skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it's exaggerated to illustrate a point, nobody sane would really write code like that. Yet I've seen plenty of cases of shoving flags & params to existing functions instead of refactoring the code to split things up.
Seems like you're trying to be cynical, but it doesn't really fit.

The charge of putting a lot of work into an interesting article that HNers would upvote isn't very damning, and doing all of that just to increment 16 -> 17 in some marketing material isn't very convincing.

His own advice in the videos is "write good, interesting content" not some sort of gimmick.
Thanks for this. I got lucky and read Breakfast of Champions first while on holiday one summer with extended family and it was hilarious indeed. Then I swapped it off the shelf for Slaughterhouse Five and just could not get it started. When I revisit Vonnegut I'll give Cat's Cradle a try.

As for sibling post, strong disagree WRT Douglas Adams. ducks. Unpopular opinion, I know, but your description of Vonnegut is curiously similar to how I might describe Adams. His supporters are enthusiastic and vocal. I wonder how large the group of silent dissenters is?
I'm actually curious, how is Slack a time sink? I muted most of my channels and just check for DMs, thread replies and @channels from important channels. It's at most 30 minutes a day, roughly the same as email.
Why does the repository only contain install scripts? Where is the code for the implementation?
A mathematical formalisation challenge by Peter Scholze
interestingly someone suggested similar thing in reddit/ILPT where one could create a fake but highly esteemed profile to lure recruiters and later decline for that job and refer his real friend (one behind this fake profile)... it seems to work because in corporate world referrals goes a long way!
> There is a lot of machine learning snake oil out there, even in the most prestigious journals.

I'm also deep in that industry, and can confirm this is the case. Even for research coming out of the biggest names: FB, Google, etc.

The problem of "story over substance" has been observed by many; it even has a name in the context of ML, the "Mummy Effect" [0].

Like you, I'm segueing out of "AI" because of the unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Frustrating indeed, but life is too short to try to outcompete pocketless BS generators, or clean up their mess on my dime.

[0] https://rare-technologies.com/mummy-effect-bridging-gap-betw...
Recently I started a personal project to enable storing issues in the git repository itself. Then I discovered git-bug which, though lacking a good UI, has the data formats nailed almost perfectly in my opinion.

I highly recommend considering using git-bug natively for Radicle's issue tracking system. It seems perfect for the task.
I'd say there is nothing to abstract. This level of abstraction is unnecessary and I think the article illustrates the point well. Maybe you'd make a StyledButton, but that's it, the rest is shown to be the wrong thing.
What a stupid self-goal by Facebook!
My comment in this thread might address this.

Like most allergens, people have very different reactions to it and can grow tolerance over time with exposure.
I looked at it the other way around. For a dispute of $88, to hang this company out to dry on Hacker News (they didn't know that would happen specifically, but still it was a public post), I didn't find very professional. You know, for all that talk about acting as a professional. Oh, well, acting...
"I'm just a passenger in my brain, and the body's job is to ferry me between meetings"

Misquoted from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's an open secret in the military that psychedelic use is fairly widespread. Unlike cocaine and weed, you can't really test for it. Kind of sad to see something like this published by the Marines though; basically content free "muh microdosing." I mean, does this even mean anything?

"Microdoses cause cortical functions
to be more fluid, leading researchers
to believe that psychedelics may help
certain brain areas work in increas-
ingly flexible and expansive ways."

If ever there was a meme elixir designed to punch holes in your pre-frontal cortex, microdosing is it. There's basically zero evidence such substances enhance anything. In my experience, and in my observations of others, it makes you feel like you're enhancing your noggin, but real world performance definitely, sometimes dramatically suffers.

Modafinil and amphetamines probably enhance performance on grinding tasks. Nature, concentration and lack of sleep definitely enhance performance on creative tasks. Caffeine works too, and nicotine and the racetams for keeping the cobwebs out and the acetylcholine high. Microdoses, yeah, nerd "muh microdoses" articles ain't gonna cut it for me: I've seen the effects and will stick with coffee and snus. Hell, simply looking at scientific or technological output pre and post civilizational psychedelic use: you can see it hasn't had any obvious benefit. People did more amazing things back when day drinking was common.
USB drives with no phantom load (2018)
Buildings equipped with an access control system makes it easy to track where users are. That's even a feature ; for instance when an emergency evacuation happens (e.g. fire alarm), the system can tell you if there's still someone in there (assuming the fire has not destroyed parts of the system).

Although one should assume nowadays that a public network is the same thing as a public street, and that using the LAN of a school is the same thing as walking on its campus, it is indeed disturbing that some people within those org (and the org itself) have some of the possibilities as police has - except that police would need a judge and a mandate in some cases.

So as always there are pros and cons. Good uses and evil uses. In Europe, GDPR laws mandate that not every admin or user of the system have access to this type of data, and that's a good start IMO.
Very impressive. And interesting to see just how many systems were involved.
Bertrand Russel's "A History of Western Philosophy" is both a comprehensive, insightful introduction into the topic as well as incredibly funny and entertaining. It's also fairly opinionated but openly so, which is refreshing. He was one of the founders of Analytical Philosophy and an old school classical liberal/libertarian socialist. Naturally, the chapter on Hegel is beyond hilarious.
Have you considered trying Twisted? I recently watched this talk about how to use async to handle 1000s of concurrent players on a mobile MMO, it wasn't exactly enlightening but it was definitely worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW3mzaM3UcU

I am currently planning a client server architecture for a game that requires Bullet Physics with UDP on the backend, and I'm weighing different options, I initially wanted to use Go but it would require interfacing Bullet's C++ API with C so it's not a feasible option. I'm currently considering Twisted + Bullet's Python API.
But it is, so here we are.
Feels like a new decade. If we remove some of the UI screenshots, which look like they are stuck in current design styles.
Direct link to the paper PDF :

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/207354655.pdf

Lenzen, Manfred, Dey, Christopher and Foran, Barney (2004). Energy Requirements of Sydney Households. Ecological Economics 49
Skybolt: A C++ planetary environment rendering engine with Python bindings
> R-value references ... are neat academically, but I've so far failed to see the practical killer app for them,

The killer app is unique_ptr. Without move semantics, unique_ptr wouldn't be nearly as nice to use. There's a good reason that it has a move constructor but not a copy constructor.
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+1 to that.

My first exposure to non-personal computers was via VMS at the university. It was exciting. But then a few months later I got access to a SunOS lab (and shortly after, AIX and HP-UX labs). Mind blown! Instantly in my mind VMS became just a toy, UNIX is where the hacker ethic lived for real. Thirty years later, still on UNIX (BSDs and Linux now). VMS? Yeah..
Its also outdated and Russel is sometimes plain wrong in how he represents some philosophers. That book should no longer be recommended as there are plain better books available.
I'll leave to pros to come up with accurate estimates, but it doesn't seem hard to back the intuition that higher density let's your save on a bunch of duplicated infraestruture, services, goods, and energy expended on driving things across distances.

Also, sprawl invariably increases human territory in areas that could be left for wildlife
If you need to do something like what the author does, you should not use a mac in the first place, but use a 100% open source machine that is put together from different parts from different shops and put in a Faraday cage.
I'm confused. Why does this get to the front page and why does it have over 200 stars on github? I'm not a webdev at all, but this just looks like 100 lines of trivial CSS to me. What am I missing?
I seriously wonder why I bothered to answer your request for an explanation if you immediately afterwards still talk about "genetic enhancing".
Seriously, go to the link. It literally says it on the README.
Understanding Peer-to-Peer Git Forges with Radicle
> medium-term future of work is increasingly a choice between three giants: Microsoft, Salesforce, and (in a distant third) Google

I have a feeling that every 8 of 10 midsize companies has G Suite as an email provider. And you still can't do anything without email, despite Slack's statement of burying it for good.
Well it says:
"Native hardware acceleration is supported on Macs with M1 [...]"
$100 to billions is an unrealistic step, and an unfounded generalisation of the author's circumstances. in this day and age something as benign as an "influencer" mentioning the word "keto" could butterfly-ripple the author into an early retirement
Microsoft has very good sales team on Enterprise, even more so on Government front. They are offering teams as additional feature to their already popular package, it is hard to beat it. I personally find Teams interface very annoying. They introduced threads to work with channel with many users, I find it very ugly in my opinion. The webhook is also something not as clean as Slack. That said, you can't beat strong sales and existing customer base.
as a consumer i find it a brilliant deal? Softbank is subsidising my cab ride!
What led you away from porn?
If you don't have to use them regularly then people will misplace them.
I was very interested but unfortunately my experience was quite opposite. I launched the app image on Pop_OS but couldn't sign up no matter which user name i chose (even resorted to random strings) - finally just gave up.
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An attack on country's ambassador, is an act of war...
Amazing description! HN paid off for today :)
Sugar – a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat
Sugar - a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat.

Compiler is incomplete but I have written some reasonably complex programs.

Interesting to read for the, very short, compiler.
There is time for private feedback (before publication) and time for public feedback/discussion (after)
“But there's a big difference between little experiments and betting the company on an auto-cannibalization strategy. DEC didn't have the guts to go there.”

See also Kodak (invented the digital camera in 1975!), Xerox (We’re a photocopier company! We sell photocopiers!), Microsoft (owned the entire global PC market for damn near 20 years—till Apple overnight redefined what “Personal Computing” meant). All caught out while sitting atop their laurels.

The only thing today’s successful product is good for is funding the development of tomorrow’s—because if you don’t disrupt yourself first then sooner or later your rivals will do it for you, and then it’s already far too late to do anything about it.
> The front page alone is 9MB.

I don't understand how people think this is damning with no further context, especially on a forum presumably full of technical people. Virtually all of that (>9MB) are its gifs.

9MB of dozens of analytics.js files? Sure, awful.

9MB of gifs and <1000KB of html/css on a landing page? Who cares.

Btw, for lack of a kinder word off the top of my head, your rant about some images on the landing page is very juvenile. The tone of "hmm, it would be a shame if your design choices made me assume you were technically incompetent and a waste of my time :/" is really toxic.

Everyone here would understand what you mean if you just said the landing page was over the top for you. Fine. OP would know that a bold design to be divisive. And frankly some self-awareness on your part would help temper your reaction here instead of dramatizing it and sounding wounded.

Similarly, claiming that a project interested you but you couldn't even get past a landing page because it had some gifs is really just your loss, not anybody else's. Once again, had you just said "I wish there was a more informative page" (which is certainly a fair ask), someone could have linked you to https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html.

I know that now it seems like I'm the one overreacting, but your comment has some tropes of really bad communication habits that we tend to think are just part of internet discourse, but they aren't doing you justice.
The Code That Controls Your Money: COBOL
I have never had ADHD, but I used to have a lot of problems to concentrate on class and while studying. My (perhaps naive) idea about my problem these days is that we just train our brain to be distracted. I have tried to fix it by applying deep work techniques (get rid of distractions, plan what I'm going to do, plan the breaks, make sure to eat/drink, etc). Basically I try to train myself (in a very Pavlovnian way) to enjoy concentration and hate mind wandering.
This is the real story here.

There's already tons of instances of devices becoming worthless because some remote service coming to an end. (Like all remote services eventually must).

There should be more regulations around this
From https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos/blob/master/script...

INSTALLER_PATH=https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos/releases/download/v0.1alpha0/tensorflow_macos-0.1alpha0.tar.gz

So, see: https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos/releases/
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The stalking thing did come up quite a bit but unfortunately this does often come back to the not so professional profile pictures.
Yeah, I hear what you’re saying... but it’s not as fun. And I assume that we would have gotten to these developments eventually, maybe just a little later.

I’m hoping the end of x86 dominance teaches people to not target single platforms. It would be nice to see a POSIX but for hardware (even a HAL)
That wouldn’t work for quite a few users. They would lose the reset key and be locked out of their hardware.

I think Apple should offer users the option, though, just as they for account recovery (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072. I’m not sure that works without _also_ going to Apple’s servers)
The author's use of facts is much appreciated and sets a good direction.

However, although welcome, this is certainly not definitive. High density environments might be especially good for building high-productivity economic clusters [0]. I expect the average service quality in the CBD to be higher for example. In fact, I'd also expect higher per-capita emissions by people in the CBD on the assumption they are probably wealthier than suburban counterparts.

There are advantages and disadvantages to high density living, so even if the current rationale were faulty that is not the end of the matter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cluster
Some feedback:

• Don’t kill link underlines. They’re a very important affordance. If you’re not fond of the æsthetics of a strong underline, one technique I consider reasonable (and use on my own website) is to reduce the opacity of the underline with something like `text-decoration-color: #03c5` (unfortunately you’ll have to write it out each time you change the colour of a link; I really want color-mix(currentColor transparent 33%) from the CSS Color Module Level 5 draft).

• When styling :hover and :active, consider :focus as well. For example, where you’ve hidden link underlines, you’ve shown them on :hover and :active, but you should probably show them on :focus as well. (If you want to get fancy and recent, you could consider using :focus-visible instead of :focus; if you do, just make sure it’s in a separate rule set from the others so it doesn’t break older browsers.)

• On something like this, killing the purple colouring of visited links makes me sad. Please consider restoring it, it’s useful on content websites.

• The markup you use for heading anchors (<h2 id="foo"><a href="#foo">Foo</a></h2>) isn’t great, and precludes putting actual links in headings (which is normally not a good idea, but there are definitely cases where I’ve reckoned it worthwhile and done it). If you want heading anchor links, go for something like <h2 id="foo">Foo <a href="#foo" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" title="Link to this heading">§</a></h2> (some of the most common characters used for this: # NUMBER SIGN, § SECTION SIGN, ¶ PILCROW SIGN, U+1F517 LINK SYMBOL), and show the anchor on hover only (but make sure it’s part of layout either the whole time (e.g. `visibility: hidden` when not hovered) or none of the time (e.g. `position: absolute`) in order to avoid layout flap). This will make life better for users of screen readers especially (so they’re not getting a spurious link). If anyone else has opinions on heading anchors, I’d be interested to hear them; don’t think I’ve ever seen a detailed analysis of all the techniques and their implications.

• One of your headings has a typo: <h2 id="Blockquote"><a href="#blockquote">Blockquote</a></h2>, id needs to be lower case (IDs are case sensitive).

• Good job on appropriate use of pre, code, samp and kbd.
Author here. Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post.

I wrote it a few months ago and submitted it at the time[0], but it didn't seem like it was a match for HN. I was quite surprised when I woke up to find a tweet from a friend letting me know it was on the front page.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144103
The difference is that we know what power 5G is used at, think about it for more than a second.

Your WiFi doesn't microwave you does it.
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The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge
I know you are being sarcastic but the entire US Iraq and Afghanistan wars were being operated out of mIRC chat.
I may have written ‘Programming’ but so was mostly thinking about mathematics. It is wishful thinking to ignore the ethical implications of one’s work in academia
What other source analysers are there for something like VSCode?
Because it’s not measurable and it’s hard to argue with your CIO that using Slack will save you $xxx000 in productivity costs.

It also doesn’t register a “hair on fire” problem. Slack still has the preconceived notion of being a chat app. And those are not worth the huge investment, compared to problems that truly keep you awake at night ie. Cybersecurity
I don't get it. What frequencies are we talking about and what power are capable to interact at this level with human bodies? And wouldn't these impulses interact with electronic equipment first and foremost?
It’s incredibly scattered. Like you just dumped whatever was on your mind and clicked publish and walked away.
No, it's the scientists who are wrong!

Wireless "energy" worldwide doesn't even get close to exposure limits, let alone be medically harmful in any measurable way.
Or a past tennant who has simply made a copy of the keys
Would be interesting to know how much energy is used. Especially to debunk the wireless skeptics. I mean a tap on the back is something different than a baseball bat to the back and I assume that's a similar ratio at play here.
Just checked and didn't work for me either :/
I can't answer your question, but the source code is here for those interested:

https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos/archive/v0.1alpha0...
See also: “IBM and the Seven Dwarfs”. Sure BUNCH had some really cool tech, but it was IBM who understood how to make great product.
This reads like entries in erowid.com. Y'all drug addicts.
You should try using R; the real world performance is actually better than Julia in every way that matters. Yes, Julia has a better data frame object; that's why we use data.tables().

Also Wes probably got the idea for row indeces from R.
I've hopefully fixed the UI issues for now :)
If it was something that looked like YAML, but wasn't, that'd be fine. YAML in its simplest form is a neat idea. Indentation is simple and obvious. Same as it doesn't matter that TOML looks a heck of a lot like INI. But using YAML itself is terrible, because YAML is a colossally bloated language that does crazy things at the wrong points and has a million syntaxes that step on each others' toes.
If you find yourself stuck, you can reach the team through one of the many channels: https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/using-radicle/join-the-communi...

Or you can file an issue on the app repo directly over here: https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-upstream/issues/new
How Python object system works
Hi! This is part 6 of my Python behind the scenes series. Each part of the series covers how some aspect of the language is implemented in the interpreter, CPython. This time we'll focus on the Python object system. You'll learn:

- What Python objects and types are and how they are implemented.
- What slots are and how they determine the behavior of objects.
- How slots are related to special methods.

I'd be glad to get your feedback and answer your questions.

Thanks!
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I haven't tried it yet, but I really like the concept and what I've seen so far.
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Delimited continuations, a.k.a composable continuations, are. a generalization of control operators such as call/cc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited_continuation
> ...a company that may have changed their policies and didn’t realize they had to inform the referring agent of those changes.

Presumably the law varies depending on country, but in the UK you're absolutely obliged to inform any involved parties of substantial changes to the terms of any agreement you have with them. Deciding not to pay commission to affiliates on a flagship product is a pretty big change, if I was an affiliate I'd definitely want to know about it so I could reconsider my position.
> Resumes are old scrolls of a bygone era.

Yeah, we’ll have to disagree there. The resume is still the first and most important piece of information I see.