skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listen I’m glad this approach seems to work to you and I hope it might even get you through some dark times one day, but there is a reason you are using contrived child like examples here, it’s because it doesn’t hold up to anything remotely dark.

What life lessons do you want for the parent of a child who was sexually abused for example? Are they allowed to feel like a victim? What about the child?
Python is a Strongly Typed, dynamically typed language.
I have similar issues with advertising, but i'd also ask for the following question, because it's a sincere one and I don't have a good answer for it.

I work at a company that is trying to introduce a new kind of product, one that I sincerely believe is intended to help people rather than _just_ make money (this is unusual for me, because i'm usually extremely cynical about motivations). The problem is that most potential customers we could help aren't even aware that what we're offering exists, they may not even think to find out if such a thing exists. How do we create awareness of this thing without advertising?
As you point out, the exact properties that make binary search algorithmically fast can slow it down on real computer hardware.

Branch predictors like low entropy (unsurprising) branches, but binary search is algorithmically fast because it maximizes the entropy (information gained) from the few branch checks that it does make.
Thanks, I was looking for this comment. Most of the examples he gave just seem like absolute straw men to me:

> The web: couldn't you just transfer a file to an open port and use a rendering tool to view it?

Did anyone actually ever say this? The web was clearly a technological advancement that most tech people realized out of the gate.

> Wikis: couldn't you just update a web page?

It was pretty obviously apparent with wikis that letting anyone update the page, from the browser, was a cool technological achievement. I was well into my tech career at this point and don't remember anyone reacting to wikis this way.

> youtube: couldn't you just upload a video and use tags for search?

I mean, these are getting ridiculous. When YouTube came out video sharing was a major PITA, a pain that hit most technical people, too.

I just don't buy GP's premise because all of the examples seem like something only "Tech Support Guy" from those old SNL skits would say.
To all but one of the YouTubers I watch, I get the impression that anything it pays is at most secondary to them; they're not optimising for payout because they're not 'trying to earn a living'.

Clough42 for example is a software engineer, and makes metalworking & 3D-printing videos that I enjoy watching; he certainly gets ad money (O(100ks) subscribers) but I'd guess he spends more on equipment, tools, etc. (and would despite the income) - certainly if you counted lost earnings from 'he could be doing contract work instead' - because that's not the point, it's a hobby, and a secondary hobby is putting it on YouTube for me (and millions of others) to enjoy.

(I'm sort of hesitant to single someone out - especially someone who's probably on HN, heh - but I that's the impression I get anyway. If it's not totally true for him I'm sure it is for others.)
Well, I guess you miss the point here. You got caught up in the details while forgetting that Jeff Bezos subjective regret projection was a form of having the courage to live a life true to himself instead of what was expected of him as a EECS engineer..
I'm highly skeptical of this source. What percentage of that water usage for animal agriculture is actually in the form of grass (or rainfall more properly)? What percentage of the land used could be productively farmed by humans for human edible foods? What percentage of the GHGs from animal husbandry are net new? IE, a cow eats some grass, makes some co2 or w/e, which then goes back into new grass.
Yes. Activity detection is performed by occasionally sampling the the accelerometer in android phones. IIRC, it is turned on for a few seconds every 60 seconds or so, and the samples are sent through a rather simple ML model that produces: {activity as one of: {biking, walking, running, driving, motorcycling, unknown, <a few i do not remember>}, confidence: float [0..1)} . Source: worked on this long ago at Google.
You misunderstood the specific situation with Netflix. They have a solution that is free to ISPs, and dramatically reduces transit on their networks. The networks instead wanted to extract a rent specific to Netflix.
Pepsi Number Fever, also known as the 349 incident
But how many people know what they don't know?

If you push someone to give you an answer to some question they don't know, that's different from someone that goes around thinking and acting as though they know the answer.

Only the latter seems like a real misconception to me.
If only we could have stopped doctor salary inflation instead, like other developed countries :)
You have a strawman example of piping via .member() because those () sometimes have arguments; that's what they are there for. Function application has not gone away; it's just combined with obj.member access. It can easily become an unreadable mess that will need some way of splitting across lines and indenting:

something.first(other.foo(bar.f(x, y)).memb, z).second(x.y()).third(a, b, c)

This:

(third
(second
(first
(something))))

is just function notation with the location of the opening parenthesis having been re-examined, and commas removed. Function application notation is found in a myriad languages: sin(cos(pow(x, 2))).

With the above indentation, it's very readable to me; it's very clear that calculation starts with (something) and moves in an outward direction.

(-> something first second third)

Right, yes, so we have threading macros, and people use them. That's not all that goes left to right. Lisp's ancient progn (including implicit progn) goes left to right, as do the arguments of functions and most macros:

(defun app ()
(init)
(event-loop)
(cleanup)
(exit 0))

Sequential binding can break up a nested "point-free" expression, as an alternative to threading:

(let* ((a (first (something)))
(b (second fi))
(c (third se))
...)
> is that you have no choice other than to lose data.

Right-to-repair is great and all, but trusting the storage on a laptop is crazy. I've had basically the same thing happen with Dells, etc.

Forget just laptops, though they are more failure prone. Trusting the storage on any single machine for critical work data for any longer than necessary is unprofessional.
The current Mindstorms set is Robot Inventor (released 2020), which has a variety of improvements over the older EV3 (half the size and weight, programming and remote control via Bluetooth, better sensors, better programming interface, etc), but which can't be flashed to run a Linux distro like the older EV3 (released 2013).

For a step down in price, there's the Powered UP hub/motor/sensor sets, which have a partial degree of programmability compared to the Mindstorms hubs, similar remote control functionality, and interchangeable motors/sensors with Robot Inventor (though the Powered UP ones generally are lower quality).

The Powered UP components look like they're also being set up as a generic replacement for previous powered parts (for use with trains, motorized parts of architecture pieces, etc), but there's some things still missing (like 'dumb' battery boxes to connect to motors) before it can realistically replace the older Power Functions parts for a lot of people.

One very interesting thing is that they've actually publicly released specs for the Bluetooth connections used by Robot Inventor and Powered UP: https://lego.github.io/lego-ble-wireless-protocol-docs/
Is this the same as Filevault or is it something different?
Most reactors use somewhere in the range of 3-5% U235 (compared to .7% naturally). That by itself won't let you make a bomb, but it gets you about 1/8th of the way to 20% which is about where a bomb is possible.
I’ve long been a fan of return early and often.

The code shown with the if with two returns I think adds cognitive complexity - there is no need for the else.
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That looks amazing. I'll be placing instant orders for my house and the local running/MTB trail areas.
I saw him mention it at the end of this article, but the way the link was presented caused me to lose any interest in clicking it. Is it a story worth reading?
It's learned by going through trauma or PTSD enduring experiences. That's what the empirical data showed. It is not learned by simple teaching and seeing others attitudes, that bit was a non proven hypothesis that the interviewee said they think cultural differences might have an effect, but their experimentation were only done in Israel.

So when you hear "learned behavior" don't think as in this is what my parents told me or taught me. It means this was learned by being mistreated as a child, not given consistent care and attention, and such.

> You don’t need to have been victimized, physically abused, for example, in order to exhibit TIV. But the people who score very high on TIV are generally those who have experienced some kind of trauma, like PTSD

> when a child is very young, and care is uncertain, perhaps the caregiver, or the male figures in the child’s life, don’t act consistently, sometimes they may act very aggressively without warning, or they don’t notice that the child needs care. That’s when the anxious attachment style or ambivalent attachment style is created

> This is just my hypothesis, but there are certain societies, particularly those with long histories of prolonged conflict, where the central narrative of the society is a victim-oriented narrative, which is the Jewish narrative
Those differences are more important on editors or programming websites, than for general text.

Reason being that in general text we don't read based on individual letters, we recognize "shapes" of words.

That's because it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Over-reliance on swap due to small RAM and fast SSD, I would guess.
Wasn’t that debunked with the tool used to monitor the writes not being updated for M1s so it was showing garbage?
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Google has chosen poorly in forcing Google Prompts on all signed-in phones and tablets when 2-step verification is turned on. It nullifies the extra security of a hardware key, turning all of your phones and tablets into weaker second factors, whether you want it or not.

To disable Google Prompts and just use your YubiKey's U2F, you could enroll in Google's Advanced Protection Program. But then your TOTP and backup codes would stop working, as would any third-party apps that need access to data in your Google account.

The YubiKey, by the way, is a great hardware TOTP key, in addition to being a FIDO U2F key. TOTP has an advantage over U2F in that you can keep backup copies of the TOTP secrets. Of course TOTP is less secure because it is phishable, but U2F is a real pain because you can't make backup copies of the key.
As another person of color, I agree.

What really makes me nervous is the talk of "white privilege". Although it is not meant as such, it is saying that in the world as is, all things being equal, white people are superior to people of color. For example, if you had to evaluate totally objectively whether you should hire a white CEO or a person of color as CEO, and they were otherwise equal, if you believe in the framework of systemic racism/white privilege, you should hire the white CEO.

Moral persuasion, and aiming for an ideal world, will only be effective so far, and then people will turn to what gives them an advantage.
I was shocked at the Cambridge story because I thought everybody already knew that hundreds of thousands of 3rd parties had full access to that sort of data, with the only protection being Facebook had a policy that you weren't supposed to make a copy & pass it around.
Raptor Computing offers (expensive) Power9 workstations, so it's not impossible to get.

But yeah, even seeing it is rare. Maybe some console could use a Power chip again (like the GameCube/Wii), though I doubt it.
How can you say that the fact that wages are lower than the alternative is the problem, and in the same paragraph say that low wages are an unrelated problem. Low wages are literally _the_ problem. If you paid people more, they would leave unemployment and take the pay. In my experience it's a small subset that refuses to work at all costs. I know people who want to work but just can't find jobs that ate _worth it_. A job needs to be worth it or we create a dystopia of essentially mass capitalistic incarceration.

By your own statement, if they raise the wage, people will go back to work. This "solution" is just kicking the legs out from under people who are just barely able to stand as it is.
<pulls BCPL book from shelf>

Although the book was written in 1979, BCPL dates to 1967. There is a hello, world example on page 8. Wondering if it is likely that hello, world as a simple example program really began with B?
If you use tensorflow, tfhub [1] is the go-to model repository.

[1] https://tfhub.dev/
BCH and ETC aren't the only forks. Take a look at cheapETH. I bet the exchange you're on didn't give you any of those!
May I ask which coach you are working with? My wife is interested in one of those services. Thanks!
With the story of Target figuring out daughter was pregnant before the daughters father, it gives rise to all kinds of "Movie plot" plausible sounding scenarios.

Movie plot: Two people meet up, have fun, then go their separate ways. 9 months later she has a kid, dad doesn't know. But FAANG knows...

The problem with "plausible movie plots" is they are often overrated in terms of % chance of happening.

With linked graphs and relationship trees, it doesn't seem impossible "The Algorithm" could figure out you have kids before you do, or at least base it's Advertising results on a % chance guess.
One of the craziest parts is the total lack of accountability.

Google / FB just say they show your ad to a XXXX million people. You owe them $XXXX.
It also helps keep a slug of water from entering the air lines if employees (and management) puts off draining the accumulated water for too long. You can also get ones that are triggered by a float if the system is for 24/7 operation.
This is why it never pays to be an early adopter.

I am very satisfied in my decision to wait a few generations on this.
Beautiful plumage, isn't it?
In my experience it's better to shop around payment processors to see if they are willing to take less than the 2.9%, and keep that markup to yourself.
Do new macs not show the "sad mac" or "cross-eyed mac" if they can't read the boot drive?
Would like to see some Zelle integration, as almost all major banks in the US already integrate with it. No need for crypto or closed wallets (PayPal and Cash app), just tie into existing instant payment infra.

https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
He seems pretty cranky but 'are these observable phenomena maybe some kinda fungus? I don't think it's calcified minerals' is a much more modest claim than 'extinct civilizations built pyramids and giant faces for us to discover.'
What's old is new, I suppose.

This is one of the reasons the cloud storage services became so popular. Properly backing up data, with multiple backups, not all piled in the flood prone corner of a closet, is not fun.
The thing I like about the password is that it does not involve any additional technology dependencies.

GitHub is going down this road, too, announcing that they will soon disallow password-based auth on git operations.

I'm not sure if I will keep using it after that, because having to log into the website from every workstation, some of which may not even have a browser "good enough" for github.com, is more extra work than I'm willing to attend to.
The arrogance of appropriation is a pathology common to developers.

For example: “we’re rolling out a new tool. It takes only fifteen minutes to learn!” when 100,000 people have to learn it.

Developers working in advertising aren’t just exhibiting this disorder; they are consumed by it.
yeah that was basically it for me. JVM for computer music just doesn't make any sense but I loved the language so went hunting for others.
Even better, use Time Machine to a NAS! You can have redundant drives, in case one dies!

Migrating Time Machine backups from a USB drive to a network share is not supported, but it's doable, not impossible. (This is something I've done before, and in fact I'm doing this for family right now.)
"changed shape and location then disappeared" - and how is that not the most breaking news everywhere? Where are the pictures?
> auto s[20] ;

> putstr(getstr(s)); putchar('*n');

What could possibly go wrong?
Have you actually looked into the technology behind Ethereum? Do you understand how complex it is? You make it sound like Vitalik just quickly threw something together and had good marketing, however, Ethereum is quite technical and has been since the beginning [1].

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/
There was a different similar post a few days ago
from Facebook and this one stems from Dropbox and
they both are said to make Python code run faster.

I think the obsession with monocultures is unhealthy.

Python is a great language.
It is reasonably easy to learn, somewhat readable if you dont yet.
It is one of the most popular programming languages on the planet.
But it was not created to produce the fastest code possible.

There are other programming languages that are focused on speed.

Perhaps for the most critical parts use one of them.
Python can integrate pretty well with C with some magic i hear-
(Never tried it myself).

One programming language will never cover all use cases and they
should not have to.

Every programing langue is not made to be "functional" but they can
be tortured into it.

Every programming language is not object oriented, but they can be tortured
into it.

Every programming langue is not focused on being the fastest on execution
but they can be tortured into it.

There is a reason carpenters have more than one tool to build something.

For the longest time I programmed in C with some C++ mixed into it.
It is a great language. There are many problem domains I would not
recommend using C.

I think it was delightful ot pickup Python many years ago.

It is great. I can be very productive in Python in contexts were
Python is great.

It is not C, it should not want to be.

Now I am picking up Elixir, I am learning a lot.
It is neither Python or C and I am happy with that.

use proper tool for the job at hand

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Like someone else mentioned below, B isn't really typeless, so much as it's all just one type, which was the standard for BCPL -- everything is just a word! If memory serves, part of what made C itself was adding "char", which refers to a single byte, using the (newly released!) PDP-11's byte addressing mode (which didn't exist on the machines B was started on).

Nowadays we do byte addressing for everything, but in PDP-11 machine code a byte address and word address are different AFAIK, so char and int pointers would be incompatible.
Some past threads:

Politics and the English Language (George Orwell, 1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828499 - Oct 2020 (1 comment)

George Orwell on Writing and the 4 Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712057 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538496 - Feb 2017 (21 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12327324 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271030 - Aug 2016 (150 comments)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452900 - Oct 2015 (2 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6643231 - Oct 2013 (62 comments)

“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6277405 - Aug 2013 (2 comments)

Politics and the English Language [1945] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752825 - March 2012 (13 comments)

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" 1946 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079477 - Jan 2011 (1 comment)

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997940 - Dec 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=636287 - June 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272211 - Aug 2008 (11 comments)

Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115519 - Feb 2008 (5 comments)

Orwell has many brilliant essays—the others deserve attention too, but I suppose it's a winner-take-all market.

The clarity of his writing is so hard to beat that I'm not sure a clearer writer exists.
Access to the disk and data was lost.
I couldn't find via Ctrl+F, it sounds like this exceeds the Rayleigh Criterion, is that correct?
I don't see any conflation of Isreli and Jewishness in the article. Israel itself has its own groups and "victims", maybe not as crazy as the US but like any other country it is not without internal grievances and issues.
A "successful" ad has a CTR (click through rate) of over 0.2%. Almost no one is clicking on ads.
Why Reddit or Discοurse haven't created a competing service to Disqus goes beyond me.
How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning
Can you still use ssh keys? I haven’t used http for git in years. I store the SSH key’s password in the keychain and then I’m good to go.