skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait for all of googles engineers to get the m1 laptops so they can redesign gmail for the 3rd time in 5 years but this time make it even slower and more unuseable for people on non-cutting edge hardware
I was ready to make fun of this, but damn, that's fairly clever. (Readers, be sure to read the actual code: https://bscscan.com/address/0x7e0c621ea9f7afd5b86a50b0942eae...)

A casual glance through the code won't show anything amiss. The ADMIN_SLOT and ADMIN_SL0T are defined in very different places.

SL0T is also the closet fake character you could use, except maybe ADM1N_SLOT.

Then when you (indirectly) call _setAdmin you can pretend that you no longer have powers to upgrade the contract.

I know nothing about smart contracts, though, so, question: why is that a backdoor? What does it mean?
How does FTL imply time travel?
I don’t think you can say fun = dopamine rush. A dopamine rush works when the periods between them aren’t fun. However, when drunkenly singing drinking songs with your friends it’s overall a pleasant experience rather than having moments of happiness and long segments of boredom.

So what I am saying is gamers have mostly forgotten what it is to have fun in games. Playing around with cheese wheels in Skyrim is different from grinding a character to game breaking power and killing everything in one hit. Challenges based in getting better at the mechanics are different than challenges based on pure time investment.

IMO the three pillars of a great game are entertainment, fun/joy aka playing, and dopamine rushes. Portal 1 was a standout for having all three, but it’s hard to pull off.
The point is that the left is expanding the concept of "freedom from harm" to such an extreme and paradoxical degree, that it eliminates all freedoms.

If we are all "free" to not ever be offended, then nobody has any sort of freedom at all, because any expression or action might be offensive to someone, somewhere, at some point.

As soon as anyone is willing to claim offense (which is actively encouraged by the left), whatever happens to offend them is banned and cancelled.

We are actively cancelling books, people, scientific research, and numerous other ideas and expressions. Our politicians are explicitly promoting government-mandated limits on "offensive speech".

If you object or resist any of these social trends, you are a bigot, and you will be cancelled.

We are not yet in a 1984 zero-freedom Marxist dystopia, but we are well on our way there. The ideological foundations for this dystopia have been laid and accepted by most on the left, including those unaware of their ultimate outcome.

Marx and his original supporters likewise didn't intend or foresee the Soviet totalitarian dystopia that resulted from their ideology.

Much like leftists today, they excused incursions on individual freedom because it will lead to "greater good" such as "freedom from harm", "freedom from want", etc.

It ended with gulags, commissars, purges, mass executions, genocide, and the elimination of all actual human freedoms in pursuit of some idealized, self-contradictory mirage of "perfect freedom".

This was not intended, but it's also not an accident. Once you ideologically commit to sacrificing individual freedom in pursuit of other goals (social justice, a socialist Utopia, etc) then totalitarian oppression becomes a distinct possibility - arguably, an inevitability.
It likely was- but probably the terrestrial, non-xenobiological kind.
For sure. I was born in 1994 and the details are different but the magic is the same. I started fooling around on the family computer (some of my earliest "programming" was actually scripted PowerPoint). Eventually I got my own laptop and was off to the races. I wrote scripts to do everything, websites for fun, little games. I started making AIs to play bridge and loads of terminal games. That desire to make things has never stopped. Sure, sometimes I slow down and sometimes I speed up but I am constantly making these small fun projects that are 99% for my own enjoyment of the writing.

I don't think this will ever change. Creativity will always find a way out whether that is building in Minecraft or writing Minecraft mods in Java. Sure, it's a bit more "luxurious" with a computer at home or even a personal device and JavaScript rather than BASIC but at the end of the day nothing fundamental has changed.
The main reason is to have more control of how the math equations are rendered (the way softcover converts math to images is best-in-class). I also had a bunch of custom macros and environments that I knew how to do by adapting/extending softcover, and comparatively little experience with pandoc filters.

That being said, I've recently used pandoc for another project (a paper) and I really liked the result and the functionality (references using BibTex). Also, I see modern pandoc has support for MathML and even image math https://pandoc.org/epub.html#math so will be doing some testing to see how it works...
Very cool that you can register font names that have styles attached. And all of the ligature support seems great for adding math expressions to your plots.
Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages indexed by search engines?
I have had this question for some time now...
Not indexing archived pages is contributing to a more shitty and a hassle-full web..
The Document Foundation Updates LibreOffice Community to 7.1.1
Big Tech Governing Big Tech – An Open Letter to United Nations Security General [pdf]
I’ve written an XML parser like this for a toy project. I passed the XML through a prettifier first so that it was in a standard format. It wouldn’t work for every XML file, but it worked on the files that I needed it for.

I have also had success searching through html files with grep after passing them through a prettifier. It’s ugly, but 90% of the time, it works every time!
Sex is the only thing that matters. Views on sexuality are the highest our morals go right now, the test of how much you care about the world all comes down to what you believe people should do with their penises and vaginas. Obama kickstarted drone bombing warfare, but he also repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, so therefore he is Good.

(I'm being sarcastic... I think...)
What I like about PyTorch is that most of the functionality is actually available through the C++ API as well, which has 'beta API stability' as they call it. So, there are good bindings for some other languages as well. E.g., I have been using the Rust bindings in a larger project [1], and they have been awesome. A precursor to the project was implemented using Tensorflow, which was a world of pain.

Even things like mixed-precision training are fairly easy to do through the API.

[1] https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot
I used to get bizarre skin rashes. Just out of the blue, itchy to the point that it was hard to focus on any programming task, would only last 8-10 hours and then fade away. I have a friend (nurse) who recommended I take a supplement quercetin and I haven't had a rash since. It might be worth researching for yourself. Warning I'm not a doctor nor do I claim to be, just throwing out options.
You all must be his biggest fans with the amount of energy you go into repeating these claims everywhere his work appears.
Yes, I have been down-voted and scolded for answering a question as literally described simply because others would rather assume the ignorance of the questioner. Yes I know people will often ask a question due to not understanding what they are doing, but when 10 other people have already responded with "don't do it that way!" I think it can be useful to actually answer the question as stated (if possible).
You can buy prepaid debit cards in cash and load them with up to $500 at almost any Walmart (and probably a lot of other locations). I like the OneVanilla prepaid debit cards because I can use them online (but only with US-based vendors -- no international transactions) and put anything I want (such as "Hacker News") as the cardholder name.

Another great alternative is privacy.com which allows you to create anonymous credit cards (your bank is then debited). While the vendors won't know who you are privacy.com certainly does and they use Plaid on the back end so they likely know as well. VISA just tried to buy Plaid; someone eventually will acquire them (maybe Google?) so keeping your financial info private via privacy.com might not be something that works long-term.
Can we run the model in reverse (eg. deepdream) to see what the stereotypical liberal/conservative looks like?
I hope you're right, otherwise we're in for some kind of AI phrenology nightmare in the not too distant future.
Thanks for your input, glad to see a company actually care about principles and not just use them as a break room poster.

Please keep these blog posts coming. Really shows people Oxide stands for something and what your values look like in practice.

Makes up and coming engineers happy when they feel like some tech companies will actually care about them as a human.
The author mentions a 2012 version of this post. It was discussed here:

Girls and Computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3757796 - March 2012 (84 comments)

and is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20120328175728/http://rmurphey.c...
If the total population sampling is the same, I would expect the accuracies to remain the same. E.g. if I can get 72% accuracy in the total population just by looking at age/race/gender, doesn’t that exactly mean the accuracies in each individual category are on average 72%?
Pratt and Whitney Makes Hypersonic Revival as Pentagon Pushes Reuse
I've never seen this explained in a way that made any sense to me, ELI5?
Yes, we’ve had hovering craft for a while; they typically appear to be closer to the water, though.
2 years ago, I went all in with elixir/phoenix with my startup. Happy to see a language like this which appears to handle integration with the beam ecosystem as a first class consideration. I can see this being useful for some parts of the app where I need to integrate with external services.
There's a difference between defamation and denigration.

You're allowed to criticize anything, but if you knowingly publish lies, especially maliciously, then it crosses the line.
Yeah, but 19 helper functions later and you've got half of jQuery. I'd rather use a properly tested library.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

It's the first thing in the agile manifesto. The FIRST.

And yet here you are talking about processes and tools and claiming it's still agile.
We don't, but that's another conversation altogether. We've been trying to avoid screen time because he's only nine months old.

When he does get old enough to watch movies, I can't reasonably expect to keep him from watching or reading things. If he doesn't see them with us, he'll see it at friends' or grandparents' houses, but either way we'll have to talk with him about what he's seeing.

Disney movies are a great example of something a lot of people seem to remember as harmless and fun, but they pretty much all contain at least some problematic and/or scary elements to varying degrees.
You say multiplatform - .NET?
Typing my way down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole with the Drop CTRL
The lessons will lose their potency not because of comparisons like these but because most people don't particularly care about history and don't want to expend the effort of knowing history as opposed to other things they could be doing.

Usually, mentioning Nazism doesn't work well due to the way it invites flame-wars, to the point where Godwin's Law is well known. However, the specific irony they mentioned is in fact a valid observation: pseudoscience used by the state with grave consequences. I am saying this even though I myself have a strong pro-Israel bias.

Asimov mentioned this idea in a discussion with Elie Wiesel with reference to the treatment of the Edomites as described in scripture. It's an argument that has more to do with exploring the nature of political power itself than to demonize a specific group. It just so happens that in this case we have a group that has experienced one of the most poignant extremes of this phenomenon, hence why it comes up often.

Is the spotlight often placed repeatedly and with unfair frequency on Israel? I personally think it is. But that doesn't close off the topic on its own.
This is extremely well done. Academically, I look forward to any attempt at criticizing this project. It's a tricky thought experiment.
Doesn't mean it's not segregated pricing.

Business class in airlines -- goes the same place as coach, but "the service is better". Actually what they've done ist o mindfully take away from coach to stimulate upgrades to business class.

I signed up for business internet just so I could get a static ip address. Other internet services like sonic will give you a static address if you ask.
That's fair. I know it's more likely that this is the case on HN, but there's been multiple times on Reddit when I've asked people to elaborate and it turns out that when they say "I've spoken to Devs" they actually mean "I read a comment on Reddit" or "I saw a tweet that said it".
Do you think average developers implement C compilers and toolchains on novel hardware frequently? That’s a pretty niche case and the vast, vast majority of C code is running on a handful of well supported architectures.

It’s also not like that’s trivial even for C - I remember how many decades it took companies employing large numbers of engineers to do so – and these days a better question is something like how long it would take to implement an LLVM backend.
I agree that Hitler was evil on a scale unlike any other. I also think comparisons should be carefully thought out and not tossed out carelessly. I do disagree with the notion that we should never compare to Hitler and the Nazis. To completely refrain makes them a one off, and treats them as if that could never happen again. I think the tools available to dictators today make the rise of someone or something like that more likely. So I think it is very important that we guard against that, and look carefully at the lessons of history. Again emphasizing we should be careful and not make comparisons callously.
Suppose we posthumously remove it?
I’m curious what you mean by “ Clojure uses namespaces in a somewhat clever way to work around the bulk of the hygiene issues you get in CL with defmacro”. CL and Clojure are, in my experience, basically equivalent here: CL’s solution to hygiene issues is a combination of packages (“namespaces”), gensym. The main difference is that, as a Lisp-2, hygiene issues tend to be easier to avoid because you can’t use LET to shadow functions (which, in my experience writing Clojure, is the most common problem: accidentally declaring a variable called “name”, or similar).
https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+downey+jr+blackface

In "Tropic Thunder" (2008) Robert Downey Jr. famously wore blackface. Of course I doubt he could do it today, but is that because it would be genuinely offensive, too controversial or both?
The specific project I saw that did this had ALL of its configuration files in this "Bastard XML" format.

Its ugly, but when 100% of your files you interpret match the one-per-line (and other clearly made-up rules), then it works 100% of the time!!
$276.21 - 20% = $220.968

So not far off from $226

$226 / $276.21 = 81.8%

So its 18.2% to be exact

Edit: Realized the quote/article says 20% LOWER. Which is backwards, and is likely what my parent comment is pointing out
A few of these books are only incidentally racist so I hope Dr. Seuss Enterprises sees fit to tweak and re-release them similarly to the Richard Scarry classics[1] others have mentioned.

Cultures have been bowlderizing kids books for as long as there have been kids books. Early versions of classic fairy tales had characters meet gristly ends -- skinned alive, forced to wear red-hot iron shoes, decapitated, eyes plucked out, etc. You can still find the original versions (including on eBay) but the kids section of the library generally carries the revised versions and no one was shocked that Disney decided not to animate the part of the story where the little mermaid had to choose between murdering the prince in his sleep and bathing her feet in his blood or committing suicide in the ocean.

Though when kids are old enough to think critically about this sort of thing I generally agree with Philip Nel [2] that reading books and talking about them is a much better approach to problematic books, so I also hope they ultimately decide to release annotated versions as well. I just wouldn't stock those in the kids section of the library.

[1] https://www.upworthy.com/8-changes-that-were-made-to-a-class...

[2] https://philnel.com/2010/09/19/censoring-ideology/ is
> dBase was THE first commercially successful DBMS in computing history

Is that true? I worked only with PC’s back then but I’m sure that the “mainframe” computers of the day were doing mostly database workloads. Think banks, insurance companies, accounting software...
That's a good point! And Privacy.com does offer a product that lets you generate temporary credit cards for this type of thing, which seems like a more elegant solution.
I would guess anything that affects your oxygen and damages the lungs (potentially permanently) which produce your oxygen can have long term effects. Some of the patients who have died from covid have lungs that look so horrible they barely look like lungs any longer other than the shape.
We're pretty much there today.
The 55% is very fuzzy. They cite https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Konstantin-Tskhay/publi...

The only relevant 55% that I can find is:

> Allport and Kramer (1946) randomly presented 20 yearbook photographs of Jews and Non-Jews to 223 undergraduate students for 15 s each and asked them to categorize the
person in each photograph as Jewish or non-Jewish, or to
pass on the trial by indicating a lack of knowledge. The
reported median identification for the sample was slightly
above chance (55.5%; Allport & Kramer, 1946). Moreover,
they found that highly prejudiced people were more accurate
at distinguishing Jews from non-Jews

So it's not the same set of photos and not the same question.
And “Castles in the Sky” was about the development of radar in England.
To be pedantic this isn't parsing HTML with a Regex. This is using Regexes to write a HTML parser. You can definitely use Regexes in an HTML parser but that doesn't mean that you can parse HTML with just a Regex.
Self taught web app dev here.

Most EEs and CS folks have told me not to study it. They said it’s not necessary. That it takes too much time and money given the fact that I’m already a “software engineer” with a few years of experience.

That said, I could see how it’s useful for filling knowledge gaps & a signaling credential for being a technical leader (ie CTO).

Still, many courses in CS seem irrelevant to what I do. Though again—- it’s cool knowledge to learn. I just don’t deal with networks, typed/compiled languages, assembly, and certain other fields in my work.

If I did study those areas though it would open more doors to me & I’d be able to work on more complex projects (such as web apps involving network work).

These days, now that I understand server admin & programming, I want to learn electrical circuitry, in order to safely control motors, ICs, and machines, via programming. EE degree necessary here? No, look at at Lucky Palmer. However some courses would be useful.

And if I want to be an upper level technical executive I think I’d do well to get a CS or EE degree (depending on my goal of whichever industry)

Just my two cents.
I find it strange that he complained about Pascal's lack of dynamic arrays, when the Pascal solution is to use pointers (exactly what C does for all arrays and strings anyway).

Many of his other points are solved by Turbo Pascal and Delphi/Object Pascal.

But of course nowadays there are better languages for real world programming. It's just a shame that there's nothing as simple and elegant for teaching programming ().

() lisp is even more elegant, but it has a lot of gotchas and it's so far from mainstream that using it for teaching isn't a good idea IMHO
> Don't blame the protocol, blame the language. Nothing prevents the use of fixed point for such numbers.

I absolutely blame the protocol. Fixed point isn't widely available and used, but integers are. Someone below says protocol spec goes to three digits past the decimal. Using a constrained integer would have allowed the same range of values, but without the complexity of decimal numbers; that's a protocol mistake.

In addition to the ease of using floating point numbers to incorrectly represent decimals, there's also fun with formatting, comma vs period, number of digits to report, etc.
Reading the article I immediately thought of the blackbird and wondered if it had suffered a similar fate.
Apple re-enables the option to change default music player for Siri requests
More information isn't better if that information isn't useful. Does x*0 evaluate to 0.0? Not with -0 around. Does x+0 evaluate to x? Maybe!
Enlighten me: why don't these NFT contracts get deployed on ETC instead of ETH?
How would you pay for those magazines?
I really enjoyed the read and think this is a really good, fair and down to earth perspective. Also reminds me how much there is to explore for me :)
ET: Legacy 2.77 Released Letting Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Live on in 2021
The one LTT was looking at did have a charger, which seems to have cost somewhere around $420.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vidpQ8jHlI

But now you're paying a good chunk of cash... for what exactly? The system is bigger than a battery, a lot more expensive, a lot harder to charge, much less powerful, and a lot more complex and delicate.
This is a really well balanced look at Clojure, much more charitable than I would give it. :) I've always considered Clojure's greatest strength to be its JVM integration, and that doesn't really give you anything Scheme (Per Bothner's Kawa) or CL (ABCL) don't. Otherwise Clojure is just weird enough to frustrate me without a compelling must-migrate payoff to the weirdness.

But again, that's just me.
By high I mean moved to high-prole. : )
Yes, it doesn't make for a convenient headline. I'd just like to avoid "Everyone Should Do X" headlines.
*Take the following with a grain of salt. I've not used this product in production as of yet. I just started investigating it a few weeks ago.*

Statamic sort of fits in this discussion. It's a flat file cms that is by default deployed similarly to wp, but it has 2 distinct use cases that separate it a bit.

1. you can use their ssg module to do ssg things and just use their cms as, well, the cms. you can do this locally and just push the output to your favorite web server.

2. if you are familiar with laravel development, you can drop it in an existing laravel application with minimal effort.

https://statamic.com/
This applies well to the remote work environment. My employer makes no requirement about which editor or terminal or operating system or anything else we use to access their resources. The deliverables are (mostly code) files, and they just don't care what we use to manipulate those. They don't provide any hardware either.

What reads to some as worker exploitation is actually empowerment in practice.
> Because of this I often make explicit when I converse that I'm engaging in a "collaborative exploration" and not an fight about who is right.

Have you found that successful?
One of my big struggles in my social life is that I am quite curious how things are and more often than not my discussion/arguments are interpreted somehow so that I supposedly want to show my "opponent" is wrong. And really, most of the time, who is right and who is wrong is one of the last things crossing my mind.
If there is a reason to draw a parallel, then why not? Well maybe in America but the rest of the world is not taking part of these oppression Olympics.