skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, environmentalists simply say that it’s worth to preserve the environment that humanity evolved in. One reason is for our grandchildren to be able to experience it and another is we don’t really know what happens if we destroy too much of it - we do have localized examples though and they’re really not good.
For the lazy like me who are interested in the topic but googling for it is too exhausting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Software_Metric

Long story short: instead of counting lines of code, the ABC software metric accounts for

A) assignments ,

B) branches,

C) conditionals.

I would argue that the ABC metric nowadays fails to do a good job as a software metric, mainly due to the inception and prevalence of declarative frameworks and tools.
Equally bad. Freedom of association is also an enumerated right. Without demonstrable cause, none of the government’s business. Yes, I’ve been protected from such harassment thanks to that right.
>Nevertheless, when a single HDD contains around 10^14 bits, even a 10^-14 per year probability of a bit flipping at ambient temperature may cause one corrupt file per year of storage per HDD

Hard drives add ECC info to each sector to prevent random bitflips from corrupting data[1]. Also IME actual rates of data corruption is far lower than 1 bit per year. This is on a filesystem with checksums, so any corruption would be easily detected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Advanced_format_(4Kib)_HD...
To be clear, I’m saying “something like the actor model”, not the actor model specifically, though I assume the actor model also satisfies even the narrower definitions of message passing.
Deflation is awesome. It's way better than inflation. It incentivizes you to not buy stupid junk that pollutes the world, you only buy the stuff you really need/want.
Just before:
https://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/4046/high-res-gap...
I was a big fan of Julia for a long time, but when i realized that Stefan Krapinski and his Julia Stewards are a gang of assholes, it ended my interest in being involved.

They banned me from all their discussion websites and repositories after i questioned them about their "wokeness". I hate to use that term, but everyone's using that word now, so there.

Basically, they were trying to convince people that there are a lack of women using Julia because women feel uncomfortable for an unspecified reason. They were specifically unwilling to survey women about why they don't use Julia. Since they were unwilling to do a survey, i had to call them out for being delusional, as it is not even pseudoscience but straight up delusional to make claims like this with out any survey information at all.

After that, they said they would continue the discussion after banning me.

Since then, I have been unable to contribute to the Julia open source / free software. I'm a developer of several well known Julia packages, and I am not allowed to help other people solve their problems and fix issues with my code.

It's been over 6 months, and they extended my ban another 6 months. It's ridiculous, and I will never respect Stefan Krapinski and his gang of Julia Stewards again.

I think Julia is a good language, but with that kind of leadership, they are bound to destroy the language forever.

Wolfram language is actually a lot more inclusive towards me, and they are encouraging me to get involved due to my math research, while the Julia people are actively trying to discourage me and prevent me from doing work.

Rust is also a nice alternative to Julia.

Stefan Krapinski and his gang have written some kind of blackmail against me, they threatened me with spreading some kind of internet gossip about me if i don't stop complaining about them. Haha, as if they can blackmail me with their stupid gossip.

I recommend staying away from the toxic community created by the Julia Stewards, who are a gang of assholes led by Stefan Krapinski. The language is alright, but the people behind it are not respectable.

Stefan Krapinski is also responsible for introducing telemetry to the Julia language, so that's another reason not to use Julia.
Hello , Bitcoin is great
The payment system mentioned in the Fine Article is built on top of Bitcoin, using Lightning Network.
There's nothing stopping them from putting various consumer protections and rewards programs on top of that, and plenty of motive to do so.

It's definitely a wait-and-see sort of thing, but I don't see as to how betting against it is the obvious move.
> Isn't every existing programming language eventually based on (or at least traceable to) lambda calculus?

Not really. FP has an obvious connection to lambda calculus. Many OOP languages don't even have a straightforward notion of "function", which is what lambda calculus is all about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954120 ?
Probably one on the most American articles I've read in a while... "Great job team"...

Also, I wonder the impact of introducing proper diving tests and learning to drive.
How does this compare to current prices?
A billiard ball is about 50mm in diameter. I guess the question is to what tolerance they are made. I wouldn’t expect a small feature to stick up (you’d be able to feel or see those fairly easily) but the overall deviation from a perfect sphere could easily be that large.
The differences between a professional situation/drinking with friends/talking with grandmother are way too big compared to the differences between HN and Reddit. The latter two are actually extremely similar in how content gets posted and discussed.

In other words, there appears to be no reason why HN and Reddit folks should behave differently when on the opposite platform. These behavior differences are artificial and ad hoc (i.e. 'we want to keep HN free from obtuse memes.. because we said so!')
I think one of the most core ideas of OOP is encapsulation, and in this way ECS is radically opposed to OOP.
Africa Monetary Policy Tighter Than It Seems ~SBG
Science prestige games suck. But the lynchpin of this thesis is the assertion that gain-of-function research didn't (and won't) improve our ability to respond to epidemics with vaccines and policies. That point isn't substantially argued in the post, author just says that one COVID vaccine was developed in hours.

Anyone near the field able to give a perspective?
Okay, try how it’d actually work:

… then your boss says sales are down and your salary is being cut. “Don’t worry, your purchasing power hasn’t changed!”

… then you need to go to each creditor and try to renegotiate your balance so you’re not overpaying at the current value rather than what it was when you bought your house or car.

… meanwhile the economy slowly grinds to a halt as people and businesses hesitate to get loans for the same reason. That’s when the layoffs start ramping up, which does not improve the state of the economy.

This used to happen periodically and it was ruinous — it’s why systems like the Federal Reserve were created and almost all serious economists target consistent low inflation levels since that has the opposite effect of incentivizing economic activity.
it sounds more like a sect than anything
There are online alternatives to lunch. Such as online games. Try it, it is great for team building.
Top Unix Interview Questions and Answers (2021)
Unix is the basis of many modern operating systems in which the fundamental concept still carries on along with few shell commands. Thus it is very important to have these concepts clear and these questions gave a very brief idea about different aspects of operating system concepts used in Unix.
> What's preventing jamming a small, distant satellite signal with a big strong local transmitter?

Anti-radiation missiles which home on the strong local transmitter.

I'm not saying this flippantly. Obviously not all Starlink consumers have access to such a thing. The scenario I'm talking about here is when a country is trying to choke the military communications of an other one.

The big benefit of these LEO satellite constellations is that they have hundreds of satellites in them which makes anti-sat weaponry not cost effective. (Or at least that's the hope.)
ECS is often implemented in an OOP language. I know of no ECS languages.

You have objects that you iterate over and apply changes to the struct or object's fields like x and y coordinates in a game tick for the "next state"

Essentially you end up with lots of global functions and very large API space that has no ordering. There's inherent ordering to global function application to produce the correct result. So it produces complex APIs.

If you move the global functions to the entity objects themselves, you end up with OOP. So I'm not really sure what the author is arguing for.
Yes there is a hole in the article. He didn't mention that Germany lost WW1. Every other nation suffered the same problems but they could get away from them without hyperinflation, Germany couldn't because increasing the monetary supply does not repair an economy.

If one were to completely oversimplify everything the roman empire fell into the "war + debasement" bucket though but it also had a lot of other problems. They were actively fighting a war which meant they couldn't control the influx of barbarian refugees (huns drove them out) at their border. They then committed a grave mistake. They deported all barbarians and killed those who stayed. Some barbarians gathered near the border and formed a big army which then proceeded to plunder Rome. The problems didn't start with money, they got worse because of money.
> The concept of a message is older than the actor model

Publications by Hewitt or Sussman in the seventies even suggest that the concept traces back to lambda calculus.

> so Smalltalk-style messages are still messages

Only Smalltalk-72 had true "message passing" (i.e. arbitrary tokens sent to an object for interpretation); Smalltalk-76 onwards uses a virtual methods implementation similar to the one of Simula 67 or C++ instead.
Or maybe the value of this news is just deemed as <10%? That's a completely arbitrary number which is ultimately only based on the number of fingers humans tend to have.
That's a cool mobile number! Was it intentional?
The environment. Yes or no?

Candidate 1: No. It's junk science.

Candidate 2: Two words: Condor attack. Don't want that. Got to say no.

...

Candidate 5: Enviro-mite!
Exactly! Z80 code always looked "rough" to me, like its opcodes generated more friction while sliding through the CPU.

I don't have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I just think of it as Obsessive Compulsive Order.

Even though all its opcodes weren't 3 characters, the PowerPC really appeals to me as a clean, powerful, orthogonal, crystalline clear instruction set. I always visualized the PowerPC as Superman's Fortress of Solitude, the ice crystal palace with all the crisp 90 degree angles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude
Explain why closures are allowed to mutate state in this “simple, well understood” framework.
D-Day
It's about time. Gamete types are binary and it makes sense to sort organisms into groups by the type of gamete healthy individuals naturally produce, and to give those categories names.

It's a matter of time before people angry about fashion norms step on the toes of people trying to do science by confusing fashion with gamete categories and trying to force biologists and doctors to refer to fashion categories instead of gamete categories through law and social shaming.
Yeah, as part of my free podcast audiobook version of Meaningness, I'm constantly asking him for updates, in order to provide a structure in which he'll work on one book at a time and completely finish it. So far it's working out pretty well.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/
Because it wasn't more important than any other thousands of decisions that Jobs and Apple executives made over many many years. This is just hack writing where the author tries to sell a made-up narrative instead of doing actual research.
Dahl and Nygaard originated and developed the concept. Inheritance was in their definition. You can invent other formalisms, but those should have different names if you are not actively seeking to confuse people.
How well does dolphin run on Rpi 4 now?
Did you have a look at e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Objects-Monographs-Computer-Sc...?
I have a good office setup with generally pretty decent Internet. I have also had more than one day in the past 18 months when my Internet connectivity was absolutely up and down and my cell phone reception from my house is basically good enough for voice only. So I can fail back to that but really can't handle video over a cell connection.
Author includes comments (irrelevant to code to some extent) and braces (enforced by compiler) and particulars of code style into LOC and calls it unreliable.

I think it is not quite honest.

The rules themselves vary between languages and, frankly, contemporary C++ is a different language than C++ circa 1997. Often, use of C++ is different between parts of projects and it is the case for contemporary Java too.

Should we develop different ABC rules for different flavors of C++ and/or Java?
> Why is no one pointing out that, in order to receive bitcoins on the Lightning Network (LN), you need to lock bitcoins in a payment channel?

I think lightning needs economy of scales in order to minimize the bitcoins "locked" perception, because once you can pay lots of your needs with lightning then those bitcoins are not "locked" anymore.

Though that's assuming consumers run lightning nodes too, which need to be online 24/7, and have routing connections, which is unrealistic for average users.

My guess is that average consumers will use some kind of (semi-)custodial lightning wallet
I think you could also make a case that if you've adopted these strict documentation requirements you don't decouple the functional commits from the documentation commits. Your copy editor could work in the same branch as the code changes and then you only approve the PR when the documentation is at the same level of QA as the code. Otherwise a fear separate commits or branches is the thin edge of the wedge.
Very Interesting. This reminds me of The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus [1] by François Chollet, accompanying his paper On the Measure of Intelligence [2]...

Edit: Found a recent article mentioning both and discussing a NeurIPS paper on using Bongard problems to test AI systems [3].

[1] https://github.com/fchollet/ARC

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

[3] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/...
Just wonderful. Look forward to a number of false-flag attacks and the extension of the US 'War On Terror'.

What should be solved via safety-conscious engineering is going to be solved by Murican War Machine.
ML has so much potential to help us in healthcare.

We don't need this Guardian low-level analysis scuppering progress in this area because they drop the dirty word of "private" or "profit".

Yes, it needs careful regulation and management on all sides, and a mechanism where patients own their data, but I welcome datasharing in healthcare.
Commercial development toolchains such as Vivado or Quartus require a Windows or Linux system. For me, it's easier to simply set up a separate Linux machine for FPGA development instead of setting up a VM.

However, you can use the open source Symbiflow toolchain (https://symbiflow.github.io) to develop Verilog-based systems (there's also a VHDL frontend now AFAIK) for Xilinx 7-Series, Lattice iCE40 and ECP5 FPGAs directly on macOS.

For symbiflow, I would recommend a Lattice-based board such as the ulx3s (https://radiona.org/ulx3s/) or icesugar-pro (https://github.com/wuxx/icesugar-pro), but the Xilinx Arty-7 boards also seem to be supported now.
IMHO what actually killed OOP was the attempted industrialization of software development driven mainly by "Enterprise Java" (and similar failed ideas like UML). The promise was that with OOP it's possible to build complex software projects with cheap "unskilled labor", because OOP would provide the "framework" for managing complexity by plugging together very simple parts.

Two decades later we're still trying to clean up the resulting mess, but I think all in all we're on the right trajectory since around 2010.
We could repurpose offshore oil rigs.
Building dams to slow down rivers has never been a problem in europe, why would be in Bangladesh ( i'm talking about the idea, not the money)
So you found similarities between the instructions, arranged them in a pattern that preserved it and made predictions from there. A bit like what Mendeleev did with natural elements to create the periodic table. Cool work, thanks for sharing!
This is also, what this article is actually about. It's just from a more "hermeneutic" perspective, rather than a bottom-up approach based on an analysis of the hardware.
Apart from the stigma it was causing Indian people it was making a lot of people think it was a problem confined to India.
Dismantling Myths on the Airborne Transmission
Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)
> Sometimes a blunt ”that won’t work” is needed, to save the team valuable time.

In my experience, “sometimes” means “very rarely”. The reason often has more to do with personality than any sort of technical obstacle.
Parts of Iowa and Illinois are much flatter than any parts of Kansas I’ve ever been to. Incredibly so.

People romanticize this idea that Kansas is a flat nothing-land, luckily most of them also stay away. Kansas is only the 7th flattest state, even https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/flattest-st...
It's bizarre and amazing to me that The Caretaker found success as "meme music." I think the author is correct to lump him in with artists like Vektroid and OPN; I've seen more than one commenter describe The Caretaker as "like 1920's vaporwave." In this case, the meme was taken to its greatest heights with a full-length Minecraft-themed mashup album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3gpdZrT0eA

Even weirder is that, despite the top comment on this album calling it "the highest effort most obscure meme of the year," it has over 1 million views. Can a piece of art still be considered "obscure" if a million people have seen it? On the internet, perhaps!
As a contractor (who lets there be long gaps), I find gaps help... give yourself a month or 3 off.
>Allowing corrupt governments continue to steal the wealth of their citizens through printing money isn't a great alternative.

How many times does this get repeated? No money is being printed right now. No MMT is happening. No helicopter money is happening. Barely any Keynesian fiscal stimulus is happening (the US has stimulus checks but the EU doesn't and it's suffering for it) and the fiscal stimulus that is happening is financed via debt. No money is being printed right now.

The majority of money that the Fed creates is primarily issued via debt. The part that isn't is used to buy assets that are being put on a balance sheet and the sale of the assets will often remove more money from the economy than it added. QE does nothing but fill bank reserves so that banks lend out more money.
The biggest crash came after Tesla stopped accepting bitcoin, acknowledging its contribution to the climate catastrophe.
Sorry to hear you're dealing with this. I was there for 6 years while working for two of the most toxic and manipulative managers who took advantage of my natural want of helping when I can (not for attention or reward. I really don't know why, but it's kind of a burden). I wasn't myself for those years and close friends took notice, but that all fortunately changed when they laid me off in the fall and I couldn't be happier. It's taking time, but with each day my old self is returning and with that the motivation to create again.

One thing that's helped in terms of coming up with ideas, for projects that are more on the digital art side, has been thinking about how the realm of comedic media is stale. From there, what could I make with my current skillset and that would make friends, others, and myself legit laugh at and engage with. Through dwelling I came up with a 3d mocapped Joe Biden avatar whose voice was cloned using a speech synthesis library along with a cloned lexicon using gpt2. Had it streaming on Twitch and connected the chat api as input for it to respond to, enabling users to interact with it. Some of the stuff it spit out was pretty wild.

In terms of ideas for utility projects, I've found it helps to think about something you enjoy using in your hobbies, but that you wish it was improved upon. Personally, and oddly enough, I enjoy learning about and observing candle chart technical indicators (not the line/triangle drawing type of thing. Just isn't my thing and can easily lead to confirmation bias), but use apps that either charge a high premium, invade user privacy, crap UI, cap number of indicators used, and/or don't offer much in terms of charting options. So I decided to build my own app that answers those issues and am currently getting close to releasing... somewhat lol.

Just think about what was taken from you during those troubled times, whether it was sense of humor, joy, etc, and think of how to get back what was robbed of you. Cliche to say, but it takes small steps at first, and from there the ideas/execution will snowball.
Airtable Instagram, Facebook and Twitter posting
We try to custom make most systems we use with Airtable. Everything from our returns system, product development, order planning, marketing planning etc.

Hope you get some ideas with this post :)
I like the use of the word "mold" here; I've not heard it applied to programming before. Manufactured objects are often very different from the prototype, but it's harder to differ substantially from the mold.
Why would they benefit? Large scale deflation would be quite destabilising for a country.
FP means that every expression (= part that can be evaluated) is referential transparent. Nowadays the word "functional" is used different from the original meaning (which some now call "pure functional")

> Some FP is lazy, some isn't.

The definition of FP implies that laziness is irrelevant. A language can enforce a pure functional style without being lazy or not.

> Some is immutable, some isn't

That's wrong. And it is a good example of why FP is much clearer defined. Referential transparency implies immutability. So there is no pure FP code that uses mutability.

> Some claim it's a style in any language, others that it's a type of language.

It's neither. It is a property of a program. Some languages enforce this property, others make it impossible to write a full program in this style. But that's independent of the definition itself.

I hope that explanation sheds a bit of light into it.
The trick here is to use a ceramic filter that have holes that are so small that only Lithium can pass through.

Actually the only "molecules" smaller than Lithium are Hydrogen and Helium. Helium is not a problem because it's too easy to pull apart and Hydrogen (H+ and H2) are not problem because H2 is another of the products.

(Actually^2 H+ is not isolated, it's combined with water in H3O+, but I guess the holes need some room for the water around the Li+ ions. The technical details are probably more complicated, but "small holes only allow H, He and Li to pass" is a good approximation.)

But Uranium atoms are huge. They are bigger than most atoms, and I'm not sure if the common form in seawater is a combination of Uranium and Oxygen. A hole that big will allow most mineral to pass, so you will just get brine. Using it in the other direction with holes just smaller than Uranium is also not very useful, because you will get Uranium mixed with a lot of crap, many of the contamination are not isolated atoms (that are mostly smaller) but molecules that combine a few atoms are are bigger.