skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
def f(a, b, /, c, d, *, e, f):

Wow: IMHO that is a very ugly syntax to define a fn with 6 parameters, although it looks to be a path dependency on previous decisions (*, and CPython ,/) and clearly there was much discussion of the need for the functionality and the compromises: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/

It amazes me to see how certain features make it into languages via community/committee (octal numbers in JavaScript - arrgh!).

One thing I find really difficult to deal with in languages is the overloading of different syntactic(edit:semantic) usages of different symbols, which itself is a result of limiting ourselves to the ASCII symbols that can be typed. I don't recall written mathematics having the issue badly (although I haven't had to write any for a long time!).
>In 10 years or so, we will have the tech to fingerprint anyone just by their writing style (some companies even claim to be able to do that already today).

...given a large enough corpus of text. I doubt that you're able to pick up much from a dozen 1 sentence replies on reddit, for instance. You could even use some sort of neural network based sentence transformer to scramble the structure without significantly altering the meaning.
Self-hosting PeerTube is trivial. So is self-hosting NextCloud (DropBox alternative). So is self-hosting PixelFed (Instagram alternative). So is self-hosting Mastodon, RocketChat, Code-Server (VSCode) etc. Rent a $5/month VPS and have 100% control over what you publish and federate with like-minded as you like. At some point those services will support 90% of all monopoly features and 99% features you care about. If you are worried about some unwanted illegal content coming in from federated users, it's trivial to get Deep Learning filters to remove 99% of unwanted content (e.g. porn) as well. You can decide the rules.
"Forward" lmao.
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I remember some ghosts on Scooby Doo trying to get the Harlem Globetrotters sleepy to win the game the next day.
> He called him asshole, and banned him. Quite astonishing outrage for a simple prodecural mistake in good faith. This was not the only such ban.

Really sad to hear that. I think the opposition to the rename, probably too late, is quite surprising giving the rename didn't happen overnight. Lizmat's proposal in the Github issue was opened for the community members for quite some time and with over 350 comments, many people shared what they thought about the rename, alternative names, etc. All of this in a respectful manner with the understanding that it was a sentimental topic for some but still acknowledging that it needed to be done regardless of the name chosen. In fact, the proposed name was Camelia but ultimately Raku ended up being the popular choice. Then, the Path to Raku document was created to describe the path for rename and this needed to be approved by several reviewers for the renaming to take place. And if that wasn't enough, Larry Wall gave the green-light to the rename.

Thus, if the rename was almost unanimous and Wall himself approved it (remember Rule 1 and Rule 2 [2]), I don't understand what's all the fuss about.

> Best is to avoid such toxic communities at all.

I don't lurk the Raku Facebook group, mainly because I don't use Facebook. If that's the type of behavior exuded by the admin(s), then I wholeheartedly agree with you about being a toxic place.

That being said, I don't think the Facebook group represents the Raku community at large lest people get the wrong idea. For instance, the folks at #perl6 (and now #raku) IRC channels [1] are the nicest, most helpful, and most amiable people you could ever find in a community. People do disagree there but they do respectfully and without inviting uncivilized discourse.

[1] These IRC channels are the fastest way of getting touch with the Raku community. There are also the subreddits /r/perl6, /r/raku, and /r/rakulang. It's still unknown if /r/perl6 will restrict submissions and redirect them to either /r/raku or /r/rakulang.

[2] Rule 1: Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave. This means he has final veto power on the core functionality.

Rule 2: Larry is allowed to change his mind about any matter at a later date, regardless of whether he previously invoked Rule 1. Got that? Larry is always right, even when he was wrong. It's rare to see either Rule exercised, but they are often alluded to.
Is perky jerky pretty much coffee + jerky?
> i think it's naive to assume that there's nothing instructive happening within core video game experiences

If you're talking about increased aggression, then I'd argue it's naive to believe the opposite. Scientific studies have shown no long-term impact on aggressive behavior from violent games.

Now, that they might teach you a thing or two about guns, and even basic military tactics in some cases, sure. But by itself, that's not really a bad thing.
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As coping mechanism, the Portland Trailblazers from the NW who travel the most miles of NBA teams, have tuned pre-game coffee routine : https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25667397/the-game-day-ca...
This app is way too simplistic to yield any benefit from state management. This reads more like an intro to redux than a comparison of building apps with vs without redux.
I mean it could be both. I could imagine that people can become conditioned to it in such a way that they are functional in cold water if they do it on a regular basis and/or were brought up with it.

But I've jumped in glacial lakes before (not on the regular) and it would become life threatening for me very quickly. It's quite scary.
Because property rights are involved.
> According to the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting, 60.9% of Lambda School students were employed 90 days after graduation, going up to 85.9% within 180 days. Graduates earn a median annual base salary of $60,000, according to that same study — although a Lambda School spokesperson puts that figure at $70,000, and notes that many graduates are in rural areas where average pay is lower.

This is one of the only paragraphs of the article with data rather than anecdotes. The article only focuses on students with negative experiences, but if this data is correct, it looks like Lambda School is objectively successful, and I bet only a small fraction of its students regret attending.
High speed internet is better and more available than ever before. Storage is also much cheaper than before youtube came along. If it could happen back then, it can happen much easier now.
If I understand the case correctly it was a plot hatched and masterminded by Jobs. No other individual holds as much charisma and economic power as he did in his prime.
Provide tools to anonymize writing, probably.
> I went the traditional CS major in undergrad route and most of what I learned in school was not applicable to my day to day work.

I did a B. Eng in Software Engineering, and I found that the most important thing I learned at school wasn't any specific library or language. All of that stuff is extremely fluid and changes year to year. It was the skill of 'learning how to learn'.

Consequently, that's my main criticism of schools that teach to a certain set of 'skills' like React or Node. IMO what you should be learning are fundamentals that can apply anywhere. Data structures, algorithms, etc. Granted, I think learning those probably takes a bit longer.
Strange side note: A friend of mine knew Bloom, and one of Bloom's favorite books was Little, Big, by John Crowley. Bloom said he saw parallels between the 2016 election and the second coming of Barbarossa.
"This is an ingenious idea, and one I wonder if could be used for more personal modes of transit."

I ckuckled as I recalled that inflatable costume Woody Allen wore in "Sleeper" which essentially would be to a wingsuit what the inflatoplane is to a regular plane:)
Hey so I'm all with you on the fact that inequity is the real problem here. But I also volunteer at an after school program at the school my wife teaches at because these kids often don't have a stable home life to go to after school. It does make a difference, and in my experience it's been very effective at helping the kids (elementary age) in this school get their homework done on time, it's reduced behavior problems, and it gives them a reason to like school. Ours is a 2 day per week program where the kids can choose to be in one of about 25 different special interest clubs (I run the computer science club) and the kids get snacks and two extra hours of time they can be safe at school instead of (often) alone at home.
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I love his presentation style too. Genuinely proud to see his baby in use on ISS. Money quote for me is: ""SQLite3 doesn't compete with DatabaseX. Sqlite3 competes with fopen()" ;)
Mass firings are seen as a opportunity to get rid of your "worst" employees because you have strong plausible deniability if the reason for firing is anything other then the massive layoff. Employee trying to start a union? Raising politically sensitive issues? Under-performing? Questioning management? Negative personality? Taking too many days off? Not popular on your team? Companies are aware of this and it contributes strongly to the negative signal assigned to be involved in a mass layoff.
Ask HN: People are looking for a meetup.com replacement – what are the options?
meetup.com is changing its pricing policy https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges?mpId=9038

"Members will pay a $2 fee when they reserve a spot at your event."

So what are the most realistic options for meetup.com alternatives?
I've been doing it for years now.

https://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/
What's NIH?
Oh, well then that's the person who didn't fence the area to keep everyone out.
Some of the points you raise are matters of style (I have files that are 10k lines long and think they are better that way; also I don't think unit tests are as useful as claimed), but yeah, when you have 600 files and 11MB of code to do something that is supposed to be simple and also is security-critical ... you have a big problem.
Even when someone does manage to produce an affordable and appealing EV (and I think Nissan and Kia have done a pretty decent job), Tesla has a trump card with their massive supercharger network.
I would love to attend as long as people start fresh projects at that day. Ideally people will find new partners and form new teams around shared idea. Otherwise it will become another YC pich night for mature(ish) products.
They can kinda do something half way in that direction just by waiting. The lower WeWork's cash on hand gets, the harder of a position Neumann is in. Of course, it's not clear if it's a credible bluff since Softbank isn't in a great position either.

Interesting negotiating position!
This one has me torn. Neopronouns are hard. I spend a lot of time in and around communities where these are used, and people who use them tend to be accepting of people using they/them. It's a compromise for the reality that most people aren't going to remember something they rarely use even if they want to. I rarely see people who use these pronouns, so I forget usage between encounters.

Even most of the people screaming bloody murder in here say they're okay with they/them. I'm not sure who SE consulted on Q9, but xey are not representative of any neopronoun user I've met. They recognize it's a lot of extra mental load beyond the much more common they/they/their and make a small accommodation for people who struggle with it.

I don't see any other issues on a skim, but that seems to be what's setting people off anyway so maybe that is it.
Ah, those were the days.
If every job was paid equally what would you do?
Just curious does anyone know why this type of shutter isn't used on modern digital cameras like DSLRs or mirrorless cameras?
One benefit of only WebKit being allowed on iOS is that it gives Apple the market power to shape web standards in favor of privacy.
There are two separate issues: speaking ill of the dead at all; and speaking disrespectfully too soon after a death.

Speaking ill of the dead at all is generally not good because the person is no longer able to defend their reputation, and no remedy can be made. The dead is no longer in a position of power to be removed, nor can they improve themselves out of remorse. So of something ill is to be said, saying it after death is too late, not too soon.

"Too soon" is problematic because you are using a death as an opportunity to amplify your own message, and because it can amplify the grief of those left behind.
I'm curious, is this actually enforced? If so, how? It seems like it would be trivial to attend with a pre-built project if one were so inclined.
I can't speak for everyone who's ever used an Intel CPU, but Intel's certainly lost my tiny fraction of market share to AMD, at least for desktops (AMD laptops with solid specs seem to be rather unfortunately rare); switched from Intel + Nvidia to AMD + AMD when I built my latest rig, and haven't looked back.

Granted, in my case it was less about CPU security issues (some - though certainly not all - of which also impacted AMD and ARM CPUs, from what I understand) and more about AMD getting me way better bang for my buck (and also, because I wanted to try out a Threadripper and my God am I glad I did), but still.
It's easy to make a file that both a valid image and a valid zip file, because zip readers start from the end-of-central-directory at EOF and most other things start from a header at the start of the file. Many such images included a winrar icon.

There might have also been some steganographic images, but I know for sure I saw several of the image+archive kind around then.
> My question: How do you distribute gigawatts of energy uniformly through the ocean? Or are you simply boiling a bay somewhere and calling it good?

Assuming this is your question, and not a continuation of the quote: thermal energy is definitely a concern. It could be solved with dilution, like other pollutants.

In the particular case we're discussing, of using heat from a nuclear power plant to desalinate water: Every thermal power plant already creates waste thermal heat. They exhaust this heat either through evaporation (the stereotypical hyperboloid cooling tower of a nuclear power plant) or discharge into a body of water (thermal plants around me do this). The latter is definitely a sticking point in gaining modern environmental approval.
Did they steal MCAS from Boeing?
It's not a reduction to the absurd, unless you can make at least a thoughtful argument for why it should apply to groups of some shared attribute, and not to individuals. Which, to be honest, is probably not a terribly hard argument to make.
I understand your point, do you understand mine? I’m not describing a causal relationship but addressing your disappointment at the themes that modern video games choose to address.

Violence and dystopian themes are prevalent in video games for a reason. Living as we are in a time of Global Peace never seen before in history, human minds are instinctively attracted to the opposite experience of a total war, desolation and misery. Which is why these themes retain their allure and continue to attract the strong following that they do.
can this be lumped in with the camera permissions? also, why do websites even need to know this? i dont think ive ever seen a native program use my light sensor, just the OS.
> which itself is a result of limiting ourselves to the ASCII symbols that can be typed

I think we're ready for programming languages using some visually good Unicode characters, instead of overloading `[]{}!@#$%^&*()-_/` for everything!
Is it possible to arrange hackathons outside of USA? That's be helpful to lot of people who don't live in USA or no easy way to get visa from USA.
. . .and the threat of Just Another Vict'ry Announcement (JAVA) as the need to add "sizzle" to the next version looms.
i'm pretty sure they've all figured out to sleep on the diagonal (which should give them 8-9ft) by this point in their lives.

those overly-soft beds tend to make me overheat more.
It’s a business play. If companies don’t want to move off 2.x and are willing to pay a Software vendor to backport security fixes so that they can CYA, so be it.
If you listen to it you'll see it's still pretty accurate
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The ISA is highly restricted though.

Only kicks in if you're employed in a software job making more than 50k/yr.

ISA stops after repayment or ten years whichever happens first.

My favorite part of it is the ISA structure, it aligns the incentives between the school and the students. Universities don't have skin in the game, charge outrageous tuition fees and provide primarily signaling (even in the best cases). If Universities had to switch to an ISA model we'd see which ones were actually valuable - if they'd even be capable of adapting.
Wasn't it Microsoft and Outloook OWA that started XHttpRequest?
To my understanding strip clubs got looped into this because their business and employees were classified much differently than your typical business. They aren’t open 24x7 and overwhelming majority of girls work part-time - that’s it.

The problem you have is with companies like Uber and other who have for nearly decades have abused contract work but strippers were classified as the same.

It’s too bad they got lumped and really shouldn’t have been but we’ve had enough major corporations screwing the middle class evading taxes.
I lived in suburban Amsterdam and the food truck that came at lunch specialized in those puffy-bread and single slice meat/cheese sandwiches. I usually bought two and combined the ingredients and tossed the second bread.

Might've been more palatable with better bread, but these were typical bad lunch sandwich bread buns.

That said, I can live on PB&J, especially with fresh PB and a good bit of toast.
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Most Dutch people just eat sandwiches for lunch. Typically just bread and something on it.

Some offices have cantines and many of them are terrible. I was a Dutch office worker for 10 years in different offices and ate all kinds of different things. Now I work from home and continue to eat sandwiches almost every day. I just like them.

As for the Chinese food. You need to go into a big city and eat it. Don't eat Dutch Chinese food in small villages or suburban areas. Both Rotterdam and Amsterdam have amazing Chinese food. And I bet you never even tried Surinamese food before..
Telegram promises Grams (digital coins), to be delivered once the TON network is operational. Telegram even projects what the price of a Gram will be on the market.

This is a vehicle for investing in Telegram's business. If you buy this contract, you're giving Telegram money, which they promise to use to develop a new service. They promise to give you a cut of the value created by that new service. This is very much like a stock offering.
> Most important is good bread, which is super common here, despite it being totally unavailable in most other countries.

I think the rest of Europe will argue with this.
Unclear if these figures account for students that dropped out...I’m guessing no. Per the ISA terms you owe 40% of the ISA after 5 weeks of the 36 week course (<14% complete).

My issue is the incentive that would create to enroll students you in admissions know would likely not complete the program, and then still collect 40% of the value of the ISA.

It becomes a Survivor-esque learning environment where a significant number of students might be dropping out and you’re left with a much smaller number of students who do graduate.
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In Germany, the typical dinner seemed to be bread with butter and cheeses and cured meats like ham or sausages. It was "simple" of course, but also delicious because of the quality of all of the ingredients. However, they did eat a larger cooked meal in the early afternoon.
Oh, hey, thats really nice of you. I'll buy Yev a beer for it.
>Without that label, when a packer scans an item just before they place it in a shipping box for the customer, how do they know which seller's inventory to decrement?

It's very simple: they're stored in different locations. If seller A is on shelf B, and seller C is on shelf D, then even though the individual items are identical, if you pick up a unit on shelf D you know it's from seller B.

They don't store identical products from different sellers next to each other.

I agree there's a counterfeit issue. Amazon agrees there's an issue, and actually has it as a risk factor in their financial reports. But commingling isn't a significant contributor to it.
The point of that syntax is to offer more control for how functions, particularly in C-extensions, are invoked.

It will be a "good problem" to have the skillz to make this useful.
How is this even news worthy? There's so many things I could think of more important than the sleep routine of an luxury- accommodated group of athletes, who by greed decide to play 82 games per season.

I believe it has been suggested to shorten the season but they neglect to do it because it means less money.
What does this have to do with the accusation? It has nothing to do with his being significant except through the window of his abusing his power.
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>It's not clear that dragging an app to the trash is the "official" way to remove an app

How so? The "official" way to delete files on MacOS is to put them in the Trash. Support articles on Apple's site also show that dragging an application to the trash is one of the official methods of removing an application, unless it was a package installer.
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Too Hard, Too Soft, Just Right – Rendering HTML with Lit-HTML
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Yeah, it’s super unfortunate how the existence of py27 security patches magically stops all py3 users from doing any work. It’s sort of how the existence of c prevents anyone from using rust.