skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To answer those comments suggesting that low level language would be more fitted, im going to report my own exprerience.
Two years ago, i went to FOSDEM where i met Gordon the creator of Espruino. I was curious about those littles devices and decided to buy one.
Back at home, i started to play with my little device (pixl.js) and i was very enthousiast to use Chrome interface to start coding little program in Javascript, uploaded instantly via bluetooth on the device. It was fun, it was entertaining, and after a few keystrokes i was able to monitor room temperature, and display it on the lcd screen (which is totally useless i admit).

But the more i played with it, the more i became curious of MCU ecosystem, given the fact that im also a mechanical keyboard enthousiast, where teensy and stm32u2 have a central place in this community (esp. when you want to build your own keyboard).

So little by little, my Espruino experience gave me confidence to continue the travel, and after two years, i migrated mostly over ESP32 and RISCV mcu, coding in C, using vscode/platform.io, clone tones of github repo, trying to understand all the hardware concept, such as bus, serial, spi, i2c, timer, scheduling, packet radio with lora (running my own ttn gw, or controlling drone with opensource project such as ExpressLRS).

Espruino opens to me a new fertile world of MCU, helped me to step up the entry barrier and last year at FOSDEM, i meet again Gordon and thank him warmly for all of this.

(signed: a +20 years linux sysadmin, who always wanted to code a little)
What I don't see in your response is an actual argument for how YouTube doing something which not democratic is good for democracy.

> up to know they just raked in the profits and gave shit about anything else. Them now changing that is a good thing.

Censoring unpopular and controversial views on their platform makes it more attractive for advertisers, which is good for YouTube's bottom line. This action in no way indicates an renunciation of a profit motive.
I absolutely am, thanks!
I lost it at:

“One more thing,” you request. “Some kind of product type.”

“Ma'am, this is a Wendy’s.”
The editors of those selected papers are not truth fountains either. They at least have the backbone to sign and suffer if need be.
The problem is that govts around the world didn't do this in a scientific fashion. They had mask shortages and wanted to keep the masks for health workers and also not make people worry. Now they have masks and want everyone to wear one.

Very hard to have any credibility after a few similar interactions. This is not about speech all over the world (maybe except China), this is about the political elites losing leadership.
I don't see any reason why you should be embarrassed - if you haven't seen Prolog (or anything similar) it is very different to more conventional languages. It's arguable that Prolog is closer to SQL than C++.
What is that reason? Apologies but I'm daft - do you mean it hits too close to home?
Freedom of speech should be a civil right and I hope that’s the result of this. No entity should be allowed to censor speech.
Yes, it will be turned off at the end of the year.
If it's about the REPL then you could also have a look at Forth. It seems that in Espurino you have to pay attention to quite a lot of things to achieve a decent performance: http://www.espruino.com/Performance
That’s why I don’t do that.

In any case, it’s infrequent enough, that it isn’t an issue.
I once bought a scanner/printer combination for my home office. Not having to go to the print shop for every letter saves so much time, 5 euro per month is nothing compared to that.
Reading that article left me worried. It's not very factual, it has many errorneous statements, and, honestly, it looks like propaganda.

Seems to me like Nature is not worried about losing credability.
Completely false. The WHO claimed there was no evidence of human to human transmission after doctors in Wuhan were already getting sick, failed to share warnings from Taiwanese researchers with the rest of the world, argued against travel restrictions from China and also claimed mask use wasn't helpful.

They did a horrible job that has cost many, many lives. I've been in Taiwan and was gritting my teeth while diffing what they were saying vs local reporting from December through March.

I'm not sure what one would expect from an organization that voted in a director general with this track record: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/health/candidate-who-dire...
But that's not all!

LDM can access banked user registers. As a special case, this disables base register updates.

LDM can copy SPSR to CPSR, causing an exception return with register banking. This is a way to go from kernel code to user code.
The premium for night shifts isn't what it once was, anymore. The fact that most groceries close 22:00 sharp just shows how insanely low their revenue is. Few exceptions exists in places where it makes sense volume-wise. 'Spätis' exist mostly in Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A4tkauf
I know of a few others in my town, where they are simply called 'Kiosk'.
But NEON is optional, not available in many "truly" embedded implementations.
Why can't printers just have a USB standard ala USB mass storage, or USB HID, so I can just plug it in and it works for basic printing?
Monty Hall and Counterfactuals
+1 I noticed keepa has more accurate data in some instances.
CCC was also cool though, I hope they get even better.
'Point me and I'll march': Re-reading John le Carré
Intel do that with a lot of old instructions I.e. MMX and SSE instructions are really really fast on AMD but horrible on Intel. I guess this is to force people to upgrade to the latest and greatest AVX whatever.
They don't have a report button like that because competitors would abuse it to flag stuff.
Holding them accountable by giving them more power sounds like a losing strategy. Because that is exactly what the "pressure on big tech" has done in favor of classical publishers that thank them by favoring their censorious actions in articles.
I think this is a great idea. But why just aim this as women? There are a lot of 'out there' earring designs you could consider that might make your product both technically simpler and more gender neutral.
How do you determine that it's the site's owner? If I buy 1000 upvotes for mycompetitor.com, will you boot them?

Attribution is a terribly hard problem, Google has the same issue with paid links, and handles with the Disavow Links tool, but that's a hack, not a solution, as it essentially means you have to buy services that get you and up to date list of links to your page so you can disavow them before Google hands out penalties.
You don't hate the idea of censorship. You openly support it.
This is Slow Glass as predicted by British Writer Bob Shaw. Half of your windows could be 12 hour slow glass, so sun is always shining outside.
Yeah I get e-mails every once in a while on a (non tech) website I run asking if we can do a guest post for money. It's a common advertising program I'm sure.
The point being, nothing Youtube does is un-democratic to beginn with.

And up to now, Youtube and FB gained from contrversial content, not the other way round.

You are entitled to your opinion and to say it in public. You are not entitled to be protected from the social consequences. And if what you say is true, that this move drives the add revenue, that is only because people want to distance themselves from these views. Which would tell us something about public views. I just don't thin that is the case.
> we've solved over and over again the problem of what it takes to have a peaceful and progressive society

... have we? Much of the 20th century was spent at war, with a death total somewhere in the region of a hundred million. As were most of the previous centuries. There have been isolated pockets where one might have a lifetime of stability over a wide area, but few of those were also "free".

> The problem we have is that social media should not exist

The challenge is to thread the needle between freedom degenerating into chaos and murder (Rohingya, etc) and total clampdown that also escalates into disappearances and murder.
The same options are on Nautilus and forks (Caja, Nemo). FTWAI the GVfs API is utilized and resources are accessed via a URI but are also mounted on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gvfs; usually /run/user/$USERID/gvfs.
I'm afraid the exclamation point was my doing, not Jens's. I was scared of how many other things were called "snap," including the US welfare program that used to be food stamps, and was hoping to stand out from them. Didn't work; I didn't realize that search engines pretty much ignore punctuation.

We were very happy with the name BYOB, but we had a few teachers tell us very insistently that they could never use a language called that with kids. Those of you who live in civilized countries can't appreciate Americans' lack of a sense of humor. So we were looking for a reasonably short name for which the ___.berkeley.edu domain was available, and Snap was what we found.
Me too! The lack of ForeFlight widgets was the reason I started hacking on this, actually.

Love the idea of showing wind direction relative to the phone - one challenge with this is that you're not allowed to do any animation in widgets (for power reasons, I assume?). Hopefully they'll open this up a bit more in the future.

+1 on a runway visualization - it would be really useful to see the crosswind component (life or death for my tailwheel training, haha). Ditto for TAFs and surface analysis.

Thanks for the feedback and feature suggestions!
> Them now changing that is a good thing.

I agree but it's not selfless or altruism. In the EU they are one law away from being effectively shut down.

The EU commission is eyeing the behavior of social media networks for a while now and the increasing misinformation and radicalization of groups like white supremacists or QAnon pose a very real threat to democracy and society.

If the social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. don't do anything against this, the EU will make a law that will make the social networks check each and every post for unlawful content.
This looks an interesting story that I tried to do Google it, but couldn't find any reliable source. Isn't it easy to do windows fix than processor hack?

I could find some reasons though here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35742570/why-is-the-loop...
That’s life on a PvP server
Cartoon Guide to Statistics and Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold 'em.
Free Course – A Guide to Unreal Engine Blueprints
The 'original' ARM C compiler (Norcroft) certainly did. As other commentators have pointed out, it was extremely powerful and a big performance boost in the early days of shallow pipelined, in-order, small (or no) cache ARM processors.
It's a hit and miss site tbh.

I was once told that one of my rambly blog posts had appeared on there without me knowing; it wasn't the best, but still. My blog post was on our 'company' blog, turns out the marketing department of another segment of it just took it and reposted it on dzone.
It is a "bad faith" problem. Bad faith arguments are made on all sides of the political spectrum, but anecdotally, it feels like one side is a little more fact challenged and relies on them fairly heavily. And the amount of arguments being made in bad faith means it is often more productive to just ignore or dismiss the other sides arguments outright.

Here is a good example. Right wing media likes to point at the homelessness problem in CA and claim that that is proof that Democrats are bad at governing. The homeless issue is a fact, supported by data. And CA being a Democratic state is also a fact supported by data. But pointing to both those facts and claiming it as proof that Democrats==bad is a bad faith argument. Blue states have higher GDP, higher levels of education attainment, and lower poverty rates than red states. And homelessness is a weird metric to use as it is partially a by product of regional economic success, where a good job market coupled with an overheated housing market results in an increasing number of people willing to tough it out on the streets or in their cars. I could make a similarly bad faith argument, and point out that West Virginia has the highest number of opioid overdoses per capita, therefore Republicans==bad. But I don't need to do that because the statistics that most reasonable people would agree to use as an arbiter of state level success are already in agreement with my position.

As you can see from the length of the above paragraph. These bad faith arguments require a decent amount of effort and/or knowledge to effectively counter. So as we move into this post-fact world, can you really blame people for just sticking to the 'narratives'?
If you’ve never implemented a Lisp, here’s a relevant thing to give a read: https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/jmc.ps
I'm with you. I wish CUPS would not be installed by default. I'm curious if most people print in 2020. I don't either. In Japan you can print via USB stick, sd-card, wifi, cloud, etc at pretty much every convenience store and there's usually one close by. where I live there is one 1 minute way, another 2 minutes, another 2.5 minutes, another 4 minutes, and probably 10 more within 10 minutes. I know that's less common in other places but I did use the printer at a library in SF so I know they have (had?) those services too

In any case I uninstall CUPS when I install a new installation of linux because, at least in the past, I'd see tons of files updated all the time every update all related to cups, something I wasn't using at all.
Robotics Developers Need an Upgrade
> Social media is currently poisoning our country to a degree that I think it may be too late to try and draw out the fight for free speech by using free speech alone.

Why do people think this? A few selected anecdotes and some tiny numbers (1000 people liking a post talking about covid causing 5G? Tiny numbers)?

What is the end-game that is so feared?

If the people as a whole can't be trusted to make sensible decisions and judgements then abolish democracy and copy the Chinese system.

Or, if the problem is uninformed people, then adopt a representative democracy where a random sample of 1000 voters are chosen by sortition and metaphorically locked in a room with the candidates for the governing council for a month (as if they were a jury) after which they elect a handful to government.
Programmers run much better with high-level languages. For quantity-1million, yes the efficiency matters. For quantity-1, the structure is very different.

There used to be (maybe still are?) "BASIC Stamp" microcontrollers that run tokenised BASIC. This is the next evolution of that.

(The C environments work, but the manufacturer-provided ones are often a bit ropey!)
no thanks. I'll take one click to find a reference over paper any day.
If social media is poisonous and the powerful are using it to control ideas, the solution isn't to let the billionaire class social media giants be the arbiter of truth, methinks.

"misinformation" is indistinguishable from "thinks I think are false" which in turn is hard to distinguish from "things I disagree with".
What is the cultural significance of the site? I've been there probably a few times but always via a link.
I was on the early Internet. I miss it greatly, but also, it was the wild west, which was awesome when I was essentially living in the woods secluded from the outside world. The freedom was intoxicating. It ended up shaping my entire life.

I've watched the Internet grow and evolve into what it is and spent the majority of my free time participating in it from 1993 until today and probably until I die.

The thing is, the problem has always existed but its now being scaled up. There were kids pretending to be adults and puffing up their chests at the expense of decency. There was child porn. There were racists. There were pockets of criminals. There weren't many flat out idiots because using the Internet required at least a mononom of intellect to participate.

Yes, it's still early for the Internet, but America is just getting dumber while the Internet is getting easier and easier to use. How does it get better before it gets much worse?
Your thesis is based on the notion that “society is unstable” more than ever before. How are you measuring that?

Despite tons of noise in social media, real life up has been incredibly stable for the last couple of decades in the west. The least amount of violence, lowest extreme poverty, highest disposable income, etc etc.

In the 70s (before social media), there were multiple bombings every year in the US. That is completely unfathomable today. The headlines and discussions on social media today now heavily surround parsing Trumps words and arguing about how he’s racist and doing things wrong.

Social media is just giving you the impression that things are unstable because people like to complain when by any standard long-term measure it’s just as stable as ever (barring recent economic instability caused by COVID).

Some questions about the US?

- when was the last time a prominent politician was assassinated?
- when was the last time a government building was bombed?
- when was the last time a prominent politician was assaulted and left in the hospital?
Now I have concerns about the vaccine...

This is how it works with modern information spread. Of course you can have concerns and you should be able to state them openly. Any doctor that wouldn't have concerns without a long term clinical study does lie.
What we need is a Ministry of Truth to decide what is real and what is misinformation.
>The only friction I see with data analysis roles is that data analysts typically don't need (or even outright refuse) to do collaborative work where there are multiple people working on the same code and data.

In your experience, what do you attribute this to?

One way to look at it is that programmers tend to see notebooks as code, and think it makes sense to use the tooling used for code.

Another way to look at it is as a document, and build around that.

Would fiction writers benefit from learning Git ? Sure. Could it be more productive to reduce the activation energy to accomplish the job of tracking changes with another implementation ? I think yes. There are more writers who use Google Docs than there are who use Git.

For example, we added collaborative editing on notebooks[0]. Multiple people can work simultaneously on the same notebook, see each other cursors and changes live. It's a much better experience. We also added multiple checkpoints behind the scenes[1].

I believe that as programmers, we have the opportunity to create better abstractions around workflows to simplify what we take for granted and do as second nature for others.

One issue is cognitive load. People having to remember to do things. We strive to make it automatic. One example is for experiment tracking: sure, they 'just' have to track experiments and add the necessary code, but we do it automatically so it happens without them remembering. Models are detected are saved, parameters and metrics are logged, etc. This considerably reduces the barrier to entry as even a beginner who knows nothing about tracking gets their experiments tracked.

This is what we're doing. Handle complexity on behalf of a user, and reduce the skills required to get things right. Same for deployment. Can they learn Docker? Sure. Why do they have to, though. So we automatically build model images for them, and they can deploy them themselves clicking a button. As I said, these are problems we've had in the past, for example a 'data scientist' having to sollicit the help of à colleague to deploy their model. This was a bottleneck for us.

[0]: https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/#collaboration

[1]: https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/#multiple-checkpoints
This was an interesting read, I like exact reals and all the trade-offs involved, paper does a good job working through that.

Not sure if you are the author but there's a typo in the Introduction:

> The mathematical real numbers clearly play play a central
role
> if I took all of the atoms IN OUR GALAXY

There's between 100 and 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. There were billions of years to do the choosing - how many times per minute am I allowed to do it?

> The human body contains between 80,000 and 400,000 proteins.

Good thing first life wasn't homo sapiens then (and probably wasn't using DNA).
Thanks! Onwards to the instrument rating.

That's a great idea RE: nearest reporting airport - I've put it on the list to explore for the next version.

Haha, roger wilco on the taildragger time.
Comic Sans in their website title. That's a bold move.
You're right, my mistake!

But it still should not be an issue, since according to what you quoted an acceptor will not reply to a second proposal that bears the same number ("If an acceptor receives... number n greater than...), which means only one of the two proposers can gather the required majority of promises to move to the next phase, and thus only one of the values can end up being accepted. After the crash you describe, there will be only one accepted value the Proposer-C will receive.
Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?
In the 3D printing world, there are plenty of open source choices, allowing manufacturers to drive down costs. On the other hand, it seems 2d printing is stuck with legacy companies with completely closed drivers and hardware (you have to buy cartridges from the original manufacturer).

Apart from the nozzle why is it hard to manufacture and/or design?
So is AVX2.
As far as I understand, the code inside the macro has to be syntatically valid Python?

I think it would be cool to have sql baked directly into Python, something like:

t = pd.DataFrame(mydata)
sql!:
t = select new_col=col1 + col2 from t

But I don't think this PEP would support that, since "t = select new_col=col1 + col2 from t" isn't valid Python syntax.
>EDIT: if he actually referred to himself as being "Jesus Christ" it would make absolutely no sense, since Jesus never had priests working under him.

Huh? He had apostles/disiples, and he explicitly prepared them and send them to found churches all over the world...
What "these videos" though? How do you determine which ones are misinformation, when WHO was demonstrably wrong at least 3 times in this pandemic? What's your source of infallible truth?
Congrats, Nim is really becoming more and more mature as time goes on and showing new features like these are great though they do come off a bit as "a not done language"?

What is the plan for ARC/ORC stability and possible default? Are we looking at 1.6 or later (1.8?). Will the GCs (since ARC isn't really a GC) be deprecated at that time?
Oh, I would never go as far as thinking they did this for some altruistic reason. Rather that they finally reached a point where the benefit-risk equation tipped to the other side.
It actually does. Something is called scientific consensus if a large group of independent! researchers come the same conclusion.

A far more common problem science faces are the people that claim to know the truth.
I think we are lucky that EV market isn't bigger than what it is right now.
We simply don't have the infrastructure to support millions EVs on the road. How many charging stations you can put on a highway? and how many chargers each station is going to have?

With more EVs during a travel season, cars would have wait in queues for long time to find free chargers on highways and road-trips will become problematic.

If you buy an EV today, you are still an early-adopter in my opinion. Prices are too high for what you get and range isn't enough yet.

The best you can get right now is probably plugin-in hybrid cars. You get enough EV for your daily commute and short distance usage, and you still can go to road-trip without spending too much time at charging stations.