skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not an “exception pattern”. It’s just how the language works, and is a consequence of the concept of “abrupt completion”. It means that you can unconditionally (i.e. independent from whether there is an exception or not) divert the control flow using finally. It’s not much different from how when an exception is thrown from the finally block, the prior exception gets lost.

From the language spec [0]:

If the finally block completes abruptly for reason S, then the try statement completes abruptly for reason S (and the throw of value V is discarded and forgotten).

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-14.htm...
> To be fair though, two of the most brilliant devs I've ever meet in my career had master's degrees

From what era / decade? World isn't static. MS is CS earned in 80s means a different thing than the one earned today
// In NA we don't build the housing we badly need, making it arduous and illegal to build in most places, which has spiked the price of having a home, making it unaffordable to many

As a capitalist who believes that everything is driven by supply and demand, I agree that enabling more build would drive down prices.

But that's completely irrelevant to the topic here. We're talking about people so severely mentally ill that "forced treatment" is a consideration. These aren't the people who are going to be buying/renting houses in a normal way regardless of availability and cost.

We're talking about people where the options are street life, incarceration, or institutionalization.
You can erase Google's OS on the Pixel phone fairly easily and replace it with your favorite ROM. In fact one of the reasons I switched to Android is adblocking. I can't stand the amount of ads I had to see on iOS, especially from apps like youtube or even the app store itself.
Yes. The farmer chose to live way out there far from people, and would appreciate the dang tourists going away.
Drug Discovery Democratized
OK well tech comp is very much not that high in the UK, so I guess we're not all in the same boat here. But the fact remains that things are objectively, numerically harder for us, and getting a lesson in life from those who had it easier is not very convincing.
Try the profiler. https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-getting-started?...
I disagree; I think a system like Wikipedia shows that a textual and visual format like markdown provides the flexibility to convey pretty much any information. For any formal and semantic storage system, you will probably spend more time adapting it to each specific use case than to actually fill it with content.
Banning phones at large events is dangerous, and should be illegal for the same reason that jamming is. If there's an emergency, neither you nor anyone around you will be able to call 911.
I’m shocked someone at MSG HQ decided it would be fun to troll a law firm. Good luck with that!
Korg, Yamaha and Roland synths will become (even) more expensive :-(
Melinda knew though.
1 in a million is great for society, but pretty bad for that person, isn't it?

Besides,you have absolutely know way of knowing what you assert. And I'd go a step further and say it's absurd to claim that injecting anything in your body is neutral or strictly positive. There are absolutely tradeoffs to medicine.

Neither of these even account for the fact that a 1 in a million chance of adverse vaccine effects might dwarf the chance of long term harm from covid in a healthy person.

So, again, on a personal level these things look different.
I’m 5,10, 69.5kg, workout actively including cardio and I eat almost no Bananas.

Let’s not all go Bananas over Bananas.
It really is nothing short of wondrous and awe-inspiring.

We could very well be one of the first species on the galactic stage, how absolutely awesome is that??
I lost 50 pounds in 2020 with this one trick: I counted calories and stayed under 2100 per day.

I didn’t even pay attention to what kinds of food I ate. That came automatically as I would look at a treat and think, “130 calories? That’s so expensive.” I naturally learned what foods made me feel full for longer. It was fun.

Diet can be complicated, but I have a feeling that for most of us, it really doesn’t need to be.
They tried. Gorbachev wanted to turn Russia into another Sweden. Bush the Elder convinced the World Bank not to loan to them unless they agreed to impose neoliberal economic policies. Which led to oligarchy. And then Putin.
Assuming it’s in good standing when closing, it generally will fall off your credit score in 10 years.

That gives you 10 years to build up a credit history with other accounts.

I closed an ancient Bank of America account several years ago because I didn’t want to do business with them anymore. It still contributes to my credit score. By the time it falls off, the other accounts will more than make up for it.
I agree, fast forward a decade or two from now, and anything you can't trace/undo is illegal.

Not sure having a centralized monopoly on financial power is a net good thing for society.

Then again, if the crypto space has taught us anything, it's that Wall St. isn't nearly as bad as we thought it was. Turns out there are bigger villains in the world than Goldman Sachs.

Part of the social contract is that we allow the government to have a monopoly on the use of force. Maybe that should extend to a monopoly on commerce. Which one is the lesser of two evils here?
> That's what is has turned into, but it was never the point. The point was to promote the creation of new creative works. That's it. The way to do that was making sure that creators had a limited time where they could exclusively profit from their efforts, but the creation or protection of profit was never what copyright was all about.

Are there any studies showing that copyright actually does achieve its goal of promoting the creation of art? Can we show a causal link between copyright and art creation? Can we show a proportional effect where longer copyright terms lead to more/better art creation? I suppose it would be rather difficult. You'd have to find a control group that's otherwise just like the USA (or your comparable country) but without copyright.

Is copyright really the driving force, without which we wouldn't have creative output? I have my doubts. People were drawing on cave walls and parchments long before copyright. Would people simply not create art if copyright didn't exist? And if so, would we really miss that particular art?
The technology is just means to an end. Would you be ok if security had a big wall with printed pictures of undesirables and kicked her out due to this?
Do you think Google should have banned the personal Gmail accounts of every Oracle employee?
Taking a job as CEO of a troubled company… where the owner is famously mercurial and confident… and said owner REPORTS to you… and said owner RUNS ENGINEERING despite not having directly run a software team in, what, 25 years?… That would indeed be a strange choice for someone well qualified
> you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it

If I'm at the point where I need to debug a production process with breakpoints, I'd rather just find a new job than worry about my coworker's coding style.
Notifying the target of an insane policy doesn't make it less insane.
Quality...reading Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintainance right now...that quality is "soul" comes to mind :)
AAA number includes all expenses of owning the car regardless. I am not sure where you live but in the US we don't buy property by a square foot, we buy lots. You cannot really buy a house on a lot of land and strike out a car-sized portion of driveway for a discount.

I live in a city and would not get any discount on my property if I decided to park on the street (also free) instead of parking off street.
cf Кавказская пленница, to understand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amCG2KHlRg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping,_Caucasian_Style
but note also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_the_Caucasus
The model creators/maintainers will eventually - and probably already does - include bad actors who will train a model to get around whatever safeguards the big players attach to their models.

This is like asking the New York Times to carefully include fact checking metadata to ensure there's no fake news on Reddit. Sure, you'll have fact checking for the NYT, but it's not the source of the problem.
The general public is not trained to recognize or assist people with dementia. Allowing people with dementia to wander around city like NYC seems like a bad idea.
So, no
The nuance is with respect to the above conversation. I don't think anyone here is disagreeing that the system is being abused and that the copyright holders are abused by large conglomerates. I don't think anyone is arguing against the points you're bringing up.
Does it work on mobile? Can't find it either (Android)
I’ve never been good at delivering bad news, my apologies.

Talk to your neighbor and explore a run for office if it interests you. Actually wanting to be engaged is the first step, and it sounds like you want to. No one is coming to save us, it’s just us.
The variation in the random variable relative to the value of the random variable is fixed. It doesn't change, no matter how many times you sample the random variable. It's called the per-sample standard deviation.

If 2 people A and B have a salary difference of 100K$ , then their salaries will not start to cluster together if you add C,D,E,F and more into the mix because of Central Limit theorem. Their salary difference will stay exactly at 100K as before.

The variation/standard deviation in the sum of random variables increases as the square root of number of samples, not on the basis of how large the sum is. This follows from the definition of standard deviation.

If you divide this "sum of random variables" which is itself a new kind of random variable (that is different from the per sample random variables you are starting out with) by number of samples then as

alpha*sqrt(n)/n = alpha/sqrt(n)

the variation in the summation random variable reduces(if divided by n) by a factor of 1/sqrt(n)

Once again, all of this simply follows from the definition of standard deviation. Central limit theorem doesn't come into the picture.
The text is blurry for me even on a standard DPI monitor that just happens to be large. For some reason the canvas resolution is still significantly lower than the display resolution and then being stretched.

I think canvas kept the "1 px is 1/96th an inch as reported by the browser not a display pixel" convention primarily for consistency as that's how the px unit worked on everything else in the browser.
100%. Visidata is great. Easy to pick up, rewarding to power users.
The various civilisations roles of Bitcoin
but an incompatible fork. There are many major differences between MySQL and MariaDB. https://mariadb.com/database-topics/mariadb-vs-mysql/
> The fact they’re using facial recognition to do this is frightening. It’s un-American to do this.

Funny, that's the opposite of what I thought. Corporate revenge via technology sounds very American to me.
electric vehicles needed to keep the junk mail flowing - the irony
Apple’s Self Service Repair Program Expanded
"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams."

He'll still be the owner and run part of everyday business. Whatever policies might change in the future, monetization, app features, funding, hiring or firing I think people will assume Elon initated those.
Why aren't such clauses considered illegal as contrary to the public interest?
A working Lego computer brick [video]
Where in the US have rabbits been a rarity for the last few decades?
Well that's kindof the question, ain't it? Is anyone in control of the FBI? If so, they appear to be unconcerned about things like the limits to their powers articulated in the Constitution.
Actually, you know what, I think you're on to something. Had my second vitamin D dose Saturday and the cramps/spasms have come back with a vengeance. Apparently vitamin D supplementation can cause you to lose magnesium (it's used for converting different forms of D in the body or something). I took significantly more than I was (turned out I was only taking about 100mg per day, I misread the bottle) and it seems like it's helping so far.
Unbelievable (to me) that they allowed this highway to be constructed: https://imgur.com/pYdShSA
Retaliating against a law firm's employees for doing their jobs by representing their clients is absolutely draconian. Especially for a large company doing this with unrelated properties.
Good, maybe they'll use their deep rust experience to pick up https://github.com/rustodon/rustodon#readme and drive it forward, or make their own if AGPL is incompatible with the Mozilla licensing infrastructure (I don't know)
Seems like they're more of a realist.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/us/historical-study-of-ho...
Because employees are not their employers, and have a life outside of work in which they still do stuff? Seriously. Yes, it is draconian.

Besides, if the law firm really wanted someone in there for hand-wavy reasons, why would they not just hire someone for it? Blacklisting is petty, counter-productive, trivial to abuse, and solves nothing.
There are many markets where our face is just another data point for sale. At some point most of us have been ‘tagged in a photo’ whether we know it or not.

It’ll be interesting to see if MSG is forced to report the source they used as part of the legal proceedings.
I’ll do it! I can run the place into the ground for a lot less money than anyone else.
I find it a little alarming how common these cult-of-personality posts show up on HN.

I’m not sure who is surprised by this but not me. When the news of his offer was posted a few weeks back it seemed 100% certain he would walk away accomplishing little or nothing lasting in that time.

I think it would be far more interesting to see posts on actual accomplishments, small or large, than posts focusing on the personalities involved.
> Mass murder and subjugation at scale, which were perpetrated by many governments in the 20th century

I've got bad news for you, buddy...
> How does a libertarian deal with the chronically homeless?

Obviously you house them, feed them, offer them treatment, etc. with the least amount of friction possible. If they refuse and aren't literally hurting anyone, then nothing.

You don't need to over-complicate this.
I read the entire article closely and I can't grasp why this will affect global capital markets (beyond all Japanese investors control a lot of US treasury bonds). Probably because I don't know what "25 bps" means in context.

Anyone care to explain in simpler terms?

Is it just that 'volatility' in the global bond market will increase because Japan will stop investing in treasuries?
I wouldn't care as much, because that big wall would be purely symbolic and impossible to enforce.
> A pissed off colony in the asteroid belt can sling asteroids at the home planet

If planets become indefensible then people simply won't colonize them. Problem solved. They'll stay in artificial habitats, and I would expect this to accelerate the colonization of the galaxy, if anything, because then they wouldn't need to wait for a planet to fill up before sending out the next generation of colony ships, they would just need to wait for the prime asteroids to be claimed.

> the speed of light is quite limiting in every aspect

Yes, exactly, and the non-interaction limit only needs one ship of space mormons to become exponential growth

Diffusion-limited exponential growth, to add the next layer of modeling sophistication, but the ultimate point is that you still don't need all that many generations before the galaxy is full. Just multiply the number of steps by generation time, and if you are tempted to pick a really long generation time, remember that space mormons get a vote.

> No one would colonize another star system just for kicks, there would need to be a reason and I can’t think of a reason

Come on, the reason is resource competition.
That was my first thought too. Even mild psychological crutches to limit snacking would do the trick. “I need to report my weight to someone else” def qualifies
Would consider doing so if Thunderbird would support Google's native Gmail API, which is similar to Fastmail's JMAP, and which vastly improves on the poorly conceived and thoroughly outdated IMAP protocol.
> I often wish management would worry more about productivity vs estimates.

A thousand times this. I just tried to explain to a manager overseeing developers that the minimum time for the "inner loop" of edit-build-debug is super important to productivity.

He just didn't get it, and was fine with adding multi-minute delays to that loop on his team just to avoid speaking to another manager once.
My thought was this could be a money laundering vehicle.
Apple has onsite kitchens with subsidized prices, IIRC? At they did before Covid and switching to work from home.

Analogously it would like if Apple upped in office time to 80 hours or whatever, and then closed those cafeterias.

And FWIW George has good food at his own company because he personally values it.
seems too good to be true. If this was possible it would would be all over the news. Pharma companies have been looking forever for non-stimulant supplements that induce weight loss without the side effects of conventional weight loss medications. Given that such a drug would presumably be worth hundreds of billions of dollars in sales owing to the widespread obesity epidemic, there is great incentive to find one, yet none exists. Maybe eating bananas and potatoes induces weight loss due to low calorie density, not the potassium. Or because it's part of an overall diet regimen, which also includes exercise or cutting out soda.
What would Firefox have to include to draw people back? The browser is solid, IME, so I'm not sure what they'd be doing if not their side projects. Do they need to figure out some way to market it as a viable alternative to Chromes?
Housing prices aren’t even part of the inflation calculation.
Whenever I read these stories I think of equifax. I’m sure that settlement check will be here any day /s
Hmm, that wasn't what I was trying to communicate. The original question was "what problem is this solving?"

The ability to create a link that you click on, and it only gives you access to the results after you pay some money, has been implemented by many frameworks and commerce "stacks". Given that if you implement something that way with an off the shelf front end, you probably already have the capability to gateway the link with a payment ask. So that sets up the situation that we have a thing that just does one part of this kind of the thing, the pay when you click. Sort of "instant paywall for URIs" kind of thing. I think the question "Why would I use that?" or "What problem is this trying to solve?" implies that there is something about the well known solutions that prevents you from using them.

My guess was that you wouldn't use one of the existing solutions if you wanted to obfuscate the connection between the payment and the product. And it is just a guess, I have no investment in it being "the actual reason" or being right about my guess, just speculating here.

From your comment it suggests that you know of "desirable purposes" for just such a service. (which sounds like a problem solution right?) I would love to hear them. I am sure I'll learn something new and that will be awesome.
If done right, such a failure only impacts the investors, and anyone who took stock instead of a proper wage. The savvy founder pays themselves a salary high enough that they are totally in the black long before the bank arrives to repo the furniture.
I really wish Mozilla would focus on Firefox.
Still trying to understand exactly what this is. It seems like its like a declarative DSL for interacting with an SMT solver? Is this supposed to be for different use cases than an SMT solver? Does it solve different classes of problems, or is it just a different "interface" to the same basic capabilities?
According to chromium:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/control-flow-int...

CPU overhead is < 1%
Code size overhead is 5%-9%
RAM overhead is a small constant (read-only tables inside the binary shared between all chrome processes)
“130 calories? That’s so expensive."

That's exactly how I came to lose all the weight I have - I started counting calories which caused me to treat it like a budget. I never deprived myself of what I wanted, but new if I splurged on supper I'd not be able to do as much dessert.
Is it legal for MSG security to show your ID? That in and of itself seems sketchy.
Basis points (hundredths of a percent) 25 bps = 0.25%
Think of all the Covid-related conspiracy theories for dumb misinformation people will believe.
There's no healthy social media. Please focus your resources on Firefox.
“It’s a private business, it can do whatever it wants.”
For years people with contrarian political views were rushing to mastodon after getting deplatformed from Twitter (sometimes, as we now know, via reports by the FBI for violating “disinformation” rules.) Mozilla was not promoting decentralized social media then, but should have been. It’s too bad they are only taking this position once it is appealing to those who now want to leave Twitter because it’s no longer permabanning people due to their political views.
It sounds like you're a libertarian until you're negatively affected by your environment. I'm sorry that I'm attacking you right now with words, but I know a few "libertarians" in real life, and they all appear to be opportunists (read: selfish).
> I'm surprised that it apparently works so well (most of the time, for many games)

I worked on a Game Boy related project recently and, similar to you, was surprised at how heavily the Game Boy uses the cartridge ROM. If I remember correctly, it makes on the order of thousands of requests to the ROM per frame.
That is not, in fact, how boarding passes at airports work. Identity checking is done by TSA, in a step that is very often the bottleneck and consumes enormous amounts of manpower and physical space.
Metaprogramming is powerful for making really nice, easy-to-use _libraries_. It shouldn't ever be used for business logic. Ever. Unless you're going to go all in and make a DSL for your business, but I don't know of anyone who actually does that.
The anthropic principle would hold that we as a species and our circumstances of existence are entirely average and not at all special.

Being one of the first species, at the relative dawn of the universe is very special.

I'm not such a huge fan of the grabby alien model. It's internally logically consistent, but I think it's too rooted in human psychology. Plus I have serious doubts about the ability of any species to maintain a multi-planet empire, let alone a multi-system one. Barring something like a hive mind I suppose.

Ultimately it's just conjecture and we'll probably never know within our lifetimes.
Something along the lines of the norms and guidelines for CRISPR germ line editing
That’s a lot of whatabouts. I’m not sure why you’re attacking the previous poster who obviously wants people to be taxed.
Did you miss the bit about grades?
I didn't say anything about farting. I don't want to board an airplane with someone who has a history of assaulting people. If airlines could build an accurate list, I would have no problem with them sharing the list and effectively banning those people from flying. The "accurate" part I admit is the hard part to get right. As another replier suggested, maybe base it on public arrest records or something. But assuming it could be done accurately, of course it should be implemented. Do you want a loose cannon who has assaulted people in the past on a tin can with you at 50,000 feet?

This isn't about having your best day. I've had many bad days, yet somehow never assaulted anyone.
I can't tell if this is satirical or not. I feel it must be, but you seem so serious!