skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To start with, it would be called a tweet and not an essay.
Python is a very old language. First version in 1991!

This is no surprise Guido evolved with it, and changed his mind about a few things.

People are never happy. On the other side of the fence, you have others crying the language is not moving fast enough.
How do you cite lack of evidence? :)
The first release, 0.1.0, was in 2014. [0]

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/2014/06/19/crystal-0.1.0-released.h...
Migrating requires downtime since the game server runs as a monolithic entity. I migrate between dedicated servers and VPSes based on expected demand. Right now we're running on big metal to be able accommodate many players coming while I'm more actively promoting it.

When the hype settles down I'll probably move back to a small VPS. I always joke that Angeldust and the server would even run on your toaster. I bet it would even be able to serve hundreds of simultaneous players before turning into toast.
Focus on Start, Not the Finsih – Lessons from Atomic Habits
Bullshit, I played DeusEx a few months later just fine.
In my opinion it takes years to be able to comprehend random sentences uttered by native speakers, in pretty much any language. It just takes a brain that amount of time to short-cut and organize all the information in an efficient enough manner.
Thanks for this. These diagnostic mysteries are not uncommon enough. Suffering from illness is bad enough. Adding "frustrating dismissal by physicians" makes it nearly intolerable, especially since so many people place physicians in such high regard.

"One doctor suggested Knapp’s problems might be psychological."

Gaslighting by people such as those from "science-based" or "evidence-based" medicine is such a demoralizing and psychologically abusive experience, particularly as these "experts" have self-appointed "skeptic" coattail-riders who heap abuse on sick people online and irl.

Stories like this man's should help us understand that with all the scientific progress that has been made, our experts are still human beings with incomplete information and imperfect knowledge.
> I don't know how to feel about the meme that governments should target big corporation rather than small consumers.

That's not what was stated. The objection is that hardly anything is done regarding big corporations.

E.g. only in 2020 shipping will have to use low sulphur fuel (max 0.50%). However, companies are allowed to install scrubbers. These devices allow for the environmental impact to continue. This as they take out the sulphur at the detection point, then dump the sulphur in e.g. the water. This is way cheaper than actually using low sulphur fuel. Interestingly enough, there is no availability of 0.50% sulphur fuel. There's 3.5% and 0.10%. They get to 0.50% by mixing the fuel! They've (International Maritime Organization) should've gone for 0.10% and not allowed any scrubbers.

Airline industry: Heavily subsidized, fuel has almost no tax on it. Taking a plane is often way cheaper than a train, while the environmental impact is quite in favour of the train.
Maybe due to Star Trek? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-0Jg6_zHu0
Agree, that's what it is.
I can remember being taught about grammar in first grade. And getting it wrong at first.
I remember working on the log-concavity thing back in 1989 or so. I remember getting very excited that I'd proved a couple of small cases, but at the time didn't realise that it was such a big thing. I doubt I would ever have proved the whole thing, but it's interesting to see it pop up, and it does make me wonder ...
Raising the fuel taxes indiscriminately was what sparked the "yellow vest" movement last year. I don't think the French government is in any hurry to try that again, especially since there's already a strike going on right now for the pension reform.
I'm aware of them, but half of my brain is still reacting to them and making me try and make decisions quicker. Maybe others are capable of blocking them; but I know that I'm not, even though I'm aware that it is happening.

That is why I have put together these filters. The social proof really works on me.
The thing that annoys me is that devices like iPad and iPhone have so much trouble doing simple things such as uploading a set of PDFs so you can read the PDFs offline.

Maybe I am just dumb who can't get it working, but it involved some sort of syncing with a computer with iTunes and an iBook app.
I used to do 800 kilometers trips for vacations with my family (2 adults, 3 kids) in a 1994 fiat punto every few years and I'm still alive, I'm pretty sure you can drive your kids to school in any vehicle as long as it has enough seats.

People completely lost touch with reality.
To be fair, I think you are correct - Edinburgh is probably unusual in this regard (affluent, fairly small, incredibly high levels of private schools).
There is a difference here without the society preference and what you should do as an individual. As you are saying, in crowded fields breakthroughs may be likely (or not, due to overexploitation, rampant fashion instead of principles thinking and people digging themselves too deep into one paradigm), but in any case, you are not likely to be participating in them if you're not already a strong player. Thus, if you are doing something like research or development of new things, your marginal impact will be probably tiny.

I would put two caveats on this. First, if you are globally in a good position (world's top university, good connections to get into places) you may be positioned to meaningfully get even into a mature field. Second, if you don't want to do much research and exploration, it's reasonable to reap benefits from specialist knowledge of already proven fields. Just keep an eye on other options to transition to if everything eventually crashes.

Even in crowded areas you should benefit from wide knowledge of horizons and fundamentals beyond what is now fashionable. It may mean just more ideas and perspective. I work in NLP with an interest in AI, and I've dived fairly deep into currently out-of-scope things like rules-based NLP, symbolic AI and biological neurons, their physics and simulations etc. I hope this gives me more viability that your average deep learning guy from a moderate background.
The article only talks about SUV specific penalties which is wrong.
I've heard toddlers learn about 7 words a week.

When I'm into a new language I can learn 20-50 words a day, sustainably. Short term more.
A Tesla Model S in smoke sparks widespread concern in China
Don't worry about a thing. Over the years I've come to appreciate feedback in any shape, way or form. Anyone taking the time to reflect on my product, my work or me as a person is someone who's apparently invested, but possibly didn't get the exact thing they were hoping for. I can only listen and learn from this.

It might also help that I'm Dutch and we're supposedly pretty "direct" by default. I've also learned from dealing with Russian players who are even more versed at that craft.
The tax is based on emissions. The Bloomberg article is just of a very low quality.
My "system" works on gut feeling. I live in the Netherlands. Everything is paid automatically, I only buy things I need, I only use my bank card which is accepted everywhere, I don't really pay attention to what shopping cost. Online purchases I make using Ideal. Every 6 months or so I log in to check my bank balance to see if I'm spending to much or not enough money. I could make luxury purchases but I prefer ignoring finances. I never happened but if things get "out of hand" I would negotiate unpaid leave. 1 day per week is perfect. (I also spend my vacation days like that.) I only work 3:7 days, if I take a day off it leaves only a 2 day work week. It's a pretty hilarious formula. I might need software to avoid getting lazy.
I understand why people are willing to defend it or make apologies for it, but there really are some lessons to be learned from the mistakes it made, and dismissing legitimate criticism just ignores the opportunity.
Or you die trying like some people at my school did.

I am sure there has to be a more human way to learn to deal with this.
Every day you can get up out of bed, enjoy a cup of coffee, and go outside and see the trees and smell the air, it's a great freakin' day.
Not the optimistic angle we're trying to foster here!
It's just not high enough. I find it pretty unfair that I pay the same amount of tax on my familiecar that I use for 10.000 km a year as someone who drives is 100 km per day.

I had a citroen C1 once, because the government canceled road tax on such very efficient, small cars. Sadly his law lasted only a couple of years (and it messes a lot with the market value of these cars!). But is was nice that I only paid insurance as long as I didn't drive it. In Poland there is not even a tax on cars, so it is already only in the fuel. It can be pretty nice there to have multiple cars, a big one when you need it, a small one to use a lot. You could even circulate the big one among family, but as it is now in the Netherlands, nobody want to be the owner of the big car.
How much time you gave them?
How did you choose the name?

For a native english speaker, the only association I have is with really hard street drugs (specifically PCP), and that association is very strong.

Is there a special meaning for your game?
That just means basically all damage is done by delivery trucks, garbage trucks, buses etc. that you can't really get rid off. Smart, Tesla or Dodge ram doesn't make a big difference there
Or they just don't care about humans, but are sucking out some valuable resource that we're not aware of. I keep thinking about that Bob Lazar interview, he claimed these alien aircraft fly off of a stable isotope of element 115. What if that element was rare, and they are mining it from, say, the core of our planet.
Say that to the plan9/9front users.
“The resolution is amazingly high,” Ankit Panda from the Federation of American Scientists told NPR, adding it was “much higher than anything I’ve ever seen.”

Tell it to Ankit Panda.

Melissa Hanham, deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network at the One Earth Foundation, believes that the resolution is so high, it may be beyond the physical limits at which satellites can operate.

And this lady.
great quote and very applicable to IT/Software development
> And just because its how your town does it in your country doesn't automatically make it the one best way for every one.

In the Netherlands, the bicycle is quite certainly one of the most practical options in practically every town.
Yea. But ford are still killing the mondaeo in Europe and other countries. Their Kuga and the like make them more money... fiat are killing the 500, which is nearly the perfect city car. They make more from the punto cross over. I'm based in ireland. If you try go to some dealers, there are less small and medium cars and more larger suvs and cross overs...
My dad survived flying 30 missions over Germany when his group had 80% casualties. He had accepted that he wouldn't survive.

He was always an optimist. I'd ask him why, and he'd say he survived the war when so many of his buddies didn't, and was going to enjoy every day of it. (He lived to 93.)
And that mess of a model is being emulated by vendors like Walmart. One of the advantages of Walmart is that I can get in my car and go there today, but they've destroyed their own advantage by making it harder to see what your local store has in stock.
Because now the system is only going to perform at peak accuracy in some fantasy world split up into 6 races of equal part man, woman, child, and elderly. If you’re seeking a realistic model, you randomly sample actual data.

There are many problems with socially engineering data sets. For one we would need to achieve consensus on what constitutes an appropriately representative (i.e. socially just) data set. And then we need a feedback loop to make sure that our dynamically changing inputs don’t knock our meticulously tuned output out of whack. And we’d need to continually adjust our model based on our changing definition of social justice. Finally we need to find social engineers with credentials in building perfect societies (I most certainly don’t trust Joe PM) to perform all this work.

Sociologists have been arguing forever that humans are inherently racist. Maybe these “AI systems” are just proving their point. Perhaps this bias is more a reflection of our inability to maintain global context that is also maximally relevant within our local tribes. Maybe we should focus on acknowledging biases and working through them rather than trying to transcend into some unicorn world where everybody has all the context all the time and bias is impossible.

Anyway, I see your census and raise you an FBI: white people commit way more crimes in the US [1]. So if your goal is to reduce total harm then social engineering is not your solution. Perhaps more accurately identifying the most frequent perpetrators (in the case of the US, white people) is exactly how you’d end up tuning your system...

1: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Apple Watch charger plugs directly into a USB-C port so you can carry fewer
The next Fabrice Bellard?
You wish, but Chromium is pledged under OpenBSD.
"something that would demonstrate that actual good things are being done, that some parts of the system work."

Well, we can have this conversation spread all over the world. I guess none of us is starving. So I guess, some parts of the system do work.

It just works horrible by its own propagated standards.
SAT competition 2018 http://sat2018.forsyte.tuwien.ac.at/index.php had a track with random instances. The article "Generating the Uniform Random Benchmarks" in https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/237063/sc20... contains the descriptions of the random instances used.
> Why should people only use it when necessary?

Because we have experience with things such as easy of learning, cognitive load, writing simple to read code, making it hard to introduce bugs...

This comment show how little experience one can have with it, and yet make a quick judgment to offer to "fix" things. E.G:

> eel free to use it in all places you’d previously use the assignment operator.”. Simple, easy to understand, easy to learn, and most importantly (though python folks might disagree, given 2 => 3), easy to adopt.

Well because in many languages, people do this:

while (foo = bar):

While they mean this:

while (foo == bar):

Even experienced devs do this by mistake from time to time. It's hard for tooling to find out if you are doing something stupid or smart. Beside, you don't use tooling when you learn the language or do a quick script.

Designing a language is not a 15 days job in a rush. Usually.
> the ability to sit down and concentrate at a mentally taxing boring task for uncertain reward

If anything I'd say school hindered me in this regard! I think I learnt dogged persistence through playing videogames.
The size of the dose is not a great measure of safety. Botulinum toxin has an LD50 in the nanograms, and several other toxins in the same range of LSD, that being micrograms.

Now no strong evidence of toxicity has been found from LSD, but that's not due to it being taken in small doses.
Or for those for whom science has answered as much as it can and are still looking for answers.
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There is definitely a lot of Elixir developers who come from Ruby. I mean José Valim himself was a core RoR team member.

I'm trying to find an Elixir job right now and pretty much all of these comes with a RoR requirement. (also it seems some companies are moving from Elixir to Go).

As I'm mostly a PHP / Symfony guy I feel the disconnect, and at my current place people really don't care about Elixir at all. Basically Go and Node would be much better prospect for me.
This attitude is one of the many reasons why we can't have nice things. Instead of trying to elevate everyone to best possible standing you want to reduce all to the worst one.
The points that this article and many of the comments here seem to make about the dangers of these racially-caused mistakes miss the more fundamental problem of this technology being used ever more widely in the first place. Facial recognition will invariably get better (virtually certainly to the point of almost completely avoiding mistakes based on a persons ethnic makeup) and that's what's really terrible, because it hints at the sort of constant surveillance future we have coming toward us. If anything, it's almost comforting to know that right now, at the very least, these algorithms don't yet work well enough to avoid politically unfortunate errors, because the political consequences of these errors slow down the scenario of total, nearly error-free ubiquity that anyone who even slightly values privacy should be very worried about.
Could you expand on that? Does that make a difference if I am just transferring money from an account abroad to another in the US for private use? Eg just moving money to from European account to my US account
> think about 150-300 years in the future , do you think there will be no changes to cleanup things

You can change it and clean it up all you like but that won't stop its evolution and a hundred years later the spelling and pronunciation will be out of sync again.

I don't mean that we should necessarily avoid reform but what you get when you do a serious reform is a new language that is different from all the dialects and it must either be imposed from above or be in some way sufficiently attractive for people to adopt it. And then you have another dialect.

See also the xkcd joke on standards, I think it applies here too: https://xkcd.com/927/
WSJ: TikTok plans to set up a global headquarters outside of China
A truly beautiful human being.
https://m.xkcd.com/664/
Unemployed teenager steals 1M in cryptocurrency scam
We may not have the same definition of listening comprehension.

When I start learning a new language, I can totally "listen comprehend" stuff that's close to the material I already studied. But the same isn't true for random content at realistic speed.

And the "island" part is compatible with "all or nothing". Because yes, within those islands, you understand everything, and over time, as your proficiency in the language grows, there are more islands of knowing all the words. But it seems to be a lot easier at first to get told what a word means and how it is used, rather than depending on it to appear in a useful context a couple hundred times.
Meanwhile people in urban areas pay a lot more for rent so that they don't need large cars. Seems fair to me.
The World at War (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075). 26 hour-long episodes; one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.
Oh wow someone actually posted this! Thanks a lot for the comments and criticisms guys, really means lot to me. Before I go I'll answer some questions, so ask them away!
> stupid things like imaginary lines drawn on soil.

So let's erase all borders and see how we get on.

Orwell: 'men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.'
This is an important question that you must answer for yourself
I do think that ditching cash for some type of electronic payment has some positives in current political climate: if people and businesses become utterly dependent on internet based payments, then it becomes harder for governments to do internet block-out, without doing serious damage to economy and crippling normal life.
> If you only let people in your life who are not-boring, not-judgemental, not-uptight, issue-free, etc, you run the risk of being more like the person you'd reject over the person you'd welcome.

this is SO true. Everybody complaining about "awkwardness" as a big deal must have had a pretty sheltered life...
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That's not what EU is for though.
> Airline industry: Heavily subsidized, fuel has almost no tax on it.

This desperately needs to be fixed, but because it's enshrined in a treaty that's very hard.
I meant more like "HSK-4 vocabulary without characters".
Whatever happened to the Next Big Things?
Downtime during xmas days? Give a chance to edu games for children on iOS
UNIX was good, for an OS given away with source code and an almost free license (versus what other mainframe OS were asking for).

History would be quite different if AT&T was allowed to sell it from day one.
Search for it from the store, apparently the link is somehow broken
I agree, there is a long list of things I would change in Python. And believe me when I say people involved in the community listen to this very carefully.

This is why we had Python 3 in the first place. Because text handling was such a cause of pain.

This is why we have type hints in the first place. Because big projects using Python felt let down.

And Python 3 and type hints are also a huge source of criticism (I was the first one to do so).

It's never ending. People will complain. People will be unhappy. Things, also, will be imperfect, as we are limited in resources and are submitted to many constraints. Not to mention taste and opinion, that are used to request changes.

But I'm not answering to dismiss valid concerns. I'm answering because as a very experienced Python dev, I now have a good grasp of what is due to culture, lack of experience, or a real deal.

E.G:

- := forcing parenthesis. Has not been a real problem in my experience, at least as of today.

- Packaging still more complicated that necessary. A real problem in the field (although 50% of it is a teaching problem: https://twitter.com/bitecode_dev/status/1188130895653416966).
We also had problems with scrapers using our data. We contacted lawyers, got advice to plant extra messages to get evidence. They then took care of it and the problems have slowly gone away. Cache now works much better. Not fun when you spend a lot of time and money to accumulate data and someone thinks they should have it for free.
Has Patio11 joined the world of finance? I look forward to a talk from him about it.
Yes, which is why I say the phases overlap. I still think theory should dominate the first phase of learning a language, followed by mostly reading.
> Returning to a monoculture will require both propaganda and suppression
Great firewall of China seems to be doing that.
Gapminder (of Hans Rosling fame) does a good job of this, I think. Although they do not shy away from mentioning what could be better, they do a good job of highlighting positive developments on a larger time scale that often go overlooked because they're slow-moving.
Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption
Till the point when computers will create thousands of proofs a man will have trouble to understand. We will join Lee Sedol team then.

Thats kinda weird the article doesn't even mention the important work around the subject already published by philosophers. Nick Land for example.
Which Is a Good SMTP Relay Service?
Dunno. As a mainly C++ developer I think Rust is a real alternative because it tries to solve the same problems better. Lisp and Haskell do not solve the same problems. Huge Lisp codebases probably become hard to understand quickly, and both Lisp and Haskell don't produce very efficient code (or make it hard to produce efficient code).