skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. When I see a web page with this style, I just know that I'll have to dig really deep to find any concrete information about what the tech is actually about. There might be a link with the caption "how X works", but it will almost certainly take me to a simplified list of superficial features along the lines of "achieves 20% more goodness" instead of telling me anything about how the product actually functions.
Software Circus free conf about anything from K8s to steam engines is live now
I seriously question the idea of comparing TikTok to the entirety of the American film and media industry. A better comparison would be to SnapChat.
Since New Zealand passed MMP 30 years ago, every Prime Minister has come from the same two parties that have dominated NZ politics since 1935.

Two party systems also are built on coalitions. It isn't as if "Democrat" or "Labor" is a unified ideology.

I'm all for MMP but I don't think it will fix any problems in American politics.

Just introducing MMP would add another veto point in an American political system that already struggles to actually accomplish anything.
Have you looked at Delphi? Single executable, small size, multi platform if you want it, etc
If exercise was a drug, no one would believe it could have so many positive effects.
Radiation Detector for Cat Flap Control and Nuclear Orbital Peace-Keeping Bomb
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How is the literal difference between conspiracy theory and fact the problem here?
It seems like a good funding model for basic research to leverage the size of monopoly companies like those mentioned.

In the monopoly position they are no longer concerned about competition so don't need to worry about their position ever more. Unlike startups which are constantly in survival mode so basic research with long term benefits is like the last thing they would spend money on.

Long term basic research in academic settings is also not very viable. It seems to favor vocal people with grant hunting skills instead of true researchers. Also academic environment seems to diverge away from practicing of science to more like practicing of religion by studying and promoting either topics completely ungrounded to reality or promoting outright politicized topics.

Monopoly companies on the other hand have a good track record of amazing research which is still practical but with long term vision which can have great benefits to the entire society.

So monopoly companies should not be broken up but forced to allocate percentage of revenue to this research like the examples of Xerox PARC and AT&T Bell Labs. If the companies have the privilege of no competition they should pay heavily for it.

Also since monopolies often fall into caregory of too-big-to-fail companies necessary for economy they should be paying a bailout tax - because you know they will need bailout money in crises, so better to fund it upfront instead of being so surprised that we need bailouts every time the market wobbles.

Monopolies are not very well studied by political and economics circles - everybody fears them and think of them as bad. They are inevitable anyway - infrastructure networks can't be form a competition unless a new technology appears. Maybe monopolies have a natural role in society.

Embrace, not fear, the monopoly. But understand it is a monopoly and you grant it expensive privileges that they would otherwise use to extract rents from the society. Let them pay for the privileges appropriately and you can form a nice symbiotic relationship with monopolies.
If visual {x} unlocks a ton of value you'd expect someone would have been doing visual math or visual novels by now and the market would eat it up. It may exist but it didn't own the market for literature or science. Written word is still king. Not sure off hand what the advantage is but there does seem to be 'something' keeping writing on top of a visual centric approach across the board, not just in programming. Even on imgur where images are king the comments are mostly text.
Microsoft embracing things is definitely not a good thing. There are plenty of reasons to put irrelevant stuff on their very own Github, but altruism is very down on that list when it comes to enterprise, especially Microsoft. Fool me once and all that.
Microsoft might be pioneering the wolf in sheep clothing model, but I for one, better liked the honest, openly hostile approach.

I'm going to reconsider my point when everyone can compile their own fork of Windows and Office.
I wrote my thoughts on exactly this question here (long read, sorry): https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23245431
It's anecdotal, but if you follow https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/ there are tons of similar anecdotes. In a large enough number anecdotes make a statistic.

Also, I claim that there was not even time to test the reliability of the serological tests an actual patients. So, anecdotes may be all data we have.
We can detect corruption in 15/16 times. In our tests, when we didn't detect a corruption, the program still crashed, but without a proper error message. One should remember that the pointer is masked, so an attacker without the secret mask won't be able to control the reveal()ed pointer. And using a garbled pointer won't give the attacker anything useful, and most probably it will crash the target program.
Sadly I have had to truncate the patent title due to character limitations. It is actually “Photon Push-Pull Radiation Detector For Use in Chromatically Selective Cat Flap Control And 1000 Megaton Earth-Orbital Peace-Keeping Bomb”.

In a nutshell, this patent simultaneously describes an invention that detects changes in radiation to allow a ginger cat to enter a house whilst excluding a black cat, and also a way of detecting a nuclear attack on the earth at which point a satellite will retaliate with a 1,000 megaton nuclear bomb on the aggressor.
How is "safe C" a variant language when it is within what the standard allows?
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There are almost 300 comments on this story and not one of them (that I read) has mentioned how shady the Japanese government have been in the handling of this case. They basically conspired with management at Nissan to have Ghosn taken into custody on trumped up commercial charges because they weren't happy with how they perceived Ghosn was planning to deal with Nissan which were entirely legal.

Once they had him in custody they then proceeded drag out the process of his legal situation when they ought to have proceeded as promptly as possible. But since they didn't have much of a legal case they decided to just drag their feet and let him rot in custody.

US authorities would do well to put as much investigation effort into the process in Japan as they put in investigating these two.
Well, to be fair, sometimes the X is a Greek upper case Chi. Mathematics ran out of Greek and Roman a while back and Hebrew has appeared - א (as in "Aleph Null")
What do you mean by "empirical"? Are you saying that eastern medicine is not based on empirical evidence, ie. observation and experimentation, but on some other approach?
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Not yet. Working with each open-source demanded a lot of effort, so we were hoping that integrating it into a few dominant libraries will attract the attention of the rest. We will happily assist them if they need/want our help.
Lame question: how do you find such grants?
How do doctors do the vision correction themselves
There's a reason why a lot of freelancers prefer to work from coffee shop or coworking spaces.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the people commenting on this thread have never actually lived through working without an office for years, and these people have no idea what they are talking about.

Here's what happens to so called WFH people:

Phase 1. It's exciting to work independently and productivity rises for a couple of weeks.

Phase 2. Working from home gets old very very fast, and you end up pushing yourself to go work at more public places like coffee shop (otherwise your productivity goes down no matter how productive a person you are).

Phase 3. If you work out of coffee shops for a long period of time, this gets old too. Not everyone reaches this state but many people do. You would rather work from a fixed place with less uncertainties than floating around different coffee shops every day. And this is why coworking spaces exist and people pay a lot of money to work out of coworking spaces.
But they do? (e.g. xbps-remove -R/--recursive <pkgname>)
The twitter account got suspended when the date of birth of said account was updated to the day of the first commit in Github for this project.

A case was opened on Sunday 16 May 2020, but Twitter Support have been completely unresponsive up to now, 21 May 2020.
I'm an NHS doctor – and I've had enough of people clapping for me
My startup Trigami was leading nowhere. We basically had two options: (1) go out of business, (2) learn how to sell.

We chose option two, and quadrupled our revenue in 12 months, and achieved $1 million in revenue after two years.

The post above is a summary of what I have learned in the process.
Pacman can remove dependencies that are not used: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#...

This is explicit rather than implicit but it works even on one package.
The discussion on this site has really deteriorated. Lots of people have kids or they have spouses who also work-from-home. That can make it significantly harder to find the space and environment to work in the home.
looks like an obvious evolution of colorForth[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorForth
It is not #3, if we believe what they say in the study:

"The test had a 98.3% specificity and 100% sensitivity"

I.e. only 1.7% likelihood of false positives

EDIT: And no case was missed
I like it. This is our first time moving to live and work in a country away from Melbourne, and we took a while to decide where we would do it with Singapore always topping the list.

That said, it hasn't been easy. Grappling with all the usual tasks with getting set up in a new country + dealing with the pandemic and "Circuit Breaker" has been a challenge for our family, but like everyone else, we're doing our best to stay positive and adjust.
But it makes reflection so easy. I've never known a "modern" language to have such simple reflection without a bunch of boilerplate (Java, C#, Python gets close, Scala)... People harp on PHP a ton, but it's really darn powerful if used correctly. The trick is finding people who know how to use it correctly.
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Snowbrains.com was registered on 2012-06-19, it has a very short living memory.
Serious question: is it a soft power win for China if most non-Chinese users don't think of it as a Chinese product?
I think every country in Europe is picking its own rules. Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands use 1½m, for example, as does Australia (not in the EU, just mentioning it), and France and Austria say “at least one meter”.
> - Some great researchers are not very good at convincing.

Reminds me of this.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20101209.gif
The media is full of news about the unreliability of antibody tests. Search "antibody tests unreliable" and you will see.

Just one example here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/uk-government-...
Water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis body disposal)
What were your constraints in performance? I'm surprised Laravel is considered slow.

Have you considered sticking to it and applying some caching layer on top of it?
I think the patients doing great with ‘just antibodies’ would take issue with your analysis.
Yeah I was trying to do Linux things on my Chromebook and some blog or other recommended Nix as package manager. I was like cool this is like apt-get but trendy I'll try it.

I then proceeded for like an hour to try and figure out how you say apt-get install in Nix. There was all this documentation but none of it said "here's how you install emacs and stop thinking about Nix"
And to add to that. Once reflection becomes a "tool in your toolbox" so many problems can be solved easily with it in other languages. Then you bash your head against poor documentation and slow execution (looking at you Scala).
Yes, I know, I was just pointing out the distance is slightly bigger
I love Microsoft Access and think it's a great tool, but am struggling to think of any good business use cases that aren't covered better by Microsoft PowerBI
just make a hash map where key = actual variable name and value = x
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Of course it’s a bad situation. Just explaining why some kids may not have had broken bones.

If you’re not in the upper class or extremely poor class in the US, there is no safety net, so if you want any chance of clawing your way up to having the various securities of life, you have to play it safe.
I remember always being annoyed at spherical coordinates when I was taking both math and physics classes in university. They use the same symbols but two of them are swapped.
It is also for making under-utilised property already built up, being used in more productive ways.
Only if by next you mean last and by 'major problem' you mean 'mostly ignored due to lack of tangible accountability for anyone involved'
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Why not use language server specs for something like this?
Your work buddys today will be gone tomorrow. Most work relationships are shallow and transitory. If that's your thing because you're extroverted then great but a lot of people in tech are more ambiverted or introverted, they value deeper more meaningful relationships.

What I see a lot is introverted or ambiverted people tricked into believing their work buddies will call after they leave the company. Tricked into spending time on this shallowness outside of work hours + commute time over spending time with the people in their lives that really matter and will be there for them in darker times.

Sure there are a minority of extroverted people who want to be in the office because they want social time all the time, shallow or not. There are also parents who want some time away from home. On the other hand there are introverted people who want to be in the office because that's the only place they know how to get their social need filled anymore even though it's not truly fulfilling.
VSCollectionKit: Swift Component based lib for UICollectionView
Substack and it’s perverse companion OnlyFans are good examples of this. Both are growing enormously right now as I imagine a lot of unemployed people are looking to monetize themselves directly.
“ Another thing I sometimes do, somewhat akin to what is described in the article, is just close my eyes and be, for a bit. I would call it meditation but there really isn't much thinking -- just feeling what I feel. Accepting where I am, as best I can.”

Essentially, you’re doing shamatha meditation.

https://shambhala.org/frequently-asked-questions/

Another beneficial practice is loving-kindness meditation.

https://www.mindful.org/loving-kindness-takes-time-sharon-sa...

Meditation helps cut through the flurry of thoughts in our heads and return us to our basic experience of living in the present moment. We spend so much of our time living in the past (remembering or regretting), or the future (planning), or in fantasies or distressing scenarios that we create in our minds. It’s good to simply be in our bodies where we are in the present moment from time to time.
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Even without technically changing font, there are more than you might expect: XxˣₓẊẋẌẍⅩⅹ⠭ꭖꭗꭘꭙ🄧⒳ⓍⓧＸｘ𝐗𝐱𝑋𝑥𝑿𝒙𝓍𝓧𝔁𝔛𝔵𝕏𝕩𝖃𝖝𝖷𝗑𝗫𝘅𝘟𝘹𝙓𝙭𝚇𝚡🅇🅧🆇

https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/mathematical-alphanumeri...
>>> a far more common reason in the wild for a connection disappearing is...

You are correct about the failure modes and mitigations in the general case, however for MySQL the most common reason by far for connections to disappear is the wait_timeout systematically being misconfigured and way too short.

Databases configured to drop connections every few seconds do drop client connections all the time. No surprise.
Literally nothing in this article could be described as "kawaii", kawaii is meant to invoke the same feelings you'd get from looking at a cute kitten. None of these illustrations do that or set out to do that.

"Corporate Memphis" is one way I've seen this described more accurately [0].

[0] https://qz.com/quartzy/1728767/why-editorial-illustrations-l...
I wrote an amalgamation tool once that took all my project files hierarchically together and built one big source file, after compiling it became one EXE file. Made it super easy to move projects to different machines for compilation.

on most windows machines where the .net framework is installed you can find a compiler.

my motivation for building this tool was to have access to some basic tools in a locked-down enterprise environment ducks
1. Apparently China can now make the balls for ballpoint pens (a metallurgical milestone, supposedly?): https://www.businessinsider.com/china-has-finally-figured-ou...

2. Fab process tech is pretty firmly in Dutch/Swiss/Japanese hands I think? In terms of fabs, SMIC is planning to start 7nm process this year, so about 3 years behind: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/chinese-fab-smic-to-sta...

3. Anecdotally I visited an optics tradeshow in Shenzhen and it was pretty impressive what was available in advanced lenses for process control. But I'm no expert. Consumer camera lenses from China have been getting better and better.

4. It's not really hard to make mechanical watches if you have great CNC machines. Which are still dominated by Switzerland (Tornos), Germany (Kern), Japan (many, including Tsugami). Seagull have been making decent mechanical watches for >60 years...

5. China is pushing heavily on gene therapy which may turn out to be a big part of future medicine
Curious... I can't figure out if this is completely serious. There are what are either tongue in cheek remarks, or they are taking themselves very seriously...

> "removing the awkward necessity of writing text"

> "as powerful as other languages and significantly more colorful"

> "we believe it will appeal to many types of students who may not have an interest in traditional text-based programming, including painters, graphic designers, and the illiterate."

I think it might be more effective to teach the illiterate to read first rather than code... Maybe it's worth it if learning to code inspires them to become literate?
Unrelated question: what are the main reasons (aside from the obvious file format problems) for which we don't have rich text syntax?

Imagine having a e.g. link in the code. Wouldn't that be useful?
For me, I use SharePoint to find files to edit and collaborate on. And to put context around files so they can be found and used.

Files can be opened directly from within word or excel, but browsing a team’s SharePoint is faster than navigating Excel’s open dialog. Similar to how browsing File Explorer or Finder and then opening a file is faster.

So avoiding SharePoint isn’t very likely, I think.
Honestly .. I would love for this to happen.
Security/crypto usability has a tragedy of the commons type underinvestment problem. No one does it well. You can have beautiful designs but it's pretty much impossible to monetize them because crypto exists at such a fundamental level, so nothing ever evolves.
Exempli gratia, ~10 years of blockchain apps/investment have passed and I still use vim to hand edit my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file.
That is not entirely true, from my recollection variable names could be longer but only two characters were significant.
VTOL
VSCollectionKit is a library for building applications views/screens in a consistent and understandable way, with advantages like composition, independent and testing.

VSCollectionView a handy framework supporting the functionality of a UICollectionView or UICollectionViewController in a much simpler way. VSCollectionKit also avoids a lot of collectionView related code hassle and duplicates.

Lets see what we get using this kit for developing the application views

### Composition ###: VSCollectionKit breaks down larger features into smaller components that can be isolated modules and be easily combined to form a full feature.

### Mobility ###: Using VSCollectionKit, we can develop a component to be independent ie., the component doesn’t know anything about the user using it. This gives us a confident of using it in multiple places of the same project hassle-free.

### Testing ###: Using VSCollectionKit, each and every component can be tested individually. As it makes smaller independent components to become a bigger complex view controller, there will be less or NIL integrity issues (fixing in one place which causes a bug in a different place).
>Programming becomes more approachable to first-timers.

As you said, Scratch is used in education for exactly this purpose. Visual programming fills the niche of high level scripting, when you have a system and want to script it in Excel style. On lower levels text is easier to deal with.
Track changes can’t be turned on and off to replay versions. There is compare document, but it takes longer and is one version at a time.

Blame goes through the entire history of a file.
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