skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, this is frikking hilarious. I giggled so loudly while reading it that my girlfriend asked what I was laughing at and she was so captivated by it that I had to sit on the couch with her reading it, flicking to the next page of the downloadable whenever she'd finished.

Secondly, I applaud the style/premise of the book. Cats especially are aiming at an underserved demographic that would absolutely be interested in programming but do not have the same number of and level of quality of 'ins' (ways of getting into programming) as other demographics. Along the same lines I would love to see 'scripting for Sims 4 builders' or 'Love Calculator and other scriots for your next sleepover'.

Thirdly, I really like the way that this is pitched. I feel like so few tutorials give a high level overview of programming rather than diving into specifics of languages. I can only think of "Hello Ruby" as being analogous, although I'm sure others exist.

Finally, I love the art style. Not much more to be said than that.

I can't really think of anything critical to add.
Seems like it, rays seem to be accurately refracted between object boundaries, depending on the optical index you set for that object. Pretty cool!
I don’t think you’re putting enough thought into what it means to be forced to do something. Girls in France are forced by their elders to wear the hijab. People around the planet are forced to do things according to a religious code that violently oppresses free will and freedom of expression. France has done the right thing, it has allowed girls to choose, unfortunately this has led to their parents and others who make choices for them to choose instead to force them to adhere to a strict religious code and keep them out of School, and the public. Anything that forces you to adhere to a code by means of force means a lack of free will. Now, you have free will to violate that code, but the consequences of a young woman choosing not to wear the hijab could be life-threatening. That is not free will. That is inhumane terrorism
But once your civilization isn’t threatened with complete and sudden obliteration by planet killers, you’re no longer stuck in the prisoner’s dilemma and you’re not necessarily compelled to strike first. It’s a big difference.
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This is true, though that said, on the flip side of things; exchanges like the one between the letter's author and the cat food company are exactly the sort of thing that helps expand one's understanding outside of their own domain of knowledge.

Be it out of hubris or genuine interest, that the author of the letter felt compelled to write to the company, they (and by extension us) received an insight into the decision making process behind one of the more mundane pieces of engineering we see on a daily basis (I certainly did)
Inkscape's tracing functionality uses the `potrace` command line program.
Your mind already does this by itself. Of course, nobody knows what would happen if we left our natural "garbage collector" running for multiple centuries.
Yes, but they do tend to avoid doing so if you’ve, for instance, plausibly lost the ability to do what the order demands you do - like forgotten the password or lost the keys, and there is no evidence you have backups.

Additionally, ‘knowledge’ such as a password has been pretty consistently ruled as protected by the 5th amendment and in theory someone couldn’t be held in contempt for refusing to divulge it here in the US. However, if someone is already convicted or seizure of something is blocked by that knowledge (that may also be incriminating if someone has it?), that is less tested and probably not protected.

Even if you haven’t, it is very, very rare (and usually requires high profile political pressure) for being held over contempt to happen for very long.
> However, I don't fully understand the privacy argument. It would seem to be that instead of handing over your entire DNS query history and unencrypted HTTP history to your own corporate IT department or the Starbucks Wi-Fi router, you're now handing over all that data to Mullvad.

Well, you're of course right that the privacy argument for VPNs doesn't make a lot of sense. But there's a whole industry living from people believing it does, and ad partners of that industry willing to proclaim that VPNs are essential for your personal privacy.
Does Mullvad allow me to connect using wireguard without pasting my private key into their website? Their website says the private key never leaves my browser and is only used to generate the configuration file, but all I really want to do is give them a public key and I suppose let them know which server I'll be connecting to. I can put together the config file by hand myself, thanks, I shouldn't need to ever copy the private key into my clipboard, let alone paste it into a browser.
They have a custom implementation.
Long-term storability seems very desirable for certain classes of data. But a problem might be to conserve the crystal reader system which I assume needs to be well-calibrated and sort of fragile. You might have to have some sort of bootstrapping solution like very basic materials and instructions to build a simple 3D printer which then builds a more complicated assembly system which is then able to build the crystal reader.
It’s clearly phrased with the implication that the person has never thought of doing it the way the speaker is suggesting.
FWIW, Wikipedia's defines "callback" as "any executable code that is passed as an argument to other code; that other code is expected to call back (execute) the argument at a given time" and synchronous callbacks are mentioned explicitly [0]. I don't think Jake's usage of the word is atypical.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(computer_programming...
Accelerated intel images require you to be running an Intel Android install, not ARM like the vast (>95%? 99%?) majority of devices. We had a bug around the byte-size of "long" that only showed up on real hardware.
Keeping minds flexible is both a nature and nurture issue. We can increase neuroplasticity and new neuron/dendrite growth with a variety of compounds that trigger BNDF secretion, but people still have to expose themselves to and try to learn new things.
But that’s not true though. A moment’s thought makes it clear.
Ah that's a shame, I understand their concerns to be honest, but they could just hide it under an about:config flag so only people who really need it can use it.
Thanks for your remarks! I think they are a testament to what we're really trying to: provide a comfortable environment to do scientific computing that also has the nice features you can find in IDEs designed for professional software developers.
Ah ok that makes sense, thanks!
It seems like Calegari is chasing after PR and may be angry at computer scientists getting into his field.

His criticism was discussed and found incorrect by the peer review process:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
I wasn’t able to get a 4K display without opting into the touchscreen, which I despise and immediately disabled.
Son preference is an unfortunate cultural element of Asian migration.

"Indian-born mothers living in Canada with two children had 138 boys for every 100 girls"

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/04/11/canadas-missing-...

These preferences are lasting into the second-generations, with no indication that even at the third and later generations these preferences are lost:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-study-suggest...

Immigration to North America from India should restrict the number of males allowed, to balance the trend of sex-selective abortion in those communities, and to increase the 'value' of females - since they will have an easier chance of migrating.
Our current risk/reward tradeoffs are made knowing how we stand to lose at most a handful of decades. If aging is cured, risk tolerance will go down.
If you have a Z87 board. If you have a Z97 board it already is a drop in replacement. Z97 sold like crazy, it's a common starting point for upgrades right now. Just to make sure that comes across :)
It is interesting how cats will implement tail recursion.
Shunning [1] can be devastating and is used as a powerful alternative to physical punishment in pacifist communities like Anabaptists (e.g. Mennonites and Amish). Shunning is like a chronic disease while caning is acute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning
>most countries worth living in

With 60 mils USD in pocket. the list of "countries worth living in" becomes a lot longer than you may think.
I love it!

Coincidentally, after I managed to get my sister to name her daughter Ada after the programming language, I will eventually have to make an effort to get her acquainted with programming. This book will make a good starting point.
It is so slow, that after the title slide I scrolled through three slides and stopped, because I thought something was wrong. Then the slide appeared and I realized I missed three slides, because of those animations being so slow and not at all correlated to how fast I scroll or how far I'm in.
Seems like a natural extension to multinational corporations.
If we can't hold owners responsible, maybe we should have state take over the company with some reasonable ratio of days to damage/stolen amount of money...
Posturing, advertising, showing that you are doing something and it's everyone else standing in your way. Of course, that's only weakly grounded in reality, but maybe still worth doing from an electoral standpoint.

It's discussed a bit here: https://theconstitutionalist.org/2021/01/27/from-insincere-v...

On a more credulous note, it may also be valuable from a deliberative perspective to have these discussions in the body even if they don't result in change in the short term. That's undermined by the fact that the chamber is often pretty empty during debate, and that members of congress (and their staffs) can talk outside of the chamber, but it may still have an element of truth to it.
Terrible for nevada residents, though.
Well, there was Siddhārtha Gautama, who became Buddha. His original teachings are non-religious.

I can recommend the books of David Hawkins for a modern, scientifically-informed view on the subjective experience of Reality.

https://veritaspub.com/dr-hawkins/

> Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. was a nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, spiritual teacher and lecturer. The uniqueness of his contribution to humanity comes from the advanced state of spiritual awareness known as ” Enlightenment,” “Self–Realization,” and “Unio Mystica.” Rarely, if ever, has this spiritual state occurred in the life of an accomplished scientist and physician. Therefore, Dr. Hawkins was uniquely qualified to present a spiritual path that is scientifically compelling to modern society.
Audible might be the exception, I'm very happy with it.
With nuclear weapons we had MAD - and even if the other side didn’t retaliate, the planet would be ruined by a nuclear war so no one could win.

This is more dangerous. If weapons are absolutely but selectively destructive - I can wipe your planet out quickly before you have time to respond and my planet is just fine - it incentivizes me to attack first and hunt down other potential threats and destroy them before you or they destroy me.
Well, the two most difficult things with cats is how to name them, how to cache them, and the offset by one when counting the herd.
100%. We’re seeing a huge (loud) “help the cons” movement, but the fact is a lot of them are bad people and we need to tread carefully. I for one will certainly not hire somebody who has committed certain classes of crimes, no matter how “rehabilitated” they claim they are.
More likely the traits of both people. There are people who study the factors that predict divorce. https://www.gottman.com
Wtf is an objective news report? There's no such thing.
I know there’s other projects with the goal to generate policies from the live behaviour of apps but I’ve always wondered how practical that actually is.

It seems difficult to make sure you actually exercise every path of your app so that it makes every API call.

It makes me wonder if live monitoring or static analysis is the better approach.
Ethics? I'm pretty sure cats are above such pedestrian concerns.
This also means that corporations with more women on their board of directors are more likely to commit fraud.
Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong
AFAIK China already has a limit of a single child, so i guess we'll end up placing restrictions - perhaps needing a license for childbirth that wont be given in overpopulated areas. Also perhaps in the future we'll manage to colonize other planets, so living longer will help there too.

And let's not forget that living forever here really means not dying due to age. We'll still die from other reasons.
I believe you are uneducated. Not sure if you know or pretending to be ignorant - Reliance is a conglomerate. They are into a ton of businesses including Oil Refineries, Retail etc. What does Vodafone have to do with them?
> Girls in France are forced by their elders to wear the hijab.

That's a vile and bigoted generalization. While that can be sometimes the case, it certainly isn't mostly so. A huge number of girls who are forced to remove their hijab feel oppressed and alienated.

> France has done the right thing, it has allowed girls to choose

No, this is nonfactual. France forces girl to remove their hijabs that's a fact. Your rhetoric is exactly what I was referring to, not only nonfactual but grossly misleading and outright deceptive.
This is funny, but did you mean ’resent’?
"At the zenith of his power, Göring had one of his four personal trains specially redesigned to transport paintings, and, beginning in 1940, went on shopping sprees, loading the outbound carriages with ‘stacks of freshly minted Reichsmarks’, touring Occupied Europe ‘in collecting mode’."

Though not a documentary, the movie "The Train" with Burt Lancaster depicts this kind of thing really well.
It doesn't matter what they get paid, you and other company "owners" just want to keep as much of the pie as possible.

The best would be a cooperative, where each employee owns an equal share of the company and has equal decision making ability.
Getting onto many private trackers is a real pain in the ass, involving lurking on some IRC channel for who knows how long, begging and sucking up to people until somebody gives you an invite (assuming the tracker is even open to new applicants at the time.) Then, even with an invite, often the admins want to interview you to see if you answer probing questions like a pirate or a lawyer. The whole thing is a pain in the ass. These days I just say YOLO and use public trackers.
In 50 years, lots of people would be born there who had not been able to make that choice themselves
There are 3 kinds of screens:

- glossy (glass): vivid, easy to care for, susceptible to reflections, cheaper.

- matte (anti-glare): colors not as strong, can be comfortable. Worst in bright sunlight.

- anti-reflective: colors almost as vivid as glossy, difficult to care for, costly. Not really difficult (warm water and soft cloth) but more difficult than the general public can do. Used on high-end displays/TVs.

You can tell the difference between anti-glare and anti-reflective as one has more texture/grain vs smooth. Also when looking at the reflection of a point source of light, the anti-reflective will dim the point, the anti-glare will spread it out like a ball, which is why it washes out in bright ambient light.

For a high resolution mobile screen only glossy and anti-reflective would give a good image in wide range of lighting (assuming you can shuffle to avoid reflections). Care and cost prohibit anti-reflective.

My preferences are anti-reflective for home monitors, glossy for laptops, phones, tablets.
What it means to be lucky
How can we build a mental model for luck?
> there’s just no way to predict all the bugs

This is the Nirvana Fallacy, "if it isn't perfect, it's useless". Fine, you can't predict all the bugs. But you can predict some, perhaps many. That is strictly more robust than not predicting at all.

> The author mentioned one aspect of TDD that has always bothered me: that I can’t “explore.” ... Rigid philosophies like TDD spike this methodology.

"Spike" is the word TDD weirdoes like me use to say we are exploring. TDD requires enough knowledge to specify the problem in a way that drives out code. When you don't have that knowledge, you explore first.

I've had codebases where I wrote and discarded untested code multiple times in order to understand what design I needed. Once I began to grok the problem, I backed out and then test-drove my way back in.
No, I would buy a cabin in the woods where I could die from CO poisoning.
He also mentions this, right at the beginning of the article:

> I’m a person who’s only satisfied if I feel I’m being productive.

For anyone who is like this, you know exactly what he means. This is likely the result of the way you were raised, but for some of us, our mental health in adulthood really does hinge on feeling productive or not.

Whether that's healthy is a ship that sailed when we were just children. Instilled in us is a deep need to feel productive, and that's how we feel happy.

So yes, I think he's probably as happy as he can be.
See, go karts seem like much more fun than pencil pushers making fancy word documents. But for each their own I suppose.
Show HN: I'll get your project on the front page of Hacker News for $1000
I note that here in the UK, cans of soda tend to be deep drawn, capped at the top, and that most food/soup cans are of the traditional double capped variety. I wonder does this come down to the pressures of the contents or is there another reason involved.
Disagree on this analogy. The standard deviation in the driving ability curve is much smaller than the one for coding ability. There are a TON of mediocre coders who many companies won’t touch. The other commenter’s basketball analogy is more apt.
Nation just means "people". It's the concept of a nation-state (which the US is emphatically not) people assumed it has a legal meaning. It doesn't; it's a sociological word. People in this thread mean "state" and obviously don't have the experience to know what they're talking about.
That's a good point but I suspect the feasibility of this approach depends on having large facilities and uranium procurement operations. These are things that can be regulated. You can see this in the Iran situation where their "breakout time" is measurable. With nations willing to negotiate, this could be brought under control. However, tbh I think they probably should have a deterrent as they are facing a serious invasion threat by nuclear armed powers. The world needs to scale down in tandem, not weaker parties first and stronger parties later.
The future is to have enclaves of high income remote workers who pay a flat fee for the government services they use instead of an arbitrary % based on where they live. This is a good development. Income tax is not well justified anymore since earned income and physical location have no relationship for the workers who pay the majority of tax burden.
They have the key, it’s just password protected, unknown key space
Freedom implies many different things to people. Freedom to choose not to live in this company town is an option.

The freedom to not do something is basically the only freedom Americans consistently apply to things usually.
Sounds no worse than people dying, and their children inheriting their assets with a stepped-up cost basis.
> Direct link to study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2020.18...

> This type of analysis has some obvious limitations:

> - Fraud is more likely to be recorded in public record when committed at big corporations. Many small companies also commit fraud, but it goes unnoticed, unpunished, or otherwise not recorded in ways accessible to researchers because they're too small to make waves. Maybe too small to bother prosecuting.

From the article
>We compiled data on 250+ US public companies involved in corporate securities frauds identified in 1,000+ Securities and Exchange Commission filings over 2005–2013; we randomly selected a comparable control group of 500+ US public companies from Compustat. Based on logistic multivariate regression analyses, marginal profitability, a strong growth imperative, and firm prominence were significant fraud risk factors. Prominent Fortune 500 firms were more susceptible to marginal profitability and/or strong growth-opportunities as risk factors.

So it seems they only compared public companies and used SEC filings for identifying fraud, are you saying fraud for small public companies is less likely to be reported to the SEC than for large companies? Otherwise your argument does not apply.

> - Big companies have, by definition, more people, more activity, more transactions, and more opportunities for fraud. It's a mistake to assume that all fraud is orchestrated from the top of these companies. Often, it's mid-level managers looking to get a bonus, raise, or promotion who think they can get away with fraud in their little department.

That does support the thesis that large companies would commit more fraud. I didn't see a claim that fraud is orchestrated from the top.

> In my anecdotal experience, big companies are far less likely to behave fraudulently than small, local companies. A big company knows that endemic fraud is a death sentence for their reputation and can bring intense regulatory scrutiny. A small company knows that they can defraud you out of a couple thousand dollars one time and it's not worth your time to pursue legal action.

So after dismissing the representative research you bring up your anecdotal evidence. Was the motivation behind dismissing the presented research maybe that it doesn't match your own experience? This is a common psychological trap to fall into, but just because something does not match our own experience does not make it necessarily less true.

> Of course, most small companies I've worked with are not out to defraud your customers. Building a long-term relationship with a small company can be much more fruitful than being customer number 10,001 for a big company.

> Always be careful, regardless of who you're dealing with.
Aceh is different. They were fighting for independence from 1975 onwards. When the Tsunami end of 2004 it aceh the strongest (pretty bad), both sides compromised, allowing aceh to be the only region of Indonesia under sharia law.
Interesting how negative the sentiment is in the older threads, but how positive in today’s. The older threads talk about serfdom and today’s talks about better tax systems and efficiency
https://archive.is/1plfb - link without paywall
Haha, I chuckled at this :)
I think that the remaining factors will be the "difficulty" of parenting the behaviour of sons vs daughters in contrast to the difficulty a daughter or son experiences being parented. That is while you can use the sex of the child as an independent variable, you still need to explain why it has this effect.
Are you talking about the below National Assembly where it couldn't be decided by him whether mainstream Muslims are Kaafir according to the widely published statements of the founder?

https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/12/22/mirza-nasir-ah...
What is the scala project?