skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some languages don’t have loops but rather have very good tail-recursive semantics. In that case, nothing is hiding in the stack.

Talking about loops vs recursion is interesting but it feels kinda like salt vs pepper to me. I like both and use both where appropriate.

While we are on the topic of similarly misused constructs, .stream() pipelines in Java are often clear and concise but as they get longer and hide more stuff in the stream, a loop would make far more sense and provide a much smaller runtime complexity.

Often, people will aspire to create “beautiful” code where they relate recursion/loops/streams/etc as something beautiful. In that vein, I don’t really care if code is “ugly” but I do care if it’s unmaintainable, needlessly slow or accidentally complex.
Equally is a wrong word, one should say they do not behave samely.

Equally is meaningless for such a large object, I.e. nations. Of course Western is more open, os they are more radical. Like covid, propaganda results into Asian people get attacked or even close to be killed. The more controlled method in China results into more moderate reaction towards Americans.
There is a very simple explanation for this not mentioned in this article: well meaning people have pressured legislators to ban for-pay restrooms, and since not many people feel joy when maintaining a free public restroom, not many restroom remained operating.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/why-is-there-a-shortage-in-public-r...
Apologies for the late reply. You're right about what they've attempted and will continue to attempt, of course. There is reason for hope, however. They had decades of experience manufacturing consent via print and broadcast media, and they got pretty good at it. Clearly they want to wield social media as deftly (see all the wishful thinking about the obviously-bullshit-from-day-one "Russiagate" theory). I don't think they have that skill yet, however. The current thinking is that they'll get it if they just deplatform the right people (and, it seems, the right platforms). That's a dead end; it runs counter to the way that social media works. Rather than swimming upstream, eventually they might develop effective mass communication methods via social media. I don't know what form those will take... maybe trolling-at-scale? They don't have it yet, though.

Another thing about "fear sells"... some fears are more comfortable than others. That's why it has taken so much work to get a tiny minority of Americans worked up about global warming, but they've easily stoked a series of stupid wars. It's comfortable to fear brown people, but it is less comfortable to fear things that seem fundamental to our own lives like the current form of our economy.
Then forward the magic link email to your friends email address.
In that scenario, do you have individual accounts on the computer or are you all using a single login and sharing it? The first scenario is fairly secure, the latter is a nightmare.
I haven't found that to be true. I have used it successfully at various points to help me stay focused on art projects or other work that I was choosing to do that should have been "fun" but that I was still procrastinating over. The two GUI software applications I've made that I consider "finished" (out of a dozen-plus incomplete) have Pomodoro journal pages in one of my notebooks.
Truly. I used to run Ricochet.wikispaces.com and am sitting on a mountain of docs and stuff. Can't believe they managed to market it into the dirt and burn through five billion bucks.
We see this again and again. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

But no answer on the following: How to get said extraordinary evidence when derision effectively kills any funding or collaboration?

Fringe claims rightly needs to be looked at skeptically, but it’s not science if experiments and analysis can’t happen.
The first computer I saw [0], and the first computer at home [1], were Brazilian clones of the Sinclair ZX81.

That's where I learned to program, in Basic. It changed my life.

Thanks Sinclair.

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK82C 1 https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP200

[ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360746 ]
I agree that fungibility is a hugely under-appreciated (or cynically de-emphasized) concept when it comes to funding governments via special taxes. (Great example.)

The concept also applies to non-profit donations more broadly, but only under the assumption that the size of the donation is small enough that it doesn't exceed the total amount that the non-profit would have spent on that cause anyway.

If you're donating a large amount that exceeds the current budget for your chosen cause, then your donation does make a difference -- but it's not quite as large as it seems. It might only be the difference between the previous spending level and the new level (after your donation and after some budget refactoring).

To use your example, if the state was spending $1B on on schools previously, then donating less than $1B doesn't necessarily make a difference to school funding -- they can just push money around. But if you donate $1.2B, then you have made a difference -- of $0.2B.

If you're donating to a small non-profit, though, then maybe it's easier to find targets in which you could dwarf the existing spending on your topic of choice. (Not to say that you should, though. I agree with Graham's argument.)
It’s because the target was a three year old.

Also, your comparison is way off. Not all police departments are the same. Unarmed doesn’t mean “not a threat” or “can in no way be a threat”. I can simply approach you in an angry manner and be a threat. Does it justify death? No, but a three year old?
A number of these things are just good general advice. Others a bit less so.

The explainer on "focus on getting the 'right' answer" (page 65) is actually pretty okay. For example it encourages to "Engage with true problem solving" such as "What are some strategies we can use to engage with this problem?". That seems pretty good to me. It goes on to say that "teaching math isn't just about solving specific problems. It's about helping students understand the deeper mathematical concepts so that they can apply them throughout their lives". Again, this seems fairly on-point to me for middle/high-school math.

People seem to have taken this part in particular a bit out of context and ran with it. They mostly mean "having students than semi-mindlessly solve equations to get the right answer isn't really teaching them all that much about math". I think most here would agree with that.

I find the explainer for "Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration" (page 61) really weird though: "it reinforces individualism and the notion that I’m the only one. This does not give value to collectivism and community understanding, and fosters conditions for competition and individual success". At some earlier point there was also a swipe against "capitalism".

Overall, I found it mostly good with some bad mixed in.

But ... I'm from a region in the Netherlands with a fairly homogeneous white population, and attended a school where almost everyone was white; my class certainly was. I can confidently say my math classes sucked, for quite a number of the reasons listed in that article.

But was this because of "white supremacy culture"? I don't think so. That seems like a really narrow view on things. Sometimes bad teaching is exactly that: bad teaching. Nothing more, nothing less.
The Great Reset: Is Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Just Tax Avoidance?
Selling Hacker News for only $1k? That’s an absolute steal!
Yes. And just to be clear, this was a problem in SF well before the pandemic.
When personal blogs flourished in the early millennium, keeping the owner somehow compensated made it more likely that good blogs would keep going, because no one’s time to research, write, and then copyedit intellectual content is utterly free. That doesn’t necessarily require an abusive ecosystem of ads that track people personally, but e.g. an affiliate link whenever a book was cited brought in a few hundred euro a year and made maintaining the blog feel worthwhile for some authors.
hmm. seems the US government hasn't been twiddling their thumbs doing nothing about Russian Hackers after all...
That is what I continually want to ask of the world, some easiness. But the din & the stink persists, the civil world is continually menaced by arrogant loud persistent forces, & it feels like we have so little defense, so few a ways to cry out & beg for peace. Competition and greed root so much more easily, require so much less nutrients to develop & spread.

Nothing will stop NFTs. Sure enough, mankind is generating a new enduring upward-spiralling mania, a new way to squabble, inventing scarcity so that some might profit. Just one of a long long series of there being so little means to ask for a cessation in society, there being no means to slow the gathering of war-wagons & takers.

It's techno-mysticism. There's no more value here than a credits page, where you give thanks to your backers, your supporters. Or dedicate a piece of work to someone. But it's dressed up as something fancy, understanding slightly out of reach. The inability to pinpoint it's value is itself the core value, an esoteric tapping into something that feels bigger than us. It's a play into our emotions, into those steep undercurrents of desire & control. The logos is not here, the ethos is largely negative, and I am left with only a pathos for the poor world, subject to this artful hackery re-imposing the zero-sum upon the world by a sad malappropriation of the digital.
They should be paying me for the increased carbon dioxide they're putting in my air though
As the other commenter pointed out, whataboutism would imply defense of Boeing.

I think we disagree on what whataboutism means. I think we're just gonna have to agree to disagree, because we're having a meta argument at this point.
A few hundred dollars: https://www.galeriedada.com/

This is supposedly the company the movie Ex Machina used for the CEO’s Jackson Pollock.

I’ve been tempted to get one from them. :-)

https://www.quora.com/Did-they-use-an-original-Jackson-Pollo...
You don't have to look around a farm yard or even a suburban garage too long to see a large subset of these in the wild.
Because the charity knows how best to spend it, not you (as explained in the essay).
Even better, a fire hose. It's the only way to be sure.
If I were a politician, which I am not, I would do this:

Gather the experts in the fields (there are likely more than one field at play) and manage their discussion. I would ask them questions and observe how they discuss. If I felt that one or both were not intellectually honest, I would replace them with other people, and repeat.

Once I felt an intellectually honest discussion had reached a conclusion, then I would act (vote, provide legislation, etc).

It is sad to me that we are moving away from a process like this and not toward it.
Aren't you already choosing to donate to a non-profit that is focused on this mission? If they're mission-focused, they presumably know how to best spend their money to support that mission.
You're right, I misinterpreted it. I thought the "post-FAA employment prospects" was the package, but of course it means actual post employment opportunities. I'm just skimming through it too quickly.

As of right now my post has 7 upvotes and no downvotes which means 7 people agreed with me. That means either a lot of people didn't read the article or they misread the article like I did.

I wonder how many downvotes my post will get after they read your comment which essentially categorically proves my initial reply is completely and utterly wrong.

Which goes to show how many people just skip over reading the article and go straight to the comment section for a summary/full analysis.
I feel pretty safe logging into stuff from my wife's computer.
The trade off is higher security vs sites with passwords or an reset email option.
Ask HN: Why 435?
Paul Graham's essays (example: http://paulgraham.com/donate.html) are presented in a column 435px wide. Is there a tactical reason for this?
Documentation is not an afterthought. There is specific structure for do strings. IIRC Completion of documentation is on the roadmap, it's just in the icebox until a certain set of other features is complete.

Tbh, i think it's a great strategy. As wonderful as it is, zig has enough bugs in it still that you don't want total newbies all in yet, and this acts as a bit of a gatekeeping device (which will be lifted in due time) and also keeps negatively predisposed people "looking for excuses to not use zig" out -- as I'd say works really well in your case!
Same way this has been happening for as long as I’ve been alive.
How about this:

1. Enter email

2. If the hidden password field autocompletes, use it

3. If not, send a magic link email that doubles as “someone is trying login” notification AND show the password field

So at this point you covered:

- people with password managers

- people who remember passwords

- people who don’t remember passwords
Stack-depth is an implementation detail.

It's chicken-and-egg. Programmers think of recursion as that thing that blows up the stack, so they don't demand that language implementers do a better job with it. Language implementers don't stop recursion from blowing up the stack because no-one is asking them to do so.
FP programmers call their patterns Typeclass Laws.

Mathematicians aren't building/designing things all day long so they don't need this word.

"A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of patterns, each of which describes a problem and the core of a solution that can be used in many ways within a specific field of expertise. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander and popularized by his 1977 book A Pattern Language." (Wikipedia on Pattern Language).
But still favoring RSH over SSH. That's how dinosaurs must have felt.
https://hackaday.com/2020/12/12/irc-over-lora-for-when-thing...

If not, maybe icb uses less bw.

EDIT

Also:

https://github.com/dmahony/LoRa-AX25-IP-Network
I don't think the model is going to work at all. You don't know the worth until after you pay, that's going to encourage a lot of deceptive stuff.

Instead, how about a system more like the Kindle Unlimited stuff--you pay a fixed amount per month and it's distributed based on your usage.

However, I would handle it differently--when you view any participating site upon leaving you get a pop-up asking you to rate it on a minus one to 10 scale. Rating^2 * pages = score. At the end of the month payments are distributed according to the scores you gave the sites you visited. Note the minus one--that's saying the site was deceptive, not merely worthless and it deducts a bit from what they collect elsewhere. (Kindle does something like this, it's distributed by pages read. Unfortunately, the system is easily gamed.)
> This may piss some people off and get me a load of downvotes, but honestly IMO I find design patterns to be just snobbery

100%. I recently was interviewing so I decided to brush up on some design pattern terminology because plenty of job postings reference them and I didn't study them in school.

I was blown away by how much of it's just complex-sounding terms for simple concepts.

I was also surprised how poorly defined they really are.
while you or I personally don’t need the 100M to enjoy the impressionist art, you can’t ignore the fact that someone out there is in fact willing to pay that for the original.

There are people who happily pay $10,000+ for an Italian purse. There are people who are happy with a $10 Chinese knock-off.

There are people who happily pay $2,000 for an Apple laptop. There are people who are happy with Linux on a $100 machine from Goodwill.

There are people who go outside to feel the breeze. There are people who are happy with a fan.

I don't understand NFTs at all. But I have to remind myself that often value is subjective.
>At work I need to use MS Teams and holy shit it's so slow a

Try Slack on Firefox or Android. Who the hell has 40 seconds for a chat to load?!
s/how you can get/how do you find someone who's

Personally, I've realized that I hate doing marketing and I enjoy creating things much more.
The thing that stops many people moving away from GA is Adwords. If I want to advertise via AdWords do I have any choice but to use GA?
If you delete cookies regularly, I assume you are entering your password regularly? Do you use 2FA on these sites? I assume you have to go through the motions each time. What makes clicking on these links more annoying? Some 2FA (or confirm your identity) is done through email still.
Same here, white male from Eastern Europe, if someone has a recipe how to make other people give me lots of money in return for a hope that in a few years I will produce a great computer game... please tell me. Because I would love writing my own game, instead of developing boring applications.

Reading all these texts about whiteness and maleness, I suspect an important step in the process is sending someone a picture of a white penis. Okay, I have a picture, but no idea where to send it. Should I just spam everyone and hope for the best?

If we are talking about privileges, how about mentioning the most relevant one: rich privilege? Oh I forgot, this one probably does not exist. Too bad, because a rich person could easily fund the game prototype, and maybe even pay for favorable reviews.
Well unironically this is a good idea. Wonder how this could be execute. So many schools still don't have a computer programming curriculum.
which regs tells you what computers you can buy?
The duty cycle limits by ETSI are in place because of the population/usage density. If FCC does not put in place a regulation there will no shared high bandwidth usage over a long distance in high density areas. Think of 2.4 GHz WiFi.
The equivalent of painting reproductions with unique IDs on the back.

The whole things feels like a scam to me. Taking the best part about digital goods (that they’re non-rival) and attempting to hack on scarcity for the purpose of exploiting a psychological flaw.
I think increased productization/de-fragmentation of the nuclear plant industry will make things so much safer.

Instead of building 2-5 of each reactor design, build thousands. Sort of like with passenger aircraft. Makes things cheaper and so much more idiot-proof.
What is the keyboard in your photo? The lack of oversized keys has me confused.

Also, love that it is a 3,284,741 byte image of a ZX81. And the ,/< because -- presumably -- a dog ate your 1 ;)
Profitable for the province is different from profitable for a business.

Even if hydro itself isn't making more revenue than its direct costs, if it increases the tax revenues for the government by better uses of the electricity, the government is still making a profit

There are unseen benefits to nationalization too, not just costs
Haha I'm in the exact same boat - creating my own server got me into programming and tech.

A common tool was called Syipkpker[0]. It was really annoying dealing with these bots. All you could do is IP-ban them and pray the attacker didn't change their IP

[0] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x417fz2
I'm talking about the concept of expected utility. If EE does away with that concept, then it is a failed theory on conceptual grounds.

Without this concept, tell me how EE is supposed to grapple with:

(1) gamblers who take on negative EV bets

(2) old people who shift into fixed income

(3) low risk-tolerance young people who keep only cash

(4) high risk-tolerance young people who put everything into crypto

(5) why some people buy insurance and some don't, despite earning the same income

The fact is, you can't explain this heterogeneous behaviour without the concept of expected utility of outcomes.

Our brains are emotional, irrational vehicles designed by evo psych, and you can't grapple with that reality without some notion of subjective preference pertaining to expected outcome.
This is what matrix is working on (except greylists, not block/allow lists), and so would automatically apply to cactus.chat. https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
Output encoding suitable for the destination format, not input sanitisation!
> i don't think abuse will be very profitable.

I don’t find this argument convincing at all. The same could be said about ad impressions (pennies or fractions of pennies per view) but there are whole content farm industries built on this.

I support the idea but abuse should be considered and addressed, not handwaved away.
Pandemic has nothing to do with frequency of cyber security incidents at least not on a large scale. Every time when something global is happening spammers jump on the bandwagon and try to lure people into opening their email spam and buy something or download attachments filled with malware.

This global situation is specific because a lot of people are working remotely so they easier to target and compromise then before.

In the last decade or so a lot of businesses moved their presence and other ops online and lots of them practice poor cyber security that's why you see a lot of hacks happening.

Speaking of big companies they are always targets of state sponsored attacks and industrial espionage.
Yeah, one of my last favorite phrases is "elegant code". "Elegance" is an attribute I'd assign to a dinner party, not work.
You’re clearly out to win an argument for the sake of winning an argument instead of engaging in productive discourse which is your prerogative. I’ll leave it at this: proof is in the pudding. 13 years later, no pudding, and the directionality is clear. Crypto is moving to layer 2, which is centralized, trusted and offers no benefit over what exists today. The custody plan is BNY Mellon and the scaling plan is Visanet. It’s instead built on the digital equivalent of rolling coal, the single least efficient thing on earth.

I dunno man I see clear directionality. If it were as simple as you say I suspect someone would have done it and 13 years later you wouldn’t be tilting at bitcoins 3tx/sec average haha.
Why the duck would anyone DDoS Let’s Encrypt?
"Passwords are dying"

NOPE. Magic Links are dieing. This is probably the 20th time I've seen a start-up posting proudly about how they chose magic links over standard auth and I don't think any of them have stuck.

It is a TERRIBLE user experience.

* We have a tab open on your site, it tells us to go to our e-mail to get a link, and then that opens up a different tab.

* Or we only check that address on phone which means we can't easily login on desktop unless we also have that e-mail address logged in on desktop as well.

* It removes our ability to use password managers.

* Doesn't allow us to have multiple e-mail addresses easily. Now I have to remember what e-mail address I used for your service to go find the magic link.

STOP doing it. Give people two-factor authentication. Give people options if you want and see if anyone opts into magic links.

All that being said... It looks like this service does require password for sign-up and login right now unless you use google auth? Not sure how this blog post relates to the actual company. Maybe its something they are thinking about doing?
It was meant only to supplement the discussion.
Why is every weird fish a delicacy in Southeast/East Asia?

:

We got this poison puffer fish... delicacy

We got the fin off a dying shark... delicacy

We got this slime spewing eel thing... delicacy
It amazes me how people buy into the right-wing narrative about politicians having invited refugees to Europe, when in fact, the EU is trying hard to keep them from entering in the first place.

What might have prevented the refugee crisis might have been if the middle-east region had not been destabilised in the previous decades. And part of that destabilisation is due to the US Republican party pushing for an invasion in Iraq.
How stock market investors from r/wallstreetbets making so much money?
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