skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those where not the only two options. That was the fear and one of the reasons it got voted so effusively. But other regions like the Basque Country refused to give up territorial and historical rights like their tax charter which they have had for ages. Catalunya did not get special treatment, did not negociate any special treatment, and their retconning of history into "we were bullied into this deal ages ago and now we are oppresed" is objectively false. They are one of the most prosperous regions in Spain, the constitution voters are quite alive and until the last couple years they had no real claim of interference of the central goverment in their affairs.

Spain allows for constitutional reform so its not like the dictatorship or constitution choice was an end all of debate. It simply that the threashold for Spain to allow changes to the constitution are 66% of Spanish goverment.
So I have a hard time seeing how 51% of Catalans = democracy
66% of Spain = oppresion. Both seem democratic, now the question is who gets to vote and how many votes you need. But that doesn't make it less democratic, it might be unfair but thats a completely different topic.
If the elderly person requires the child to wear a tee-shirt with and advert on, which the elderly person earns money off, and the elderly person is getting rich off asking the child to look after them for "good will" then... yeah, they probably should be paid. It's not charity, it's not family, it's exploitation.
I think they just read the title and assumed its a repository fork? No clue either.
That's all fine and dandy, but it presumes the participating states actually want to be part of the union. Otherwise it's tyranny in my humble opinion.
I think qt widgets (not-qml, it's different and I haven't used it) uses XML without many of those problems.

Layouts are trees of widgets. Layouts are themselves widgets so repetition in the tree can be reduced.

You use XML, C++, or both to define a widget. The UI Compiler will turn that XML into C++.

That means further code reuse can leverage the C++ type system. All widgets are QWidgets, and MyProgressBar inherits from QScrollBar.

And you (or, at least I) never write .ui files by hand, they've got a GUI designer tool. And the tool supports your custom widgets by treating them the same as the known widget type it inherits from.

Accessing XML-defined widgets from code is the same as C++ defined widgets, because the compilation step means they are. Class member names come straight from the XML file.

The QObjects are constructed in a way that understands the UI hierarchy, and you can programmatically walk that hierarchy using the variable names. (You do have to tell objects their own names in the non-XML-generated code.)
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The idea behind these laws limit the extent that people can circumvent minimum wage. It also prevents de facto enslavement or indentured servitude, but probably to a lesser degree.

This type of discussion usually comes up in the context of internship positions, where federally an unpaid internship must not displace employees and must provide no value to the employer.
That sounds hugely restricting the scope when so much of great poetry has been already written in the past.
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Or Perl. Perl takes backwards compatibility very seriously. There was a lot of gnashing of teeth a while back on whether to make newer versions actually change the default behavior finally to some new features could be opt-out instead of opt-in. An by new features, I mean stuff like "use strict", which has been best practice for a couple decades now, but the change would cause problems for existing scripts that didn't turn that feature on.

The rule has generally been that you can take a 20 year old Perl script and it will still just run. This has its own complications though, as it makes it harder to advance the language, and then people feel it's being left behind (the Perl 6 stuff came after that feeling developed).

It's a longstanding problem in language design and communities, stability vs advancement.
They probably do not want to end up with a Perl 6 situation. I meant Raku, the language formally known as Perl 6.
I don't know if he killed himself or not, but it sure looks suspicious. The expectation is that there would be a flurry of investigative journalism lasting perhaps months, by different media organizations trying to uncover how he got his money, who flew to his island, or other properties, how many victims he had, interview with his house keepers, lawyers, Ghislaine Maxwell etc.

But except for very few news items, there was surprisingly little uptake. You'd think after Weinstein, and #meetoo movement, there would so much interest in finding who is exploiting and abusing girls and young women, especially by someone as connected as Epstein and his "guests".

One article was odd: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/fdny-rev... Odd because it was concerned not with the victims or his connections but that some paramedic or bystander took a picture of Epstein's body as it was wheeled out and posted it on 4chan. And how it was an egregious violation of HIPPA and FDNY should look into investigating that. Not a word whether they should look into investigating why the CCTV cameras didn't work showing exactly how he hanged himself with toilet paper...
Why does not the status quo require some qualified majority?
Is this replacing the Spark?

They still list the Spark on the site but no stock, unless it will have an update shipping soon. Still, this looks good.
I don't know of any scientist who thinks it's all we have to do. But a fair number of climate scientists think we need it to buy us some time while we decarbonize and draw CO2 down to a safe level.
I think a big issue is the incredible juxtaposition between what you learn about America as a child...

The land of opportunity
Work hard and be rewarded
The shining nation on the hill

And what you see as an adult

Lose your job? No healthcare, and little support

Get cancer? Go bankrupt and lose everything if you’re not lucky or super rich

Let’s pass major legislation! Oh great another huge tax cut for the mega rich.

Go to school? Be saddled in debt for decades.

Get out of school? Work multiple jobs just to make ends meet in a system that favors employers

And how’re you supposed to escape? By buying material possessions that don’t bring lasting quality of life improvements, or by wallowing away in a drugged up haze, or by binge watching television and other media.

We’re supposed to be the leaders of the free world but we our government is increasingly disfunctional and tailored to special interests and the wealthy.

Meritocracy? Ha. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is being hollowed out.

This administration certainly hasn’t helped as it amplifies its fear based rhetoric of migrants, and crime while pushing us backwards on climate initiatives and ruining our reputation abroad.

It’s no wonder people are depressed. Wage slavery sucks, living on a knife’s edge sucks, and there’s really not much going on to change it.

I’m pretty hopeful for the younger generations, but boy is it a mess they’re inheriting.
Put on master after leadout. Not hard but clever:
> I'm coming to see this generally as a late-stage dynamic in many technological areas, one in which the unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated, often not) simply rise to a level of major significance. You might think of these generally as hygiene factors (the phrase I've been using).

You mean like externalities?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

> Or put another way: this is increasingly our future.

This seems like a situation that might not be best served by a startup... So yes, this is probably what California's future looks like.
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The thing is, the service and main value that Stack Exchange provides is literally a moderated forum for people to ask and answer questions. Without that moderation, the service would be much less valuable, because it would be full of spam and worthless questions and answers, and less people would use it. This is what drives their revenue and their valuation.

This isn't the case with HN, where the main contribution of the forums to their business is mainly brand recognition.
> And we all know that consumers don't fork enough money to support ads-free journalism, which leads to perverse incentives.

yes they do. susbcription-based models are doing quite well. besides the big heavyweights, in UK alone there are several smaller and successful subscription-based magazines: the TLS, the economist, the spectator etc. in us sports there's 'the athletic' and its clones.
the cool thing about it is that you can adjust it to your preferences.
I am not a go programmer but I would love to revisit this conversation but with golang twenty years from now. Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe golang is essentially complete, right? and golang programmers like golang?
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4os was an operating system written in Forth. It was discussed on Hacker News in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709802

In many ways many Forth systems were simultaneously the programming language and the operating system, especially on small systems. Having a single integrated system meant you didn't need a lot of space, which was important when you were trying to develop software on a 1MHz system with 8KiB RAM.

There have been many operating systems written tightly integrated to a language. Oberon is one, there were several that were based on Lisp, and many Forth systems count. The early Smalltalk systems probably count as well.

I agree with you that tightly language-integrated operating systems are dead. You're absolutely right that tight integration makes it hard to change things. The tight integration could potentially save space (memory and storage), which is why I think it was more popular years ago, but that's much less relevant today. If you have tight memory constraints, you'll probably develop on a beefier system and then transmit the result to the tiny system instead, and that approach doesn't require a tightly language-integrated operating system.
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There's a lot of mixed-signal specialty ASICs at the 350 nm and 180 nm nodes. As long as you don't need the density, it's a great option. Masks are relatively cheap and the processes are dialed in extremely well at this point. Just because the tech is 20-30 years old doesn't mean it's not useful.
he had all the materials he needed to kill himself

He is alleged to have hung himself with materials no stronger than tissue paper.
Hype is an editor for HTML5 animations
https://tumult.com/hype/

Haven't used it, but I am sure it isn't the only one in this market

For cartoons, there is plenty of other software, including Adobe Animate
Mark Zuckerberg's wealth is measured in billions [0], I think we should measure the fine in billions too.

"Facebook agrees to pay .0005b GBP fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal"

Looks pretty meaningless from this perspective.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/?list=billion...
Actually it is one of the best file explorers out there, I'm sure they will take in on the right track.
As long as your destination is out across the ocean and doesn't involve flying back over the city. I suppose if it's fast enough you can go "the long way" anywhere on Earth.
I work on Java at a really deep level, and I haven't had to interact with Jigsaw at all. What is it breaking for you?
As a dutch person I can say, as temperatures are dropping on the northern hemisphere, little makes my kids happier that announcing we are taking the car to school.

This book, I wonder, is its only mission to make people feel bad that they are not doing well? My kids are dutch and only play outside by themselves from 6-7 y/o, don't bike to school until they are 10-12 or so usually and they really didn't sleep very well as babies. And I definitely know some 14-18 y/o rebels.
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That was a terrible pun have a point.
This reminds me of that Netflix series about JonBenét Ramsey where they had all of these experts prove it was the brother who did it.

It was all very weak stuff, but the people they used were all credible crime investigation people so it sounded legitimate.

The poor brother was grown up now and a software engineer who already went through enough trauma and had to sue the show for defamation.
1. I admit "select few" being hyperbole. The intended sentiment was it helping fewer people than it is screwing over.

2. Its nice you want to help the people who have it the worst. But you better be ready for the consequences, like a fascist getting 23% of votes a few days ago in a local german election. What people feel is important. Yes, the policy might be raising living standards of everyone. But if it predominantly helps those at the top of the capitalist system and some "few" people far away, then people will feel screwed over and demand change. Though by now we seem to get closer to "revolution". I'd prefer not to live through a revolution.
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When does startship need to light its engines on landing?

What about landing in a 2000 foot deep hole in the ground?
Easy. He wasn't on suicide watch when he did it.
I know that Ahrefs and OneGraph use it for production.
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Oh of course it was murder, it was clear he would be killed once they put him in jail (I won a bet saying he would die mysteriously within 2 months of his house arrest motion being denied). Then after he died I won another bet predicting that 'the cameras will have been not working', and sure enough when they looked at the video from the cameras it was corrupted or something. Obvious murder is obvious.
> Would anyone be willing to explain in more detail on how the criteria differ and why this doesn't apply to Open Source companies like Gitlab/Wikipedia/etc?

I mean, they don't meet the criteria because they don't.

I guess I should ask: why do you think they meet all the criteria? What specific reasons makes you think that?
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Working as an engineer at a big e-commerce company we have ridiculously long and complicated URLs both internally and in production. I wrote a little extension to help manage them and thought I'd share it here. You can try it out on the landing page https://bsawyer.github.io/slasher/ without installing the extension. I would love any feedback or suggestions!
data/source code security

cost saving.
The problem is, once you introduce a non-logical predicate, everything in the call stack "above" it is tainted and rendered non-logical. Since you frequently have to resort to using (\+)/1 almost as a necessity, the codebase ends up being 90% illogical and 10% logical. And at that point you step back and ask why you're even using prolog.

However: I do miss DCGs in every other language I've used. They're so useful that I've come to hate using regexes or even worse: manually parsing lists and strings.
You want to find a stack that's small / concise / organized enough that you could support it if you needed to.

It's ideal if it has a stable community, but it should be a small group of core devs, so they don't have time to change things that aren't broken. It helps if the community has a culture of stability.

In my experience, FreeBSD and Erlang fit this bill. You may need to manage some small changes now and again when upgrading between releases, but generally the most apparent changes are things you were doing before work better. And you can run a fleet with rather divergent versions, as long as you're careful not to use new features (it helps to make sure your dev environment matches your most out of date hosts)
The wiki page says they would need some stationkeeping, probably using small solar sails.
No good deed goes unpunished!
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The UK is tightly integrated into the EU economical and political system. They are breaking away unilaterally. The reason they can do so is that they wouldn't have entered in the first place if there was no instrument to leave again like this (Article 50).

The Catalans never voluntarily agreed to be part of Spain as far as I know. They were essentially annexed a long time ago. And yet Spain says they have to stay no matter what. This doesn't sound right to me.
"fast-growing science brand poised for growth", "the literary science magazine with more than 10 thousand monthly paying subscribers and an online reach of more than 10 million"

Between the marketing numbers and the weird detached third-person references to Nautilus, this is written like a marketing pitch, not an acquisition announcement. It's very weird
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Some of the syntax changes are barely different (print statement a function instead of a keyword, good) but a lot of new things are added that I would consider to be syntactic sugar (walrus operator, for example) that threaten to detract from the two biggest things that drew me to Python: clean syntax and obvious understandability.
It's not blackbox in that you can't look inside... it's blackbox in that you can choose to ignore it and be just fine.

Springboot takes an opinionated approach to a lot of things, but always lets you override it and do whatever you want wherever you want.

I suppose that's more of a greybox...
This guy isn't even the one who did the autopsy. Why do we care what he says?
Karabiner, and it’s free.

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation for why a high profile figure wouldn't have a camera pointed at them 24/7. And a second camera for backup.
In that case, how would it possibly have any legal effect in the US?
Not as much as you'd think, because they're actually lenses. They just redirect the light away to miss Earth, rather than blocking it entirely.
No frickin kidding
Do you mention HCN facetiously? Because there's a fair amount of that in cigarettes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4518591/
> To the point where the IRS had to define specific exceptions for family chores lest they be deemed as barter and requiring the payment of payroll taxes.

Hold on a minute here, can you point me to where this is actually codified? I found "Publication 926 (2019), Household Employer's Tax Guide" but that doesn't seem to be quite right. Or I just didn't read enough of that rather lengthy document.

> my 1st amendment right to post here should override the interest of the State in establishing minimum wage requirements

I'm not sure I've ever run into a situation where constitutional law was used to continue doing a thing for free. Genuinely interesting POV there.
I don't know if it exists, but it seems it would be possible using a similar format to the offline dictionaries on Kindle.
So you had a company that dominated the highest growing market in the world, and now you have a bunch of barely profitable startups and small businesses, and that's supposed to be a great outcome?
As a long-time resident of Japan, I've long been frustrated by the amount of negativity surrounding discussion of Japan's tech industry. I knew there were good companies here that hire developers but there wasn't a single site that would just tell me what they were, so I built Japan Dev. It's an attempt to provide an exhaustive list of the companies hiring developers in Japan, which foreigners tend to actually find palatable. It's a side project that I'm hoping to expand into a portal for foreign developers that want to live in Japan. Let me know what you think!
Dude was a known pedo and the powers that be wanted him gone, why is it so hard to believe? Is it that ubiquitous idea of being charitable or something silly like that?
> expensive relative to what? What's a life worth?

I absolutely agree - it was stupid and shortsighted to take him off of suicide watch, and better suicide watch programs are needed in general.

My point is more that nothing that much out of the ordinary for American jails happened here. Things happen in US jails every day that, to most people, would seem insane - incompetence and indifference to life are the norm. See my comment above - US jails are run on shoestring budgets with no accountability. People die in jail all the time for causes that were trivially preventable.
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Gwynne Shotwell is someone with sufficient experience in rockets to comment on whether that idea is at all plausible.
Probably because a quantum computer that can actually factor a large enough prime is between 10-30 years away. The technical challenges are... substantial.

The article mentions NIST’s effort toward a post-quantum encryption standard. Hopefully, a few decades from now, these algorithms will be well understood and in widespread use.
“Horse” and “Language” in Korean
This is cute and all but there is a sniff test here. Could you rephrase what you're turning into pseudocode back into prose, specifically into a memo, and have it still sound concrete or meaningful?

One thing that might jump out if you do that is that there's no mention of historical context or a competitive landscape. What are potential substitutes and comparable products that potential users use to do something that Karma could do a better job of solving? What is the history of that pain point? You touch upon this where you define what the boundaries are of whether karma can definitely help, and the enumeration of pains that you feel.

This is my humble gut opinion, but I get the sense that there is too much ground being covered there. Solutions to the problems of social isolation, social injustice in the workplace or the world at large, or lack of academic progression are pretty challenging unsolved spaces in and of themselves, and there are some pretty rough economic structures and systems in place that make things harder there. I'm almost certain you wouldn't solve any of those problems by trying to solve all of them at once, but I'm skeptical that you could solve any individual one in and of itself because even the individual ones are so challenging and work against gravitational forces.

There are many algorithms out there -- does this one produce useful work? And if it does, does it do so while effectively minimizing time-space complexity and utilizing data locality to achieve as much useful productivity as possible? If you don't get a satisfactory answer to those questions, I think the real algorithm to help you find a problem worth solving is one that isn't a complete stretch of an analogy.

It's finding subproblems, which is a crucial part of using recursion. Keep digging into smaller and smaller problems until you find something that is small enough to trivially solve that you truly do solve it, but it's aggregable enough to start putting together into a larger and larger solution. Otherwise, you might risk building a solution in search of a problem.
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I'm glad you like it! Actually compared to the linked post I don't do any manual latent-space representation selection. It's just a bit of "smart" signal processing. I've written a framework that makes it really simple to do these visualizations (not open-source yet). Here's one more example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4r4njUjE2M
Genuinely confused by these responses. But I don't really know anything about government in Spain.

Are the Guardia Civil and the judicial branch not part of the government in Spain? I mean, it's still the Spanish government right?

Just for context, in the US we have police and national guard and judges and prosecutors, etc. But we would consider them all to be part of the government.