skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are his books on "Programming Languages" and "Programming" (in the bottom right corner of the image):

* APL: The Language and its Usage

* The Design an Evolution of C++

* The annotated C++ Reference Manual

* The Joy of Clojure

* Eiffel the Language

* Programming Erlang

* Forth (Salman et al.)

* Thinking Forth

* Introduction to Fortran

* The Little Schemer

* The Seasoned Schemer

* The Reasoned Schemer

* The Little MLer

* Programming in Lua

* Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language

* Functional Programming in Scala

* Clause and Eiffel

* Scatchpad

* Smalltalk-80, The Interactive Programming Environment

* Smalltalk-80, Bits of History, Words of Advice

* The TeXbook

* The METAFONTbook

* TeX: The Program

* METAFONT: The program

* Viewpoint: Toward a computer for visual thinkers

* Visual Grammars for Visual Languages

* How to design programs (Felleisen et al.)

* Design Patterns (Gamma et al.)

* The art of the Metaobject Protocol

* Elements of Programming

* Concepts, techniques and models of computer programming

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

* Types and Programming Languages

* Essentials of Programming Languages

* Advanced compiler design and implementation (Muchnick)

* Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen et al.)

* Hacker's Delight

* Programming Pearls

* Coders at Work

* Computation: finite and infinite machines

* Purely functional data structures

* The space and motion of communication Agents

* Superdistribution

* A small matter of programming

* Basic Theory for Computer Scientists
I like D a lot but find it's not a good fit for many things. C++, Java and Python have great tools and libraries to rely on. Not so much with D's small community. Writing wrappers and interop always feels like a hassle, so it's easier to stick with just one language.

First time I used D was before the version 2, back when there was the Tango library. D seems to have improved quite a bit since then, but it's still in the same position as before.
Thats the cost of welfare states... and even with such high taxes are still insufficient as most of such countries are in the red.
And that's after significantly higher rates of income tax and social contributions too.

I know Europeans say they like their free healthcare and social services, but the cost seems to be about 20% extra tax on the average income. That seems unreasonably high to me, even compared to the US system.
The reports go back to 2013: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/report-pdf.html
Counterpoint: "fuck nuance".

https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf

"I do claim that the more we tend to value nuance as such—that is, as a virtue to be cultivated, or as the first thing to look for when assessing arguments—the more we will tend to slide toward one or more of three nuance traps. First is the ever more detailed, merely empirical description of the world. This is the nuance of the fine-grain. It is a rejection of theory masquerading as increased accuracy...."
Japanese economy is a mystery to me.

I think the state tried just every possible thing to reverse currency trends and ease fiscal restraints, but just all failed including an enormous quantitative easing (money printing basically)
Japan is the country with the biggest government deficit in the world, which is now at 253% of their GDP and increasing. I don't know exactly how the government proposes to even start reducing this (much less bring it towards 0%) without raising taxes.
Of course it is theft since it is taking away from you the outcome of your labor with the usage of force. If you go by that logic then you might as well abolish private property for the common good.
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From what I've been able to gather, on average you exercise about a third as hard. If it makes you bike three times more often, it's worth it. It also means you will be bothered significantly less by wind or other variability in travel time (maybe you are tired that day, for example).
This was my first thought as well. Although that adaptation wouldn't be much of an advantage anymore once the organism got back down here. Or would it...
This is my new phone wallpaper image
> The economics of it are pretty straightforward—customers simply don't value most content at what it costs to produce it.

Well, but right now consumers don't even have the option of paying for single pieces of content as their only option usually is to buy the whole subscription to NY Times, etc. (The situation is a little like in the music industry where people had to buy a whole album to be able to listen to the 2-4 really good songs on it.)
If it was easier for people to pay/tip for individual pieces of content, good content could amass a significant number of micro donations which in aggregate might become enough to cover the costs incurred in the creation of the content piece.
South Sudan gets its first ever broadband network
Is Stardock still a thing?
COBOL is a big example of this. It's still ubiquitous in many industries where reliability is near the top of priorities. And I imagine in 50 years we'll still very likely still have many critical systems operating on COBOL. I wonder how many will be running 'The Next Big Thing' language/api then...?
Huggles. I can understand how you feel.

> battled with the knowledge that life has no intrinsic meaning

Yes, it doesn't. But we can choose our own adventure, create our own meaning. I organize a summer camp for ~50 people. Is there any objective value to it? No - we'll all die and no one will remember. But I derive plenty of subjective value, as do the other participants. Is it worth it to do this? Objectively, no. For me subjectively, yes.

Have you read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl?
>Since a cause cannot have an effect in the past, all causes have effects in the future, be it one nanosecond in the future or one thousand years in the future.

Off-topic, but you might enjoy reading about the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment [1].

According to Wikipedia: "While delayed-choice experiments have confirmed the seeming ability of measurements made on photons in the present to alter events occurring in the past, this requires a non-standard view of quantum mechanics.", but it's still a mind-bending result.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_erase...
I don't understand the problem here.

How does the facial recognition system work? I'm thinking that biometric passports contain the necessary data and that the airline has already got then by scanning the passport at some point so that it quick and easy to use facial recognition at boarding time.

If so, it's pointless to request to opt out while boarding, really.

In any case, there is no anonymity in air travel (this is really more about anonymity than privacy). You are identified and tracked from the moment you buy your ticket until you leave the airport.

Facial recognition is a new technology that people need to adapt and be confident with. It will take some time then no-one will pay attention anymore.
It's nice that it only takes a line to definitively prove that taxation equals communism!
I get turning to God for meaning, but why Islam in particular? Did you try reading other holy books?
Came here to post that link! Amazingly, WP for DOS still receives love from various users!

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/#reason

WordPerfect for DOS, in the opinion of many knowledgeable users, is still the greatest program ever written. Some of its features have not been matched even by the latest Windows software, and its interface remains unequaled for efficiency and elegance. Its support for multiple font formats has not been equaled by any other program or operating system, and its support for multiple alphabets, languages, and symbol sets has only been equaled by twenty-first-century versions of Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS.
Peripherally related. I needed a new passport, and applied online for one. The online application kept rejecting my photo which I had taken by a pharmacy specifically approved for taking passport photos. It said that my eyes were too shaded or had too much shadow. I tried everything with levels and contrast.
I gave up and started messing with the application software. I cut the eyes out a different photo in the Mac Preview.app application. I lined up the eyes and thought they looked pretty good, then uploaded the photo.
The application doesn't give a pass/fail, it just submits and its off.
I have traveled quite extensively on this passport, including going to some countries that are pretty uptight about security. I'm sure I behave like a drug dealer going through security.
TetrisRant (1999)
I handled it logically:

If there is a meaning of life, we did not find it yet. Therefore it must be beyond our current scientific knowledge. Now, science becomes the new meaning, because it may give us the original meaning. Therefore I devote my life to science. (It is not necessary to be a scientist. Any possibility to help science counts for me.)

If there is no meaning at all, then I personally do not understand why people would continue struggle in life. I just cannot accept such situation. I would rather search for the meaning.
As an additional thing, even redundant security checks will be plenty fast as long data checked is mostly unchanging and colocated with code. (E.g. struct task in Linux)

Write syscall being JIT is not even close to what can be achieved when you have to copy data on average 5 times until it reaches a driver. Mailbox style IPC everywhere would help with that immensely, but devices tend to skip DMA and require sleeps or slow port writes to do anything due to hardware issues.
Why would the customs not collect sales tax on gifts? They certainly do in the EU.
Analyzing MobileHunter
That's disgusting and I liek lots.

Every time this subject comes up I get farther down on the opinion that not moving forward from file formats based on what a Model 33 Teletype was capable dealing with is a mistake that keeps on giving.
requiring opting out is a huge barrier as shown in behavioural economics and definitely makes it "not easy" especially if no one else is seen to be doing it
PyTorch Model Serving
1. I don’t think that there is a D1 on the scale.

2. A scale for cartoons would be interesting. The top level would probably require something like awareness of current events, knowledge of one or more complex/academic theoretical concepts, and deep cultural embeddedness and awareness of cultural trends.
I cannot edit my comment for some reason, sorry for the typos. About my colleague’s hack don’t get too excited, this is ancient history but it was at the center of a public debate at the time. Some 3rd parties had an ask, the company said it was difficult, this was very true but someone inside came up with a very clever hack that satisfied all parties, the issue was settled and everybody lived happily ever after. It’s just that the nature of the hack relied on very specific implementation details and it’s highly improbably that another implementation would need a hack to begin with, let alone the same hack. It’s one of the many coincidences that I believe will be hard to explain, shall someone really ask.
I like the Adams Rule of Slow Moving Disasters: whenever humanity can see a slow-moving disaster coming, we find a way to avoid it. I don't doubt that we will continue to emit CO2 for a while, and the temperature will keep climbing, but when things get unbearable, people will act swiftly.

I expect that the hotter earth becomes, and the more we try to replace fossil fuels, the more electricity is needed. A hotter earth means air conditioning almost everywhere, huge desalination plants to provide water and so on. So the most important thing in the world is to create energy cheaply without emissions. I guess that there will be a much higher focus on nuclear fusion research to have a clean source for those energy needs, and in the meantime conventional nuclear plants will be used.

If we reach a point where temperatures become too bad, geo-engineering will also be a huge topic.
By your logic every tax is theft, which is obviously ridiculous.
Private property isn't as easily shareable as money, your comparison doesn't make sense. The State can't take 20% of my house and "redistribute" it.

If, however, you're saying that there is enough production of, say, cars, for everyone so that we can all have one exactly when we need, I'd see no problem having it shared with others in a way I can't decide (because I know I'm going to be able to have one when I need it). But that's probably because I think there are too many cars already.
There's also Douane: https://douaneapp.com/
> To be honest using non monospace font when coding should be be fireable offense.

Unless I'm coding with a wordprocessor that embeds my font choices and forces them on others, why should anyone else care, much less have cause to punish?

> I mean good luck with diffing that.

“Diffing” and “coding” are different code-related activity and aren't constrained to use the same font, so why would my choice of coding font have any effect on diffing?
> even with such high taxes are still insufficient as most of such countries are in the red

This seems self-contradictory, how are the taxes insufficient if only most of such countries are in the red?
Nasty article
Slight mistake that I can’t edit — New Yorker articles can range from C1-C2... maybe even down to B2 at times.

Regardless, all of the main points still hold.
Agreed. What is the privacy concern of allowing face recognition if you are letting them scan your passport?
Of course - the point this person was making is that this is substantially false in the way they described.
Using that logic, we should also protest book stores who don't sell banned publications.
The advantage of a welfare state to me, personally, is predictability. If I were to get into an accident, break some bones and not be able to work for a few months, I would not be charge a large hospital bill. Nor would I lose my salary.

You can argue it's sort of an insurance scheme that everyone is forced to be part of. But compared to private health insurances, it's actually very cheap, because _everyone_ is chipping in. So even with much higher tax rates, people of a certain means (say middle class), have a comparable higher disposable income, because our expenses are predictable.

(Note that there still exist unforeseen expenses, but they never reach the levels of some hospital bills in the US seen reported.)
Being pitied is not a nice thing. Show Empathy to all humans. Pitying someone does not make you a better person.
Yup. I guess spending time with family and friends makes it better. At least it does for me. We adopted a dog with my girlfriend this January and I'd say that just spending time with him alleviates it. I'd imagine having kids will have a similar effect (probably 100x stronger).

In the newest Indie Hackers podcast [1], founder Aline Learner mentioned that starting a business helps with existential crises because you're so busy worrying about everything else. I'm looking forward to finding out if this holds true to myself in September.

[1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/099-aline-lerner-of-int...
yeah, you cannot
The default ratio of inodes is configured in /etc/mke2fs.conf. You should either change that, override it with the -i argument when you create the filesystem.

My desktop's / filesystem is around 238,000,000,000 bytes, and with the default ratio of one inode per 16384 bytes, I have around 14,500,000 inodes.

Note that with a default blocksize of 4096, you're limited to 4× as many inodes as you have at present, so if you're seeing this weekly I recommend monitoring the number of remaining inodes (df -i), or changing the app to store sessions in a database.
Radiotrophic fungi are growing inside Chernobyl nuclear power plant and use radiation as alternative source of energy for a process similar to photosynthesis. REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
Alex Ionescu - Reversing Without Reversing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9ExVc0G10
> Scala is the only language that comes to mind with [the issue of needlessly reinvented fundamentals]

C/C++ is another example. There are a plethora of string types mostly tied to which base set of libraries you're using. If you're using the C++ stdlib, you have std::string. But if you're using Qt, you're using QByteArray and QString instead. And probably similar for GLib/GTK.

(Does std::string even have any encoding support yet? When I last used it, it was just a string of bytes without any encoding awareness.)
You might also like visiting the ZeitHaus in Wolfsburg, Germany. It's a museum packed with old cars.
Most certainly!

And also celebrate those who do, even if it is prohibited.
It's atrocious, but what can you do besides
[...] trying to persuade Trump et al. [...]
all of these have been already said.

American politics would look very different if people who were for/against abortion, or for/against gun control, or for/against tax cuts were so quick to abandon their positions when they suffered a setback.
High VAT is probably the only EU-wide taxation scheme that works well. All other taxes can be avoided in a way or another, thanks to the lack of tax harmonization. Corporate tax itself is subject to systematic avoidance from big companies thanks to countries like Ireland, Netherlands and Luxembourg. That is crazy.
PSP was one of the few products that made Windows productive. It loaded quickly, worked smoothly, and the UI was elegant in a way that the PS UI still isn't.

Many things about PS still irritate users in a "That's just wrong, stupid, and annoyingly poorly thought out, and why do you keep adding pointless new features instead of fixing this?" kind of a way. [1]

PSP didn't do as much, but a lot of what it did do was more transparent and effortless.

When Corel bought it, they turned it into PSP Pro X Plus Special Edition Platinum Millennium Marketing Bullshit Edition. All kinds of cruft appeared, some of it was entertaining, very little of it was useful, none of it was elegant or beautiful.

[1] PSP had a "Create new from clipboard" option which created a new image from the clipboard with a single click. Boom. Done. In PS you have to select a new placeholder from a list of all other possible sizes, possibly after some scrolling and selecting, and then manually paste the image into the document. And now you have an image layer and a background layer, which is often not what you want.
It would if its adaptations would manage to convert nuclear energy into usable energy
Firefox about:protections WIP mockup of trackers blocked for you
Possibly intentional since this was on the front page a little while ago https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/
nice try, robot
Why not give up on the search of meaning? "What is the meaning" is an ill posed question, because it assumes there is one or that there should be one. I mean think about it - what's the meaning of a life of a wolf. Or a frog. Or a computer program. Or a modern naked ape. They all just are, until they are not.
Amsterdam has taken step to curb the excessive growth of tourist shops in the city center. Tourism is fine, but the city has to remain livable for the locals. They don't want to turn into a tourist amusement park, which I guess Venice has already become.
It gets harder when you want to do link time optimization. Without it, the approach is inferior to ahead of time optimization with some programmer input... (Degeneralization and devirtualization rather than specialization.)
A lot of economists consider sales tax to be the best way to tax. The reason is it doesn't hinder savings and investments
Obok can grab the books straight from your Kobo using the Calibre plugin. No need for the desktop software.
Semantic question but doesnt reverse engineered already means you have no access to source code?
>This seems to completely stump the algorithm, even when your eyes are plainly visible

That's a false positive. This uses quite simple algos, decisition trees, which have more false outcomes (both positive and negative) on this pupil detection task that state of the art models, which would be deep convolutional networks. The decision trees are much less computationally expensive though - running a modern deep CNN at 30 fps needs a dedicated GPU. The decision trees will run just fine on a CPU in a browser!
New technologies vs. old ones. What stack to choose for your project?
Nier: Automata has made me think about the limits of games and how much untapped potential there still is when it comes to interplay of game mechanics and narrative.

The game also explores various philosophical topics without shoving (political) opinions down your throat better than any recently released (western) game I've come across.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxNhJ8fjFk
Online coding resources and books you should know
Beautiful! But this could run as an invisible background job alongside the ad blocker.
A Song of Stack Overflow
A few stories down today sis Chinese boarder guards installing presumably surveillance apps on android phones but not on Apple

The trade offs are far from simplistic
Sales taxes are regressive - people who don't have a lot of money have to spend more of it to stay alive, and therefore pay more sales tax :/ I'd rather have a higher income tax and no sales tax. Income taxes are much more visible, but don't suffer from penalizing people who can't save.
I didn't see any Peugots?
Pretty ridiculous the FBI refers to Apple Inc as Apple Computer in 2017, it seems, which would be many years after legal renaming.
You can use Mag Oil as another way to get Mg into the body. Its basically Magnesium Sulphate aka Epsom Salts mixed with water and rubbed on the skin. If its really concentrated it will sting the skin, but dilute to reduce the stinging effect. Alternatively soak in a bath with Magnesium Sulphate.
https://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/...

Any sulphate can be absorbed through the skin, so soaking in copper sulphate will get more copper into the body which is useful for all types of Collagen. Copper will also make smokers feel like they are smoking their very first cigarette, ie they will feel nauseous if they smoke within 30mins of taking a copper supplement. I wouldnt advise applying copper sulphate directly onto the skin though as it will debride the skin and is now only used by the US Military for cleaning extreme wounds.

Magnesium irritates the lower bowel hence the diarrhea, so if taken orally, its better to take little and often through the day rather than one big supplement for a day, and always take after eating because tablets breakdown in the gut and get into the blood stream quickly.

Magnesium is also used to make ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) which helps provide cellular energy so being superfit, her demands for Mg will be higher than a sedate person.
Taking Potassium also helps the cells take up glucose, amino acids and other nutrients including magnesium whilst sodium makes the cells take up just water, so in a way sodium starves cells at a cellular level, which could help contribute to a variety of problems including anxiety. To get your daily potassium intake of 4.7grams, you would need to eat 11 large banana's a day. One sign you are deficient in Potassium is you crave sugary foods after eating, but if you supplement around >2g with potassium (chloride/bicarbonate) your sugar cravings will go.
It could be that I have a loving family (including a cat I've raised since she was a kitten), I'm quite social and have lots of hobbies. Don't get me wrong, there's days when everything falls apart, but usually I see no purpose in being depressed. I only got one chance to live this day and I don't want to waste that time by being sad because life is meaningless.
Not being able to sell your application, because another company doesn't like it, is giving up an essential liberty.
I'm always sad when I'm the only one opting for a patdown at the airport after Defcon.