skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not Pharo but I work with what is possibly (probably?) the largest group of smalltalk programmers in Norway.
> However, I imagine spending an hour of your time is more than that $10 budget.

I always find this a weird way to judge things. Are people actually spending the time they'd be earning money to set these kinds of things up?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22090296.
> These findings indicate that cognitive flexibility and openness are necessary for flexible and adaptive religious commitment, and that such diversity of religious thought is dependent on dorsolateral prefrontal cortex functionality.

Fascinating! I hope this leads to more such research.
No, your questions aren't even close to being equivalent.

My questions go to the core of the problem. They expose the fallacy in the thinking. That's why gun-control advocates don't want to answer them.

Have you ever seen this website:

https://heyjackass.com/

Check it out.

So far, this year, in Chicago, 100 people have been shot and 25 have died.

Last week alone 9 people where shot and killed.

Yet NOBODY is talking about it in the media. NOBODY.

Last year?

2293 shot; 461 killed; 516 homicides.

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT. EVER!

Why?

Because Chicago has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the nation. And Chicago is proof that the approach is nothing less than stupid.

When there's a shooting at a mall and 8 people get shot it is all over every single TV network for days and days. Every single politician goes on TV talking about banning guns (mostly "assault rifles"). And yet, that is happening in Chicago EVERY SINGLE WEEK and nobody talks about it.

Guns are NOT the problem my friend. Criminals and crazy people are. Period.

I can't turn an honest person into a killer by giving them guns.

Give criminals and crazy people guns and you have a problem in your hands.

The nexus is stupidly clear and yet we seem to, for some incomprehensible reason, not want to talk about it. It's far easier to blame the hardware than the software I guess.

Go study the FBI crime data for a bit. Last I looked THOUSANDS of people were murdered using knives, hammers, baseball bats and other objects. These murders didn't happen because someone got a shiny new baseball bat or happened to find a rock! What, they were walking around, saw a rock and though: I need to kill someone!

C'mon. Let's get real. That's the only way to save lives.
Well said (although I wouldn't have included the bit about evolution). I wondered if the GP had ever heard of Jeremy Bentham and his Panopticon as I read their comment.
What problem is this trying to solve?
had a brief stint with lastpass and hated my life. 1Password is just infinitely better, no contest.
Patryk Hardziej explores a modernist approach to design in Communist Poland
Well, pretty much equal frequency.

I think the rule is usually round up $x.x3, but round down $0.08.

But there will be more 3s than 8s: Benford’s Law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
This reeks of survivorship bias to me. I much prefer Andreas Madsen's more sober and self-conscious take on independent research [0].

> I’d spend 1-2 months completing Fast.ai course V3, and spend another 4-5 months completing personal projects or participating in machine learning competitions... After six months, I’d recommend doing an internship. Then you’ll be ready to take a job in industry or do consulting to self-fund your research.

Where are these internships that will hire you based on your completion of Fast.ai (if done in 1-2 months by a beginner I assume it's only part 1) alone, especially in 2020? How many are going to place in a Kaggle competition with just half a year of experience? More importantly, just how many people are privileged/secure enough to put their all into learning, with no sense of security or peer support?

> I started working with Google because I reproduced an ML paper, wrote a blog post about it, and promoted it. Google’s brand department was looking for case studies of their products, TensorFlow in this case. They made a video about my project. Someone at Google saw the video, though my skill set could be useful, and pinged me on Twitter.

So what really mattered was self-promotion, good timing, and luck.

> Tl;dr, I spent a few years planning and embarking on personal development adventures. They were loosely modeled after the Jungian hero’s journey with the influences of Buddhism and Stoicism.

Why does the author have to present his life like one would in a fucking college essay?

[0] https://medium.com/@andreas_madsen/becoming-an-independent-r...
How is that a contradiction? Assuming one thing is not claiming I have the entire story.
This is exactly how it is.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that new devs have to always bw kept entertained and know/care very little about the business, and would rather make the company tank
and have fun experimenting and move on, than get the job done.

Maybe I'm getting old.
If all flights in the world stopped, it would have almost no effect on CO2. It would however bring the world economy to a grinding halt.

We need to focus on interventions that will actually make a difference. Sadly, most of those are through government regulation, which most major economies are unwilling to do.
Yep, it still amazes me how a lot of the criticisms of Smalltalk have been become the new, cool solution. Smalltalk on Electron would be an interesting answer.
Huh, maybe. I interpreted it as Asimov showing how perfect the rules were, in that the slightest tweak could lead to disaster.
Have you come across any lists of what the most carbon emitting things are - on a personal level?

I’m kinda curious what difference different lifestyle choices really make. Eg going vegan for a year vs no flights for a year vs getting green electricity.
Ah.. The "tackle the bigger fish first argument" - It's a false one: tackle all the independent paths at once because they are not linked. 2% is huge, its 1/50th of the burden. There are 250 economies worldwide, its larger than several nation states yet nation states are taking action.

You know where I got this? Gen. Groves. During the Manhattan project, asked if they should do one of two choices he said do both. This later paid back when it turned out thermal diffusion could pre enrich the feed for other techniques like the calutron and improve its efficiency.
but note, we're paying most of that already in the form of people who are killed and under-compensated by under-insured drivers. Increasing liability insurance minimums would roll that cost that is currently born entirely by the victim into the cost of operating a car, which is where it ought to be.
In theory they can do more security, than you get when you just store a keepass file on a server.
Things like temporarily blocking access when GeoIP information for the client changes, or a lot of secrets are accessed in bulk.
The keepass file, you only lose once and the attacker has years (or up to your next rotation) to crack it.
The thing is, "smart" home hardware is a lot less expensive and more accessible than SCADA or BACnet. I can go out and buy any number of home thermostats, and some of them are even capable of properly supporting all the functions; unfortunately I ended up with the Nest, because it has the best support for enabling both auxiliary heat and emergency heat; but it doesn't have support for interfacing via LAN, and Google rescinded the APIs. Also, the physical interface is infuriating, but it's better than the awful honeywell touchscreen garbage the previous homeowner had installed.
Should the AI get any co-author credit?

or does this fall under the Ghostwriting service?
Perhaps “Different is not always better, but better is always different” is a bit more realistic?
Everyone is the same amount of religious in my experience. The people who join an established religion gain the quality of being predictable.
"large" sample of 119 patients ...
Exfiltration of back-end data from a shelled webserver?
The solution is very careful construction of the questions. A working protocol puts a low upper bound on the prover’s probability of successful cheating.
“Look at this C++ code”

YOU BASTARD NOW I’M BLIND!

(In practice I’m pretty sure you’d typedef that, as much for maintainability as readability. Do agree though that type inferencing kicks the tar out of manifest types, at least up to the point the type inferencer gets lost.)
Will they provide thousands of tensor cpus as well
My understanding is that cancer kills you late enough in your life to has little impact on your ability to reproduce, and thus fitness in the evolutionary sense.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...

These are deaths / 100'000 people. It's a bit difficult to judge precisely in that resolution, but death by cancer is <1%/year before the age of 40. That was roughly the life expectancy (assuming you made it past childhood, big if), for humans during most of their evolution.

So the likely answer is that it never mattered to our body (or survival) to combat cancer effectively.
If I spin my own server, why would I care what anyone else has done with their server, code-wise? Does everyone in the world who has publicly installed that server owe me a copy of their source code, even if what I run and use is strictly my own server built from the upstream code?

By the way, the AGPL3 definition of "propagate" looks exactly the same as that of the the regular GPL3. Operating software as a server doesn't fall under "propagate".
Look similar to postgrest, but younger project under (L)GPL license.

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

http://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/
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I think I did this once with one password service and was surprised that they don't even send a warning email to inform me, that that just happened... very scary.
App uses voice analysis, AI to track wellness of people with mental illness
I guess I'll throw myself out as a hopefully counter-exampling data point: got a CS degree 18 years ago, concentrated on C, kernels, systems for ten years, now writing mostly React/React Native frontends and web backends. The tools are amazing. I don't miss having to compile and reboot between every attempt at a kernel change.
It looks like the author is intending to use a C to MIR compiler so that existing CRuby code can be inlined into generated MIR code. Third party code could be compiled the same way, right?

"The blue parts show the new data-flow for MJIT. When building CRuby, we could generate MIR code for the standard Ruby methods written in C. We can load this MIR code as a MIR binary. This part could be done very quickly."
Can you point to the resources you are mentioning?
more to the point, for "full self driving" even with infrastructure, the "don't hit unexpected pedestrians" technology needs to get way better. You probably can regulate transponders in cars. You probably can't regulate transponders on children.
one could a/b test the plan label and put some teeth behind the many useful assertions in this thread, if one were so inclined
Oh really? Yet you probably use Google, Facebook and a ton of other services that do far worse.
Thanks. They are.

Luckily I had some real good people around me to help me through it all.
Review the casps13 results pages and then tell about “huge margin”
> however the search space is huge and a step size of hours isn't going to cut it.

What's the rush?
The final straw for me was LastPass being very late on going WebExtension for Firefox. Not having a working password manager was not an option and the move to Bitwarden was very smooth.
Seems like if you already have a shell it'd be easiest to just dump data directly over a pipe.

I guess SQL over HTTP could be used to directly operate on databases from resource constrained devices that don't support the full socket library for whatever database you're using?
Outbreak of new virus explodes in China
Venkat is enjoyable as always, but the central conceit of this essay is an insult to crash-only programming.

The crash-only approach to feuding online is to stop responding when someone beefs with you. Don't try to mollify, don't flame back, don't explain yourself, just: close the tab, do something else, and reboot Twitter later, in a known-good state.
This reminded me of a Polish primary school reading: https://www.amazon.com/Lysek-pokladu-Idy-Morcinek-Gustaw/dp/...

Exactly on this subject.
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Strong social ties can exist without an overarching authority, or even without any sort of authoritative structure at all- I think the best thing to look at in this regard are modern subcultures (punks, hipsters, hippies, goths, burners, etc) particularly as they exist in decently-sized cities. A bunch of like-minded and like-lifestyled people with an excuse to get together; that’s at least 90% of what the old conservative/religious structures offered.
citation on that? my understanding is that therapy is our best option but that's it's unreliable and about as good as our drugs.
Imposed cognitive load of creating a simple React/Redux component
The world is a small place! I once worked for a startup, one of our investors was from Herford, apparently got rich off Bitcoin. We visited their coworking space, it was pretty fun.
You picked a strange example since so many Lisps were implemented in statically typed languages.

Here's one in C (less than 200 lines):
https://carld.github.io/2017/06/20/lisp-in-less-than-200-lin...

Here's one in Haskell: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp-in-haskell.html
Your tutorial is very good, but to able read even a few paragraphs you need to be proficient with linear algebra and calculus already.

> Most papers strike me as requiring a non-trivial knowledge of linear algebra

I think this is correct, if you consider college level linear algebra and an intuition for applying it to novel problems to be non-trivial knowledge
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of women who have tried to get pregnant have had at least 1 miscarriage in their lifetime. Fertile or not, it appears to be part of the child-bearing process given sufficient attempts to reproduce.
I think that’s spot on and relates with what I understood after reading Pirsig’s “Lila: An inquiry into morals”, where he talks about inorganic, biological, social, and intellectual patterns, when introducing his Metaphysics of Quality[1]. Capitalism would be a social pattern that is made of us, as we’re made of our cells. And just the same, what’s best for the organism as a whole does not have to be the best for a specific individual cell.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_Metaphysics_of_Qu...
We (me and a friend) did something similar for multi city round trips within Europe (https://tripchemy.com).

We created some data structures that allow almost instant searching of such routes and we have scrapers running regularly on Ryanair, easyJet, wizzair, and Transavia. You can query the algorithm here: https://algo.tripchemy.com/routes/TSF?year=2020&month=02&day...

It's based on the following Open source project which my friend made back in the day https://github.com/Whazor/Roundtrip
I agree there is some useful content in the article however there is nothing original. The article is a compilation of marketing tactics that can be found when you search for "marketing tactics". It just feels like a lazy and thrown together attempt to push site traffic for them. Maybe I am being overly critical, if the HN community as a whole likes the post and content then great!
Tl;DW: Whales clicks create enough pressure to do damage to other living things. Don't go swimming near them while they're making a long-distance phonecall.
Here's the relevant context from the study:

> Economic development, improved standards of living and sanitation, decreased chronic infections from war injuries, improved dental hygiene, the waning of tuberculosis and malaria infections, and the dawn of the antibiotic age together are likely to have decreased chronic inflammation since the 19th century. For example, in the mid-19th century, 2–3% of the population would have been living with active tuberculosis (Tiemersma et al., 2011). This figure is consistent with the UAVCW Surgeons' Certificates that reported 737 cases of active tuberculosis among 23,757 subjects (3.1%). That UAVCW veterans who reported either current tuberculosis or pneumonia had a higher temperature (0.19°C and 0.03°C respectively) than those without infectious conditions supports this theory.

I would assume that less tuberculosis is a good thing (though, this being Hacker News, someone will probably show up to question that assumption too).
I think the rates of depression and anxiety are indicative of a problem, and the answer isn't just to throw resources at it.
Based on your landing page, you default to yearly subscriptions.

Does that mean you would need to get an equivalent number of new users to pay your rent next month? Or is your monthly recurring revenue now high enough to cover your rent?

Either way, an exciting day for you I'm sure. Good luck going forward!
One "make world" and your world is changed.

Not to mention the absence of systemd and its overly-complex solution to non-problems.

FBSD-er since '98.
While that comment makes sense, I felt much less upset than my wife, and just had to be there for her. I had convinced myself that a “blighted ovum” was not a “real baby”, but had a harder time convincing my wife of that. She had everything that was like pregnancy, including awful contractions to try and eliminate that empty egg, which I could never possibly understand.
Yah good point.

Most small businesses would suffer no harm at all from an adversary with an initial $10MM allocated toward an attack. After all, most businesses have no employees who have ever done anything even remotely questionable. And besides, it's super cheap and easy to win in court if truth and justice are on your side. (and the same in print; there's no way to for an investigative journalist to create disproportionately bad press)

You're definitely correct, right, and very smart. I agree with all of your points.
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> But CLAs aren't coercive

CLAs are frequently coercive, rights depriving and generally a bad move, and I as a FOSS contributor won't sign them.

Yes, occasionally they are used correctly - but more often than not they're used to crowdsource work on what is really a proprietary codebase with crazy potential restrictions if the owning company decides to call them in.
Miscarriages are pretty common too. Anywhere from 10-25% of "recognized" pregnancies end in miscarriage. Among our close friends and family with kids (N=16), we're the only ones that has 2 or more kids and had no miscarriages.

If you have married friends or friends with kids, its probably best not to joke about when they're going to pop one out. Fertility can be long, expensive, and not very fun.
I'd say I am. It's a constant fight - use the tool that I know and move on, even if it requires some gymnastics to get it working, vs. evaluate something new that might or might not cover all the necessary use cases, and might or might not require gymnastics of its own.

You just have to take things on a case by case basis, and especially understand that you have to think about your whole team, and also recruiting new people.
That's what MIR is doing, not what JavaScriptCore is doing.

Flip thinks this isn't needed for Ruby - '[t]his project is trying to do too many things' - and that JavaScriptCore could do it already.

I think that MIR and TruffleRuby think they have to do something else (lifting C code into their IR) shows us that JavaScriptCore's approach isn't quite as immediately applicable as Filip thinks it is.
Why wouldn't they?

1. Thing X happens in our world

2. We shelter people / avoid discussing the realities of thing X

3. People that experience thing X are severely, negatively emotionally impacted

Wondering if talking about thing X more openly in our society would help avoid/temper/mitigate that impact seems... like a reasonable line of thought to me.
It's from French, where it means "lover", ie someone who loves something: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amateur#Etymology
it would be more impressive if you could implement Sleepsort in your sleep

For those aren't familiar with sleepsort, it looks something like this, where you use whatever concurrency is available in your programming language of choice to execute the for-loop in parallel

for n in array:
sleep(n)
print(n)
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1 in 4 pregnancies was the figure I was quoted, when my wife had a miscarriage.
Until more cutting edge research can suggest more promising approaches, it's unlikely that Big Co R&D spending will climb.

Alzheimer's is a bad example.

There is in fact evidence of success with treatments that treat underlying brain infection rather than preventing amyloid beta plaques from forming. 20 years of barking up the wrong tree may be at an end soon.
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Any time they spent is time they could have spent earning money instead. They may not have wanted to earn money with their free time, but did they want to set up a password manager with their free time either? It's not exactly a leisure activity for most users
This is a powerful argument from Katie Mack, true for the next few billion years:

There is virtually nothing we — or the Universe — could do to Earth that would make it less habitable than Mars. Global warming, nuclear winter, extinction-level asteroid... still easier to live in caves here than there.
> sent ~ 70 job applications for TT jobs that I believed were within my reach ... but I was not called even for a phone interview by any of the committees.

If there are around 500 applicants per position, presumably you would need to apply to around 500 positions.
Interesting how this and Valve's Proton[0] are both solutions to different cross-platform compatibility issues.

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
Who runs the Pharo site? Let's try to diagnose and help them. I don't actually believe in the hackers news hug of death, since many sites survive it just fine (because they take "static content" as seriously as one needs to in order to do so). I see that pharo.org has a "login" link at the bottom. Could the homepage be doing an auth cookie DB lookup on each pageview?
Excerpt:

"XD Pascal is a small educational compiler for a subset of the Pascal language. A native x86 machine code generator directly emits COM executables for MS-DOS. The compiler supports VGA graphics, floating-point arithmetic, etc. 32-bit Pascal source is provided."

Features

o Fast recursive descent parsing

o Native x86 code generation (COM executables)

o No external assembler or linker

o Source file inclusion facility

o Single-precision floating-point arithmetic (using the x87 FPU)

o VGA graphics support

o Compiler source for both Windows (Delphi) and DOS (TMT Pascal)
I don't think it matters what bash actually does, the issue (as I see it) is that when a program calls write(N, ...) it sometimes wants to refer to the "stale" file descriptor N. Consider this contrived example:

write(STDERR_FILENO,"test",4); // OK, write to normal stderr
close(STDERR_FILENO);
open(....); // Open some log file
// later
write(STDERR_FILENO,"x",1); // OK, write to log file

Even though fd 2 refers to different files I think the above is required to work for POSIX compliance.
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Well, you just redefined accurate to "accurate enough that we can extract actionable information from it". Your statement is true now.

BTW, I never say never.
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