skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's uncomfortable but not painful really. I've had a few as I have celiac disease. Let's say that you don't have to worry about choking like with a gastroscopy, which I "luckily" had booked for the same day as the colonoscopy. I've never been sedated or had any anesthesia for either, it's really only the air afterwards that's painful, but that's not worse than when your stomach is upset during a flu or something.
It is wonderful that someone other than the USA is footing the bill for Europe’s defense. If I was a European I wouldn’t count on the USA to help in future conflicts.

EDIT: The downvotes are perplexing. Why would a European want the whims of the USA to be their only protection? Defend yourselves!
I'd like to see Dylan-style multiple iterator syntax in more languages. Python's zip() isn't nearly as obvious,
and I wish we could do something like this in java/c++:

for (a:A, b:B, c:C) ...
> You can't shake a stick in business without hitting ex-MBB leadership.

I don't work with any. I exclusively work on early-stage startups, so all my companies have teams of 3-20. They're also mostly bootstrapped.

I've tried partnering with ex-consultants in the past, but they add no value. They don't have deep industry contacts to sell to. They don't have hands-on experience actually building anything. They make nice PowerPoint presentations, and that's literally it. They constantly over-promise and under-deliver.

They also often demand high salaries at early stages, because they're used to making $300-500k, but that's a whole other issue.

I wasn't being trite. I consider having management consulting (especially MBB) to be a negative on a resume of someone I'm considering working with. It's essentially a disqualifying issue for me after many bad experiences. Maybe the next person is the exception, but it's not worth the risk for me anymore.

Being in leadership is even worse, because you're complicit in destroying so much shareholder value. You charge $100M for something that delivers no real value and costs your firm $10M. Why is that something we should admire?

> Some of them suck, some of them are mediocre, some of them are spectacularly good.

What are they spectacularly good at, though?

I completely agree that many of them are brilliant, but what skills are they honing, exactly? Brilliance by itself is not enough to make me want to work with someone. Experience is much more useful.

The experience gained tt consulting firms seems to be sales (of a very specific type), making beautiful presentations, and bending data to fit whatever narrative people want it to. Maybe they do some legwork gathering data or running some regressions, but they're usually starting with a preconception of where they should end up.

I have a friend who's a partner at Accenture, and he feels exactly the same way about management consulting that I do: it's bullshit. Another friend at McKinsey described his analyst job as "knowing how to wear a suit and be on time".

I've heard of so many disasters caused by management consultancies. Where are the success stories? At best, they just give a company's managers some data that validates what the company already wants to do, but maybe it's a little too risky.

Somewhere in the middle, perhaps they find a way to sneakily kill a pension program or fire 10,000 people. They're creating value for the company, but it's not exactly work your family will write about in your obituary.

At worst, they burn through piles of cash and accomplish absolutely nothing.
Most languages that offer AOT toolchains can do the same.
I've got a python project that depends on a c binary that depends on an shell script that depends on another binary.

Bazel let's you do this without caring about how your deps work with hermetic assurances on top.

Obviously this doesn't mean cargo is bad or worse or anything like that. It's just that it targets a different use case. Bazel targets many languages, with many targets, by many teams, in many ways. Cargo targets the Rust ecosystem, isn't hermetic, ist't reproducible by default, etc. BUT it's a great experience for rust.
It's hard to know. Maybe something "cognition cable" exists, it's just the proper train routine hasn't been provided to it.

But regardless, the broader point is yeah, combine something akin cognition capability and the proper training routine and there you go, AGI from "reinforcement learning", broadly defined.
There are people who think Haskell is easier.

Which is why I attempted support my personal beliefs via examples of Python uptake. Something you interpreted as an argument by popularity.

I observe that https://julialang.org/learning/classes/ lists only a single high school, and I didn't see a single course meant as a general introductory programming course for non-programmers.

Here's the IPCC talk (from 2000) I mentioned about "Using Python in a High School Computer Science Program" https://legacy.python.org/workshops/2000-01/proceedings/pape...

It references the "Computer Programming for Everybody" essay at
https://www.python.org/doc/essays/everybody/ , which I argue shows the stronger emphasis on the Python developers for beginning programs, inherited from ABC.

I also mentioned Alice. "Because Alice is targeted towards novice programmers, it is important that Python, more than languages such as Tcl or Scheme, can be mastered by new Alice programmers with little effort" (quoting the 1995 paper at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~stage3/publications/95/journals/IEEEc... ). But that was at a university.

Python of course is much more established than Julia, which is why I linked to resources from when Python was only a year or two older than Julia is now.

That said, at https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ you can find other teaching resources for high school teaching and for "kids" and "young children". My local library here in Sweden has a book on programming for kids, which uses Python.

Is there a similar movement as CP4E within the Julia? Nothing from https://julialang.org/learning/ suggests that the needs of non-programmers, such as high school students, plays a strong role in its design.

Do you know of any such internal movement? Can you point me to any external resources which show Julia being used as a teaching language for non-programmers?
I was amazed to learn that the common ancestor of all mammals almost certainly had poison spurs in its back legs.

Almost every lineage abandoned venom. Most that have it today evolved it again after losing it.

I think platypuses might be the only lineage that retained it.
Given 10,000 requests in a quarter, in order to achieve 99.9% availability, 9,990 of those requests must be successful. That leaves 10 that can fail. If two fail in a week, then only 8 more can fail for the rest of the quarter.
Germany has a strong labor force, and their economy is one of the best in the world. It is 100% possible.
Because there is no such thing as “actual money” in countries that have fiat currency. So it wouldn’t actually make any sense to do that.
I have read their translations of War and Peace, The Idiot, and Brothers Karamazov.

I don't know how accurate the translations are because I don't know Russian, but the English was readable and pleasurable to read.
If you want to try this out in video game form, I recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/476530/Children_of_a_Dead...

It's a more realistic space game than Kerbal Space Program and focuses on orbital combat. It does have a steep learning curve since it is literally rocket science, but if you've played KSP or other games with realistic orbital mechanics, you'll be able to pick up the core aspects easily.
To explain the downvotes: JSON ⊆ YAML implies YAML ⊇ JSON. You're saying the equivalent of "3 > 1 is wrong: 1 < 3".
Taxation policy can be changed.

As a strategic matter, during wartime, the economic output of the entire country can be redirected to war efforts.

Relative economic output of different forces is a major determining factor in war outcomes.

The percentage of GDP during peace-time serves as an indicator of readiness for war.

It is worth noting that Sweden staved off the USSR during the cold war with this very cleverly designed tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSNNNMYmTKQ
That's understandable. But many decisions in life are like that. Do you want to be close to your roots and your parents, or do you want a high-flying career in a remote city? Choices involve sacrifices as well as gains, and many meaningful outcomes are incomparable among themselves.
Lemmy Release v0.8.0 – Federation beta (federated Reddit alternative)
because Tesla uses 3 front facing Black/Red ~1000x600 36 frames per second cameras mounted in the center with no ability for parallax.
Look into Juice Diet, Grape 40 day Diet and Weed cure for Cancer, 3 alt solutions away from Big Phama
What are you talking about? Most things invented these days are very complex. Take a long time to learn. You can't learn it in a day, it takes years.
Cashback Poll Shows Aussies Dreaming of NZ
Slightly confused by your complaints r.e. jfk > manhattan via mass transit. You get on the LIRR and you end up in penn station. It's not the same as grand central but from a connectivity perspective it's similar. I've taken the train from Zurich airport to Zurich HB and while I recall it being fancier it's not like it's materially different (both go from point A to point B in a reasonable period of time at a reasonable cost).
Ask HN: How to Properly Learn CSS
I am struggling with understanding CSS.

I have some CS background and I believe I can grasp new concepts and languages fairly quickly. Yet I never really understand why is CSS behaving the way it's behaving, despite doing CSS (as part of full-stack) for quite a long time.

What is the best way and best material (either online or offline) to actually, really, properly learn CSS, so I know what are the proper interactions between all the styles, all the box models, all the flows, all the `inline-box` and `flow` and `flex` and so on.

Note that I don't need to re-learn the basics of CSS selectors and cascades, I understand that. I just don't understand all the subtle interactions of all the various flows and so on. And I end up copy-pasting those from StackOverflow.
C++ is 40 years old by now, C is reaching 60, almost the same age as COBOL (about 10 years younger).

Stroustrup does assume not to know everything, just like Ken Thompson won't know everything about C17.

Wait until Rust reaches their age, actually enjoys multiple commercial implementations, assuming it does survive that long, and those still alive will say the same words about Rust.
Can the problems encountered with the Fukushima nuclear plant being located on the coast be overcome?
"It shouldn't have to be explained at all"

Why not? People shall chew that gum without any criticism?

Otherwise you will have another round of believing in Lebensraum because that corporal did say so ...
I finally got a chance to drive with autopilot for an extended period and student driver is an excellent description. It made some very poor driving choices, notably hanging out the blind spots of other drivers when there was tons of room to avoid that. It did a fine job of keeping he car in the lane, but it did not practice active defensive driving.
We were also

Unifed Nation

Unifed Race

Unifed Community

Thanks JEWS

Without jews we would of never had

Black slave Trade

KKK

ANTIFA

WWI/WWII/Gulf War

Diversity

Feminism

Female voteing

Non native immergration

Multi racial society

Group rights

Pussy pass

Lower standards for non ethnic native population
Doping itself isn't bad, and drugs aren't bad in moderation, either.

So, yeah, the issue is someone getting an advantage, which in turn puts pressure on athletes to have to dope or take PEDs to have a career.

I'm not sure what the equilibrium outcome is if the restrictions are lifted, but the usual assumption is that it's a race to the bottom.

But WADA clearly has a perverse incentive to ban more and more drugs simply to justify its own existence.

Maybe the solution is to let athletes themselves figure out the rules, since they have to live with them.
The same thing is happening to BLM and AntiFA people starting to work jobs because protesting does not pay a lot of money. Change is coming.

The Hippies sold out when they couldn't beat corporate culture so they adopted it. Became yuppies in the 1980s, the Me decade.
This is a relatively recently change.
Thank you for writing this experience so wonderfully. I can really relate to this journey. Lost my brother to Colorectal cancer 2.5 years back, he was 27 at the time. What happened with Boseman happened with us 15 years earlier(Stage III transitioning to IV). We didn't have any family history of cancer. He was wild type for all kind of known mutations (KRAS, NRAS and BRAF) for the cancer. In simple terms, doctors didn't know what exactly caused his cancer.

I'm also at a good risk of getting it at some point probably. I'm 23 rn, last colonoscopy didn't show any polyps fortunately. Trying to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle. Every cancer writeup is kinda scary for me.

At the time of diagnosis, my brother was going through stressful situations(his startup, personal life), not able to focus much on physical and mental health. I'd like to know if Chris thinks there was something else that triggered/fueled his cancer apart from genetics.
In the real world, you can totally go below zero though. It’s a race condition that they turned into a revenue opportunity.
I was curious about the economics of building geothermal plants as a California statewide infrastructure strategy, since I assume it's a pretty good place for geothermal, so I did some quick maths from info I found online. Apparently CA consumes about 7% of the electricity in the US, at 259.9 TWh, therefore averaging a consumption of only 29.65 gigawatts; the capacity is actually 75.9 GW [1]. An energy.gov site [2] says a typical large geothermal plant only costs $2.5 to build per watt of capacity! Compared to a lot of huge-ticket federal and even statewide budget items such as the $686 billion military budget, eliminating off-peak non-industrial natural gas energy production with socialized electricity seems doable.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/california/

[2] https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/geothermal-faqs#:~:te....
Thankfully for many tasks in C++ the standard library is already good enough.
Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying that.
Not a very informative article. Based on these 'snapshots', the life of a criminal-data analyst consists of:

1 - Pawning work off onto junior staff ("I task an analyst on my team with making a chart showing how the people and accounts are connected")

2 - Doing rudimentary tasks like logging into and rooting around Facebook which seem like big asks to tech-illiterate colleagues ("'So I’ve got this guy in here,' the detective says. 'We’re trying to get into his Facebook account. He's going to help us help us ID someone. You think you can help with that?'"/"the man gives me his Facebook account details. I log into his account, complete the research, log out, and thank the man for his help")

3 - Giving vague court testimony (he mentions video analysis a couple times, which would have been interesting to hear more about, alas.)

I understand that he can't discuss cases in too much detail, but if you can't mention any more particulars other than that you handled some video evidence, then what's the point of writing this at all?
I think “say goodnight to insomnia” is most likely the one they mean.
I can't agree with that.

>> The social impact, for one, is in general a large extent of estrangement from our human essence. Tangibility is intuitive, abstraction, not so much.

Specialization does introduce fragility, but that's something you brought to the discussion, not something that was present in the comment. This seems more like the common complaint that working on abstract fuzzy intangible things is damaging to your soul.
Well, maybe there is another option. Call it "inward mobility". It is where your life becomes better, more organized, more healthy, within the bounds of, e.g. your energy expenditures or your draw on natural resources. There is an analogy with racing: in drag racing, you always want to go faster and faster, with no upper bound. But there is another form of racing, rally racing, which hinges on precision and control rather than raw speed.

My recent experience living in Germany gave me a real sense of what that's like. There is a cultural affinity for "progress means innovation aimed at ever more closely and efficiently adhering to a standard". So this means, for example, the beer in Germany is very consistent over decades, sometimes centuries, is cheaper than soda, and there isn't much variety. (a similar story for Ireland's Guiness, BTW). Or take the German knife maker Wüsthof, which unusually for a large knife maker uses entirely one steel, one style of blade, across the line (okay there are exceptions but these are rare). They've fixed the larger values of a boundary condition, but still find room to innovate within that space. I can't help but think that this is a healthier way to think about progress and growth, rather than the very American approach that progress always means more, but never just better.
Jony Ive is bringing his design talents to Airbnb
Would there be any downsides to Firefox putting every website in its own container by default?
You're right. It's really silly isn't it. They have a known set of vector shapes, on a quite small portion of a map, with limited geometry. Trains travel along those lines, and really there is not much going on an at all. I don't understand how performance and the technical challenges are so bad for such a limited scope render.
With the Bjarne's goal of never having to do BCPL style programming ever again.
What’s your toolchain look like for converting latex to HTML, possibly with raw HTML in the latex source? I’d love to use latex if not for that wrinkle.
A more resilient version of Quibi has been operating in Japan for 5 years. It's called "C Channel"[1], founded by the founder of the LINE messaging app Akira Morikawa. C Channel also presents short videos in vertical format. It differs from Quibi that they have narrowed their target viewer on young women who want makeup tutorials. Their production cost is probably cheaper: they feature influencers instead of A-list celebrities. They started small, and still serve that specific niche for women who want to be fashionable.

Quibi may have fared better if they likewise focused on a specific niche of viewers.

[1] https://www.cchan.tv/
Super-great answer. And applies to all animals of any stripe. And plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, and viruses.

Are peaches and cherries the same species? What definition would you like to use?

Cabbage and broccoli? Yes.

West and east African elephants? No, it turns out.

Quaggas and zebras? Yes, it turns out.
The reason is called laziness and unwilling to learn how things work.

If I as a 80's high school student was able to manage how to deal with dependencies in MS-DOS world, with several commercial compilers, in age where information came only on books and magazines, so can anyone on the Internet age learn how to do it.

I will avoid them as much as possible.
so you are ok if someone does corruption to get the business? I really hope you live long enough to see the effects of monopoly.
You did write "two numbers" ;)

Guess I could also have used 5j + 3 as a counter-example.

If this is an issue then at this stage, many Python people switch to use one of the alternatives mentioned here, like Cython, which is a Python-like language which includes a static type system (including support for C++ templates) and can easily generate C extensions that can call and be called from Python.
Spec ambiguities of JSON mostly come from the insufficient description of data model and well-formedness and not from the syntax itself. Say, to this day (including RFC 8259) duplicate keys from the JSON object are not explicitly forbidden, even though most applications require that. Probably the only issue arisen from the JSON syntax proper would be the treatment of line and paragraph separators.
Yeah that sounds about right.

Somewhere between 1 and 3 billion people will die this winter due to the flu + covid combo.

Sounds about right.
Trains, Fast Internet

'Cries manly Canadian tears"
I made an algorithm to identify good food combinations
That works if all your YAML authors are carefully avoiding any use of the features JSON can’t represent, like multiple documents, non-string map keys, and application-defined type tags.
Point taken but it is too late to correct. :-(
I.e. a neologism.
Because you don't want to increase the class divide between rural and non-rural areas. Or maybe you do, but most of us don't, and you have to conform to our values if you want to live with the benefits that a society of those values have produced.
Self Healing Web Scraping
What's especially interesting, to me, is that he published his take on thermodynamics without running it past a physicist. I'm not sure what to make of that.
I was (unreasonably) shocked to see from his photo how thin he was. Somehow, reading J R, I developed a mental image of the Gaddis as overweight, probably due to the heaviness (in the sense of heavy cream) of his prose.
This Nobel-Winning Idea Has Failed India https://archive.is/C7JDc
due to Cartels aka Casteism in India https://archive.vn/VWFSC

Which Caste is looting India ?
https://archive.is/5zz1b
Really, I just have a somewhat FP bias, and I'd really enjoy it if const was actually immutable, since it'd be a nice concise way of expressing that. It's just not as useful as you'd think given how often it seems to be used (by contrast I almost never see anyone actually making anything immutable in JS).
In a busy train, where everyone is video calling or watching Netflix. Is 1.2gbit enough?
I heard of them because I like Reno 911 and the social media algorithms probably knew that too because I watch the show on Comedy Central sometimes, and so they advertised Quibi and their Reno 911 show to me all over the place about 5 months ago.

I signed up to watch it. It just wasn't the same as the good old show I used to watch, so I unsubscribed.

I flipped through page after page after page of their other content offerings and not a single other thing looked remotely interesting to me. I tried watching a couple just because, and I got bored fast.
Instead of forcing people to do something (through conscription), it's ideal to make people want to do it voluntarily (through providing good pay, conditions and maybe generous matching of retirement contributions etc)
” It is worth noting that Sweden only managed to stave off the USSR thanks to their preparedness, and this very cleverly designed tank”

You probably mean the cold war, not ww2? Sweden didn’t (directly) fight the USSR during ww2, and was famously unprepared at the start of the war.
> Also, the prep of clearing your system will reset your digestive system

[citation needed], especially because gut flora isn't something you necessarily want to reset.
India is unique https://archive.vn/pOmij

It has Producers, Consumers and Leeches https://twitter.com/0x101/status/1317685559414972418
I mean, yeah there was, though yes the governments owned it and sold it to developers.
Yes, although to be fair, JMAP is a thing and Google has had a decade and a half to improve IMAP if they cared.