skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guy Steele used the restriction to one-syllable words to make a point. It's supposed to sound a bit off and it pushes him to define a bunch of words as he goes along. If he had started with "simple" words instead, the talk would have flowed too well for the gimmick to work! He actually mentions that in his talk:

> In truth, the words of one syllable form quite a rich vocabulary, with which you can say many things. You may note that this vocabulary is much larger than that of the language called Basic English, defined by Charles Kay Ogden in the year one nine three nought[10]. I chose not to use Basic English for this talk, for the cause that Basic English has many words of two or more syllables, some of them quite long, handed down to us from the dim past of Rome. While Basic English has fewer words, it does not give the feel, to one who speaks full English, of being a small language.

Using one-syllable words is a fun way to make the structure of the talk reflect its thesis, with a rule that's simple enough to explain in one sentence. It's not meant to be a serious example of a simple language! If you did it seriously you'd get something like Simple Wikipedia, which reads pretty well[1]:

> A programming language is a type of written language that tells computers what to do. Examples are: python, ruby, jupiter, html, css, java, javascript, C, C++, and C#. Programming languages are used to write all computer programs and computer software. A programming language is like a set of instructions that the computer follows to do something.

That reads well and it's a good example of defining specialized words as you need them, but it doesn't feel all that different from "normal" English and it's much harder to explain what "simple" constitutes in that context. It works better in reality, but worse for a talk.

[1]: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language
That's a funny example, because Rust's `String` does implement `Add` as concatenation! Many think this was a mistake though.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#impl...
I’m sorry you feel that way. Death is inevitable. It is natural. It is universal. Birth, Death, and ideally reproduction in between- that’s the essence of life. You have to look beyond yourself as an individual. Humanity was here before you were born, but you were part of it in your ancestors’s genes. Humanity will continue after your death, and you will be part of it in the genes you pass down to your children, and the ripples of your actions in life.

Death is a change, but it hold no more horror than pre-birth. Be at peace. Embrace your time. Live your life with purpose, love, humility and hope. Our ephemerality makes every moment meaningful, enjoy it.
embracing madness with style. respect.
Yeah, my German Jewish friend told me that spoken Yiddish sounds like medieval peasant German, and reading Yiddish written in Hebrew script makes him feel like he’s having a stroke.
I checked Telegram and they had a facebook.txt 3.6K file that won't download. Did they nerf it? I can't find the real file as I don't read Russian.

Edit: Nevermind I found the pastebin below.
best currency for mars? Crypto.
Keyboard interface hardware [Ben Eater]
> Because the blue states love seizing guns

Citation needed.
If you define diversity as market share, explain how v8 won’t gain market share if allowed on iOS. And v8 already has way too much.

Anyone paying attention can see there is a massive battle over web standards right now between Apple and Google, King Kong vs Godzilla (the other players aren’t in the same league), with the former being the one consistently fighting for privacy, and the latter for ever more invasive ads.

To me arguing for letting v8 on iOS is like saying why don’t we weaken King Kong so we can add a few more firefighters. It just doesn’t make sense. You don’t weaken the fighter thats lower in share (and stands against invasive advertising) because you feel bad for the local police not getting a chance.

It’s actually exactly why I’m happy to pay 700 - and if they opened it to other engines I’d value it less.

You can’t have a black and white view of freedom. Sometimes freedom is having an imperfect yet big and tough player that stands for what you want, against a worse option. The implementation is less free technically, but the outcome is more free dramatically (balance of power over the direction and control of the web and privacy).

I’d prefer a world where Chrome had a lot less market share, and then I’d not mind if it was more open. But we don’t live in that world. I’ll take the trade off.
I have a hard time imagining Jean Valjean as a TSA agent. That seems rather more Javert's role.
Also primary for me, and probably a couple hundreds if counting my colleagues and their families and my close friends and their families and of course my families. Huge proportions of them using iOS. So I concur with previous reply. Don't get too fixated with market share. Apple isn't that niche if you include tablets and phones.
> There can't be anything worse than death. There just can't. Pretty much any amount of bad is preferable to infinite nothing.

During a particularly horrific drug trip, I realized that this is very much not true. I thought I was stuck in an eternal state of suffering, of which there was no escape. The level of suffering was indescribable, and the thought that it was going to continue forever was unbearable.

Now, I'm not really afraid of death. It's just the complete cessation of consciousness. Not that different from a deep, dreamless sleep. Infinitely preferable to that unceasing hell I thought I was stuck in.
>> He's writing to sell books and spread his message,

> ...and arguably that turns it into fraud. If not for the misrepresentation of the facts, would I have bought his book?

Not to be overly-pedantic, but I think knowingly exaggerating the truth to sell books is more of a scam than a fraud. To me, fraud is closer to outright deception than exaggeration. Fraud is also better defined. Laws are written about fraud. Fraud, I think, is a weightier charge of duplicity.

I base this only on my own internal reaction to the words. Here’s someone getting more into the lexicon:

> In short, scam has no legal status as a term of law in most jurisdictions, except insofar as it may be defined as a type of fraud. The term fraud is broad but usually very carefully defined in statutory law.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/348183/whats-the...
You mean in China?
I wouldn't call any of them SpongeBob "fans".

There’s over 70k of them, how can you be so certain?
For reference, the easy-redirect trick nobody recommends using is to add a bookmarklet with content:

javascript:location.hostname+='.sci-hub.se'

Test:
WHEN closed-source URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6156439
ON clicking the bookmarklet
SHOULD redirect to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org.sci-hub.se/document/6156439
Remembering Miss Fury – the world's first great superheroine
I haven't watched the video (it may be fascinating), I armchair researched this, and the reason why you don't get a Hass avocado tree is the same reason why you are not clones of your parents. Avocado seeds are largely mono-embryonic, they are a blend of the pollen from the flower, and the genetics from the parent tree. While the fruit develops from the tree's genetics, the seed is a blend.

Mono-embryonic seeds are not true to type, which means their seeds will not grow fruit like their parent tree. Techniques like grafting, air layering, and cloning were developed to quickly scale editable fruiting types. They reduce the risk of having a plant that is non-productive, and accelerates the anticipated fruiting period vs from seed (most tree types will be 8-15 years before fruiting, while a clone can produce in as little as 3 years, but generally no longer than 5).

I've been going over avocado seeds to find proof of poly embryonic types as these: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article-abstract/35/7/209/81...

Information for avocado's seems to be lacking, I have a quick reference for which citrus can/will grow true to type, however with avocado's, there is some research, but few points of use for home growers. If there's anyone that can point me to a good resource, I would appreciate it!
1. Most of the markets I've looked at have a letter of no-action from the CFTC. But I'm not aware of one for polymarket.

2. I imagine that any suspicion of foul play would taint the waters, the same way a 51 percent attack could technically make you a bitcoin billionaire, at the cost of completely destroying bitcoin value. IEM works the same way, but is affiliated with a non-profit / government entity.
On the other hand, a heat pump bumps the efficiency of your electric heater to like 300%, because it works around the physical constraint. My understanding is that air-source heat pumps are continuing to noticeably improve decade-over-decade.
I feel we're focusing on the wrong thing here. The primary reason we want healthy ecosystems is so they can sustain human life in the long term.

Personally I don't care if I ever see the reef, the Amazon or any other ecosystem. I'm pretty much interested in sustainable ecosystems to ensure human welfare.
Yup... as I was hitting send to forward the article link to friends, it occurred to me that this had to be at least the 2nd time I'd done so.
Again:

f'(x) is just A , not Ax,

f'(x) != f(x)

Just as in 1-d you approximate a function when using just first order terms by:

f(x+h)= f(x) + f'(x)*h

> So this just a formal way of saying that the dervative A should be a good linear approximation to f.

This is incorrect. The derivative does not give an approximation to the function. You say it yourself in the next paragraph:

f(x)+Ah is a linear approximation to f(x+h)

So not just A. This makes as much sense as saying that 1 is the approximation of e^x because it is one of the terms of the expansion.

I suggest you to reword your comment or make a review of these basic concepts.
Hence “a false proposition implies any proposition“ ... and around we go.
Ozone hole was fixed with regulation. Leaded gasoline was banned by regulation. Obviously government alone is not enough, but it can make a large step in the right direction.

Individual action is also important, but we will never solve the climate problem by ignoring what governments can/should do.
I’ve found Engineering to be similar. A relatively small percentage of engineers are actually crunching numbers in the academic sense. Most of the work is around learning a limited number of tools that may not translate effectively into another position
My mother-in-law has a DNR. She was in Guatemala, got a kidney stone, went in for a CT scan, reacted badly to the dye, and her heart stopped. But in Guatemala, they don't know what a DNR is. The idea that anyone would actually want that is totally foreign to them. So they resuscitated her anyway. And, since it was just a reaction to the dye, she was fine - no adverse effects at all. And we're glad to still have her.

But she's also been a nurse, and has said that she didn't know anyone who lived past 80 who hadn't regretted it.

I don't know what conclusions to draw...
One of the comments puts out the possibility that the guy planted the bit about his grandmother being in the circus, which is.. quite believable. Certainly that was public information at the time. That puts the story under a whole new light, as that may have been crucial for her commitment. Hope she recovers some of her life back after this.
But, when I'm thinking in List[Any], I expect to be working on the Monoid for List[Any], not the Monoid for List[Int]: things like special-casing List[Int] are exactly what make programming languages difficult to learn and use.
Not existing doesn't hurt, of course. But humanity is probably going to get up to a lot of cool shit we will miss out on.
This is sorta similar to rustpython_wasm[0] - I haven't been super focused on it recently, but I'd love to eventually have something as in-depth and well-designed as this. Currently it has all the necessary APIs (I think) to communicate however you want between JS and Python, but I'd like to have some sort of JSProxy object in Python so accessing JS APIs can look like it does in JS. Currently, you have to do something like:

import browser
from browser import window

document = window.get_prop('document')
document_body = document.get_prop('body')
document_body.set_prop('textContent', browser.jsstr('hi'))

[0]: https://rustpython.github.io/demo/
Corporations absolutely value craftmanship. Factory owners and research labs will pay a huge premium for well designed, reliable tools and skilled employees/contractors that repair and maintain them to a high standard. I do a lot of electronics repair work for my businesses, and I dropped $200+ on a Hakko soldering iron.

I have not found the same willingness to pay for quality amongst consumers, though. Counter-intuitively, the sort of hyper-knowledgeable "pro" consumers I come across are typically less willing to open their wallets than people who know nothing.
BeatCoin 2: Leaking Bitcoin private key from air-gapped wallet
Thank you! It's amazing how much of a difference that simple ui mechanic makes. Also, glad to hear that it imports well for you. Inkscape is a very common target for laser cutting, so I've had the chance to test it out a bunch.
31 years old here, and felt the same way that @koboll has felt for the past 10+ years. I don't know how old I have to get for that view to change, but if I could take an immortality pill I'd do it in a heartbeat.
You can’t do safety without regulation.
Wow. He used Windows machine at Apple ;)
Okay, I still don't agree with that.

There are two groups that I would argue should be labeled "modern slavery victims"/"slaves". These are the illegal human trafficking victims and the legally (referring to national, not international, law) incarcerated work force.

Off the top of my head, the latter includes the inmates of the American prison industrial complex and the Uighur prisoners in China.

The applicability of the term "modern slaves" to these groups, and the clear difference in the extent of exploitation, between these groups and the Amazon workers, convinces me we must not apply the term "slavery" to the latters' employment.
> You're assuming that fighting one has no relation to fighting the other.

I am not assuming such a thing (where did you this idea I will never know).
It's just the extension of listening to a voicemail or video clip over and over. Except this videoclip might be self aware. As long as it's happy and given full autonomy I dont see it as a problem.
Try getting them to watch this talk by Emery Berger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A

And who knows, maybe they'd even be interested in using coz afterwards:

https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz
There is a movie where the dad is dying of cancer. First the son brings him heroin to the hospital and later near the end they all come together and he overdoses and dies in peace. That's the way I want to go out. I have seen people who died in hospital with all kinds of machines hooked up, constantly being probed and relatives telling to keep "fighting". It probably depends on your personality but I prefer to go out at my own will in peace (and high on drugs). I don't want to keep fighting.
That's the simplest way to do it, But it's still beyond the capacity of many as there are those who have local cache of digital songs from the 2000s in their memory cards, have a phone and the tablet; But don't know how to sync that across devices.
very interesting stories. tells you a lot about how inefficient markets are. reminds me of "reminisces of a stock operator"
The market on the Ever Given getting unstuck was super fun.
I have experience working in non-profit/academic open source software.

It's not any better. And has the added challenge that since it doesn't need to make money, sometimes projects keep going when they aren't doing very much useful on the order of the resources put into continued development. "Sunk cost fallacy" can be enormous.

Software is just hard.

Another context than the software industry is the "enterprise", where software is being created to support some internal business process (in the broadest sense of 'business process'). That has it's own pressures. But that software too ends up looking much the same.

The OP article really struck me, I have to think more about what to take from it, but I think there's a lot there.

This article to some extent suggests a kind of "software pessimism" -- is all software just destined to be a garbage pile? (Although the authors say "we can and must do better", the text doesn't leave me confident in that).

Software is just hard. It's also eating our world though. If it's all destined to be a garbage pile, we're in trouble -- forced to spend our lives fighting with buggy, hackable, inhuman software that acts like it wants to kill us.

one way or another, we probably need a lot less software in order to make it better software. That seems pretty unrealsitic, I realize.

I've thought before about, what would a "slow code" (like "slow food") movement look like?
> I think there are 10^10 combinations in the USA alone

Canada and USA share the same numbering plan and that's sometimes overlooked.

I always "press 1" to interact with the 'your social has been criminally suspended blah blah' or 'card-services' robo-calls.

When I have time I share circular stories about my grand-kids that don't visit me anymore, but when I don't, I just respond in French with something like "Je pense vous etes une pamplemousse."

Most recently, one responded with "NO HABLOS ESPANOL". lordy lordy...
This is something I've wanted to do for a while, and I've had success with it. At my previous employer, I did in fact work 32 hours per week, and it was great.

When I left there (for reasons), this was something I discussed with all three places that made me an offer. IIRC, one offered me 32 hours a week, another 32 (I think), and the third 36. I ended up accepting the 36 because it seemed like the biggest challenge for me.

I brought up my desire to work < 40 hours a week as early as possible with places I interviewed, and some just said "no way", which ended the interview process quickly.

For context, I'd been in software dev about 18 years when I was going through my last set of interviews.

Anyway, I'm just responding to say that it's possible to find places willing to do this, though obviously the more desirable you are as a candidate the more likely you are to find an employer willing to go for this.

The other alternative is to try to build up a consulting practice, and to simply not take on that much work. But this is a lot more stressful from a financial security perspective, having done this for a bit myself many years ago.
What are the general solutions to handling spatial data and in particular, 'nearness' in huge databases?

Last time I needed something along those lines, I implemented geohash [1] in the application level ontop of a time-series database. I assume there is a better, more sound way to achieve that, as geohash doesn't handle boundaries well.

---

For the uninitiated, geo-hash uses a space filling curve multiple times at different precision to map quadrants into strings. So imagine a map, top left is North America, bottom right Australia, we can name the quadrants 0,1,2,3, we then take each quadrant and again use a z filling curve to split it to more quadrants (well, quadrant of a quadrant) and keep the name we gave it, we repreat the process up to desired precision, finally, we take the all the names of quadrants with the same order and concatenate them, to create a string that repretents the position. Strings with the same prefix are in the same quadrant and depending on the length of the prefix, the quadrant they are in is either bigger or smaller, longer prefix, smaller quadrant.

We found that geohash, even at the application level, provided much faster queries than searching for coordinates within range on two fields.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
> Command substitution:
> Good: "$(cmd)"
> Bad: $(cmd)

And I’m over here still using `cmd`...
Is this data that was in profiles that they scraped or did they get access to things that weren’t being intentionally shared?
I think that one of the best way to understand some strange corners of the transhumanist culture is through the satire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg29TuWo0Yo
Yload – Innovating smart logistics – Bursa transport intelligent
I tell it because, for your typical HN audience, it's so incredulous and yet incredibly normal for the people who do it. I hope you enjoyed the story regardless, because I enjoyed getting to meet Rory (the gentleman in question) and having him share with me how he made his wealth off of pumping other people's shit (his words! "black gold"). I still have his very non PC business card in a keepsake box somewhere.

Life can be stranger than fiction, and I love a good story.
Yes, for the subjects that Hacker News is concerned with, but there is a lot more out there than just what appeals to this techie crowd. As someone who has been involved in travel blogging, for example, I have witnessed long-form text becoming less and less popular, and instead images or video are taking over. Obviously it is all well and good to show people things, but there was a lot of useful detail expressed in longform text that you don’t get from the low-information-density formats popular today.
>disabling one's transportation and, thus, reducing one's likelihood to arrive to work on time does not reduce delinquency.

The amount of people who would pay, if only they could drive to work, is less than the people who won't pay, unless they're stuck with an inoperable car. There's plenty of repossession channels on YouTube like RepoNut just showing the day to day life of a repo man. There's plenty of videos where clearly the debtor can't pay but there's quite a few where the debtor comes out the second the car is lifted and calls the bank to pay the repo fee and enough to make the account current immediately. Not to mention the videos where the car is blocked in in an attempt to keep it from being towed with something like a new looking jet ski.

One big benefit here for lenders is that in cases where the debtor can pay they're probably going to immediately pay it without having to go through the expense of hiring a repossession company and where the debtor can't pay and it needs to be repossessed, they have the location and there won't be any attempt to drive the car somewhere to hide it or park it inside a fence, etc. Also cuts down on the motivation to stifle a repossession attempt as well if it's already a brick.
If you're interesting in learning more, Scott Alexander recently discussed research on this topic with a lot of links to papers: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d...

>But forget the practical side of this for now. It looks like sleep is somehow renewing these people's depressions. As if depression is caused by some injury during sleep, heals part of the way during an average day (or all the way during an extra-long day of sleep deprivation) and then the same injury gets re-inflicted during sleep the next night.
Some time in my 40s I accepted death. I don't want it to be miserable but I am not afraid anymore of being dead. I think at some point you just notice that your body has seen its best days and life energy starts to diminish. My mom is in her 90s and she often says that she wants this to be over. She still has fun but feels that it's enough.
I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD
This is a special way of being afraid

No trick dispels. Religion used to try,

That vast moth-eaten musical brocade

Created to pretend we never die,

And specious stuff that says No rational being

Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing

That this is what we fear—no sight, no sound,

No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,

Nothing to love or link with,

The anaesthetic from which none come round.

—Philip Larkin, Aubade

(italics original)
I think parent comment was referring to Polish.