skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Improving Genomic Discovery with Machine Learning
I never had one. Was clicking on the >>| and thinking it was bugged because it won't navigate between the items on menu...
Not sure about 'useful', but the first language taught in my college CS courses was Turbo Pascal. A bit OO, but also had pointers, etc... I guess it was fine.

TBF though, where I went to school, after the first two classes students were expected to pick up the 'class language' for all future classes. This meant C in compiler and OS class, Java in data structures, Python and Lisp in some other classes. We were learning CS topics, and the given language was just a tool that could change depending on which teacher taught the class that semester.

By the mention of Turbo Pascal above you can probably guess this was a long time ago. I'm sure schools have changed since then.
1. No one uses it as money. No one (within margin of error).

2. Bitcoin is very confusing and hard to learn about. But buying from an exchange makes it easy for normal people.
If you are rich enough you are eccentric and colorful.
> Or at least not originally

I've heard it was the other way around, i.e. it started off as a self identification for a niche group which people started to reject once it begun to be used pejoratively.
I largely don't really agree with the article, other than that it feels like too often the first language students learn is not chosen very carefully.

I'm personally leaning towards C or Javascript — which are in a sense total opposites — but they both have interesting strengths for first learners.

C is great because it's statically typed and it's hyper-simplicity allows students to really grasp the fundamentals of programming and how a program works. On the other hand Javascript and the web stack allows people to quickly do something fully interactive, and I think this can be really motivating.

At my former high-school there was one CS teacher that basically only taught students how to do math in Java. Naturally, a lot of students quickly lost interest as a result.
Came across this when searching terms from Karpathy's Bitcoin tour [1], and I liked the concise but clear and informative presentation of the topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593772
It would definitely be nice. That being said, I do think it'd make more sense to let people "roll their own" for at least a few years first. Just to get a really good idea of what the problem space is, and what defaults people are likely to expect.

I've seen a lot of projects try to set things up from the beginning without enough information, and it ends up falling a little flat (or worse, getting in the way).
If I remember the story correctly the neighbour killed his dogs. That’s a pretty strong motive.
Only if Melinda (or Bill :-)) decide to change their names.

This foundation is still their legacy for generations
There is some good advice in this post. When something is broken, dont fix it until you have a test that demonstrates the issue.
Sure, but while there is evidence that less abuse and trafficking occurs where prostitution is legal (which is why I do generally support legalization) I think it's clear that it doesn't eliminate it.

I wasn't able to find any stats on violence in a country where it is both legal and normalized, but I did find this paper by a doctor of psychology about the trafficking and abuses that still occur under the German system.

https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol3/iss3/5/

I'm open to evidence to the contrary, but it seems like in many ways the legalization and normalization of prostitution has both failed to protect sex workers from violence and has normalized the trafficking and pimping of these women.
Aren't you being the "authoritarian" by insisting on calling people by the wrong nicknames (gender), promoting laws that outlaw nickname (gender) preference and going as far as violence if that person continues to disagree with your name (gender)?

The proposed protections for trans people are in response to real acts of violence that are not in line with laws like the 14th Amendment which promotes equality for all people.

And let's remember that these laws to protect trans people are only being proposed. Many laws on the books are against trans people. What you're reacting to is social pressure to treat trans people with respect, not authoritarian legal pressure. If anyone is feeling authoritarian legal pressure it's trans people.
From a statistical perspective, black Americans are more likely to commit violent crimes than white. Yet we got rid of white/colored restrooms, and claiming "I'm afraid of blacks" is rightly considered racist and offensive.
> Is it better to assume that men and women are pretty much the same in academia and each are capable of the same thing? Or is it better to assume that men and women are intrinsically better at different things with certain characteristics.

This is something I think a lot of people misunderstand about [id]-consciousness. Is it better to assume that you as an individual have biases that align/oppose with overarching biases in our society, or is it better to assume that you alone, or society at large, are bias-free? Can we address inequality by treating everybody the same in this moment and ignoring the historical context they exist in, or do observed biases need to be compensated for in some manner?
Interview with John Levy, CEO and Chairman of Seeqc (Quantum Computing)
This. Gonna be grand when he faked his death and paid off a couple prison guards 10+ BTC to escape and shows up elsewhere in a year or two. One can hope, anyway. Plus, he had to get out of eating his own dick.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...
It’s not DNS

There is a no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

One of the most bittersweet haikus for any sysadmin :p
You are stating something as fact, something that happened in another country. You are so well informed you watched a documentary and read some news articles.

He ran for US president in the last few races. How was he on the run.
> disproportionately being subjected to murder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and widespread discrimination.

This is provably untrue. Not that it isn't a tragedy, but in 2020, 44 trans people were killed[1] in the US. This is a rounding error even when looking at "merely" just hate crime statistics (for example, in 2019, the FBI reported ~7000 criminal offenses[2] in the "hate crime" category). I get it, people are passionate about it, companies change their logos, everyone posts about it on social media, but let's not perpetuate these myths.

[1] https://www.them.us/story/44-trans-people-killed-2020-worst-...

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...
It can both be the case that some people did great things, and that better understanding the full context of how they did that, and what exactly they did personally do to achieve that end, is useful if we wish to imitate them or provide good policy, environments, teaching, and resources for others to do the same.

Excessively crediting the individual, or misunderstanding their work, may lead us to believe ourselves capable of less than we actually are—"Sure, I like painting and I'm good at it, but I could never make as many great paintings as so-and-so, that would be impossible!" weeeellllll so-and-so was a great artist, true, that's not wrong, but about 3/4 of the paint on your favorite work of his was applied by his assistants, so you might not be so far off as you imagine, and also you may need to redirect some of your efforts at skill-improvement if you want to match his output—say, to selecting, and managing, and not-feeling-guilty-about-not-crediting, assistants.

Which is to say, really, that I'm agreeing with you: the possibility that Aristotle may not have personally, solely, and remarkably capably, founded and written the inaugural texts for several major fields of study in Western science and academics, doesn't mean that he didn't do some great things, but it may change how one pursues imitating any part of his achievements, and the apparent attainability of doing great work of anything like the same order.
> I do not think that creating situations where female prisoners can be sexually assaulted and impregnated by their cell mate is a positive step forward.

You keep combining impregnation and sexual assault as if they're the same thing. Cis women are already sexually assaulted by other cis women in prisons! This is not a problem created anew by housing trans women in women's prisons. I venture that the problem is not trans women, the problem is the assumption that prisons cannot stop inmates from sexually assaulting each other.
Various societies throughout history have recognized gender identities as distinct from biological differences for about as long as there have been societies. That the modern English terms for those two categories emerged from academia is pretty irrelevant.
Given his recent history, I suppose he probably tried to break out of jail and failed?
If I asked you to call me "Your Majesty" and bow your head every time (only slightly, tho), would it really be such a pain to you?
Some languages actually do have a central authority. IDK about Spanish, but my native language (Czech) definitely has an official standard.

Anyone can, of course, use any weird construction they want, it is just not correct Czech.
Exploring another way is the first reason. The lambdas of this language are "pure" without any link with the context, a bit like "combinators" having access to global constants.

The absence of closure is compensated by the possibility to apply these lambdas to any number of values, (less than, equal to or greater than the number of arguments).

Another reason is the ease of implementation and use of these lambdas. Managing the local context by hand is a learning experience. This does not take away the interest of closures, it just puts their importance into perspective.

More in this page
http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=coding

Thank you for your feedback.
It’s not really a choice, rather than an often very difficult process of discovery, if they manage to accept it at all. A good friend of mine struggled for years with their self acceptance and I only realized that in restrospect. But coming out liberated them and an avalanche of happiness, productivity and positivity happened.

It’s a real struggle, and by belittling or ignoring it we can only make it worse. It’s time to listen, respect and embrace.
Just like that Epstein guy killed himself
One thing I find very troubling about articles like this is the tendency to frame hot political topics as essentially academic, while they are in fact very practical. Across the US and England, trans people are being denied access to health care, medically necessary operations, and effective therapeutic treatment. But this article doesn't discuss those issues, it only discusses the ramifications of this political reality.
ironically this view probably exacerbates the issue the OP has.
For anyone wondering: "the Spanish High Court approved of his extradition to the US on tax evasion charges." [which is why he was imprisoned]
> Is there any equivalent for the baseband?

For Pinephone, there is something: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11815
> I'm often confused as to why this topic comes up on HN

Take a look around, I think you'll find transmen comprise a much larger proportion of this community (and tech communities in general) than the general population.

There's also a lot of desire on HN to comment on political topics while pretending not to comment on political topics. Things like gender identity, women in tech, genetic differences, etc are all wonderful smokescreens to allow us to post politically but maintain a solid veneer of simply having an intellectual discussion on a topic of general interest.
Very few, I'd even say that I have no other example in mind at the moment. I'm not saying that we should not strive to find the most equal way of solving all problems, just that some just don't have a good answer. These should go by the way of least damage.
Java makes me want to break something too.

Like most kids in my generation (learning to program in the early 1980s) BASIC was my "first language", but it wasn't until I learned C at college in the late 80s that I really started to feel capable. I rarely use C for work anymore but I still "think in C" when trying to work out any sort of low-level algorithm no matter what language I wind up implementing it in (nowadays mostly Python and JavaScript).
At great cost, yes you could. This is one of the reasons everything costs so much in America, because we insist on making 50 independent systems.
> we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty.

The legal system should presume innocence. It's completely reasonable for people have lower standards for assuming guilt.
The more simple explanation would probably be "a person doing this doesn't have a firm grip on reality, and might be a suicide risk"
Fun fact: similar things, but much more general, were in the HTTP/1.1 standard from 1997. However, HTTP frames relied on HTTP chunks, which were fundamentally broken in the Win-HTTP-stack implementation. (Third party browsers like Netscape Navigator or Opera implemented a HTTP-stack of their own, but IE relied on the built-in implementation.)

(Because of this flaw, keep-alive was broken, as well, and requests stalled until they timed out. Which is, why everyone set the request timeout to just a short period and you couldn't type a HTTP request manually in a terminal anymore.)
I have found that "I'll never kill myself. There's always something to live for" is something that is very easy for people who are safe and happy to say, and I pray that these people will always be safe and comfortable enough to not change their mind on this for their own sakes.

When you're sitting in a tiny concrete box and looking at the very distinct possibility of spending the rest of your life in such a box, either metaphorically or, in McAfee's case, literally, the thought process is quite different. Yes, McAfee has had run-ins with the law before, but maybe he figured he wasn't going to get out of this situation so easily, and he didn't have that many more good years left in front of him, concrete box or no.

Thus, I'm willing to accept this as a suicide unless and until compelling evidence otherwise surfaces.
Larger discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
Musk was fined 40 million for his stock tweets but I don't think he technically ever engaged in any crypto pump and dump because I don't think he ever actually held (or dumped) any crypto. I assume you have to actually financially benefit from such a scheme to commit some sort of crime. Otherwise you're basically just shitposting about crypto.
For people who aims to become professional software engineers, sure. But you can't expect other professionals to learn more than one language though, learning one is more than enough work.
1) Presumption of innocence applies only in court which McAfee purposefully avoided.

2) He was found guilty in civil court.

3) If he wanted to be judged by American standards he should've perhaps stayed in America.

4) You're acting like accusations of torturing and murdering your (yes actually dead) neighbor happen regularly to random people. Cancel culture, amirite?
Ok.

hand wavey
Tasered is not torture, else surely cops wouldn't use it? And he poisoned 4 dogs, people get rather angry about their pets.
But yea, killing over it is extreme.

Still, seems an odd thing to extradite him for. Maybe more to the story which we will never know.
Maybe he was killed for his bitcoin/crypto? Is it a possibility? How can we know if it was suicide or murder?
Interface99 – Type-safe zero-boilerplate interfaces for C99 in a single library
Quite surprising how they are able to write an article about his escapades in almost no time at all.
Is there currently any information out there as to the cause of his death?
"Innocent until proven guilty" is for the courts, who hold sway over one's freedom. It is perfectly acceptable as an individual to go, "yeah, he probably (because I, as an individual, aren't held to a 'reasonable doubt' standard, either) did it" just as it is perfectly acceptable to give some benefit of the doubt.

But as others have already pointed out, a court already found him guilty, and it's moot anyway.
Well the trafficking is necessary because the substances are illegal, so yes..? If there were just legal, safe ways to obtain these drugs, the vast majority of people who wanted to do them would choose to do so. For those who chose to go for the cheaper but riskier options, that's their choice, they should be educated on the dangers, and then that should be end of it
What ecil did he do? Take drugs?
I think one important thing that we, as a society, need to respect is that the amount of "do" it takes a given person to do a given task is very different from the amount of "do" it takes another person to do that same task.

For example, it may take somebody who's depressed the same amount of "do" to get out of bed and eat a yogurt as it takes a go-getter, "neurotypical" [0] person to get up, cook a healthy breakfast, go to the gym, take a shower, get to work, and get through their first couple tasks of the day.

[0]: I put "neurotypical" in scare quotes because I'm not sure neurotypical is even really a thing, it's just the term we use for people whose mental makeup fits well into our society and work culture.
GAN Theft Auto is a snippet of GTA 5 made by AI
That's a question that is sociological in nature, and far beyond the scope of the well-defined linguistic meaning of the word, which was what I was commenting on.
Was he not running away and hiding from various countries’ authorities? Are all the articles making it up?
Anyone who believes that IRS or SEC sends a hitman to kill people because they evade taxes or run fraudulent crypto schemes, needs to examine their head.

McAfee was always paranoid. He was not a threat to the man. He also lied a lot and even admitted it many times.
Because (according to the allegations) McAfee didn't pay the tax man.
Altice is reducing cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86% next month
I've seen a lot of professional programmers pick up Clojure from varied backgrounds and come to write idiomatic functional Clojure. I don't actually know many people who use Clojure daily whose first language was a Lisp or an ML, everyone seems to learn Javascript, Python, or Java. Some of the older programmers learned assembler or C/C++ first.

Clojure really encourages data-oriented programming, similar to what you often find in Python codebases. Mutation isn't the default in clojure for common data structures, so writing your iterative code is just more work than writing functional code using the immutable defaults. Language design has a big impact here. That's not to say you can't write imperative mutation heavy code in Clojure, but you're either going to fight the language or build up your own utility libraries to do it. It's there, but it's rarely idiomatic and often seen as a performance tradeoff.
> Anyway, I think most people in support of the "new" ideology, as you call it, would say that the "old" ideology was flawed. Some might say it was bullshit, some might just say it was misguided or overly hopeful.

While there are of course real injustices, which different people think motivate different responses, what we're talking about here feels manufactured in (mostly) American universities. Nothing like deliberately splitting people along the lines of immutable characteristics to create problems for social scientists to "solve".
The reason is patents. The JPEG people made sure everything they produced after JPEG proper was irrelevant for the open Web by patenting it to hell and back. (Even JPEG is only recently freely implementable in full, because it has a better mode with arithmetic coding instead of Huffman that nobody uses in order to avoid patents.) I’ve heard there’s also a small issue where a naïve JPEG 2000 decoder would produce images that look less sharp even if they’re nominally better (cf. similar issues with H.264, mentioned at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615962>), but the patents is the big one.

Now browsers (specifically Firefox) making sure MNG (the better-designed animated sibling of PNG) never got off the ground is not such a good look for them.
Conversely, if you publish your package exclusively as Flatpak, I will not download it. Nothing personal against your product, it's just not getting installed on my system via Flatpak.
Oh man, I totally forgot about that!
Trans people aren't asking to get credit for certifications or degrees they didn't receive. Calling someone by their preferred pronouns isn't bestowing an honorific upon someone (as if it's up to you to be the arbiter of that anyways). It's basic decency.
The vast majority of geniuses were lucky enough to be born into families that were very much above the lower socioeconomic classes of their times. These were not "lone" geniuses, not when everything about their early lives gave them advantages above the majority that allowed them to pursue a life that left room for intellectual pursuit.

Whether it's 1 or 10 that made discoveries around the same time, they have still taken advantage of 1) every piece of knowledge they've encountered that came before them and 2) At least limited, and often not very limited, collaboration or "bouncing ideas of off" people around them. 3) The circumstances of their birth. These can't be discounted.

These are, however, matters of degree, and as I said it can still take a unique intellect to put the pieces together. That can't be discounted, but there still must be pieces to put together. Even Ramanujan had tutors from a very early age who taught him quite a bit, along with multiple books on the subject of mathematics, to help him along his way. Each of these sources had in turn built upon many years and many minds' worth of knowledge. Ramanujan is probably the most "lone" of lone geniuses that I can think of, and still he would likely not have achieved nearly as much without that foundational knowledge.

This is not just about simultaneous discovery-- although that does demonstrate the "fertile ground" aspect of things. It is fundamentally about the sum total of knowledge that came before a genius and the social network of very smart, though perhaps not genius intellects, that served as sounding boards, critics, etc.

And though the author of this article wants to discount the "luck" aspect of these individuals, it is extremely notable that most if not all of the individuals that spring to mind came from circumstances of birth that allowed for their intellect to flourish. They were born into circumstances of middle class or higher where resources supplemental to the basic necessities required for life & sustenance could be devoted to their education & leisure time to pursue their interests: Einstein was not born into a working class family with parents confined to jobs of physical labor. Newton's family similarly was not of the labor class. Nor was Ramanujan's. Or Leibniz's.
Did you miss the "Tesla buys billions of USD in bitcoin" headlines? Along with the "will accept payment in BTC" pump and "never mind, selling" dump?
Arguably? By what metric? Lisp is a standard. What implementation?
so is MDPV.

John was "stuffmonger" on a drug forum here: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/hello-and-an-mdpv-quest...

A good summary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/8utitu/john_mcafe...
In the UK prisons, transgender women sexually assault women 5x more than cis women sexually assault women.

https://archive.is/iYD5T
I completely agree. But I there's a middle ground between "nothing you do matters" and "you can accomplish absolutely anything if you put your mind to it". People at either extreme of the spectrum are more likely to end up disappointed with their lives than someone in the middle.