skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you're right in that it's hard to compose all those parts of your program together without accidentally mistaking a `Query` for a `string`, or god knows what. I'm helping a friend learn web development, and most of the issues they get stuck for long time at are solved by making sure that functions you are calling are returning what you think they are.

On the other hand, I feel that most of the lessons I've learnt that have really stuck are the ones where I first do a thing wrong, and then find how to do it right. In a similar fashion, letting the student create a steaming pile of ... and then giving them a solution to their troubles in a later course feels like a good idea.

I personally have come a full circle: starting with things like Pascal and C++, then going to C# and finding type inference interesting, then getting a HUGE boost to my knowledge and skills when I found Python and JS. A few years later, my personal preference is having static type checking, and Typescript does that pretty well, in my opinion. However, every time I remember how much I managed to learn and understand about programming when I switched to Python, I think that if I had to teach someone, I'd pick something expressive, intuitive and who cares about types when you really want to maximize exposure.
Adoption of ZFS has been a real problem for BSDs. In one hand, ZFS gives them a good storage stack. In the other hand, it does not have BSD license, it does not integrate well with the rest of the kernel, and it does not differentiate them from any Linux distro with ZoL packages.

They should come up with a new file system of their own, for all BSDs, or try to use Hammer, and stop using someone's else file system.
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Driving does a lot of damage. While temp fluctuations cause damage, it is nothing compared to what a vehicle can do.
> We don't know, ourselves, how to do that.

Have we actually tried?

There is a cursory discussion about how this is "inconceivable to those who spent their careers looking at retinas". However, if it's not clinically useful (as the next sentence says), those experts probably haven't spent much--if any--training themselves to try.

Humans can learn to detect surprisingly subtle features. For example, the right training regime can make you much better at reporting the tilt of a line, but it requires practice and feedback, just like the network got.
I grew up not-too-far from Neenah Foundry, whose hole-covers I've seen everywhere I've gone (Wisconsin obviously, UK, Japan (e.g. a news article mentions Okinawa[1]), CA/FL/NY/MD/WA states, I've seen at least one reference that theirs are/were under the Eiffel tower, etc). It's quite a lot of reach for a foundry in a town of ~25k. It has been an idle source of entertainment over the years, I keep a an eye open for manufacturer names on municipal cast iron stuff :)

If you ever go to Japan, definitely keep your eyes down. There are a TON of fancy covers, lots of them enameled, in both big cities and tiny towns.

[1]: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/entertainment/2018/09/06/...
Gas tax guess to more that maintenance. It also goes to new roads and other infrastructure improvements
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It's actually a hard question to answer but first one needs to specify the width of the integer and if it is signed or not.

Just one semi-random example, dividing two 1b unsigned integers is not going to need the same hardware as dividing two 1024b signed integers.
> We are all adults, we know what is and isn't generally acceptable on the internet.

> I also, once upon a time, maintained some ports before getting banned for "conduct issues" shortly after John Marino left FreeBSD

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you are getting banned for "conduct issues" perhaps you don't actually know what is and isn't acceptable.
There was an idea going around education circles that type in comic sans was easier or even easiest for those with dyslexia to read.

The claims struck me as a bit unlikely, but helped explain its widespread adoption in higher education beyond differences in taste. A quick searching suggests that there is little evidence for the claims made about it, but I can see why some would still use it.

Still, at least it’s not Papyrus.
My problem with a tac like this is you don't get anything from tourists.
There are three basic choices you have with a rectangular map:

- Mercator, which preserves shape and direction, but not size

- Gall equal-area etc, which preserves size and direction, but not shape

- AuthaGraph, which preserves size and shape, but not direction

No rectangular map will ever be satisfactory, but maybe putting all three together would make a good display?

And then there's my stupid projection (a rip-off of August epicycloidal): https://postimg.cc/N5nZ18CF
Past related threads. Others?

The size of Africa, in perspective (photo) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7492708 - March 2014 (1 comment)

True size of Africa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7249832 - Feb 2014 (31 comments)

The True Size of Africa - Misleading Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226458 - Aug 2013 (101 comments)

The True Size of Africa (2010) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5790504 - May 2013 (44 comments)

The True Size of Africa (infographic) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865958 - Nov 2010 (2 comments)

The True Size of Africa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1789769 - Oct 2010 (1 comment)

The True Size of Africa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1780004 - Oct 2010 (38 comments)

Strange Maps: Did you realize Africa is this big? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366692 - Nov 2008 (51 comments)
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That is really cool and useful. Visualization of the FFT can be hard sometimes. Thanks for making that.
Interesting story! Thanks for sharing.

I'm consistently impressed by Microsoft's approach to translation - their online database of annotated translations - is an invaluable source for translating and just talking about computer/software stuff in non-english languages. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language they made their entire translation database available online).

I do some work on a compiler and as much as I'd like to enable people to use it to teach young schoolkids in their native language (with localizable keywords + error messages), the implementation/maintenance burden would be massive and then people wouldn't be able to share source code so easily globally.

It's hard to balance - I like languages, and usually my code isn't in English, but...yeah, I can only go so far in practice.
There's an Android app/widget of a 24 hour clockface (complete be with daylight shading) - https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/info.staticfree.android....
Isn't all this altcoin "market cap" stuff fake cap generated by bots that thinly trade new coins until a sucker buys them out?
I only skimmed the paper but is this essentially the same thing as Karatsuba multiplication (which I believe also has O(n log n) performance)?
It's still there, but certainly died down after the invention of quartz time keeping.

My hope is consumers start demanding the availability of parts when buying a high end watch though.

It's a good feeling knowing you can repair that hunk of metal on your wrist, with interest, and a fair amount of study.

(There was a guy in the Navy whos boat was torpedoed by the Japanese during WW2. He, and rest of the crew were stuck on a deserted island. One by one the sailors watches were breaking down. Since he was a Watchmaker in life, he took over repair. At first it was difficult. He then got creative and made small screwdrivers, and even made a lathe. Anyhoo--I thought that was neat. A guy fixing jeweled watches with tools he made himself in that enviornment. I saw the article years ago, but haven't been able to find it again.)
> If there is a difference between male/female retinas

Is this even an "if"? It's well established that men are more likely to be colorblind, and it's likely many women are tetrachromats (most people are mere trichromats). The genes for the extra cone pigments are in the X chromosome, and are seemingly expressed more often when somebody has two X chromosomes. Similarly, people with two X chromosomes are less likely to be colorblind because most forms of colorblindness are caused by defects in genes in X chromosomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Genetics

Perhaps most men and women, men and women with normal trichromatic vision, have identical retinas. But with genes so important to eyeballs residing in the X chromosome, who knows. But I'm left wondering why experts are particularly surprised by this result.
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Suddenly - have a picture of "Victor Musgrave having spotted a drain cover". That's some meme potential right there. That alone made the article worth it, thanks!

Joking aside I think the urban infrastructure of today could use more of these small touches of aesthetics around. Why does everything modern have to be so boring, somehow I don't see a few ornamental street lamp posts or manhole covers wrecking any governmental budgets.
that scottish reference seems to explain CBI exactly as I have understood UBI.
Server lag is one thing but a local client will at least let your local movements and reactions feel real-time.
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I completely disagree. The TypeScript compiler allows you to specify a compile target against a version of JavaScript. That means you can write modern TypeScript and have it compile to ES3.
A good article about it from 2015, and how the corruption helps the insurgency (e.g. the locals would be thinking "Why should I warn the corrupt idiots about that IED targetting their shiny black SUVs?"): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev...

It's a book review of "Thieves of State", which is also a good read.

Hah I just scrolled through that article again, and it ends with: In September [2014], the former World Bank official and good-governance expert Ashraf Ghani was sworn in as the new President of Afghanistan, amid widespread allegations of vote-tampering. He has promised to tackle corruption.
One of the tricks I was told, in public speaking, was to have an eye-catching shirt.

That's one reason so many public speakers have Hawai'ian shirts. Women can also wear monster-high heels, as it makes them easier to see (It's not a "sexy" thing; it's a "see me" thing. There are some very conservative women's shoes, with very high heels).

I'm not a particularly good public speaker (but I've done a fair bit -why is everyone asleep?), so I need all the help I can get. I have a number of them.

I have a friend that has a .sig that says "Speak softly, and wear a loud shirt."

He has a lot of loud shirts.
In my non-US experience startups/small tech-focused businesses attempt to push much more restrictive contracts re: ideas/IP than established non tech megacorps (e.g. telcos, banks).
That's one theory.

It's also true that food has social value for Italians. One of those "offers you can't refuse" is pasta from your nonna.

I know my relatives were desperately poor during WWII. The branch of the family that immigrated to the U.S. has a lot of obesity, but the branches who went to South America and Italy don't.

I'm fascinated that the men who were born here tend to have traditional views (e.g. your mom shouldn't remarry if dad dies) but when I think of the ones who stayed in Italy my first thought is "they look gay" and I mean that as a compliment not an insult.
Shielding is a tricky thing. Shielding is nice, less stuff to worry about, but also reduces transparency. In the end you're not working for your manager. Your manager will not use the thing that you are building. I would say that any mature organization doesn't need a manager to shield the team, the team should be able to that themselves.
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta/ is one such alternative client
Tether, the 6th largest cryptocurrency has a market cap of ~$160B, seems pretty "popular" to me.

USDC TUSD and BUSD are further popular examples.

Cryptocurrencies are not MLMs, you would do yourself a huge favour by learning what they are.

In brief, Bitcoin is a scarce asset, and Ethereum is the credit required to run trustless logical conditions relating to a transaction, and also securing assets involved in those conditions.
Dot-com bubble was real companies with inflated valuations from speculators and experimental business models that weren't all solvent.

Theranos was trying to make and sell a real product but the product didn't work so they lied and cheated to cover that up because they had nothing else to offer.

Every business is dreams and fairytales because extra sizzle gets more customers

It's different from cryptocurrencies which are pure scam plays from the start.
The 128K Mac had a lot more memory than most other computers in 1984, but it was not a lot of room to fit a GUI in.

Oddly, within a few years people had shoehorned GUIs into much smaller machines, such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
Is it possible to get a workeable sdr that can send and receive for $100-200 these days? If so what frequency bands would it support?
'Problematic' is such a fantastic word. Labelling a person, in whole, as 'problematic' but we're the nice and inclusive ones.
Two things can be true at once—Pompeo and Trump may have decided to push a theory they wanted to be true, without actually examining the evidence for it. That's obviously not productive—but the theory could still be true.

The article does mention that some scientists thought the lab leak was a real possibility. They even quote Dr. Fauci saying saying as much (although he made it clear that he thought a natural cause was more likely).
Today I learned! I thought it was effectively lunar regolith.
Hopefully we can agree that automation is, on the whole, a good thing. If all work were automated, we could all live a life of idle luxury.

If I were an employer running a factory with little automation, then I could spend some R&D money to develop machinery to automate my manufacturing, and then spend money to retool my lines to use that automation, and then under your proposal I would now lose all of my profits, since 100% of my profit would now be taxed. This would seem like a pretty big disincentive for me to invest in automation.
That's not an example because:

1. Basecamp is not OSS, and the people involved were all employees.

2. As employees, if you worked with someone for years,"it came out just how problematic they were" is a stretch.
There were some fun moments in this. In attempting to translate "destructor" to Japanese, we'd get "death tractor". Now, personally I felt that "deathTractor" was a far more apropos term than "destructor" (sorry Bjarne). For years my circle of colleagues called them deathTractors.
I'm referring to the European countries included in the visualization.
One thing that’s always bugged me about snake case is that people are so averse to the additional length of strings that they just omit the underscores. So you end up with methods like array.tolist() and itertools.ziplongest(*lists, fill_value=None) — that last one isn’t even internally consistent. In an ideal world I would find snake case more readable, but people actually adhere to camel case, which makes it more readable than snake case overall.
That just doesn't make any sense. You can't even build a computer with 16 cores and 500MB of memory, so why would you have that ratio in production? This whole thread has been completely surreal.
Interesting how on a per-capita base, Germany where I live, seems to be the most gullibe society. I think it is not a coincidence that Ruga lived and worked in Germany prior to OC most of her life.

I was almost sucked into OC. Some non-tech friend in his mid-thirties approached me about it, he had already invested all his savings (~20k€ and another 10k€ from his mother).

He gave me OC's prep-talk and got me interested, so as an overpaid programmer within minutes I've concluded: Why not buy the biggest package or even more?

Hooked as I was, every piece of due dilligence I've tried to apply made the whole thing appear as a scam quickly. I've phoned with the BaFin (our financial authority) multiple times it took about a year afterwards for a very timid response against OC (in hindsight their lack of action in this case mirrors their lack of competence in the wirecard scam).

For me there are two major culprits:

1. OC leadership, especially Ruga

I think what makes OC so sinister is how they specifically targeted groups of people with low technical knowledge and who feel (and are) financially unskilled / underpriviledged. Once they've had to flee one country they've moved to another nation, again looking for underprivliged non-technical people.

The OC footsoldier's that I've met all came from Germany's lower classes (I guess most marketers are victims as well).

In Britain they've targeted mostly muslims. They went to India, China and so forth.

2. Financial Authorities

A scam that targeted small time investors (entry package was 500€; who often don't even know the name of their financial authority or what it does) highlights the importance of taking action for a BaFin: A fair society cannot treat predation of poor people differently that that of rich people. Swifter action whould have prevented a lot of the levels that pyramid eventually built up.

500€s or 5.000€s in damage apparently isn't much for the BaFin to do a lot (AFAIK none of the footsoldies I've met faced any criminal charges). But for the victims it often amounts to 100% of savings or even debt they took on, not even to mention ruined friendships, self-doubt, guilt etc. Ruga and the BaFin broke already broken people.

PS: I think Tim Tayshun's article (https://news.bitcoin.com/beware-definitive-onecoin-ponzi/) must have saved a lot of people from this!
As a minor point of order, the exact phrase "parse, don't validate" has been conventional wisdom in langsec circles since I got involved, so 2014 at the earliest.

I asked around on the work Matrix as to who actually coined it, but it's the weekend.

This is not to take anything away from @lexi_lambda, who cited her sources and documented an interesting type-theoretic approach to applying the principle. She did a great job!

If anyone wants to do a deeper dive, look into langsec, language-theoretic security. There's a lot of prior art to explore.
Instagram does this too fwiw
> One of the tricks I was told, in public speaking, was to have an eye-catching shirt.

Why though?
Perhaps she's just a more socially skillful, so she offered a better sounding excuse? That guy has a douche written all over his face, but that doesn't mean others involved are any better...
"UBI is what the people craveee!" - Idiocracy 2, circa 2024
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This seems really neat. Curious if you saw this magic SQLite -> Static file tool shared here a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630

IIUC It would enable this tool to work with a dataset in sqlite that could be recompiled as static files periodically, and the relevant queries could be made on the front-end without having to load the whole data-set or select a CSV file from the filesystem. Would also lead to much better performance if you want users to be able to host generated charts on a static file server, presumably the output could be committed to git and then synced to a github pages or something.

edit: It appears the author of that tool is using Plotly as well in the demo website. An integration of these would be incredible.
Theranos desperately tried to build a product. They failed and lied about it. The plan wasn't to profit from the fake stuff and exit.
I think this is a good example of two things in particular:

1) Not everything mundane is uninteresting.
2) To each his own.
"Scheduled obsolescence"
Heels can affect how your body proportions are perceived.
I'd frame it in a different way.

Conservatives argue for punishment as deterrence and to keep society safe from criminals. Liberals argue for punishment as rehabilitation and are happy to abandon punishment if it is shown to not rehabilitate. Both of these are utilitarian arguments.

A third position is: criminals deserve to be punished in proportion to the crime committed because a society that does not punish criminals is not worth living in. The definition of a crime is a transgression that must be punished, whatever the consequences.
So your argument is that is no worse than other bad things? I won;t even respond to your first question. We're too far apart to make a worthwhile conversation.
Not really. Government grants, paying telecom customers, ad buyers, porn buyers.
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There are similar scams in many countries. It's not a German culture thing.
I am in the unfortunate position of maintaining a more complex Next.JS app, using most of its "advanced" features such as dynamic routing, SSR, GraphQL, API, and it's the most painful project I have ever had the misfortune to work on, because the upstream interface and API is so woefully under-documented, buggy, changes too quickly it's hard to stay up-to-date, etc. etc.

Would you give some specific examples of where you've found Next to be buggy or where it's introduced breaking changes? We're evaluating a number of possible Node-related libraries for a new project right now, including Next, and there's no substitute for hearing from people with real experience of using them in production.
Are you also going to post Wikipedia articles about various atrocities committed against the Israelis or just those committed by them? Both exist and yet I seem to never find people that are willing to admit that.
In simple terms, this is a situation where you have two sides full of people willing to launch missiles at children. Until that dynamic changes, this is never getting resolved.
Yeah this is what I was talking about elsewhere in this thread.

But what the article really says is the hypothesis "that the virus was created or modified intentionally in a lab were dismissed by scientists and U.S. intelligence officials."

That does not preclude it from being leaked from a lab. I find it uncomfortable that they are using crafty wording to jump from "it wasn't created in a lab" to the virus never escaping the lab, which are two entirely different claims.
Nim really had fantastic potential for RTL and other hardware interaction languages. Best of luck in making progress with the RTL! I’d be really interested if it could become something for program CPLD or FPGA included in some microcontrollers now.
What if Vatican published for 50 years ultra-blurry photo of a guy, saying "He's like Jesus. We confirm he has all attributes a jesus would have. But wait a little more, we will give you accurate photos of him, maybe, or maybe we can not confirm it's Jesus, but, never mind, we will publish godish archives soon" ? And during this time,for more than 50 years, no sign of this messiah, nobody meet him, but only some rare ultra-blurry photos of a random guy. In this case, I personnaly would think Vatican take me for a dumb idiot.
It could have been worse. I was at college when I heard a previous bunch of students took vengeance on another student by replacing the magnetic disc in his 5 1/4" floppy with a circular disk sander.