skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this seems to be more like a natural search for code components? Does anyone know if it is dynamic or using preset templates with adjustable variables?

I did a talk out in Italy[1] where I showcased an evolutionary programming language, one could take either symbolic input or fuzzy language input and it would "reduce" it to a symbolic interpretation - which would be really powerful for a non-programmer to slowly "learn" through interaction how to speak / write code more precisely.

I'd love to see other demos people have, too!

[1] https://vimeo.com/208899228/b9bc9eaaa4#t=23m27s (re-recorded for a webcast)
These cities are only dense in the American sense. Even Manhattan looks unremarkable next to a properly dense city like Sao Paulo. Los Angeles is probably the best city suited for becoming really dense. The basin is sprawling, it can fit over 20 manhattan islands, but most of it is low slung single family homes that could one day be upzoned into towers. Lots of areas near downtown are just industrial/warehouses too and could be converted into housing in the future.

It has to happen eventually. As long as there is economic activity, there will be jobs hiring the best talent from around the world, spurs more economic activity, etc. That's just not going to change, demand will continue, so cities really need to get rid of zoning for height so supply could be built near the job centers. The alternative is sprawl, which means people need to be transported, consuming resources, etc. Infrastructure is also all the more difficult to build out over sprawl. In particular for California, adding to the sprawl could also mean building into wildfire prone areas.
My only concern with this is that they won't be made available on Pypi for those that still need it. They will pull out the code but they expect the community to package it back up and make it available. Their hope is that the community will improve it before making it available, but I suspect the reality will be that the moment it is deprecated, someone will just go through and make all of them available in Pypi exactly as is.
Perhaps some of those kids will become rocket scientists and help us get off this Earth and continue our relentless expansion and consumption off-world.

Also, isn’t immigration a negation of 1)? The kids are already born, they’re just not in the same country.

Sarcasm aside, there are two systemic problems at play. 1) is ecological, and 2) is economic. The second may be physically easier to solve- but it still requires us to figure out a way to move beyond our capitalist system that a) prioritizes relentless growth and consumption, and b) has countries with large welfare programs that requires new workers and taxpayers to keep the elderly and the ill off the streets.
A call which was made by bcc spamming all the internal amazon mailing lists asking people to sign the petition.

Source: I know a guy who got spammed.
So PwC is pushing cybersecurity as this quarter's consulting fa$hion?
As it is we are bringing in folks on H1Bs who appear to be borderline first level customer support (this was something I ran into browsing the online DB a while back).

At least at 120k you know that the company involved really does value this employee to some extent. They're not likely to spend 120k on someone easily hired locally for far less.
it takes too much effort to get rid of it. so it gets passed around until someone dumps it, so everyone that handled it can claim that they're not responsible for it.

it happens in kentucky:
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environme...

it's just human nature. the act is not much different from throwing a battery into the trash when you should really be recycling it.

lead paint is used in industry, probably in america too. a toy company can simply order it and use it to paint their toys. or they make more than toys or they have that paint from a long time ago so they're going to use it.

it's all about convenience and just doing the job that someone has hired you to do. i think most people can relate to that a little. I'll continue using straws until I can't get them or until they're illegal. And maybe making them illegal is the best option we have if we don't want them in our oceans.
Why do you think it's appropriate to rely on blind optimism just because it's worked for us so far when the challenge we face is totally unprecedented as well as existential? Seems awfully careless to me.
Why assume modern day East Asian countries will integrate new arrivals the same way as European and North American nations do?

And are you aware that international migration has been happening for millennia? All nations have people who have assimilated and integrated, to different degrees.
And then the immigrants stay and get old and there is increased strain on the strained social systems. Most immigration systems in Europe assumed that the immigrants would go home once they have made some money.

At some point it is going to implode anyway. The UK in the last 25 years has completely changed due to immigration and our health system is basically about to fall over, there are massive cultural tensions between natives and immigrant populations that are on the verge of exploding in poorer areas (North of England) on almost a daily basis. None of this gets covered in the news but there are plenty of videos on Facebook, Youtube etc of clashes.

I suggest you read the "Strange Death of Europe".
Blocked in China:

Twitter, Google, YouTube, Github, The New York Times, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Bloomberg, Tumblr, Signal, Reddit, Netflix, Le Monde, Wikipedia, Reuters, Dropbox, Bing, Discord, etc., etc., etc.

Who started this trade war after all?
Penalty for Treason in US..

Death or....
not less than five years!

a bit incongruous..

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
The sad thing is that Microsoft really haven't improved. The competition got more successful and took the ethics down much lower than the bar set by Microsoft. They only look good because their power diminished and others are more effective at being utterly horrible.

Apple are but one example. Can you imagine if Microsoft had tried to take 30% of your sales revenue for selling software that runs on windows? Apple did it, got away with it and took that bar down lower. Google followed and got right in there. Privacy concerns? Race to the bottom with facebrick, goog and everyone else seeing who can fk everyone over with a bait and switch strategy, deeper, faster and more profoundly. Microsoft haven't really competed there but I'm pretty sure it's not because they've taken a moral position anymore than IBM did about competitive practises in the 90s.

Microsoft probably haven't got a lot of my data under false pretenses and without my explicit consent but it's unlikely because they chose that - they just don't have much I'd want to use as a lever to rip me off. At least yet.

IBM look ok now, right? Whodathunk they literally provided the infrastructure for Nazi death camps? [1] Did their investors bless that moral position in those days too? There go Amazon claiming the right to sell facial recognition services to assist despots destroying the lives of humans.

How much money is enough Bezos? Does your toy rocket make you feel better about it? He probably wasn't so bad at one time. It can happen to any of us even without masses of money to lubricate the process.

Nonbinding resolution saying "Don't sell this stuff to evil bastards." Non-binding. Can't even have that as an "ideal"
to aspire to. Get rid of that, could be money in it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I would say a large section of our population want to go back to a certain style of governance that they believe (true or not) was around during the empire, that of strong economic liberalism and free trade with the rest of the world. I'd say it's one of the big philosophical differences with the EU (its protectionism is its main defining characteristic, after all) that has led to the Brexit vote.

The number of people who want the empire back though, I reckon you could count those on one hand.
How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal – Saul Pwanson
In Texas, if nowhere else, it’s established that SaaS is a “business service” and taxed appropriately either via sales or use tax. (Texas is unusual in taxing business services, however.)
"I realized that the proclivity of individuals to avoid responsibility and to lie, especially about their own lives and about their own experience, were really the reasons that those systems went so far astray."

That connects so directly to social media and contemporary "fake" "news". Not just in the obvious ways, but in how people lie through Pinterest images to make their life look more glamorous, or lie on resumés, school applications, exams, dating sites, faked hate crimes, faked crime reports, faked police reports, faked government investigations, faked scientific studies, etc....

We interact with the internet through diverse environments that change so fast that humans can't keep up with an accurate way of figuring out what reality looks like, or, rather, the average difference between the images of reality held in the minds/brains of any two people is expanding.

I think I might see 2 things Peterson didn't address in your quotes:

1. Deteriorating material / or otherwise not originally psychological conditions around a person could also independently increase the chance that they falsify their own experience. He may have cause and effect at least partially flipped.

2. Does telling the truth heal the psychological trauma? Is there an empirical basis for John's claim that "the truth will set you free"?
In my memory of Man's Search for Meaning, I remember his theory was that finding a meaning to keep fighting to live often made the difference for survivors of the Holocaust. People who let the situation sink into them did better than those who held onto dreams that could hardly seem possible, given the circumstances. But that could indicate that "Hope", that thing with feathers, is only dashed when abashed by the most painful of truths - and is sometimes shielded from the storm by our so willing to "falsify" our own experience.

Our family and friends used to be a local pocket with its own local social weather sheltered from the tumult of wider society. Social media tore down the ability to keep family and politics and religion as separate spheres woven together by individuals capable of different modes in different spaces in different times. But the internet in the pocket collapses spaces and times together. And so, our local social weather is no longer sheltered into a friendlier micro climate, but just one point in a massive cultural climate zone.
Not competitively priced? Yes it costs a lot, but it's pretty easy to drop a grand on music equipment. You could buy a decent guitar, a vintage synth, half of a small Nord 4 piano, or a drum kit. It's dead on midrange for an instrument of that calibre, which it absolutely is. It seems expensive because its popularity and apparent ability to turn anyone into a musician make it appeal to the amateur market, who would normally buy a Squier strat or a practice drum off Craigslist. TE caters to these folks with less ambitious products. The OP-1 only really competes in the sense that these folks just save up for longer, because it really is worth that much.

Whether or not it's accurate for the OP-1, I think your analysis applies perfectly to the Playdate.
I used terraform with my AWS deployments because there were lots of examples and I pretty much was able to find a solution that matched my problem and copy paste.

Then, I needed to launch infra in GCP and I messed around with terraform unsuccessfully for a few days before writing about 10 lines of gcloud CLI commands into a makefile.

Now I just check a makefile into my project and just break things up into little shell scripts.

Solved so many problems and headaches.
>The ageing and shrinking population is a temporary, one-off problem. There's no fundamental reason why a replacement or below-replacement birth rate is a problem - in many ways it's advantageous - but it's a really big problem over the next few decades because we didn't plan for it.

Taking a perhaps unwarranted broad view, economies of scale allow for us to achieve certain productive activities that we would otherwise not be able to. Taken to an extreme, a tribe of 100 humans would never be able to develop a space program, for example.

Even aside from that, more people means more "black swan" thinkers/entrepreneurs that can have a population-wide impact. It took just one Einstein to develop General Relativity and now humanity will benefit forever.

Obviously humans are chewing through natural resources at an astounding and unsustainable rate, and we'll extinguish ourselves in a few hundred years if nothing changes. If your view is that humanity should co-exist in much smaller numbers in harmony with nature on Earth, your statements are reasonable. I take the optimistic view that we're meant to keep growing indefinitely beyond the Earth, and so a shrinking, aging population is indeed a concern.
If successful people are having fewer kids than unsuccessful people then haven't we created a dysgenic system?
Try this:

https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/09...

and/or

https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries...

and/or

https://www.amazon.com/You-Build-Will-They-Come/dp/047056363...

and this:

https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/...
Facebook sharing personal data with carriers; face-recognition opt-out limited
What about their comms infrastructure is lacking? I got full high-speed cellular internet reception even in the deep countryside when I visited there last year.
It is far from being mendacious. I'm doing exactly that, with a family of 13 people (12th kid due soon!) on one income.

Yes, it is expensive, but aren't these H-1B people supposed to have rare and special skills that are worth a lot? All I have is a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. If I can afford 11 kids on one income, surely these people with advanced degrees can afford more. At some point... how fertile can you be? One income should do.
> This is true. In fact, by far the fastest route to permanent residence in Japan is marriage. You can get PR in 3 years if you are married to a Japanese national vs 10 years if you aren't.

More details on that. Getting a wedding visa the first time gives 1 year. At the second application one year later, one gets once again 1 year. At the third application one year later, you get 3 three. At this point, you could ask for permanent residency. So the first three years after the wedding are a hell of paperwork, but after that there is no need to go to the immigration office (入国管理局) which is close to Shinagawa in Tokyo.
Over my first five years of professional programming, I've been thirstily chasing the dragon of "perfect description". Early on I thought it was OOP. Then entity/component. Then FP. Then it was really about the type system.

Possibly the biggest lesson I've learned - both from the kiln of real-world project requirements (within a multi-paradigm language) and from my intentional ventures into other different and diverse programming languages and frameworks - is that there's no such thing. There's no perfect way of describing, not within a domain and certainly not across them. It's not just a matter of abstracting farther and farther from real-world concerns, sacrificing optimization until you're in descriptive nirvana. There are many good ways to describe a given thing in code, and there are many more bad ways, but there's no perfect way. Once I grasped that I became a much better (and less stressed) programmer.
"Butt-in-seat"-mentality is a big, artifical problem. Anywhere that practices it isn't worth dealing with.
I would never want to work in japan. Doing business with japan is hard enough. You could create the most amazing service in the world. And it’s still inferior to a Japanese business on the grounds that it’s not owned by the Japanese. I love the country the culture the people. But working with Japan is the most difficult thing I’ve encounter in my career.
The Segway was the Apple Newton of it's time - the right idea but too early for all the pieces to be in place. I feel that all the dockless scooters and bikes that are becoming so popular (despite their controversy) have a good chance of remaking a lot of cities.
Keeping Moloch at bay by throwing sand into the machine.

I've often wondered if the people responsible for planning guideposts in large train stations are doing the same.
It sounds like Japan, with its own unique culture and governance distinct from Western nations, is not pursuing a course of mass migration but something more regulated and careful.
FAA can't oversee most airline maintenance, since it's done outside the USA
I don't at all object to the complexity of the settings. (Or, I do in a more limited way, but that's not the point of my comment.) I'm disagreeing only with the parent's suggestion that all experiences with VLC are very simple.

On your point: I think having many settings, including very technical ones, is great. I think putting no thought into how to present them clearly is not. Documentation does not to my mind excuse poor interface.
Since Moneyball, analytics have exploded. Some traditionalists might argue that math nerds have ruined some sports.
5 years sounds pretty short for something in the US.
Actually, Japan doesn't begin anything. Japan has been doing this for years. The major shift in the last couple of years was introduction of new unskilled visas.

I don't follow that too closely but IIRC what Japan introduced first was a guest worker visa for entry level positions such as convenience store workers. These workers would receive Japanese language training in their home countries and then come to work in Japan for 2 years, or something like that.

I think this was the pilot program. Must've gone well since later on Japan relaxed the requirements for unskilled workers in general.

Meanwhile Japan made it easier for skilled workers to get a PR. I think on "engineer" (there's nuance to what it means and how it works) one would require 10 years to get PR. Then HSFP (see my other comments) was introduced which I believe lowered that to 5 years, initially. Then HSFP was amended to to 1 and 3 years depending on Type 1 (more points on the scale) and Type 2. This happened while back. Year or two ago.

The most recent change is new visas for unskilled workers with a path to PR.

Again, all of this has been going on for years. Nothing began just now :)
Yeah a few people I know who have worked there enjoyed it but the sort of mechanics about how you have to work, traditions.... they love that in the US they can break so many "rules" and it's thought of as innovative, not the end times.
The usual roadblock in this process is getting ports exposed to the internet. In the best case this can just be done on your router configuration. In the unfortunately common case the ISP blocks you from doing this and the only solution is to change ISP.
All cultures are blended. Most of the things you think of as uniquely Japanese are in fact imports, or the hybrid cultural offspring of imports. Kanji was stolen wholesale from Chinese Hanzi, sushi evolved from fermented fish dishes from the Mekong, pagodas are a Chinese import, Buddhism is an import from India via China, the kimono came from China, manga is based on ukiyo-e which is based on Chinese woodblock printing techniques, kare raisu came from India via the British Royal Navy. I could go on ad nauseum.

Anyone who espouses cultural purity is simply ignorant of culture. If you perceive your cultural environment as homogenized, it's your own damned fault for being a passive consumer rather than an active participant.
Even if it were true, thousands of years is barely anything on any time scale that matters. Disregarding that, we've certainly not lived through thousands of years of global anthropogenic climate change, which is what this is all about.

It's worth to remember that adaption doesn't necessarily equate survival in the way we tend to think about it, as dinosaurs adapted too.

Humanity, at least on this planet, is already doomed. The sun will eventually consume us as a natural part of its life cycle. It's a very long time until that happens, but life here will eventually end. So as we're already doomed, should we then do nothing to prevent suffering and pain until then?

It should be a rhetorical question, but apparently it isn't always.

The argument can be made quite simple: As long as we continue to have children, or accept people having children, we have chosen - as a species - to not give up on them, and their descendants.

Preserving a livable environment, and preferably much more than livable, is simply a duty springing from that fact.

There is no need for any deep philosophy, to care for the environment is - essentially - a consequence of choices already made.
Not to discount the hardware, which looks absolutely beautiful, but what strikes me the most is the business model.

A new game, every Monday, delivered wirelessly to your pocket.

What excites me about Playdate is that it is something only an outsider with no attachments to existing business relationships could make.

Games released today are still encumbered by the regional and geographic thinking of traditional software distribution. While Steam, the App Store, etc have certainly democratised some aspects, they are still an exception to the traditional model that generates the most revenue.

Episodic games tried to bring seasonality to gaming. That didn’t really work (Episode 3 anyone?). Fortnite has been the most successful at it, but it is still a AAA game attached to a big publisher. It’s the evolution of the old model.

Playdate and Apple’s upcoming Arcade feel like the beginning of a new model and that’s really, really exciting.
This is about message passing at an abstract level, which is what Alan Kay imagined with Smalltalk. You are the one missing the point....

When you are dealing with external systems, such as a third party API, the message passing paradigm is what you are dealing with. There is no static typing for someone else's API (even if you are using their SDK).
Requiring companies to not do business in countries (or use specific industries in those countries) based on some specific goal is a form of sanctions.
Why is that a concern?
We don't have holes at ours (BNE/YBBN) but there is an area with free car parking and a concrete pad on a raised area where you get a pretty good view, and can put a ladder to get an unobstructed view. If there's a really interesting aircraft movement you often get six or seven people with ladders and a whole bunch of others around.
When I tested my $5 nginx vps could handle 16,000 requests per second over local host. Maybe at worst 10,000 per second over the network
Even? Minato-ku has the highest density of foreigners of all the wards, something like 20% of the population.
You don't have a business if it can be replicated that fast. It's worth nothing. Your secret blockchain proof of stake or work or whatever is also worth nothing, it's about platform adoption.
Would be a cool site or app if you could upload star images and it would give you locations/dates when that view was possible - or if the image was completely bogus.
This doesn’t include the fact that all foreign enterprises in China are actually 51% owned domestically. Tariffs, while severe, are no where close to this extreme protectionism.

The US finally decided to bring a knife to a gun fight.
Add Shibuya (mainly around the station) and Shinjuku and you basically covered all foreigner hotspots! Those are the most non-representative areas!

But go to Shimokitezawa or Gakuendaigaku or anywhere off the beaten path and foreigners will be few and far between.
US weighing ban on more PRC firms
Why would that change anything? This is local trash in the rivers not recycling.
A guy in england was just cited for covering his face.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19928231