skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the language of "committed suicide" and "attempted suicide" are holdovers from the time when suicide was a criminal offense.

Some mental health advocates have argued that that language is needlessly stigmatizing, and prevents people from talking about the root issues that can lead to suicide. Accordingly, many newspapers have changed their style guides.
>internet was mostly old Unix machines talking to each other.

Was it? By my reading there was way more weird stuff than there is today but I certainly wasn't alive back then.
Note that HTTP is also upgraded if the UA requests it with the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header:

$ curl -I -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' 'http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html'
HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
location: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
vary: Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
Verbose code is one thing but multiple adjoining layers of abstraction, or excessive modularization can both make maintaining code very difficult as well. Both dense and bloated solutions had goals other than doing the simplest thing that might possibly solve the immediate problem. That is the only worthy goal, it ensures maintainability due to its simplicity and any extensibility loss is offset by that simplicity. Most of the designed in extensibility I've seen predicted the wrong sort of extension that would be needed anyway.
For many, the Democratic party left me and swung to the left. I'm all for policies which are low taxes & limited government (remember under Trump & before corona, we had record unemployment even among minorities). Hence my move to a red, growing state (Texas).
It's a vote between economic growth and personal freedom over culture/identity politics.
>stealing western IP

The term youre looking for is copying without authorization, to steal IP requires that the original intellectual good be removed from its proprietor, which, short of a "Men In Black" style brainalyzer, is simply not possible

I trust that in order to preserve and strengthen the incentive structure around the creation of novel intellectual goods, such a device should be technologically within reach within the next 20 years, and hopefully the world's IP lobbies will be granted special powers to compel the use of such devices in cases where individuals find themselves coming into possession of protected intellectual goods without authorization

In answer to your question though, no, I do not think anyone would be surprised if some of China's progress is thanks to the groundwork laid by Western space companies and agencies.
What does the UK face-to-face payment landscape look like?
This is an entirely inaccurate metaphor, and a frightening lack of insight.
I'm still unclear on what "legal tender" means in this context.

TFA says "The new law means every business must accept Bitcoin as legal tender". It says the USD is also legal tender. Is there an official exchange rate? Or an official bank that buys and sells BTC? Do they send out tax bills with both values?
Not really. You can't build large data structures (not arrays, but trees, graphs, etc) with structural sharing between threads. Unless of course you translate all of your data to C too, at which point you are really doing everything in C (data and code).
Onionland people had plenty of warning though. My old v2 Onion bookmarks are all discarded. The new V3 addresses are a good indicator of which .onion operators are serious and want to stay online no matter what.
Agreed. More-readable code is generally longer in my experience. And that’s not a problem AFAICT.
This is an obvious result when competition is sparse, and particularly when it is artificially limited, which is the core point of the original article, where lawmakers are intentionally trying to limit competition (in this case, in the form of small, local government projects).
You repeatedly cite incorrect facts and unproven theories, then expand them into elaborate, slanderous, and entirely unfounded stories.

Here’s a quick example:

> We have DM logs between WL and Guccifer 2.0.

This is simply untrue. You sent a link to messages between Emma Best and WL. The messages indicate that a WL twitter user knew of G2. That is all the information available there. Emma likely gave them out. Everything you extended from that is purely hypothetical.

As such you either don’t know what you’re doing, or you know it and are malicious. Stop.
A 20$ VR game is usually (if it is linear) about 3-6 hours long.

"Superhot VR" (25$) 2-3 hours, if you are a completionist, about 6 hours.

"Star wars: Tales from the galaxy's edge" (25$) 2-3 hours, if you are a completionist, about 4 hours.

I think the longest single player VR game that exists now is "The Walking dead: saints & sinners" (40$) which is around 11-14 hours long, but it is barely linear, it is more like a fallout/far cry game but with far less interesting locations. Completionist have played it for 30 hours in total.
>>> They are well paid and in a position of great authority.

>> I would argue that they are absolutely nowhere near paid enough

> The subject of pay has no bearing on . . . the parent comment
pyinstaller doesn't compile your code. instead, it bundles a copy of the python interpreter along with your code, and sets everything up with an executable header so you can double-click the file to run your code within the embedded interpreter.
I think the author is referring to the mentality of "I wrote my way into this mess and dammit I'll write my way out!"

That is to say, novices can tend to pile onto a solution with hacks and special cases instead of examining why their abstraction requires so much special casing.

I think the code golf you're talking about is a different (but not exclusive) thing.
The economic angle can't be stressed enough. I live in suburban / semi-rural western Ohio and provide IT support services to a number of small businesses and government entities. I have personal experience with a number of workers who weren't able to work from home effectively because their Internet service wasn't up to snuff. Sharing their DSL or WISP service w/ their children doing home instruction during the pandemic became an either / or proposition.
I don't see anything in that article to suggest that we have (or in the forseeable future will have) the technology to deflect an asteroid the size of the one in the video you linked. Nuclear standoff was one of the most promising methods they discussed... with an example using a 100 megaton nuclear device to deflect a 1.4km diameter asteroid. A 500km asteroid is 45 million times more massive.

Yes, we should still develop the technology to deflect smaller asteroids, but my point was that we're not going able to deflect the earth shattering asteroid like the one in the video so if we really want to make mankind "asteroid proof", then we need a second earth.
> approved a budget bill that contains an anti-municipal broadband ammendment

With 100% certainty it contains lots of things completely unrelated to the one tiny part of it this article is about. It's most likely those other unrelated things are what was objected to.

Do some digging and you're sure to find some very strange things in that bill. This is entry level knowledge about US politics. It's predictable but nonetheless disappointing to see that HN commenters took the intellectually lazy path here.
Smalltalk brought both fascinating and terrible aspects.

Everything is inspectable, discoverable, interactive. Reactive programming, live objects, build stuff and see it come alive at every step. JIT makes everything fast, eventually.

But also the whole thing is one huge global mutable state. You used to be able to redefine "constants" like true by mistake. You want to save the entire system image, because now everything works, but you're not sure how exactly did you end up with it during the interactive session. Static checks and guarantees are hard to have at best.

AFAICT, initially Alan Kay tried to build something like Erlang: hence messages and protocols, objects keep their state as if they were nodes of a network. But hardware limitations did not allow yet back then, so the design changed, and was still hugely influential.

I think certain languages end up being bellwethers and test beds, without becoming industry mainstays. Haskell and OCaml don't have much industry adoption, but Rust does. APL (and even k) don't have much industry adoption but numpy and spark (admittedly both libraries) do. Smalltalk and Self don't have much industry adoption but Ruby and Python do.
This is my take from writing object oriented code (I don't know how broadly applicable to functional languages it is).

I started off writing code in a procedural style with no organisation. I was told that was bad so I created fragmented abstracted code where everything did very little across 10s of classes and methods.

Now I write procedural style code again, I don't worry about long methods as long as the flow is obvious and the abstractions, used sparingly, feel right.
Lord of the Rings’ uncredited Gimli double did the work, has tattoo to prove it
General Fusion to build demonstration plant in UK
I believe the author would agree with you, his last bullet point is write for humans not for machines. When he says write less code, I believe he means favoring simpler architectures, saying no to
features & tools until you absolutely need them & even finding no-code solutions. Not taking verbose code & making it less readable by shortening it.
Here's some other great Argentinian trap/reggaeton music:

* Khea / Duki / Cazzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0D_QD_DhM

* Paulo Londra (PG lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpELzyP4rw&ab

I live in Colombia and am working to get more Latinos / Latinas in tech. I've started giving Macbooks to students and it's helped a lot. Lots of students don't have good development workstations. Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes.

If you have an old Macbook that's in good working condition and would like to donate it, let me know and I'll make sure to get it in the hands of a Colombian student that's working hard to learn programming.

A career in tech can be a transformative life event for a Colombian (and their extended family).
Google Wants to See Rust Code in the Linux Kernel, Contracts the Main Developer
Can you cite your source for this? I've never heard of a politician retaliating against a constituent for voicing their concerns.
> I just wish Python had parallelism.

Would support for parallelism have benefits other than increasing speed? If not, I'd rather see an increase in Python's single-threaded performance - which is what Guido and his colleagues at Microsoft are currently working on.
The question isn’t really what “we” should tear down, it’s what the specific country wants to do. And I don’t think most people would agree with your designation of what “good values” are supposed to be.

Warsaw is filled to the brim with Socialist Realist architecture, which itself was far, far more political than basically any form of pre-20th century architecture like that found in St. Petersburg. It was explicitly designed to convey an ideological program that was forced upon the country.

It’s also the remnant of a state which terrorized and oppressed the country for half a century. Not to mention that Warsaw was only rebuilt because the Soviets let the Warsaw Uprising fail and then let the Nazis destroy the city block by block.

It’s a false equivalence.

All that aside, I’m sure there will be plenty of the buildings preserved for posterity. I wouldn’t worry too much about that...there are simply so many of them.
Why do you think the present is particularly bad in this regard?
Georgian cartographers accused of selling a slice of the homeland
I had never thought of it like that.

I can believe this for emails but this seems like something that was deliberately quite polished aside from the wording
I see often what in my view is a conflation of freedom and free will. Freedom can be associated with randomness, or enabled by it, in a way that is conducive to establishing a workable model. But when _will_ comes into play, it implies that a free choice does not only reflect a choice of action but also of result. Will is fundamentally not about the action but about its objective. Therefore, it is incompatible with randomness in the sense that if randomness permeates not only my actions but also their effects, then I am free to choose between randomness and randomness. So while freedom can be associated with unpredictability it does not really amount to much in that case.

On the other hand if we focus on predictability and have that as condition of will then determinism permeates our choices, so will becomes just a projection of laws, their backpropagation on an arbitrary decision model.

We can move to statistical interpretations of the kind that our will is not deterministic but a will of rational expectations etc. but my intuitive feeling is that the separation of intentionality from causality is like a middle ground between two wrongs.

At the end of the day, I believe this paradox is the outcome of what I call “a sock’s theory of the foot”.

Fundamentally, if free will requires both causality-determinism and free choice, I believe it’s only feasible in a model of timeless causality where we can move the dial on the determinism of decisions or intentions or results or all of them at the same “time”. We are deterministic illusions of freedom of timeless intentional agents.

Edited:for clarity of timelessness argument
Since HN runs on its own software, it could literally enforce a "read me first" before posting requirement. For certain keywords in the title that might be an interesting way to influence discussion style (and keep it good over time).
> the websites dependent on ads will eventually cease to exist.

And the free content of the web will also disappear.

But that will never happen... Believing that the content that a person produces should "be free" only shows how pathetic you are and your little experience in software development.
Perhaps they can shift gears and start manufacturing or helping to manufacture the more successful mRNA vaccines, their supply chain might be the saving grace.
Read the site, still don’t know what it is
Apple's marketing talks about privacy with a strong implication they're not into deceiving users. I guess the App Store team didn't get the memo.

However, how is that different from Google ads? You hire marketing specialists and that's what you get. If you want non deceptive behaviour you have to train them extra.
Option 2 sounds like attack of the body snatchers. Whoever would be left in that body wouldn't be the same person who went into the procedure.
That is one of the reasons I love using a real computer. I can install firefox with ublock origin and sponsorblock. Bomm. No more ads, no more tracking and no more in-video ads.

I would only get the first by paying, and I have found videos without ads so more more relaxing.
Confused. Some wizard dude wanders around among the leaves, and nothing happens. Using the wrong browser or something?
> or very obscure functional map/reduces instead of simple for loops

The functional programmer in me just died a little. Map and reduce are not obscure. They’re the basic building blocks!

For loops, now that’s obscure. There’s like 5 different incantantions for a for loop in JavaScript alone. Each with its own subtle behavior differences.
Steam sales aren't what they used to be. Once they added refunds the sales got watered down, because you could just refund and re-buy if the price got lower at a later date in the sale.

There's also a ton of free/discounted games on the Epic store, 3rd party key resellers, and subscriptions like Xbox Gamepass. These are all possible because the PC remains an open, competitive platform - so that point stands.
> How many people are willing to pay to remove ads?

For me, I'd rather not watch Youtube at all if I have to pay to use it. I have found that it is an incredible time-waster and really adds very little value to my life. If I had the self control I would stop using it on my own.
UltimateGitResource: Git commands and resources to power up your programming
The fact that Docker runs in Hyperkit/virtualization is not really the culprit for the slowness. That makes it a bit slower than native docker but virtualization is pretty good these days. The real problem is filesystem access. If you keep your volumes inside docker, it's pretty fast. Alternatively, you can try using NFS:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/revisiting-docker-mac...
That's correct. I conflated.

Most nutritional yeast is supplemented with B12. It's a good source of protein and other minerals.

Many vegetarians also eat fermented pickles that contain B12 naturally, though you do have to eat rather a lot to get sufficient B12.

By contrast, most non-vegetarians are very deficient in fiber, and nobody ever seems to bother about it.
I think most ISPs are looking for a rate of return on their investment that's hard to get, given the cost per mile of stringing high-speed cable.

When I first moved to suburban Philly (2006), Verizon FIOS had promised to grow into the many neighborhoods and towns in my county of 900,000 people. But apparently the cost of installing 2-way fiber proved higher than expected. So a few years later, they later announced that only the towns in the county with high population density might get FIOS in the foreseeable future. Neighborhoods with larger lots would have to be satisfied with only Comcast.
We’re not discussing an ad platform? The AppStore is /the/ App platform for iOS. Apple decided to monetize it further with ads, despite being the most profitable App platform globally.
By the common definition, if you don't know you're lying, then you're not lying. It doesn't generally extend to mistakes.
Here's an interesting effort in creating an Ocaml for the BEAM VM: https://github.com/AbstractMachinesLab/caramel

It's still pretty new though, so I don't know how well it works just yet.
To uphold the domination of said government over the public. Why do you think most revolution are started?
Police often have benefits packages that few would try to negotiate with a straight face. They typically have an excellent pension and full medical. They also typically rack up a lot of overtime. $67k/year isn't bad when your savings and medical is already taken care of and you still have the prospect of overtime or privately hired side gigs.
An open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server
Part of learning any new technique is overusing it to see what its limits are.

When people first start coding they're trying to get machines to do things. They have to learn the techniques of making code for other humans. To them it's making things verbose and adding tons of comments because that's better.

Meanwhile, they're usually learning to plan for future code needs and make their code flexible.

But part of learning to use those techniques is overuse. So that means code gets gold-plated, baroque, byzantine, and needs a novella of comments to explain its magnificence to future developers so that they use it right. Time to trim it back. Less is more.

I think that's what the author meant.
This story, for me, proves to me again- significant things are possible if people have more liberal access to a computer and internet, and better resources in general.

The fact that many potential great artists, scientists, developers, musicians are lost to poverty, and for not having access to tools is mind-numbing.
Facebook for Oculus Rift: The Commercial (2014)
I too like to buy things, but interrupting me to offer me things I might like is really wasteful. Allow me to submit things I want to buy and then let companies suggest things based on that.
In the case of El Salvador, they adopted the US dollar when their native currency collapsed after a bloody 12 year long civil war. Notably the civil war was covertly funded by the United States in order to support regimes aligned with US interests. At the height of the war, the US was funneling $1-2 million USD per day (1980 dollars) to fund an army of child soldiers. [1]

The US is a proximate root cause for the loss of ES’s currency. I could see why they would want an alternative to the USD as legal tender.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
Unfortunately you misunderstand not just the indicators of a healthy economy (hint: look at cost of living and changes in wealth distribution and not just employment figures) but also the reasons for why such indicators change over time.

On economic issues, people ascribe far too much blame or thanks to whoever happens to be president at the time. Whatever positive indicators you think pointed to a healthy economy in 2017 or whenever probably have nothing to do with the regime at the time; that was just the continuation of a decade of post-recession growth.

Anyway, where are you going to move to next now that Texas is slowly turning purple?
It's not Peano arithmetic, it is basically 'enough of' arithmetic for Goedel's methods to apply. Robinson arithmetic is weaker than PA but Goedel still applies. Goedel's argument is basically a meta-argument about any mathematical system which is rich enough to describe useful mathematics, it does not rely on any particular axiomatisation, rather it applies to all axiomatisations with a few simple features.
The same is true about teachers with the exception of the side gigs and overtime, however summers off allow for similar casual employment opportunities.
I'm not against companies doing it. I'm just against me consuming it. This is why I subscribed to netflix instead of hulu.
One of my previous projects included replacing an Excel/email based approval process with an online process within the system of record. One goal was to reduce outdated offline copies of approval records being stored in people’s inboxes.

Actual result: everyone began printing screenshots from the system and storing these in file cabinets.
Totally agree. I get the deal-with-the-devil that is the free-to-play game / website / email client / social network where I'm getting a service in return for my eyeballs.

But I paid for my Oculus Quest, and then I just paid for a game. I do not therefore want my eyeballs rented out.

Edit: I'd also much rather the Quest platform not become the cesspool that is the free-to-play ad-infested world the iOS AppStore has become. Please can we emulate the Nintendo model and encourage quality games you pay up front for.
Eliminating a middle-man, who takes several percent of every transaction.

Also, making sure that it's available to everybody, not just the people the middle-men dub credit-worthy. When you don't have much money, getting into electronic banking can be expensive, with fees and/or minimum deposits.
On their website:

> Future

> In the future Nuitka will be able to use type inferencing based on whole program analysis. It will apply that information in order to perform as many calculations as possible in C, using C native types, without accessing libpython.

They already claim a 300% speed boost, but with those type inferencing things, it will probably go a lot of further... Can't wait for this project to mature.

I guess compiling to WebAssembly should be trivial then?
Is Portugal a Tax Haven for Crypto?
I find very disturbing that not mentions KDE/Plasma even when it had global menus since eons. Plus it's the only DE that allow to have a global menu plus a hamburger menu on the window title.
I don’t remember the versions but at one point I wanted to stay back on an old OSX version and a newer iOS and the Mac was just a version behind.

They made entire iCloud suite and related apps on the two incompatible.

As for emacs/vim I have given up by now :) Not my cup of tea.
Seems like the answer is to add a community accepted answer that's easier to change over time, while keeping the accepted answer feature as is.
I don't understand why police are not required to carry liability insurance. It seems like one of the few solutions that would have bipartisan support.