skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does? At least in group chats I have hundreds of people not in my contact list but they display as "0123456789 ~Steven".
Off topic but which MQTT broker do you use?
I was thinking about trying to make a version that optimized for giving you four lines at once to be a real lovetris but then decided that would probably just almost always give the straight pieces so it wouldn’t be too interesting.
> "If you don't care about drawing decorations I don't see why you would care if it looks native."

Don't you have this completely backwards? If I want my application to have special custom decorations, then it makes sense for my application to draw the decorations. But if I want my application to have the standard decorations of the system, why should I want my application draw them?

GNOME supporting SSDs would not diminish the ability of GNOME's applications to use CSDs. So objections about the utility of CSDs imply a false dichotomy.
Generous/humane immigration system.
that is not totally true, at least not in group chats. i can see names or part of names of people that i don‘t have on my contact list.
How often is that applicable.

Take the math for Physically Based Rendering (PBR), for example the Cook-Torrance reflectance equation.

For me at least, it's 1000x easier to understand with descriptive variable names than with L, p, w, kd, c, ks, D, F, G, n, L, dw

No idea where else this equation is useful because it used single letter variables.
> Abstraction makes the mechanics of solving a problem orthogonal to the specifics.

Not sure what you mean. Providing context does not change underlying math or mechanics of solving the problem at all. Just the same as if you asked somebody to solve FizzBuzz or BeepBoop.

What it does is make the rote exercise of solving more meaningful and relatable. Things that are relatable tend to be more easily internalized.

Talking about early childhood apples etc is missing the point. I'm talking about generic methodology to learn a new concept in a timeboxed way, not a multi-year development. Though thinking behind the two is the same.
There is no reason to repeat the process, after the first 10 years they already have enough examples of what X and Y can be that you don't need to do it for them, they already do it for themselves. If they don't then they haven't properly understood variables.
A sane, rational solution to a huge, massive problem? We wouldn't want any of those screwing up our politics, would we? /s

But really, Prop 13 is among the most ham-fisted damaging legislation you could possibly point to...
So what, who cares how this works technically. They made it work that way, hiding usernames on purpose to push users to give their app contacts permissions that aren't needed to display usernames.
Sometimes it is just that many randos care at all that matters, and that inspires a person to feel that they matter because you care.
Your instinct is absolutely right.
I have not seen anyone suggesting that learning to play an instrument is or can be effortless, yet for some reason people believe that STEM should be.
Reddit probably has some business subs
I imagine a company like Sonova has good access to excellent sound quality research. Perhaps a good place in this thread I can ask, if anyone has a recommendation for very high quality Bluetooth earbuds to connect with a MacBook and Android?
The optimization problem also includes drag losses at the lower altitudes.

And those drag losses are a lot lower keeping all the satellites inside the rocket rather than having each experience its own drag.

Might be worth putting an ion drive on the f9 2nd stage for that reason...
Hater alert!!
Do you guys think Linux on small SoCs are the future?

I’ve chosen the RPi 0W direction for a bathroom music player (Loodio.com) I’m working on because there are so many possibilities in the software and the goal currently is to make it so small a wall socket can support its weight. That way you never have to think about charging it, can do OTA updates and already supports so much software with Linux.

Perhaps the overhead is too high and you can already do a lot with Arduino etc?
I think that it has more to do with Samsung who intended to cross-polinate their medical and consumer audio products. So, Apple might be the cause but one step removed.
There's such a slim number of people to pull from in any "developed" nation that aren't complicit in a long chain of subjugation and destruction that I'm absolutely sure you're not one of them. It's not your fault, but you're guilty by association, you're part of the scourge simply by the virtue that you honor the social contract and maintain the status quo - not that we're given practicable options, but fortune never resulted in absolution.
It changes the problem in the minds of the student. If you call variables X and Y they wont assume that X and Y are special for this case. If instead you call them kilograms and kilometers people will assume that you teach them something that has to do with kilograms and kilometers and not some general purpose math equation.
the worst kind i think is the special entitlement whatsapp and other popular messaging apps get for abusing voip push notifications (not related to an actual voip call, but still waking up the app).
Changing the language or at least alphabet used to write the books the state can control what literature the next generation will be able to read.
> Wildfires and earthquakes are the only problems not self inflicted

Massive wildfires (vs small distributed fires) are the result of the policy framework that (a) prohibits preventative controlled burns (b) requires immediate containment of any new fire. The old (more flammable) undergrowth never has a chance to burn off and free up the space for (less flammable) new generation.

As a result CA is one of the most polluting states in the nation as far as co2 emissions https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-wildfires-ca...
We use multiple files at work, but all of our make rules first bundle the spec into a single file. We also save that bundle in our VCS. CI will fail if the bundle hasn't been recreated since updating the split files
Reading about what he eats, I am not sure why you would expect him to be thin.

Both his food and shape are pretty much the normal shape for people living in villages doing small farming.
Something that gets my goat - goats don't graze, they browse.

Great article though!
> We – the GenXers – think of the internet as the open web

It's more than that. We think of the Internet as something separate from the Web.
When i was in hs, we started a new robotics club, in our first year we went to nationals, we had a kid who literally did nothing for the club but wanted some kind of title in the club (i didn't understand why at that time because i came from a type of household where my parents never cared enough to even see my report card), he was in no way exceptional except his parents pushed him to work hard so that he got good grades. I bet he wrote a college essay about his passion for robotics and how he had helped build this successful robotics teams that did fairly well at nationals. He went to Harvard. In high school, for every person i saw who valued learning for its own sake, i saw about 10 people who were obsessed with grades/ec's because their parents told them that going to prestigious university x was their only hope for a future (I don't necessarily blame the kids when it is mainly the parents driving the show). I think this kind of attitude towards college and education is pernicious because i believe a society which moves towards an excessive superficial emphasis on brand names (not only in terms of college but in terms of acceptable lifestyles/professions) moves away from individuality into a collective type of society and i strongly believe revolutionary creativity which could advance society always come from individuals.
A good solution would be to lower property taxes for everyone to something manageable, and increase taxes elsewhere, especially around loopholes for the wealthy.
Yeah this is true, and I’m such a spiteful human being I actually take on the ux suffering just to screw them. You have to embrace it.
How is Arabic traced back to Phoenician when it looks much more like Hieratic[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieratic
Programming is easier because people care about readability! At least to a much greater extent than in math

A lot of people are bad at math, but decent programmers. Yet, programming is basically just composing expressions the same as you would in math? Why the disparity?
It depends on the implementation of course, but clearing 4 lines at once usually brings a huge amount of points. For example, NES version at the first "level" (slowest speed):

1 line = 40, 2 lines = 100, 3 lines = 300, 4 lines = 1200.

It also increases the speed every 10 lines, so you want to plan accordingly for maximum score. You can get above that first level with either 400 points or 3600.

If you have some time to kill, highly recommend this and the follow up video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaqVGzhQTM
I'm afraid that those children of yours might not be left behind with good manners.
Java is relatively common in HFT yes.
Beautifully written
I say bring it on. Slowly people will be annoyed and switch to other platform, I will have no reason to use it by then. It is very sad that Apple is not providing Messenger to Android, it can definitely eat Facebook's lunch.

I think Facebook has a better bargaining chip with Instagram, it has been their front tier force competing with others.
Fans of IBM Z – IBM Z and LinuxONE Community
I find people who close themselves off to new experiences depressing to be around. Often it comes with age. I'm 57, but have a 7 year old daughter. I love how excited she gets to see new things and I enjoy them with her. My parents, meanwhile, are what you might call "world weary." Depressing, and boring.

Being "noble, humble, and virtuous", if that is what you call the author of the article, is an orthogonal property. I'm not really sure he is particularly notable in those respects though. He's not harming anyone, but he's not out there making the world better for others to any great degree either. He's just living his life.
>The Economist is pro-market

I'd say the Economist is pro incumbent-centric market
There's just something inherently satisfying about farming, growing your own food and taking care of land. Obviously it's hard work and difficult if you actually need to make a decent living out of it, but as a hobby it has been most refreshing for someone who spends his days staring at display.

I hope eventually I can raise my family in a farm-environment while working remotely, and get some extra income on top of that by growing stuff in small scale.
> the rest is dumped overseas.

Or worse, shredded outright. In Germany alone, 230 million pieces of clothing (or 10% of the year's offering) are shredded without ever being worn (https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article203216646/Bekleidung-H...).
Incompetence is not maliciousness.
Your ABI Is Probably Wrong
From that github discussion:

> "The default green is 0xb9ca4a [which is actually yellow](https://www.color-hex.com/color/b9ca4a)."

While I agree that 0xb9ca4a is not a good choice for a default green, I disagree with the claim that it's yellow. In fact, the website that user cited for their "which is actually yellow" claim doesn't say what that user claims. That website says:

> Color #b9ca4a contains mainly GREEN color.

To my eyes, it's puke green. And the shades and tints of this color shown on that page make it clear that this is green.
If you install whatsapp business you can setup an auto response to messages telling people you no longer use whatsapp and to switch to Signal.
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The two solutions of aXX+bX+c = 0 are X=(-b+√(bb-4ac))/2a and X=(-b-√(bb-4ac))/2a ?

You would convert this equation into an unrecognizable monostrosity."

For any beginner this is a unrecognisable monstrosity.

Having real names for the variables can give them something to hold on. Something they can relate to. So it makes sense to their brain.

And later on, you can abstract it - and they are fine with it and see the benefits.
(I still want programming variable names to be as descriptive as possible)

You (and probably everyone else around here) are used to abstraction - a beginner to math is not!

(and sadly, most people are even after 12 years of schoolmath still beginners in math)

And the focus on abstraction is a huge wall, making everything harder than it needs to be.

" Thus it pays off to have variable names as meaningless as possible. "

I agree that this is very helpful to achieve, when you are dealing with plain math only. But I think this thinking actually lead to lots of real world harm - when variables are not meaningless factors in math - but representing real persons. Which is forgotten quite often, if some buerocrat for example just sees them as a "meaningless variable" and treats them like this. But in reality this can mean, someones existence just got crushed.
Only financial institutions can have accounts with the Federal Reserve.
So you are saying there is no way for two willing, informed adults to consent to this happening?
Linux has a ton of pull in this space, but you can still do a lot with thinner RTOSs on smaller, less powerful (and power-hungry) SoCs.
Yes they do, because I have never even heard of that.
This applies to learning about applications of math, it doesn't apply to learning math. If you give the Cook-Torrance reflectance equation with proper variable names to some random linear algebra student they should be able to solve it since it is just basic maths, but they will struggle immensely trying to do anything with it since all the names will confuse them.
I personally tend to trust what emerges from an open market free from institutional collusion most.
There’s always this guy on the internet that thinks in absolutes. The world is black and white for him, without any historical context. It’s all about strong words like “man-made famine”, “slavery camps” etc., all feelings and no thinking.
Why stop there? America First supported Weimar Republic, which killing method landed on gas being most efficient for helpless civilians. Disrupts prison showers too.

Maybe it wasn't a solution though.
Things really have changed when housing cost is a greater problem than getting tenure.
I don't see a reason why any time is too late to get out. I was in software development and sysadmin field for about 15 years. Then started hand engraving (got quite good at it) and now I'm a full time CNC machine shop and growing steadily. Loving (almost) every day of it. Also went to college to study mechanical engineering. Of course being your own boss usually doesn't let you switch off at the end of the day, but that was just the choice I made for myself.

I believe I could get back to IT if I really wanted to, or needed to. Would need few months of getting up to date with all latest developments and living in the "land of the unicorns" I don't think getting well paying job would be a problem.
The Latin alphabet as used by the ancient Romans corresponds to the modern capital letters. More precisely, our capital letters corresponds to the alphabet used for inscriptions in stone or other hard materials.

The capital letter V was used for both the vowel u and for the consonant u (usually written "w" in English).

Many hundreds of years later when the alphabets that are the ancestors of the modern small Latin letters were developed for writing on parchment with a pen (i.e. goose feather), the small letter corresponding to the capital letter "V" was "u".

So, for some time, Latin was written using the pair capital "V" and small "u" for both the vowel and consonant "u".

However, in all Romance languages the consonant "u" (English "w") had changed its pronunciation to the fricative "v", so when writing modern languages there was a need to distinguish "u" and "v". That lead to the creation of the capital "U" and of the small "v", and "Vv" were assigned to the fricative, while "Uu" were assigned to the vowel.

As another detail of the "U" writing history, the letter "F" was used in Greek to write the consonant "u" (English "w").

However the Latin language had the fricative "f", which did not exist in Greek, and there was a need to have a letter for it. The Romans chose "F" for the fricative "f", which forced them to reuse "V" (previously used only for vowel "u"), for both the vowel and consonant "u".

So, the modern Latin alphabet has five letters that were originally used to write some variant of "u": F, U, V, W and Y.

("w" was introduced in English because they still had the consonant "u", unlike the Romance languages, where "v" was assigned to the fricative sound; "Y", a different graphic form of "V", was introduced by the Romans to write Greek words, because the Greeks no longer pronounced the vowel "u" like the Romans, but they pronounced it like the German "u" Umlaut or the French "u").
I ditched WhatsApp a few days ago.

I was mostly worried about friends in Asia and Africa, because phonecalls and SMSes will be prohibitively expensive, but my worries were unfounded: north'ard of 90% of my contacts have already migrated to Signal and WhatsApp — about fifty-fifty, as far as I can tell — so out went WhatsApp. No more Facebook apps for me, thanks.
Did anyone get past the Paywall‽
I find this a cool hack, but I can't really understand the point: there are already a ton of package-efficient pastas (most of the long ones like spaghetti and the tiny ones like risoni).

I am not sure there really is a problem solved by this.

OTOH, I suspect the mouthfeel of self-curling and pre-curled pasta won't be the same, so it might be interesting to sell it as a novelty food :)
Users will progressively move to alternatives as WhatsApp forces them to accept the new privacy policy.
SVT Encore – Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg
That kind of thing happens more often than I'm comfortable with.
Their comment was on people moving from traditional nomadic life to modern education within a lifetime. How are Asian Americans relevant to that situation in the slightest? Because both groups of people happen to be Asian?
Yes, most currencies are mostly managed digitally.

A better description of the concept may be a centralised digital ledger.

Currently the government has a database that tracks what you owe in taxes. Your bank has a database that tracks your savings account. Your pension manager has an account that tracks your retirement investments.

And we all just kind of hope that double-entry accounting mostly keeps the whole ship afloat for most of the money.

A CBDC would essentially be held on a single ledger by the government. Wherever the money goes is tracked by whoever is holding it, but the single source of truth is the government ledger.

It solves a lot accounting problems but introduces privacy concerns.
Doesn't YouTube TV work on various devices? Roku doesn't eradicate your subscription when they remove the app from their store. I'm not sure they even remove the app from your TV.
Add a second dot.
Link has nothing to do with text.
What I found that is as migrants we have an idealistic nostalgic image of the homeland in our minds but in reality our homeland also changes quite fast so much that one is left with disappointment mostly....
Indeed. There's also the point of making it as cheap as possible, or profitable to rich people, like with soylent green.
>Blue state politics is not what is driving people out of California

It's certainly part of it (wealth tax, non-nuanced small-biz killing lockdown, signalling > results) though.

Not all 'blue state politics measures/stances' overlap.
ApplePay isn't cross platform... its limited to the Apple ecosystem of users.
Incorrect link. Should be https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/Butterfly-Backup
Just tonight I was in the backyard with the kids when one one them yelled, “what’s that?”, pointing up. I immediately knew what it was, but just seeing that long string of satellites going by and going by and going by (it felt like it took 5 minutes for all of them to pass) was one of the most shocking things I’ve seen in the night sky (and I’ve seen some crazy stuff in my nearly 50 years). One thing I was a bit surprised about was how they weren’t as evenly spaced as I would have to expected. Most were in a straight line, but a few were a bit off from the others. Some were close together, leaving large gaps. Overall, I can see why the astronomers are worried.
This could be said about every tax ever
It's always a tradeoff.

Single-letter variables are extremely superior if you're working out math on paper or at a board. It is simply not possible to work through a long and complex calculation or derivation with variable names that are not compact.

You also end up concentrating more on structure than on identity. You recognize idioms (like the dot products in your example) and it almost doesn't matter what the things being dotted together are; the physical form of the problem guides you to what they must be, even if you lose track. There is only one way it can go.

The flip side is that if someone else does the derivation, and you just need to use the result, it's basically completely incomprehensible to you. You haven't put in the time to understand the problem yourself (if you had, you'd "just" have derived or at least worked through everything yourself), so the extra affordance of long, descriptive variable names often makes a tremendous difference to final understanding.

This, incidentally, is a major point of difference between programming code and mathematics. For any good mathematics problem, there is only one right answer, and any attempt to solve that problem will reach it. (Possibly in a different guise, but the solutions will certainly be isomorphic.) Programming is so often business-driven or real-world-constraint-driven that this is not true. Two attempts to solve the problem may diverge radically. And no one will ever derive business logic from ZFC set theory! So for mathematicians, the fundamental understanding of the problem domain necessary to do good mathematics enables the use of terse, fluid notation. Since programming just doesn't work that way, its verbose, rigid notation is much more useful.
Yeah, and that is a good example of how semantics might change depending on which platform Kotlin code is targeting.
That was the major selling point of the CA high-speed rail when Governor Brown originally put it on the ballot - everyone would live in one of those ever-expanding residential suburbs and then take a quick train ride into a busy urban area.
Yet I run into comp sci textbooks that use useless variable names for what are actually meaningful values all the time!

The first thing I do, and recommend anyone do, when learning new algorithms is to immediately convert the one letter var gibberish into a real program with proper variable names. Suddenly what looked like a huge, meaningless expression becomes so easy to understand!

The lack of focus on readability is rampant through math and math adjacent fields.

Example:

Another commenter mentioned the Cook-Terrance Reflectance Model. When I google this, I get a large expression with one letter variables. So I'm supposed to store in active memory which letter maps to which real world concept?

There's a reason one letter variables is considered a terrible coding practice. Why rely on human memory caching, when you can actually be descriptive?
If you meditate then ironically you're trying to achieve the state of mind this man has achieved and lives every day.
Cut raw into small pieces and eat it slowly. As a spice or something like that - it adds flavor when mixed with other foods.

For example, you can put butter or lard on bread, spread those small pieces of onion on it, add salt. It is actually good.

You can also cut it into thick ovals and bake. Third option is to caramelize it. But, these two are time consuming.
Are we to infer that you aren't happy?