skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as OP's comment is wacko crazy, it's in everyone's best interest if people speak honestly. This whole white-lie-in-the-public-interest never turns out well. If there was one reason attributable to the USSR's downfall, it's this attitude. Because socialism was better, it was okay to lie in its defense, and this lead to the equivalent of hyperinflation on both the corruption and the truthiness fronts.

The rapid growth of racism in blue states comes back to this attitude. If people can't speak freely, when they have false beliefs, they keep them to themselves, and you can't address them. The sorts of blue state beliefs about minorities are just wacko at this point.

People should be free to speak.

No, I don't agree with OP, but this whole "why talk about it?" thing is an issue. You talk about things together, critically to come to a common understanding of the truth. That has a lot of value in itself. It's not all about impact of words, and how you can politick the change you want in the world. Society works better when people speak openly, even when those words are false and harmful, and when people can be confronted on that, not with cancel culture, but critically, logically, and civilly.

We've worked ourselves into a corner where we can't do that anymore.
My number one concern is predictors so I'll address that part.

You can turn off "chat" with anyone other than your child's friends. You're kid can be in a group chat with their friend and other strangers, which I'm not delighted about.

Downside #1 is that anyone can send a friend request and your child can accept them. Whenever I go into my kid's account I do a friend review - "How do you know this person?". My child also always has a dozen pending "friends" requests from as-far-as-I-know complete strangers which I decline for her.

Downside #2 is that Roblox can have odd restrictions if "chat" is turned off - you can't give your pets names "Adopt Me" for example.
BLM is an organization with a website and a mission. Black lives matter is a belief that basically everyone shares.
nope, that's Vala
I’m drawn to regions because they seem to intuitively match how I write my high performance systems software. In those sorts of SW, I really need precise and cheap ownership rules, but without any restrictions in topology.

It’d be super if regions were a mathematically robust way of describing that engineering solution.
Cloud infrastructure is certainly a big thing nowadays but AWS isnt really the grand solution to all problems. Its quite expensive, and in my case, since im not using any fancy stuff, have transferred all of my servers from EC2 to a more simple service (hetzner) and now pay less than half the cost.

I think most businesses need to really evaluate this issue before blindly putting everything on AWS since it can really get pricey once you need good performance.

So my point is, all these AWS specific config languages really create an even more tight lock in with the platform, maybe it would be best to do it in a cloud agnostic way, which of course also comes with its own issues.
I have bought a few items off of wish, and each time I have been astounded at the crap I got. I mean, it was dirt cheap so I don't know what I was expecting. Honestly surprised that the business is still going, let alone going public.
Probably not, the Latin "cultus" means worship of a god and is value-neutral; the vernacular English meaning of "cult" as "new religious movement that I don't like" is quite recent. A catholic church having a budget line for "cult expenses" (that's a case of wine and a box of communion wafers) wouldn't raise eyebrows within the congregation.

That said, is there a temple without cult? After all a temple is a building to worship a deity. That sounds like a poor translation.
Because these are for profit companies. What is actually happening when a company says they want to work to make a difference is that they want to harvest your enthusiasm for improving the world to make them more profit, or create free marketing for them.

When choices come down to make a difference or make a profit companies choose profit. If they truly wanted to make a difference, they would be nonprofits.
The thing that made the difference for me is the hinting, it's an absolute game changer on lower resolution screens.
Cool product, it'd be interesting if a marketplace style thing could exist in it too to vastly increase the number of available images, and allow others to profit off your app too (you take your cut of course).
Check the other comments on the link? Solution c) is already there?
I get a "page not found" on that URL.
It quite clearly means a fleeting tweet.
Flu characteristics are well understood and you should encounter no obstacles in doing that research yourself.
> "I came out of that workshop convinced that the primary reason companies like FOSS is because it's generally available at no cost. Not because it reduces long-term dependencies on external parties, not because it improves software development methodologies, and not because it's an essential liberty. But simply because of the cost."

This was, or at least should have been, known from the beginning; I've certainly been saying it since the '90s. When people were proclaiming FOSS to be "free as in beer and free as in speech", it was pretty clear that most people stopped listening after the first four words.
i hope that the virus mutates so that no masks work and it only happens in the U.S.
From my reading of the docs, Vale is not memory safe. It offers some tools to assist with memory management, but is fundamentally closer to the safety level of C++ rather than Rust.
Not really, it's not an inactivated adenovirus, just a strain that is much less strong in humans.
Isn’t that kind of what we have done with distance learning?
I don't personally do this, but if you're taking scheduled snapshots of your ZFS filesystems, you could also have a scheduled job (say, nightly) that emails you a "zfs diff" [0] between the current snapshot and the one from 24 hours ago. It won't tell you that you've been hit by malware, but an unexpected spike in changes could be something worth investigating.

[0] - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36835/gkkqz.html
oneAPI is not being run on top of OpenCL; it's being run on top of Level Zero. Although I think the CPU runtime is still using the OpenCL driver for the moment.
That's interesting about avoidant personality disorder. I wasn't aware of that, but it does fit a lot of the addicts I know.
This is untrue. Apple attempted to ban all third-party development tools, but never actually enforced the rule due to the threat of a lawsuit from the FTC. They dropped the rule about three months after Jobs' famous "Thoughts on Flash", but the fact that developers still remember the ban is probably a good chunk of why people forgot about the exporter.
All of which are tiny niche languages, except Elixir...

I actually think think BEAM gaining the ability to run WASM would be a smart development.

It would make using high performance C/C++/Rust code much easier than the NIF/Ports hassle, with much better sandboxing and scheduling control for the VM.

If they also add WASM actors on top it could expand the interest significantly.

OTP has decades of tuning and improvements that will be hard to match in other projects like this.
I think this is a weird way of looking at it.

PL are evolving continuously on some level or another. New languages pop up with new concepts or ways to do things, old languages can then incorporate some of these things.

It works with all things similarly, there is a conventional main-stream that most adhere to, for efficiency gains but the creative risk takers are the ones who drive things forward, or fail to do so.
That it's dumbed down and watered down explains the appeal.
Same here. I patched StumpWM for NixOS, as I really missed it, and it's been my WM for two years. I switched from XMonad, as I really prefer manual tiling.

XMonad keybindings are great, though. I emulate some in Stump.
quizlet is another excellent alternative -- all web-based no installers
Can you provide a source? Everywhere I've looked just shows MRS and MSR instructions, which are standard ARM instructions with platform specific operands/results. It can only be a custom instruction if the disassembly shows it's in the reserved instruction opcode space.
ImDrawList coding party – create small visual fx
Know this mostly isn't looking for an answer, but I think HN typically means something along the lines of:

"one with a significant development arm of their employees/business that is crucial to the company's success"

So any company run off an app or website that's complex and well made is probably a "tech company" even if it's in the business of cars, e-commerce, or widgets. There's no hard and fast rule here of course, but we don't need to pretend we don't know the gist of what people actually mean, even if "tech company" is a misnomer in many ways.
They are, of course, using the standard African Elephant as a measure, the same way you are using the standard pickup truck as a measure.

And of course if you ever talk about bovines you will have to use the standard spherical cow as a measure.
How about the German well-known biotech company that actually developed the vaccine that Pfizer is distributing?
Don't worry about tabulation, you got the content right.

The slide deck is a PR piece aimed at tricking people into giving more of their lives to corporate interests.
How is Flutter for Windows and MacOS in contrast to electron?
There are lots of different cultures and culture codes tend to emphasize the notion of "having a single culture".

I am from New York and spend most of my time in Colombia. My English speaking New York personality and Spanish speaking Colombian personality have diverged quite significantly.

I am a lot more indirect in Spanish. I'll rarely say "no" in Spanish for example. I'll always try to rephrase it as "yes, but we could also..." or "maybe we could...".

The "we seek the truth and face facts" mentality works well for some cultures and not as great for others.

I question the idea that a company should have a single culture. Might be better to aim to be a place where folks from a variety of cultures can collaborate.
MobX is not a framework
I think you lost the forest for the trees in the blog post's arguments. The treatment of Christianity and depiction of the Saxons is only part of the bigger problem of a colonizer narrative. Big issues in actual history are just glossed over, like the Viking use of slaves and collateral damage to civilians.

The argument is that pretending that the Vikings were unilaterally the good guys is an irresponsible thing to do when your game claims to be made by a multicultural team (AKA "we're trying to be sensitive about it") and when the game series has always tried to weave the stories into real-world settings.

One of the interesting things the author points out is that they were open about slavery in a previous game set in the Caribbean, but it's almost never mentioned here despite its historical prominence in the setting.
Company "culture" always makes me a little skeptical, particularly when they're used for hiring decisions. I can't help but think it is just another way to discriminate against folks - I mean if you're saying some one isn't a culture fit what are you really saying about them?

I get it if you're telegraphing that you just don't think they'll fit with you team, but having seen a lot of culture interviews in practice, they seem to be more socially acceptable code for "they're not gender conforming in profession, preference or practice", "they're not white", or what have you.
Lapham's Quarterly - each issue (4x a year) looks at a different topic with a focus on history and showing various perspectives across times and cultures. each issue has writing from the ancients through this year.

Cabinet - I used to subscribe to this one but my subscription lapsed. it is kind of a hipster magazine and some of the stuff in there is obtuse garbage but every once in a while they hit it. this is a good example - http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/52/hodes.php

Harper's is usually pretty good though I've never subscribed.

If you live in a big city there are usually a couple really high quality newstands that carry 100s or 1000s of magazines - I love browsing those. recently I came away from one with an issue of Fantasic man, Reason mag, and Harpers. always worth a trip.

Another good place to view magazines is art school libraries. they usually have some more wacky ones like adbusters or BITCH and some of them are true visual feasts. of course they are more liberal so you won't find stuff like the american conservative or anything murdoch owned but every once in a while you will come across something really amazing.
Venezuela's Maduro presents 'molecule' that inhibits Covid-19
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrupted:_My_Misadventure_i...

> FBI documents accessed by journalists via a freedom of information request revealed that HubSpot attempted "multiple failed attempts to manipulate and extort people” with the intention of stopping the book's publication.

> HubSpot executives considered the book "a financial threat to HubSpot, its share price, and the company’s future potential."

I'm including this because this book was published in 2016. While I'm sure that HubSpot, its employees, and management may have learned some things about integrity and transparency since then, it's probably not enough to be writing this soap-boxy slide deck that announces that software built around their culture is going to solve their problems.

On the other hand, I do believe software can shape and guide a culture but only if the culture is also at the pilot seat behind that software. That's to say, as long as the implementors of said software are not interested in developing a certain culture. Your employees will inevitably decide what software gets used and what software gets circumvented, the byproduct of which becomes what people colloquially refer to as culture.

Culture comes from everywhere. When you recruit gay people, some of the values of gay people trickle into your company. When you recruit Black people, values of Black folks trickle in. When you recruit from universities those values trickle in. Each of those will shape your culture and those people are not monoliths either, they're mixes of many vibrant and dark experiences. The last part is key, recruiting is one aspect, but your company culture will continue to evolve and I see projects like this as software trying to drive culture (what the C-suite wants) instead of culture driving software that it maintains itself.
Have worked in a company with open books:

Its actually nothing i want anymore; There are many reasons why people earn a certain amount of money but being involved in that process in a company wide group setting was horrible annoying and didn't make me feel any better.

And on my salary discussion, it was mentioned what extra perks i got from the company and that amounted to a certain amount which suddenly meant "Look we give you less money because we think it increases the social factor if we force you to be in our company on a day with everyone else to eat together etc. in a forced social setting, which was nice don't get me wrong, by you paying indirectly.

And thats the issue, either the company is paying for it, or you don't do it.

At the end of the day, you can easily find nice people you wana hang around with while you work in plenty of normal companies. Just make sure you find a good Team.

And yes all those things they do it for 2 reasons: 1. keeping employees 2. getting new employees. Being a little bit of edgy might just be cheaper than paying head hunters and if you can take unlimited good people but you just don't get them, every person going through your door because of all this hipness, is one person more earning money for you.
Phase 4 is like the RC, and by that point it seems to be pretty stable.
I sometimes use a triple negation !!! for that reason. I don‘t know if there are any drawbacks, especially if there are other people working on the code, but it worked pretty well for me so far.
I've been pushing away potential suitors to learn Actor-based systems, contenting myself with researching patterns to use with F# MailboxProcessor while I wait for Gleam (the proglang that is basically statically typed Erlang) to mature enough for this newbie to be able to jump in.

But the concept of rust-based Actor frameworks (that compile to WASM!?) is very, very tempting.
You’re thinking of Vala (https://valadoc.org/) not Vale.
What's the trouble with buying any of the competition, if you want those features?

You can get a Klipsch R51 PM for quite a bit less than the price of two HomePods. Better audio, Bluetooth, aux, optical, USB, even phono pre-amp in case you have a turntable.
I found the article a little strange as well, and I'm not really sure exactly what it's point is -- it seems to argue one thing but then another.

As for the underlying issue, I do think it points to something important, but only at certain stages, as you say.

A model inconsistent with empirical data is not likely to gain traction in the absence of further data. However, there are times when a set of models are equally consistent with the data, and it's not even entirely clear how to empirically distinguish between them. I think in those cases, aesthetic considerations do often come into play. Also, when the evidence slightly favors one model over others, and is also more aesthetically appealing, it tends to amplify perceptions of that evidence even further, in a way that's not logically warranted.

The deeper question is what does it mean for a theory to be aesthetically beautiful? Lots of times, as you're pointing to, it means the theory is simpler or more parsimonious, or something along those lines. I don't actually think that's negligible as a consideration, as it probably means the theory is more powerful, in an information-theoretic sense. If you have two theories, and both match the data well, but one is very baroque and convoluted, and the other is extremely simple, it could be that the convoluted one is correct, but the simpler one is doing so with fewer contortions, it has more degrees of freedom.

I also agree there's a deeper issue about meta-science, along the lines of Feyerabend, that was missed as well in the article. Scientists tend to be blind to their own role in things, as if they're neutral perfectly objective entities. Although this is a good ideal, it never works out in practice (or almost never so), and ignoring it often causes more problems than it solves. I think what Feyerabend was pointing to in part is a lack of meta-scientific evidence for anything in particular, and an awareness that "all models are wrong" applies at the meta-scientific level as well.
Someone tried to access it?

It is not in the open-source list.

Not public or even open-source... Hard to trust.
I hope that configuration language programming will die soon. The approach of generating a configuration using a "real" programming language is superior (and nothing new).

>But, I think people will try to push this further and integrate the infrastructure code inside the actual app. All of it will be managed, by the application itself, at runtime.

I would only adopt this approach if there is an abstraction layer in between, like k8s, or if it would be easy to create an equivalent implementation for a different cloud provider. Being locked into dependence on AWS isn't the worst thing, but I would like to keep my application independent of a proprietary environment.
Perfectly valid decision.

For my own desktop apps, I'd choose Qt, since cross platform support is top notch.

With that said, I understand that nowadays, C++ developers are harder to come by, and memory corruption issues are not fun to work with.
Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory
I'll listen to this later but in terms of successful open source businesses, one that comes to mind is BitWarden (and mainly that comes to mind because I just talked someone into that -- and away from LastPass -- this morning). It's certainly open to question if Freemium is a viable business model but it seems to be working for them. (Does Automattic count as being freemium as well?)

Granted, the fact I can only think of one or two examples does actually make your point more than question it.
An unnecessarily aggressive response, containing a bunch of things I've absolutely not said.
I can understand why it might aesthetically please some people, but can't understand how it actually helps with semantics, if one can't stand seeing "!=", it must drive them crazy to see other abstract symbols like "||", "return", "float".. imagine these are all replaced by single non-ascii obscure characters, it might be an interesting research on symbols, but i don't think it'll be a pleasant editing and reading experience for everyone
Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No (2019)
You could put your real password through HIBP's password checker as they should have the passwords harvested from this breach in their database.
So everyone else is focusing on the memory allocation side of ownership. The other side to this is aliasing / borrowing / handling references and mutability.

In Python, you might have a `list` that you built up and them pass its data to multiple functions. You assume these functions are do not mutate their arguments and you keep passing the same `list` over again. In this case, the caller is controlling the invariants of the `list` and therefore "Owns" it.

Deep down, one of those functions needs to mutate a `list` to do its calculations. Where the mutation is happening, it assumes it is the "Owner" and can modify the `list` without violating any invariants. Unfortunately, a "Borrowed" list was passed in and now the caller's invariants are violated.

Rust's ownership model helps to catch this kind of problem at compile time. By default, everything is single-owner though you can change that with a `Mutex`.
Buddhist temples don't necessarily worship deities as far as I know.
Hi! Author here. I wrote more about the motivation behind Lunatic if you are interested, check it out: https://kolobara.com/lunatic/index.html#motivation
The adjective modern is so popular, yet it's so devoid of meaning. What does having a modern syntax even mean? The impression I get when I read projects described like that is that the authors are saying they are following the latest trends they could find, but they don't quite know why.
The Catholic Church uses the term cult to refer to the movement around the veneration of particular saints, ex: The Cult of Saint Joseph.
Most banks in the US either charge a fee, or waive it if you have enough money in your account(s). That too is a fee, as the interest they pay on your money is many basis points lower than the interest they charge for lending your money to someone else.

In my opinion, anybody that thinks they have a bank account "for free" doesn't know how to read financial statements. Banks are not charities.
Dude is the owner of HVAC company #3.
That feels like a really broad question. I always find it useful to look up the reading lists for university courses on subjects I’m interested in. You can usually find the PDFs with a quick search in Google Scholar. Then, using something like Polar, you can annotate the readings and directly save your annotations as Anki cards.

That way, you can build a knowledge base of what actually interests you, which you’re much more likely to study and retain in the first place.
I actually don't think the federal government has the power to require it. However, private companies and schools can impose whatever safety requirements they feel prudent for their employees, customers, and students. Which may of course make life difficult for those who don't want to go along.