skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, until science can provide a better answer to the meaning of life than:

> "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built." (Bertrand Russell)

I doubt people will stop having hope that there is an an answer more fulfilling/meaningful/better than that out there somewhere.
I've worked at places where people have exported draw.io as PNG/PDF on internal wikis for diagrams. But what happens when you want to change it? You then have to track down the people who made them, and get access yourself - or find it buried on someone's google drive.

With PlantUML you usually commit your diagram's text syntax to VCS, often close to the code.

As far as usability, we're never going to agree. I find it tedious, compared to writing predictable declarative syntax.
Always an option to push for something like mypy. That'd at least give students exposure to types (even if they don't have to write them)
Cyber attack 'most significant on Irish state'
> Yes you need factories in your own country but this is only because of national security, the actual economic benefit isn't the deciding factor.

You can't separate the two in the case of the US. Having the semi fabs in the US is an economic factor because it's a national security factor, even if it involved adding zero net new jobs because it was all automated by AI + robotics.

Insurance is a very important segment of economy. Risk limiting, prevention. Security, both cyber and physical. And so on. For a business they're critical to sales even though they're costs and not generative for the businesses in terms of sales, they help to make sales possible by protecting the business (like having shelter for your employees). Building fabs in the US plays that same role to the US economy, it's a form of insurance, and it also helps to maintain/retain tech know-how. It's absolutely critical to the US economy, when you consider the realistic context of the world, re the US & China (as opposed to running a spreadsheet economic scenario that involves no potential politics, conflicts or wars).

Semiconductors are critical now and will be more so in the future. The US has both the world's largest economy, most to lose in the tech sector, most powerful military (which depends on semiconductors and will more so tomorrow) and the most wealth of any nation. A superpower without a military is no superpower; the most wealth without a military to protect it, you won't keep that wealth for long. It's pretty obvious that's a very massive economic factor. Being brought to your knees as a superpower - both militarily and economically - by your primary global rival because you failed to build some fabs, would be particularly stupid. It's similar to the rare earth metals problem, both in terms of economy and national security.

You might be able to separate the fab context of economy from national security to a limited extent in smaller nations, where realistically there's nothing you can do to stand off against far larger nations regardless of what you do about semiconductors (you'll lose whether you build that fab or not). Such is not the case with the US however. The US has epic scale global economic interests that very strongly benefit from having global military projection and security.
We undertook a migration from not-JIRA to JIRA. Our previous issue tracker would let us have the same task in different columns on multiple boards. You could do your investigation, post your comment, reassign to the reporter, and move it into your "waiting" column. Then they would move it into their "in progress" column, do their piece, and get back to you. A complex cross-org issue might show this cycle 5+ times.

In JIRA it is completely impossible. A task has one project and one status. You're lucky to have view and comment rights on another team's task, forget about change-status or reassign. An admin can "move" an issue but then it's gone from your own world.

The net result: the issue tracker is no longer a communications medium, but a paper trail for the bean-counters, where you laboriously log conversations and decisions that actually occurred by email or Slack. There will be a JIRA corresponding to any give issue, but reading the JIRA will not tell you the story anymore.
Fair point, although as the answer states, it depends on use cases. Working with small datasets the performance difference is negligible, but with decently large datasets (~1-100mb) and nested loops the delta is night and day.
Or "plugging" if we are talking about other drugs.

> The insertion or other voluntary introduction of foreign matter into the anus or vaginal cavity for the sole purpose of recreational misuse (or use) of said item/substance. Similar to butt chugging, with the exception of using non-liquidous matter instead of alcoholic beverages.
> I think we should be teaching static types and I pushed for Typescript

Another option would be to introduce Python types:

def square(x: int) -> int:
return x*x

http://mypy-lang.org/examples.html
I have the opposite impression. I only like niche content about tools and life hacks, but every time seedy content is pushed back into my feed.

It has gotten worse in the past year.

I am actually surprised people see positives about Tik Tok. IMO it has a much worse societal impact than competition.
#purpleland ... the new Iceland? =)
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"The problem is that the racial distribution of those students who are good at math upsets the blank slate world-view of the teachers"

Do you have any evidence that teachers are more likely to hold blank slate world-views? I've met very few people who believe this, and teachers don't seem any more likely to me to hold these views.

"notion that some students are smarter than others and that these discrepencies have consistent ethnic patterns fills them with a lot of rage due to their politics/religion."

Well, I do feel somewhat enraged reading these types of statements because it is wrong and harmful. I also say this as someone without a "blank slate world-view" (I've a background in genetics) and as a teacher.

You're statement is wrong because:
1) Race is a nebulous political construct not consistent over time and space
2) Observed racial differences are context dependent and also not consistent over time and space

You cite "Asians" as outperforming other groups (presumably in school in the West?) as one of your "consistent" ethnic patterns. But on closer inspection it is nothing but artifact of cherry-picking results that fit your hypothesis. Another time and place and you may get totally different results - and only one example is sufficient to prove your "consistent" hypothesis wrong. In fact, you pointed out yourself that performance has changed in the US and various European countries, undercutting your whole point on consistent racial differences! Probably if we go back to the period of European colonialism the difference is even more stark, but that is also cherry picking history... If we go back 3000 years, Europe is a poorly educated backwater relative to Egypt or the Middle East.

Group math educational attainment has far more to do with social context and history than "racial distribution of those students who are good at math". It's why relatively recent Asian immigration from say China for scientific and technical jobs is likely to produce kids who are good at math, but the same out-performance in not seen in say, Hmong refugees from Vietnam.

Also, AFAIK Asian kids don't currently outperform all other ethnic groups in the United States in educational attainment - I believe that honor now goes to Nigerian kids. Does that fit your world-view?

"Taiwan and China are under no such illusions. They are happy to identify smart students and give them challenging topics in order to help them achieve their potential, rather than trying to slow down the best students in order to pretend that everyone has the same talent for math. "
Right, because teachers don't try to help students reach their potential and try to slow down great students?! Students can't skip grades, take AP classes or graduate college early?! A teacher giving everyone in the course the same math homework or test is pretending everyone has the same talent for math?!
Well yes. But as the problem solver, there is nothing better than when someone has a problem, and you have a solution ready at hand which came from lambda calculus or distributed systems tricks or some crazy shit from On Lisp. That is why they are paying you, not to cranks out good dutiful straightforward solutions but for clever ideas that are simple to implement and operate. The engineering is both awareness and skill in following processes to get great cheap and effective solutions. Otherwise you end up with 20 million lines of
code and all the aesthetically sensitive people have have to leave the company.
That is a possibly valid argument. A woke one, in fact. It's unfortunate that you started the discussion on a very wrong foot.

For whatever it's worth, I think the sentence you quoted from the article was a very clumsy segue, and the argument it hinted at wasn't supported by the rest of the article.
Not only that, but I imagine in pre-industrial times, those who got currently-curable forms of cancer didn't get cured during those times, and Darwinian forces stopped them from reproducing.

There isn't a necessarily good or bad here but those Darwinian forces did eliminate a lot of genetic defects from the population before modern medicine.

In the future though we might be able to yet again eliminate defects not by natural selection but by gene editing while still allowing those individuals to carry on a normal life.
> Copy what works and innovate on top of it

I think the main gripe with China's process is that they don't do the latter. They produce replica's then herald them as original works of the mightiest country on the planet. Everyone everywhere steals, but China does it with a little more 'F-U' than most countries, and tend to use what they steal to oppress.

I spent a few years working for a defense contractor out of college, and Chinese IPs were probing every internet facing server we had 24/7.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/chinese-knock...

https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-is-working-on-what-looks...

> Industrial Espionage....
> Crying "No fair! You stole it!" sounds more like a petulant child than anything else.

Pointing it out as a matter of economic and national security is far from a childish thing to do. If you're government is willing to subjugate people into slave labor at a massive scale while at the same time stealing the IP born from fairer societies, that creates an uneven competitive landscape, which ultimately works against the fairer societies. Think of it this way: Safety nets cost money, but the return you get is smarter people taking bigger risks and creating new useful things. If you get all the benefits of that (IP) and don't have to pay, you will win, and create a crappier world in the process. I'd liken it to brain drain. You spend all this money educating people only to have the return on that investment go elsewhere.

I know the immediate response to this is going to be "But America did such and such...". I don't care what America did. When someone is on trial for stealing a car, talking about how someone else stole a bike isn't a defense.
If I had to guess, it's overzealous middle management layers trying to keep up the appearance they're still providing value after months of diminished ability to micromanage over Zoom
The airbnb transition also had (from what I heard) a lot of politics around it. Often the things that make or break large projects aren't necessarily technical but human. For instance, if you hire a ton of native developers and force them to move to React Native without getting buy in from them, you're probably bound to fail.

There will always be technical challenges with any large project. But getting buy in from the right people can make those problems surmountable.
> Node is not ECMAScript in a server-side ECMAScript engine, it's JavaScript in a browser JavaScript engine.

Why would your custom ECMAScript server be any faster or more stable than any of the existing browser engines? If you look at the resources behind those engines, I don't know who would match that effort doing the same on the server.
People didn’t live long enough to have cancer back then.
thanks for article with alternative view! I agree with some parts of it and not with others, but as I said before opinions should not be oppressed/censored if it doesn't promote violence or danger to human life
You can also use it offline, there's a downloadable Electron app they provide (AppImage on Linux).

The shapes libraries are pretty nifty and extensive (just need to turn them on).
Yes, it is basically a combination of proofing some data has been validated by encoding this proof in a specific type, like Email :)
We want to popularize this idea and make it easier to work with it by offering some nice, type-safe abstraction.
> Clearly if anal oxygen proves to be safer and as effective then it will be adopted. No one is disputing that.

Could've fooled me with how dismissive you were.

> My point was that every decision in medicine s based on risk and benefit.

Then there should be no problem with highlighting the risks so people realise that alternatives are worth it not just as somehow inferior "second standard" as implied by the person I was replying to, but as equal or better solution.
Any recommendations for where to purchase these vintage watches? I've always thought they were beautiful but never sure where to find legitimate sellers (despite googling a bit)
I´m pretty sure that this is the plot of Westworld TV Show.
Lessons learned creating a real-time multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe game with Nun DB
Magical thinking is quite prevalent in the US.
Whoops. Thanks for correcting.
> yes, catalytic convertors and old computers contain trace elements like platinum (maybe $2 per catalytic convertor) but extracting it is far too expensive.

Catalytic converters can be worth $100s as scrap. They’re regularly stolen from parked cars.
And they announced promises like a big improvement over callbacks :D Now that was hell! Fortunately, when I started doing serious Node.js development, callbacks were already on the way out.
None of these are requirements for a intro class

Python excels as a teaching language.
There is no AI risk – Gray Mirror
Kind of like South Park's underpants gnomes, and the thing that stands between them and profit ("?????")
I have gone out and gotten an offer, shared that with my boss, and gotten a substantial raise from it, in that case not just me personally but many of our devs did as the written offer (from JPMorgan in my case) was evidence that we weren’t competitively positioned in the market. I didn’t approach it with your proposed language, of course, but the outcome if nothing changed was obvious to all sides.

I’ve also been the manager on the receiving end of that conversation. In general, we’re paying about what the position is worth to us, so we might make a small adjustment but in general the outcome is a handshake and some well wishes, and another datapoint to put into our “what is the true market for this set of facts and circumstances?”
As soon as they would have turned the system on, people would’ve been able to sell
One Coin. And it would’ve got a real price, determined by the market. Not some fake price, set by the company.
Airbnb Bookings Across the U.S. Have Surpassed Pre-Pandemic Levels
> Even Facebook, creators of React Native don't use it.

Yes they do. https://www.facebook.com/careers/v2/jobs/710998039655439/

"Work closely with our PM and design teams to define feature specifications and build the next generation of products leveraging frameworks such as React & React Native"

The top contributors are Facebook Engineers: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/graphs/contributors...
Making people buy a subscription for every single newspaper on the planet is definitely not a working solution.
hope =/= stars show my destiny

One can have plenty of hope for better explanations without a Jesus or astrologers.
It's the same, actually.

The US doesn't "block" Mexicans. It just maintains its own borders.

Similarly, Israel doesn't "block" Gazans. It just maintains its own borders.

FYI Gaza has a border with Egypt, too, and Israel can't and won't try to "block" Gazans from crossing into Egypt.
>The threat of China fully annexing Taiwan is a real and present danger today

its always there. what do you do when you have a bully for neighbor? you arm up. what's what Taiwanese govrt have been doing.

Taiwan invested in F16-v, build its own submarines and keep developing its own missile.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/12/02/taiwan-is-b...
I think this is partially why I started to hate crypto.

I was explaining to people that they were getting scammed ( they said they bought one coin) and i was looking it up since I didn't know it, so i concluded that they were scammed.

They just didn't believe me and said i was a liar. Their family friend who walked away with >50k would never do that to them.

A lot of people just don't understand cryptocurrency and greed had them losing their common sense, i was truelly disgusted by this.

Even as I had crypto until 2017 and earned a reasonable amount with it, I've started to become a non-believer in it. The existing coins are just an example of the blockchain and while the tech is great, an existing coin will never be adopted by a country. So it's futile to believe that a certain coin will become the standard.

Authorities ( for good reason) will never allow that to happen.
Your comment is hilarious. I had the same question. Thanks.
And I assume the flip side of having a specialized skill/resume is that there are relative few places that are a good fit for you, especially if you're expensive.

Which to my point in another comment probably means you won't easily find another job immediately while a relatively high-skill mid-level Java developer can probably land several offers fairly quickly if they're in an urban area of any size.
See collect: https://nim-lang.org/docs/sugar.html#collect.m%2Cuntyped%2Cu...
Ketamin/Blow/ Bars/Benzos/ Fentanyl etc.
Ready for you 24/7. Prices ain't a problem. Legit deals with referrals and photo verification to you specifications.
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None of this has anything to do with the incorrectness of the assertion that PGP would “beg to differ” that end-to-end encryption of email is impossible. Playing 3-card monty with your message is something else entirely.
Not exactly what you want, I think, but there is zod [0].

I really would like to see nominal typing support in TypeScript. Currently, it's hard to validate a piece of data (or parse for that matter) once and have other functions only operate on that validated data. There are (ugly?) workarounds though [1].

[0]: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
[1]: https://gist.github.com/dcolthorp/aa21cf87d847ae9942106435bf...
In this case, this gas would be injected directly into the rectum, so you could switch back to lungs as soon as the lungs were clear (or run both simultaneously). At least, that's the theory.
Debatably, as with all rankings.

Here it means highest-ranked/best-known based on trade publications.
I'm curious if anyone has experience maintaining (not writing from scratch) pre-existing systems in Rust - now that it's 6 years old (!), what's it like to interact with in contexts where you aren't building from the ground up?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict

The only problem comes when the therapist both doesn't believe in what they are doing and is actively trying to maximize their own income. This will cause them to intentionally cause distress in the patient/client in order to be paid to relieve it.
Astrologers ask your sign but never what hemisphere you were born in.
You don’t plan your life around lottery windfalls. There’s no structural change.
Nobody claims to know what colour your carpet is.

Even in a universe where I did 100% know the colour of your carpet via some form of clairvoyance (which is hardly an economically useful service), I've now understood that you will continue to react with confrontational scepticism.

By asking this question, you have disqualified yourself as a client - not only of services which have no supernatural powers, but also of hypothetical "true" fortune tellers. Expect to be ghosted.

Since I would expect the outcome to be the same in both cases, this doesn't prove or disprove anything to me.
This seems like a much more interesting example: https://twitter.com/vickerysec/status/1393459878606217216?s=...
It's an introductory course. The goal isn't to train students to be able to do all those things. I'd wager most professional programmers aren't able to do more than a couple of them well. There's more to front-end/back-end/CLI/mobile than just the language.

> But here too, Python is facing stiff competition from Julia

You severely overestimate the significance of Julia in this field. It's a great language, and I wish it were more popular, but Python still dwarfs it.
For whatever it's worth, no one put you in charge of deciding whether my arguments are "valid".

The article isn't even consistent with itself. It starts out with "Oh, the evil British forced us to stop growing our delicious native beans", then, at the end, the author admits that he doesn't like them much himself.

Kenya has been independent from the UK since 1963. The British haven't been telling them what beans to grow for nearly 60 years now.

If they still haven't switched back, it's because they like the new beans better, even if the new beans were introduced by "colonialism".

Typo correction: 1964 -> 1963
many people here believe private business has a right to control anything they please (their platform, their rules) and to some extent they are right but the infuriating thing is that the banhammer is obviously not just. so one has to ask; what is their function?
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> For contrast, I know many teams with a backend in Python and a frontent in React/JS, and I've worked on some teams with that setup. In my opinion it's virtually all downside compared to a backend in TS

Is there any Typescript backend framework as mature as Django?

> Python and TS are quite similar from a web programming perspective (I'm not referring to Python's advantage in data science tooling), so all it basically is is a barrier to your front end folks being able to make small enhancements on the backend quickly.

So on the on hand, the languages are "quite similar", yet it cannot possibly be expected that frontend people learn more than a single language? Something doesn't add up here.
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Exactly. I just wanted to provide links before I read the end of your sentence.