skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaning is inherently contextual, so different things meaning different things in different contexts is the norm, not the exception. Do I get upset that a "string" isn't made of "thread"s?

It is true that mathematics is closer to programming than tailoring is, but you can't escape this issue. So I don't get particularly worked up about it.

(This context is why this matters too; "vector" as a term for this is established, just like the linear algebra term is established.)

(I do like to joke about getting worked up about this though, but I pick on String, which should be StrBuf, instead of vectors.)
Mosaic: A Budget-Conscious Storage Engine for Relational Database Systems [pdf]
Yes. Anyone reading this: Please do not take TV and film sci-fi to be representative of book sci-fi. This is indeed generally true, of more than just sci-fi.
With git it's also possible to commit directly to master. An SVN-like workflow is entirely possible. But git can do more, and allows very different workflows that allow a more distributed way of working.

Of course your company needs to use a workflow that works for what you need it to do. It's also possible that the company needs to invest in a bit of training here. Having your employees working with a version control system they're not comfortable with can become a big problem.
I will never read "ometti" in the same (sane) way again.
We have a rule in our office that, if you leave the office, you leave your light on.

We have an administrator who gets visibly upset if it appears that we are not in our office 8-5 at least.

And the programs I work with (outside of tech) work offsite. If they're here, they're prepping. The real work happens out in the community.

Old timey work mentality = broken.
So why not simply remove raid 5/6 and solve the last few things on the roadmap. Being stable and seen as save by most people is much more important than having some features almost nobody is using in production.
>>> " ".join([1.5, "hello", None])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, float found

Why would `[1.5, "hello", None].join(" ")` be any different?
For those interested in reproducible research, the authors have made their Sage notebooks available.

Arxiv link to the paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04131

Sage notebooks:
http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/aulicino/dodecahedron/
You forgot about PHP going to v8
Interesting! Now I wonder what "tetrated" types correspond to [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration
Honestly, I'm wondering if this blog is a response to https://web.archive.org/web/20200830171114/https://www.cnn.c... which has since been heavily modified, but was on the front page of CNN making it sound like Cloudflare was responsible if you only read the first bit.
Yep. Ukrainian Voluntary Army used them too. Ukrainian army bought military drones from Turkey, which did show in Syria.

BTW: 3 millions citizens of USSR were at Germany side in WWW2. Do you think it was civil war?
He legit lost me at "I pop into Emacs". I noped right out of that tab. Not saying its right... but it is what it is.

Edit: Be gentle on the downvotes ... I was clearly trying to be funny.
I used to very regularly, but nowadays I use the macOS notes app since it's synced between all of my devices. I may also text myself links/quick notes, but I don't really email myself anymore.
git man page generator
I don't understand why this is downvoted. Money goes further in China than in the US, and the Chinese GDP PPP is indeed higher than the US, although barely.
And here's the code if anyone is interested in how it works:

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I wonder what the most efficient way to move bulk amounts of water out of earth's gravity well would be?

It's probably mostly like any bulk freight lifted to orbit/escape: you could pump it up space elevators, assuming you could get around the problems of making those; An orbital ring is more physically plausible but has a much higher initial outlay. Maybe you could accelerate a stream of it accurately enough that the resulting hail of ice would reach, say, an earth-moon l3/4 point slow enough to be continuously captured and processed.
I would love it if google would let us block search results from some sites in the same way that we can block spam in our email.
I don't think F# needs toys, though. The language is so well put together you don't miss much IDE assist anyway, except to point to you where your code will have problems compiling.
Municipalities are my biggest client base for https://covidcomply.org - I’ve been doing a spray and pray sales approach for this that has been going very well - governments like to make things complicated but what I’ve found is most of the time the person on the other side is sick of the long complex processes as well which makes relationship based sales work well - this in references to Australian culture though - this might not translate to wherever you are based
Safari can't open the page "https://jamalx31.com/post/no-longer-looking-for-shortcuts". The error is: "Load cannot follow more than 20 redirections." (:0)

I guess Safari isn't interested in following all your shortcuts either.
TV Tropes is basically the only NSFW website that does not feature any nudity or erotica. The big issue with it is that once you click on it, you find yourself wondering how the last 6 hours of your life flew past without you knowing
Dentistry didn't have a sledgehammer problem and, after all these years, it still doesn't.
There is not a lot of information here, just two different numbers and a question of why they're different. I suspect the bigger one is just flat out wrong.

Also, the author is missing the larger point that the COVID-19 deaths would be substantially higher than 200k without the lockdowns, whereas the flu death numbers are lower than that without lockdowns (and also with a vaccine available).
I worked at the California National Primate Research Center as a Student Assistant when I was at UC Davis. CNPRC is about a mile outside of town. Happy to answer any questions anyone has about the center. They had thousands (if not tens of thousands) of Rhesus Macaques from China and India there.
"Unbuild the wall!"
What's best to your client is that you do not break the app or redesign the UI every other Wednesday. This has little relation with the upgrade schedule.
Of course it's a joke.

Sibling comments aside (without comment on my part), it would be hard to have 6 years of production use of a language that has its first git commit 2 years ago.
> 1% of people own nearly 100% of the ______.

That can be extrapolated into so many things regarding wealth inequality. Also it is sad, that there are so many monkeys "owned". These are wild animals, they haven't been domesticated over thousands of years, and likely will never be domesticated.
> what is a vector of strings exactly?

You can have a vector of integers, a vector of real-numbers, why do you think a vector of strings doesn't make any sense? Strings can be given a well-defined ordering. You can think about strings as a points along a string-line, if you want to.

For example - Java often names packages using co-ordinates (vectors) in an n-dimensional string space. Seems to make sense to me?
Nah, the US only has qualms at all at repressing their domestic citizens. No issues repressing foreigners and some minorities since ever.
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 78
Maybe they broke up.
True. Apple has bugs that have been posted on their forums for like 10 years that haven’t gone away and rack up hundreds and sometimes thousands of comments. They don’t care. In some cases they block further comments without ever fixing the bug. They figure something that only affects 1 percent of people Of whom only half of them will actually get annoyed, they don’t need to fix at all. It really adds up though when you have hundreds of bugs.
If great IDE support and ux for developers is the goal wouldn't it be more reasonable to spend the time on IDE support on existing FP languages rather then creating a new one?
It seems that Hindley-Milner type system of many existing languages should lend it self well for language servers in general. But what do i know
Also don't forget the east/west split. And while it's been 30 years (oh wow) some Germans who are now as young as 45 had Russian in school and not English.
Eurozone suffers deepest contraction on record
No. I use intray.eu for this.
> I believe the empirical evidence for private non-bank entities not being able to create bank IOUs is that they're not banks. Am I missing something?

That's not what "empirical evidence" means. Empirical evidence is something we observe in the world. If we set a definition "all murder is illegal" and then we conclude "legal murders do not exist", do we have "empirical evidence" that legal murders can not exist? Of course not. We can conclude the claim is true by definition. That's not empirical evidence.

> You ask for empirical evidence ...

I never asked for empirical evidence for non-banks' inability to create money out of thin air. Werner claimed to have empirical evidence for this, and I merely pointed out that he does not have empirical evidence for this, contrary to his claim. If Werner had instead said "due to accounting conventions, we declare banks' IOUs to be money and non banks' IOUs to not be money", I wouldn't have any problem with that.
I don't know what the problem is. After that you only date people who have the same name as your programming languages.

"Did something happen?"

"Sorry. I just had the wrong idea about you, Kaley."
I've never found the OpenDyslexia font to be particularly helpful, but I'll give it another go!

Right though! I'm super frustrated that I didn't bookmark it! As for building it with just CSS rules, does CSS have a way to detect if something is the last word on a line before a break? or the last n chars on a line before a break? If so it shouldn't be too bad... Add some JS to rotate through some highlight colors per-line and it should work no?
I work for Red Hat but have no insight into any of the Stratis/Btrfs/etc stuff. I'm just a long time Fedora user.

I would agree with you. Fedora adopting stuff does not mean RHEL will include it, but if it's successful/popular on Fedora then Red Hat will surely be paying attention. RHEL tries to follow Fedora as closely as possible, I would imagine this is a shot for btrfs, but certainly no guarantee.
I switched to DDG soley for this, and their 'view image' ACTUALLY shoots me to the actual image location, not some pinterest or gated site
> Sheep were weighed in kgs. People were weighed in stones. Feed in pounds.

The reason you can get away with this for so long is because you -- historically, especially -- almost never need to convert between "mass of feed" and "mass of sheep" and "mass of people". Even for the most common case where it would matter (transporting each of the above) it almost doesn't, because you typically use different vehicles for each purpose.

This means most people who deal with non-metric units almost never run into the friction of mixed units -- if you're doing carpentry, for instance, everything is inches, from lumber to doors to room dimensions, so you almost never actually have to deal with multiplying or dividing by 12 to convert to feet.

Likewise with there being 5280 feet in a mile. Sure, if you actually have to convert from feet to miles, it's a pain and a potential source of error. But why the heck are you converting from feet to miles? Pick whichever unit makes sense for the task and hand and stick with it.
The lease number is likely over the lifetime of the lease (10 years or more) while the revenue number is quarterly.
Yes, this is the same in Slovakia - the write downs for office/administrative buildings are spread to 40 years, which is ridiculous.
APL programmer bursts through the window

"ACTUALLY! ..."
Indeed. That's why the USSR has some really good scientific research sponsored by the state while a lot of the good art was underground.
It is a list of protocols, applications and operating systems which the the commenter is assigning some sort of nefarious intent to with no evidence.
As the OP said, these releases were put out a bit ago. The Nim team has been working hard on squashing the bugs with the new ARC/ORC garbage collector. There's still bugs with ARC/ORC particularly with async. The main reason there's a lot of bugs with ARC is that it also makes heavy usage of move semantics similar to the new C++ `std::move` which can significantly improve GC performance vs traditional reference counting alone, but takes some tuning of the standard library to work properly.

I've been eagerly following it as my company is using Nim embedded on the ESP32 -- primarily since, well, I don't care much for programming C/C++. With Nim I was able to write a JSON-RPC server in a few dozen lines and it compiles with only a few hundred kB for everything including nice error handling. My PR merged to bring experimental support for FreeRTOS/LwIP to Nim got merged into the devel branch today! If anyone wants to help out, check the Nim forums.
This was accurately fixed. Freezing definitely kills most types of bacteria
if you dont use pinterest for fun or have an account, it is the worst website on the internet, if you have to do a lot of google image searches.
Most people never pick up the phone and call
Did we get JIT?
It might be a little of both. I did come across this change to keyword arguments[1] recently, but I'm not sure how impactful it is since I don't personally leverage keyword arguments right now.

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/12/separation-of-p...
You Should Be Earning Money Trading Options. Here’s How.
Typo in my comment. Should be, "Those aren't prices".
$.name("Keli" :age 50).isOld

wold've been nicer to me but ah well.
Wadler's Law at work
I Made Millions Selling My Startup–But It All Started with One Desperate Pitch
Exactly! https://youtu.be/QXUSvSUsx80
Building Aggregates with DynamoDB Streams
Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response
From benchmarks [1], 2.8.0 (with jit) is ~2x faster than 2.0.0p648 [2].

[1]: https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/the-great-rubykon-b...

[2]: https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/benchmarking-a-go-a...
Yet the Germans get along just fine with steins of half litre or full litre. Maybe they're doing beer wrong.

In Australia, standard beer glass size varies from state to state -- here in NSW we have a schooner (at 425ml) or if you're after something smaller, a middy (285ml).

Using metric does not mean you need to always and only drink 1 litre of beer, drive at 100km an hour, constantly stoop so you're 1m tall, etc.
Apple and Tesla Are Splitting Their Stocks: What It Means
Unfortunately, no direct comparison to Lisps.

The two downsides mentioned regarding FP are not an issue if you are using a REPL and a Lisp:

- excellent IDE support, since you are working inside your program (which can be inspected)

- paradigm a la carte:
you want named arguments? Go for it (split :string "foo,bar" :by ",")

you want different invocation syntax? (3 + 4) or (3 4 +) is just a macro away

and a bit easier to read than: (this Int).square | Int = this.*(this) YMMV

you want to define your data shape? use your favorite schema language

you want monads? just use a library

you want go-routines? just use a library

you want compile time types? just use a library
> The solution required modern techniques and computer algorithms. “Twenty years ago, [this question] was absolutely out of reach; 10 years ago it would require an enormous effort of writing all necessary software, so only now all the factors came together,” wrote Anton Zorich, of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu in Paris, in an email.

Right here is the most interesting part of the article for me. It's definitely cool that we're making these sorts of discoveries still, but it's more interesting how so many more problems are now being solved via computer. Had I gone all the way through my PhD (in math), I'd be some combination of worried that my computing skills were up to snuff, and intrigued about the increasing role of computers in mathematics.
According to twitter, they are not taking phone trades either right now.
I guess technically what people want us algebraic types. Sums of products. Just sums alone are just enums.
> I also wonder when something becomes a "hack"

As soon as you access something you're not supposed to. If a house is left unlocked and you walk in and take a look around, you're trespassing and it's a crime. And of course if you cause any damage or steal something, that's an even bigger crime.

Except with hacking, the punishments can be even more severe relative to the actual crime committed, because almost nobody in the legal system will understand the details of what happened so they can make you seem as dangerous as they want. Just look at Aaron Swartz and countless other examples of the heavy charges that have been given out for very minor, borderline cases of "hacking".
there's also, ALIX[0] more commonly known as HURD

[0] https://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/open-sources-htm...
They come up about once a year for me. That's about how often I have to write a tree traversal.
I definitely agree that could be a case where you want a statically compiled module that avoid any interpreted language overheads or high cost abstractions. But what would make C++ easier to write, tune, integrate or deploy in that case than using Cython to create the C++ extension for you?
Sometimes. I'm also adding note taking capabilities to a little web app of my creation. The challenge has been reducing the time from thought to saving. The most promising solution at the moment is a browser plugin that talks to the app.
I don't know what that has to do with `join`'s call order.

As mentioned above, it's because Python supports `join` on any sequence, not just the array class. Personally, I find JavaScript's solution neater:

[..."hello"].join(" ") === "h e l l o"
That sounds like a new "lost cause" myth to explain white flight.
Alternate link to paper: http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/aulicino/dodecahedron/join...
Advocating for trading away readability in favor of easing the lives of devs who refuse to use an IDE doesn't seem like a win, especially in the context of a team.
in the US, this would be insurance that the scientist (and/or their emloyer) pays for. if enough scientists perform risky experiments that it meaningfully increases payouts, I'm sure the insurer could figure out a way to account for that in the premiums.

in short: who cares?
We work on multiple models, all related to legal proceedings and lawsuits, such as:
- Structure Judicial Federal Register texts
- Identify entities in Legal texts (citation to laws, other lawsuits)
- Predict time to completion, risk and amount due of a lawsuit
- Classifying judicial proceedings to non lawyers
Show HN: CreatorCast: Curated Sketch Creators
Hi HN!

I just launched a project called creatorcast.tv

It's a curated selection of Youtube sketch comedy creators.

I've been a huge fan of indie sketch creators since the early days of Youtube, but today the Youtube algo prioritizes content from influencers and Hollywood. So I wanted to build this platform to give another way for talented sketch creators to develop bigger audiences. Hopefully it's reminiscent of 2011's Youtube content :)

The site is still very young and still has a lot more development work to do but let me know if you have any feedback and if you like the content there! I plan on adding new videos each week and building a community around creating high quality sketch videos.
Prometheus OOM crash with 1TB of free memory remaining
But it is too late now.

Her: "Why did you change the name?"

Him: "Because I'm hedging my bets in case our relationship
does not outlast my pet programming project".

Her: "..."
We all live in an interconnected world. The choices made around the country to prioritize cars have led to negative externalities for all of us.
Hm, then is your point that many developers become careless while programming because they are in an environment with safeguards in place to avoid screw ups?
There's even a technical name for this kind of money, scrip.
San Francisco Is Eating California’s VC Dollars
Are any of the recent NLP advancements due to improvements beyond throwing more data and horsepower at “dumb” models? Will GPT-4 be any different?

It seems like the current approaches will always fall short of our loftier AI aspirations, but we’re reaching a level of mimicry where we can start to ask, “Does it matter for this task?”
Cool! My biggest complaint about golinks is the lack of a command activated search...looks like you're tackling that problem.
Because "list of string" is not a type in Python.

Why would you put a method on a class if only a small subset of it can use it?
Yes, it was introduced in Ruby 2.6 (2018): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-rele...
There are almost 7M in the Houston metro area. The city of Houston itself has a population of around 2.3M.
Looks like exactly what I'm talking about. The paper I'm thinking of used a self-organizing map (SOM) for comparing arcs, if I recall correctly.
Its really not that easy to shoot a drone down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGLxKXtkHpY
Although it is important to remember that any tax one would have to pay to US IRS is for the difference between what a foreign country and US would charge, if former charged less. This only applies to countries with which US signed a treaty for the avoidance of double taxation.
The Importance of Doing
Why not let scientists be the leaders of our new meritocratic fascist regime? What could go wrong? There's no danger of eugenics, we've out grown that, It's actually imperative that we genetically modify our futures, we need to close the loop, take control of our own nature if we are to live with any certainty in the near future. We need to reduce humanity to the ones and zeros that they are, how else will we select for the future where humanity evolves beyond machine sentience? Think how cool that'd be, if nothing else.
Who's going to take advantage of these families as a strategy for "Hunt The Interpolated Wumpus"?

You hear a quiet rustling. There is a cold gale blowing.
> For apps that are already on the App Store, bug fixes will no longer be delayed over guideline violations except for those related to legal issues. You’ll instead be able to address guideline violations in your next submission.
So we just slip in our third party app stores in "bug fixes" now?

Or what exactly is a legal issue?