skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advantage is clarity in the calling function.

With type safety checks, you're mostly eliminating a class of problem by ensuring coders don't call the function with some argumetn of a type they didn't mean to.

But suppose I have a method that takes 5 different strings and performs some computation on them - the type safety check doesn't help me there.

In functions that take multiple arguments of the same type, it can be easy to be mistaken about the intended order of parameters, for example passing the 5 strings (name, address, level, phonenumber, cellphonenumber instead of in the order the function expects (name, address, phonenumber, cellphonenumber, level).

Named parameters -if using meaningful names- make it clear in the calling function the semantics of which parameter has which meaning, so the above mistake gets caught at compile time instead of (worst case) not at all.

Of course, in functions with arguments of heterogenous types they're probably overkill.
> Ottawa's LRT isn't really LRT as most people think about it.

I don't think you can generalize like that - Canada (where both the Author and I live) has 4-5 LRT systems, with several more under construction [1]. The light rail in Calgary is the longest, it is not grade separated (it has intersections inside and outside the downtown area). I feel that it also works pretty well. Toronto has the St Clair streetcar and is building the Eglinton LRT, which is/will be partially separated, I also feel they are/will be an integral part of the network. The full separation of Ottawa's system is a big advantage, to be sure, but it is only possible because it is upgrading from a BRT which was also almost fully grade separated (otherwise, land acquisition costs would have been dramatically higher).

The grade separation of the O-train is incidental to the point I was making - an LRT can make a great core of a transit network, using frequent train service instead of route duplication in Bus/BRT service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail_in_Canada
I wonder if this really lowered all the scores, because the test UI may have been very non-standard/outdated/etc.

...or, as may as likely be the case, very "modern". I'm confident to say that I'm far in the "advanced user" category, also having been a developer for a few decades, and yet I still get perplexed often by UIs with lots of hidden functionality and confusing hieroglyphics instead of descriptive text.
UN Report: Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record
Accredited investor effectively means you can invest directly into a company as an angel investor. To legally do this you need a certain level of assets or income. As a result it locks a lot of people out of the high risk/high reward investment market. Kickstarter et all try and get around this, but early donations in Kickstarters like the Oculus DK1 don't get paid when the company gets bought by Facebook for a billion dollars. Accredited investors can invest $1000 and then get money back out of the deal if/when the company is bought
I didn't know some of these terms had slightly different (but overlapping) meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_rail_terminology
Very interesting! Thanks for the info and indeed - I can sort of see why you have the viewpoints that you do, so thank you for sharing :)
After $5B in Losses, China’s Tesla Battles for Survival
Before Civilization by Sid Meier as well.
New Antenna Uses Saltwater and Plastic to Steer Radio Beams
The article makes more sense to me when I read it as an argument against phase 3 of Ottawa's LRT, not against phase 1 or 2.
I don’t have a source, but it’s common knowledge in the Go community. Not sure how GCC works, but it definitely produces slower binaries than gc (the standard Go compiler). There are probably some benchmarks where this is not the case, but the general rule is that gcc is slower. gc purposefully doesn’t optimize as aggressively in order to keep compile times low.

Personally I would love for a —release mode that had longer compile times in exchange for C-like performance, but I use Python by day (about 3 orders of magnitude slower than C) so I’d be happy to have speeds that were half as fast C. :)
Then my guilt for being rude would disrupt my concentration terribly.
Reminds me of "Profession", a great short story by Isaac Asimov:

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
> but yes most people are stupid

Which is why democracy is so terrifying sometimes
No, "quantum supremacy" is a technical term that has not been achieved before, and has not been claimed to be achieved by anyone serious. You may be misremembering previous claims called something different.
They accidentally revealed it without first doing peer reviews on it. Quantum computers are going to be expensive and faster than Bitwize computers.
I'm not sure you want to tell the scheduler what to do. Probably you just want a real-time scheduler that you can depend on for real-time work.

One approach is to use a real-time kernel underneath Linux. Bela does this with the Xenomai kernel:

https://github.com/BelaPlatform/Bela/wiki/What-is-Bela%3F
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> As to my project, it’s built on 100% democratic open source tech. Pretty lame that I have to tell you this despite having linked to the website earlier.

What does that even mean - "100% democratic open source tech"? Does that mean you built your business on other people and organization's contributions to OSS and that's somehow democratic? Because the open source bits you have out there (Bookiza) seem to be generally geared towards tooling for your for-profit publishing company (Bubblin). To me it seems kind of like what Sony does, for lack of a better analogy.
See What Soldiers Around the World Eat When in the Field (2016)
The articles of confederation where debated between July 1776 and November 1777 but not ratified by all the states until March 1, 1781.
This. People are stupidly allergic to splitting municipalities but the fact of the matter is that the poorer municipalities in many cases would be better served spending their tax dollars on themselves rather than throwing it into some bigger pot and mostly getting told by the richer portion of the city exactly where/how it gets spent.
It's ironic to me because one scandal in Calgary, as I remember it, was extending the LRT to an otherwise rich, secluded area. The residents objected on the grounds they'd be overrun with hooligans.
China built an alternative to SWIFT (China International Payments System, CIPS). Russia joined that network.

I think the system has no other purpose but to circumvent sanctions.
See these:

[0] https://item.m.jd.com/product/100000118023.html

[1] https://www.ifanr.com/1096368
There are 2 points that all these stories miss. Recycled plastic is more expensive and less sturdy than new plastic. Also, there are limits to how many times plastic gets recycled. Example: there are companies that make cloth from recycled bottles but it's often mixed with other fibers which makes the cloth unrecyclable.

Plastic recycling just does not happen. Eventually, all of it is burnt or dumped.
Adobe Provides facial recognition Software for DHS and ICE
This is Rail Transport Map from 2 cities I have experienced
Singapore (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Si...)

Delhi (https://lunchtigestbi.cf/photo/bab1f2ab4a3df96bd85c5eae30921...)

Both of them work due to different reasons. Singapore, it goes hand-in-hand with urban planning (and buses and other transport initiatives) and Delhi as Roads infra was cracking and with people living in city and working in sub-urbs taking train makes more sense than spend 2-3 hours in commute.
Pretty sure the tay bot stuff was 4chan.
I enjoyed "Parenting without Power Struggles" and "All Joy and No Fun". The former nails how to have a real relationship with your child, the latter talks about the issues with modern parenting.
interesting. I have manzanitas all over my property up here in Anza, CA. Their bark isn't smooth though. It's rough and it peels off in thin papery strips everywhere.
> I don't care if it fits your narrow definition of science.

1. That's not my definition of science--it's the definition of science.

2. If your argument is not based on science, what is it based on?

> If a planet destroying meteor is hurtling towards earth, is that reproducible or falsifiable?

That scenario would be a matter of Newtonian physics, which any astronomer could run the numbers for. Newtonian physics is indeed reproducible and falsifiable, as demonstrated by the many objects launched into the solar system, as well as the astronomical observations and predictions over the centuries.

It's disingenuous to compare climate change alarmist claims based on primitive, already-falsified computer models to simple, proven Newtonian physics.

> Should we do nothing until you personally are convinced that it has been scientifically proven that it will destroy the planet.

Should we do what you demand when you demand it because you personally are convinced that the planet is going to be destroyed? (N.B. Earth will certainly be destroyed, either when impacted by a large celestial body or when the sun expands. Earth would not be destroyed by a minor GATA increase.)

> If we convert our entire energy and transportation sectors to renewable energy and climate change turns out to be a hoax, we still get cleaner cities, cleaner air and a cleaner environment.

If it might be a hoax, shouldn't we consider why such a hoax would be perpetrated? Might there be ulterior motives? What would be the implications of those motives?

> That is a perfectly acceptable consolation prize considering the potential risks.

Your analysis presented here is completely one-sided. It does not mention any drawbacks or side-effects. It is not impartial, it is not fair, and it is not scientific. It is not a reasonable analysis to act upon, especially considering the risks, i.e. decimating the economies and lives of billions of people in poor and developing nations.
The only weird thing is how antiquated their computer systems are, it's amazing they are so profitable with 70's era technology running the business.

That's what I always think whenever I'm in a Starbucks and see the drive-through orders appearing on an IBM PC-era 80x25 text display. But hey, if it works, and if it's reliable, and if it doesn't have to talk to too many other systems, why not?
Probing at options sounds dangerous. There is no guarantee at all that attempted invocations won't change state.
i don't particularly like what breathing oxygen does to my body over the long term but i still do that. granted, out of necessity.

anyway i agree with the point you're making, with one caveat: id say it's perfectly okay to do cocaine responsibly. it's just really difficult to do so evidently! if one were to only occasionally do it then i would think that the overall negative impact of it would be significantly less than what would happen if one were to do it consistently for a long period of time. granted my experience is with methamphetamine, which is, uh... an entirely different beast! but either way.

if someone likes crystals, it's ok to like them and to collect them, even to believe some woo things about them. but it's a problem when they start trying to convince everyone else that their experience is absolute and not just anecdotal. the same concept in a roundabout way goes for cocaine: if you like it, by all means, enjoy it! just be responsible with it. personally i don't like cocaine at all, just the way that it smells /s
Half of all people are below average...
I don't think this is a new feature of humanity. Consider the people you know who don't care to learn about, or pay attention to: Food (cooking, sourcing ingredients), cars, health care (e.g. what drugs do what and how; what makes your body+mind feel good or bad in the long term), electrical wiring, plumbing, "nature", etc. Computer technology just seems like another aspect of the world which many people are happy to ignore. Also... consider the number of professional computer programmers you know who don't read the readme+API dox but jump straight to stack overflow
I don't know what you're trying to say. PostgreSQL makes no distinction between primary and secondary indexes. MySQL, which only knows clustered indexes (see "Unreasonable Defaults" [1]) has to make such a distinction, so that when you use a secondary index it also has to go through the primary index in addition to the secondary index. Also

[1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-01/unreasonable-def...
We make a point to have backup accounts with some small but non-trivial amount of money in them for cases like this. Normally when we run into it is if our debit card for our main bank gets compromised.
This problem gets written about every other month in the media. While revealing the details of my observations and experiences might be interesting, it's definitely not whistleblower material.
This is pretty interesting.

> Tacit knowledge is knowledge that can’t properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction, like the ability to create great art or assess a startup. This tacit knowledge is a form of intellectual dark matter, pervading society in a million ways, some of them trivial, some of them vital.

> YouTube reports that searches in the “how-to” category has grown 70% year-on-year.

Buries a lede:

> What if the scientific literature shifted its balance much more towards visual documentation?

> JoVE, a peer-reviewed video journal, is the only effort of this kind I’m aware of. They record and make available online tacit knowledge from universities and laboratories across the world. They have been collecting such material since December 2006, making it almost as old as YouTube.

https://www.jove.com/journal
Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
They take an oath to do no harm and the system they are supporting harms people. And they get a lot of money to do so.

I just disagree with you.
I sometimes go to "kaiten sushi" (sushi comes around on a conveyor belt and you can pick what you like) with my mother in law. There is an order system where you can use a touch panel to order something specific if you want it. Granted my mother in law is 86 and hasn't really used computers before, but it always amazes me that she can't figure out "buttons" on the screen. For her, they are just text with coloured backgrounds She tries reading the text, but it just doesn't make sense to her because it is essentially splatted randomly around the screen. Eventually she realised that text with a red background is a button and so now she thinks that all buttons are red! She has not been able to jump to the idea that these rectangular areas of the screen with the same background colour are buttons. I've tried explaining in the past, but she's completely uninterested and so never listens to me. In the end, watching her struggle is so interesting that I've stopped trying to help her. We take a lot of things for granted when we think about UX.
Pretty common in this industry. I worked at a few major companies( check article below). Not only was racism widespread, you were looked badly at for not helping your race.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2019/01/28/what-mig...

It's actually very complicated, because there were a lot of backroom deals between the two major races to make it not look like racism.
Omaha represent!
I get that its cool that it’s quantum and that the circuits are programmable, sure. My point was that the comparison to the classical computer makes little sense.
I get what you're saying man.

It wouldn't be ok to refer to a woman as a piece of meat at say a corporate board meeting.

However, if you're at a savage orgy and everyone is naked and fucking it is hardly a faux pas to see a woman as just a piece of meat, hell it may even be desirable by the other party.
Wow, my girlfriend's name is Shiori.
that Is also true about civil wars and all the admired figures from any civil wars did it.

Isn’t the us revolution a form of civil war, presumably some of the soldiers on both sides where not British specially at the beginning
Ah. Good old MIT. I remember the days when this sort of thing was only at the Media Lab.
Both of these points increase the power of the insiders over the power of all shareholders. It's very anti capitalistic, and I stand by calling these rules dirty.

Company is not supposed to control its share price. Company is supposed to be subjected to its shareholders.
You should read their privacy docs for the tracking tiles and how Find My works for stolen / locked iPhones.
> Explore marxism / socialism

Why? Are you such a fool to think this would actually work? Forcing people to provide value NEVER works and it NEVER will. Give up and come up with an alternative solution
@dang

The Fortune article at least contains a bit more detail from the supposed paper.

https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-suprema...
This reminds me of an oft referenced quote:

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.[0]

What may not be immediately obvious from the wisdom bespoken by Arthur C. Clarke is that given enough technology, all of us will eventually find a point where we believe magic truly exists.

0 - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_c_clarke_101182
The articles of confederation where still being debated through 1776 and not ratified until 1781. In 1776 the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government, but it’s authority was unclear and things where very add-hock.

Even in 1781 congress had zero power of taxation, regulation of foreign trade, or interstate commerce which is a rather strong limitation on being an actual country.
Then what measure would you propose? I'd definitely say these companies are an outlier in the amount of influence they wield.*

* Admittedly would swap Netflix with Microsoft in the FAANG acronym.
no.. half of people are below the median.. I know it's a bit pedantic but in a thread making fun of stupid people lol
The word is about, there's something evolving,

whatever may come, the world keeps revolving...

They say the next big thing is here,

that the revolution's near,

But to me it seems quite clear

thats it's all just a little bit of history repeating.

- The Propellerheads, History Repeating
I recently passed the threshold for being an accredited investor. Personally, my next steps are to get access to invest in IPOs, I don't plan to invest in startups much unless someone comes at me with a genuinely good idea and doesn't need much money. Still, I'd rather just buy stocks.
It's time to rejoice then. We have deflation and stagnating wages at the same time.
I probably agree with the mods but how is that the article author's fault? Downvote the comments.
Judge Rachel Rancilio is one stupid fat fuck of a judge. Probably needs to get that stick out of his ass unless he prefers it...he prefers it.
I'm sure they all gave up because of politics, too, and not because systemd gets way more right than it gets wrong despite a vocal minority of noncontributory angst.
"The world is full of much safer places where there are no weather extremes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters."

Examples please? I may want to move to one of these places.
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Should have italicized advanced (or put it in quotes)
>There are 42 million millionaires or about 0.55% of the world population.

Do you have a source for this statistic? Do you know if that excludes residences?
They actually are accessible as a file interface:

ls /sys/class/net

You can't read and write packets via the interface, but there are configuration knobs and statistics you can access.

I think it's quite messy and inconsistent that some network interface attributes are only in sysfs, and others are only accessible via AF_NETLINK (usually via the "ip" tool). But it's there.
The money equivalent of when the super smart AI spam filter sends email from your business clients to /dev/null ?
Some maintainers thought it could bring up painful memories or seem like it was mocking the reader's beliefs. That came up after Stallman insisted on putting it back in, though. The original consensus was just that it was badly written and out of place.
Slightly OOT

https://www.theserverside.com/opinion/Microsoft-vs-IBM-A-maj...

IBM is pushing java away while Microsoft is welcoming its community with open arm. Not sure what is Microsoft planning for it though.
> when the economy turns

What if the economy never turns?
I like the swimming pool idea.
Thanks for posting this document. I love the detailed description of the experimental setup. Waiting on bated breath for Scott Aaronson to post about this on his blog so I can know how excited to be.

(Not enough of a Quantum Information Theorist to reliably seperate hype from substance in such a complex field.)
I live in a city with light rail [1], it goes to several of the poorer areas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Metrolink
The Linux network stack has been the bane of my existence trying to squeeze more performance out of KeyDB. I really hope it gets this kind of love in the future.

On Linux there’s a spinlock in do soft_irq that blocks even in non-blocking IO.
> Once our climate reaches a new equilibrium, humanity will adjust and everything will probably be OK.

That really depends on what your definition of "OK" is, I suppose.
The ones that don't use systemd-logind can be safely ignored because they aren't modern, or compatible with the modern Linux ecosystem.
Do you mind explaining your routine of 5 minutes every other day? Is this recommended from a study?
"The value of the first bitcoin transactions were negotiated by individuals on the bitcoin forum with one notable transaction of 10,000 BTC used to indirectly purchase two pizzas delivered by Papa John's."

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

EDIT: 10,000 BTC in USD is currently $100,375,000
A Wasteful Weapon for America’s Forever Wars
Ha! It is, but “median” just doesn’t pack the same snarky punch.