skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or use the word “trigger” to mean mere annoyance. It is tragic that people with a hatred of people living with conditions like PTSD and epilepsy have turned that word into a joke. (I guess most people who use that word now are unaware of this history.) I know people who experience actual triggers and it's a very painful thing.
on stack overflow, the more friendly and 'treat other people like humans' esque a question is, the more off track it becomes. dry, cold questions tend to get the best answers. if the goal is to learn something, it's best to treat the site like an answer vending machine.

for example, a question treating other people like humans: "hi. I need to get the last two letters of a string in Javascript. can anyone help? thanks" is likely to attract a bunch of curious types of 'why do you need to get the last two letters of a string?' type answers, versus posting something deliberately robotic seeming: "javascript: get last 2 letters of string" immediately gets replied with no-nonsense answers from people wanting to drop their knowledge and get stack overflow green checkmark points for being the fastest answerer etc.
This leftist style of racist crap is normal and accepted on HN now, isn't it?
That's the idea, but if I remember correctly there's not a whole lot of evidence suggesting that more borrowing happens when the rate is low, for the reason mentioned above: you don't borrow money for fun when it seems cheap, you borrow money because you need it. Borrowing isn't particularly price sensitive.

(It is in the margin in the sense that more doubtful gambles pay off when borrowing is cheaper, but the large part of borrowing happens because of an immediate liquidity demand, not a desire for leverage.)
It was decimalisation all along!
gRPC benchmark results
I think the volunteer time is not helping either, but there is more to it, through involvement that those people (we) have a understanding of the issues at hand that simply can't be replaced by promotional brochures and other forms of advertisement, which often just seems distant.
France plans subsidy for packages delivered by cargo bike
I’m not sure I understand your statement that traffic is bad because housing density is too low for the population.

Certainly just increasing density with no other controls just increases traffic congestion.

The best approach would be increasing density while decreasing reliance on personal transportation.

https://www.transformca.org/transform-blog-post/our-take-gre...
Mother Theresa was not really a good person, she probably did more harm than good with her "suffering takes you close to god" approach to helping people. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
My partner was horrified to learn that I ate the same breakfast pretty much every morning for something like five or six years when I was a teenager. I always had cereal with milk. If I was extra hungry, I would have a second helping. Very rarely, I would try a different cereal brand, but I would always gravitate back to the same one.

The funny thing is that at the time, I thought nothing of it! It was just a part of my morning routine, not a sign of poverty or an unusual personality. I still don't think it's unusual at all, many people eat the same breakfast every day.

Yet, this horrifies her. She cooks a different breakfast every morning and refuses to eat leftovers from yesterday. I never had a problem eating something my Mom cooked on the weekend for three or four days in a row. Schnitzel is delicious for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
That's all fine and dandy when you're teaching maths to someone interested in pursuing or studying maths, if your point is to teach someone who hasn't yet made the connection between the abstractions and their meaning then you should use relatable things - and as their knowledge increases move to remove the familiar labels and show what is the underlying abstraction.

I would think that by now that shouldn't even be up for discussion - much less for programming where your objectives, besides achieving a calculation or a side-effect, are also that your code be intelligible to other human beings. Even in assembly you have symbols for move, jump, etc.

And no, different people have different ways of thinking, not everyone has the same combination of nature and nurture to be completely comfortable with pure abstract mathematical notation - and for most part they don't need to. When you assign fancy greek letters as symbols you're also labelling them, so why not label them with something that a person learning might recognise.

Outside of teaching people that aren't familiar with it, yeah, sure, use all the numerical elegance you can muster (and I would still argue that even there it's still detrimental if the objective is sharing knowledge as widely as possible).
Something like 10% of all humans that have ever lived are alive today.
Most math doesn't have real world examples though. Inner product doesn't. It is useful in many places, but all of those applications are more complicated than inner product itself and are therefore best taught after inner product.
> I think everyone except you agrees on that

As a member of “everyone”, would you please not put words in my mouth.
> No, most humans could not afford to be vegetarians or vegans.

There are large vegetarian human populations such as people in parts of India.

>Most humans, although not in the Serengeti as you put it, are in fact, fighting for survival.

Humans fighting for survival cannot choose things freely. I am going to go out on a limb and claim that the majority of the HN audience can make choices.

> Most humans choose meat, because it's nutritionally dense and depending on how it was raised, provides a 'full protein' unlike plants.

You can’t have it both ways the humans fighting for survival cannot afford “well raised” meat.

There are plant sources that provide complete proteins by themselves and others can be combined easily to provide complete proteins.

> Nevermind the obvious health issues involved with eating "process'ed plant materials"

You do realize that beef is essentially processed plant materials? Meat is not magic. We can adopt better alternatives, but we choose not to do so.
Try milk, cheese, grains, egg, muesli, stew, varied foods, get recepees known to work like ayurvedic ones or good veg recipes. Avoid too much bread, good rice (basmati) can be filling. Organic ecological foods also.

If you only eat one dish, it better have everything needed and even then it can be lacking. No need to torment oneself.
I agree completely (and for the record I think that's awful -- I've switched to the only bank left in my country that still deals with bank notes) but that's a problem regardless of the status of CBDC as far as I can tell.
Existence is pain to a Meeseeks, Jerry!
I think that 1. is very bad idea and so is 2.

Both means that if the book you picked assumes you already knew something you don't really, you are stucked. If your book happen too explain something later or is not perfectly written, you are set up to fail.

Very often, later concept let's you figure out the first one. Very often, another book or source adds details to have been missing. Very often, you need to do something else for a while and when you come back to chapter, it suddenly clicks.
Catching up to the Casio models.

I guess Python is definitely the new BASIC.
Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend
When you keep saying the same thing year after year "we will have L5 this year" and you see with your eyes that 100% of your predictions were wrong, but still do it again. I find it hard to believe that this is coming from his "worldview" and think it's more like lying to create hype so you can sell more products, get more investment and boost stocks (which all happened thanks to what he has done)
This is just name calling and doesn't address any of the points, which are all valid - for anyone who pays attention to music.
"As told to" typically means she simply compiled what he told her. The byline is his.
There's actually decades of research on how to more effectively teach math, including the effectiveness of inquiry based learning approaches, which are more effective.

See the MAA's Instructional Practices Guide:
https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/curriculum%20re...

Here's info on research on the effectiveness of inquiry learning in math:
https://theconversation.com/who-learns-in-maths-classes-depe...
https://www.colorado.edu/eer/research-areas/student-centered...
A lot of cities too.
I think we agree on everything.
> Now imagine someone saying what you are saying, but about the nazi death camps: that there was plenty of good stuff there!!!

Nope. The original comment wasn't about death camps. It was about the whole of the country.

> Do you even realise that you are talking about an inhuman sistem that killed millions and shaped the lives on countless others in horrific ways?

Yes. We do realise that. Probably significantly more than you can imagine.

> Please have a little respect for the victims.

Ah yeah. A little respect for the victims by... ignoring and disrespecting literally everything else.

> Because every time we see a soviet apologist we can see his agenda, his hidden motives and perverted thinking.

Every time I see a comment like this, I realise I'm talking to a person completely ignorant of history.

Also, history is hard. You can't say "this was all bad, bad, bad, millions dead, nothing good can be said about it". Just as you can't say "this was all good, good, good, nothing bad can be said about it". You insist only on the former. The original comment didn't even begin to approach the latter.
> from village to bacteriological weapon design

Right, more bacteriological weapons is what the world needs.
No, it's public information if someone wants to find out. This is the full entitlement of Zoom https://pastebin.com/0qHP2v1F

Now it would be interesting to automatically download all the popular app every update and find private entitlements.
People who have children do indeed leave a lot more behind. Yet almost nobody can name their great great grandparents, know what they looked like, or in fact, know anything about them. Sure, "you're their legacy", but they never got to know you and vice versa.
Nitpicking I know,

but "we now know exactly how long the rope must be to get an area of 50 square units"

does not work with a formula that contains pi and additionally a square root, does it?

We know exactly what pi is, it is pi. The circumference of a cirle is exactly 2rpi. In this way we know the exact answer. But knowing it is "pi" - not the number pi 3.1415926535... - we don't know how long to create a rope, for that we would need to know the "complete" number of pi.

(Great article though)
a generation never did anything
One of the first comments made by the author was that he had the bad habit of writing div soups, and after his refresher not only was the author aware of a respectable list of semantic HTML elements and their appropriate usecases but he also was made aware of the importance of using HTML right to handle accessibility.

Sounds to me that it made two profound improvements over the author's HTML abilities.
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Apple is good at controlling Apple narratives even when they are completely detached from reality.

I don't think Apple needs to do what you suggest here to keep their narrative around the iOS App Store intact.
Scala 3 takes the most common use cases for implicits and makes them more ergonomic. Implicits are still in the language, but not exposed as concept.

Odersky called the approach for Scala 3 "intent over mechanism."
They have a documented process to apply for CarPlay. There is not even a way to apply for this special entitlement.
Well they also changed the name, so this new concept of Lovetris is by the new author, even if the code to make it possible is not. Lots of references to the old work as well, similar distribution (e.g. not paid), etc. If I was the author of Hatetris I'd be happy for this version!
Why is microsoft posting this / working on this rather than the rust project itself?
It's kind of hard to tell, actually.

On the one hand I did need a job and I'm at that age where it's not always easy to find one. On the other, ah, maybe I regret it a little, but not too much.

I mean, I'm usually pretty calm myself and I have worked previously with difficult people, so while it was truly a horrible place, it didn't affect me too much[1]. And then again, I did achieve some things. It was a really old project with old code and people with little and outdated knowledge, and I managed to clean up large parts, teach some things to the two or three receptive developers there, and write detailed but practical documentation for all the things I did. So all in all, at some level I do feel like I accomplished something.

But then again... There were other, much larger problems with the team, the project, management, etc, which were just insane. I ended up quitting when, after meeting with management once more, they simply answered that they didn't care and they wouldn't change a single thing at all.

----

[1] I do confess there were days when I thought about quitting, and just this once, on my second-to-last day, I did get angry at someone.
Had some issues with it not showing up on iOS at first but is resolved. (First result on google)
So the unit itself is now a Bluetooth speaker as well.
Like so: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsMwbhlSTj/?igshid=1wre6yuxymaz...

Just added a DAC/Amp + speaker inside.
While that's true, it's likely there's always going to be at least some trains that are visible even after full deployment as new satelites are launched to replace old ones

Starship will launch say 400 to LEO (rather than 60 as now), could it launch 100 to a higher orbit to reduce the impact? More starship launches (good for proving), and as the satelites deploy at a higher altitude they'll be darker
The Linux kernel style guide expresses a different rationale.
Simpsons already did it. Musk had better watch out for marauding babies.

Hmm, maybe that's why he moved to Texas...

("no jury in the world will convict a baby — except maybe Texas")
I'm a foodie, and still, I eat cereal with milk, for the straightforward reason that I just don't feel like cooking or doing any extra effort at 7 AM.

Of course, if I'm at a hotel, I storm the buffet and try all kinds of things. Surely my breakfasts would be much more creative if I had a cook and a butler.
Waiving IP of something that is not invented in your country is easy. Exporting as the same amount of vaccine as used in EU to non-EU country requires courage.
What most people don't realize is that farmers have alot of free time.

Most work of the day concentrates between early hours of the morning and lates hours of the afternoon.

Most of your day is usually free-time. Better than a 9-5 IMHO
"Maybe USSR killed millions of people but at least it let ethnic minorities to invent weapons to kill billions"
Think of all the people who made an impact on history and the world. How many of them did it by having children?

This guy at least got an article written about him, what have you done?
> For my part, I enjoy modal editors so I think vim is better than emacs and I like the GPL over BSD.

Calm down, Satan
What if you're wrong?
It's not just name-calling, it's accurately naming somebody's fallacy. The actual process that goes on with music and all other phenomena is that they change and eventually "die" in that nobody cares about them anymore. It happens with everything, and there is no villain.
Thanks.

> Hope you found a much more better environment!

Ah, we'll see how that goes.
Because it's rust interface to windows API
Have you considered that it is not "good riddance", but an observation that as the population declines the housing problem is decreasing until it will go away?

Population growth is a real problem, we are living in an finite system called planet Earth. With 1/4 of the world population everyone would live better - less pollution, 4 times more resources per capita, etc. Imagine California with 10-15 million inhabitants, no homeless people, enough water for everybody.
Not at all. There is reason no contemporary teachers give this particular advice.

Abel is famous because of his algebra results. He had awful good abstract thinking and was indeed very good at math. That does not only everything he ever said is correct. In particular, it does not imply general teaching skills.

Being good at proving theorems does not imply being good at teaching students.
Basically you were the ruling class and think that's how USSR was for average person :)
This obsession (disease) with brands seems to be accelerating in the USA, not only in terms of college but in terms of acceptable professions, acceptable companies to work for (FAANG?), acceptable startup startup accelerators, perhaps it is an inevitability of a winner take all society. How can the richest country in the history of earth produce a mindset of scarcity in it's people, i think this is a failure of the economic/political system that needs to be corrected. I originally come from a country where they decide a persons future based on a test they take before they are 18, let me tell you that this society has not produced anything noteworthy in thousands of years. When you create conditions in a society where everyone must fit a mold, you essentially erase a large part of happiness and creativity that exists in a people.
It's only a problem if you can't decide which part of your project to write with which language.

If I have to use Java, I put it into a separate sub-project and make sure that I have a nice API to interface between the subprojects. `.asJava` and `.asScala` then only appear at very specific places where the interop happens.
My high school took this concept one step further. We were tasked with designing a solar hot dog cooker. The physics class specified the reflective area needed to gather enough sunlight to cook the hot dog. They tossed that over the wall to the algebra class, who determined the parabola shape and focal length from the dog. From there it was sent to drafting class, where the plans were drawn up. Those went to the kids in wood shop, to build the thing from the plans.

Then one day we all went outside with our solar cookers and hot dogs and had a cookout. IIRC, there was a lot of variation among the cookers. Different reflectors were used (piece of aluminum sheet, bent and held by end brackets. Mylar film laminated to a wooden parabola "bed". One kid got adventurous and designed his with a vertical dog holder, and a circular parabola that was actually several different profiles stacked to "smear" the focal point along the vertical axis. I don't remember if it worked well or not)

I think we were meant to learn some sort of process engineering in addition to our respective subjects? Or just "teamwork", I guess.
Put the camera dot on the side of the app using it. Also is this really the issue? You can have an app voice recording and even quit it and it’s just fine.
It is a simplified illusion.

I always wanted to do ancestry for my family (family tree?) And I realized and still realize how far away people really become.

My last grandpa will die soon. I know his stories everyone knows but I don't know what he would have voted, what his favorite food is, what music he liked.

He has dementia now and forgets that he is at home and asks go go home.

What do I know from his life really?

He will end in some online tool as a name, two dates an image and lines connecting him to other family members.

I thought about making a legacy somehow and if I would make children I would create a family book and create rules which would share my thoughts with every future generation and everyone gets reached to follow it and enhance it like having Familie values and keeping them.

But at the end of the day I do realize for myself that this will not work as imagined and it doesn't matter at the end anyway.
Sadly Apple decided for a safe dialect of C for similar purposes e.g. iBoot, where they could have gone with Swift or Rust instead.

Very big ocean indeed.
The funny thing is that we call that minestra in Italy. I keep being pleasantly surprised by how food is just different shades when you move from country to country...
Your country doesn't seem to deploy infrastructure

You've likely got mains power and probably water (Sure I know some places are off the grid competely, but it's rare). Why don't those cables have fibre along side them to connect you.
Increasing density will naturally decrease reliance on personal motor-vehicles because more journeys become walkable.
> I hear London is a place best avoided. I think living in a city would be terrible – people living on top of one another in great tower blocks. I could never do it.

He should visit - most people in London don't live in tower blocks, and there's lots of nature around.

There are wild deer in Richmond Park, and Hampstead Heath is almost indistinguishable from any other forest (and quite close to the very center of London).
I think that's what they call "pushing on a string" (1).

Central banks can make lending/borrowing a worst business (higher interest rate) but they can't force people to borrow.

So, monetary policy is very limited when demand falls, then fiscal policy is necessary, but, until recently, fiscal policy was anathema because of ideological reasons.

(1) - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/push_on_a_string.asp
United States Emerges as Hotspot for Smart Wine Cellar Sales: Fact.mr Study
From no-code side-project to Zapier aquisition
And the perpetrator's name is conveniently "Abu Tahir"
Hoping cperciva answers this
Christopher Hitchens was great; one of the few public people whom I never met where I was genuinely sad when he died.

But in this, I'm not so sure he was right. He let his penchant for being contrarian and dislike of religion get the better of him. Not the only time this happened.
I'm sure it happens often, but only they know what's just happened.
The problem is that when handed numbers by a professional with years of training in an emotionally vulnerable state many people err on the side of being conservative on the issue at hand to avoid feeling like they may be judged.

This is further encouraged by modern western medicine being highly compartmentalised - to oversimplify, the cancer doctor has succeeded if you don't get cancer, but will probably never even find out if you get severe depression as a side effect of a side effect and certainly won't have to deal with it. Specialists also have their own professional and personal bias when they deliver their options, which is not apparent when presenting as a patient.

Is a scenario where the patient and the doctor are both acting based on short term benefit, rather than a holistic view, good for either party?

There is a role for large scale public health policy in my opinion, as morally complicated as it is.
Saw dust isn't an ideal fibrous material, but it's still primarily composed of fibers [see 1]. Really they're a bundle of fibers. On a macro scale it makes less sense, but on a micro-scale the fibers are much longer than the micro-cracks that begin to form in materials under strain and which lead to the loss of strength or fracture we normally think about.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012814...
It's their Windows API SDK, same as Amazon posting about their Rust SDK for AWS.
It's easy for those who are well versed in the technicalities of starlink (on both sides of the argument) to forget how most people don't understand the system. Good question, certainly shouldn't have been downvoted.
How much do you rally know and remember from your ancestors which is more than a handful and always the same stories?

How did that really influence you?

We can look back, we are not a magic generation unique to all the other generations before us. We know what's going to happen with us and our legacies.
I hated exercises like that. It always seemed like massive waste of time to me.