skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing that shines about Go is its simplicity. It's relatively easy to get started

I think the word "simplicity" needs some quantification, because I think often people mean it's easy for beginners = simple. And that doesn't ring true for my definition of simple.

What I'm more interested in where it is "simple", is that it allows logic that doesn't need to be entangled to remain cleanly seperated so that changes to one need not require you knowing about any other parts of it, and are not at risk of breaking anything else.

And similarly, that if I were to build something with inherent complexity the language would add minimal additional complexity above it.

Does Go meet that definition of simple?
> If you factor land use, it is clear that solar panels by themselves cannot be all of the answer.

Disagree. Rebuttal: https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127

Direct img link: http://landartgenerator.org/blagi/wp-content/uploads/2009/08...
Typical tone deaf actions of the privileged. Myself, I would just chuckle and think "yeah right." Ten years ago I would have been in a panic, as someone mentioned previously, this would have been my food money for the month or my house payment and I would have been at thier mercy for a refund. Not appropriate, obviously now.
> would have possibly been much shorter if everyone had just gone along with it from the start.

So what you are saying is, despite "the experts" saying exactly the opposite... by slowing the spread of covid we'd somehow be out of this sooner?

Do you guys realize how insane this logic sounds? The goal of these lockdowns was to intentionally slow down the spread. Not stop or eradicate covid. Harder lockdowns mean this goes on much longer.

How can people genuinely think otherwise? It's like basic math.
Naturally there are good and bad among both roles, accountability and transparency is sorely needed everywhere.
I think panics in Go are highly discouraged, like using unsafePerformIO in Haskell.
Alameda is just enough of a pain in the ass to get to that nobody really goes there unless they need to. That's what helps. People WANT to go to hawaii, but it's pretty easy to cut off (and they did). Note if you are unfamiliar with the geography and look up "Alameda" numbers, you'll probably get Alameda County, which more than just Alameda the island. Alameda County is, interestingly, the worst county in the bay area.
At this point I try to laugh at everything, with the possible exception of low racist crap, just so I'm not associated in any way with the stick-up-the-ass no-one-can-laugh-if-not-everyone-is-laughing crowd.

It hurts me, because I used to have very sophisticated taste in humor.
> Email is one such way.

I'm sorry but could you clarify? You mean that you monitor and/or collect data from hosts inside of a network via email somehow?
I'm not sure what you're implying by this, because the Crystal compiler is doing a lot of work as well. The global type inference is the primary reason for Crystal's compiler speeds, and it's why it's not likely to substantially improve. It's not slow for the sake of being slow.
The only joke I was surprised and chuckled at was the stackoverflow limiting the amount of copy paste. I was annoyed for few seconds and then laughed out loud.

The rest of the jokes are obnoxious, trite, wannabe bandwagons. Maybe it's time corporates ease down on this worn out tradition?
What work would that be?
This is hilarious on a meta level. Like, it's funny that a marketing team could be so detached and misanthropic as to think people would find this funny.
No, but I do believe in such a thing.
To me there's a big question of what social processes we have that push towards intelligence, and which push towards more base systems.

The modern, mass-accessible internet is ~10 years old. Maybe a little older, maybe a little less. A huge amount of the drive has been to onboard everyone, to get new users, at any cost. Via design that makes sure everything is easy & accessible. Even more so, new incipient media & hypermedia has emerged to capture eyeballs. It's been a race to the bottom for the attention economy. On the one hand we do have a broad competition to fascinate people, to show them interesting things, and huge troves of videos to engage in, but my feeling remains that we've created a fairly superficial net in which to capture attention.

This will not hold forever. At some point, society & humanity will start to emerge some desire, some sense, to escape the baser levels, & to find more sophisticated, positively reinforcing forces will emerge. Particularly with so many abusers & manipulators & bad actors, the desire to have better considered information, of a higher refinement, is something that I look forward to people seeking.

On another level: I do fret that globalization has destroyed the need for polymaths, for the well considered competent doers of the world. I fret that specialization & concentrated industry shield humankind from itself, that we have hidden much of the world about us behind a shroud. Computers, sadly, are one of the worst offenders here, although I think changing that is one of the most possible & most useful ways to re-instill a locus of control, to put people back in touch with the mechanisms of the world.

Little of this bears close resemblence to the discussion on IQ, but to me, IQ follows behind the questions of what society engages in, what it's focus is. I believe the older industrializing world had a physicality & reality to it, an emerging-ness, that emphasized the importance of intelligence, reasoning and science: the push for Enlightenment was still real to that older world, and that drove the pursuit of intellect.
tl;dr: Peat fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish with water (millions/billions of litres of water applied over months), but water mixed with a certain non-toxic surfactant does a better job of penetrating peat and snuffing the blaze. This may be a very good thing indeed, considering how much of the thawing arctic, e.g., is peat, and how much more CO2 peat fires release than do forest fires.
Why do you think people haven't gotten smarter?
What about this? https://www.instagram.com/p/CMwwVxZMiBb/
AI conferences use AI to assign papers to reviewers – Science – AAAS
A very valid point. There have been quite a few conflicting reports, especially on long term lung damage. It may be too early to make definitive statements. Certainly it seems likely enough that some long term consequences exist, enough that it worries me.
The same but with AWS S3 instead of a VPS is even simpler and avoids any maintenance / software updates. The bandwidth is more expensive but for a small personal site it shouldn't make much of a difference because you also save the price of the VPS.
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I just black tape everything in my bedroom. I don't need to see a light to know the fan is on.
What benefit would ecc have for a nas? Just making sure there are no bits flipped in your data before writing to disk? If so, seems like file integrity checking would be more important.
Qubits composed of holes could be trick to build faster larger quantum computers
Which is exactly why I carry it on in my backpack right along with all my medications and stuff.
Significant compared to the Earth’s surface area and the amount of radiation we receive. Sure, we get a lot of energy from the sun. But no, we’re never going to turn more than a tiny fraction of that into electricity. The orders of magnitude just don’t match.
HN’s rate limiting can be pretty aggressive. I’ve hit it seemingly “just” clicking an upvote immediately after submitting a response (a common pattern as I often only remember to reward a good comment in the voting system after I’ve given it verbal praise).
Seeing the ShadySIM project mentioned on that page reminded me of this DEFCON talk, which talks about some of the capabilities of the SIM OS (some of them run Java!) and what power they grant you over phones if you have control over the underlying cell network (legitimately or otherwise).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY
Lifelong Seattle resident here. Yea, that's Keith Eldridge and everything there looks perfectly accurate to 1996 KOMO. Here's a 5yr old video of Keith for age comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIc5SQxG3o
Today you can do it in single line.
Or it could blow away the Van Allen belts and fry everything else in orbit, then drop plutonium somewhere.
at least corporations should think twice before doing stupid tricks like this.
Three mile island,
Pennsylvania
1989, I guess. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xeio-CJ0qZ8
People have gotten taller and healthier because of better nutrition, there is no reason to believe people haven't gotten smarter as well.
> 10 years ago. In Poland.

Interesting; I've much more exposure to US. Overall, I'd say there are sites that do it pretty routinely, but far more sites that basically never do it. And others that don't even have the equipment/licenses if they wanted to. For what it's worth, overall neurosurgeons do much more spine surgery than brain. In the particular case you mention, I've seen a lot of mapping and/or testing for surgeries near eloquent function, but little fMRI. Outside of that, basically unheard of.
Hunger Plan
Anxiety is one of the worst possible influences on cardiovascular health:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26027689/
I Am Not a Machine. Yes You Are. Debating the Impact of Machine-Created Art
Money laundering happens in this universe too.
Went back to my folks during the lockdown because staying alone was not an option anymore, did not use Deliveroo for a few months now.

During the first and second lockdown, they shutdown their "help" chat, so no way to complain when your delivery cames 3h late (yes, 3h!! not even a joke) or with half of the order (with the price not adjusted).

And now they dare to joke by sending fake bills? I will never order from them again.

I thought we had laws to protect the customer, but it seems with enough money you can get away with anything...
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> People have not gotten smarter so whatever these tests are measuring and however well they predict success, they're not measuring intelligence.

This is obviously true, except other changes have happened. People have got taller. I'm no expert but I believe that's mostly down to better nutrition. Is it possible that better nutrition has also led to people getting smarter? I'm not sure. I wouldn't bet on it, but it doesn't seem completely impossible either.
April Fools isn't funny anymore.
Yes, that is definitely true.

I use it for text rendering, myself. Getting text rendering working in shader code is pretty difficult and gives pretty low quality results. You have to create a glyph map for all the characters you plan to render--which also means you have to plan ahead of time what text you're going to render--and you are stuck with only one color for all of the text (there are some multicolor SDF-based systems, but they aren't very common).

So I render the text in a 2D rendering context, with all the fancy bells and whistles and support for changing fonts on the fly and colors and transformations and a sane API, in a Worker, save off an ImageBitmap object from it, transfer that ImageBitmap back to the main thread, and use it as a texture on 3D geometry.

I also use 3D contexts in Workers to do some pre-processing on textures, like converting equirectangular skymaps into rectalinear cubemaps. The worker is setup to be able to preload these images while the user is doing other things, then transfer the results when they are needed during a scene transition, so the scene transition is nearly instanteous.
Come on, people may have 600€ in their bank account to survive a month and they receive some fake ass invoice, which is supposed to clear almost all of their savings. That’s the definition of “not cool” April fools joke.
Internet April Fools jokes were fine and cute when the most viral a story could go was being #1 on slashdot, in 2001. Today? Not so much.
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It's probably more useful to think of recurring intervals as specifying an instant plus a period until the recurring instant. Cron jobs, for example, use such a concept. If you want to specify how long some event starting at that instant should be, you can use a separate non-recurring interval to show that. In this frame, "how often should we start the budget meeting" and "how long should the budget meeting be" are separate questions and not discoverable with a single answer.
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That's not correct - you can only gift up to $15000 a year.

ref: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/gift-tax-rate#:~:te....
Nothing per se, but more declarative code is often nicer to look at than imperative code.

In the for loop example, you need to name and explicitly initialize a variable, you need to explicitly write down the comparison, and you need to explicitly increment the variable.

In the Ruby example, the plumbing is hidden from view, and you can just tell the runtime how often you'd like the thing to happen.

On a tangential note, in Raku (the language formerly known as Perl6), you could have written that as

say("Hello world") xx 10;

That's pretty hard to beat, imo.
That's only a P/E of 17.2, which is not all that high. Schwab has a P/E of 31.3. Walmart has a P/E of 28.6, Coca-Cola has 29.3, Apple has 33.4, Visa has 44.8. If anything I'd say that the market considers Robinhood a poor business. Walmart and Coca-Cola have higher P/Es, and they are only going to grow about as fast as global GDP since they've pretty much saturated their markets. So Robinhood has a substantially lower multiple than companies that we know aren't going to grow very fast. And it's less than half of its "stodgy" competitor where people do invest a fraction of their pay checks.
RPi 4 goes up to 8G RAM which is more than enough.
wow, this is the list to be on rite?
From your carry-on?
Now's a good time to read up on blue light, macular degeneration, blue blockers, and F.lux.
Reminded me of this well executed prank at McDonalds:

https://mashable.com/article/mcdonalds-fake-poster-prank/
Here’s the 2018 paper that underlies articles like this ...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

It mentions gains in the US and losses in Western Europe. Could it just be economically motivated ‘brain drain’?
? The borrow checker which is literally the reason Rust exists.
Lmao... except crime is down 25% YoY. Hate when facts and data get in the way of right wing narratives.

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
My first ever CS class was in J++.
> People have not gotten smarter

Why do you assume this to be the case? All kinds of early-environment things have adverse, lifelong cognitive effects, and both society at large and aware individuals for their own kids have tended to direct energy at reducing exposure to them. People getting smarter is a pretty predictable effect.
> a language that is primarily designed for writing super indirection-heavy, heap-allocation-heavy, application architectures

Are there Java design documents that describe the language in these terms, as opposed to something like "a general-purpose object oriented language"?

> But the default behavior is, frankly, dangerous.

You keep saying variations of this, but you haven't really made the case.

True, if you increment a number, you will typically expect the result to be greater. But how many application domains are there where 2^32 - 1 is really the exact upper limit of the range of valid values? I would think that in most cases catching a overflow would come much too late, because the actual error is exceeding some application-specific limit rather than the artificial limit of the range of int. Or put differently, I bet 99.9% of ArrayIndexOutOfBounds errors are because indices leave their legal range without ever overflowing int.
Some important factors in recent times are the awareness of iodine deficiency and the adverse effects of lead exposure.
I have one of these and have tested it on the Raspberry Pi [1]. It indeed works fine (and IME if it works on the Pi, it works on anything with PCIe).

[1] https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/cards_storage/iocrest-jmb585-...
That just isn’t true. Computer technology hasn’t come as far as you want to believe. 144 characters isn’t a technological revolution.
It's a nice idea until the beam loses its target for a moment and wipes out Western Europe.
What exactly is the security benefit of a reverse tunnel, in comparison to just listening on a port?

Usually DB servers are "always on" and always accept connections, so the reverse tunnel also needs to be always up.

Regarding row-level security: that sounds quite awesome, but in the form it's described in the article, very limited in the number of use cases.

Quite often you have a web app that talks to the DB and that uses a service account. So as with, with row-level security you can just allow or disallow things to the service account, not to the user logged into the web application.

Is there a way to drop from the service account into a less-privileged role inside a transaction or so?
Why would it not work correctly?

Without systemd you can use daemonize from shell, for example. I either run these kinds of service scripts via systemd in production, or via my special program that takes care of starting and monitoring, and restarting when the code of the script changes.

Why should I stuff daemonization machinery into every single script I might want to run as a daemon, especially when it's cumbersome in many languages where I want to do it, like bash or PHP, and in general less flexible than using some external tool?
> there is no reason to believe people haven't gotten smarter as well.

Null hypothesis? By default we don't assume presence of changes, in the absence of reasons for that, and those reasons - that nutrition is causing IQ growth - need to be explained.

There shouldn't be no reasons not to assume something, it's not enough. Sorry for triple negative.
I think this confuses (fact) knowledge and the ability to recognize causal relations.

A human can never be smarter than said human: Our brains are not connected and we can't share capacity with others.

So, discovering causality is always an individual experience. And that happens likely by "playing" with "the world".

I think it's noticeable that smarter animals are more playful. Which is also a hint that points to the fundamental importance of interaction with the world as a prerequisite for "smartness". Additionally the capabilities of the "sensors" and "actors" that make interaction with the world possible in the first place seem to be crucial to develop "smart behavior".

The part about the "sensors" seems quite obvious. I think one can gain a better general understanding of some thing if one can "experience" it in more than one "dimension".

And the "actors" allow one to perform "experiments" with the things around one, and find out this way how that thing "works" or is supposed to be "used".

That's actually the behavior that can be observed in children of all kinds of "smarter" species. So it seems to be at least linked somehow to "smartness".
> Hard to see this as anything but an indictment of IQ tests.

Careful, there are a lot of people who have an emotional attachment to IQ tests and their implications for determining intelligence. Implying that IQ tests don't measure intelligence usually brings them out of the woodwork.
Yeah, SF did great on Covid mitigation because people here know how to read exponential graphs.

Not sure what your other point is.
As long as you're sure it'll actually go into space and not just explode in the upper atmosphere.
Last time I checked, any sort of cable or elevator to space was impractical, given the strength and density requirements. Has that changed?

Also, a cable would have to attach to the Earth at the equator, which is some distance from the UK.
Nginx was single-threaded until recently... now it uses separate processes for multi-threading.

So yes my app. server is 10x better than than Nginx for joint parallel tasks like a MMO server f.ex.

Try hot-deploying a project to Nginx without the live users having to login again.

You still don't care! :D
Rats. This must be the first time that I desperately wanted to be wrong...
On the facade, I like this. Hopefully someone advances these ideas.
Dang I got suspended for 2 weeks and wasn't allowed to touch a computer for the remainder of the year when I did this.

And I had even managed to figure out how to target it at specific logged-in users!
> (it's just hard to imagine a universal model manifesting without having used experiental knowledge along the way)

That's actually the point!
I know one image is a bit cropped on the home page on mobile, but apart from that everything works as intended on my iPhone 11. I'm using Safari though. What bugs did you encounter?
> [...] it was mostly absurd press releases [...]

Makes me thing about the april fools on LinuxFR[1]

[1] - https://linuxfr.org/news/mise-en-place-du-port-du-masque-ave...

TL;DR: Since the government authorized facial recognition on security cameras and the mask prevents that, they voted a law to have a QRCode on your mask to enable "facial" recognition

Obvious fake news, but funny read anyway.
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Java does type inference in a number of places and javac is not slow.
I'm not sure I'd describe it as fascinating, so much as abusive.

The really complicated and intricate bits are the web of Tax Treaties, Tax Treaty Protocols, Revenue Procedures, and memos that redefine how a foreign concept maps on to US tax code.

All of this complexity (and the accounting cost that goes with it) is because the United States is the only developed country in the world that taxes nonresident citizens. You end up with so many situations where it's hundreds to thousands of dollars to compliantly report foreign income, even though the total tax owed is $0.
And bower birds!
I'm sure that's just a hypothetical example but just reading that last sentence gave my feelings of anxiety. Of course I have backups, and of course I'm testing them... but still.