skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in New Zealand - super gross.
The main protagonist in the Little Drummer 'girl'?

Although I found her a bit irritating. Then there is the rather 'forgettable' main woman char in the Constant Gardener.

I liked most of Carre's works (although there are some stinkers in his canon - the Night Manager was I though a terrible book - but apart from Connie and Wife Anne I can barely remember any decent female characters at all.
Well, I feel like you are arguing for JIT just for the sake of arguing. The topic we are discussing in this thread is "Interpreted is safer than JIT" which is absolutely true.

Yeah, there are newer ROP mitigations coming down the pipeline, I agree verifiable execution flow remains a major problem.
This is what I was thinking about reading this post. Why add things to Python to make it strongly typed? Why not just use Java or C#?
+1 on page layout
Could that be done using AWS Elastic IP?
I am tired of just building CRUD. So,I found a way to stand out in the industry
> Customers use the app review system to hold developer hostage for feature requests. "Create this feature for us and I'll edit my review."

To be fair this is pretty reasonable. Lets say 5 stars is highly recommend, 4 is recommend, 3 is neutral. If you’re building a new feature and it wouldn’t change anyone from being neutral about the product to recommending it, or from recommending the product to highly recommending it, maybe rethink building that feature.
Ask HN: Is OnPrem solutions a thing of the past?
Cloud has been the hype for 15+ years, so are there any industries where OnPrem solutions still make sense, and where they are preferred?
Come Do It
come find me brave
UK police warn students to avoid science website
> Perhaps some middle aged people will only present as their 20 year old selves online.

Oh, this for sure is already happening. A lot of people's profile pictures (for example on twitter) are frozen in time some 10 years ago.
I was way into the BBS scene in Portland, Oregon in the early 90s.

Played LORD, the risk game, a little Trade Wars etc.

But also uses the messaging services and met my first person from “online” in real life.

My mom drove me to an outlet mall in Troutdale to meet him.

I also did some ASCII art for smaller boards. I haven’t finished this documentary, but for every one of these nicely finished art pieces there were many, many jenky simple intros.

My stuff was small animations, moving stick people around big simpler logos that kind of thing. I remember spending days animating a small Spider Man character.

It was also where I spent my first money online, where I sent cash in the mail to a BBS based out of Lake Oswego. I think to get more time with them.

They were one of the fewer with a trunk, so there were multiple users online at once, and less chance of a busy signal.

It was really cool back then, there was a small weekly paper publication with a page in the classifieds dedicated to BBSs. That was how I found out about new ones.
Sure! Broadly speaking, I think Python emphasizes a combination of features that lead to code that isn't very composable or decoupled, but without the error-checking benefits you might get in a language like Scala.

For example, consider implementing complex rational numbers. If you have a complex number type, and a rational number type, it should be relatively easy to combine them. Julia does this with literally 11 lines of code in Rational.jl, and 0 lines of code in Complex.jl . In Python, this is extremely difficult, to the point that nobody does it – you would need to restructure the class hierarchy, and you can't do that without access to both.

Another example is the lack of extension methods. For example, if you want to add a bit of functionality to a string or a sqlalchemy engine, you can either add functions (which have a different syntax) or inherit and follow the awful "MyString" pattern.

Python chose to emphasize list comprehensions over map + filter. The problem with that is that you now have syntax that doesn't generalize to other collections, especially custom collections.

Some patterns like async/await, decorators, and with syntax encourage hardcoding decisions when writing a function, as opposed to when using it. This makes your functions less flexible and means you have to write more of them. E.g. consider Julia's do-block syntax[1], which is very similar to Python's with but based on function composition and far more general as a result. Or compare Julia's @spawn to Python's async/await.

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/#Do-Block-...
Doom was configurable like that with a tool called Dehacked. I remember mod packs for the tool, doing things like "mine layer", which set the rocket speed to 0 and made it cloaked, so that you could lay a minefield and then make the monsters walk into it. Or make the rocket launcher shoot lost souls, make chaingunners fly and many many more.
Most should work without JS (and also without CSS too, usually), yes.

Even in the few cases where it is needed, it should be designed to work OK without. I did see once where if JavaScript was disabled, it displayed a link to documentation instead; that is a good idea. (Unfortunately, the documentation didn't work without JavaScript enabled; they should fix that.) If it is accessing data, you can link to the documentation and/or to the data directly, in order to deal with it by yourself, with your own software, if the user wishes to do so. Sometimes the script is used to perform calculations, or automatically convert or render something; you can still add a <noscript> block to just mention what it is, links to source codes, or in some cases (e.g. automatic time zone conversion) just omit that part entirely will do. Simply writing "This page requires JavaScript enabled to work" is worthless; don't do that.
Rust was developed to replace (parts of) C++, initially. C++ has a different niche than C.
And "El paso" (The Pass) the place for cracked passwords.
Do you consider your endeavors to be non-creative?

I'm not being difficult—I understand what you're asking for. But perhaps instead of a more-specific deck of cards, a more generalized POV can help.
I wonder what happens when an update changes the filter and the person couldn't generate the same face again.
I'm fairly sure portals in that case only refers to how the Build engine determined potentially visible areas. As far as I know there was no mechanism to seamlessly connect far-away parts of a map in that way. If there was, I'd be pissed, because I never used that to built my own maps and it would allow neat non-euclidean geometry (like in Antichamber) :-)
For me it's when they do that faux: "hey guys, I was looking at my metrics and <insert percentage here>% of you who viewed the last X videos aren't subscribed, so it would be really great if you hit that bell"

I mean really? Do creators realize that viewers could be interested in several dozen channels and don't want to swamp out their own notifications since Youtube's prioritization gets shittier the more you subscribe to? Sorry you aren't in my top 10? Maybe a video got popular on an algorithmic whim...

I'd much rather they ask me to join a Patreon, which I am very keen to do if the content is good and continues to do so. But pulling that "peek behind the creator curtain" crap puts me very off because it's like trying to shame you into behaving differently as if you're part of the problem.

No... you decided to make Youtube your source of income. I don't owe you crap.
Yeah. Makes you wonder why the PI was even needed.
Yea, I think this is the same issue:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332732

Still an issue in the latest RC today
Guessing right most of the time isn't knowing. And people not knowing how sex and gender differ doesn't change the fact that they rely on gender markers lots and chromosomes never.

People who menstruate is much shorter than your suggestion.
I implemented a minimal Build-style engine for fun once. Those glitch videos give me instant flashbacks.
to dominate the top of leaderboards, whether it's Youtube or Starcraft, takes a single-minded obsession that is more common with men.

Pewdiepie was obsessed with having the most subscribers. Mr. Beast did little else than obsess over the Youtube algorithm for many years on end.
Thanks a lot. A few follow up question:so it is a physical product? Also are you located in the US? And last, since customer contact it is so draining, did you consider to spend one of the 20 M profit and outsoure customer service (or hire 10-20 people to take of that)?
The best estimated guess for a bond ETF’s returns going forward are it’s SEC yield, not past returns. This is because efficient market hypothesis postulates that the aggregate of bond buyers and sellers has reached equilibrium at its current interest rate. So it’s our best guess at the average of interest rate increases and decreases and their likelihood of happening. Given that, we assume the return going forward is what it’s currently yielding, and in VGLT’s case, it’s 2.15%. When cash is yielding 0.5% max, these can be a useful way of further protecting against equity downturns (assuming VGLT increases in downturns, negatively correlated to equities, true the past 30 years, mixed truth over 70 years), while still providing much better yield than cash.
No, it makes it a kind of human nature. People are not homogenous, there are distinct sub-types of personality, albeit not that many.
Yes, and that was both oppressive and unequal?
is git really more combersome than running a server that needs a database and then installing a cli to talk to that one service that I need to figure out where to run so all of my machines can access it?
Might be red herring: https://twitter.com/schneiderleonid/status/13721485262396006...
This is true, and web browsers will need better user configuration to control such things, including fine controls to control what exactly a script does. The web developer console is a good start, but it doesn't even start to go far enough at all.
It's not open source but this is one of my favorites: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Software/IPinmenubar.shtm...
Many people in your or your neighboring country now seem to be very surprised by cases opponents have warned about before, such as Tine Nys, or this grandma with dementia who was opposing the jab and had to be kept down by her family until her last moment. The family members likely feel confident and „rational“ about their murder because the procedure was backed by the local public discourse. (A cynic may see parallels to widow burning, which is also backed by some local clan discourse.)

With such cases in public awareness I don’t understand how the cases you translated here for us (thanks for that, btw) don’t lead you to the conclusion that there must be more research into palliative care, and instead that one should be allowed to put an end to a human life that is more suffering than living. You list graphic descriptions of situations where the first is not possible yet so the latter would
likely have to apply, and I understand that - as I said, I’m aware of the complexity. But improving palliative care with dignity should still be the primary route.

That your legal floodgates are open now may prohibit a focus on palliative care research since it seemingly has already changed your national discourse quite a bit - which is another issue opponents have warned about. The Dutch / Belgian (and perhaps Canadian) discourse on euthanasia is an outlier in the world, and being on the outlier side is not automatically a good thing. It will derail even further and weaken more boundaries, and change how people act or feel are expected to act.
NEO: Right now, we're inside a computer program?

MORPHEUS: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different, the plugs in your arms and head are gone, your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call 'residual self-image'. It is the mental projection of your digital self.

NEO: This... this isn't real?

MORPHEUS: What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know.
This is talking about the error in the difference between two values with the same units though. For temperature, it wouldn’t matter if you’re using C, K, or F for your starting values, the % error of the difference would be the same (I think).
SNES is actually interesting in this context:
The limited sample ram gives it some closeness to chiptunes, but otherwise the Sony chip can actually be considered closer to wavetable synthesizer cards.
This is very different to NES/Gameboy chiptunes that are more synths with maybe one sampled channel.
I think I saw a research saying that people today have less sex than previous generations had. So, there is still a part that needs to be answered. (I suspect smartphones and social networks.)
I like to think James Bond is terrible at DIY and cooking, at least.
On-demand, serverless Valheim server with CDK and Discord Interactions
Well, on the bright side the UK to departing from GDPR. Maybe other countries will follow suit.
> (they have no skills except for building audiences).

And that "skill" is based almost entirely on being attractive.

And these days, with camera and video filters, even that's not necessary any more.
Or it could be to hide excavations of the star gate in the pyramid
If we are speculating to support a pet theory
Is it really the best we can do in the 21st century?
deEeEeEeeecent
It would be nice to fix the color of the balls, I don't mind if the striped balls don't "rotate".
Ask HN: Are OnPrem solutions dying out?
Cloud has been the hype for 15+ years, and all providers are moving to a cloud-only solution. The benefits are clear both for the creator (easier updates) and the consumer (faster time to value).

But with all that being said, are there still types of products where OnPrem solutions are preferred?
Aren't these glamorous tech companies supposed to be employing from the pool of the highest echelons of intellectualism? How is it that they have such exceedingly large valuations but they can't manage to deploy a rationale by which to manage their user-based content?
One of Red Alert's hacks was making dogs (the unit) distinct from dogs (the projectile). That is, a dog was a dog until it began its attack. At that point it transitioned into a dog projectile, which looked like a leaping dog but wasn't targetable. Then when it collided with the enemy (infantry only), the enemy was insta-killed and the dog transitioned back into an interactible unit.

What this meant is that you could use rules.ini to make an anti-infantry submarine that launched dogs, if you so desired. Or a dog artillery. Or a dog man that used his dog gun to shoot dogs at men.
The famous "bigger idiot" theory, so much in the economy depends on it, apparently.
> Pay-as-you-go prepaid cell phone service is also niche.

The reason for that is that it's much more expensive than paying by the month. I wanted pay-as-you-go specifically because I have nearly zero need for cell service, but would prefer to be reachable even if I'm not at home.

But you can't get a pay-as-you-go plan with pay-as-you-go pricing. T-mobile's monthly plan now is "$15" (actually something like $16.60) per month. The pay-as-you-go plan would cost less than that, given usage rates, except that it also costs $1 for each day you use it to any degree. The incredibly high minimum fee overwhelms the already small advantage of not paying for service you don't use -- as soon as you use any service, you get charged for more than a full day of every service, and then you have to pay a usage rate on top of that!
World leaders should not be afforded any form of preferential treatment. Everyone is equal under the law; all users equal under a platform. That's it. The moment you treat a subset of the population differently from another (such as giving them a blue checkmark), you begin to break from this ideal. Of course, any platform is free to do as they please. But congrats, in doing so, you have devolved into a world of kings and queens.
> I said this once and I'll say it again: To counter such threats we need a healthy heterogeneous ecosystem.

How does that balance against the thread of each platform/ecosystem having its own variants of security issues?
Best way is to chekc for IE11 in JS and display an error message to the user to use Edge/Chrome/FF/etc. That way at least you don't present something broken to the users.
I'm exploring this exact thing right now! I'm hoping to have something out in the next couple of weeks.
Very interesting!

side note but... _why_ do so many articles like to repeat things they just said in bigger text? It's usually somewhat spaced apart, but in this instance the sentence is repeated (but BIGGER) right after its written.

> On average, it took me about 30 minutes to make a digital form and five weeks to meet with, earn the trust of, and get buy-in from the employees who would use it.

> """ <same thing but BIGGER> """

I noticed this sentence is highlighted because it is popular; did Medium decide to auto-bigify a pull-quote, or do authors decide to do this?
Broken NFT Standards
This is so awful and cringey. I couldn't imagine unironically writing that post or doing that art. Twitter is quite honestly, one of the most damaging companies in our modern era, much more than Facebook, and probably more than any non-chemical company in the country.
Yes, I think all we've learned from this article is that the author never learned about significant digits.
Processes were a form of robust virtualisation once. It’s just pushing the problem down another layer. There are vulnerabilities in virtualisation layers too.
Riskstream unveils Canopy 3 blockchain to roll out insurance apps faster
I made several Doom2 maps as a college student. The tools were quite good so there were tons of them online.

I remember when Quake came out a lot of the scene died because nobody had computers powerful enough to render Quake levels. It could take literally hours of rendering to discover that you made an error and had to start over again. But the same people didn't want to go back to Doom because Quake was obviously the future.
Any industry where compliance is regulated by law, i.e. healthcare, finance, military, etc.
The stated conflict of interest is only really an issue in democracies, or other forms of representative governments. Otherwise, spot-on.
Exactly this. It may be useful for OP to consider what the hypothetical opposite of significant digits would be: insignificant digits, ie. digits that tell you nothing. A leading zero can be omitted from a number without any loss of information. A trailing zero, when correctly used in a position that is not below the tolerance, gives you significant information. On the other hand, if you start combine numbers with different tolerances, but do not truncate the result, you will have a bunch of trailing digits that are meaningless in practice because they are below the combined tolerance.
There are also plenty of content creators that don't beg for likes or subscriptions if that kind of thing bothers you.
Because Java and especially C# aren't 'cool'
So here's a couple follow ups based on these great responses... I do a lot of the things I've read in everyones comments. I do tend to lean more digital so things like Notes, Notepad, Markdown editors really resonate with me. However, my challenge is, I end up with a labyrinth of notes that I have to search by trying to remember what I've written in them etc. Then I want to share some of those ideas... so let's say its 10% of them. That's where things get difficult. How do I send those out? Email? How do I keep track of what people thought of them and whether or not I should take action on them. At what point does an idea become a task? Which leads me to another question ... how many of these "ideas" that everyone is recording on paper, digitally etc are possible tasks?

I realize this is like a fireside chat at this point, but its quite interesting and hope its sparking (no pun intended) some interesting thoughts (I just couldn't say ideas) for you as it is for me.
That was very effective in Brazil, Brasilia was built in the middle of nowhere, far away from any of the existing large population centers and has basically no economy other than working for the government so if you live there you want the government to stay as it is.
Oh, good to know. I ran it through there and there are some differences, but it's not much deeper. I'm adding the translation to my original comment.
Rust doesn't "intend" to replace any programming language because we don't really believe programming languages get replaced.

Rust does want to be useful in the same niches where both C and C++ are useful, among other niches and languages in those niches.
Agreed.

But many developers might be very much against littering code with such tour comments, and be very much opposed to any kind of responsibility of updating tours during refactoring.

Me included.
Let’s flag this garbage off the front page...
Yep, shout out to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.
Funny you say that because exactly the opposite thing happened to China. They were completely taken advantage of in the 19th century and didn't fully recover from that until a 100 years later when Nixon and Kissinger in one of their "4D chess" moves restarted diplomatic relations as a way to limit the Soviets.

From that point on they had a pretty clever long view policy but it would have been surprising if they hadn't. They spent the previous century getting fucked by foreign invaders, if they hadn't learned how to resist it by the 1970's then Chinese culture as we know it would have been doomed to collapse by the 90's.

And truth be told they almost did in 1989. If the CCP was a little less organized, if the military was a little less loyal and if the protesters had their shit together a bit more it could have turned into a full popular revolution.
Oh, IT did that to us once, when I worked at a lab in a SCIF. Nuked all research files that we hadn't yet uploaded to... shudder... SharePoint.
Yeah that's what happened with the "Climategate" e-mails as well. A bunch of scientists were being attacked for political reasons and their hacked, leaked e-mails showed a certain amount of us-vs-them bunker mentality. Go figure. That was spun into a narrative about how they were conspiring to manipulate public opinion using statements pulled out of context.
I don't think this is true at all. Tracker software in the 90s largely did not have MIDI support, it was an entirely different category of software.

Although it is true that trackers in the PC era grew out of the Amiga (MOD) scene where sample playback was standard, there were also trackers for the 8-bit home computers which were used to create actual chiptunes on SID or the AY-3-8910 and its derivatives.

In the context of demoscene, chiptune-influenced compositions were still extremely popular, because including full-length instrument samples cost far too much space to distribute inside an intro or cracktro. Songs were made up of tiny bursts of white noise and tightly looped single-cycle waveforms, and the bulk of tracker "effects" (pitch bends, arpeggios etc) came directly from the techniques used to coax more tonal variety from sound chips of the 8-bit era.

Tracker music used for intros might not literally be "chiptunes", but they definitely took a lot more influence from chip music than from popular music. For example, this is the track that was bundled with Scream Tracker 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hpnmANSMw (64-Mania by Edge)