jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's nice to see that people are interested in this stuff, but it's disappointing to see that both of the top-level comments are attacking me for bothering to point out that cons structures are not as good a way to represent code as some other approaches. I knew this piece was kind of disorganized, but I didn't realize it was that bad.

So I'll try to summarize here, a bit.

Question: How compact can you make a full-featured interactive programming environment? And what techniques would you use to do so?

Methods: Quantitative comparison of some sample code written for 17 different virtual machines, quantitative analysis of the code in a Squeak image to see what operations need to be most compact, and an implementation of a simple dictionary.

Tentative answer: A stack-based bytecode with local variables and special bytecodes for common operations, like Squeak's, provides the best density for high-level code. Polymorphic method dispatch improves code density. You can implement the virtual machine for the Squeak-style bytecode more compactly in Forth-style threaded code than directly in machine code. So you should be able to get an entire working interactive interpreter for a flexible, convenient language into 2000 to 6000 bytes.

Does that help?

I'm sorry my logic appeared to be so "lame", but I think the fault is more in the comprehensibility of the article than in its logic.
White supremacist violence clearly has a long history in America, and a significant support base, from the founding down to the present day. So calling it "un-American" is a bit selective about what counts as American.

What we can fairly call this is anti-republican and seditious.
> to be found guilty

You imply there was some kind of due process, which there wasn't.

Perhaps it is fully within Twitter's legal rights as a private entity. That's not the issue. It's the practical implications that are terrifying. The power of censorship and influence Big Tech yields without any legal oversight is absolutely horrifying.
> Imagine living in a society where saying either of these things is a banning offense.

These tweets HAVE to be taken in context. It would be disingenuous to take every single one of his tweet at face value without considering his influence and position. He's dog whistled enough in the past, and look where that led.

> .. what people can say in public

Twitter != public
Twitter cannot prevent you from physically speaking your opinion

The very idea of "freedom of speech" translates pretty poorly in the era of social media. Giving someone the freedom to speak their mind is orthogonal from giving them the ability to instantly amplify and broadcast their speech.
He got a 3rd strike. When twitter temporarily suspended him for 12 hours a few days ago, they explicitly warned him that any subsequent rule-breaking tweets would result in a permanent suspension.

Subsequently, he posted relatively tame, but still rule-breaking tweets, and he got banned for it. No surprises there.
You might enjoy this take on the matter:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YtRfmao1vvs
Honestly, I'm more interested in what kind of precedent this will set. I mean, a social platform censoring the president, and more so, banning it.
We're living in interesting times.
I’m not even opposed to Biden, who is basically just a moderate Republican. But each day I get more and more outraged by the non-stop media smears and hysteria against Trump. I find my blood boiling at the hypocrisy—and I’m basically just a passive observer. For a real Trump supporter—of which there are tens of millions—I can only imagine the intensity of the hatred and anger that this speech suppression and new impeachment charade will cause. Instead of letting an old man go off to pasture and maybe start a little media company, they want to keep attacking and fanning the flames.
I’m sure there exist those that soooo very much want this to affect Twitter’s stock price. But the reality is more likely that the number of those deleting their accounts and moving to Parler isn’t even a rounding error; floating point math on computers isn’t that precise.
The Pandora's box was opened when there was a violent takeover of the Capitol. Not because some tech company ban a garbage human being
It also takes far more time and energy to craft good arguments than bad ones. As the saying goes, a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth is done tying its shoes.
The stock market would go to zero as there would be no one capable of buying that stock and pretty much no demand either. People would know that their assets can be seized whenever the government wants. 401k's and retirement accounts would be wiped out. Pension funds would go bankrupt overnight. I feel like this is the scenario that so many overlook when they call for massive wealth taxes or the abolishment of the billionaire / millionaire class.
Our company was React (after that fiasco died down with React changing the patent/sue clause).

About 2 years ago our new tech lead decided that we would use Vue instead. Ever since that decision I found myself walking more and more into backend development. I just felt like all the Vue code we wrote felt like I was writing 2011 AngularJS code. Not sure what people find so compelling about it.

A month ago our tech lead decided we're going back to React for everything using Next. Everyone loves it. Everything is type safe and every variable has full type hints. Props are type hinted. It's great.
This has the common problem of marking extra usages of letters as "wrong position" rather than "wrong". It also said "too bad" when I got it on the last guess.
Sorry! But that syntax was deprecated in 3.0...
Yeah, but you know what? I more than DOUBLED my salary by leaving breast cancer research and spending my time thinking about ads. So fuck anybody who has a problem with that. Blah blah blah make a difference and work on a deadly disease... or have the financial ability to go snowboarding and have savings and own a home.

Second, I'm not sure someone who started at an ibank and then went to fb has much room to throw stones.
Sadly this falls under the category of "Intellectual honesty, lack of".

Apparently found in both the cathedral and the bazaar.
Will you write how this works or release the source?
I really like the notion of a trifecta--"a tech lead, a designer, and a business hustler". I think that when you have smart people with complimentary skill sets that can work together eloquently, you have a better chance of delivering a quality product with fewer revisions and rewrites.

I'm not sure it makes a difference whether the initial idea comes from a designer or a hacker or a business person. I think that to deliver successfully, a company eventually needs all three, but the initial idea is just an idea. I see no reason why hackers would be favored over designers or anyone else. I think a fund to help designers fund their ideas is a great thing.
Or if they can steal some good money or business out of that. In this particular case money is relatively small and the case complicated with many high-rank officials involved, so most probably it would go to the "Never Happened" file.
I just re-read pg's essay, "How to Make Wealth": http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Have you read this? I think there's plenty in it that might stretch your mind. Here are two paragraphs taken from his essay almost at random:

"I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy."

...

"This is why so many of the best programmers are libertarians. In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses. When those far removed from the creation of wealth-- undergraduates, reporters, politicians-- hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that all? The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software."
For all RMS knows, this advice could be alexey's way of manipulating him into working against what he values.

If alexey is honest in his sincerity, he could reiterate his points more strongly with evidence. 'It looks like a crazy marginalized perspective' is something to think about, but there's no weight to the argument offered. Does RMS's talks do worse than expected? Is it caused by people ending up with this opinion after hearing him?

How much time should he devote to exploring unsupported ideas from those who disagree, versus his own ideas for persuasion?
Tycho's point still stands. From what I can tell, you're just trolling. Get a new hobby!
Apple changed the use of phones, the sale of related software, and the quality of phone's OSes massively. Android likely would've had a similarly huge impact if it had come out first, but it didn't.
GitHub link for those who don't know about it: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/

I built ag for searching code. It can be (ab)used for other stuff, but the defaults are optimized for a developer searching a codebase. Also, when writing ag, I don't go out of my way to make sure behavior is correct on all platforms in all corner cases. Grep, on the other hand, has been around for decades. It probably handles cases I've never even thought of.
I suppose you are correct, although all the training I received for software engineering was in straight OOP Java. I really dislike java in general.

Now I write mostly in python and go, learning a bit of haskell.
Small previous discussion on the topic here before the reason.com article was flagged — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26736822
> Small thing
> Kids

technically correct
I imagine they will settle with him to avoid the immense damage this would leave them. It would also avoid the case law precedent.
I see this alot with Ansible. Its not particularly slow but running it places a bigger burden on laptop cpu and fans than I'd imagined.
In my younger days I would probably have agreed with you OP.

Now that I am older, I have come to appreciate the time, ambition, energy and reward that goes into being a public figure. I am also a bit wiser to the whole game of getting attention whilst pretending that you are not looking for it.

I feel like the best way to deal with this situation is just to accept that its all OK. Its OK to be an young, rich, attractive white woman. Its OK to publish pics of yourself on instagram. Its OK to be into feet. Its ok to like and share public content that you find online. The message of the article is that its a bit weird, but its OK. Lets not be too quick to shame and judge.

(The comments about Jennifer Aniston were interesting too- there is clearly a subtext here about the reach and power of women on these platforms, and again- this is all OK!)
Could it be the goal?

Do those people try to be reasonable, or are they trying to disrupt the rest of society because, for example, they are bitter about it, have no hope, or hate the West’s evils so much that they’d rather take revenge on their own country, “for the good of humanity” (at least according to their ideology)? Which means, they are happy with pendulum swings, as long as it keeps us busy with aimless infighting, rather than being powerful and united in a war against, say, Koweit.

At one point, you have to ask whether they are trying to be logical, or whether they hope to throw despair, illogism and unfairness in all layers of society, because of entrenched hate of something.
Location: NYC, NYC / Hanover, NH

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You're of course right. Sorry about that.
https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ it looks like it would? I'm no expert though.
Er no. Big banks, and indeed all large business, have features of bureaucracies but most banks are basically the Lord of Files in the corporate form. The point isn't that they are bureaucracy but that bureaucracy is actual goal, and it is run that way for employees.
The appropriate response would be to take them to justice if law was broken, and for you not to use the platforms if you don't want to, as a free citizen.

The problem with the mixed approach is that these platforms get the official recognition they don't deserve, and the private censors we don't need or want.
This is why language tests like TOEFL and IELTS have 2 levels of mastery above native language speaker.

When you're a native English speaker, you're in the unconscious mastery phase for the most part. Things feel right or wrong.

The 2 levels above are being able to explain why. That's when you're at the "able to teach English" level.

I think the same applies to code. You can be very very good at something, but true mastery is being able to impart that knowledge on others as well.
If Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads, Google would have worked with state-run German universities to develop AI technology that would be used to advance the authoritarian regime: https://www.theepochtimes.com/google-works-on-ai-with-top-ch...

> The U.S. internet giant has collaborated with Beijing’s Tsinghua University since June 2018, when it launched a new AI research body, the Tsinghua University Institute for Artificial Intelligence (TUIFAI).

> Earlier that month, it was revealed that the university received significant funding from the Chinese military to work on a project aimed to advance the military’s AI capabilities.

> Google and Tsinghua
The university announced the opening of the TUIFAI on June 28, 2018, during a joint Google–Tsinghua symposium held in Beijing.

> During the symposium, Tsinghua University also announced the appointment of Jeff Dean, head of Google AI, as a member of the computer science advisory committee at the university.

Remember, Tsinghua is a state university, run by the same government that is currently running concentration camps: https://www.businessinsider.com/muslim-woman-describes-horro...

> Sauytbay describes being forced to witness a gang rape while at the camp. A young woman, she says, was forced to disrobe after being forced to "confess" her sins in front of around 200 prisoners. The young woman was then raped by several police officers, Sauytbay said.

> "While they were raping her they checked to see how we were reacting. People who turned their head or closed their eyes, and those who looked angry or shocked, were taken away and we never saw them again."
I wish I could tell amazon to just ship everything together on a particular day instead of piecemeal.

Just because I ordered on Monday doesn’t mean I need it Tuesday. And you’d think they’d learn that there is no front-desk on Sundays before 10AM, but no.

Ugh.
True, but you can find a religious belief from some random major or minor religion to justify or prohibit just about anything.

Including things that harm others or infringe on their rights.

So if that is guiding policy, policy is going to be a mess at worst or severely hobbled at best.

China doesn’t generally hold religion in high regard when formulating policy. They are more guided by practicality and expediency.

That puts them in conflict with many western values but it’s interesting to look at it from their perspective.

For those people who believe that organ donation is a grotesque abuse, that is bad but it should be weighed against other bad things. People dying is also bad. Which is worse? Grotesque abuse of a corpse, or letting someone die? China appears to have made a decision on this question.
You also forget that gas is super cheap in the US so buying a truck with its sub 20mpg fuel consumption is a no-brainer.
Most of the people I know who tried that in college seemed to always send the first copy to the wrong printer. So you print you report on the physics printer. Walk over. Nothing here. Walk back to dorm. Realize you printed in chem building. Print again in physics lab. Walk over again.
Yes! The cost of pollination (the service that most commercial beekeepers in the US make the vast majority of their income from) has risen something like 200% over the last 30 years.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/37059/49131_sp...
https://idbloc.co already supports this, but does not support custom email aliases made up on the fly, only randomly generated aliases.
The argument against lockdowns was based on it being comparable to a cold/flu season.

The number hospitalized so for COVID-19 in the US exceeds the 2017-2018 season. Additionally, the mortality rate is an order of magnitude higher (61k in 2017-2018 flus vs ~500k+ for COVID-19 so far, US). Dealing with dying patients is harder on hospital staff. Treating a new illness was challenging for hospitals. That result is with the extraordinary measures that we, as a society, have taken.

>Neither is true.

I’ll admit, it’s tough to say what the lockdowns did to/for us. I’m not prepared to assert the truth as willingly as you are. I’m going to have to defer to the only study I could find on this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8
Other ancient cities in Jordan had tunnels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadara_Aqueduct). These tunnels, which are thought to be originally from Iran but adopted by many cultures including the Romans, exist all over the world including in Luxembourg.
Eh? The manufacturer datasheet states you can take at most a 300 second exposure with this rotation compensation system, are you arguing this that this limitation isn't a problem?
Jamie Dimon's letter to shareholders:

https://reports.jpmorganchase.com/investor-relations/2020/ar...
What a world. It feels like this is one of those topics where one side of the tracks has a vastly different worldview to the other.

During the UK conservative party leadership contest earlier this year I thought it was pretty telling that all or most of the main candidates admitted to using illegal drugs at some point.

But sometimes I forget that there are people out there who are significantly more risk-averse or perhaps more generally obedient and who see the world very differently.

I guess my point is that I didn't think it was a ridiculous question.

I'd also point out that your use of "most" here might be unwarranted. There are surveys which demonstrate more than half of respondents admitting to the use of illicit drugs [1].

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/national-survey-drug-use-health
The Pajero was renamed in a lot of Spanish speaking countries.

Still, a lot of Spanish farmers drive one impervious to its slang meaning. This is probably because it actually does the thing they need it for, does it well, and they have better things to do.
> Adams never revealed the origin of 42

I could swear blind I'd heard/read him saying that it was simply a number that could sound amusing, be pronounced rather incredulously, was big enough for the multiplication at the end not working to work, without being too long to repeat in the actors lines or having an existing "meaning" that he was aware of (so 69 was way out because of reasons, as were things like 88 too for having commonly known (in the UK at the time) bingo calls, etc.).

Then again, my ancestors may have previously sworn blind about the giant mutant star goat thing so you might not want to trust the ponderings of anyone of my lineage...
>This is a strawman, we are talking about workers right in the US, not healthcare or gun control.

Thats not what strawman means and the parent comment was talking about taxes, regulation and "individual freedom." Not wanting to die in a mass shooting or go bankrupt due to medical costs are certainly not highly nuanced...
The aviation industry could teach tech a thing or two about safety and quality. Note that a safe flight is not one where the aircraft happens to land in one piece with all hands alive; things that are out of spec, mysterious, and curious are treated as serious problems, because they are the building blocks of an accident chain that will ultimately lead to disaster (also note the influence of other “links” in the chain, e.g. the effect of the pandemic shutdown on the pilot’s thinking and the upgrade itself).

That approach is a lesson...and then the software guys turn up to fix their bug report:

upgrade programmers adapted a piece of software, which changed the title of any adult female from Miss to Ms automatically

Note this didn’t help the flight in question, because their data had already been added in advance of the fix (due to online check in).

It’s interesting that the issue was known about in advance of the incident flight, but perhaps not the significance if it happened en masse. On the face of it this just doesn’t sound like a fix that addresses the root cause. There are clearly internationalisation issues at play, along with entity design issues, and UI issues. So the issue lurks in the system, ready to form part of some future accident chain; the report is a page too short.
Well some people are just linguistically challenged monolinguals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_(bird)
> This story seems like a SJW or alt right set up to get normal people to argue about "Pronouns", with a heap of fat shaming thrown in for good measure.

Lol wat?

> If load weight is such an issue, why wouldn't they just have scales at the gates or somewhere alone the taxi route that weighs the entire loaded plane. In the trucking industry there are even certain trailers with scales built-in and portable enforcement units that the highway enforcement use to catch and fine overweight loads.

Did you even read the report? They show the readout with the estimated vs actual weight. The captain was aware of the discrepancy, they knew the load sheet was off, but went with it anyway.

> I have heard stories of helicopter passengers needed to be seated according to their weight to balance a load but would hope the margin of error in a 737 covers atleast 2X passenger weight, they made everything else double redundant on them.

The plane didn't crash.. it was within safety factors. The captain decided it was a small enough error. Some random error is expected, but still, it's an issue if the estimates are systematically wrong.
yea thats not close at all.
Lucky!

When on 4G, I'm lucky to get 1mbps; even just browsing the web is an exercise in, 'what is this, a 512kbps satellite link?'

When on 3G, I can pretty much forget about doing anything other than email.
plus, with personalization, wouldnt you think dns lookups happen before you press enter. by the time you press enter, it should already have completed all the dns steps.
It definitely did take me a few tries to figure out how to use 'zip' the first time in the command line on OSX.
Eclipse gave me headaches in the past (old days of Android). I don't usually do Java, but when I do, IDEA is the IDE I use. It's great.
I don't disagree that it's a good thing for society for generational wealth to be dispersed. But I think for your family and descendents it's probably for the better to keep the fortune whole.

Someone brought up the Rockefellers - that is an example of keeping the fortune whole. It's controlled by only the male members of the family and it is locked up in a single family trust.
I fail to see how he is misleading as his tool is meant to provide facts that "persuade". Of course scumbag sellers could use it with falsified data. However, that doesn't make him the con-artist.
Good question. For which I have no answer.

But if the other replies are right and this is really just about habit changing, then that is where the support and focus should exist.

Perhaps the key is to move people into shared temporary houses to build those habits together before being moved on?