skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ctrlaltdyaln says>"like Asian Carp..."

Mmmmm! Good eating:

"Eat The Enemy: The Delicious Solution To Menacing Asian Carp"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eat-the-enemy-asian-carp_n_63...
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
No you won't. Only a single dock has ever bricked the Switch, and the vendor of that dock (Nyko) replaced switches that were bricked.

There is no shortage of people who spout off about old news as if it is still current who say that there are still docks that brick a Switch, and I've tried them all, trying to prove them right, and all I get is proof that they're wrong.

I've tried hundreds of chargers and probably a dozen docks on my three Switches, and all three of them are still working just fine.
If we're going to be --pedantic, shouldn't the author specify the exact standard of the C language under test? A lot of companies have varying implementations of C and perhaps some do specify some of the behavior at hand here.
Morphological Word Embeddings
> I always say nothing is going on during wave function collapse.

I don't see how that could possibly be true. In the double slit experiment collapsing the wave by observing which slit the light passed through alters the outcome. Anything that alters observable reality is by definition not "nothing".

In general QM defines an observable value as a operator, meaning in the process or observing the value you operate on (ie change) the thing you are observing. Again, that could hardly be described as "nothing".
There's a recent argument that younger people have the better right to a vote and are more in touch with the world.

I was wondering whether that newfound appreciation for younger voters extends also to cases where they vote in way that is probably not supported by whomever makes that argument - I hear a lot of that from British 'Remain' people, but had French young voters got their way, it would not have mattered however the British voted: there wouldn't have been much of an EU to remain in.

To reply directly to your point: people with more to lose don't get more voting rights than people with with less to lose. Had that been the case, the biggest difference would not be age-based - it would be giving wealthy people the vote while denying it to the poor. I thought that argument was settled.

Also, voters are not individualistic atoms, but have people they care about. It can be argued younger people face less consequences because they have less people to protect.
From Python Script to Maintainable Package – Podcast
Author here: the syntax is inspired by all three of Haskell/PureScript/Elm
One of the best practical Clojure books in my opinion is this one: https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-referenc.... IMO it's a second "must read" book after "Joy of Clojure 2nd ed."
This episode is a story about packaging, and flit, tox, pytest, and coverage.
And an alternate solution to "using the src".

Python makes it easy to build simple tools for all kinds of tasks.
And it's great to be able to share small projects with others on your team, in your company, or with the world.

When you want to take a script from "just a script" to maintainable package, there are a few steps, but none of it's hard.

Also, the structure of the code layout changes to help with the growth and support.

Instead of just talking about this from memory, I thought it'd be fun to create a new project and walk through the steps, and report back in a kind of time lapse episode. It should be fun.

Here are the steps we walk through:

0.1 Initial script and tests

0.2 build wheel with flit

0.3 build and test with tox

0.4 move source module into a package directory

0.5 move tests into tests directory
This is great.

I'd add for Brazil, a great alternative to the libraries are SESCs. SESCs are cultural centers, funded by a payroll tax proposed by big business in the 50s when they were afraid of Communist sympathies in population. The result are extremely well funded community centers with big arts budgets for free exhibitions, exercise facilities, primary care clinics, libraries, cafeterias with affordable food and lots of space for people to lounge around. In many neighborhoods, they're the epicenter of social life. They've been a terrific way to break out of the downtown Sao Paulo bubble.
Pandas grouping and slicing is, imo, significantly worse than R. And I so despise those multiindexes.
The Story of the Mexican Fisherman

https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...
That is incorrect. I don't know of any mainstream Python implementation that has ever interpreted the code directly, except perhaps in a context like evasl(). CPython has all ways compiled to byte-code first.

Actual sourced-based interpretation is _very_ slow, and pretty rare in anything that sees meaningful real world use. Ruby was, back when it was an order of magnitude slower than Python, but no other example jumps readily to mind, and Ruby went bytecode with the release of 1.9 in 2007.
And engineering. I used to think the long warranty was just because it was guaranteed to break, but having gone a decade with friends going through their entire life cycles they’re very sturdy cars. Definitely giving Honda a run for the money.
I’m in the middle of a four day weekend. I’ll probably get absolutely nothing extraordinary done in it. Despite there being plenty of things I could be doing. The 40 hour work week is tyrannical.
> compiler writers are basically taking the standard as gospel

I would be rather disappointed if they didn't, honestly.
The Mexican Fisherman
Upper body strength is in decline period and it is major indicator for life expectancy and health. Fortunately rock / gym climbing is rapidly gaining in popularity.

Sport climbing will be part of the 2020 olympics. I love it and look forward to going with a buddy of mine each weekend. Also have grip exercisers in my carry on because I travel so much.
Implementations of C≠C standards, though of course I'm sure some random obscure compiler has tried to call their C dialect a "standard" at some point.
There is a time and place for int32_t.
I agree, but I would be short on examples otherwise.
What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse
Samsung flags 56% fall in Q2 profit
No other people are there to make your life fulfilled, including your kids. And if you treat them (and yourself) that way, everyone is going to have a bad time.
The static binaries for the various interpreters and conversion utilities (i.e. `dhall`/`dhall-to-yaml`/`yaml-to-dhall`) are all roughly 10 MB each

The following languages natively bind to Dhall:

* Haskell
* Clojure
* Ruby

... and the following language bindings are in progress:

* Rust
* Go
* Python
* PureScript

In the absence of a native language binding, you can convert Dhall to YAML or JSON and read that in.
you are going to need to order straight from china though
S Korean calls for Japan boycott grow
Having lived in Copenhagen I can only attest the surge in living quality when a city adopts a no-compromise bicycle strategy. Back in car-loving Munich I feel set back a century. With city council members putting forward arguments like that bike lanes will “destroy retail businesses”. It’s frustrating.

Ps: here’s the short film the article talks about. Shows the fantastic transformation of Utrecht. https://youtu.be/Boi0XEm9-4E
I think it boils down to the trade off between convenience, cost, and safety.

I'm convinced that kids in the developed world are so safe and so likely to see adulthood that in order to move the needle on safety even the slightest, we have to dump a huge amount of time and money into it.

Okay so the infant mortality rate in Canada is at about 4 per 1000 (about 38 per 1000 in Tanzania). How do we improve that? Well let's dump an insane amount of stress and panic on parents about which way their children are facing when they sleep. That's one of thousands of examples I could come up with if pressed. We are way way way into diminishing returns here. We have so few problems that we are obsessing over error margins worth of added safety at the cost of exponential parenting efforts.

I asked my dad how they let my brothers and I wander the suburb on our own as kids. Weren't they afraid we'd be kidnapped or hit by a car or drown in the river? My dad said they never knew they were supposed to be worried. It just didn't really register as a thing. It sure as hell was a far safer place to grow up than where they did.

There's also another possible angle to consider. Imagine if I got all the parents in town together and said, "so we have concluded that a healthy childhood is one full of risk and freedom and adventure. We need everyone to take the proverbial training wheels off and let your kids be kids. However this will mean that some of your children aren't going to make it to adulthood. It's just the nature of this kind of upbringing."
I don't think they need to be precise; any reduction in the natural vibration can be detrimental to the sound.

They never get "stuck" together, however, imnsho.
Even if Trump trusts Huawei, here’s why America shouldn’t
>I’m curious to hear your thoughts on my personal data security strategy

security tools = 10
opsec = 0
Tor has a terrible user experience though. You can't just browse without bandwidth woes.
Really?? Because when my coworkers and I meet someone like this we are all amazed and respectful. No offense, but I have a hard time believing that people become the worst versions of themselves because of your private behavior. Sorry to be so curt, but I’m tired of this sort of circle jerking going on in HN as of late. what you say may be true, but this sort of commentary is rampant lately.
Is there a plan for Universal Rent Control?

I am skeptical of how this may work out in practice.

Given rates of homeownership/rent in metropolitan areas without rent control, wouldn't this result in a significant portion of renters (younger people especially) quickly having to pay more in rent?

Thats the scenario I think about, lots of people suddenly have $12k more per year to spend, why wouldn't landlords just increase rent proportionally?
I wouldn't be surprised. For example some of the military academies have excellent eecs programs, would be stupid not to recruit them. Working on military projects are pretty normal too. However I'd like to see the MSS link.
It is an unsavory set of questions that has no bearing on practical work, also implementation dependent.

The answer is: No, I do not know C or any other language for that matter. I know some implementations of various languages just enough to write sound and readable code. And as I forced to use a bit more languages than I like I rely on local/Internet search to keep my brains concentrated on accomplishing the actual task rather then effing them up trying to figure out some esoteric constructs.
Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide: How Scuttlebutt peers find and talk to each other
The structure of intel creates a culture pits teams against each other. It doesn’t foster collaboration. My guess is that middle management rebelled whenever Intel was trying to be strategic in their roadmaps/acquisitions. Imagine trying to pivot a company in such a toxic environment.
> Almost all of the things I post to HN get buried and are never seen. Have a look through my submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jordigh

> The fact that this one was seen indicates that there is an issue here.

That would have been because it was showing up under /newest. There was probably a small amount of upvotes coming from the link back from the gitlab issue.

> I didn't create the issue. I am only drawing attention to it. If the issue weren't a problem, it wouldn't even be possible to draw attention to it.

No, you opened the duplicate issue after the first one was closed (not locked) by the maintainer.
This thread is interactive with the site, so any comments could result in changes within minutes.

1) Fixed
2) I need a screenshot at the top showing how it schedules meetings for you powered by email. Its like Posterous, only for scheduling.
3) the project is going to be open source, so hopefully soon we'll have info on the founders.
Author here - I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :)

However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1 hr/day) but includes total time door to door (changing, commuting, lifting, commuting back). I enjoy this though, so aside from the mood/longevity benefits would do it anyways.
My mechanic said the cost of tire replacements is nuts on them.
Omitting the return type is perfectly conforming C89.
i didn't do the quiz, but just looking at the first question I have run across structure packing/padding issues so its not entirely useless
At our physics school we had some super flat metal blocks. Much flatter than gage blocks.
We were warned never to put them together or we'd never get them apart.

These blocks were used for measurement, but I can't remember exactly how.
However with the same logic you can pretty much prove none if the big companies in the world is independent.
Author here: commas are necessary to separate list elements in any language where function application uses whitespace (i.e. Haskell-style function application). If you're not familiar with the syntax, an expression like `f x y z` is a function `f` applied to three arguments (`x`, `y`, and `z`), analogous to `f(x, y, z)` in a more traditional language.

Nix made this mistake of using whitespace to separate list elements AND using whitespace to separate a function from its argument and it is a very common pain point for new users, because they will write something like this:

[ theFunction theFunction'sArgument ]

... thinking it will be parsed as:

[ (theFunction theFunction'sArgument) ]

... but it actually gets parsed as a list with two elements, leading to a bizarre type error.
Doctors schedules are already tight as it is and I’m not sure what benefit there is to the doctor to spend the precious extra minutes looking to see whether they might be able to save their patients some money before prescribing a drug.
>Unless your code is compiled, deployed to a rocket, and fired off the Earth never to return, the question of “what is my platform?” is meaningless in the context of writing good C.

While I feel the tone of your comparison was intended to be a bit hyberbolic, the reality is a bulk of modern C development occurs in a context similar to the one you describe. Further the thought, utterly foreign to the vast majority of software developers, that the physical machine may not be some utterly abstract and constantly mutating target which there is no hope of understanding is, imo, one of the great dying arts of software engineering - a death perpetuated by the same sort of folks who think CS education should be carried on in Java.

I contend that, these days, most C is written to target a particular compiler, physical machine, and/or device.
Of course it has a bearing on practical work, and that it’s implementation-dependent is the whole point. These are mistaken assumptions people make in the real world.
Factorio is also the only game on Steam that i know of, that has thousands of reviews and its rating is"Overwhelmingly Positive". It just might be the highest rated game on Steam and it hasn't even left Early Access.
Depends entirely on the content of your commute, no? 70min in hectic traffic navigating poorly designed freeway interchanges is going to be way more exhausting than a cruise in the country with some good music.
It's only dystopian if we end up in an actual dystopia. Right now this is inconveniencing people.

There is a totally valid question of whether we want surveillance at this level, and whether it is giving too much power to the government, which may not always use it for valid or good reasons. I don't support at all the use of mass surveillance because it's too easy to abuse, but in a world where we carry a location beacon with us everywhere we go, I don't know if we lose much if there are cameras in public places?
To me, on the back-end, GraphQL means replacing controllers with query (GET) and mutation (POST/PUT/DELETE) resolvers, with very similar concerns, routing takes place in the GQL schema, and everything else stays the same.
It would be more informative if you actually explained your position.
Don't we need to know the sizeof int and void* on this machine?

[edit - that seems to be the point sigh]
My former ISP forced one on me and it would constantly DOS itself and drop my connection multiple times a day. (Different model, same chipset)
I just read that the designer of the stinger was previously designing for Audi, I can see a pretty similar resemblance to the a7 in the rear.
I recently got a new MBP as a graduation gift and had the same experience with you. Everything was going great until about a month in when the space bar started randomly double pressing, sometimes putting periods mid sentence. It's in the shop now. Coming from using an already pre-owned Thinkpad Yoga for many years with a perfect keyboard, this is crazy for a product like this.
I met some wonderful people this way, sometimes you just have to be open-minded and not pessimistic. Most of my moments where I met people who changed my life were complete strangers during random circumstances.
Ask HN: Who uses SQLite database in production?
We're using SQLite database in production without any issues. However, we keep having to defend that decision. Our databases are not huge. There in the 10s of MBs in size.

The massive advantages that we see are -

1. Extremely quick backups which run twice daily, since they are just file copies.

2. Very fast data integrity resolutions as we can quickly download the database and parse it for fixing invalid data.

The only downside I see is the extremely rare DB lock error since SQLite uses file based locking. But usually that's due to bad programming than anything else.

I was wondering if others are doing the same thing.

What advantages and drawbacks do you face?
Think...

Puff pieces are a dime a dozen.
If your a coder, I've found netlify to be even better. Allows bit more functionality like forms, some server less functions etc.
The questions are a bit cute, but they’re not testing obscure corner cases of the language. It’s not like asking if you have the trigraphs memorized. It’s testing fundamental rules about how C works: overflow, integer promotion, order of operations, memory layout, etc.
Consumer Data Right (CDR)
I'd never heard of Boxcryptor. Does anyone else use this? I'm not sure I understand why I need to sign up for an account to use it if its entire purpose is to do client-side encryption.

Also, it's not quite the same functionality, but this also reminds me: For a long time I've used Knox (by AgileBits, the same company that makes 1Password) for encrypted disk images, but they no longer sell or maintain it. It works just fine, but I should probably find a replacement that's still maintained, at least for security updates. Anyone know a good alternative? VeraCrypt (mentioned in the article) seems like one possibility.
This got me wondering, (and I know it's probably not a physics question). If I scrape two fingers and press them together for a week. How do the skin cells know which other cells to attach to when healing? Or will I have one super finger?
You’re incorrect. The result of a comparison is guaranteed to be zero or one in C. Similarly for the exclamation-point “not” operator, and || and &&.

This isn’t a recent standardization; it’s been an explicitly specified feature of C pretty much since the very beginning of the language. See page 7 of the prehistoric https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cman.pdf
The questions are testing whether you really understand the basic rules of the language. Often times, the best way to test whether you really get the rules is to raise them in some odd context, so that you can’t just pattern match to figure out the result.
Author here - I find a lot of those mentioned personally enjoyable too, but what I was essentially trying to do was quantify my own 'must do' activities (e.g. if I don't sleep ~8hrs/night things go downhill fast, etc) regardless of whether or not I enjoy them.

From there, I view the remaining time as truly open, not requiring working, or general meat sack maintenance. Categorization can definitely go either way though. Part of the message, aside from just quantifying how limited time is, would be to find enjoyment where you can in your 'mandatory' activities too as they'll represent the bulk of your life.
what is "free time"?
I consider doing most of those things on my "free time".
When I go excercise, I have no obligation do to so, I do it on my "free time". If I had kid, I'd consider spending time with them as "free time with my kids".
I dont like this pessimistic perception of time, and it's not mine.
The only non free time I have, is the one I "owe" to my employer. And this time, I freely give it to him, and If I wasn't contractually require to do so, I'd probably do the very same thing (I teach and research at uni).
I’ve often thought about this argument. However, you have no way of knowing how long that particular case of the cold would have lasted if you hadn’t taken pills. Plus placebos are an amazing thing.
7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California
ShakeAlertLA will drop earthquake alert threshold after users say weren’t warned
This is why, decades ago, the C world moved on, and added types like int32_t and size_t, so programmers can say what they mean.
In Britain, yes

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/stop-and-frisk...
The issue is that if Greenland was valuable, Denmark wouldn't be able to hold it.
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As someone who dropped out of Haskell in University because I found it too hard to understand, surprisingly I got 6/7 on this. Quite a beautifully simple site to learn something new! Looks like it's all implemented using basic HTML?