skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, in the program like this. It's quite obvious that for a bigger program it would be much harder. I wouldn't use C for a big monolith system or if I had to, I would put much effort in diagnostic features.

I don't write professionaly C code. I use it for my purposes so debugging is easy. I agree that such a problem in a bigger system whithout ability to reproduce environment and debug would be very nasty. However that is matter of context. In bigger system it's more reasonable to buy more safety for price of simplicity, because I doubt any of competitors in the benchmark is as simple as C.
We have a very high vacant home tax in Vancouver. There are also taxes on foreigners buying real estate. The pandemic has put a serious dent in foreign buyers as well.

None of it made much difference. Homes are selling after just days on the market, and as much as half a million above asking.

Putting a for sale sign on your lawn is akin to chumming shark infested waters. It begins a bidding frenzy.

I don't know what the solution is, but I'm ready to throw in the towel and leave the country for more affordable locales as soon as my lease is up. I don't work a local job, there's no reason for me to be here aside from the fact that I love the city and the country.
Scrolling in the RedReader and Materialistic apps, loading images in the built-in viewer, opening links in the built-in or external browser, and many more regular tasks have noticeable hitches and are not as responsive as on other devices of the same era.

Granted, I'm comparing this to a OnePlus 5T with a more powerful chipset, but I also think the screen itself is not as responsive to touch input which adds to the slowness perception. It reminds me of the way Android devices responded before Google's Project Butter, so seeing it in a modern $500 mid-range device from 2019 is underwhelming.

None of these are dealbreakers and the phone is perfectly usable, but together with the other (bigger IMO) issues it adds up to a lackluster experience.
I feel the same and am also an improviser on multiple instruments but a few times I regretted not being able to cursively read sheet music. However, all that effort and energy it would take, I’d rather spend creatively and enjoying myself just improvising.
More fun with Lattice Boltzman Method (LBM) fluid simulations
This is more interesting than the article itself:

> Their view of social justice has no place for forgiveness or grace—as Alexi McCammond recently learned, when the 27-year-old’s editorship of Teen Vogue was cancelled because of some bigoted Tweets she sent as a teenager

This is an incredible story. If you’re not familiar with it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/media/teen-vogue...

Your immature, 16 year old teen self can affect your career trajectory with just a tweet.

She also dressed as a Native American at a Halloween party as a teenager.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22%09Stripe+for+freight%22... - no results found

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22+Stripe+for+transport%22&t=ffab... - no results found
> In my shoestring travels around the U.S., I'd say most of the help I received was from people who identified as Christian.

Most people in the U.S. identify as Christian.
Pre-tax contributions is certainly a benefit, but the true benefit is that premium for employment based benefits are much lower than for individuals. One employer represents many employees, the employer deals with a broker, the broker represents many employers and the broker negotiates with carriers to lower premiums based on the fact that they represent a significant amount of potential members.

This is the kind of weight that you don't have as an individual shopping for health insurance.
What is its niche / advantage?

The usual answer is "safety with speed," but Ada doesn't have safe memory deallocation in core. (There's a proposal from 2018 to add it, based on Rust's approach and Rust's empirical success with that approach.) In other words, Ada doesn't protect you from use-after-free or double-free issues. You can bolt on a third-party garbage collector if you want, but now you have GC overhead. ("Safety with slightly less speed" has been dominated by Java for years, whose performance is competitive with ahead-of-time-compiled code for long-running processes.)

Ada's actual niche is safety with speed for constrained environments where you want to do static memory allocation anyway, like flight computers, train computers, nuclear power plant computers, etc. There's no need for the Engine object to be dynamically allocated - you've got two, or four, or whatever, depending on the model of airplane, and you're going to be doing years of testing before shipping software to that model of airplane, and the code will run on it for decades.

Which takes advantage of Ada's other in-practice niche - it has been a safety-with-speed-for-constrained-environment language for many decades. If you want to make your plane or train not crash, the best thing you can do is to start with existing plane/train software and modify it. And in turn the existing software is based on software that existed previously, going back decades, and decades ago Ada was the clear best answer. (In the rare cases where you write brand new software, you're going to need to do extensive design and testing work regardless of the language it's in to make sure it does the right thing - see also, MCAS.)

In other industries, there's no particular reason to develop on top of Ada and a lot of reason to use other, more featureful languages. If you're making version 2 of your video playback software or CSS engine or whatever, you're not going to start out by saying, version 1 was bug-free because we did rigorous testing for government certification, so let's start from version 1. You'd prefer to ship something that works well enough and iterate.

A whole lot of languages, including C and C++, addressed the use case of speed, development efficiency, and usability for dynamic / general-purpose environments. Newer languages like Rust and Go (and, again, Java in its own way) offered safety without compromising any of those three. To people who wanted those, Ada didn't have much to offer.
I’m both impressed and dismayed that both of your comments don’t do a single thing to refute mask denialism, specifically whatever his point is on Sweden and Germany.

I don’t even believe his comment, but I’m not going to sneer at it and call it mask denialism to shut it down. I feel better about his comment at least attempting to state an argument and evidence in support of it.

Anyway, this is a strange tangent for the OP.
I've seen a lot of attempts at neural network image generation that create constant artifacts in the images. It's not that image generators are unable to add a specific bias to their images in an attempt to look like a specific camera. It's the opposite: generators have their own signatures that these techniques can detect and track.
Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
"When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything." --GK Chesterton
see XRPL.org its basically BTC but better and actually usable
> You don't get more bitcoin for more electricity, you just get more security.

Specifically, more security for the next block, only. Once that block is mined, the process starts all over again for the next block.

The energy usage reset button is pressed as soon as each block is mined. No energy is "stored".
I am not a Christian, but I do think that forgiveness is a very good value. It's also one that is in short supply as of late.
1) Introduce more volatity. For example, make a random chance your ambition will not be reached even if you do everything right: You run for X position, and either there's (a) a random chance that 2nd,3rd, or 4th place will win and (b) a random chance that your win will be swapped with another random position (say, winner of public advocate switches for winner of state assembly seat, etc). This would scare away big money from campaign politics.

2)Introduce Sacrifice. Cap lifetime earnings to scare away career politicians, and actually bring people who intend to sacrifice. If you win an election, you sign an agreement with the IRS that any lifetime earnings in excess of your avg earnings before being elected, will be taxed at 99% tax rate.

Watch those "speaking fees" dissappear overnight!

3) Introduce more turnover. Max 8 years as a publicly elected or appointed figure, and perhaps 16 on public payroll for anyone making X times of poverty income level. No one should be able to life in luxury, off the govt, forever.

Always welcome in new blood.
"However, the detection of phosphine was suggested to be a possible false positive in October 2020,[11] and in January 2021 further research attributed the spectroscopic signal to that of sulphur dioxide.[12]"
So, has anything changed since?
Is it technically possible to run z/OS, or some interesting approximation thereof, on a "normal" x86 box?

Configurations that would be unusable in any sort of production scenario would probably remain interesting.
most of america is christian, most people here doing anything will be christian
> I don't know what the solution is

Build more homes.
Dollar bills are closer to batteries than BTC.
Well, OK; the ones I've seen were definitely being described to me as an HSA, and were definitely use it or lose it.

Edit: And to be clear, that's not "lose it if you leave the job"; it's "lose it at the end of the year."
> gas station tv ads

I've been driving EVs for the past 10 years (LEAF -> Model X -> I-PACE) during which time I haven't used a gas pump. After reading your comment I had to go searching for this thing about ads playing while you're filling up. I found this Reddit post about being forced to watch ads before being allowed to even start the pump!

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/819tcf/forci...

Oh. My. God. I'm disappointed. Not surprised. But disappointed.

> playing inside of the car

Yeah, that's definitely going at the top of my list of car "misfeatures" that would make me run screaming to another brand.
This course inspired my research on teaching binary tree algorithms using visual programming:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/545265

http://opsis.sourceforge.net
Interesting point. Another thing that I recently learned is that a (for example) masculine noun, such as presidente, will take the feminine article if the person you’re talking about is female: la Presidente.
Doing a Calendar Audit as a Product Manager
> This is a somewhat modern thing.

Indeed. Go back and read some speeches from the 19th century (e.g. Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural speech) and you’ll find run on sentences everywhere. Heck, even the US Constitution is full of them.
Also, given they would be floating above hell, why would you?
Allianz estimated $6-10 billion PER DAY in their publication? The Reuters article which most news outlets copied, changed it to PER WEEK. Either way it's hard to measure.
Look up 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak. That was when the scientific breakthrough regarding bad water took place - and many actually refused to accept the results.

Before that, the most "scientific" theory about cholera outbreaks was the miasma theory, but religious and pseudoreligious beliefs about divine punishment or influence of the stars were not fringe yet.
Boston Dynamics Expands Strategy and Operations Team with Two Hires
> Photo response non-uniformity, however, is far more difficult to extricate.

I don't see why? Seems like all you need to do is take a photo of an evenly lit gray card, determine the variation of each pixel, and then apply the reverse of that to every photo you take.

And a simple filter can even get around the "evenly lit" part trivially, as long as it's smoothly lit. (I.e. handle gradients.)

The article doesn't mention this at all -- yet isn't this the kind of thing astronomy photographers do when stacking photos, to prevent the "fingerprint" from accumulating?

Of course, it's not even clear this "fingerprint" is even remotely readable from average photos -- it seems like it would be completely indistinguishable in any scene with detailed textures. So it's really only in areas of blank walls, sky, etc. where it poses a risk.
IANAL, but AFAIK no tax, unless you work under another entity's payroll and that entity is a large taxpaying entity.

The economy is informal enough that if you work for cash and get paid cash and its not big figures, no one is going to come looking for you, either.

That includes retirement income, and any foreign wires.

Wasn't stating having Americans around was a bonus, simply, that US expats seem to be making that decision, make of that what you will
I've always had a soft spot for Venus. The floating city idea is not my favourite, perhaps for research there could be applications.
A monumental breakthrough in carbon sequestration, in method and cost might do it for Venus though. But I mean monumental. Back of the envelope calculations say there's about 460 Quadrillion metric tonne of CO2. Sooo, maybe at a cost 1c per metric tonne we could get it done with a current day cost of 4.6 Quadrillion US Dollars or so. Or all the worlds GDP for about 50 years. But that assumes that there would be no benefits from doing that. Could be other applications from the byproducts being sold.
> ... destroy the leftists dogmas ...

Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Everyone worships something - either God, the State, or oneself. And since people with moral conviction are easier to motivate to action, it’s no surprise that virtually every political argument has morphed into some sort of moral crisis.

If you complain about government spending and the obvious fiscal cliff ahead, you get responses bemoaning racism and classism. If you complain about foreign wars and constant interventionism, your patriotism is questioned. If you complain about the suppression of speech, you get lectures on “hate speech”.

It’s exhausting and the polemics responsible are loathsome.
do you think that american conservatism also became a caricature in the trump age?
I agree with the rest of your comment, but

> pedantic quibbling over definitions that are typical of an individual suffering from Asperger's syndrome

I don't get why expressing (however unpopular) opinions based on rational arguments should be dismissed as "pedantic quibbling" caused by some underlying mental issue. Just consider how closed-minded, not to mention offensive, is to characterise opinions you disagree with as the product of a mental syndrome.

Besides, Stallman's opinions are not about subtle points without practical consequences. The laws and language in the US (which are, by the way, NOT always shared by the rest of the advanced world) have very practical- sometimes terrible- consequences on people's lives. So I don't think it's fair to call it "pedantic quibbling".
It seems like the issue you’re pointing out relates to how groups get classified in a ‘physical heavy profession’, no? If the requirements are ‘low’ for that, it sounds like the label itself may be inaccurate and causing unnecessary confusion
Yes, much like a non-programmer can relax and hack up an Excel script to do a bunch of automation stuff. In certain contexts there's nothing wrong with that. But on the other hand, the farther you go, the harder it becomes, and the more the equation shifts towards "it would have been better to start with the right fundamentals".
Good to remember that Reddit is not reality. Twitter is not reality. HN most certainly is not reality.
Interesting, is this common on windows? On Linux I've never seen precompiled C++ libraries (at least not these with templates) back when I compiled stuff more often (read: back when I used gentoo). Do g++ and clang++ support precompiled libraries in the general case? I suppose C++ modules might make it more common anyway, but I don't see why rust couldn't do it if they ever prioritize it.
Secular humanism can be quite indistinguishable from religion.
Not saying it's easy, especially for a kid, but if you go in front of a panel like that, if you can demonstrate remorse and desire to change, it goes a long way.

This only furthers the advantage of those most willing and able to lie. Especially so when the system and punishment is arbitrary and capricious rather than rooted in first principles. We should focus on outcomes and shared goals, not easily faked attitudes.
It is telling that these cowards from TOR have limited replies to that tweet. It is a pity that such important project is in such bad hands.

Anyway, just signed rms support letter [1] and suggest you do the same.

[1]: https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.git...
Igon value. Enough said.
That was incredibly fascinating.
Loved the keyboard.
2. Two short sentences here don't accurately convey the horror of Russian's case system, where not just verbs but also NOUNS must change (decline) into one of 6 main cases (potentially more depending on whether you consider the locative, partitive genitive, vocative, etc. as distinct cases) :D, but yes absolutely - basically, you only ever have the possessive form in English 'add 's, or for pronouns just learn 'his/her/their' and even verbs have a maximum of 8 forms (be - am - is - are - was - were - been - being), with the vast majority having just four or five.

3. 9 is an odd number to pick, most people agree there are 12 or 16, but you have (multiply as appropriate) past, present, future, simple, future-in-the-past, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous, indicative, imperative, subjunctive, active, and passive forms.

Russian on the other hand has 2 grammatical tenses (past and non-past), and 2 aspects (perfective and imperfective), as well as a couple of forms constructed using auxiliaries (immediate future, conditional). It also has gerunds and participles, and all of this before we even start thinking about verbs of motion.

4. Russian does have the concept of specificity in some cases - in particular there are some cases where the genitive can be used instead of the accusative to indicate indefiniteness.

Definitely 0/10 for recommending learning Russian, except as an exercise in masochism (10/10).
Looking at another HN submitter's analysis of StackOverflow data, I'd go with Scala.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26610499
OTT but in line with your question
In my part of Australia we have an established dealership who has been here since the 70's and I bought my 1st car from him in the mid 90's.
each couple of years I would go back and ask what he could do for me as a trade and on what.
every time, walking out with a good deal (he actually moved figures around to get the best price)
larger part of my wifes family started going there and same outcome, come home with a car they like, met their expectations and got good trade-ins for their cars.
recently I took mine and my wifes cars in to change over, we picked our cars, got fair to good trade ins on them, paid and then waited on them to be detailed so we could drive home.
I asked the dealer principle which car would he have sold me if he wanted to make money. he said, plainly "they all make money, in differing amounts, no point trying for a high margin car that won't suit either of your needs"
I asked what he could of pointed us at if he wanted more money out of us. his reply "I'd push you to a cheaper 2nd hand car or one of the LDV/MG/Import cars where I would make 3x as much as what I am getting from this sale"
guy is in his 80's and doesn't mince words but is as honest as they come
I’m a religious person and I voted for Trump. AMA!

My primary voting issues in 2020+ are: winding down and stopping our endless wars in the Middle East, restoring domestic manufacturing, protecting constitutional rights, in particular free speech, and curtailing the US intelligence apparatus, which I view as abusive and political.
> People often choose to stop a belief because of the failings of their parents, spiritual leader, etc without thought to their direct relationship with their deity and the belief system itself.

IME and those I've read about on various ex Reddit subs is that many stop believing because the evidence is non-existent. Learning about the hypocrisy of leadership may push people out of certain organizations, but to stop believing is another thing.
Aluminum actually can. Its made form aluminuum oxide + energy and you can oxidize (for example burn) aluminum back into aluminum oxide which releases energy. Certainly not what the author meant and certainly not possible with bitcoin where the energy is turned into heat and no chemical reaction happens at all.
Note though that its been superceded somewhat as the scientific conversation moved on:

eg.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03258-5
All energy generation is bad for the environment, just more or less bad. Solar cells and wind power might be "renewable", but it requires a lot of metals and material to build (and also energy), they disturb natural habitat etc. They are much better than coal, oil and gas, but they are not harmless. It's better to avoid using energy if possible than using renewable energy.
It's pretty amazing someone is developing a new OS for the C-64. I think I've got to try to see if there's some way I can load and run this on my C-64, the next time I get some free time (ha).
New Trade Representative Says U.S. Isn’t Ready to Lift China Tariffs
Silicon Valley giants provide tech support in Newsom recall fight
I want to say stuff like this will never show up in your career, but then competition level algos started showing up in the interview.

Might be a chance to get ahead of the curve here, bookmarked. This looks interesting and challenging, but maybe not realistic. Prime candidate to grind out 1000s of these exercises.
I think there is a common neurological underpinning for all manifestations of "tribalism of (unfounded) beliefs". Since we can't simulate human societies, or even a single human with any accuracy, politics is not a form of scientific knowledge, you really have to believe you are right without much evidence. So it's a form of an unfounded belief, which we nevertheless have to have in some form in order to function and move forward. We use folk psychology, personal life experiences, and other wishy-washy means for gauging veracity of political propositions, so it's not surprising that a religious kind of fervor could arise.
Yea, this is where my line is. I absolutely believe in full free speech. However, i do not believe free speech is the same as a broadcast (televised, viral, etc).

Yes, it's muddy water, but so is everything. There's nuance in threatening to kill someone. However i think we're in a new age, and we need to analyze where free speech changes into coordinated/group-think hysteria.

Which isn't to say that we should tightly control coordinated communication. Rather it's just that i think the two are different, and i think the modern age requires us to recognize that and discuss it.

We're in the age of misinformation. And a nutter yelling on a street corner is one thing, but giving him a TV Show in Prime Time is another. The damage he can do on a street corner? Minimal. The damage when broadcast to the world? That is the concern to me.
> Word munging is uncommon in English. When a new word is coined it is mostly atomic (app, tweet, selfie). You rarely can take two existing words and combine them with a prefix, a suffix, an ending and get a new word that is grammatically correct.

Prequel. Tweetstorm. Brexit. Clusterfuck. Omnishambles. Freegan. Romcom. Stagflation.

> Or “defenestrate” when you mean “toss out the window”?

The word usually appears in its noun form, defenestration, for which there isn’t really a handy alternative. You can’t really talk about The Throwing-out-of-the-Window of Prague when discussing the Thirty Years’ War, for example.

> “dick off the dicks over the dick and re-dick them dickwards” is close but not close enough

“The fucking fucker’s fucking fucked” is perfectly grammatical and comprehensible English, if somewhat colloquial.