skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the point is Go and Perl behave exactly the same way with regards to all the points you argued where they differ. Literally every point you've raised people have proven false. The problem here isn't that Go has some hidden magic, it's that you've never bothered to spend even 10 seconds checking if the packages were downloaded; instead inventing some wild, made up, theories about how things might work. This lead you to make some pretty daft claims like the Go compiler can build code that doesn't exist on disk (even as a non-developer sysadmin you must realise that's a pretty stupid claim to make?)

To be honest, I wonder if you're even using Perl correctly because if you're installing CPAN modules correctly then the .pm file is stashed away in an alternative directory that's looked up via an environmental variable -- just like with Go. The Perl module shouldn't be present in your projects workspace (and actually Go makes things easier than Perl here by allowing modules to be "vendored").

Go and Perl are very similar in a great many ways:

+ Both languages order modules/packages by directory hierarchies

+ Both languages look up module/package paths via special environmental variables

+ Both have CLI tooling to download and install modules/packages

+ Both have CLI tooling to read module/package documentation

+ Both are very much command line orientated

+ Both are imperative languages who's object systems feel like a half-arsed after thought and thus both really feel more at home writing functional code than OOP.

+ Both allow functions to return multiple parameters (a trait that's not too common outside of Perl and Go)

+ Both are strictly typed, support duck typing, and have a fairly limited type system.

+ Both treat arrays/slices and hash/maps as special types where the runtime has to have special code for handling them (ie you couldn't create a custom data type like a array/slice nor hash/map using Perl/Go's own standard library).

In fact the very reason I warmed to Go was because it felt like a nice hybrid between Perl and C. This was why I was so baffled when you said Go had some hidden behaviours under the hood when in fact managing a Go project is actually very similar to managing a Perl project.
As proven by among others Zoom, Whatsapp and now Discord if you build good software people will switch to it. I think you're undervaluing how good the software is. They are 5 years old, started from 0 user base and now they are a huge player and getting bigger by the day. You would have a point if there was something remotely close in quality on the market but not as popular but there just isn't. Discord is the first communication platform which doesn't suck in some obvious way. If Microsoft manage to buy it for 10B and not mess it up it will be one of their best acquisitions.
I'm trying to kickstart a job search website that allows you to find jobs with an interviewing style which you are comfortable with (in addition to a commute distance that you are comfortable with, seating arrangement, pay rate, work hours expectation, automated productivity monitoring, etc.)

My hope is to get enough developers to create (free) profiles that the website can put some backpressure on the industry, however small, to curtail some practices that engineers dislike. There is so much demand for software engineering labor, after all. I'm sure this won't make a dent in the large software companies that have their own internally-hosted job board + cachet, but any difference in a positive direction would be good.

The website is here: https://sievejobs.com

FWIW, just from loads of recent experience, there are still quite a few teams that will hire you based on your demonstration of some real-world software development ability.

And I'll also add, that I really like your simple phrase "FAANG-style interviewing." It's more succinct than any I have been able to come up with: "Whiteboard + algorithms?" "Non-real-world Leetcode puzzles?" etc.
While I also recommend checking out niche languages, the language is only one part. The platform, ecosystem is often much more important, and even in a really great PL, you won’t get an order of magnitude productivity boost over a modern high level language.

But of course, having fun is really important.
The 4G is uncapped?
There is the cost of getting caught, and having their zero day no longer being NOBUS.
But why don't they support just sending them to your email, gpg encrypted if sensitive?
They'd still be secure and significantly easier to archive

I know it's for liability reasons, but annoying nontheless
> P&F were not replicated,

Including, after spending tons of money trying, by P&F themselves.
'Strange' predates the quark/parton model, and was a placeholder name for a particular unexplained phenomenon; similar to how the prefix 'dark' gets used.

In particular, collider experiments were giving rise to a 'particle zoo' of pions, kaons, lambdas, etc. all of which were assumed to be fundamental. Some of these lasted much longer than expected, and were called "strange".

It turned out that these could be modelled by giving fundamental particles a new property, which got the name "strangeness". Similar to how particles can have "charge", which is zero for neutral particles; non-strange particles have zero strangeness. Their long lifetime was explained due to the strong force conserving strangeness: collisions between non-strange particles can make pairs of particles with positive/negative strangeness (as long as it sums to zero); but once those individual particles have separated they can no longer decay via the strong force; they have to wait for the weak force, which gives them a longer half-life.

It was only later, once the quark model became more accepted, that these particles were no longer considered fundamental, and "strangeness" could be explained as "containing strange quarks".

On the other hand charm, beauty/bottom and truth/top seem to all be built on the quark model from the start; which makes the whimsy in their names more deliberate.

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FYI the BBC's Horizon did an episode in the 60s called "Strangeness Minus Three" ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01z4p1j ) which is interesting to watch in hindsight, now that we have quarks and the standard model; and makes a nice comparison to the more recent search for the Higgs boson.

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Tangentially this idea, of a new property whose conservation prevents massive particles from decaying, also arises in supersymmetric models of dark matter. There, supersymmetric particles have a different "R parity" to normal particles, which prevents them decaying even if they're very massive; such particles are a candidate for dark matter.
At what point do the layers of abstraction and sarcasm become indistinguishable from truth?

I don’t know, but I feel like our societal perfect storm + AI + time will get us there.
Anecdata: I was searching for macOS stuff last week (trying to get something working because Big Sur has changed a bunch of stuff) and, most of the time, the top results where from 2011-15. Completely useless.
Why would such friendly non-profit charity snoop on anyone? Where would we buy cardboard furtnitures without them?
How can I create a fingerprint scanner software
Hi everyone!

I need to create an app to interact with my laptop fingerprint scanner, for my university project.

What should I use to write software for my fingerprint scanner? Any libraries, API, etc

I use lenovo t480 laptop, OS: Ubuntu Linux. There is a fingerprint scanner embedded in it.

lsusb shows my fingerprint scanner as Synaptics Metallica MOH Touch Fingerprint Reader.

I want to process fingerprint -- get, store and check -- programmatically, with code on Python, C or C++.

If someone provides me information about:

1) how to programmatically interact with my laptop fingerprint scanner

2) what API or libraries (python, c or c++) should I use

it will be ideal :)
They also changed wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavi...

to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
The legal discussion is nicely presented, but I am also interested in the news v narrative struggle:

> ... journalism professors have publicly called for an end of objectivity in journalism as too constraining for reporters in seeking “social justice.” This trend toward advocacy journalism has led to polls showing record lows in terms of trust for the media. The cost of the changing view of journalism may not only be in the loss of core trust but of core legal protections.

I am firmly in the camp of separating news from comment. Certainly, run a comment piece next to the news piece, but don't present opinion as news.

As an aside, many years ago as a sub-editor (copy editor) on a UK tabloid, we would often have to run our work past the lawyers. There could be three broad outcomes.

1 - Story marked legally clean, fine to publish.

2 - Story must add legal marks raised by the lawyers, and be checked again.

3 - Story marked "commercially acceptable risk".

Number 3 was what you were aiming for if you wanted job security and/or promotion.
Read "War of art" by Pressfield.

Writing can definitely be torturous. Creative "anything" in general can be painful. Writers block is very real.
Bing Ads contribute 5.5% of their total revenue, less than LinkedIn. [0]

There were no signs data collected outside of web browsing were used to target ads or sold. So I conclude MS isn't a data company.

I'm not saying their level of data collection is OK. I'm saying it's not a key aspect of their business model.

0. https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar20/index.html
Plants can be built faster if you are willing to pay more.
Nice project! If I can give some feedback on your presentation: I think you're writing a bit too much in the readme. There are several sections where I felt the "explanation" section before the example was unnecessary. An example is the part where you talk about needing quotes around shell parameters with spaces in them - this is just standard shell usage, you don't need to explain it.
> For reference I have 400/20 Cable, for 44Eur/m

That's not too bad, is it? Sweden has had world-leading broadband for a decade, and your upload could be higher, but "downright embarrassing" is people stuck on a 24Mbit ADSL connection.

(I have 300/30 Mbit/s cable for 340DKK = 45€. I could upgrade to 1000/500 Mbit/s fibre for ... actually only 320DKK, but I haven't bothered.)
FWIW, IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) reports gather statistics and best practice across science and engineering and produce reports at multiple levels to detail pertinent statistics on this area.

This seems to be a good review, https://www.c2es.org/content/ipcc-fifth-assessment-report/.

The sixth report is due soon. Everyone should read the policymakers summary IMO.
But who will be cleaning toilets in the castle?
Excellent thanks. That's very helpful as those analogies are very apt. The West Indies has nothing to do with India. Atoms are no unbreakable. Cold Fusion has nothing to do with fusion. I'm glad we got that straight.
> But given their example, if someone is in Vegas and has sex with someone then the Nevada age of consent applies. But not if someone goes to Vegas with someone.

A witness testified Giuffre was on the plane with Minsky.
“Show me results from the last 24 hours”

“Ok: here are results dated 4 years ago, but I gotchu. The ‘other articles like this’ changed last time I crawled it!”
Which is why I told my boss I want some time to play with rust to see how it works in our real world.
Yes, that's sad. But on the other side it's strange, because I did read, from at least one private company, they would have every 20 Minutes pictures from the whole earth. And there are several of such companys and many government agency who make pictures nonstop. So I think there should be a pic from MH370 somewhere.
I'm not sure that would be such a bad thing. I'm more worried that the free speech issues would get worse though.
Simple Sindication
New Discord: now with Exchange interoperability!
It's fascinating that you would in one breath condemn the author of the article for sharing their opinion on Adams, and in the next breath try and pass off your own opinion as objective fact.
Hashing in this sense is one way encryption.
> That's a strange vision of the burden of proof.

I don't think so, because I don't think I'm claiming what you think I am.

> Anyway, complexity can come from many factors:

I completely agree, but I'm only talking about language complexity, in the strict syntactic, linguistic sense. I am not saying that all things considered, Rust makes maintaining programs harder than other languages -- nobody knows that until we have some empirical study -- but linguistic complexity is one very prominent property of Rust, as is, say, the memory safety of safe Rust, which, similarly, does not mean that Rust programs are overall safer than those written in, say, Zig, when all things are considered, because correctness also has many contributors, not just sound syntactic guarantees. There, too, only empirical study can settle the issue.

But you can't have it both ways, focusing on one specific piece when it comes to correctness yet insist on looking at the full picture only when it comes to complexity. All you can say is that, linguistically/syntactically, Rust offers some sound guarantees re memory safety and that it is complex, and that overall, both subjects are complex, involve many aspects, and require empirical study to make any definitive claim about.

> This is a stupid metric, because it confuses implementation complexity with user-facing complexity

It is obviously not stupid because it is commonly and usefully employed in computer science. But as with any precise definitions, it focuses on some aspects and not others. It captures the intrinsic difficulty of answering a question about a program. You are correct that it does not take into account human ergonomics and psychological aspects, but it is one more useful metric, even if not comprehensive.

> This argument is pretty similar to the Rust point of “when you get used to it, ownership doesn't adds any cognitive burden”,

Absolutely not (and, BTW, I was not referring just to ownership and lifetime when I spoke of Rust's complexity). It is a very precise and well defined property of Zig. The semantics of a Zig program, i.e. what it does in terms of what action it computes, is completely independent of comptime. It is not an ergonomic or psychological argument. comptime does not change the meaning of anything, and not only do you not need to figure out what happens at compile time and what happens at runtime -- unless you want to reason about efficiency -- but that knowledge contributes nothing. It's a meaningless distinction when it comes to semantics. It's a very powerful, well thought-out, theoretical and practical aspect of Zig's design.
It's probably less about hiding and more about a needle in a haystack. Narco subs are small.
This makes a lot of sense. I don’t think offices are going to disappear but instead companies will mostly move to a hybrid approach where you are expected to be in the office 2-3 times a week.

Most companies and a large amount of their employees were never able to make the jump to remote work mode. That is, they were trying to recreate the office experience while working remotely. The result of this is employees that are exhausted from being on zoom all day and a complete disappearance of work life balance. Moreover I suspect that the lack of in person meetings has also led to a lot of cases of misalignment and in some cases even conflict between different teams. Management sees this and they also get a lot of requests from employees that want to go back to the office which leads them to the conclusion that remote isn’t the best long term solution.

But like I said, this isn’t the fault of remote work but instead the result of companies not adjusting to a remote work mode.

With the hybrid approach they will get the best of both worlds. People will be able to have “meeting” days and “maker” days, which should lead to an increase in productivity without burning out the employees. At least that is the theory, only time will tell.
There is only three hard parts of e2ee.

1. Making it actually secure.
2. How does a user logging in to multiple locations share the key.
3. Full text search.

It would be hard for discord to do 1 and make everything e2ee. But the casual nature of discord users makes 2 and 3 a deal breaker.
Thatcher was the prime minister, not "one politician"
You should see it like this: There's way more candidates than there are positions. Look at Linkedin, even some unknown startup gets 50+ applicants (and that's only Linkedin, they probably have other channels for hiring). Now the famous names you are competing against hundreds.
So yeah, don't sweat it. You and me are both unhirable for many positions as are most everyone else.
How to Teach Biomedical Programming in Bauman Moscow State Technical University
FWIW my office works closely with an office in Nanjing. They've all been back in the office for ages (and we can see the conference room on the video call). If they were having outbreaks like the rest of the world, there would be bodies piling up like mad. They tried to hide the bodies back in Jan / Feb 2020 and failed, so I don't think they're hiding bodies now. Which means there aren't any bodies; which means their lockdown must have actually been effective at containing the virus.

The rest of us could have done what Taiwan did, and almost entirely avoided becoming infected. Or we could have done what China did -- clamp down hard for three weeks and then go back to normal.
The alternatives are just as easy to use as Discord. The audio part is still the same. What Discord makes better is the persistant chat with various "servers", which the others don't have.

You are expected (maybe it's a "gamer" thing) to setup properly. No echo, no loopback, no shitty microphone. Which in turn makes using audio communication a joy to use. MS Teams on the other hand is a pure shitshow because of all the people who can't setup their stuff.
The dominant religions at the time (and now) mandated a day of rest.
Well, I had internalized that you get neutron contamination when you treat with accelerating voltages of 10 MV or higher, and I didn't bother to look it up. It's generated in the X-ray target by the reaction of the 10 MeV electron with a tungsten nucleus:

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

So it's more accurate to say that megavoltage X-ray beams contain neutrons by default. I might need to know this on the ABR... :p
Unless you've got the money for FTTPoD ofc :)
Unexpectedreview.net for discussing the unfair rejection of your paper
So exactly how do you persuade an OAP (Senior) who uses their phone mostly to call their Children to upgrade and pay more so that you can have pointless bragging rights about FTP.

I am sure incumbents would love to move low revenue customers onto more expensive plans.
The massive payoff from the wikipedia page:

> and with the vehicle reaching orbit with more payload mass per take-off mass than just about any non-nuclear launch vehicle ever proposed.

For comparison the Falcon Heavy can lift 68,000kg to low earth orbit [0]. Since we're talking HOTOL, an Antonov can lift about 350,000 kg [1] - it's not hard to envisage a working HOTOL craft lifting something easily in excess of the Falcon Heavy, and with less fuel, and probably less dependent on other factors (temperature, weather, noise, no complex launch sites and so on). Being able to launch close to suburban areas, which rockets cannot do is likely to be a game changer as well. I'd sooner fly from London to Sydney in a SABRE powered craft, than a giant exploding tube that Elon Musk is suggesting.

Elon Musk is a good salesman, and obviously has a vested interest in promoting rockets over any alternative.

I think it's a bit unfair to say:

> basically hand waved all the insanely complex engineering questions away.

when they're solving each challenge as it comes along, such as the working precooler. [2]

I'd like to see this succeed. But you're likely correct.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
2. https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news/news
Yes - here it seems to be the speed which is capped as standard, so 2Mbps would cost €10/month, 100 €20 or something (prices are inaccurate)
This is really not some controversial discovery. Providers already know this and take full advantage. It's common for multi-tenants buildings to be wired by 2-3 ISPs and even nearby single family housing to have only one with serious installation costs on top.

Barring regulatory failure, providers don't even need to "open a street" precisely because of the other installations that already exist where wires can be run alongside.
Diesel subs at 30 meters become nearly invisible. They're hell to find. And if they stop, they're really, truly silent. The best way to find one is don't lose it in the first place. Track it from base it's entire trip.
uBlock is not bulletproof as it relies on signatures. Not to mention, the absence of data is data by itself, so maybe it's actually better to provide data, just that said data is fake and dissociated from your primary identity.
In particle physics a barn is a huge area though, so the joke kind of makes sense there.
> But China knew about the virus in 2019 and kept it quiet.

I don't think it would have mattered. We had documentaries such as The Lockdown [1] in the end of February 2020, yet still most Western countries spent much of March 2020 still debating whether they should react somehow or not.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU9FVqwO4TM
This means the password manager can’t check it isn’t entering your credentials on app1e.com
Nation states may just not be interested in exposing information about their military capabilities for law enforcement purposes.
4G in Finland is un-limited. The population density removes the need for it.
Ask HN: Ambitious yet realistic future projects for the greater good?
The whole corona pandemic made me rethink about the priorities and the problems I would love to work for the greater good. To truly make this world a better place.

Here are some of my ideas I would focus on (or) I would love to see them happen.

1. Automated end to end kitchen for all homes in the world. Cooking should not be a chore anymore. Some might disagree but generally I believe this frees up a lot of free time for humans.
2. Longevity research. By no means, I am a biology expert but I am quite excited about all new developments in this area and I am hopeful that we were able to see positive results in the next decade or so
3. Decentralisation of internet which will break monopolies. People should realise that data is a commodity like water and electricity.
Well, yes and no.

Where you could ramp up a plane’s production, I’d wager there’s a scarcity problem when it comes to pilots (even though you could ramp up pilot training).
The problem with that is that in reality, there's very little the UK can do to supply the EU with a meaningful number of vaccines. You've got to remember that the UK has less than a sixth the population of the EU and doesn't have much local pharmaceutical manufacturing. What Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing we do have only has enough capacity to supply part of the UK demand as, basically, a back-up plan in case everyone goes vaccine nationalist and bans exports.

Any real solution to the EU's vaccination problem basically has to involve fixing their vaccine supply chains, not getting magical extra vaccines from somewhere else because there is no supply of vaccines from elsewhere that could fill their gaps. All the rabble-rousing about UK-made vaccines from the European Commission and the rest of the EU is just an attempt to distract from that because the actual cause is really politically inconvenient for the people trying to blame the UK.