skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what are the chances that someone who is doing VB6 in 2019 and is talking about he has been maintaining a legacy combination VB6 app that interfaces with C++/ATL DCOM objects is keeping up with the latest advances in architecture, development practices, etc. compared to someone who does a show a history of transistioning as technology changes?
Sadly, I'd also like more competition in the browser technology space; with Edge switching to Chromium, and Safari's years of neglect, it's not looking too good.
Most compilers will probably reduce if-else and ternary to the same instructions. If it's a conditional value binding it might not be a branch but a conditional move instruction.
Note that this wide prosecutorial description is not universal among western countries (maybe it is a common law thing?)

Germany has compulsory prosecution (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_prosecution, the German article Google Translated has mich more detail) and it’s subject to review by the courts (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klageerzwingungsverfahren and https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermittlungserzwingungsverfah...)

Note that as a result of this plea bargaining are a rare thing.
yes, it's sickening. I do my best to filter out all the like and upvote stuff, but it doesn't really help because it changes the entire atmosphere of a platform and thus affects me too.
I am surprised these mechanisms come in optional packages. What else do I have to order separately? Wings, engines, ruder?

Is this some kind of airplane DLC and can I get the season pass for less money?
Nested ternary is obvious when formatted as above, and it's dramatically more compact. Try it for a bit, you'll see how simple and clear it is.
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There's the reverse side too. Many experiences are unpleasant but I'd consider important for people to "enjoy". I don't have kids, but I think raising kids is a good example? No the direct experiences of being awake 24/7 picking up poop isn't fun, but the overall experience is what people are after?
Videogames are mostly the future tabletop games, and now are moving to be the future sports too.
> We are not using parchment anymore, there is nothing to be gained by saving a couple of lines.

This is not what the OP is talking about - we are not using parchment anymore, but we still have the same brains, being able to fit more code in our head with less i/o allows is a more holistic view.

There is a balance in between terse and verbose that produces a reasonable length of code for what it is doing, and that is subjective, to the individual and the code - so you are never going to agree on everything. But I say fuck no to people who want to lower everything to the common denominator, that is mediocrity, I don't want my grandma to be able to read the code if it makes macro comprehension horrible to the point of making it unmaintainable spaghetti.
Reading the article I was reminded of the depths auto makers would sink to in order to saver pennies on every car made.

On another note; am I the only person that these AOA vanes seem so hokey and inelegant to? I am not a pilot, nor a designer, but if I was buying and flying something that had these sticking out like an after thought; I'd be like WTF are you kidding me?!
> Why remove it in the first place? It makes no sense.

Presumably because a tool like 2to3 could strip it out, leaving it in is confusing, and there already existed a better solution for forwards compatibility (unicode literals future flag). With hindsight, the wrong call, but not completely nonsensical from what I can tell.
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This is wrong is wrong in so many levels. Sure, you can fit the whole universe knowledge in a checklist.

Doctors can see much more than a normal person, by just looking at your face. A bright person would possibly take 8+ years to have a beginner ability on this. Just as I can in 5 minutes grasp the quality of a codebase better than a beginner.

I can give you the guitar tabs for Cliff of Dover. Can you follow the instructions?
It's becoming increasingly clear that greed is beating intelligence. And, like, badly. Looks to me like nature will (eventually) have to balance the scales for us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking

Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group towards another person.[1] Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term stalking is used with some differing definitions in psychiatry and psychology, as well as in some legal jurisdictions as a term for a criminal offense.

This should also apply in the digital world. Doesn't it?
Does a flower stop being pretty just because you don't expect or desire it to be pretty? Your desires don't have any effect on the flower. But it's still pretty. And so, it being pretty, you can choose to experience this flower as a beautiful, wondrous thing, and take great pleasure out of its existence.

It may also be stamped upon in the next moment by a passer-by. But because you did not expect this gift, when it is gone, you won't despair. So if life gives you a gift, receive it with humility and gratitude, but do not expect to be given it.

I think there's more to it too, like how you can use your time here to create things that will also bring you peace and happiness, and not being disappointed when they don't work out. Hard to explain here as it's kind of a broad topic and I'm no Buddhist monk ;)
Yes, because without US as strong opposition, Russia would definitely not sweep over Europe egain.
Shades of "The Expanse" and "Silo" series. IIRC Wool, etc.. had people being decomposed right back into the farm area, and the Expanse has bodies being fed into the "recycler".
Does anyone know if they're publishing the database indicated in Section II? Would be interesting to try and visualize the data.
What's the deal with randomly italicizing words? Annoying trend I have seen a lot lately. Dunno how this got 4.4k claps. Nothing that interesting here. Seems like medium is an inverse-meritocracy where the most unoriginal stuff written for marketers and by marketers get all the votes and promotion and traffic.

Happiness comes from the attainment status and progress, and those two things tend to be correlated. That's why beating a video game level or getting an award or promotion makes you happy. it does not come from reflecting on failure or any abstract philosophical belief/teaching. The idea that happiness is encoded in failure seems ludicrous unless one means not repeating mistakes, but that is learning , which is not the same as happiness as an emotion. Not a fan of stoicism either. I think people should express how they feel. Bottling it up only makes it worse later.
Thank you. BTW, I wrote that book three years ago but have updates that I will finish and push when I am done writing my new book. You get an email from leanpub when new versions are available.
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You will always find people who will abuse something. Happened with alcohol, TV, internet and will happen with mushrooms. The question is whether it’s more costly and damaging to prohibit something vs controlling it. I think people are slowly learning that prohibition is worse than letting some people abuse something.

If we want to make a drug illegal it should be alcohol anyway. It causes huge numbers of deaths every year. It’s probably the most dangerous drug we have.

Clarification: All I m trying to say is that it's dangerous to say "there is no addiction risk in mushrooms. They are totally benign". If you say that it will be really easy for opponents to find counterexamples. Instead we should say they are not more dangerous than already legal things so there is no point in prohibiting mushrooms while other similarly harmful things are legal.
I gotta agree with the parent, skateboarders are very welcoming and you might have a blast even as total new skateboarder.
Not completely sharing the GP's point of view, but I also think there is more than meets the eyes.

It could be a combination of most players in the field being in an illegal state in some way or another (not by accident, just that fraud is the norm) and they decided to enforce the rules on one specific company at a strategic time, while the rest of the industry hums along unscratched.
My question would be, why is Lambda-calculus not a good programming language in practice?
> you bury someone, and plant a tree on top

I also thought about that. It just feels like a nice thing, coming from something deeply ingrained in my mind. I wonder why other people also seem to have the same feeling.
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Compiled languages usually have dead-code-elimination (only code that's actually "reachable" is included)... I think the JS world invented the word "tree-shaking" for that.

Not loading everything that's eventually needed at startup can be handled with loading WASM modules on demand (which can be handled the same way as loading DLLs in a native application).

IMHO it's better to fight code bloat at the root, by picking a language without runtime, minimizing dependencies, and picking the right dependencies.
> No one told me someone had put an arbitrary countdown on the Internet. Well that's completely different.

No idea what I did to deserve that tone. That site also gives a high level overview of the change, which is why I linked it.

> What’s to stop someone else from backporting security fixes as needed ad infinitum?

Who? I haven’t heard anyone express a willingness to take up that mantle. “Someone will probably support it by the end of the year” is not the most robust security model.
As others have said, put family always first. Still talk to your co-founders, there is a high chance they'll be understanding, if not, you're better off knowing that early. I'd never personally stick with anyone who doesn't put a child with health difficulties before job.

I wish your girl all the best!
I had the same feeling, sad to see the comment there. It doesn't represent the majority though. Just ignore the dumbass in the room.
Could this move help get mushrooms into research in Colorado? Like this recent move by Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelics Research (not decrim, but research)

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756067

> https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190994/imperial-launches-wor...
The negative impact of pulping isn't limited to just deforestation and loss of uncommercialized land. I think wikipedia does a fine job to explain the impact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper
That is extremely hard to read, at least without parentheses to show where to split the expressions at a glance.
Ecosystems are all interconnected.
As an example, see "How Wolves Changed Rivers":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448929

Now, imagine the impact of a million species being wiped from the earth.
Portion control is just another diet that won't work for most
These are both extremes and both bad. The 10 line switch statement to switch a variable is a high cognitive load for no good reason but so is a nested ternary under pretty much any circumstances, but especially with single character variables and magic numbers.

>On that same vein, if a ternary operation is going to throw someone for a loop, I've got some bad news about their career in programming.

You're right about someone having and issue if they can't understand this on it's own. What was the last application you worked in where that single line is all you had to understand to accomplish whatever task you were working on?
Out of curiosity, how are you guys handling anonymous user actions without fingerprinting? For example if you want to setup a user poll, without requiring a user account? Storing it in a cookie can just be deleted, which the agent can just clear and resubmit.
While this is awesome, I wonder why we hear a lot about businessmen who score big then funneling their wealth into moonshot projects about space exploration (Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Takafumi Horie, etc), but hardly ever on medical science and life extension. To me that seems like a much more urgent and personally relevant issue - I mean, without advancing the state of the art on those fields, even those rich & powerful men are all going to be dead in a mere 120 years. Why don't they seem to be doing much to address that when they're in the rare position to be able to do so?

*Edit: Richard Branson of Virgin Group, not Charles Bronson.
For the U.S., where most people rarely need to make international calls, an easy solution would be to use an option (which i am sure is provided by every operator), to just disable any international calls. Sounds like an easy fix.
Well, there is something called cyberstalking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberstalking

I don’t think you will be able to convince a court that browser fingerprinting is cyberstalking though, but you could certainly try.
Writing is a very minor part of my income. I have done work for SAIC, Capital One, Google, Disney, etc. - I write mostly because I meet interesting people and I enjoy the process a lot.
> why spend time to read 10 lines and figure out that it actually does what a simple ternary operation would accomplish??

Because when something is expressed in 10 lines explicitly, generally you can simply skim over the code to get an idea of what's going on without having to go into the details.

"Smart and clever" code, like using nested ternaries, demands you to focus and try to figure out what is going on.
PEP-8016 [1] has the details of the steering council mechanism (5 person elected council, describes their powers), and PEP-8100 [2] has the results of the election and now shows vote totals.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8016/

[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8100/#results
Even in the Bay Area there are companies still with Python 2.7 with no real migration strategy yet. I maintain several such packages at work myself.
They can't. Tolerance builds rapidly, by the 3rd dose within a week you may as well have eaten white button mushrooms.

I mean... that's what I hear.

LD50 is also a non-issue as it requires you to eat near your own body weight. Again... that's what I hear anyway.
Oh wow, I was just debating sending my 16 months daughter to daycare because I feel she doesn't interract with children, it seems I need to do some more research.
This is something brought up in Buddhism as change of state. Basically happiness spawns from the change state: going from normal to better state brings happiness. Same applies for going from a down state back to normal. In this case from doing something miserable back to normal. This is important because suffering follows the same logic and Buddhism emphasizes on recognizing these change of states. This helped explain the emptiness or sadness I often feel after a big reunion with family members, a big party, doing something exciting, etc. I think it also helps explain why people chasing after the constant highs will never attain the happiness they're looking for since after staying high for a period of time, it'll become the new norm.
> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? I'm sure it has its bubble-living adherents here. Then again, so did Quora.

To know what's going through the USA President's brain right now? Yes.

For a leader of a technical project? I doubt it.

If anyone's got a concern about what you're working on, and can't be arsed to go to the relevant forum or mailing list and say so there... well, it probably wasn't valid anyway.

Some (even if trivally small) barrier to entry for a technical community is good and useful.

Twitter on the other hand... maybe a non-existent barrier to entry is good for political discourse (that's another conversation), but I don't see how you're easily going to distinguish the wheat from the chaff on really wide-open forums like that for technical communities.
Reason is biology/physics. You need ten times the biomass to create an equivalent biomass at a trophic level that is one higher.
It HAS to be more inefficient to eat meat instead of crops because it raises your trophic level by 1.

(Worst case is eating what were apex predators like e.g. tuna fish)

About trophic levels:

Level 1 are producers like plants. Herbivores are level 2, carnivores eating herbivores are level 3, carnivores eating carnivores are level 4 and then there's the apex predator that is not eaten by anything, usually.

Some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
That is not what progressive taxation means, by definition. When lower income earners pay a higher proportion of their income than higher income earners, that is a regressive tax structure.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-are-dif...
Do you mean Richard Branson rather than the actor known as Charles Bronson?

That said, lots of people are benefactors of health and medicine. Maybe they don’t get the same notoriety, but maybe they weren’t looking for it either.
Make the 2 vs 3 language decision be module-specific with a single Python executable supporting both languages, allowing you to freely mix Python 2 and 3 files and libraries and thus not splitting the ecosystem.
Sustainability: From Liability to Asset
Only 20% of the total incarcerated population is in for a “drug offense.” Many of those are also very bad people. Almost all federal drug offenders are traffickers. Even if you don’t think that selling harmful substances to people is bad, there is the fact that many of these drug traffickers are involved in violent conduct. But the conviction often won’t reflect that conduct. Most violent and property crimes, unless performed on federal property, are state criminal law issues. Drug trafficking is usually the hook for federal law enforcement jurisdiction. The federal government doesn’t have jurisdiction to enforce state criminal laws. So someone may be incarcerated for a federal drug offense, even though there are state law violent and property crimes that could have been charged. (And states have little incentive to prosecute the state-law crimes for someone who is going to federal prison anyway.)

In order to get a more accurate picture, you have to not only look at the offense for which the prisoners are incarcerated, but also at prior criminal histories. (And even that will exclude situations where a first time drug offender is charged with a federal drug offense but there are also state violent and property offenses that could have been charged.)

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-numbers-dont-lie-its-...

> For example, in a forthcoming Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) study of the complete adult and juvenile criminal histories of prisoners from Milwaukee, WPRI analyst George Mitchell and I find that 91 percent of these urban criminals had one or more convictions for a violent crime. First-time drug offenders were less than 2 percent of the population. The imprisoned drug offenders had multiple arrests, bouts on probation, and adult and juvenile crimes, including auto theft, burglary, robbery, retail theft, domestic violence, sexual assault, drunk driving, jumping bail and, of course, drug dealing too.

> For example, in 1990, Harvard economist Anne Morrison Piehl and I studied a large sample of the Wisconsin prison population. We found that in the year before they were imprisoned, these prisoners committed a median of 12 crimes, excluding all drug crimes. In 1993 we studied a large sample of New Jersey prisoners and found exactly the same thing—they committed a median dozen crimes a year, again excluding all drug crimes. (Empirical studies by analysts at the National Bureau of Economic Research and elsewhere indicate that the average number of non-drug crimes that prisoners commit when free may be higher than twelve a year.)
IMHO people are often (not always) after specific things that having raised kids provides—posterity, people who will take care of you when you’re old, etc.—and are actually not interested in any aspect of the experience of actually raising them.

For people with such perspectives, I would say that what they experience is less like “something that was no fun in any part but still fun as a whole”, but rather “an input of a non-fun activity that is expected to pay out in happiness down the line”—in other words, the same kind of experience that working at a job to earn money is.

As such, people (for whom this calculus works out) don’t actually have to be irrationally drawn to having kids by addictive brain signals. They have perfectly rational reasons to do so!
Where it is the weapon with by far the biggest blast radius, but alas you only get one per game under the default settings.
I have a theory, and I have no evidence to back this theory up.

The increases in anxiety in the general public over the last decade or so is in large part to people knowing we're on an unsustainable path. We're all collectively marching towards the edge of the cliff to jump off together. More people than ever have anxiety because we subconsciously (or consciously) know this.

We're unsustainable with how we pollute and how we treat the environment. How we overfish the oceans. Income inequality rising. Political and cultural polarization widening.

It's all so unsustainable.
Definitely #3. Counterfeit 18650 cells is a serious problem and anyone who has delved deeply into the e-cig/vaping community is already aware of this and doesn't purchase batteries through Amazon or any other service where counterfeits are commonplace.

Counterfeiting of batteries generally, and counterfeiting on Amazon generally, have become critical path problems for a lot of hobbyist communities where having a quality supply chain is safety critical. This is not new. It's true as well in things, such as the car community, where many online supply chains are corrupted with counterfeit safety-critical items like wheels and brake calipers.

One of the realities of the world is that "you get what you pay for" is actually true. This has become clear specifically around the batteries issue and also in the car community where specialist online retailers who charge a premium are the go-to places to buy safety-critical components, specifically and exactly because anyone who cares does not want to accept the risk of a safety-critical item failing to save a few bucks. On the flip-side, many people in hobbyist communities are ignorant cheapskates and unfortunately their penny-pinching drive helps to proliferate counterfeiting.