strictly unnecessary program, instead of doing something actually useful.

Doing stuff that is not useful is allowed. We need not pretend otherwise, or make up excuses.
I'm well aware of the explanation. I've seen it numerous of times in almost the exact same wording across HN and elsewhere.
Unless you're religious or a UFO cultist, what non-human-authored content is available for anyone, including humans, to learn from?

Individual human knowledge workers aren't limited by the breadth and depth of available knowledge, the way they were up to about 100 years ago, but by their ability to assimilate and leverage it. That's also what limits the machine models. But the models will keep getting better, while we won't.
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The thing that makes people answer with unfounded theories is that GP is literally asking for undetected issues. So, if it was a well founded theory, it wouldn’t be undetected, right?

Sunscreen has had environmental issues, contamination issues, and effectiveness issues (the whole UVA/UVB thing). None of those indicate a problem with the underlying product when used properly, and it is definitely better than nothing! I prefer to cover up with clothes and just avoid the noon-time sun, though.

https://time.com/6084625/sunscreen-safety-regulations/?amp=t...
>do you mean for an American that doesn't already own a car, or a European who's just there for a few weeks?

From context, *obviously* I meant someone vacationing in America, not a resident.

>Its possible to travel all over USA in a car that cost very little

No, it's not. You can't buy some car for 2 weeks and then return it.

>however, not sure how you'd insure it without US driving license or address.

You don't. So why are you even bringing up this inanity? We're talking about vacationing here.
Bulletproof windshields were very common during this period, although 43-11719 doesn't appear to have been fitted with one, likely because the F variant never advanced beyond the prototype stage.

https://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restorations/caf-bell-p-63f...
Isn't even more impressive how much old stuff still runs almost 2 decades later?
Agree on the not so great again and the need for a honest inquiry for factual information. Its just that i think some of that stuff is caricatures itself. Q-Anon for example is more or less crack. Here is a game developer describing it
https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...

>It’s not that strange actually. In fact, the difference between apophenia and science is just the scientific process and the reliance on proof. People make the connection before they know for a fact if it’s real or not. Maybe it is apophenia, maybe not. It’s a hypothesis. THEN YOU TEST IT. The facts determine the outcome and then, whether it feels good or not, you accept them. Even scientists may not want to let go of a good theory that just isn’t panning out. The feeling of correctness is over-powering. This is why people need to have peer-reviews. Colleagues need to be able to replicate results. Solutions need to be tested and the facts harnessed.

>In Q, the proof is more apophenia! Another arrow in the dirt in an endless cycle back to the central propaganda. It has to because there is no truth. The answer is whatever feels the best, makes the most sense, and helps the story. Any truth is just fuel for the propaganda and reinforces the conclusions of the apophenia and central narrative.

>It feels like it’s really happening. It especially seems so when cheered on by a curated fake “community” clapping you on the back and telling you you are a hero for every radical leap into the void you make.

Being opposed to something like this is very easy. And at the same time the ability to figure stuff out without political framing gets harder and harder as well. Its made only worse with propaganda on the political level being also very profitable. And even stuff with good intentions backfires.

Its a clusterfuck all around, stuff gets more and more complicated. We havent solved scaling problems in software development or companies and it seems political discourse cant handle either. In addition to problems becoming too complicated, you also have to stay realistic. If you just fire every politicians dealing with disinformation you have the old problem of replacing everyone with some magic competent new humans with authoritarians meanwhile racing onwards. Give people certain incentives and its hard to behave differently. People want to get reelected and peoples opinions are very easily swayed with some well made propaganda.

On the bright side, this should all be a rather easy fix as long as we can agree on meaning well and reality mattering more then wanting to feel right. Because that is how a really nice made frame looks and you might have to let go and try to be rational for a moment.

edit: tldr: Any attempt to ban missinformation would likely be a terrible idea, we will have to agree to wanting to fix it instead. And that is hopefully just a question of tooling.
My dad got me into computers, but he's not a programmer by trade. He's a mechanical engineer, and he used BASIC on a TRS-80 to do engine simulations to characterize the mechanical forces on the crankshaft for different crank types. Back then, BASIC was basically what MATLAB is today for engineers. They just slammed some code in there to do the math they needed to do and ran it. They didn't care about things we care about: testability, maintainability, observability.

Similarly, Judge Alsup of Oracle v. Google fame writes astronomy software in QBasic. He doesn't give a shit about best practices, if it helps him aim his telescope correctly it's all good.

Welcome to a world with citizen programmers. A world of terrible code that does the job. I frickin' love it.
It's a shock to most people [1]:

> ...what is the supposed rationale for making you think a removed post is still live and visible?

> ...So the mods delete comments, but have them still visible to the writer. How sinister.

> ...what’s stunning is you get no notification and to you the comment still looks up. Which means mods can set whatever narrative they want without answering to anyone.

> ...Wow. Can they remove your comment and it still shows up on your side as if it wasn't removed?

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#react
Meta is down. Maybe a time to buy. The sheep still are spending every waking hour on facebook.
nah in this case all those pedestrians have an anti-car force field