skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgot to mention that I didn't have VC++ installed at all (because it's not free from all points of view).

If I remember correctly I tried installing the MinGW based Rust toolchain too, but I'll try again with the instructions you've given me.
Just FYI, I downloaded the document that they referenced, and it doesn't say that the entire population was biometrically catalogued. It says that people "of interest" and "threats".
But we've had paid delivery services for decades before the internet even existed, so it's not that customers don't want to pay.

What doesn't seem to work, which is a bit surprising, is centralizing the deliveries to reduce costs.

The delivery services should be making their money out of those centralized cost savings, but can't. So instead it's coming out of the food, which means the restaurants rise their prices, etc.

My local chippy has four different prices depending on which platform you order it through, which vary by up to 60%!

The same item:

Deliveroo - £11.99 (centralized search, centralized delivery)

Uber Eats - £11.99 (centralized search, centralized delivery)

Just Eat - £9.99 (centralized search, restaurant delivers)

Preoday - £7.99 (restaurant website, restaurant delivery)

Preoday- £7.49 (restaurant website, you collect)

Why they can't make money out of the centralization is the real question. I know in the UK they seem to be spending huge amounts on prime-time advertising. Central office headcount could be another reason. Call me cynical but I would also bet a lot of takeaways would avoid a lot of tax on cash orders, which you just can't do when it's all recorded electronically.
Others have pointed out the specifics related to websites and GDPR/the ePrivacy directive, but there's another example of why what you say isn't really true that might help understand, and that's EU (and for now UK) consumer law.

A site might have terms and conditions, or conditions of sale etc. but if you as an individual buy something you still have protection from consumer laws. Any conditions you agree to are only ever in addition to your statutory rights.

So, a company might state that an item has a 12 month warranty (as happened with me, a Mac computer bought from Apple), and it might break after that time (mine after something like 13 months). In my case Apple said they were not going to fix it for free because it was out of warranty and I didn't have Apple care (deliberately because I knew consumer law), but I successfully argued that (as stated in the legislation) that there was a reasonable expectation that the item should have worked for a lot longer than that, ultimately making them responsible. They did in the end accept this and fix it.

There's other examples, like if an item is not as described then the company selling it has to pay costs to have it returned, and that the company is responsible for the item while it is in transit in either direction. You are due a refund within 14 days of the /rejection/ of the item, not any other timescale, or dependent on when you return the item, etc. etc.

In summary, your "terms and conditions" are effectively irrelevant if they attempt to reduce or bypass existing legislation.
Absolutely!

It's time for someone started showing some balls against these rent-seeking bureaucratic moochers.

* Release open source software with license specifically prohibiting European companies from using them.

* Increase prices for services. (chatGPT should be 3x more for European users)

The best part is, even with 3x prices local European companies can't compete because of draconian laws.

It's time for free-market to truly show it's power.
It's gotten bad enough that if someone with an Indian accent is calling me and it sounds like it's from a call center, I hang up immediately.
I can't for the life of me understand how they're allowed to say this is due to weather (and thus not provide the same kind of compensation they'd have to if it were "Southwest's fault"). Sure, weather is the precipitating (pun intended, sorry) cause, but given that other airlines are almost all at <10% cancellations, clearly Southwest's total lack of operational robustness and competence are the real issue. The CEO himself emailed Southwest staff and explained that one big problem is their antiquated computer systems - that is unequivocally their fault (and very personally the CEO's fault, since it's very much his job to direct the sort of large scale financial investment to do something like overhaul their system).

I hope that DOT follows through on their earlier statement that they're going to investigate this. The CEO of Southwest has ruined more Christmases than the Grinch. Failures like this should trigger incredibly severe consequences (tickets refunded at 4x cost, $20/day paid to any passenger whose luggage is lost until they get it, lost slots in airports) that make it absolutely irrational to operate in the manner Southwest is.
I'm less comfortable with lithium batteries in my house.
If one has digital audio that comes from playing back something encoded with lossy codec X, it should be possible to re-encode that in X format with no loss and no increase in size (this is trivial to prove).

Does anyone make re-encoders that can actually do that?
When I wrote my bachelor thesis years back I worked on a particle-in-cell code [1] that makes heavy use of numba for GPU kernels. At the time it was the most convenient way to do that from python. I remember spending weeks to optimizing these kernels to eek out every last bit of performance I could (which interestingly enough did eventually involve using atomic operations and introducing a lot of variables[2] instead of using arrays everywhere to keep things in registers instead of slower caches).

I remember the team being really responsive to feature requests back then and I had a lot of fun working with it. IIRC compared to using numpy we managed to get speedups of up to 60x for the most critical pieces of code.

[1]: https://github.com/fbpic/fbpic
[2]: https://github.com/fbpic/fbpic/blob/1867a4f216baf4269f2314ab...
I have always really wondered how airline scheduling software works. Despite being pretty good with algorithms, I just have no idea how you'd make a system that's robust to weather and mechanical delays.
Is there support for SQL queries? And which DB's can it be used with?
We regularly enrich The MIC with over-budget weapons, certainly we can figure out how to manufacture N95 masks and rotate them as necessary.

This is Respiratory Pandemic 101. It's a threshold no expert should be tolerant of and/or should fail. Any other excuse is propaganda.
Don't forget the browser.

Vimium radically improved my entire web browsing experience. I can't live without it anymore.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
Please change your domain, looks like a phishing website. I would never clic on that anywhere else on the internet.
Well, Python came out in 1991 so comparatively OCaml is the new hotness! ;)
my wife almost fell for one because she needed to do an amazon return.

She Googled "Amazon support phone number" on her phone and the 2nd link had a 800 number but it was a site either legit or setup by scammers to review the phone number. She called it and figured someone was funny when they asked her to install an app on her phone.
Optimizing Unity Projects by Removing Additional Cameras
Didn't help the rail union workers.

https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-signs-bill-to-block-us-railr...

'... Biden administration this week used the provisions of a 96-year-old labor law to force unions representing thousands of railway workers to accept a contract ...'
Is this a problem with the weather, with the scheduling software, or with the recent shrink then expand of airline demand? Either way, I don't think I'll book a flight with SW for a long, long time.
I'd like to do this with a client/server routine where the server will spit out to any client connected with a tunnel
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Funny thing about the feedback. It helps the buyer more than anything.
It became meaningless when you stopped being able to leave negative feedback for the customer. [1]

I remember having a discussion with customer support about this "You mean you will pull money from a sellers account and potentially cause financial harm based on accusations of a person with a 1 feedback when the seller has thousands of positive?" the answer "we cannot rely on feedback alone sir"

I slowly moved away from selling on ebay commercially at that point. Every few years I list a couple items (still have some inventory, or something to sell) only to have someone scam or attempt to scam within weeks. There seems at times the only "gain" the scammer gets is to cause a "loss" to the seller...not sure the end game though.

[1] https://pages.ebay.com/services/forum/sellerprotection.html
$10 Billion is not just a few scammers. That is an unfathomably huge industry.
The Early History of Basic
But VST3 uses a COM-like protocol which is quite a bit different than an unstructured C++ ABI though

You obtain an IUnknown and query for the supported interfaces
I have a convenient heuristic which I imagine is quite common. I have a cell phone with an area code from where I purchased it, but I have since moved, so all my local calls come from a different area code.

Calls from my area code of residence are almost never spam, while calls from any other area code, and especially my phone's area code, are almost always spam.
Oh right, this one is inches and pounds. You would change it by going into the shortcut and entering different conversion figures based on the formula in metric instead
I once saw a scanned copy of an invoice for a 1960s mainframe. IIRC, the CPU was about $500,000, the 768kiB of RAM were around $800,000.

I know, that was a long time ago. But there is historical precedent.
Definitely agree. I've been trying to go full-Vim a few times over the years, and it's not been very successful. I'm a huge fan of Vim keybindings though, and wouldn't use an editor/IDE without support for it.

I would say that going 100% Vim is reasonable if you have a very stable development stack/environment. You spend a few weeks (or months, which is more realistic IMO) setting things the way you like and then use the setup for years.

If you work in several different languages, connect to several different databases, and also like to play with other tech stuff, VS code (and/or JetBrains products) with Vim bindings is usually more ergonomic.
Both VS code and JB have very nice Vim plugins, so you get like 80% of Vim power + a lot of polish and modern tooling from VS code/JB.
The trick is to get a random number from a place in the US that you don’t know anyone and then ignore numbers that are too similar.
Agreed. The tone was objective and factual. It's too bad the owners of LastPass failed to heed the criticisms that preceded this incident. FYI for anyone carping about LP's legal liability here: read the disclaimers (and indemnification agreement) in their TOS (personal or business). It's a real howl, and pretty much software industry standard.
I solely answer phone calls from anyone other than friends and family, work, and scheduled appointments.
Looks exactly it!
TBF, the whole point of any ABI is that you don't need a specific programming language to call into functions implementing that ABI, could even use assembly.
A lot is caused by the forwarding services that mask the numbers. Really each should be held liable for any damages.
EmailTriager
Try using a piece of cloth, some water, and a little bit of dish washing soap
thanks. New name for a restaurant for dogs: The Coprophagia Cafe
> Notice how feminists always use the passive voice

Yeah, that one took me a while to figure out, but once you notice it you see how pervasive this trick is.

For me, it was the thing about women doing more housework in relationships. Or rather "women are required to do more housework". But it wasn't actually their partners requiring this. Men generally don't give a crap, and this doesn't really change whether they are in a relationship or not.

"But women are held to a higher standard". Ah, the passive to the rescue! But by who? Again, men don't give a crap. Well, it turns out that it is women holding each other to higher standards, more or less exclusively. But "women are oppressing each other" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

> "these specific people are conspiring to discourage women for this specific reason".

Turns out there actually are people making that claim. Can't find the actual text right now (it was a PhD thesis turned into a book, IIRC), and it claimed that the move to make CS more like engineering was a cabal of men in CS trying to kick the women out.

The mind boggles.

> Why does anyone want to discourage women from going into tech?

Exactly. No one, that's who. And in fact, if you look around, you see tons and tons of encouragement, special events, special courses, special bootcamps etc. A recruiter here in Europe recently told me she has to get approval from US headquarters if she wants to suggest a straight white male for a role (although that was senior executive recruiting, not tech).
It would get them out of the ID business, or yield federal dollars to be in that business.

It would also streamline lots of use cases that require ID. Various federal programs administered by states require that you authenticate people in different ways. The states spend millions to do a shitty job (driven by Fed requirements) for unemployment, social services, Medicaid, etc.
Has "rush to market" ever ended up successful? I can think of several instances where it wasn't (trying to meet Christmas deadline, or beat a competitor to market by x weeks).
It’s more about direction than absolute level. It has my body fat far too low I think but I can see it change with my waist/weight over time
Truly a bizzare argument that only gets harder to understand every time I hear it. Whether the day, month or year is most important changes per every case.

Are you telling me if you had file cabinets for the last 50 years, and you had to get a specific file Nov 1992, you would rather sort first and get all the files marked "November", and then sort through those 50 to get to the 1992 November? Surely one would reduce down to the year - 1992 - first, and then to the month.

Same for alphabetical ordering, a data list ordered by logname-MMDDYYYY.log alphabetically wouldnt be chronological order - YYYYMMDD or DDMMYYYY would.

Month is primary in some cases sure, but I think year and day endian are primary in many others - plus have the above sorting and ordering benefits.
> I'll buy 'Shit that makes no sense' for 500 Alex.

What you’re saying here still doesn’t make sense because you obviously do have the time to read a few paragraphs of text (not a novel), or else you wouldn’t be here still responding in a day-old thread. Instead, of making up a lie that you don’t have time, just admit you don’t want to engage with the arguments made whatsoever.

> We defined it as "that which happened to Dorian Abbot".

And is that something you made up to win an internet argument, or something that you could support through some external citation? Usually definitions aren’t personal feelings.

Regardless, if I am to take your personal definition of “canceling” at face value, it doesn’t seem to prove your original point in bringing up the term. As far as I can tell, you’re just retreating to this position because it’s the only way to keep your argument consistent. If you were to attempt an actual definition of “cancel”, you’d be forced to admit that nothing really bad comes of it (unless you can bring up more examples, but you seem to only cite the one).
Plus leaving the devices containing the data at the mercy of the Talibans. I can't believe they hadn't planned for collecting back all devices, or at the very least render them FUBAR to prevent information extraction and/or reverse engineering; those are US Military property just like weapons, they must have had instructions on how to deal with them.
Mark Rober also gets support from the LA police while they do not care about normal peoples theft.
Set your phone to silence unknown callers. Completely eliminated the issue for me, along with any other random goofball trying to call me.
This sounds like empty moralizing. Someone somewhere should do things I think are "good" not things I think are "bad" because "we" need "good" things. And "good" things are easy to objectively identify like <list>.

> If technology itself were like a stock portfolio (to a degree it is), what we are building is heavily skewed to junk status.

Posit a distribution, while providing no measure.
Thanks for the explanation. Although, as I understand it, I do not see how it can be anything else than a worst case scenario ?

When someone inevitably spins it as "they sold you vaccines that will let you catch the disease _more_ often, we told you so, subscribe to my podcast / buy my book / vote for me / etc...", what is the counterargument ? That we need more data to confirm ? That there can be other factors causing the reinfections ?

At this point, I'm looking forward for someone saying "it's more complicated than that", which is not a great sign :/
No, it means "capture the fascinated attention of". A child could be enthralled by a jigsaw puzzle.
Unfortunately the rollout of the program in the Canadian military veteran community leaves something to be desired as well; numerous vets calling for assistance kept being informed of the assisted suicide program versus getting the help they had asked for. Considering how it's starting to make news waves in Canada i'm surprised they don't mention it at all.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted...
We can invent and manufactur a bomber that evades radar. Mask are 5 to 10 orders of magnitude less involved.

The only responsible excuse is incompetence or negligence. We, the USA, were completely unprepared.
Probably closer to fair value now, still overpriced though.
Isn't https://arrow.apache.org/ballista/ supposed to be a kind of next generation Spark written in Rust?
Heroic Cats Who Served in the Military
Rather than "caused by illegal Indian call centres in 2022", wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Indian industrial-scale criminal scam operations"?
I think it would be amazing if there was also a way to export a machine readable description of the layout of an interoperable object. Then other languages could parse it instead of needing to parse Rust code and know all the ABI rules.
A couple of excerpts from the article

> In May, Victoria took a hard look at their budget. They couldn’t go on like this for long. “Mom,” Joan recalled Victoria telling her, “I don’t think we can survive. We have to apply for MAiD.”

> She had known that her 23-year-old son, Kiano Vafaeian, was depressed—he was diabetic and had lost his vision in one eye, and he didn’t have a job or girlfriend or much of a future... That was when Marsilla learned that Kiano had applied and, in late July, been approved for “medical assistance in dying,” aka MAiD, aka assisted suicide.

> Indeed, in some Canadian provinces nearly 5 percent of deaths are MAiD deaths. In 2021, the province of Quebec reported that 4.7 percent of deaths in the province were due to MAiD; in British Columbia, the number was 4.8 percent.

> Next March, the government is scheduled to expand the pool of eligible suicide-seekers to include the mentally ill and “mature minors.”

> In October 2020, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a report stating that MAiD would cut healthcare costs by over $66 million.

> In 2017, Aaron Trachtenberg, a research fellow and a doctor at the University of Manitoba, and Braden Manns, a health economist and nephrologist at the University of Calgary, published a paper predicting that MAiD could slash healthcare costs by as much as $100 million yearly.

> He added: “When we have people who are genuinely suffering, and we don’t provide them options for dignified living, but we provide them with what we label as a painless death,
Can you work help desk or marketing? Or shadow?

I know it sounds weird, but a lot of my competency as a designer comes from the fact that I have spent an absurd amount of time with end-users and have developed a very good intuition for how they behave and what their pain points would be. (I gained this through teaching and librarianing, but help desk would a decent substitute).

And I suggest marketing because the relentless focus on segmentation and knowing your targets prevents you from falling into a pitfall I see even good UX/UI designers fall into which is designing how all the white papers/best practices tell you to without considering what audience you're designing for.

I wouldn't consider myself particularly visually artistic (I can, but my artistic abilities are very mid outside of writing), but I'm a decent designer.
Elixir is such a delight, but are there many data engineering jobs for Elixir? Could you describe how you came into your current position?
Also caused me to completely miss an appliance delivery because the driver called me from his personal cell, I forgot I had "unknown callers" filtered, and he gave up when he couldn't reach me. Even though I get way more spam calls than legitimate calls, I realized that fully half of the legitimate calls I get are from numbers not in my contacts: delivery drivers, doctors offices, restaurants confirming reservations, etc. The collateral damage of this setting was worse than the scam calls for me.
The documentation is silent on how it interacts with the system clipboard. I would have expected the Compatibility section to address this.

Does it work on Cygwin (which has /dev/clipboard)?
Canadian public broadcaster, CBC, reported this as "financial terrorism" back in 2019. Now it seems the references have been scrubbed out. $10B drained from old and financial vulnerable is absolutely ridiculous and should be called financial terrorism.
This article seems to make the assumption that the dates for 'bad news' (e.g. layoffs) is set predominantly because of the best date from a PR perspective. This PR-centric view seems conveniently simple considering they appear to be a PR platform.

Wouldn't an alternative explanation just be that 'bad things' are done on Thursdays, and news happens the same time the bad things happen?

e.g. if I had to announce a layoff, I might pick a Thursday as it would allow me 3 days to ensure I could get all my team members in one place (e.g. you might want to do it in person if possible), and then I could potentially give affected employees the Friday off to adjust to the news. I would also still have HR in the day after it all happened to help manage any employee queries, and it probably disturbs as little of the week as possible (returning on Monday will feel 'different' but acceptance would kick in).
This isn't really true, it means "capture the fascinated attention of". A child could be enthralled by a jigsaw puzzle. You could argue that their attention has somehow been enslaved, but I can't recall ever hearing or reading any phrasing quite like it.
What kind of dress codes are there for muslim men? I regularly see muslim immigrant families in the summer where the man wears shorts and no shirt, and the woman wears a long black fully covering fabric. And young daughters maybe six years old with hijab.
> The vaccines are orders of magnitude less likely to cause cardiac problems than the virus itself, for fairly obvious medical reasons.

Do you have a citation or evidence for that statement?
Estimates for cardiac vaccine injury are in the 4-5% range. Your statement would imply that 40% of people infected with Covid would have cardiac issues. The evidence in low vaccine rate countries (or Africa) contradict your statement (no where near 40% of the population is getting cardiac issues).
Some choose to stay. And for those that don't, people in the EU complain about getting blocked by those websites.