skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the only thing driving change on such a system is when it can no longer to scale to handle the "traffic" or legislation that forces it.
I still think one of Go’s best contributions was formatting with ‘go fmt’. It’s refreshing to see so many language communities just embrace a format on save standard and keep it moving.

Reading Python has always been a bit of a headache for me, but that probably has as much to do with the lack of type annotations as it does the lack of braces.
Product is different at every org. There is no one side fits all
That is going to put a dent in ARMs revenue. Even if that particular chip isn't a big seller, it means ST now has a drop-in replacement for ARM in their other SoCs. Soon people will realize that ISA is often irrelevant, but the peripherals, libraries, and tools are.
The answer is yes.

All precious entities, realized that power will be used.

Politics is essentially the superior level of effective communication. For firms to exist and make their point of view heard they will engage in politics.

And they will get good at it.
If curious see also

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110846
This is no longer the case as of two years ago!

https://www.eater.com/2018/6/12/17439694/tipping-laws-tip-sh...
> I'm far from being rich, but I plan to pick a private but modest school / university for my children. Even if I were multimillionaire I wouldn't change this.

I'm genuinely a little confused by this sentence. You lay out your reasons below, but seem to be assuming you get to pick. By the time someone attends university, they're usually, you know, people. Adults in the 18+ sense, high school diploma, ability to get a job, have their own opinions about the world, access to federal student loans, etc. You'll have some influence in terms of the degree to which you'll support their decision and advice you can offer, but you don't get to pick anything, especially if your child is talented/driven enough to get into an Ivy League w/o being a socioeconomic outlier.
i think it really depends on the industry - mine for example, most of the bigger players are running express apps on the FE (not 100% sure on backend, seems a mix of go/node and other things) - but why bother to run express/node on the frontend if you're not also going to leverage it on the backend.
Well, it's possible that South Korea would be under the rule of Kim Jong-un right now. ;-)
I think it’s really hard to evaluate “merit” in an unbiased way. Just because you’re not explicitly using those categories you list doesn’t mean they’re not creeping in to your other metrics.
> The coin toss example given here seems tautological. Why would my unfair coin have to abide by some norm of probability? If I were designing such a coin, it would obviously include a mechanism for tracking state such that if the last toss was heads the next would always be tails.

If a stateful coin is permitted, the problem is indeed trivial; but if we start with the assumption that the problem isn't trivial, we can assume a "passive" coin more in line with the intuitions most people would have about coins.
Also:

Big Ben is a Victorian hand wound clock. It’s accuracy is maintained by moving a stack of old English pennies balanced on its pendulum. It must be wound by hand three times a week, and it takes one and a half hours to wind every time.

My guess is that the author of the piece we are discussing would find this to be an excellent analogy for the Debian processes he is complaining about.
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Being from a culture that usually tends to quote consumer prices all inclusive, I find the practice of doing otherwise outright slimy and deceptive. I admit this is irrationally emotional but it's one of those little details that somehow shapes my perception of the USA as a whole.

*quoting b2b prices without vat is fair as whether or not tax is payable depends on the customer.
I'm consistenly blown away by Sweetwater's service. Also they have individual photos for each guitar, so you know exactly what you're getting. Obviously some people are going to want to try out stuff before they buy, but usually high end guitars are quite solid out of the box and after a setup(and especially if you get it PLEXed)

Honestly all guitars are pretty solid now. CNC has made the lower end significantly better than they used you. You don't often have misaligned necks and stuff like you used to because it fits pretty dang good already out of the CNC machine.
A lot has to do with the blending of tourist-only places with more local places. In some countries, tourists typically tip, locals don't. But if you are a local and visit a touristy place, you'll see the tip expectation, and then this starts to permeate the culture.
Negativity Bias
> Suppose you didn't have syntax highlighting.

That might be a bit TOO contrived, at least for me. I could see this coming up for someone working with jurassic hardware not under their control though.

Anyway, to play along. I think curly braces help tell what is happening in long source files with deep nesting. But also you could just render whitespace characters as something visible to count them to judge indentation at a glance to get your bearings. Of course the real answer here is don’t write long source files with deep nesting, but unfortunately other people are allowed to write code :p
Yes, they are different. Yet, I also don't want to work with anyone who doesn't think a child born to a poor family should be allowed to eat.
You don't need to sign your messages on HN (not really obvious since it's not written anywhere but it's one of those HN things)
Isn't Science Denial the main driver for more Science?

Wasn't in the beginning of the Pandemic consensus that masks didn't work? https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...
Can this work? People have been scrambling for static typing on the BEAM for a while. Is this the one?
Same here, but Reed and University of Chicago.
Interesting thoughts. How do they achieve this? And do you believe it will hold up to increasing automation?

There are definitely good non-college jobs in America, though fewer than there were fifty years ago. Many are trades - welder, carpenter, plumber. Are things similar in Germany?
1500 is top 2%. Plenty to get you into a very very good school. And get you plenty of scholarship money. Especially if you come from a disadvantaged background.

A perfect 1600 won’t get you into top 10 schools on its own. Thus my original comment about there being more qualified candidates than openings.
Luckily, they are.
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And almost everyone will agree with you, as long as you're not using the latter as a strawman for arguments that advocate no such agenda.
So long as our fiction keeps us imagining ourselves as secretly royalty, we'll prefer dynasties to democracy. (And thus we prefer military.)
Climate science is not political, climate policy is. You aren't wrong that some people misunderstand what it is to support science, and conflate that with certain policy preferences. I also think the blame for that can be placed squarely with those who have chosen to attack institutions of scientific truth because they are opposed to policy that might result from what is clearly true. Blame the politicization of "science" on the pro oil propagandists that put in the effort to make it that way. The naive "pro-science" stance is a reaction.
dolly has a big heart and shouldn't be cynically denigrated for her contribution, but this story has been making the media rounds to parlay her fame into promoting a podcast about her by abumrad, who's part of that same media circle.
It is quite uncommon in the Netherlands. I see it on maybe 3% of all restaurant bills.
Indeed it does... but I guess a bit of mild dyslexia earns one downvotes on HN.
Python is much easier than BASIC for anything other than the simplest of tasks. Plus there is memory safety and much more dynamism. It also encourages you to write in a more explicit fashion than things like LISP or Ruby or Perl (ug!) that I prefer.
No, I think braces are even more useful when you don't have syntax highlighting.
You are correct--it is pretty disappointing they haven't made it available on normal kindle devices.

That being said, I think you will be able to read it on the kindle player on a desktop computer. At least, that worked for me. I admit this is not ideal, but the book is fantastic and it was worth the extra effort.
Only communicate in one direction. I write, you read. I can also provide a large coherent set of data so long as you dont read it until I mark it as ready. There are many other ways too.
I never understood why Microsoft never pushed VBScript harder, and didn’t include a basic IDE for it. After all every copy of Windows for decades has come with it and it’s very powerful. They do seem to be rectifying that with PowerShell though.

I think it’s unfair hitting the Mac on this front though. Automator is an incredibly easy to use desktop automation tool, and of course you’ve got Bash, Ruby and Python right there just the same as on Linux. They have also invested heavily in work flow automation tooling for iOS.
Quote: "Plenty of companies, indeed entire industries, base their business model on being evil. The insurance business, for instance, depends on the fact that insurers charge customers more than their insurance is worth."

No, it is not.

The insurance business depends on getting money mass to hedge risks and invest into something else. Basically, this is what any semi good government does with taxes - hedges risks (healthcare, unemployment benefits, etc) and invests in projects that would boost the economy.

Insurance business model is evil if good government modus operandi is evil.

Now I will continue reading and will thoroughly watch my Gell-Mann amnesia.
Why do we celebrate Liebig and his dark lord successor Haber-Bosch? We do get more nitrogen but at the cost of assimilation failure back in the environment. Non-assimilated nitrogen and its volatile compounds create just the conditions for a pandemic virus to develop..
In many cases, yes. It's called 'right of withdrawl.' There are quite a few exceptions though.
Yeah, these articles are often pretty poor. People seem to love treating 'Science' as this magical all-knowing entity which we must bow to and never question, when we should treat it as the exact opposite in order to learn and solidify our understanding of reality.
I'm appreciating how ironically we are in agreement. There are people who can influence people, and those who can't. The former are real and credible leaders, the latter are not, and this is the danger. That the U.S. has almost a popular majority who do not believe their mandarin class has the national interest in mind (hence their preoccupation with so-called "globalists") is the evidence of this danger.

It's not enough to be merely correct, you need to be able to prevail on the population to wear masks or make greater personal sacrifices to stop the pandemic. I live in Canada, where our prime minister is amusing to the sort of people he flatters, but the level of tolerance people have for sacrifice based on his word is very low. He'd be called a "lame duck president," in the U.S. My point is that leadership weakness is what puts the whole country in danger if it in fact ever had to unite to do anything. I agree that the U.S. president could get the entire country onside if he chose to, but clearly he is not convinced it's worth destroying the small businesses that would cost the country a generation of growth.

If this were a partisan argument, I'd just bait you into reinforcing more of your prejudices and aspirations, but there is a serious conversation to be had about the the credibility of leadership in bringing people through a crisis like a pandemic. It's not enough for us to blame the outgroup, the virus doesn't care, so we need to look at what adapting to beat it might look like.
> People using science for destruction is a reflection of people, not science.

I mean when's the last time you heard a story about a group of transmodernists wreaking havoc on society?
Just like in some parks you'll see signs "don't feed the birds," in Singapore at some places, you'll see signs "don't tip the waiters." In some cultures, it is considered rude if you tip.
Ivy league schools don't offer athletics scholarships, that's been a thing for ages and is part of the actual definition of "Ivy League".
There are a lot of companies that started to do really really well because of the pandemic. Can you imagine the pizza chains that started pumping out commercials for curbside EARLY and repeatedly? All reports are that pizza chains are doing BETTER than before. It's because people need to see that the chain is doing something specific that adapts to their needs.

Instead I see most companies looking out at the street, waiting for people to walk in. I even had some restaurants that turned me away because I refused to go inside. However some of those restaurants also walked the food out - I just had to wait for the right staff member.

In any case - if this isn't the penultimate test of all companies' willingness to adapt fast and intelligently, I don't know what is.
>denying scientific results

That's exactly what scientists often do when they reproduce experiments.

"Science denial", as it comes across in this headline to the common person, conveys an appeal to authority that scientific results are not to be questioned. This inversion of the scientific method is used to give consensus to scientific results that support the status quo.

In reality, questioning scientific results has always been a necessary part of the scientific method.
Oh, I would love to interview him as well! Great idea, if anyone has a connection to him let me know.

I spend way too much time lurking on hacker news so having this show up here is both exciting and frightening for me ... be careful what you wish for.
I try to learn something new every year. Short list that I can share: Mandarin, Sanskrit, improv, Carnatic music, flute, astrology, astronomy/star gazing, drawing, clay art, cosmetics and perfumery formulations.
My guess is that even your below average computer scientist will have a reasonable respect for science. So, assuming that we’re talking about tech companies here, I think this is decent approach to policy.
No they'd be even more useful.

I say that from experience: when I was first learning to program I found C much easier than python for this exact reason, and I was not using syntax highlighting.

That might be because I was much more prone to nesting back then. These days I get annoyed when I have two levels of indentation inside a function and treat three as a reminder to refactor. But when I started programming I'd build pyramids 8-10 levels deep and argued with people who tried to help simplify it.
I would bet on "structure and interpretation of computer programs".

You can read it online: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

Oh and "The Art of Computer Programming" series by Donald Knuth
Lenovo Duet: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-chromebo...

This became my primary tablet after my Nexus 7 died. It's $300 1080p 10.1" tablet/convertible ChromeOS device. For reading books & comics, detaching the cover & keyboard gives me a lightweight e-reader. A 1440p screen would be nicer, but the 222 dpi screen is good enough for me. Depending on the density of text in your docs & your eyesight, you may need zoom in at this resolution.

Since it's a Chromebook with a keyboard & Linux, I can use it as my only travel device instead of bringing a laptop with me. It also has Android app & stylus (+$40) support so it's my primary video & sketching device.
I can agree with this, which is why I added the "(to a lesser degree) Apple" caveat. I think, especially now, it seems they're moving in a less hacker-friendly direction in terms ability to progress from write-a-script to build-you-own-environment, but certainly is better than Windows. I've only heard of Yellow Dog, but for many modern distros, the transition from "flash this file to a USB drive using this program, plug in, and turn the computer on" seems like it should be a much more accessible option (even for people without an Apple budget) than it was even 10 years ago.
I used to use an old Surface Pro 2, with Bodhi Linux and Xournal. The idea was that I could read papers and write notes on the screen.
Last year I gave in and read on my Android tablet (Tab S6 lite). It's been great. It doesn't run Linux, it isn't as flexible - but I also don't distract myself. I'm much happier.
I always tell the same stories in these comments, excuse me if you've read this before...

When I started at university (in the uk, top 10 but not top 5), the admissions tutor (for the school of physics, not the whole place) who admitted my year group was forced to do the job. He considered himself a scientist (he was an FRS, a leader in his field after all). He looked at all the factors used for entry and found them all to be bs. Grades (predicted and actual), personal statements, references, extra curriculars, age/gender/socioeconomic group etc.

So he admitted everyone that applied.

He admitted people with low grades, he admitted people without the maths requirements (usually the most important grade for a physics under grad, you generally can't do any physics course without one).

The result was a bumper class of 120ish instead of the usual 60ish. But by the end of the first year / start of second year, we were down to the usual number. Everyone else had transfered out, failed and left or was repeating the year.

The interesting thing was that there were a few of the people who wouldn't usually have made it who did not transfer out. 2 of the 10 without the maths qualifications went on the get degrees. 1 is a teacher, the other got a PhD.

His philosophy was that if someone could pass first year exams, labs, etc they deserved a spot in second year and so on. He didn't care what they came with. Just whether they passed. The chance he gave people was mostly wasted. But not entirely. He radically improved some people's lives.

I only know because we got drunk together because he was my tutor and we had a very friendly tutorial group and relationship.

As a straight A student with good extra curriculum activities, references, even work experience, I was scandalised and insulted to hear what he'd done. But I learned new definition of equality and it challenged me as a person. I think a lot of schools in particular work the other way around: hard to get in, then you just sit there for a few years and walk into jobs without further examination. That helps no one.
I'm not sure if he is specifically denying these issues.

It is possible to read his comment as defending the church's involvement in research.

To clarify my own comment, I don't deny the church's involvement in the sciences. The assumption that I am promoting some kind of "trope" seems like a misreading of my own comment. Just part of commenting, these things can happen.

Copernicus (who Galileo cited) was a member of the clergy. However, he was reluctant to share his work on the heliocentric model for political reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#:~:text=to...
I got higher than a 1500. I guess I should have applied to an Ivy. But it was too expensive so I didn't. I certainly didn't get a free ride to the state school I went to.
Unless "geopolitical theory" can be used to predict the future then I see no reason to assume it's the correct way of interpreting the past.
The notion that practicing something, doesn't make you better at it, is ridiculous. Two, equal people, walk in a test room. One has never seen the test, the other has been practicing it for a while. The guy that has been practicing, will perform better.

Even for official IQ test taking, they don't recommend taking the test more than once a year, as it invalidates the results of the tests...

Why? The act of doing tests, makes you better at that particular test, and the test ceases to become a good measurement of what it was trying to measure (in this case, IQ).
Try https://project49476.com/
I'm building Gurlic. Wouldn't want to call it the next reddit, though.

https://gurlic.com
This comment (I think, from my limited experience) really does capture all the context around my question really well. Of course not all old code is immediately well-written by mere virtue of its survival - a lot of it is, as mentioned here and else where, sustained because of internal company politics or financial reasons, in flux and a living codebase, etc.

But I am interested in the stuff that survives because of how well-written it is. To your point though, the context and ecosystem of these codebases is as important, if not more so, that the code itself. A lot of comments are pointing to the linux kernel which is a tour de force in and of itself, but also really interesting for the community/communities its inspired.
> I realized that when I tip, I'm usually not rewarding the waiter/waitress. That reward usually gets split across dozens of people and my waiter/waitress likely sees none of it.

This seems...really good! I’d rather be able to tip the people who actually make the food and clean the table (things that matter!), than the person whose only responsibilities are carrying the food to the table and not saying annoying or obnoxious things. I couldn’t disagree more with you here.
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Yes, I've done that on Sweetwater so many times, and they always give me a better price than GC.
“penultimate” isn’t the word you’re looking for. At least, I sure hope it’s not an accurate prediction that we’re going to face only one more test.
Right, which is why the minimum wage doesn't solve the problem (it may affect other things, but doesn't directly solve any of the issues with tipping). I was referring more to legislation that would limit/discourage restaurants from receiving tips (or at least communicating the expectation of tips).
One time an old guy faking a limp walked out with a $3k Les Paul stuffed down his pants.

Our managers chased after him and tackled him in the parking lot.

Afterwards they were reprimanded for creating a litigious situation...

Other than that just a lot of teenagers butchering their Dad’s favorite songs on guitar.
Scientists warn against over-the-counter coronavirus ‘cures’
There's not much solid about taxonomy of animals. Nature doesn't really have clearly defined classes, just rough clusters of similar organisms. It's the humans that like classifying things because it's easier for us to think about them and make predictions when we see them as classes rather than as individuals or even the whole global ecosystem as a single integrated super-organism. The more common features we can find in a class, the less thinking we have to do but it's OK if there are exceptions as long as it's not so many that it makes the classes useless.
unrelated, but kraft music is a good spot for domestic orders in my experience
Why not the Spectator? I've been a subscriber for 10 years. It's a great way to expose yourself to different views, and Rory Sutherland's columns are always worth reading.
Well, certainly no one seems to understand how e.g. syntax-case works. But my impression is that macro hygiene in itself is a solution looking for a problem. The key advantage e.g. racket's macro system has over clojure or common lisp is not hygiene but being sufficiently well structured and rich to allow proper tooling. Good error messages with accurate locations >> macro hygiene.
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