skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you didn't look at wikipedia which mentions "the con artist" and "the operator of the scheme" several times.

If you're having to google the definition of the term maybe there's still a little more you need to learn about it.
They should put up new signs saying "Welcome to Ohio - Find It Here - powered by Comcast".
If the servers for the exams are hosted in the country, why would they need ”internet”?

The gov only needs to block connections leaving the country, for example.
"...his ActorScript can't be implemented on real machines."

I think I understand why, but could you provide some more details?
> As it turns out, though, most people are profoundly ignorant and have no idea who/what they're voting for and lack the intellectual curiosity to figure it out.

Next to the good points by the sister comments, there is usually the problem that you won't find somebody who fits you 100%. Are you going to vote someone who, for example, proposes widespread surveillance, just to get someone out who doesn't deny a bill that bans municipal broadband?

As Southpark eloquently put it, sometimes you have to decide between a douche and a turd [0]. No ignorance needed (except, maybe, to stay sane).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd
As a general labor rule, when a company gives me credit, I value that at $0. Even if this is technically wrong (it is definitely valued more) the reason for this is that the limitation imposed to how I use the value of my labor is a disingenuous negotiation tactic and I will not under any circumstances let my self by fooled by it. Therefore I treat the 10% credit as nothing more valuable then a smile or a letter of good will.
I'm not quite sure that's what you'd need to do; perhaps removing dysphoria would be enough.
This is all 100% correct but he missed probably the biggest reason!

It's really really hard to write an unambiguous text protocol specification and equally hard to write something that implements it properly. Think about all the extra ambiguities text adds: where is whitespace allowed? How are newlines encoded? Are windows line endings ok? Does case matter? Which bits are ASCII and which are UTF-8? How are values quoted?

It's just insanely more complicated, and there are many subtle differences that seem reasonable to different people. "Of course whitespace is allowed there!"

It makes everything way less robust and way more prone to quirks-mode style degradation.
Syncing with OneDrive is an optional feature. You can save notebooks locally to use up as much space as you want without paying.
Dan only talked about the systems he worked on personally. There were many Smalltalks in the past that he didn't mention (Little Smalltalk, Smalltalk V, Smalltalk/X, SmalltalkAgents, VisualAge, Dolphin, Smalltalk MT, etc). Though Cuis and Pharo built on his work, he was not involved with them.
Absolutely.

The irony is that his title is correct - Boring problems need attention.

But the content is jarringly wrong - The lack of attention didn't lie with the engineers of these companies, but with the author themselves.

For ~1600 words, they could have very easily tried to count it and quickly realized that the answers they got weren't wrong - the question was lazy and lacking attention.

Do you mean dictionary words?

Compound words?

Whitespace separated tokens?

What about stand alone text that isn't a word (ex - page numbers? Title numbers?)

Words that the author invented?

Words use non-traditional-spacing or grammar?(and maybe a missing space)

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But nope, it's those damn lazy engineers!
The war on drugs is the single government program that has created far more damage to individual rights than any other. In law school it seems like every case that whittles away the fourth amendment just a little bit more is a drug case.

I'd say the income tax is in second place in terms of destruction of individual rights.
It seems reasonable to show a captcha to tor traffic, given the current state of it.
But it's the relationship they need from you. You don't create them for you, you create them for them.

It's not literally I had no relationship with my parents. They got me ready for school in the morning, my mom and I had inside jokes, we spent time together, we went to the grocery store, I had homework. But from the minute I was headed to school until the sun went down most days I was out in the world by myself.
> My experience has been the opposite. Novice developers tend to be proud of how terse and dense their code is, and optimize for minimizing line count.

Depends on the culture. A lot of offshored programmers will report their "performance" as number of lines written. With the expected results...
The answer is "go ahead and benchmark". There are some theoretical advantages to uring, like having to do less syscalls and have less userspace <-> kernelspace transitions.

In practice implementation differences can offset that advantage, or it just might not make any difference for the application at all since its not the hotspot.

I think for socket IO a variety of people did some synthetic benchmarks for epoll vs uring, and got all kinds of results from either one being a bit faster to both being roughly the same.
Downleveling is a flaming trainwreck in almost every case.

Seems almost like the bait and switch that the OP company is railing against in the blog post.

I'm curious to see how you guys have managed it without disgruntled employees quitting within 18 months.
But all that's just what those machines are waiting for. Did we learn nothing from Maximum Overdrive?
Agreed, it's my GUI of choice as well.
Rust is a very well designed language no doubt, but I think maintenance is where high level languages have an upper hand in some domains.

Also, there are plenty of high level languages with traits, eg Haskell, but if you prefer one where it is easier to express things optionally with an imperative/OOP mindset, Scala.
Fair enough, good points. Really what I should have said is that if you're running on an untrusted system, it should be in an isolated environment (sandbox, container, etc.) which would preclude using a shared system binary. Statically linking your own executable would be another way to satisfy that constraint.
https://archive.is/2xQ0U

"But for those not fully vaccinated, it is becoming increasingly dangerous almost everywhere."

At what point will the Public Health establishment stop pretending they are relevant, stop censoring/controlling the message, and go back to doing real research and real science?

I fear they were given an impossible task, and they have no exit strategy.

Turns out roughly half of half of the population doesn't care about coronavirus, and there is nothing public health officials can do.
bandwidth exceeded alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617150204/https://despairla...
It sounds exactly the case to me.
The themes of reggaeton include objectification of women, and the trivialization of intimacy and relationships, as well as the human experience at large.

Most reggaeton lyrics follow this structure:

1) I saw a female

2) I am aroused

3) Sexual innuendos

There is almost no difference between the mechanics of "perreo" (from Spanish "perro", dog, meaning "dogging") and rubbing yourself against another person in a sexual manner.

Now, in a more constructive tone... people creating music is a good thing. I hope that these artists persevere, and eventually find ways to create music about themes that elevate the human experience beyond the pursue of the sexual act.
Are you kidding me? The "war" on drugs today is nothing like it was at all in the 90s.

For the most obvious example, marijuana is legal to purchase for recreational use in dozens of states, with more coming.
Can someone provide a ELI5 for this?
Gödel proposition I'mUnprovable cannot be constructed in

foundations because fixed-point construction violates orders

on propositions. Existence of I'mUnprovable would render

foundations inconsistent.

See the following;

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
> a national group that advocates for total drug decriminalization.

Will this ever be achieved in the US in the next... 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? 50 years?
The title on the actual article reads exactly that way.
Neo4j is all-in on, "almost everything looks like (or can be made to look like) a graph, so almost everyone should be using a graph database".

As for those specific figures, I'm guessing there's enough wiggle room in "data and analytics innovations" (emphasis mine) to find or project almost any trend one wishes. What are data analytics innovations? Why, it's the set of things that will see 80% use of graph technologies! "Graph technologies" is also so potentially-vague that it could plausibly be 100% of almost anything related to software.
Variation from doctor to doctor is also wild the reactions you get out of people. Our daughter had a dairy allergy and we had observed after cutting it out her getting better. Our original pediatrician basically had the attitude of "well since you self-diagnosed this and it wasn't officially by me I'm going to largely ignore it and proceed as normal."

We switched pediatricians and the difference was amazing. The response was "I have listed to all that you have said and I agree with your assessment that she has an issue with dairy. Here are some options for her diet going forward". The difference between fighting a battle to feel heard versus feeling like someone is on your team solving a problem is incredible.
> - "Extremely fussy" is a selling point. Extremely fussy means that if something goes wrong you don't have a runaway chain reaction that makes everything go boom.

Sorry, I should've elaborated a bit on this point. I'm talking about the expensive containment system which will be subject to extreme conditions and have a short lifetime[1].

> Under reactor-relevant conditions, the following are the most serious damaging mechanisms: thermally induced defects such as cracking and melting of the plasma-facing material (PFM); thermal fatigue damage of the joints between the PFM and the heat sink; hydrogen-induced blistering; helium-generated formation of nanosized clusters; and neutron-induced degradation of the wall armor via reduction of the thermal conductivity, embrittlement, transmutation, and activation.

> Further serious lifetime-limiting PWI processes are caused by material irradiation with hydrogen isotope ions (D+ and T+) and impurities that—depending on their impact energy—will sputter the wall material. The eroded species will be deposited elsewhere, for example, on unshielded parts of the vacuum vessel, on blanket modules, or on less severely exposed divertor targets (outside the separatrix strike zone). Implantation of hydrogen isotopes into the surface of the PFM will result in severe embrittlement of the wall. This also has a strong impact on its cracking resistance, in particular during short transient thermal loads (i.e., ELMs). Helium will also be implanted into the surface of the wall armor or buried in redeposited surface layers. Implanted helium tends to migrate (depending on the prevailing temperature) and to form tiny bubbles that again can interact with implanted hydrogen. In several fusion-relevant PFMs (e.g., tungsten) helium can initiate rather substantial changes in surface morphology, such as the growth of tiny tendrils or “fuzz” on the surface of the PFM.12 These layers can easily reach several micrometers in thickness. These effects need to be considered as a potential source for the release of dust particles and contamination of the burning fusion plasma.

So I'm not talking about the fail-safe nature but rather the extreme cost and technical difficulty of containing the reaction for the amount of time that would be needed for fusion to be a viable commercial energy source.

[1] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5090100
A cold spot and a stellar burp led to strange dimming of Betelgeuse
Hong Kong police arrest editor-in-chief of Apple Daily newspaper in raids
What do you find nightmarish about it?
> large groups of people that the government wants to marginalize

Who does the government want to marginalize? I thought the government (and the rest of the world, really) was all about equality and inclusion as of late.
All I got was this DARE t-shirt
Wind Influence on Tesla Model 3
The world moved on from the gold standard briefly at the start of WWI, but then returned. Then, during the Great Depression, the need to better control their currency and do large financial transactions for which they simply didn't have enough gold spurred most countries to move away definitively from it. This spurred recovery from the Great Depression and allowed huge investments in needed work.

All of a sudden, it became clear that well functioning economies could reliably promise money that would become available tomorrow, and use it to start getting there today. This is a major boon to any country, and having to save up resources until you can start huge infrastructure projects would be a return to terrible times.

Later edit: As for the claim that El Salvador would use the Lightning Network, I highly doubt that the citizens of El Salvador will each have a bitcoin wallet and lightning channel connected to it. Much more likely, some citizens will have some account with a bank (exchange) that will facilitate payments through the LN or whatever other mechanism they chose to use internally, that no one will really care about.

Of course, with bitcoin as volatile as it is, no one in their right mind would pick up a credit in BTC, so the greatest need for fractional reserve banking will be far away. Even so, if people start buying heavily into bitcoin, I wouldn't be surprised to see banks/exchanges start to offer BTC that they don't yet own.
Since surviving my Physics degree in the 90s, I wanted to be an educator and write books that filled in the gaps between beginner and expert -- the problem was becoming an expert and understanding the essence of things in that gap.

I generally just need that clue to go from beginner to intermediate, but no one usually provides those clues (and they might be different for everyone!)
> I haven't followed Python dev, so can't comment about how the CoC is being used in practice.

In tough situations, CoC powers are inversely proportional to the height of your position on the totem pole.
At a federal level, perhaps not much is changing. But in the past decade, many states have been decriminalizing or legalizing recreational sale of certain drugs.
Thanks. She has played with Flask a bit and did some PHP a few years ago. I'll encourage her to do some projects, maybe get a little portfolio site going. She does like that stuff.
The transition from userspace to the kernel and back takes a similar amount of time to actually doing a small read from the fastest SSDs, or issuing a write to most relatively fast SSDs. So avoiding one extra syscall is a meaningful performance improvement even if you can't always eliminate a memcpy operation.
I was thinking particularly about farm work [0]. I would drop so many watermelons!

[0] https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1402444980774260739
The reasoning is well established at this point. It was started by the Nixon administration to reduce the amount of left and left-leaning voters, particularly black Americans.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
— John Ehrlichman, to Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine in 1994, about President Richard Nixon's war on drugs, declared in 1971.
Similarly my thought was, "Just sell the hairdryer and deal with damp hair - it's not worth it!"
This exactly. Their messaging is over the top "we help engineers get leverage over companies!" I have to wonder what Triplebyte is telling the companies who actually pay them all their money.

Triplebyte has always seemed scummy and this obvious--and unacknowledged--contradiction makes me trust them even less.
What do we need to do next that would have the biggest effect, decriminalize cocaine/crack cocaine?
That's what I have been waiting for. Gonna test it on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS till the end of the week.
Thank you!
People's opinions on things are fickle and it takes time for things to happen sometimes especially for issues that don't really effect how people vote.
Here's a better question: Why?

This is exactly what crypto-enthusiasts claim is going to happen to the US Dollar and I've never heard mention of crypto taking pity on fiat by offering to give them crypto when the bottom finally falls out of fiat.

So why should anyone else be responsible for people who took a calculated risk that blew up in their face?

Yes, this sucks for them. But this shit happens. Don't throw good money after bad.
And so many episodes of Brooklyn Nine-nine
From the article:

> Apple announced last year that it will reduce its App Store’s developer revenue cut from 30% to 15% for developers that earn less than $1 million in revenue per year. This change went into effect at the start of 2021. Earlier this year, Google announced that it too will reduce the Play Store’s cut form 30% to 15%, but only for the first $1 million in annual revenu earned by all developers. That change will go into effect on July 1st.

> This change by the Amazon Appstore brings its revenue share more closely in line with the new policies of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. ...
> On Tuesday, two House Democrats introduced legislation that would decriminalize all drugs in the U.S., shifting the national response to a public health model. The measure appears to have zero chance of passage.

If that isn't just the perfect description of politics in the US, I don't know what is. I don't know what your political ideology has to be to think the War on Drugs is a good thing, after all the money wasted, all the lives lost, all the people pointlessly locked up for things half the country can now do openly and legally.

The most common-sense things don't even have a chance at passing because our government is barely hiding that they're all either corporate stooges or obstructionist trolls anymore.
Yes, but that's the case with all the functional approaches proposed.

If Python were focused on functional programming it would have a utility function for this similar to itertools.groupby (but with indices in an array instead of keys in a dictionary).
This needs more investigation, will find out soon - biased though (author selling book):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271960
I see a lot of people in the comments describe triplebyte as a “market leader” and discuss how good they are. I can’t believe how gullible everyone is especially on a startup forum. Let me spell it out to y’all, nobody pivots and changes their entire business model if they are crushing it. So the implication is that triplebyte are not crushing it. So, this probably has gone the same way as lots of other tech startups. They’ve raised a bunch of money spent it all on ads , distorted the market for a while (usually just the advertising market) and now are on the way out. No matter what fluff or spin they put on it, that’s what’s happening.
You almost certainly occupy a bubble in this. I hate the War on Drugs with every fiber in my being, but it’s broadly popular.

Cannabis legalization may recently be popular. But I’d be shocked if more than 5% of Americans supported the legalization hard drugs, and if more than 20% supported by Portuguese style decriminalization. Even soft drug prohibition, like MDMA and LSD, are supported by sizable majorities of voters.
This is a perfect example of why we're making these changes (and the problem that came from us being a gatekeeper). There are lots of different ways to show skill. We don't want to be in the position of deciding who "deserves" a job.
> Created a lot of jobs in the industry of arresting and detaining humans.

What portion of those arrested + detained are the type of people we want in society/civilization?
Similarly, Airbnb has been profitable for a while. Snowflake is also moving towards that.
You can get a season pass to Six Flags for $60. What do I win?

https://sf-static.sixflags.com/wp-content/uploads/ttic-sp_sf...
Humorously, https://cliki.net/Python - "Python is the name of a free high-performance compiler originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon University for CMU Common Lisp, it is now used by SBCL ..."
The Ethereum interpreter bytecode is stored on the blockchain, but the source code isn't. (It'd be inefficient both for storage and CPU cycle reasons.) Basically like storing a Python .pyc or Java .class file.

There's pretty much a rule of thumb that tokens should always be open source, in part because it's much easier to hide a backdoor if you don't publish the source, and also because cryptocurrency communities generally share the open source, high-transparency ethos. The #1 Ethereum blockchain explorer site has a system that lets you submit source code for a contract, and they verify that the source code compiles to the exact same bytecode.

You can very safely assume that if there's no source, it's malware. For every single instance I've seen where a project doesn't publish the verified source code, it's always been because the code is backdoored.

You can decompile bytecode, but scam projects will often add a ton of obfuscation or even specific things to confuse the decompiler and make it fail to decompile certain parts. Better decompilers will keep getting written, so you theoretically won't ever be able to truly hide what your code is doing even if you don't publish source, but it's sort of moot because verified source code is bare minimum "table stakes" for anyone (competent) to interact with your project.

The caveat being that most investors are non-technical and don't have a clue what any of what I just wrote means and will just invest in whatever if it has a name and a logo. But in that case, they'll invest in a scam project whether or not they publish the source code. And for the percentage who do at least know that no source = scam, they'll still invest in every scam that does have source code, which is most of the scams.
Seriously, the changes we've gone through in some states are massive.

In college, a guy I worked with lost his job because someone he was with possessed marijuana. The guy I knew didn't have anything and wasn't charged with anything, but he lost his job with the university just the same.

As of July 1, none of them would have gotten in any trouble; as of next year, they'd be able to legally buy the substance. This is a massive change.
Proofs forgot to include order of proposition in its Gödel number.
Apple gives 85% for devs under a million/year in sales. Google as well.
I think we shouldn't call any place a slum. They should be all "neighbourhoods".

Slums, villas, favelas, end up being treated differently and things that would be unacceptable anywhere else (such as police entering your house without a warrant) become perfectly normal.
What's a realistic alternative? What's it going to take for the US to mimic a legality stance towards drugs like Portugal's overnight?
CureVac Comes Up Short
Someone here on HN recommended the excellent Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design[1], which covers much of the practical engineering & economics side of the VAX and its evolution through contemporary essays.

Reading between the lines, it was clear that DEC never managed to escape the gravity well of being born as a "module company", even as Moore's Law was inevitably pulling all modules of competitive relevance into the microprocessor itself.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/Bell-ComputerEnginee...