skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody would use it, all one side cares about in dating anymore is muscles and height. People have done experiments making fake male profiles with as abhorrent as possible of descriptions but with attractive pictures and they still get messages from girls, meanwhile average guy with interesting hobbies and a good career/future will get nothing as I found out in college.
Neat to read how using a Rowling-derived chrestomathy facilitated language learning.
It's a mistake to define a string as a collection type, because strings aren't fundamentally about a single kind of element. They have elements at different abstraction levels (bytes, codepoints, composed characters, words) you sometimes want to enumerate but mostly you operate on the whole string at once.

I do think this was a mistake in Haskell, but also it's silly that Haskell and Lisp are based on lists which are a bad inefficient data structure. It's doubly silly that lazy languages like Haskell use linked lists (which are bad) as a metaphor to represent generator functions (which are good).
"Frushour said there are a number of potential reasons a Marine may choose not to receive a vaccine, including allowing others to receive it first, waiting until it becomes mandatory, getting it through other channels or being allergic to the vaccine."

#1 is my friends experience. He's young, in great shape, is on base 90% of the time, and he doesn't feel that he deserves it. A bit noble and perhaps misguided, but he wants to be sure the elderly are taken care of first.
Some speculation it is Java, some that it is Java's license, some that it is the license the cheat is under (open source), etc. No one really knows why.

Strangely the only difference between one java cheat that was detected and one that has been undetected for four years, is that the original, old java one that got detected was licensed upder GPL, and the newer one is licensed under AGPL. Then there's a newer fork with a GUI that is undetected for ~2 years.

VAC seems to be... unable or unwilling to detect Java cheats. The original, old one got detected, though, and it was Java. so there is a tad of confusion.

I have sent countless messages to valve offering patches for several current exploits, like the current server lagger/crasher that allows teleportation. They literally just do NOT care. At all.
I suppose it's nice to have confirmation. I was working in the keyword bid ad space around the time Google bought Doubleclick, and they essentially ate the margin that every company in that space was working in. It was apparent that they were front-running the auction process. Agencies that survived primarily became white-labeled adwords support teams -- my group just shuttered and we all moved on.
I'd say this person is actually lucky Windows forced an update. Compute nodes fail, which is why you log state so you can restore your simulation or training routine. Instead of experiencing a failure in industry, they learned the "cache state" lesson in a low-stakes academic setting. Maybe they'll extrapolate the lesson and start keeping off-site backups too.
Frankly, I think passive investing has ruined the fundamentals of investing and in part responsible for the poor financial health of our economy.

While the idea behind passive investing may seem like a good one, people often forget it's a double edge sword. By this I mean, when you invest into an ETF or index fund, that money in turn goes into everything underneath it. All too often that money isn't invested in the underlying equities in any intelligent way, and so some of it ends up in ridiculously bad equities. Because of this, there are complete zombie companies that are worth multi billions today, which sell no more than 2 widgets a year and haven't seen growth for nearly a decade... They are only worth so much because money keeps flowing into them from being apart of a hot ETF.
I see this as more favorable. With the internet, and with like-minded online communities, the average retail trader is way more informed and skilled than one 20 years back. The level of hubris may have corrected accordingly, not be based on illusiory superiority bias.

Incorrect risk management from investment bankers, treating highly-variant finance as deterministic physics, and a fanciness of extremely smart people to invent extremely complex solutions, which obfuscate the ever-increasing assumptions and are less robust to black swan events. This illusory superiority bias over the common man, giving too much authority and decision-making power to a set of mathematical functions, and a culture of financial optimism and realization that you are too big to fail. This is what caused the big crash of 2007-2008.

The common man, as a class, lost money from that crash. In response, Bitcoin and fractional stocks were introduced. New markets emerged, where wearing a suit or MBA seems a negative, not a value add. Now, as a class, you at least have the possibility to win money. Else you always lose (but maybe that's the natural way it is supposed to be, not everyone can be the queen ant, or has the adaptation capacity to become one). BTW: every hedge fund that opened their data to the public, saw better, more accurate, models being build on that, than any of their elite quants in-house was able to beat. The masses, when harnassed, are no match for even the biggest hedge funds.
Now is the time to buy stock in Alibaba if you’ve been waiting on the sidelines. Haters will downvote this.
Decentralized AI for Healthcare
> But I don't think my co-workers were evil,

You don't have to be evil to do things that result in terrible outcomes.

I genuinely don't think anyone at Facebook wanted to create a propaganda tool, but that was the aggregate outcome.

I don't think anyone at Google set out to build an invasive surveillance platform. But in aggregate that's what's happened.

There's real danger in assuming you will only get bad outcomes because of bad people. Unintended consequences are a thing and I personally think most of the negatives of big tech come from precisely that.

If we can't acknowledge that because we insist on labelling everything and everyone good or evil, we'll never actually solve these issues.
But if you are high profile enough they will just apply pressure on you indirectly by applying pressure on your family members who remain.
From a single interviewers perspective: this does not work. At the company I work at, and in my own interviews, being succinct and articulate in the points you’re making goes a long way. Ending early is not a bad sign.
Using UTF-16 is a mistake because it doesn't represent anything well. Even if you use UTF-32 you still can't fit all characters in a single codepoint because some of them (like flag emoji) are composed. So you should expect things to be variable length. But once you do, UTF-8 is more efficient than UTF-16 even if you're processing CJK text because it so often has ASCII characters mixed in.

Cocoa/ObjC has the same problem - actually Java is based on Cocoa so that's probably where it came from.
No, that's not correct. String literals in code are always interned, and you can still call String.intern() on any String instance.

What you may be referring to is that interned Strings are stored in the head, while they used to be stored in the Permanent Generation:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10579062
CISR: Command-Line Interactive Script Runner(and Documentation)
at least in my experience, setting it through group policy so that it will not download patches without user interaction works. without downloaded patches it also won't install any automatically.
Does anyone know about a well maintained (anti-) gaming blocklist?
Write and release an app in it that would be difficult to write in existing languages, and make the fact that Whizzy New App is written in Whizzy New Language prominent.

Then provide lots of source code comparisons showing how doing (whatever) in Whizzy New Language is more pleasant/concise/bug-resistant than Old and Busted Language.

The other poster's idea of publishing papers is a good one, if you're shooting for an academic language for intellectual pursuits. If you want a language that people will use in the Real World, though, you're gonna need some Real World code.

The problem is that there are a lot of new languages coming out all the time.

Whatever route you go, make sure you tell people exactly what the advantages of Whizzy New Language are right at the top (at the beginning of the github README, in the abstract of the paper, whatever), because no one is gonna grovel through a bunch of docs to learn that.

I'm interested in new languages, so I usually at least click on announcements, but it doesn't take long for me to lose interest if I don't see some plausible major advantage within the first paragraph or two of text. Too much new material, not enough time to read it all.
How many other projects has Google worked on that have hurt clients/consumers?
I think I could probably work my way into relevant conferences if I wanted to, though even then it seems a little bold to open with your own language out of the blue :P

But maybe that's a goal to work towards- try and get on some dockets for less-ambitious talks and then use that exposure to talk about my own thing one day
Looks pretty nice overall for sure. But, I would give the feedback that the non-uniform scaling of UI controls is a very uncommon animation behavior, and will feel out of place on any OS that I’m familiar with. In general, the animations feel a bit over eager and in the “for show” tuning instead of “clarify what state transition is happening” tuning. Generally when scaling large panels like that, you’ll want to not scale down below 60% and combine that with being at zero transparency at that scale so you can’t focus to clearly on the odd details of the scaled UI.
You should treat them as strings, the backing data store is an implementation detail. What do you want to do with individual bytes if you access them? Whatever you do is likely to be incorrect in some language, even English with emoji mixed in or Zalgo text.

This also lets you implement compressed small strings (eg in tagged pointers) which is a good memory optimization.
Decades. Also passports. Wealthy Chinese are known to buy significant investor (which is not that significant) citizenship in several countries, not to move there but have an exit option.

Also to be fair I think a fair portion of this is not fear of China changing the rules, often if the wealth was gained corruptly this is a way to protect it and move away from repercussion.
Yes absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that this was in any way universal. Coffee may be the second hardest thing for me. I've successfully given it up for a month or more a number of times, getting all the way through withdrawal symptoms where I generally feel happier and more energetic. So far I've always restarted consumption. Not out of a physical/psychological want but because it's so easy, mildly pleasant, and aids focus during work hours.
Sometimes there's not an option to be on the grid.
So, how do you use these devices in an SD-WAN active/active configuration? What is your unified VPN solution that lets you use both upstream channels simultaneously?
How can people stand this kind of writing? It assumes conclusions for all kinds of things that are not agreed on. It’s intellectually lazy even for people who agree with these views (“heavy slant towards finance being optimally a utility”, “Uber/Lyft ‘misclassifying’ workers”, etc). This is Fox News level opining.
> here's not benefit academically for these advantaged kids, so this understandable why there's push back.

Hm. It's not understandable to me - if there is no harm academically, why the pushback? If you look at recordings from Boston parents during the busing protests, they're quite clear about what their issue is ("n*****s").

> If you're affluent enough, no one can force you to send your kid to a given school

This sounds intuitive when you hear it for the first time. And I did alude to it in my previous comment. But I don't think we should overstate the effect. From 21st century data, at a macroscale, enrollment does not really drop when you integrate, even when that integration involves sending kids to schools that are not the closest neighborhood one.

Cambridge, MA has implemented a '21st-century busing' controlled choice approach and saw no decline in enrollment. [0] Parts of Brooklyn recently did the same and saw no change in the enrollment of white students. [1]

It's hard to say exactly why this is the case - perhaps racial animus has declined, perhaps there is a growing awareness that attending a racially diverse school is not actually harmful for educational outcomes, perhaps white flight in the 80s and 90s wasn't caused by busing in the first place, perhaps the benefits to remaining in cities are increasing, etc.

Moreover, busing didn't fail. By the 1980s, after concerted efforts to integrate, schools were more socioeconomically and racially diverse than ever before. Since about 1990, however, schools have re-segregated to the amount they were in 1974.

I don't buy that de facto segregation is an inevitable result of freedom of mobility. The evidence strongly suggests that it is related to policy choices and that it can be changed. Given the massive impacts that it seems to have on overall quality of education, shouldn't we try?

[0]: tcf.org/content/report/cambridge-public-schools/
[1]: https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2019/11/14/21121770/a-push-to-integ...
OCaml actually runs natively on Windows, it's just that for development some Unix-like environment is needed, because many packages have a habit of accidentally pulling in and using convenient Unix-isms like bash and grep. Nowadays WSL is used by many, and it works great.

But the toolchain can produce applications that run on Windows without any special support, and people have been shipping OCaml apps on Windows for a long time. E.g. the Unison file sync utility, the MLDonkey file share program.
It’s always been my understanding that Starlink will never be able to offer anything close to what it achieves for rural speeds in a areas where they’d have many densely packed customers (I.e. cities)
This seems to be conflating buy & hold with passive investing. What is it called when you don't invest in index funds you pick stocks and then buy and hold them for the long term? Seems to me there is passive and active investing and the opposite of buy & hold is day trading.

I'm also not sure that I buy the argument made elsewhere in this thread that you need active to make passive work. Indexes upon which funds are based often have a system of rules for how individual stocks are added and removed from the index that are based on the companies financial performance which is what ultimately drives the stock.
If you just want public IPv6 for your LAN, you could get address space for free from TunnelBroker.net and the setup for your router is well documented.
For sure. I don't think papers/academia are really what I'd be going for; this is definitely more of a Real World language. It encapsulates lessons I've learned in a semi-specific domain in a way that keeps the programmer right on track, and greases the wheels of development at the same time. It has some new ideas but none of them are so alien as to be worthy of a paper.

I've got a very clear vision of the defining features and what sets it apart from the status quo, so I should have no trouble getting that across in the readme. The trick is getting people to see the readme in the first place :)

Example projects, ideally in the real world doing real things is a good point of advice. I'll look for opportunities along those lines when the time comes. Thanks!
What I have really read from crumbs collected is that Jack Ma is in Hu Jin Tao camp which is apparently is an "opposition" to Xi camp - hence the brash speech at the forum that got him disappeared a bit and now this.
> If a former politician the government dislikes owns shares in a company, the government should not simply punish the company - including all the other shareholders, many of whom are small retail investors and pension funds! If a former corrupt politician is the real issue, it needs to prove in an independent court there is corruption; and not punish some third party.

The only thing I can say is: “That’s just not the way politics works in China.”
Absolutely agree with you here, it's effectively positive discrimination and really a rather distasteful attempt at it.

Always bothers me the same happens in Civilization games with scientist lists.
Seriously, they might as well have called it "Project Helicopter Money."
I find that a whitelist is easier to manage than a blacklist. I am not surfing the entire web every day. Why should every URL in existence be accessible by default. Instead, I prefer every URL is blocked by default. No different from any other firewall configuration. With logging of blocked HTTP requests and DNS lookups, it is easy to discover telemetry.
It's not that simple. Epic provides a FHIR API but if you try and use it you'll see that they do not adhere to the spec at all. And each different EHR provider that I attempted to interface with through FHIR all had different, broken, implementations of the spec.
Thanks - I was aware there was a Latin precursor but I didn't know about the Book of Han!
Alibaba had practiced outrageous anticipation ploy like "pick one from two", ie if anyone want to sell on Alibaba, they can ONLY sell on alibaba, not another platform.

This hurts a lot of small and individual businesses who are very much depend on diversity of channels to boost sales, because they don't have much sales and marketing skills or capital for that.

[1] https://amp.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/3115300/alibab...
Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free
> I'm personally less concerned about the recording of the data, than the security of the data. Leaks due to security incomptence (e.g. the Facebook leak) seem like a much bigger imminent threat to me.

This reminds me of an old joke: it's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

You wouldn't have to worry about leaks if they didn't collect the data in the first place.
How is CS being represented in this case? A 1960s CS syllabus would, at best, have amounted to typing classes, punch cards, FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, and a bit of EE (a male-dominated major) on the side. All of this would have been learned largely for secretarial work in offices or academia. Nothing to do with kernels, operating systems, computer architectures, building killer apps or web-based services as it would today. Sixty years ago, computer science was just white-collar labor.

There are three reasons computers became popular in the first place: proliferation of open hardware standards with the S-100 bus, cheap computer kits, and software portability that came with Unix and CP/M clones. So anyone who knew how to build/buy hardware could program what they want on it. No need for a time-sharing system or a college degree. At that point the only limitation was time, money, and inclination.

I disagree with your final statement. It wasn't external forces artificially depressing a demographic so much as it was natural interest becoming a more prominent limiting factor.
While it's normal to cry that US cannot touch a bit on the big corps, when CCP successfully delivered concrete blows to monopoly, everyone is crying that it was politic driven...

Sigh
George Bush is top shelf, in your book, then, due to the top university?
I’m an engineer (embedded systems and graphics) and it has never once been an issue.
i absolutely despise everything about this 'look'. the way the interface does that 'horizontal stretch' animation, the way the 'save success' is a huge green bar in the middle of the screen that you would no doubt see again and again and again, the way how everything is just text sitting in a giant field of empty white space.

the feel of this stuff reminds me of way back when, maybe windows 95 era, when you would install some kind of OEM software from the manufacturer of the computer, and it would open up, and the software would look so busted, like there was MINIMAL effort whatsoever in making it look 'good', like they didn't have a graphics team and the person who coded the firmware had to do the graphics too at the last second. that feels like this stuff.
I was half-trolling. The half that was serious responds below.

Most people, I would assume, want government policy to cause more doctors to exist rather than fewer. Whereas I am arguing for policies that would cause fewer cars to exist, rather than more. The direction of change is reversed in the two examples.

If there were a plague of hypochondria wasting physicians' time and costing society, then perhaps we would want to raise the price of medical care.

As for cars, making them (or their fuel) more expensive would have many advantages.

Reduced CO2 emissions and traffic congestion are obvious examples.

Road infrastructure is also an implicit subsidy to big-box businesses that destroy small shop-owners. A world with fewer cars shifts the balance towards smaller local retail businesses.

Children would also not be so dependent on parents to shuttle them around, which would help both parents and children.

Traffic fatalities would be reduced.

People would get more exercise.

There would be less noise.

Even wildlife would do better. There would be less roadkill.

I also assert that car-culture has contributed to the atomization of society. The car encourages geographic centralization and destroys horizontal ties. This leaves people disconnected and disoriented. And the resulting, more centralized societies are then vulnerable to power-grabs of various kinds.
Could you give us examples of those zombie companies? What are the ticker symbols and which indexes include them?
I'd change the "exit link" on the first prompt to a flat version of your website (and there an option to comeback in) instead to some random website.
Not clear which one though, as you can bet they'll have watchdogs for the watchdogs!

One thing that's been made abundantly clear (once again) is just how cautious and methodical NASA is (not just when it comes to their $80M helicopter).
Why is the number of new Silicon Valley startup collapsing?
have they stopped creating pages on crunchbase or is something changing?

This is interesting because almost every other economic indicator is growing.

Source: Silicon Valley Index 2021, jointventure.org
Some similarities to one of my old projects, MakoVM:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako

It is also Forth-based, and has an ecosystem of interesting little games, programs, and libraries. The CPU, GPU, and other IO facilities fit in a little over 200 lines of Java:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/src/MakoVM.j...
Well, to send files, I either just use email or copy the file to somewhere in /var/www if the file is public, or use netcat to send the file directly to the recipient. For email, I use Heirloom-mailx. For NNTP, I use bystand (my own software).
If the same protocols/file formats were used, then it seem like it would help (since then different people can use different programs and they would then be interoperable). For email, this is already the case. For sending files, I am not sure if it is, but it could be made to do so without so much difficulty.
I'm interested, do you have any particular studies in mind?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/19/7point1-million-american-hou...

Just some food for thought.
And I don’t see anybody mentioning the pre-pay telecom minute.
Those are already a de facto currency in large part of Africa.
Meshing that with some crypto seems clever to me.
I will add to this a parahrase from a person I personally dislike: John Bolton. It goes something like this. When presenting their case, communist dictatorships tend blame things on mythical hardliners. Here too we have a scapegoat. The theme is different, but the tone is so familiar.

That's not a shot at communist dictatorships. They do it, because as a negotiating tactic it tends to work. It is not unlike telling salesman you need to run something by your wife.