skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm interested why it seems to be getting little attention compared to Go, Rust, & Julia

I've noticed the slogan was change to "A language for humans and computers", what it really mean? Related to machine learning?

My impression that other than it was design to be as friendly as Ruby and fast as C. It's a lot helpful to have an FAQ if the Crystal team could provides.
Pessimists' outlook: pessimistic
What do you mean by that? Don't understand.
Generally not; emacs or VSCode or IntelliJ or whatever does for me.

Does for python, too.
so who owns all that brand new infrastructure - China?
I think this is very important, not having a deadline can mean nothing ships and having a hard deadline I have seen quality and best practices slip due to pressure to cut corners.

Other general things that I’ve seen help. Code reviews should not be a rubber stamp, the reviewer should understand everything, there should be a degree of overlap of feature development between devs, end-to-end tests to check for regression can be highly useful once a project is if reasonable complexity.
The graphic style - oh, my eyes!!! Please team up with a designer, or with a different designer!

...I don't mean the quality, it's understandable resources are constrained. I mean the actual artistic decisions... it burns your visual cortex with all those colors and textures fighting each other. What's the theme, "kindergardeners on acid meeting Elvis"?! or "South Park but in Fortnite drawn while drunk"?
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s/Boring/Boeing
it was clearly worth it
I do, because wearing a seatbelt is not that annoying. It just doesn't bother me. Being optimistic doesnt mean that I don't think bad things will happen to me, just that it will be ok, or not be ok. Either way there is always something positive to come out of every situation.

There are some paths that I would prefer, but even the bad paths have lots of positives.

During the 2010 recession we had a client that owed us 700K and I could tell from reading the 10Q was on the verge of bankruptcy. I had my team work very hard to collect our money. We got it and when they went bankrupt we survived while a lot of our peers went out of business. It isnt that I believed we would be ok, but that if we had not been able to collect the money and went out of business that would have been an incredible learning experience and something good would have come out of it.

Every outcome is not equally desired, I would rather be in business than not be in business. But not being in business, losing your home, becoming bankrupt etc. just doesnt stress me out. I have lived on 10K/year before and been incredibly happy. Even when I was digging change out of the couch to afford to buy food.
Very underrated comment.
Racism? It's Japan. Whatever racism there could be, it's an extremely small, microscopic particle among the whole of the school system.

Even if the incidents are egregious, this is not even among the top twenty reasons that "many" refuse to attend.

As far back as the 1980's it was widely reported that Japanese expectations for children's performance and good behavior drive them to mental illness, from the top down, starting with the demands of parents.
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So there are additional layers of security which I appreciate. But this is different - the iCloud login prompt repeatedly pops up every now and again. Sometimes after an action, sometimes on its own. I had it before on my iPhone 6S when I upgraded iOS at some point ... then it randomly stopped.
There are other Oriental countries with a similar focus on putting the group before the individual. America has had a lot of influence on a lot of places, and certainly not all for the best, but how could America have influenced a place into a behaving a way that is completely foreign to America?
Too bad it doesn’t handle Unicode. Also it’s a shame that it doesn’t have tabs or any hot keys for increasing productivity. It’s really a good shell if you don’t have work to do.
Not sure if you are being serious or not, but yes, not everyone gets migraines. From the first line in the linked story:

>Migraine affects one in seven of the world’s population – approximately a billion people
I mean no disrespect to Ethiopia but no, China launched it.

This is important because the ability to put an object in space is a huge achievement with geopolitical consequences. If you can put an object into space (even low earth orbit) you can put one in Time Square or the Kremlin and no one can stop you. That's why it's a big deal when a country first launches a satellite...

Sorry to be the arsehole here. But it should be made clear Ethiopia has NOT just jumped up on the possible threat scale...
There is a dead comment by someone whose grandma kept donating to charity for Ethiopia. The grandma died poor save the poster is upset that nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her and now they are prospering. I don't like that comment, but it is actually quite interesting, especially if taken together with another comment on a parallel discussion about the huge growth in Africa and the very visible Chinese influence.

It makes you wonder how China's involvement has lead to do much growth in such short time, while the West had been focused on providing to poor, starving African children for decades. I wonder how much the attitude reflected in the comment about the donating grandma is common and how it contributed to the connotative lack of results from Western aid efforts. Did we deep down not want results, but instead mainly make ourselves feel good while keeping Africa in a position where they can provide that feeling to us? What concretely is China doing that we failed to do? How will this pan out on the long term for Africa? So many interesting topics in here!
Is there any [good] reason for this not to be a static site?
Bit misleading - China designed and launched the satellite, partially paid for by Ethiopia
I find toggl convenient to use simple multi/project time tracking

https://toggl.com

Especially with it's desktop app
You flipped the consequent. I'm not suggesting we should tell the environment off, I'm suggesting we shouldn't solve our issues by charging the poor a 1000% markup they can't afford. I also think it's unethical to fix world hunger by eating children for what it's worth, as convenient as that might be.
These mathematical "abstractions" are not the same as "abstractions" in natural sciences: they are only a succinct notation that provides leverage to perform more reasoning with less writing, not a simplified and separate model of a system.

For example, positional notation decreases the size of natural number representations exponentially compared to straightforward application of Peano's axioms or the like, but the numbers themselves remain exactly the same.
FogCam does https://www.fogcam.org/ That site is from 1994
"The pathway from school to job is nebulous to" everyone, now a days.

This has been decoupling in western civ over the last couple generations.

People, including kids, will put up with all kinds of ridiculous behaviors and treatment for a long term reward. Slowly take away the reward over a couple generations and people WILL stop responding in a Pavlovian fashion and the game is over.

The kids are right. In the old days abusive school system lead to a materially successful career. But with an economy holding more people than productive jobs, why put up with the abuse if you're not going to get anything out of it anyway?

In the old days, hazing led to automatic full membership in the cool kids club. Not any more. Unsurprisingly, hazing isn't too popular anymore other than some vague traditional "when I was a kid they abused me too" sense.
You are right. I hadn't used this in a long time. Did it always pop up the dialog? I could have sworn it didn't.
People don't seem to understand this. If you have nothing to hide would you mind if the government went through your house whenever they felt like it? It can be done in a way that doesn't inconvenience you like only when you're not home. Think of all the criminals we would catch. Is that the world you want to live in?
These days front end frameworks are the hotness where all of your rendering is done on the front end calling backend JSON APIs.

If you don’t accept JS, nothing renders.
Tensorflow has a decent C++ layer, just sayin.

PyTorch? Dunno. Last I spoke to those ppl, they had a solution too.
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> Of course this also means that we have trade offs. We don't support fully international text like pretty much every other application will. RTL? No go zone right now. Surrogate pairs and emoji? We're getting there but not there yet. Indic scripts? Nope.

I find it interesting that Even though I don’t care about any of the above features, I still pay for them working with text in other applications. They are a constant tax on latency. It would be great if applications had a “ascii” mode and a “full” mode. You can take the performance or the features, but you can’t have both.
Recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790396
As a young child, talking from the single digits, I knew I wanted to build video games. That desire eventually grew into an above average career in software development. While I don't do video game development other than some small side projects, that's a choice I've made as an adult due to the current video game industry.

It's the child's own future, so when possible the parents should let the child's own desires lead them toward a successful future. That is a hard balance to strike, because the parent has to turn their child's desire into more general skills that can be useful even if the child's dream isn't realistic or the best outcome.

I wonder how my life would've been if my parents got me involved in computers and programming when I was 8 instead of ignoring it and waiting until I taught myself at 15.
Agreed! If you find one that does this or have recommendations on how to teach about this, please share. As a parent, I want to impart knowledge on these things to my kids. We have always focused on teaching compassion and kindness. The real world is full of all kinds of people, with all kinds of values or lack of, and all kinds of parenting or lack of.
Yes. I have yet to find a diet that quells the attacks unfortunately. I had hope it might be sodium related, but cutting it out of my diet (mostly) had no noticeable effect.
Crystal _could be_ for game developers; there's large green pastures left almost entirely untouched for a language to disrupt it. You see a few niche languages make inroads, like Haxe, but I expect something could really effect change.

The key is to be as fast as possible, as memory light as possible, and able to produce and speak to C ABI.
It isn't hubris. I've written a toy E2E encrypted messaging as well. I haven't had to write a single line of actual crypto - libraries like libsodium ensure I just have to tell it the kind of security I want, and it handles all the dirty work for me.

The hard part then shifts to the logic:

1. Ensuring the protocol doesn't allow accidentally leaking the data to an adversary somehow.

2. Ensuring the data is secured on the endpoints (the phone) - making sure the keys are secure and can't leak, and making sure the data is only decrypted when needed and for the time period it's needed.

Not that this is easy to get right either. But with crypto being an essentially "solved" problem, we get to spend more time ensuring those bits work properly.
Modern c++ is pretty good, honestly. With the power of STL, you can so many neat things, and make beautiful code. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEnO6SvAMo
I would rather have both. :P A fresh and original rethinking of an interactive fiction game.
I'd like to see the same map drawn out for Black Mirror's Bandersnatch. My impression when watching was it was far more superficial than the books I remember growing up with, but maybe there isn't much difference from the simple examples of this article structurally.

I wonder if the CYOA style movies will take off.
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> killing each other after WW2 over stupid things like imaginary lines drawn on soil.

Those imaginary lines drawn on soil determine how resources are allocated, for example, enabling cheap energy and customers for the US’s military industrial complex, or cheap spices and labor for the British, and so on and so forth.

Even the most advanced mammals use tribes to maximize chances of survival, and humans are no different.
If it's off-putting to _puritan_ newcomers, then good riddance, I guess.
On the opposite. It is really easy to stop big corparations barring laws. Way easier than small.

If authorities would hold Amazon responsible for the scams and IP infrightment on their platform Amazon would have to kick out half of their sellers.
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What's the Go strategy? Just never have breaking changes?
the way people see it is that I dont react to bad situations. I have been called "stone cold". I have sometimes wondered if it is related to sociopathy. I am a giving person and would rather give than receive, so am not very selfish. However, bad things just dont bother me because there is always something positive that comes out of everything.

When my wife had an aortic dissection and had a high chance of dying, people had a hard time understanding how I could be so calm and not be stressed. It wasnt that I was sure she was going to make it, just that no matter the outcome I would still find happiness.
I believe it's becouse Google is more abstract. Local stores are not shutting down due to Google. However I am equally concerned about Google.
Coming from Mathematica to Python, the lack of a assignment expressions yet inclusion of list comprehensions felt like a severe crippling of the language feature. Sure you “can still do the same through other means”, just like if, for and while are all unnecessary syntactic sugar in every language. But the thing is that list comprehensions provide a nice obvious concise way to frame your solution, but if you use it without assignment expressions you often end up repeating computations unnecessarily.
Unworthy people get into positions of authority all the time in a soft world. Peace-time generals, etc. People unworthy of power tend to run away from danger, and the worthy are willing to endure it.

Force anyone responsible for the running of a plant to live with their family right next to it. Every plant should be headed by such people, or no plant. A bit like Walter Aigner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veresk_Bridge .
Statistically, I'll die in my mid-70s (although I'm being slightly disingenuous in saying that), but I never understood why we strive to live so old anyway. After a while, what can you do? Many older people already rot in nursing homes. Perhaps if you've built something of significant value like a company or family that you want to see as long as possible it makes sense, but how will achieve that?
Matt Ridley and James Delingpole are regulars in the Spectator and Telegraph since their capture by the extreme. They regularly mangle facts, cherry pick and misquote to give highly misleading pieces. So much so they have become notorious for it. Nic Lewis, retired financier, physicist and mathematician, is not a climate scientist, despite his interest and Lawson thinktank funded paper. Calling himself an independent climate scientist doesn't make him one.

Let't take a look. Here's a report when it was published[1]. Even one of the people Mr Lewis cites disputes his claims.

The "good news" the IPCC apparently tried to hide is that the world's climate system is less sensitive to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than some scientists think it is.

The bad news for the GWPF – a secretly funded organisation founded by UK climate science sceptic Lord Nigel Lawson - is that before the ink has even dried on their new report, the organisation has been accused of cherry-picking facts to make their argument stick.

And in more bad news, one of the researchers cited by the GWPF report has told me that even if Lawson's think tank is right, then we're heading for 3C of global heating by the end of the century (which is actually very bad news).

Good prose does not make a good scientific or factual argument. It is as you say, just "good talks", or hot air. Lawson was so bad at denial that his appearances on the BBC were more a black comedy five minutes than actual contrarianism.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/0...
Thanks for this; for the few cases/year I need something like `jq`, I just find its selector syntax too hard to remember (seems a common theme). `jp` seems way more usable.
It sounds like GP is using "DMA" to mean a memory-mapped file. I recall there was discussion about how to safely handle them in Rust. See https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-unsafe-is-mmap/19635
Well, you just kinda answered your question. There is STL, Qt and Boost. Like all other languages. They do the same thing but in different capacities, you should select based on your needs. I think std::string can be supplemented for Unicode support, I am gonna say the fmt library was the supplement but I feel like I am wrong.

I used std::string and QString extensively for 4-5 years and find QString inexplicably bloated and un-intuitive for my use cases.
Do you know good product marketing courses?
Boeing chief resigns days after announcing 737 MAX production to be grounded
'The day I found out that I will likely outlive my children'
Thanks for the link.

The ground cassava is left to ferment for some days which removes MOST of the cyanide. There's little to no health control for food in these parts. I've read that over 50% of food stuff exported from West Africa to Europe and US get culled at the border.

See: http://europepmc.org/article/PMC/3074370

See the abstract at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526674/

When it's prepared with hot water, it forms a solid called Eba. And it's consumed with soup. The heating makes it safe from my own observation.
Yes, hence I prefer to use target.com and staples.com and bestbuy.com. Supposedly target.com is going that way too though, which would suck.

The good news is many manufacturers now allow you to purchase directly from their website.
That has exceedingly not been the case in recent time. Consider the existence of plea deals which punish people for insisting they be proven guilty in a court of law.
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Haha, I was wondering the same. Probably not that far. But at the same time, it is important who says what, so you can't just ignore that.
I didn't know, so, just for anyone else who didn't:

> Bazel is an open-source build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. It uses a human-readable, high-level build language. Bazel supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms. Bazel supports large codebases across multiple repositories, and large numbers of users.
Pentagon wants open source 5G solution
> hundreds of cities with subways

No, there aren't. There is exactly one (1) city in sub-Saharan Africa with a modern urban rail system, and it's Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In the rest of the continent's megacities (Nairobi, Lagos, etc) decent urban transit remains a dream. China has funded a bunch of long-distance rail, but that's primarily for trade (read: exporting raw materials).

But I still tip my pith helmet at you for crossing the DRC by Jeep!
China is exploiting them. They're not doing it out of kindness, or for some moral self-aggrandizing.
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I might be overgeneralizing, but I feel like 10-15 years ago everyone wanted to do wireless communications, now everyone wants to do AI, and probably in a few years everyone wants to do Blockchain or something else. I kinda find it hard to believe that those people are all passionate about the field, not the massive career opportunities.
Did the site name 'namewink' come from the generator?

Cool site.
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Being good at quickly figuring out the intended correct answer of multiple choice questions has two actual uses in adult life: personality & behavioral screening tests for jobs in the lower tier of the economic pyramid, and corporate/government mandated "training".
except for the most simplistic of web page "illustrations" that are nothing new, there are _no_ illustrations on this web site of illustrations.

WTF?
The accurate title would be “China launched Ethiopia’s first satellite into space.”

The original title, “Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space with China’s help”, is still mostly accurate with a generous reading.

The submitted title was strangely altered to drop the key caveat, not sure if the submitter disapproves of “Chinese influence” or something.
Western media is always anti India (largest secular democracy) and pro Pakistan (Muslim only). It makes no sense..
> without any reference

The "reference" comes from knowing the stories in English first. And also the reader's voice acting, etc.
That’s a position I understand but do not hold. I regularly cross-shop Amazon with EBay, NewEgg, B&H, random online shops I never heard of until Google found them, and even AliExpress.

With most things I order on Monday, whether they arrive Wednesday or Friday makes no practical difference to me. I either want it Monday or kind of don’t care typically.
How is SemVer next to useless? The major version bump informs you that you should go look up what breaking changes have occurred before you upgrade. It is inherently useful for under-approximating the "safe" range of versions of a piece of software that can be used, which is seen in practice in many package managers.

That it can't differentiate between those two cases is because it's not meant to. It's like complaining that the blurb of a novel is "next to useless" because it doesn't tell you the complete story in a detailed way over several hundred pages.
I think you broke the record on how much one can both look so retarded, and sure of his own intelligence with a single sentence.

I thought the concept of of freedom was learnt in primary school but if not you should check it out its a nice one.
- https://timewarrior.net/docs/

- $ timew help

- $ timew [command] help

Once learned you won't need them anymore. ;-)
Reading all the psychology books in the world will not help one who is going through one or more of these issues.

Calling them soft sciences is the most generous categorization they deserve.
It is MUCH faster.
i've been a huge fan of elixir ever since i found it a few years ago. The main web framework (phoenix) is doing some really cool stuff right now with live-view, too, and I'm pretty darn excited about it.

I've always thought that the best system for a web server would be erlang OTP, because of the design based around uptime and system recovery. It has been proven in production by a few companies now in web dev, and erlang has been used for years by telecom companies for their own infrastructure.

elixir, imo, is awesome because of the ruby-like syntax, but I would probably be using erlang for my personal projects regardless because of what I mentioned earlier.
It probably goes both ways?

It’s well known that two people can have the exact same experience (e.g. fighting in a war, experience a natural disaster) and have vastly different psychological outcomes from it. Some can deal with it easily, while others are crippled by it.
Most memorable advice I got from my engineering professor: “you can get pretty far on feelings”
I was excited about WSL when I first heard about it. But that excitement quickly faded when I realized most real apps, such as gcc, don't work under it. The best way to get a Linux prompt on Windows is to use Docker. Use the -v option to share your drive.