skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are alternative ways of writing the same character, unlike escape sequences, which have a different meaning from the unescaped version of the same character.

For example, in C, I can write:

int a<:10:>;

Or I can write:

int a[10];

They are the same, because <: is exactly the same as [, and :> is exactly the same as ] (except… mercifully, digraphs are not interpreted in strings; trigraphs are another story). However, in a string, the escape sequence \" means something different from ". One is a character in the string, the other ends the string.

Digraphs and trigraphs exist because not all keyboards have the corresponding characters, like [ and ]. For example, look at a Swedish keyboard. (You can type [ and ], but not as easily, and maybe not at all on some older keyboards.)
How is this even up for debate? It's hardly a secret unless you live under Putin's control I guess. [1]

Sounds like you got a bad case of Whataboutism [2], I suggest seeing a doctor right a way.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-way/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Same issue as with a controller: jamming. Heck, they could detect the signal and just tell the carrier to shut the customer off. Would probably be unprecedented and therefore take some hours, but if the person persists, surely an option.
Yes, since the moon is a scattering reflector, in fact the inverse square dropoff of moonlight is based on the distance from the moon.

Note that the article claims that no matter how much moonlight we are able to gather (i.e. we are allowed to overcome the inverse square law however much we want) we cannot create a temperature that will ignite paper.
A normal person cannot type an English sentence? Wow, I really seem to he disconnected from normal people.
> why are "ranges" needed for that?

They aren't, but without ranges, things that accept iterators are more general than things that accept only containers (e.g. you can't iterate over half a container without a range, iterators, or copying to another container through other means defeating which would defeat the whole point.)

As such it makes sense to have a generic range type first, then algorithms that operate on containers/ranges.

Additionally, if you can take a range<Iter> instead of a Container (I haven't even checked if C++20 algorithms do), you might get better error messages (e.g. "Xyz cannot be converted to a range" instead of "Xyz doesn't implement begin()").

> What took so long

Everything takes long in C++ standards land. I have no special insight into the actual workings of the standards committee, but I've always chalked it up to a combination of being extremely conservative about changes, made worse by past missteps burning them, and less than ideal foundations which already made C++ hard to parse, slow to compile, and inconsistent across compilers, and often not fully implemented.

It's not like there's been some giant technical hurdle across the board - boost::range has been around for well over a decade (in boost since 1.32.0 in 2004).

Faster iterating languages usually have a fresh start unencumbered by backwards compatibility concerns with large existing codebases, less cruft inherited from other languages (cough C cough), and a single official implementation which can be used to more quickly prove out good ideas and discard bad ones.
As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
Woah I’ve never considered this idea
> In other words, what was the main Arab religion before Islam?

What was the main European religion before Christianity? In both cases, there's not one unique answer. In terms of pre-Islamic Arab religion, Christianity (of a couple different major flavors), Judaism, Zoroastrianism, varieties of local polytheisms, and some others were significant.
Epic has coded around most of these issues internally. So it'll be a problem for anyone trying to pick up MUMPS out of the box, but not really for Epic.
One of the many reasons in why I aggressively push all my friends to use Signal.
I get 10 month vacation fully paid as any normal work month.

I work in ad tech.

It just depends on what you know, workplace is flexible for people who can't be replaced easily, so we might as well flex.
I have seen quite a lot of source in Japanese where the language allows it easily, much of it was written by a Japanese partner and their customers so it made sense for them.
Have you read the article ? It s interesting and is actually about how few f#cks are given by those companies. And in your car, you are 100% liable and not in international waters
I think paying for content is the problem because it skews everything, unless there is very tight control over submissions.
So maybe The Thing was an alien CRISPR experiment gone wrong.
> They aren't, but without ranges, things that accept iterators are more general than things that accept only containers (e.g. you can't iterate over half a container without a range, iterators, or copying to another container through other means defeating which would defeat the whole point.)

Yes but they could have provided both a single-container-parameter version and a two-iterator-parameter version of all those functions like sort and transform. Templates and SFINAE support that, and the single parameter one would call the two parameter one with .begin() and .end() for you.

They should try to make the std library such that you type shorter code, not longer code, imho: longer expressions are less readable. But well, it looks like ranges mostly do that for the user side (except that it uses std::ranges:: instead of just std:: as prefix) so at least that's nice.
There are S&P ETF’s that hedge out the dollar risk and pay out in euro’s. Not saying your concerns aren’t valid, just that modern financial instruments are varied and sophisticated enough to hedge most exposure concerns that an individual might have.
MyChart is VB.NET. The main client is still VB6, which is why there has been a big push to a web based client. A few more years and VB6 can be fully retired.
More likely it looked like the religion from which Judaism emerged, the ancient Semitic religion (polytheist, idol-worshipping). IIRC this is mentioned in the Quran regarding the inhabitants of Mecca.
>I'd very like that, but then again, how much of "public space" is actually public?

It's not simply a matter of raw percentage, it's also a matter of advertising value (eyeballs) which is a different question. A significant amount of the most valuable space is publicly regulated, such as along highways. So for example in the US four states ban billboards entirely (Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont), and it's really nice even just driving through them. For Maine and Vermont (since they share land borders with the rest of the contiguous 48) it actually makes for quite the state border transition in some cases, where leaving you suddenly cross and instantly face a pile of advertising. It doesn't have to be that way though, and as a quality of life goal it wouldn't be wrong for people in other states to give it some thought. Constant ads IRL may somewhat fade into the background just as in other contexts, but that doesn't mean it has no impact.
I share the worries of "messing with things we don't understand" but that comes after not accepting this practice of using conscious beings who can experience pain as objects. It's inventing more suffering on purpose, intentionally breeding animals that were born to potentially suffer. Breeding animals in general always has a chance to result in painful deformities but this is treating them like they don't matter.
Alice Boxhall for W3C TAG
Well, here is why I think Jesus very likely existed and taught:

The Church today follows the teachings of Paul, that the Law is obsolete, nailed to the cross and no longer binding. The Church teachings give the Chuch great authority in determining what people should do, church leaders are called Father etc. The Church was supposed to be for all nations.

And yet... Jesus is described in the gospels exactly saying the opposite! “I came to save the lost sheep of Israel.” When a young man asked how to be saved, Jesus said “follow the Law”. He always taught to follow the law, and never once said it would be obsolete after his crucifixion.

Why would the Church invent a person so inconvenient to their own dogma? It is the ultimate criterion of embarrassment — of the very canonizers themselves!

They only would have done it if the original founder of the Way realy existed and was a Jewish teacher who taught Jews. Why else would they invent something so seemingly at odds with their own teachings that people throughout the centuries (like Thomas Jefferson) called Paul “the great corruptor of Christianity”?

I would further say that the original Church of Jesus existed in Jerusalem and was led by his brother James and also by Peter. They told Paul that rumors have come that he is teaching Jews to turn away from the Law, and told him to pay for some purification rites to show this is not true. Paul obliged. They also penned a letter to Gentile Believers which Paul was to take to them, invoking the Holy Spirit and instructing them in essentially the Noahide Laws. Paul in his letter to the Galatians however said they had “nothing to add” to his message excep that he “remember the poor, something I have been eager to do all along”.

In short, the founder existed, the Church existed, and would have been the dominant Church if not for the Judaic wars and the destruction that happened as a result.

I think that Christianity as we know it today, came from those beginnings and then spread to other churches.
This has been the story with C++ forever. I think currently half the standardization and compiler implementation bandwidth is taken up by turning C++ into the slowest virtual machine ever devised (constexpr).

The constexpr story is presumably very similar to what happened with templates. There was a genuine niche use case, and that was perfectly covered in the initial implementation. But the feature just lends itself perfectly to extremely clever, single A4 page example code. No one ever went "ooh" and "aah" at a basic_string::split paper.
Seems like "marketing" is how a lot of things die and/or become garbage.
I was anyway thinking that his example looked incomprehensible, but your Python example makes a complete mockery of it.

The difference is night and day, I'm dismayed at how horrible that C++ code is, hope I never have to deal with such crap.
Fairly interesting article. I'm a bit baffled by the reference to a supposed attempt at abandoning the von Neumann architecture (full citation below) - what would these alternative architectures be? It doesn't seem at all likely to me, and I'm wondering if this is more about some way to market rather minor changes as some kind of radical shift.

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"And the drive to put AI on the edge is causing new design architectures. “There has been a rethink on compute architectures for cache coherency, for heterogenous computing,” points out Synopsys’ Nandra. “In 2018, different approaches have been attempted to solve ML inference challenge. They are all trying to work out how to do inferencing on an edge device and being able to quickly process data so that they don’t have to upload information from the Cloud and to do things in real time. That has opened a big debate about von Neumann compute architectures to different approaches where you are separating memory, accelerator chips—be they dedicated FPGAs, dedicated GPUs, application specific processors—and new chips that have blocks that talk with each other.”"
Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

On the Internet, there is too much value and emphasis on QUICK bangs of interest, while the real value can lie much more comfortably in long for interaction, much like a conversation in person.

I'm not going to give too many details now, but I look forward to hopefully having you guys give the prototype a trial once it's ready. I estimate that will be in about 3 - 4 weeks.

knophy.com is currently live, but it's really just there because I'm developing all of this out in the open. I'm also working on radically changing how we think about business structures and actually incorporating the idea of demonstrated competencies into how the board is going to function.

If you'd like to check out the repo, it's here: http://github.com/technoplato/knophy
As a data scientist, I disagree strongly on this. Writing "typical" application code, sure, jupyter is (probably) overkill. But for cv, nlp, data sanitizing, etc, you are constantly iterating over algorithms and visually viewing the output. Multi-stage pipelines just require rerunning a cell.

Caching to disk is cumbersome for data that's usually junk.

Cells and integrated vis is such a massive leap forward that using plain old text feels like banging rocks together.
--- COPY / PASTE FROM ABOVE ---

Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

On the Internet, there is too much value and emphasis on QUICK bangs of interest, while the real value can lie much more comfortably in long for interaction, much like a conversation in person.

I'm not going to give too many details now, but I look forward to hopefully having you guys give the prototype a trial once it's ready. I estimate that will be in about 3 - 4 weeks.

knophy.com is currently live, but it's really just there because I'm developing all of this out in the open. I'm also working on radically changing how we think about business structures and actually incorporating the idea of demonstrated competencies into how the board is going to function.

If you'd like to check out the repo, it's here: http://github.com/technoplato/knophy
I love any talk with Joe Armstrong or Alan Kay in it.

Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
Neither does Oracle, MemSQL, Mongo, MSSQL, C#, Java, or anything we technical folk talk about. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t create value for the world.
Copy and paste from comment above. Knophy.com is going to have no ads and is going to promote the usage of competency and evidence of content. More details will be posted on SHOWHN in about 3 - 4 weeks when I can get my prototype live.

>It's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

On the Internet, there is too much value and emphasis on QUICK bangs of interest, while the real value can lie much more comfortably in long for interaction, much like a conversation in person.

I'm not going to give too many details now, but I look forward to hopefully having you guys give the prototype a trial once it's ready. I estimate that will be in about 3 - 4 weeks.

knophy.com is currently live, but it's really just there because I'm developing all of this out in the open. I'm also working on radically changing how we think about business structures and actually incorporating the idea of demonstrated competencies into how the board is going to function.

If you'd like to check out the repo, it's here: http://github.com/technoplato/knophy
Some people browse thedailywtf on occasion, so MUMPS isn't unheard of:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/isn-t-there-a-vaccine-for-m...
C++ has had major specification updates (some are smaller than others) in 2011, 2014, 2017, with a planned one in 2020. This pattern will be ongoing for the foreseeable future.

These specification changes are usually implemented by compilers _before_ the final release date. Some features take longer, but you're usually only look at 6-12 months before being able to use 100% of cutting edge.

If anything... C++ is ramping up.
Fixed exchange rate meant as if all countries in Europe would have a fixed exchange rate between them (even if they would use different currencies). Hence the comparison eurozone-Bretton Woods
It does not discount that possibility, but it does leave open the possibility that "Jesus" is a legendary figure representing a fusion of various religious leaders over a long period of time.
I didn’t. Had I considered it I would have assumed that at least in the US regulations would prohibit its inclusion.
Depends on how you ask. Yes, I’m aware that those are Chinese provinces, as in, if you had provided me a list of Chinese cities and provinces I could have probably picked those out, or associated them back to China if the task was to match a province to its country. But I don’t think I could produce any of these if I was asked to give the name of a Chinese province.
I quite liked Johann Hari on Sam Harris's podcast on addiction, depression, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msP0-NqRhZE
When I was consulting I had a client whose google ads stopped working for six weeks. She was spending $500 a week in ads, but Google wouldn't do anything to fix or even acknowledge the issue.

I also had Google accuse me of "click fraud" on a website I ran in college- they stole about $300 from me, with no ability to appeal.

Google's support- even for paying customers- is abysmal.
Your DOB was likely provided by some external source. I never put my DOB in (they didn't require it in 2004, when I created my account - which I do not actually use), and it materialized there at some point; other data I did not put in also materialized, and most of it is wrong (about schools I went to, etc).

I suspect they picked it up from someone's contacts uploaded by the facebook/whatsapp/instagram app, but have no way to know.

They are also buying data from data merchants (which in the US includes your phone records, credit card purchases, and more) and integrating it.

Technically, the war has been lost a decade or so ago; Facebook co-opted everyone in your life - your friends, your bank, your phone company, etc - to spy on you. If you didn't tell THEM the wrong DOB, you are out of luck with facebook.

Legally, it may still be outlawed ... but the horses have left the barn. Facebook, every 3 letter agency, and quite a few criminal enterprises have a copy of everything Facebook ever knew about you.
With any tax cut, the rich will benefit the most because they pay most of the taxes.
Completely agree here and this is just more evidence that advertising NECESSARILY depletes the quality of the online experience. This is the last time I'm going to spam this post, but I'm very excited about my new website knophy.com and believe it solves all these problems. It's open source, going to economically and behaviorally incentivize competence and evidence backed content, and is going to always be free of ads and paywalls. I'll be announcing more details here shortly.

Here's a copy and paste from a different comment with some more details:

-- BEGIN COPY PASTE --

Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

On the Internet, there is too much value and emphasis on QUICK bangs of interest, while the real value can lie much more comfortably in long for interaction, much like a conversation in person.

I'm not going to give too many details now, but I look forward to hopefully having you guys give the prototype a trial once it's ready. I estimate that will be in about 3 - 4 weeks.

knophy.com is currently live, but it's really just there because I'm developing all of this out in the open. I'm also working on radically changing how we think about business structures and actually incorporating the idea of demonstrated competencies into how the board is going to function.

If you'd like to check out the repo, it's here: http://github.com/technoplato/knophy
Is Intermittent Fasting Really Worth It?
Great title. In fact, I don't even know if I have to flag it to the editors as misleading or not.
Empathy is a learned skill, much like language, we are hard wired to be able to do it but it has to be worked on and a lot of that work has to be done in childhood.

A lot of people are not loved in childhood, this may be due to a poor or a rich background. Being sent to boarding school far away from home or having a single mum on crack can result in a child not learning about love. The result is narcissism and those cursed with narcissism can do a convincing job when it suits them of emulating empathy. They might care about those around them when it means they have something to gain, but this is exploitative caring, not what passes for normal emotion for most people who grew up with parents that loved them.

Narcissists do love power and money. Therefore there is a tendency for them to want to rule the world, be boss of the company or to acquire more wealth than might make sense.

We all have a certain amount of narcissism in us, normally this is in check and not a crippling disease, as per the seriously unloved-as-a-child brigade. This study appeals to this innate narcissism, and, we can all be manipulated into being 'good Germans' or 'Christian saints'.

There are many situations - e.g. being President - where mere mortals have no interest in the job. To wear the crown and have the power naturally horrifies. This does not mean we just want to be lead, but there is an aspect of this.

As a society we are generally good about making sure chronic alcoholics don't rule the roost but we expect everyone to take part in a drink in social situations. We can spot when someone likes the bottle a bit too much and deal with it. Narcissism is a bit more tricky as the beyond-the-pale selfish narcissist has the skills to feign empathy until they get the power they crave. Then it is too late and we wonder how such a cruel, selfish person got that way. Or maybe we are still under their spell and imagine they 'think like us' and care.

For the benefit of humanity we need to have simple tests to identify those with overly narcissistic tendencies and not let them into positions of power such as being president. A 'breathalyser test' for the mind.
The article might focus on the US but Canada shouldn't be overlooked for its own neglect of high-speed rail. The Toronto-Montreal corridor is a clear candidate for such a service which has been promised onwards of decades now.
Cue the zealots hailing second coming of the lord savior Musk who will cure all of the US from it's transportation problems by digging a dumbass service tunnel
There is an odd mishap, when you are dragging one of the circle handlers, and drag outside of the gridded area, then through the center of the circle. It flips into a corner
The big difference is that it's a pure library solution in C++. The code inside main is not too bad once you have the building blocks in place (implemented in a library, of course, not by yourself).
Stop spamming please.
That is probably the correct location for live streams. If it doesn't work, https://twitter.com/c3voc will know what's up.

The Streams will later be edited and uploaded to https://media.ccc.de/ where they will appear incrementally a few days (or sometimes even hours) after the talks are over. So it's usually not a problem to miss a talk.
The porn industries focus on what customers want vs. what consumers want would certainly explain the increasingly extreme nature of free porn.

I wonder if this is relevant to the discussion:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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I hope you see the irony in this.
We have $2/gallon gas, from massive domestic production (and similar or lower prices for Jet-A). There are traffic congestion reasons for mass transit in cities, but we're pretty sorted for inter-city.