skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right? and like something i've come to realize over the years is that there is a huge value add of having something just work that i don't think many people actually appreciate. I would absolutely love to pay more in taxes if it meant medicare for all so that if i get hit by a car while riding my bike someone can call 911 and i can go to a hospital and not worry about how much the ambulance costs, whether the doctor i see is "In Network" or not, and not have to figure out how much of whatever needs to be done is covered by the insurance and what the hospital is going to bill me for and whether I can actually afford that or if I need to go into insurmountable debt just to exist.

life already sucks enough as it is, and is entirely too complex in so many aspects that no longer having the "can i afford to not die in an emergency" thought would be such a huge net plus for a huge majority of working americans.
Bees are falling out of the sky here -- still alive, but helpless on their backs -- but yeah, I put it down to the smoke.
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This is already a thing: https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/29/10682746/boston-dynamics...

No doubt, it will continue.
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"general computer responsiveness" at this point is 100% on software/OS - QNX for example was perfectly responsive in the 90s on Pentium II class hardware (and you can probably find earlier examples with weaker CPUs like BeOS on early PPC, but these were just the first to come to my mind - someone will probably chime in below with Amiga anecdotes or something).

I refuse to believe at current high end intel/amd levels (i7-9 & ryzen 7-9) & even mid-range that lack of responsiveness is due to the CPU rather than windows/mac.
Monetary policy is a huge factor in all this, asset holders are greatly advantaged over productive members of society at the moment.

The combination of artificially low interest rates with significant inflation in particular make housing spectacularly unaffordable. This combination simultaneously pushes up the costs of housing due to asset bubbles forming while reducing the ability of people who earn money to save for a down payment on a house.
So it's not a shell but a theme?
RE: "unemployment was much higher than it is now" - I'm not sure what country you're in, but here is a graph of the US unemployment rate since 1950: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE (unemployment was higher this year than any other period on the chart)
I'm so glad to not be the only weirdo out there just sticking to plain old C89. I concur to all your reasoning. C89 is simple, readable, gets the job done.

My only pain point is indeed stdint.h. Though it's often available everywhere even if not standard per se.
Seems like you've never used it with a non-FHD screen. Or as a window. Because it absolutely wastes a ton of space. The sidebar on the right will disappear to the bottom, which is unnecessarily cut off because of the crazy large margins around everything. I don't understand why every page needs to be scrolled when the Control panel fit twice as much functionality into half or even a quarter of the space.
My point wasn't to pooh-pooh on the Democrats (Republicans are worse obviously with their awful tax policies). My point was that they should care about millennial issues. Whether you like or not WE are the ones paying for increased social security, medicare, NOT the boomers. They are getting way more out of the system than they ever put in.

The Boomers basically took all the wealth in this country and regulated everyone out of it. There are so many issues that are good for the country and good for millenials that never seem to gain traction. Student loans reform for instance or Housing (especially zoning and property tax laws e.g. Prop 13).

Here is a good link to what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6hesHk6yE&t=1250s
I find it ridiculously disingenuous of the DOJ to pursue Google for "monopoly" of the advertising market, while allowing Sinclair Broadcasting to do literally the exact same thing to local TV stations and the related local advertising markets. While this may not be a political witch hunt - it sure quacks like a duck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
Well said, there certainly is a chasm between the theory and what practically works

As a sidenote, if like myself you like to dabble first before jumping in to theory, I would recommend starting with Jisson -- it's so much fun and you'll learn a lot quickly!:

https://zaa.ch/jison/try/

https://nolanlawson.github.io/jison-debugger/
maybe https://mercury.com/
I've always wanted to try a tiling window system, but they just don't seem to gel with how I work at all. Rarely, if ever, do I want a window to take up some common percentage of the screen. My editor is ~100 columns, which will change depending on the font / font size. My terminal is all over the place. My browser is multiple widths, because I need to test responsiveness, or what fits in my current tab does not fit what's in my next tab.

Is there any sort of middle ground tiling solution for people like me?
Thank you for this comment and the insight. I have a follow up question: even after training, is there a liability burden to ensure the training is followed? I know no hiring process is perfect, so you're always going to end up with the occasional employee that disregards safety training. Knowing that, is there a burden on Uber to actively monitor the driver's attention and communicate to the driver when it is not sufficient? Even on an audit basis, but more ideally constant?
Many people do not care remotely about the lives of others that they can't conceptualize.

I'm increasingly worried that large segments of the population will not be reached by that message or any message that isn't about direct harm to themselves or their loved ones.
I wouldn't go as far as calling it a horror show, but do find it genuinely unpleasant to use. In a default configuration GNOME's task switcher seems to assume that there is only one window open for each application. Switching between multiple windows in the same application is rather inconvenient. The title bar stuffs in frequently accessed options then hides the menu bar under the hamburger icon. Those frequently used options are the ones I am least likely to access from the title bar since they are bound to hotkeys that are common to most programs.

For anyone who is accustomed to other metaphors, I'm not terribly surprised by the description horror show. Even as someone who is willing to adapt to change, many of the changes seem to be contrary to usability or efficiency.
Also depends where you're from. Any country that traded with the Soviet Union had a recession in the 90's
Bounded proof search is NP-complete, and you can see this if you imagine transforming a bounded proof search into a satisfiability problem; go from "what, if any, proof starts at these assumptions and reaches these conclusions in less than N steps?" into "what, if any, assignment of Boolean values will encode a proof in O(N) values?" This is precisely what got both Gödel and Nash interested in what would become P vs NP.

Computers beating humans at chess is a great example of not being smarter, but being stupid faster. Both humans and computers approach PSPACE-complete problems like chess by approximating their searches and looking at trees of possible moves. We have no special insights into how to consider or evaluate moves; we have psychological profiles on which moves might be connected during practical play but no reason to require people to make such moves, and those profiles are largely limited to "openings", classifying the relatively few initial trees.

How do computers beat humans in chess? They do exactly what we do, but faster. This isn't smart, but fast stupid.
Thank you for sharing your experience.

> I believe guys like Tesla, Einstein and so many others did have this same capacity

Sometimes when reading quotes by people like them, I get a similar impression, like they were "connected to the source", or "enlightened", and they intuitively followed that connection towards their achievements.

It also reminds me of a part in a documentary about Steve Jobs when a friend of his says "Steve was enlightened, and he blew it", hinting at him using that connection or "power" for what she felt was the wrong purpose.
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Sounds similar to Tmobile's program. It's possible they can use their "gamer" cred to get youth to sign up. They also seem to be trying anything and everything these days. The Energy drink mixes, Energy gum, etc.

The real question, will their metal card be RGB?
I think we’re going to have to accept we’re the uncommon ones around here.

I don’t know what the stats are but I’ve got a feeling that most people on HN (particularly those in expensive cities) get along with their parents quite well. I’ve noticed in my time in SV that I’ve never really heard anyone say their parents are/were abusive. Or that they even really hated their parents. On the contrary, I hear most people liking their parents quite a bit.

Abusive or terrible people for parents just don’t seem too common around these parts. Makes sense, abused children don’t tend to be rising stars - they kill theirselves instead.

The higher you get, the more supportive the parents are. It’s hard to get far alone and without a kickstart.
No comments. Everything must be fine then, carry on lads!
You know --- more and more --- I kinda like the REBOL approach --- forget precedence.

Rather, just go L to R except where superceded by parens. Explicit and easy to understand.

(Though I say that not having lived it in production, lol - so take with a grain of salt)

Over time, readability/grokability tends to trump other factors...
Mount St. Helens (in Washington state) had a massive eruption in 1980, causing huge ecological and economic damage that lasted for years.[1]

But, the region recovered. Similar such natural events, such as Typhoon Maria, have caused massive casualties and damage. Yet, the Earth and humanity have persisted.

I wouldn't worry about anything happening to our planet and our ecosphere, short of a mass extinction event like a huge asteroid striking the Earth. The last one 65 million years ago did some pretty nasty damage, but we now have the technology to detect and divert such objects so hopefully it will not be an issue.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Hel...
The progress of Moore's Law no longer exists. It was a very specific claim that we have not managed to achieve for a while. People often use the phrase "Moore's Law" just to refer to the continuing shrinkage of transistors, though. Which I think is what you mean.
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It's also worth noting that basically in the last 20 years the US has been at war with some random part of the world.

That's all budget that is subtracted from domestic spending policy. And military budget is frickking huge.
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This is demonstrably false. Why don't landlords own all of Detroit, where housing prices have cratered?

Housing is a market like any other. The going rate can change.
http://www.conniesurvivors.com/N749NL.htm Is right nearby here (in Lelystad) very beautiful plane. Absolutely amazing is that it flew here under its own power after an in-situ fix-up where it was found.
I would rather have Hepatitis C than C.
Our society is so odd.

I find it astonishing that so many people can be cavalier about the deaths of millions of people when it comes to environmental destruction in a way that would be totally socially unacceptable if you were talking about targeted killings or genocide.
Absolutely. I'm all for getting rid of the Democrat policies that have been keeping POC, particularly inner city black people, down for decades.

Let's have police enforce our laws, give people school choice, and encourage everybody to have a job, become religious, and raise a family.
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years"

We are not on track, haven't been on track.
How are compile times in ada? (Best thing about pascal/delphi)
Isolation, sure. But unemployment is unavoidable when hundreds of thousands of people die.
It is a new package, from one perspective.

That perspective isn't appropriate to use outside of a narrow scope. In particular it's not appropriate to use at an ecosystem level, it's too surprising.
This is a bad comment and you should delete it.
Seems to be one of those things just weird enough to get used in fiction regularly as shorthand for "something is really wrong" - it was part of the trailers for Jericho [0] and a plot point over the course of FlashForward [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(2006_TV_series)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward
> Antitrust doesn't exist to protect competitors from competition

That's in America. In Europe, it actually does.
That's very academic.

No, if small commercial developers cannot use the language without paying massive fees, you might as well forget any popularity. Heck, you couldn't even use Ada for non-GPL open source programs.

Not sure why you compare it to Smalltalk

Because Smalltalk vendors have a long history of doing the same pricing that made it impractical to impossible for the little guy to use the language. There have been several threads on HN about this.
> That's completely unrelated to library versioning.

It really is not. The initial assertion was that stumbling on breaking changes once per month was somehow a sign that a library isn't ready. Thus assertion flies in the face of the reality of software engineering. If your whole process is designed to allow requirements to emerge then you will have to deal with emergent requirements that you need to accommodate, and in moderately sized projects that always involves changing behavior.
Most of the people I know who are struggling are stuggling because rent and utilities takes the vast majority of their post-tax income. There's a few people I know who are just terrible with their finances (people who no doubt would have had problems at every previous time in history), but now seems a bit structurally different to some of the boom times due to the number of people I know who have hardship due to expenses they can't easily drop.
"not much work" is absolutely not the feeling I have about it based on some conference talks about the topic (e.g. the various xcode talks, or the Wix talks on intelliJ), and my own thought experiments on getting it tied into Visual Studio / Visual Studio for Mac.

I think the Bazel team introduced Aspects and punted the rest for a later date. Now they hope each language/IDE community will take that infrastructure and build out the rest of the ecosystem. I think its too important of a piece of the puzzle to leave to the community.
You don't get to define what "ready" means for me. I get to define that, as the author of the package.
The potential for anxiety and paranoia are heightened for me since I took cannabis edibles and had a horrendous reaction where I was 99% sure I was dying from a heart-attack or lack of oxygen. I took it at 11AM and I was still slightly high the next afternoon, so it lasted well over 24 hours! It was the worst experience of my life with any drug. This is coming from someone that smoked Salvia over 150 times in one year... I was basically doing it every other day. I only had one bad trip on salvia. I also did shrooms at a rave once and while that experience wasn't great nor horrible, it was just exhausting and I wanted it to be over after a couple of hours. All of this leaves me with a desire to try DMT but a huge fear of dealing w/ the same anxiety and paranoia I got from the edible cannabis ordeal.
exactly this

if it's public: who cares, and if it isn't: why are people trusting random IRC server admins

especially when there have previously been leaks from places like EFNet where admins have been caught running tcpdump or ircsniff.pl
NASDAQ listed Pinduoduo was using faux transactions to boost order volume (a key metric it had been using to justify a high valuation). Similar to some used car sales websites in China that gave normal, brick and mortar sales locations POS equipment (so that every transaction was incorrectly attributed to the website, not the actual brick & mortar dealer). Incentive was to pay for CC processing fees.
To the contrary, I wouldn't.

Using C99 + POSIX is the defining fact about your project.

I would let somebody else write a C89 irc client, instead.
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In that case it sounds great. I really want them to succeed. I enjoyed Witcher 3 and wouldn't mind another great game.
What abour Spark?
So much this. The events from the past years have already been difficult to digest. But every time I come and read comments, I'm even more depressed, anxious. "no matter if you don't drive, or stop meat; it won't be enough". "nice that you're stopping commuting, but that won't suffice". "offsetting by planting trees is not good enough compared to net zero". Or worse, dismissive like "it only helps with your own self-guilt".

This usually leaves me so depressed.

Yes, I realize all those actions won't suffice, even if we all agree to apply them starting tomorrow. And yes, we need both local and global impact for things to move forward. But I also believe that if everyone starts doing their part : buying less, reducing meat, whatever, it will get discussed more and more and become a concrete part of society much faster.

Guessing OP and I will get downvoted though, which is fine. HN has a fair share of the brightest minds in Tech and related, sometimes I miss a bunch of less pragmatic positivity.
House prices can fall in real terms even if they don't in nominal terms. I think the is exactly the situation we are likely to see in an environment where the solution to every problem is "stimulus" and "money printer go brrrrrr" in response to the housing market taking a dive.
He clarified "about ten journalists in total." There's also the room for the public, presumably another five, and the two for Assange's family. So seventeen people.
I'm impressed that you managed to get your knickers in such a twist and you failed to point out that in fact this is not a Stirling engine at all.

A Stirling engine must have a regenerator which temporarily stores the heat from one stroke to the next. Otherwise it is just a hot air engine which is altogether more ancient.
No engineer had the power to veto this move by the company, just like no engineer had veto power over the Challenger launch or any of the other numerous tragedies we all discuss in our ethics classes. Attempts were made to prevent the tragedies, but nobody in charge listened. The fault lies with the person who has final authority over the decision.

If I make a mistake, which is discovered, as long as I attempt to correct the problem, I'm absolved of fault. A miscalculation is an accident. Knowingly deploying a faulty device due miscalculation is malfeasance. I may have made the calculation, but I never made the decision to let it kill people.
Can you provide a single example that supports your thesis that migration from Python 2 to 3 was poorly managed semver-wise?

If anything, Python is chastised for having maintained two major versions in parallel without giving any compelling reason to force major rewrites on the while ecosystem.
I've had good luck with serverless WSGI.
Linking policies from decades ago isn't helpful.
> Would be cool to have a mobility device based on their handle robot (the one with wheels). Basically a hybrid of bicycle and wheelchair that can go over stairs, and be safer in case of accidents on the road.

Didn't Segway demonstrate something like that?

Edit: Okay, it's only somewhat Atlas-like, for very low values of Atlas. Dean Kamen first demonstrated the iBOT wheelchair in 1999:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
Tagged unions as you describe are dynamic types. With a fair amount of effort, a SQL query can perhaps use the tag column to make sense of the other columns in the union at runtime, but the type system doesn't have access to that information. You can get part of the way there with constraints, but it's tedious and incomplete.
This is literally a conversation about a non-human species: birds. There’s habitability for humans, but we’re not separate from the ecosystem, we’re a part of it.

In some broad, abstract way of looking at things people can say, “well it’s all just star dust and will burn out in a billion years.” But we’re not just destroying our own habitat — we’re destroying countless other species. An entire web of life.

If Earth winds up a giant ocean of jellyfish, then, well - great for the jellyfish. Still a tragedy as far as I’m concerned.
Go is not forcing you to use semver the way it's meant to be used. Go is adding constraints to package naming and versioning above and beyond what semver requires.
Had to build bazel from scratch, you need:

- a previous version of Bazel

- GCC/Clang

- JDK

- Python

- Zip and Unzip

Not sure I'd call that "huge". Perhaps the JDK?
Tangent story. Two friends of mine went backpacking to Amsterdam, short pants and all. When they got out of the train in the evening, a friendly guy approached them and asked if they were looking for a hotel. They said yes, so he told them to follow him. Delighted to be greeted in this way, they did.

First they went down the regular path up Damrak to get to Leidseplein, but slowly and imperceptibly the streets were getting narrower and narrower, until they finally reached a dead end. That's when the guy whirled around, flipped out a small pocket knife and wheezed to them, "Gimme all your cash! NOW!"

The guys looked at each other, and then looked at him, and then one of the guys calmly told him, "Look, we're two guys, and you're just one. Even if you get one of us, the other will beat your head in. You can't win this."

The mugger looked puzzled for a moment, but then he retorted, "Ok, give me half your money then, and nobody gets hurt!" Not wanting to be the first guy who got stabbed, they agreed that, "Fine, we'll give you half! But only if you promise to not stab us." And so the deal went down, and they had finally arrived in Amsterdam.
You can't count on senators to know what they are talking about. This article from yesterday I found quite helpful in explaining the details of the situation.

https://truthonthemarket.com/2020/09/14/the-antitrust-case-a...
Oh that's right, it does ask when you upgrade which script you'd like to use.... The package maintainers, yours and possibly the original one(?)... I can't for the life of me remember the options, but I know it usually asks which one you want between yours and the 'package maintainers version' every time you upgrade.
I wasn't babysitting my comments so I didn't see your reply. But as another commenter noted, the issue is in the comment threads primarily. While the articles aren't overtly anti-Semitic you can quickly deduce the dog whistles based on the comments which are full of extreme bigotry. I used to read ZH every day and they eventually morphed into a clubhouse for the ignorant and as noted above, actively provoked those responses with coded language. I submitted numerous complaints to the site and never saw a comment taken down or any behavior change from the top so I turned my back on the site and haven't looked back.
I really wish people would stop using "beautiful" as if it were an objective adjective.
> Most tech companies are natural monopolies...

What? Why? ISPs like Bell are "natural monopolies" because last-mile right of way is expensive and digging up the same street 10 times to lay 10 different lines is hugely redundant. There's nothing natural about Google's monopoly in advertising, Google just acquired most of their major competitors.
That kind of thinking inevitably leads to S-expressions.
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