skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where Tcl is nice is embedding the Tcl interpreter in a C main program. Lua also does this well.

This is the oft-overlooked embedding case which can be difficult in other languages (compared to the normal case where you start out in language X and need to call into a C function to do something low level). For example in Python the embedding case is tricky and lightly documented, and with only a semi-stable API which has changed under us a few times.

In nbdkit we do a lot of language embedding (https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/tree/master/plugins) including Tcl, Lua, Python and many others.
Do you really read a book every day? That strains belief.

But I don't understand. What do you mean by "touchy feely" book, and why are you afraid you will be ostracised by your opinions?
Just think critically for a few minutes before commenting your next new objection to see if you can come up with what the problem might be.
All positive returns to major market indices over 3 decades occurred overnight
I agree with you but I don't think that was the real essence of their criticism. It was more about releasing actual primary sources instead of a heavily edited version of their own narrative with very little of the prinary source remaining.
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Is cash that hard?
Can you explain why you would code java this way instead of dropping down to C?
Maybe to some extent? The teams doing proper HFT are all dealing with C++ or hardware. This is true across the industry AFAIK at places like HRT, Citadel Securities, Jump, etc. Some of these might use some Java for things that don't require low latency but those aren't really considered HFT.
GP is arguing there should be a user-facing notification.
Hmm, I think I'd still choose Scrapy over JS in this case. While it can be a bit convoluted, for real production stuff I don't know any better choices.

I have myself deployed a Scrapy web scraper as AWS Lambda function and it has worked quite nicely. Every day for the last year now I guess, it has been scraping some websites to make my life a little easier.
>There are no competitors.

What an absurd statement to make on hacker news of all places, where every minor movement of tesla/solar city is reported as breaking news. Or in a world where more and more people are going "off grid" and making their own electricity.

The power company is the easiest/most convenient way to power my home. It is definitely not the only way to do it.
Beats me; maybe something like Michael Jackson leaning directly forward in the Smooth Criminal video (https://youtu.be/h_D3VFfhvs4?t=424).
This depends on the card. The cards people associated most with Amex (platinum, gold, etc) are charge cards and you're expected to pay them in full every month instead of carrying a balance. That's part of why Amex historically had higher fees for retailers. Those fees were their only source of income.

I'm sure most banks have good enough financial modelling that they can tweak their credit card approvals to get whatever balance between retail fees, annual fees, and interest they want for that card.
All-caps is a great way to convince people that you are a sane person with a rational argument. Congratulations on your novel rhetorical innovation
"news" about tweets is the most ridiculous thing to happen in the last decade.
I love it! It's like adsense, the parties can bid to determine whether or not a story should be promoted or suppressed

And you thought casino keywords brought in revenue...
You need to unlock the phone to pay with it.
Should Twitter have blocked all the accounts sharing the Panama Papers?
If you tell people whether they're now vaccinated, they're going to take a lot more risks.

You may still have increased risk taking behavior if you don't tell them whether they got the real vaccine or placebo, but it will be equally increased across the experiment and control groups.
> java is very easy to troubleshoot compared to c, go, and rust

All the worst and most time-consuming troubleshooting experiences of my life have involved Java. Whether staring at pages of obscure stacktraces that the JVM decided to vomit all over my screen, or hours on end with Oracle tech support troubleshooting why Java decided to throw a tantrum (followed by editing obscure Java XML config files).

These days I just stay well away from Java.
Watch them change their opinion when there are unproven articles published about Trump by left wing media.
How much specification does a developer need?
> I'm advocating understanding the situation first before throwing an accusation.

"We don't know what's going on" is a lie. We know. Some people chose to ignore / justify. You are sadly in good company when it comes to the history of denying genocide.
But, citizens of Detroit, OCP is a private company, they can do what they want!
> Libre/open source is the point. Not being restricted by proprietary software and walled gardens.

And the point of libre/open is the word from FLOSS you forgot to add: freedom, ie. being in a position to decide and control your software.

Libre/open/free software isn't an end goal by themselves, they the means to be in control.

> The year of the Linux desktop won't come because apart from the kernel the ecosystem is incredibly fragmented and reaching consensus is pretty much impossible

Until Wayland came along, X11 was the only defacto window system for Linux - if you wrote an application targeting X11, it would work on all Linux desktop system.

Wayland fragmented the window system landscape.

> so in 2020 we're still deciding whether to do client side or server side decorations.

This wasn't a question at the past, everyone agreed that server side decorations are better because they allow users more control through their window managers - with exception for special cases, of course (the WMs didn't forbid it after all, applications could do both).

It wasn't until some GNOME "designer" saw iPad, got jealous they didn't thought of it and then mad that people could actually have choice in how their Linux systems looked and behaved that we got client side decorations.
How did you come to that conclusion (the levels of abuse)?

You should watch "A radical experiment in empathy", by Sam Richards
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yes but that ship has sailed so long ago now, has it been a decade? like its been non-linear timelines longer than the timeline feature was existing on social networks.

from what I perceive, the angst now comes from Twitter, Facebook and Google acting like arbiters of truth or a moral high ground, when its clear they aren't and might be so drunk on their own koolaid that they can't perceive it internally.

it would be clearer for us for them to just say "we arbitrarily censor some things at our own discretion, there is no rhyme or reason to it, we all went to stanford and live within 2 miles of each other so it might have a pattern of leaning left, but it might not too, we have the right to refuse service to anyone, go somewhere else if thats a problem, but we might buy that service too"
Most of these photos are remarkable but the woman-in-parka shot looks heavily ... airbrushed. Maybe one of the blur filters got turned on or something? Composition-wise it's good and all that, not insulting the subject or the photographer, but the software appears to have applied quite a bit of blur.
Maybe I'm a dunce but I would believe a friend if they say they're vaccinated or already got covid.
Journalistic integrity means vetting sources of “news”, especially in this day in age when so many videos are just clips out of context. I completely agree with Twitter keeping NY Post account disabled. Until they can prove to be a real news source, they are tabloid fake news. The fact they they will publish articles other news sites won’t means not that they are “The Rogue News Organization in a sea of Liberal Media”, but more “They post bullshit that’s intended to incite culture war, not report the news”.
At the end of study.
No no, it actually works. I am working from home most of the time, and chatting on Discord with random strangers helps me keep my speaking skills, and just stay sane(ish).
Way to extrapolate an entire faction of society based on one action of a tabloid.
> The Post publishes a lot of disreputable trash that's outright false or unproven, but more and more often, it seems that they release primary sources of information (especially videos) much earlier than other news outlets will, if the other news outlets do so at all.

Interesting... after reading this, I immediately thought: same as Zero Hedge (also often criticised). But then again, that shouldn't be a surprise - basically a lower bar (on accuracy) should result both in lower reaction time, and in more false positives.

A comment to a sibling comment: I personally find lower time-to-publish immensely valuable - I prefer to assess the accuracy of news stories myself (usually considering the original source and how aligned their interests are with the published information), and I find almost no value in the supposedly "trustworthy" media because they're not actually trustworthy to me (besides the obvious political bias, there's also plenty of high-profile non-culture-wars fake news, e.g. Iraqi WMD, Bloomberg's China spying debacle, the current (non-)coverage of Assange, ...). If there's anything I've learned in the past 10 or so years, is that the "experts" are barely any better than myself at discerning what's true or not, and much less trustworthy.
when you are browsing games, hit back button, you are taken all the back out, not to the previous page.
Buying an old copy of Windows NT/2000/XP costs next to nothing on eBay, and you can be guaranteed that you get the platform that your legacy software was targeted for, and not a clone.
Has criticism of the current president been banned?
At least in the U.S., there is no such thing as a "debit credit card", and debit cards do not have interest rates as they're (usually) coming straight out of a checking/savings account.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on the way we describe our privacy policy. It seems like you created an account just for this, that's really nice! Thanks!

We'll review your comment with the team this week and update our pages accordingly.

But really, we're not trying to pretend something and actually use data is a bad way.

We want to build a long term business that is totally based on trust and we really appreciate comments like yours that show that we still have a long way to go in the way we explain the use of our data.

Thanks again, I'll update this post once we've improved our /privacy page based on your comments.
Those organizations all have a leftward slant. But thank you for informing me of your skew.
Not really an article, just a bunch of opinions strung together with little in the way of explanation or background. Waymo and Tesla have different approaches, complete with different strengths and weaknesses. There is nobody, including this author, who knows in advance how self-driving will evolve.
Is it what they finally settled on? because we've heard "we don't relay unverified news" and "we don't relay hacked information" as well.
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Well the fact is the NY Times story is probably accurate and the NY Post story is extremely suspect.

Twitter made a journalistic decision not to spread trash, possibly from Russia, that could have a real impact on our election result. Tough call, but the right call. If twitter sees itself as having some sort of moderator role than it has to make these judgement calls.

Other outlets didn't amplify the Hunter Biden laptop story either. Even conservative outlets like the Wall Street Journal decided it was too sketchy to spread.

Twitter is trying to avoid being a platform for conspiracy theories and foreign intelligence agencies. It has to act.
> Then why hasn't it been fixed?

I don't know, my guess is that people found making new stuff much more fun than fixing existing stuff.

Which is fine.

However that isn't the same as the existing stuff being unable to be fixed.
> One of the absolute laziest ways to write a "news" article is the "here are a list of things people tweeted about this topic" compilation.

It's definitely less work that investigative journalism, but to the extent that twitter is influential, it's a topic that should be covered.

IMHO, the media has (at least) two important jobs: 1) conduct novel investigations and 2) summarize the firehose of events and ideas into a form concise enough for someone to read on a daily/weekly basis. "What people are saying on social media" falls squarely into the second category.
I went through a similar tool search (i.e. zettelkasten, roam, notable.md, dendron, etc). With the same notions of dendron operating only in VSCode. Long story, it didn't fit well for me. While dendron operated and was structured well, VSCode was just too slow to launch and not widely available enough for my use case. May be important to note though that I don't 'live' in VSCode like many others do. I settled on other applications which allow me to directly interact with the files inside and outside the application.
Web scraping only sounds like a simple thing but when you add multithreading, queues, workers and rate limiting it becomes a real monster.
As a counterpoint, Twitter as a company isn't forced to do any such thing, so if they think it can hurt its userbase and its revenue, it won't be done.

Social media tries to establish a unique public forum, that gets policed by a single company. It's an unsustainable, doomed model. There's a reason the Internet as a whole is serviced by miriads of companies that are more or less forced to cooperate.
A better analogy: Twitter is like Fedex refusing to deliver your packages based on your politics, not the electrical utility company.
Is it just me, or is there always a post in these types of discussions that say "it's a private company, it's not censorship"?
As an alternative to getting a textbook, I would strongly recommend Krista King's maths courses. They're available through Udemy or her personal website [1][2].

Each section has a 1) written explanation, 2) video explanation with an exercise walkthrough and a 3) set of exercises. Each exercise also has a well-written walkthrough in case you can't solve them.

I've been working through them part-time for 4 months now, and it's honestly the first time that maths has clicked for me (I've found that most books tend to skip concepts which leave me lost).

[1] https://www.udemy.com/user/kristaking/
[2] https://www.kristakingmath.com/
After the Covington stuff, isn't it a good thing they are taking more time to figure out the context around short inflammatory videos?
Right now, many, many folks don't seem to care that people aren't vaccinated either.
Does the House have the sole power to do this? Or do you need both?
This equivocation of news sources is how misinformation spreads. Look at how WSJ handled same story vs NYP. WSJ is indeed more reputable as is NYTimes
Every activity is ultimately like sending money and energy to /dev/null. Meditating on a mountaintop is not inherently more fulfilling than playing playing a great video game, just because it is more "respectable".

I think people get trapped by always feeling the need to perfectly optimize their lives, without asking for what they are optimizing.
If you insist on spreading hateful, proven-false conspiracy theories about a major-party presidential candidate, do not be surprised when reputable firms will not be complicit in such spread.
That’s their normal courses of action for account freezes.

They programmatically freeze your account with the message “Twitter freezes accounts that violate Twitter Rules.” which criteria is just a /dev/urandom that apparently any average script kiddies can trigger at will.

They don’t bother dealing with your complaints, but don’t bother with ban evasions either, so people either keep sending complaints until it reaches a human, or just create alternate accounts and try to spread your word that this alt is now your main account. You have to have built a network or position in a group that can handle these transitions.

Isn’t that how Twitter works? That won’t change without some social media account rights movement and legislation.
High inbox volume is humorously labeled "infinite scroll", but I don't get the low-volume label: "medium-rare"?
More like mandated.

But, I repeat, what happens when it's "our side" in power? Would leaks about malfeasance under his administration be "improperly sourced information"?
If he linked to an expensive product without a ref, i have zero doubt it's an honest recommendation.

Linking to a product worth nearly 2 grand (where he gets a 5%? cut - ~$100 per purchase), then is it an honest recommendation or an easy money grab?
Have you made it to the end? There is also a quick PoC of how to do same in the browser console
Close but with a twist? There's kind of an over-sized "Severless" sort of thing going on, with "event-oriented" being a headliner or Dapr.

Imo though there's kind of an uncaptured spirit, still. Dapr is trying to set forth a toolkit for building a in a more "cloud-native" fashion. Key to this is that state is now mediated/held, when possible, by Dapr, rather than something applications reach out to data-sources for. Dapr is really there to present a uniform interface for your workload to run on, with it sending you events, you using Dapr to get what you need to compute/process those events, and you emitting more events out. Where-as microservices just talk to having a small unit size, a sea of services, Dapr also builds a regular computing environment that provides the things those micro & femto services might need too. The hope being that this is easier to operationalize, that the cloud operator can better manage & provide these resources, than a classic microservice app.
I guess it depends on workplace culture? I have worked and/or consulted at places where I would not have been (in general) afraid to be bold.

Books like "Think" by Simon Blackburn don't bother me to comment on. They are pretty light treatments of the underlying topics, but (as philosophy), they are framed as rational discourses. (Whether they are or not is a different topic).

Topics about things like emotional intelligence (EQ) or persuasion or even nudging or race-relations in the 20th century can trigger a fairly rapid group response (primarily amongst the younger co-workers), and then you get to feeling piled upon (and even cancelled) pretty quickly.

It's a new world, and I'm pretty old, and as a sit-at-my-workstation-and-code engineer, I'm guessing that I may have allowed myself to get behind the curve on normative (allowable?) social opinions.
> That was just not possible on a console

You may be thinking of DOS, which yes had almost no multitasking ability available.

However there were multiple timesharing operating systems that existed before the PC and GUIs, Unix being the most famous and still around.

Multitasking is quite possible on a Linux console for example. It has 5 or more consoles, each handling different users, each being able to be split via screen/tmux. Each shell can run jobs in the background as well.
It's labelled as "Extreme low-light Portrait with Night mode" with the note "The blurring and noise reduction is a bit less realistic and a bit more… dreamy?"
Twitter isn't critical infrastructure.....
For a more technical discussion of what RSS gets right (or not), see:

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/23/
> Also, in Java it is easy to end up with resource leaks whereas PHP always starts from a clean slate for each request. Way less headache for operations.

That assumes you're running a new separate PHP processes for each request and an application built this way is unlikely to scale terribly well.
Did you come from reddit? people are here for a informed discussion, not to think they are part of a sit-com, next time have some counter argument based on logic and facts, then maybe i will give you some time
Tabloids aren’t new. Ever checked out the headlines in print at a grocery store check-out? If the NYPost want to be The Publication Who Cried Wolf and everything that comes with that reputation, let them.
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Thanks! Yeah that makes sense as well, it's a different way of looking at it.

We found that you have to look at those things like a scale:
Open source <------> Ease of use

We've decided to focus on the ease of use but there are of course many other note takings apps focusing on the other side :)
“Develop a routine to keep drudgery away and the romance of technology close. Practice it religiously. Physical mechanisms and analog circuitry are better than digital; used hardcovers are better than Kindle. Know your long-term goals.”

This is so hard - even waking up the same time everyday is rough because you never know if you are going to pull a late-nighter, you know?

I’ve heard this from psychologists as well... something I need to work on... thank you for the reminder.
The main problem now is not speech recognition. It's a kind of uncanny valley effect.

You can speak to these assistants, but the language is still restricted. They show little to no common sense. It's a lot of party tricks bundled together.

You can't interrupt them and it's hard to correct them.

On the speech recognition side, an issue I've found (although is a rather niche one) is triggered because I'm bilingual (I'm fluent in spanish and english).

Speech recognition only works well on a single language.

I have Alexa set to speak english, for example when I'm searching for a song with a spanish title, I have to try to fudge the name into a fake english pronunciation for it to produce the right phonemes that will match the song title, rather than just say the name properly.

Also, if it misses the match, there's no easy way to stop it and say "No, not that one", and be presented with a list of similar matches.
What makes you think anybody is insisting that Twitter has to carry whatever content? We're just calling them out for being biased.
I do not imply anything. The fact is that there haven't been any release for two years yet there is work apparently being done.

So why aren't release being made?
> Do you believe it would be acceptable for a company to refuse to do business with people who are members of feminist organisations?

On a legal level, yes. I would avoid doing business with that company as a result, but they'd be well within their rights to do it. I'd be well within my rights to boycott and tell my friends about it.

> And if your argument is that it's possible to pretend not to be a feminist, can the same not also be said for someones sexual orientation?

My employer's health insurance would allow me to add a same-gender spouse, but doesn't ask if they're a feminist.
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If google assistant or whatever worked like a person of average intelligence that I could talk to and get to do stuff for me, that would be incredible. I've been on a roadtrip and your examples made me realize how much of a time/attention saver something like that would have been.
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Can you expand on this? Why do you think that?
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Or set a cap? Anything above $5M is taxed at 95% or something. People will still work hard to pass on wealth to their kids, but anything obscene could go back into a social dividend.
I feel like a lot of people that keep bringing up DSLRs kinda miss the point. The best camera is the one you have on you. So even a minor incremental upgrade is worth its weight in gold when you consider you'll be capturing images where you'd never dream of having a DSLR but in considerably better quality.
Julia, Anglican, Elm, or C.

it definitely depends on the application, but these are some of my favorites. I really want to try rust.