skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about Airbus bribing to get more deals, which is abhorable but common practice in any multinational corporation even these days, be it soda, weapons or banking. Boeing is about utterly incompetent management killing 300+ civilians +-knowingly, and acting like little children. Still refusing to take blame, still refusing to actually fix the source of the issue. As a passenger, I and my family are in direct risk from this incompetence.

Yes, in almost duopoly in civilian flying, I will take Airbus anytime. And never, ever, fucking ever 737 Max.
I think people just have a ton of free time these days. I know I have.
PLT = Programming Language Theory [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory
That sounds great, and that's my plan exactly, but "free" is a great feature that's hard to compete against. People don't make rational decisions about these sort of things. I don't make rational decisions about these sort of things either. Although I try to be a bit thoughtful and rational about this, I've noticed I've spent ridiculous amounts of time to avoid fairly small charges, especially before I realized this and started paying attention to this.

Point in case: half the articles posted to HN from medium.com have complaints about their (ad-free) monetization strategy. From what I can tell, Medium is not even profitable either; they're doing their best to find something that works without plastering every article full of ads, but thus far haven't found it yet. Even Twitter has the same problem: they've got some ads but unlike e.g. Facebook it's not full of them, and they're not profitable either.
They are freakily alien. Hagfish and lampreys (the jawless fish) are in a separate group to all other vertebrates that split off before jaws evolved. Even weird fish like seahorses are more closely related to us than these creatures.

It's fascinating to me that these species have held on all this time, given that jaws were such a wildly successful adaptation.
Can you explain what you mean? I’m fairly certain I’ve seen footage of exhausted boxers breathing through their mouths
There is a pond in my neighborhood that's not treated. The years I've used Mosquito Bits and Dunks, the mosquito population has crashed to tolerable levels. Bti is proven to work and totally safe for then environment. It's a small price to pay to be able to enjoy my backyard. If I ever move, my neighbors are going to miss my contribution.
> There is all this talk that Proton will make people want to develop native Linux ports but I don't see any data or logic to back that up.

Never heard this and I agree it doesn't make any sense (the opposite is likely to be true actually).

Wine exists because people wanted to run windows software, Proton exists because Valve wanted to compete with Windows and mainstream consoles and needed to run most Windows games to do that.

That's it.

TBH, I think they were successful, ProtonDB is good enough and I can game on Linux pretty well and I could definitely game on a hypothetical Steam console, especially if it were open.
Maybe I will, once I settle down and buy a dedicated gaming rig / have more time to play.
I think that's a really interesting middle ground. Do you think it can fall into the same trap as mentioned in the article, where it can become "sub-optimal" due to not being as expert as the non-profit?
Christopher Hitchens in Mortality describes his illness as making him become aware that he doesn't occupy a body, he IS a body.
There may be only one electron--> Feynman
Nothing is worse for the environment then subsidized coal power. Uneconomical environmental destruction
Could recursion be ( one of ) the reasons why ML and Scheme ( and lisp, clojure, etc. ) aren't popular as industry languages?

I learned recursion in University, it's undeniably a foundational piece of Computer Science theory. I use recursion when I have to do interview problems. And I think that's about it.

The number of times I actually used recursion in production was maybe twice. And one of those times the PR was rejected. In my experience the overhead of understanding the code outweighs its terseness. This is also how I sometimes feel about macros in clojure. The cons outweigh the pros.
Once again, you are misunderstanding my objection.

The math of EE is correct given the axioms from which it is deduced. Nobody anywhere is disputing that.

What I'm disputing is whether it is a theory that explains human financial decision making, in the same way that some physicists dispute that string theory explains physical reality (despite acknowledging that the math behind string theory is deductively correct).

"Saying Expected Utility is correct"

It is conceptually correct, as my old vs young example shows. The fact that EE fails to model this is a fatal counterexample.

Once again - the math IS deductively correct, but that same math fails as a theory of financial decision making since it doesn't explain the observed reality.
I imagine that it will turn out to be a mixture of a few valuable insights, and a lot of politically motivated bullshit. The insights will be used as an excuse to push the politics.

It would be nice if someone could extract the good insights and publish them separately, maybe just on one page of paper. For example, here are some ideas that come to my mind:

* For minority students, make sure that the language itself is not a major obstacle. Maybe in a perfect world everyone would get a teacher who speaks their preferred language. But a simple useful thing you can do here and now is to print a dictionary of words you are going to use in the following lecture. Like "triangle = el triángulo", except this is of course a stupid example, but there are probably also good ones. So the student doesn't get stuck merely because you used a word they didn't understand. Depending on how much work you want to spend here, you could even provide a short summary of the lecture. (Review it with someone who speaks the language and understands your subject, don't just use whatever Google Translate throws at you. If you don't know such person, you could probably find someone on Facebook.)

* Do not assume everyone has an access to internet. If it is important, print it on paper and give the paper to kids.

* Check whether your examples are not culturally foreign to the students. Again, a silly made-up example, but don't use "two apples and two apples equals four apples" as an example for kids from a culture that doesn't know apples (or even might have a taboo against apples); just use oranges or whatever. Or just make sure you use a wide enough range of examples.

* Try to get some insight into what their culture expects from your students. Maybe asking questions is considered impolite, or trying to answer a question unless you are 100% sure, or admitting that you know something that your classmates don't know, or admitting that you don't understand something. Try to find a workaround; discuss your solution with people from given culture.

On the other hand... I have downloaded some documents from that website and the language they use is horrible. Bad faith assumed everywhere, there is no such thing as an innocent mistake or ignorance, everything is "racism" and "supremacism". Come on; if you are trying to tell people they should be more empathetic and helpful to each other, the least you can do is stop being an aggressive asshole towards them. Calling someone a racist twenty times in a day, just because they e.g. teach math using the traditional methods, that definitely is not a way to make friends with anyone who has a shred of self-respect. (Yeah, it's not about making friends, it's about signaling being "holier than thou".)
But the non-profit is spending the money, and is not earning any money. If you decide to ask for repayment, how could they pay you back?
Maybe I've misunderstood the issue, but I thought the new pipelines were for expanding capacity and service areas.

It's also possible I wasn't very clear. When I rail against the new, it's not against replacement (e.g. complete overhaul of a road instead of patching potholes.) I get upset when my low density metro creates seemingly endless new highway lane miles at the same time that potholes in core areas reach ages and heights consistent with average toddlers.
Study: Employment rose among those in Stockton free money experiment
Tronsquire
Tronsquire : Une escroquerie d'un million de dollars en hausse en Inde qui promet des rendements jusqu'à 1000x sur le TRX
numpy, for comparison:

In [8]: vec = np.random.randint(-200, 200, (100_000_000,))

In [9]: %timeit vec.sum()
63 ms ± 4.81 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

The branchless C++ version took 125ms, and the AVX 512 version took ~9ms.
> The most surprising thing to me was how small a percentage of the budget was under the control of the president of the university; it was only a tiny amount. Virtually all of the money was controlled by the source, not by the administration.

I consider that good news, actually, because it makes restricted donations meaningful.

I always assumed that restricted donations were pointless, because if I donated $x of restricted donations to cause A, the organization would simply take $x of unrestricted donations that it was planning to spend on cause A and instead spend them on other causes. All of my money technically went to cause A, but de facto it didn't.

I still assume that's the case for regular, non-university charities.
HN is unfortunately the extremely wrong place to discuss this :( Language like that can be used by bad-faith folks here to push the (false and ridiculous) idea that the Equitable Math people don’t care about mathematical rigor or logical reasoning.

The idea is that those attitudes encourage hypercompetitiveness among children and inappropriately reinforce the idea that math grades are a measure of “inherent ability.”

- “Independent practice is valued over teamwork” encourages a classroom where the “best students” come from families who can afford private tutoring

- “focus on getting the right answer” means that teachers don’t get an appropriate sense of where students are actually struggling, and again incentivizes the affluent privately-tutored student who doesn’t have to worry about explaining their answer.

It is not that either of these are inherently “white supremacist,” but they are inherently poor measures of mathematical understanding. The racism connection comes in by the fact that these are measures which can be “juked” by affluence, and that students from rough backgrounds are unfairly penalized. Given that racism in US teachers is also a big problem, it can lead to ugly situations like “Jimmy is dumb at math and can’t do Algebra II” rather than “Jimmy makes a lot of dumb sign errors and needs specific practice.”

In particular: these are (nominally) race-neutral criticisms of US public education with especially acute impact for black students, but also affect white students from tougher backgrounds.
Cable TV didn't teach us anything. The premium channels are ad-free, the ad-ridden channels aren't getting money from the cable company.
I have Hulu ad-free, it costs me 4 extra bucks a month.
Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau (1862)
It is important to note that the MCAS was implemented on the MAX because the larger engines, and larger possible thrust vector further away from the planes center of mass, make it much easier to flip the plane over.

The MAX is a bad aeronautical design that Boeing made more "controllable" through additional control system engineering. Problem is, the additional control system engineering was pretty bad.
The new compiler is very innovative and a distinguishing feature, but I would recommend giving a higher priority to package management.

A package manager is more or less expected by developers now, and I bet you will see a lot more adoption once it's easy to publish and consume libraries with an official packager manager and online repository.
Mediterranean oil spill is ‘eco-terrorism’ by Iran
How does it compare to https://microacquire.com and https://indiemaker.co?
You've clearly never heard of intelligence laundering before.
Am I the only person, when thinking of governments, that has removed "legality" as a barrier to any potential action?
Even Blu-Tack for holding on the RAM expansion is still available to buy (sorry, too hard to resist)
Absolutely not. A tiny list of reasons:

- Zero guarantees that a new buyer of the website (or acqui-hirer of the content creator) won't pump it full of ads.

- Zero guarantees for that the website will not be full of trackers, with or without paying.

- Promotion of the "content creator" profession which has its place but I worry that it gets promoted as the default way of sharing content. Knowledge must be free or else no human race progress is possible.

- ...It's actually quite OK to want to charge money for your knowledge in some cases, sure. I know I would support 3 particular channels on YouTube personally, if I had more need of their videos (currently it's just a casual and rarely exercised interest). Making a guy like me pay will just make him leave. Everybody loses.

- The proposed ways of implementing this monetization are deeply flawed. There are huge forum threads where freelancers are happily describing how to deceive a time-tracker software (not 100% related but IMO pretty close).

- Zero guarantees the content won't get edited or deleted for variety of reasons, dodgy DMCA requests included. Why must I pay for something that the government or rich lawyers can disappear at any time?

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As a programmer this general idea gets a hard "NOPE!" from me, mostly because its execution cannot be guaranteed to be consumer-friendly.

We need a new generation of tech that's completely divorced from corporations' and governments' interests for the web monetization to have even a small chance of ever taking off.

One example: machine-enforceable contracts. ZERO human intervention must be possible. If I accept contract X on my machine then I don't care if the creator changes their mind tomorrow; they must grand-father my terms and conditions until I end the contract from my side.

As for the monetization model: people will just compare pros and cons and will bail out when they are asked to pay for one more streaming-like service. Did we learn nothing from the rise of piracy which comes as a response to content fragmentation?

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TL;DR:

Why must I play a game of dice when the dice are loaded?
Great article! I'm impressed by the constant praises of Zigs thoughtful ascetic feature design.

That said,

1. Just seems like the same lack-of-feature/"simple" stockholm syndrome from Go. To each their own.
2. It would seem that the author could take the structure of their Zig application and almost directly port it back to Rust (e.g., their conditional compilation problems go away if you do it at a high enough level)

`inline for` is pretty special, though. I bet.... now someone has written a published macro for it.
> if every new building is an unprofitable drag on university finances, they wouldn't be building more of them.

No, you then need a steady supply of new buildings to provide funding to fix the old ones/replace the old ones.
Deliveroo to offer 50M pounds of stock to customers
The mouth reminds me more of the byrum (AKA “shitweasel”) from Dreamcatcher.
It ultimately depends on your definition of “serious” and the microcontrollers we’re talking about.

For performance-sensitive areas where deterministic latency is critical, a GC simply won’t cut it, even if you can control when to run the GC step.

For lower end microcontrollers, I highly doubt any of those solutions would ever work: there is simply too much “magic” (read: overhead) involved.

This is primarily why C is still king of the microcontroller world.
Blindsight, by Peter Watts
2021 sees a record number of bills targeting trans youth
I do not know much about this whole story, but does it mean that Cloudflare has helped to perform those hacks? Since Firefox now uses it by default for its DoH, I think it warrants some serious questions about the choice.
I figured this was common knowledge. I've never been able to work out in cold weather because my lungs felt like they were imploding. I always have to wear a bandana over my mouth+nose, and then it's bearable. It gets soaked but at least I don't feel like I'm dying.
Have you tried not being a foreigner?

This is so annoying. Our office IP blocks are classified as US. So you could see folk sitting in the office in the evening, to watch Netflix content they could not see at home.
Michigan.
A user interface for non technical users. Which is a real shame because a static CMS is conceptually simpler than a dynamic one, yet WordPress in still the king in this space. Current SSGs are missing out on an untapped niche by burying all their features behind developer-oriented config files and flags when they could be rolled into a nice front-end UI that any non technical user could use. Publii seems to be a promising attempt in that regard.
It has essentially become the very thing it sought to destroy. Choosing Rust over C++ is now mostly about the vastly superior package ecosystem, thanks to Cargo.
Keeping it integer specifically was useful to avoid running out of precision using Python's multi-precision integers.

You can show ruin without any flooring division:

#!/usr/bin/sage
import random
balances=[Rational(100)]*100
for i in range(10000):
balances=[0 if x<=0 else random.choice([x*2+2,x/2-1]) for x in balances]
#Yet all or almost all are bankrupt:
print(len([x for x in balances if x<=0]))

The key points are that there is a state that a participant can't recover from (e.g. ending up bankrupt) and you do enough trials that are reasonably likely to eventually wander into it.

One that is the case 100 bets with 10000 betters and 10000 bets with 100 betters stop being the same thing.

And this is a very realistic and physical assumption because real investments have integerization, fees, overheads, etc. You can't invest a femto-cent in the market, and certainly not get the same relative returns as someone investing 100k.
A third: many pathological bullshitters don't even realize they're making stuff up.
Is there any way to do this easily from a legal and contractual perspective? The other piece here is that if it's a loan you miss out on tax deductions, thereby potentially reducing the total amount you could give. That also limits the more tax-advantaged ways you can give money (e.g. long term appreciated stock if you're in the US).
I'm not aware that Wikimedia is producing public domain output. Wikipedia and wiktionary for example are under CC BY-SA 3.0 license which is kind of '(L)GPL'.
Keep in mind this device relies on having access to each cell individually with all the negative ends being on a common ground. Battery packs, even with balancing connectors, usually have the cells hardwired in series.
> HTTPS only, as being pushed in modern times is quite bad.

You can say this when ISPs stop MITMing ads into documents served over HTTP.
California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions
i feel like HN's outrage about bitcoin mining is just virtue signaling.

1. bitcoin has created a market where people purchase security of their assets with the ultimate currency - energy. that market isn't going anywhere, the idea is out of the bag and you can't un-discover it.

2. energy consumption is not what causes carbon emissions, energy production does. stop chasing consumers and start regulating producers if you're honest about being so very concerned about environment.

3. it's not your business what i do with the energy that i buy at market rates.
By the way, I'm not even sure what's your misunderstading here.

Which solution does include the starting wealth of the gambler, according to you, and which one doesn't?
I didn’t focus on the iterators at all and still didn’t get the point. What I got so far; an architect wrote a book with some definitions that allows people discuss a solution. Then the author says we should take that seriously. Which is fine, but how exactly? The author spends a lot of time on explaining why (for his POV) software design patterns are wrong, but no example of how to use what the book says in software. What am I missing?
Absolutely agree on this. I've seen the entire spectrum by now: kids,who literally grew up with computers in their hands, not being able to operate simple software and people way past retirement age doing complex 'magic' on their PCs
I doubt someone who wants a pet foundation to succeed would ask for repayment unless they really dropped the ball. Of course, this assumes the person doesn’t anticipate needing the money, which in the case of the WhatsApp co-founder is true.
How is it more useful if >6 billion people are using the traditional system and a few hundred thousand, maybe a million are using cryptocurrencies while consuming an amount of electricity equivalent to Denmark?

Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. can be spent nearly nowhere except at exchanges because it's a pain in the ass to handle for merchants while I can pay with my Visa in the most countries seamlessly.

And how can it "bank the unbanned" when people need to have not only a smartphone but also a stable internet connection to the networks because if I don't observe the blockchain, I am still reliant on intermediates which are called payment processors in the traditional system that already exist.

Crypto currencies are just unnecessarily speed running financial history. Carried by ancaps and speculation that are only pushing it because legislation didn't catch up, yet.
I use it with VapourSynth, actually, but as the name implies it would never have existed without AVISynth and its community <3 http://www.vapoursynth.com/about/
>A test does not impact the choice

Then whats the purpose of the test? Tests are scores used to determine something. You're talking about forcing people to take a test to do what, exactly? Or is it just to indoctrinate them with whatever the test-maker (because it will change every election) comes up with? A thing you must study for but with no reprecussions? Ya right.

Once you create a certification for it, it will become a private passport for access to goods or services, or it will be meaningless. In both cases its either a waste or evil.
> Whoever hacked Maza netted thousands of data points about the site’s users, including usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords, a new report from intelligence firm Flashpoint shows. Two warning messages were then scrawled across the forum’s home page: “Your data has been leaked” and “This forum has been hacked.”

Oh no. Not my username, email address and hashed password. I'm shaking right now. But then again there's always some idiot who doesn't try to anonymize.
This is so cool to see. I don't know whether it would generalize more broadly, but I'd love to fundamentally believe that given a little slack, most people will find other ways to improve their lives (by finding more or better work), as opposed to the "people are lazy and if you give them free things they'll just get more lazy" narrative.

Sometimes people just need a financial or even psychological nudge to get out of a trap.
I'm not OP, but I suspect it is weather sat imagery: you can use SDR to receive images captured by NOAAA weather satellites[1]

1. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weat...
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Neat Genetic Programming: Controlling bloat naturally (2016) [pdf]
How is that surprising to anyone? Cars have filters... The smoke from a car is almost clearly white, while the smoke from wildfire... Certainly isn't. And then of course the particulates... Have people never seen the walls of a wood stove?
> My understanding is that ISM bands are supposed to be free for personal use

They are also free for use by businesses and governments. The rules make no distinction (other bands do have eligibility restrictions).

> last fronts for small scale connectivity innovation

Amateur radio operators would beg to to differ. You can do a lot with a relatively easy to get amateur radio license, and it is restricted from commercial use.