skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I am the creator of the language, my name is Gabor. You can ask questions if you like.

To answer some:

- Yes, we use machine translations, they serve as an example, they are far from perfect. Some language files are translated by native speakers. I think the website needs to be more clear about this.

- I use gendered language because coding is a men's job, women belong in the kitchen! ;-). No, just joking. Women are also welcome to become Citrine users. I just think the opening sentence is beautiful, it combines the concepts of male and female in a lovely, natural way ignoring today's PC-bullshit.

- No, Emoji-language is not allowed in the core. I only support natural languages. Endangered languages (EGIDS6 and higher) are also welcome. There is no limit.

I understand that there will be a lot of hate because of this language. I even received death threats over it. When a young developer I worked with brought up the idea I even laughed at him. However as I thought it over, the idea began to grow on me and I longed for a purely Dutch programming language (I had created one as a child for the C64 by just overriding the BASIC tokens). I figured that, if I longed for such a thing, maybe others do as well. I decided to share my code after some years just to give anyone interested some kind of basis or just discuss it.

It is important to realize that Citrine is trying to strike a balance. Programs will never read like a book. However, having a programming language using your own words and grammar just feels better and makes me more productive, I also tend to make fewer mistakes. The problem with just mixing Dutch with English programming languages is that is extremely ugly, also you never know when it's justified to use Dutch or English, especially when interacting with established English conventions, 3rd party software libraries or embedded languages in code (like shell or SQL). The other solution, translating everything into English is just horrible. I have encountered so many bugs that stemmed from miscommunication because of translation issues to English that I believe this will become a dead end eventually. One technique I am working on, that might help to improve the readability even further is simple macro processing, so you can say 'create a new Object' instead of 'Object new'.

Anyway, if you have any questions let me know, always happy to answer ;-)
Only the first 3d model on that first linked page is for a knob. The others are for handles.
With https://github.com/TreeTide/underhood, my goal is to provide a read-only view of code, geared for understanding and debugging. Having to maintain the ability to edit comes with constraints.
Swift had a bunch for a while too, but it’s getting an official one as well. Again, that’s only because the language provides the right tools for it to exist, in languages where you don’t have this you’re going to have a very hard time trying to add these things in.
i am trying to picture this in my head. the food cart is empty. we need to bring it back to the front for a refill. nosedive...
My wife got covid in march. She wasn't hospitalised, but we did have to call an ambulance multiple times. She 'recovered' and was fine for about a week before developing most of these symptoms.

The most infuriating part is how little help there is from medical professionals. She's now 4 months in with what can only be seen as a chronic health problem, but the only medical advice doctors will give her is to rest.

After she recovered and came down with the post-covid symptoms, we went to a doctor whose best guess was that she had somehow got another viral infection (despite not leaving the house). My only hope is that as these symptoms become more widespread and well-known, long-term support is made available.

It's incredibly frustrating that we've known about these issues for a couple of months (and so have many others, old.reddit.com/r/covid19positive was full of similar stories in march). Meanwhile it seems like medical professionals are only just starting to consider that it can affect you for more than a couple of weeks.
When was the last time Switzerland invaded a sovereign nation, reduced its primary cities to piles of smoking rubble, callously ignored the refugees thus created, and continued a daily program of bombing innocent civilians into oblivion?

Yes, countries should have a military to defend themselves. That is not what America is doing.
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I’ve always thought the plastic bag bans were a bit silly. Those are definitely one of the more reusable and recyclable of the disposable plastic items.
Wow, I know Hooke was a complete dick to Newton over the optics, but I didn't realize he tried to shaft Newton _again_.
> why would housing price decrease?

One possible reason is because more housing requires more infrastructure expenses.

These expenses will be paid from taxes. Since you cannot tax low-income people, either current residents will see their bill going up, or the infrastructure will be now underfunded.

It takes some time for the infrastructure to fall apart though, so the effect may be not immediate.
For me, the biggest survival filter is when I price things out.

Almost invariably I find the product idea to be more expensive then I consider a reasonable price.

The next stage of death is the marketing. I've gone through about 25 marketing books, careful notes, annotations, etc, and honestly it's still the most common place of death. Money helps a lot here. So if you want that then go back to stage 1 and see if the price still works.

Then the things that pass that have logistics hurdles in the facilitation of the demand. There's delays, quality slippage, customer relations, it's not easy. You may get caught with a large stock and demand slips and you have to figure out storage, that's an additional cost on things that haven't even sold yet. Ackk.. The details are where the death is.

Innovation exists outside of all of this. Every now and then I hear about someone that went from innovation to product, experienced zero of these issues and just sailed in on easy street.

Those people are just lottery winners by another name. Screw them, that's not common reality. The world has randomness, it can be favorable, luck is something very real.

The hard knock strategies to modest success where you're not worrying yourself to sleep every night don't make sexy stories but it's the 99%. Expect nothing less.
Just cheaper for whoever salvages the ship -- somebody else had to pay for the sunken cost of building and sinking the ship.
Tangentially related, but relevant to some of the discussion here, and a good read:

Christopher Wylie: can fashion save the world?

http://www.archive.is/hoUbT

https://www.google.com/search?q=Christopher+Wylie+can+fashio...

>'Wylie started work as a fashion trend forecaster, before switching roles to help the Liberal Democrats update their voter targeting. He saw the potential for harvesting Facebook data to help build psychological profiles of its users, which could in turn be used to target them with political ads. It was an idea that, in 2013, got him hired at the SCL Group — the parent company of Cambridge Analytica.

...Fashion and music, Wylie says, are among the best predictors of political orientation. And as such, they have the potential to help shift the political conversation. The following is an edited and abridged transcript of a conversation he had with Imran Amed, the BoF founder, and the FT to explain how fashion is in the perfect position to make the world a better place.'
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> people have a hard time writing their ideas about designs & features down, because they don't know what they want

From an academic standpoint, writing is part of the thinking process. If you haven't written it down, you haven't fully thought it through. If it feels difficult, that's probably because your understanding isn't as complete as you thought it was.

From a software development standpoint, implementing something is part of the thinking process. Ever notice how the requirements have a tendency to break as soon as you actually try to implement them? If a spot seems difficult it just means you hadn't really figured it out yet.
Houses do depreciate like cars. Houses are money pits. It’s land that is the investment. The earth may have a huge amount of land but the amount of desirable land is tiny by comparison.

Lots of people will spend a million dollars on a house and tear it down to the ground so they can rebuild. To them, the house essentially had negative value. The land was all they wanted.
I would have expected a mention of Roslyn which powers Visual Studio (Not code).
Sort of similar to the IntelliJ approach but it is also what drives the C# compiler, it maintains the code model (actually 2 of them, syntactic and semantic) which makes it pretty powerful.
It is multi language (VB, C# and I think F# now too?) but it’s perhaps not as universal as the Language Server Approach
Well, you'd need to train it from scratch to operate on character level. And it would have smaller context, thus lower quality. So if you want same quality, you need much bigger context.

Still, would be an interesting experiment. Gwern swears it would improve stuff, so worth trying and comparing, I guess
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It’s been a observation for quite sometime add Rust to any heading and most likely will end up on top of HN.

Didn’t expect such a trivial thing to be in front of HN, but probably Rust marketing and evangelist are all on HN waiting to move them to top.

Stil waiting for good library in rust not dependent on C or unsafe code. Looking at most of the cargo libraries most good one’s are a wrapper around C or C++ library or use unsafe code.
True, but it is familiar and quite useful for it's purpose (running scripts) :)

For build it mostly works fine. Doing anything else with it would be a total pain.
They could have just used a special character and escaped names containing it.
This seems like a typical outcome of Germany's approach to welfare in general - everything is extremely granular. Depending on what you're paid, how you work, and how long you've been working, you can expect utterly different benefits across the spectrum.

Coming from a country with a flat pension, the difference is visible. There are a lot of really poor old people here.

Then again, there are many fewer really poor young people.
Supposedly Helm.ai is using compressed sensing in some way for self-driving car vision. According to an article/interview I saw.

The way it was mentioned made it sound like the compression could be very smart somehow in terms of useful feature extraction. Although I was probably just reading too much into a fluff-piece. Maybe they are just using it to make it easier to get real-time processing (via normal deep learning techniques).
So... to my perspective, monolatry is the point. Monotheism is a good enough approximation in practice though.

Also, it's not the idea of monolatry or monotheism that matters... it's the development of a religious culture than is effective at banning other religions. This is what made monotheism what it is, historically.
Is there any space for new Udemy instructors in PostgreSQL and Oracle?
Is basic english knowledge will be Ok? Do you preffer longer or shorter courses?
Just take a handbag.
In the book the meaning of the quote is more to the effect of how truly great athletes can perform on the verge of what spectators would consider inhuman or possible. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that language and syntax would be responsible for these kinds of actions and flow. I'd argue that getting into such a state is not possible while the mind is caught up in the language of things rather than the experience itself, and reacting to it directly. This is what I meant by the quiet consciousness, devoid of language or syntax.
The problem only occurs if the assumption of inventing zoom was priced into the cisco stock. If Cisco is priced at a multiple of earnings then shareholders get a totally fine deal and can invest their leftover money into startups.
The guy who introduced a public transport mask requirement after the epidemic is over? Rocks isn't the word I'd use.
https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/blob/master/...
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As others said, simply separating the CO2 away would mostly get rid of the problem - all non-stable isotopes of Oxygen have a max half life of 122 seconds, but, for the record, isotopic separation is easy when there is a very large difference in atomic weight.

In Uranium's case it's difficult because it's 235/238 = 1.28% (actually way worse - Uranium hexafluoride is used, which adds 114 units, bringing the ratio down to 0.86%)

In Oxygen's case the ratio would be at least 6.6% (15 vs 16).

Most importantly in Uranium you are interested in the tiny amount of U235, while in Oxygen you'd be interested in the huge bulk of O16, O17, O18, which are the stable isotopes. O16 alone is 99.762% of all Oxygen, and you can afford to lose half in your centrifuge if it spares you a few cycles, it's not exactly hard to come by.
I had a motorcycle accident in Tajikistan. No insurance. It just doesn't exist there. Different country, but similar situation. I was debating getting rid of the motorcycle vs fixing it and going home. The latter isn't so easy when you are this far. The former would incur a 800€ import fee (on a heavily damaged 6000€ bike). The process was far from simple and involved greasing a few hands. This process is documented by Mongol Rally participants who had to pay similar fees for 500€ cars.

In the end I limped to Kazakhstan, got the bike hastily fixed and rode back to Germany. 20000 km later it's mostly fixed and it runs fine. Most importantly, I didn't get hurt.
Sorry for your experience. Because I am also the husband of a sick wife, I can relate to you. My own feelings swing between hope and despair and a dread of future is emerging.

Realistically, what do you expect from medical professionals?
> The most infuriating part is how little help there is from medical professionals (...) the only medical advice doctors will give her is to rest

I don't think it's bad will, they simply have no idea what to do. Just see what the research looks like: "they" are still busy categorising symptoms. Understanding of this disease is still in early stages. It will improve.

Mind boggling how just a few months ago all my friends were throwing the 0.x% CFR numbers for our age group, implying that there is nothing to be afraid of. There's much so more complexity and many unknown unknowns in health!
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> it seems like it could be a real game changer in general for IoT.

How so? IMO GNU/Linux is a very good IoT os, especially since the GPL compels companies to release firmware source so the community can patch the device after the company abandons it.
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> I dont think there is any amount of money i could offer to safely escape a drunk driving ticket

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-buy-new-york-citys-get-out-of-...
Why would that ever be a thing when the vast majority of consumers connect to WiFi anyway.

And why wouldn’t they simply just require an internet connection to display anything?
Well just in terms of chance of infection a mass gathering is much worse than individuals refusing to follow orders. We have those her e in Germany as well, including right and left wing conspiracy theorists.
What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s?
Yeah I have front cargo pockets on my ski trousers. They’re a great placement for regular access when wearing a pack and double as a handy place to put stuff when working in snow.

https://www.norrona.com/en-GB/products/lofoten/lofoten-gore-...

In that style I broke from wearing Carhartt WIP chinos and bought some of these as they had the front pockets.

https://tripleaughtdesign.com/shop/aspect-rs-pant/

They have a pretty nice cut and don’t scream militia member quite so much as the Crye trousers.
Coursera has a financial aid program for this, and it is easy to avail if one is a student from developing countries or low income households. edX has a similar program as well, where the price will get reduced to around 1/10th of original cost. In Coursera, the price is completely discounted and you can do the course for free.
See: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/209819033-Ap...
In my example, we have forgotten to validate user data. We are proceeding with the invalid data as if its trusted, and we get an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds - that is a bug, not user error; we should have told the customer that 11 is not valid, instead we will have to tell them that an unspecified error occurred. If this were C++, it may well lead to memory corruption, so dumping core would almost certainly be the safest thing to do. But if it's Java, we can safely continue with program execution, in this case.

In other cases, even in Java, this may lead to corruption. For example, if we wrote that 11 into some kind of configuration file, we may have just corrupted the system persistently, even if we handle the error. So I'm not claiming that his is always a safe thing to do.

However, dumping core is also not safe a lot of the time. In fact, in multi-threaded processes, it can be argued that it is most likely unsafe to crash [as long as there is any kind of persistent state, such as a file] for the same reason interrupting a thread is inherently unsafe - there is absolutely no guarantee possible for what will happen if a thread is interrupted at an arbitrary point.
It's fascinating that in 1983 it was thought that a 768-bit RSA number would take 40 million years to factor. (It actually took 26 - RSA-768 was factored in 2009.)
OK - but what are the stats here? Worldometer shows that there are more than 8 million Covid survivors, how many of them have the prolonged symptoms? 8 million is really many people - so I would not be surprised if there are a few strange stories (https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood as always).
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Every empire collapsed. That didn't stop every other large state from creating one.
For the which is heavier question, does it always pick the latter option?
Why do people go to restaurants? It’s not about the food
But that's not what you said.

You said militaries don't construct, they destroy. You can't have a society without a military. You should review your posts before ranting incoherently and contradicting yourself constantly.

Aside from painting all military units as psychopaths you might want to understand why you feel the need to hate America, when all militaries are combatants. All is fair in love and war, there is not one military that is innocent of crime nor any people or nation.
Notwithstanding your condescending tone of stating something obvious to me as a question, I’m not talking about the pandemic at all. The majority of communication between people is electronic now, messaging, email, the Internet as a whole. You have to go back nearly a couple of decades really to see teenagers (or many adults) who are not glued to their phones and primarily communicating in a digital way. And with regards to the OP, you certainly can’t replicate an intellectual coffeehouse digitally.

It’s unfortunate, because the raw improvised social interaction of recent eras past is forever gone, and the newer generations will never know what they missed.
If my memory doesn't fail me, Microsoft Office Basic in the 90s had localized keywords. Word, Access, Excel had English keywords in the US edition and Italian keywords in the Italian one. Probably the same in all the other countries. I don't remember if programs were portable across languages. VBA is 100% English now and has been for a long time.
> with a co-routine flavour.

Kind-of-but-not-exactly. There are no coroutines whatsoever; the main technical defining point is that the stack is not unwound when the error happens, but it is wound further. Some code is executed that then searches the dynamic environment for matching error handlers, which are executed sequentially; these are then capable of executing arbitrary code provided from earlier in the stack in form of invoking so-called restarts; both handlers and restarts are also capable of performing transfers of control to any point on the stack that was properly annotated as being available for such.
To me Coursera has become worthless. It started by giving me a chance to learn about machine learning and some data science. I did 3 courses and was happy with the result. Then they had to screw up their login. It is now impossible to even log in for me, as it depends completely on Google Shittylytics. I simply refuse to use it. There is utter disregard for users built into the login, the very first thing you need.

What's more is, that without logging in, you apparently cannot deactivate the newsletter which keeps spamming me with their incessant "learning how to learn", which I really do not need. Not even sure it is legal to require login for unsubscribing to a newsletter instead of providing me a magic link.
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More coherent than Trump
> Lots of people will spend a million dollars on a house and tear it down to the ground so they can rebuild.

At this stage, you're not talking about regular people who are holding their house as their nest egg.

Many, many people hold their house as a location they can put money every month that won't disappear and someday might make more money.

The kind of people that are buying houses for the land and the kind of people that are buying existing houses to live in are two entirely different income brackets.

Lots and lots of people are in the poorer income bracket.
Zoom didn't succeed at Cisco's failure. It wasn't Cisco's lunch that was eaten. Zoom succeeded because the founder left and organized a venture. A new organization, a new culture, new leadership, and so so much luck contribute to the outcome.

Only thing Cisco could have done better was establish a venture capital division to fund work beyond its internal controls. Yet, they would probably only fund ideas by top performers and this in itself wouldn't ensure greater success because metrics, politics and culture driving employees performance do not imply excellence or deficits.
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Nic Cammarata on Twitter pointed out that if the prompt gives GPT-3 permission to indicate questions are ridiculous, it'll do so reliably:

https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1284050958977130497
> Racket's graph library can do everything jgraphx can do

What I need is to make a diagram from a file produced by diagrams.net without me writing the parser (JGraphX can already parse diagrams.net's xml), show me a window where I can select and adjust elements by hand, transform the diagram programmatically in a language where I have both type-checking and good completion for (eg) the selected objects, export back to diagrams.net's format. Occasionally I want to extend the already interactive window myself. I also evaluated Typed Racket before picking Kawa and the JVM, but JGraphX was just a more appropriate tool for this specific workflow.

> There's also this (and others) for selenium

I remember finding that, and I counted it as a subset of Selenium's functionality rather than equivalent.

I agree on the sentiment on Racket though, as for the language itself Java was a second choice for me. What eventually convinced me to invest in it was that I could always call what I had already written from other languages on the JVM (mainly Scala and Kawa, which also happen to have decent repls) without writing any glue code.
Incidentally, this could really kickstart the blockchain protocol as a personal web-ID protocol to signal human autorship in the growing and growing sea of non-human content.