skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Instead of writing one letter variable names, one could do the hard work of naming things properly, which software developers often do. Instead of going with one letter or the name of that letter as variable name, which tells your fellow non-mathematicians exactly nothing about what it contains, one could put in the effort and make the code readable.

Using these one letter variables forces the reader of the code to either be already familiar with the concept, which that letter refers to, or keep the whole calculation in their head, until the final result, to hope, that they then can make sense of it. It is implicitly requiring outside knowledge. It is shutting out many potential readers of the code.

It might still be saved/helped though, if good prose comments are given, that help the reader understand the meaning of the one letter symbols. Whenever I have seen this one letter code salad, I have seen few if any comments, as if the author of the code expects me to magically know, what each symbol stands for.

Lets say omega was a vector of weights. Why not name it "weights"? That is much better naming than "omega" or that character, that most cannot easily input and need to copy paste from somewhere.
Somehow, I don't feel like it's particularly meaningful to say that the point of _____ high level language is simplicity.
The result of these policies is that hard cheeses are produced in low-income countries, shipped over long distances and then relabeled “Parmasan” in the Parma region, to be shipped long distance again to its end destination.
1 instance running all day = 24 hrs

Times as many instances as you have. So 28 hrs = 1 instance running all day + an extra 4 hours of a second instance

It auto scales
How to Track Custom Events with Google Tag Manager and GA4
They're usually at least reported. At least that was the case for all the compiler-bug related papers I've read.
I doubt any programmer has decided this. It's just a question of cost. And the programmers don't manage those.
Not quite, as the geographical indication not only only means that it was produced there, but also has other constraints on how it is produced, etc... So it is very much a brand, in the very same meaning, that it doesn't necessarily guarantee quality, but that the brand of the region is a means of ensuring some quality standards.

E.g. there are wines from certain regions, but they do not have the geographic indication, as they have not been produced according to the regional standards.

And going with food it is even more important so, as it is close to impossible to reproduce the climate and terroir somewhere half around the world.

That doesn't mean, that it is worse, just that it is not the same.

Take Lambrusco as an example, they do have (or had?) a bad reputation and suffer for it. It's a good motivation for regional producers to keep each others in check.
Young and old Chinese seem to fall out of love with the Western dream
or maybe it's because this thread is all about preschool, so those memories are brought more into cognition.

Let's do an experiment, I'll try to conjure some primary school memories and we'll see if that brings forth some of yours:

- I remember a teacher sending me to fetch the polylux (a type of overhead projector) from another room. I didn't know yet what that was, but duefully obliged. I told the teacher in the other room that I was sent to get some kind of lynx, which I found hilarious.

- we did get flavored milk in paper boxes that had to be recycled in a special bin. The bin had only a slit so kids were forced to learn how to unfold the box so it takes up less space in the bin (those boxes are very common for all types of drinks and to this day it irritates me if someone doesn't unfold them when throwing them away).
In the summer the bin would smell atrocious.

- I remember a fried who had a color printer & scanner at home and who offered to replicate a paper dinosaur model for the whole crafts class.
90ies inkjet technology was not up to the task and rendered all instructions unreadable - some kids managed to come up with some interesting creations still

- I well remember running through the hallway and somehow not making the turn, hitting my head hard on the wall/door

- at some point me and a couple of friends would build 'spaceships' out of boxes and bring them to school to play with during breaks. I got sick and while I stayed home I used the time to build a really big spaceship - but when I returned the next week, the spaceship craze had already ended

- bubble gum with pokémon stickers in them was all the rage
These greedy Globalists are probally clamoring for the day diesel gas drops in price due to most everyone else trying to green. They will just need to act lije they care about burning fossil fuels, and happily pay for lower diesel fuel.

Until then--they will do stunts like this in order to show they care. (20% savings in fuel is big though. "Stunt might be to cynical?)

I feel the companies that use shipping are scared. They are afraid of tariffs/taxes tacked on to their cheaply made products if the public starts complaining.

They got away with manufacturing in the cheapest country. We just gave up trying to buy reasonably priced products at home.

I imagine they are very scared of their perceived culpability in Global Warming though?

I am all for the sails. They don't seem copacetic with container ships though?

The filthy loucres couldn't carry as many containers with sails?
Not too bad. Unless you have a contract or regulations that says otherwise, 5 mins downtime once in a while is really nothing to lose your sleep about. Did you even have to report it?
Why does web dev not use much formal cs in your opinion?
That is not true. There are parts of the world where Iphone use is quite low. For instance in India which is expected to have more than 820 million smart phone users by 2022, the percentage of IOS users is around 3%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262157/market-share-held...

In China with over 850+ million smart phone users, IPhone users are about 13%.
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/china-smartphone-share/
I wouldn't use the word "assign" these are definitions and their order is not significant. You're right, a while without a definition of result produces a syntax error.
If the condition is initially false, the definition of result is immediately evaluated.

Looks like I fooled some people into assuming that whiles are imperative. They're not
> He's right though.

He really isn't, and the blatant attempt to poison the well is a clear indicator of the lacking arguments.

I repeat: people don't even bother spending a few minutes trying to get a pure FP hello world going. Zero barriers to entry, zero challenge, zero resistance.

But in spite of the lack of any obstacle or challenge, pure FP fails to present a value proposition that justifies even a five minute effort from pretty much anyone.

> Yeah, over a long time it will certainly happen that a good idea will manifest itself. But that process can take a long time, centuries even.

This baseless assertion holds no water in software development. It does not take a multi-generation epifany to convince someone to use pure FP. All it takes is a single person willing to invest it's time.

But still, those who do invest their time with ivory tower tests don't see value that justifies pursuing any effort, and thus don't bother pushing it anywhere beyond a cursory test.

Why is that?

> It's often easier to stick to something existing because change requires effort.

This assertion holds no water at all, as pure FP frameworks exist for decades and still people do not bother with them. Why is that? And how can you hold such a cognitive dissonance of claiming something is so great and yet it does not exist in practice because no one ever bothered to take advantage of such greatness?

Also, are we supposed to pretend that even Microsoft offers pure FP languages that integrate with their .NET stack and still no one bothers with it at all, even when they can even contam it's use to very small and self contained modules?

The truth of the matter is that pure FP fails to gather at attention beyond navel-gazing ivory tower types because it quite blatantly fails to present a value proposition. That's the core of the issue. I mean, languages like Rust are increasing popularity like wildfire in spite of it's radically different and restrictive take on resource management because it presents a clear and inequivocal value proposition. But pure FP frameworks, in spite of having a head start of decades and a foothold on dark corners of academia, fails to convince the public that it's in their best interests to even peek in that general direction. Why is that? Do we really need to resort to absurd conspiracy theories to get an answer to that question?
How to Reopen Closed Tabs in Google Chrome and Other Web Browsers
Doesn't Google now sort of operate at that level with Android, now that they're slowly moving over to hardware-based device integrity attestation?
I am not sure if I am doing something wrong. How do I access the site/web app?
Not the OP but we should weed out all the incompetent folk ASAP rather than hide it to maintain delivery speed.
https://tiddlyroam.org/#quickstart
I have a novel idea for green vehicle propulsion using hay-powered biological machines.
I think he was talking about the clusters of machines used in big data. Both in processing (Spark) and storage (SAP HANA). These use cases can need TBs of ram.
That's a bit different to how he has to deal with contemporary compsci nerds. And, it's very old. We're talking about a 40 year old story.

I attended my share of Unix User Group meetings. All of the names had people ride point for them at drink time, adoration is tedious.
The article says there are 15 in operation with 5 more coming in the next year. I couldn’t find details on those ships but the MV Afros is a working cargo ship outfitted with wind assistive technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/magazine/cargo-ships-emis...
Note that you must add your own keypair for that, as Gentoo is a source based distribution so there isn't anything for Microsoft to sign.
Will math answer the question: what releases energy, when two objects are attracted by gravitation, and what stores energy, when we pull them apart?
> On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it.

This really sounds like something that can only happen when unpredictable machine learning models are involved^^
I suppose what one considers the near future is relative.
They don't get payed, so this is not an assumption I would make.
> I don't know in which world you live but in mine people still mostly buy 4, sometimes 8GB of ram laptops

Not only that, but those terabytes are actually distributed systems running at most a few hundreds of megabytes of ram in each node.
>Most compiler bugs are not in their interpretation of the specification, but in various optimization passes.

I work on a large, open-source, industrial-grade compiler for a living and I disagree with this statement unless it is specifically referring to C compilers and not compilers for other languages.
>but it has no users while everyone has Discord

Why do you know that?
FCA bans Binance from UK regulated financial services
But feta without greek wouldn't be deceptive.
"Visual" memory?
I find this hard to believe, given how protective Italian regions are over their fayre.

Do you have a source for this?
Code is Engineering, Types are Science
Haskell very much has an if then else equivalent.

if' :: Bool -> a -> a -> a
if' True x _ = x
if' False _ y = y

https://wiki.haskell.org/If-then-else

Also, Java was designed to handle performance critical code like that. That’s why people call it a fast language, you can write non performance critical code however you want, but optimize for speed and it’s going to look like C.
"An online poll of nearly 20,000 people carried out by Cary Wu, a sociology professor at York University in Ontario, Canada, in April 2020 found that Chinese people’s trust in their own state government had risen to 98 per cent."

"The proportion of respondents who saw them as equals was six percentage points lower than it was in a similar poll conducted in 2016, while the percentage who “looked up to” the West was 30 points lower."

I think that as long as life is improving over there for the majority, the ratings will stay positive. Add the "cultural war" and its propaganda on both sides and you have the perfect ground for feeling of "cultural superiority" on both sides.
> can't even use it with a Tor browser?

You can, but it will be painful with captcha and email submit links for your new IPs.
I am introvert but this has never been a problem for me. I have gotten addicted to social media. So when I feel bored.. I call and message my friends .
Jitsi is not the same.
Mine is boring, stopped the wrong EC2 instance
> These use cases can need TBs of ram.

These use cases can need TBs of RAM, but they don't get it in a single node but as a distributed system with tens of GB of RAM per node.
Yup. Android dominates globally, and IMO Briar's strong suit compared to other similar messenger apps is avoiding both capital surveillance AND state surveillance, or in other words it's good for fighting autocratic regimes. The US isn't really in the tier 1 target group. Yet.
Naa. I'm young and generally positive about systemd, but I'd happily admit that the complexity gap is huge. It's practically impossible to explain systemd to anyone not intimately familiar with linux and systems programming without a bunch of handwaving.
Also, just looking at the wing it seems to block you from using 2/5'ths of the top of the ship, which doesn't offset the 20% gain.
The long-running one at Uber for a while was that someone accidentally pasted a Spotify link into some JSON directly after a bracket or something, causing it to be invalid, and brought down the entire API layer after the deployment failed to detect any errors.

Personally, on my first day of my last job, I was brought on to improve the backend (turns out, only how the non-programmer CEO decided was okay, but that's beside the point). I slow-loris'd production just in the off-chance it was vulnerable, because no way would a site hosted on AWS by a tech lead that claimed he was competent would have a slow-loris-vulnerable setup.

It was indeed vulnerable, and not only did I bring down production, I also (somehow) brought down our own wifi router in the office. Caused a few hours of downtime on a monday.

Learned my lesson that day - even though everyone on the team says soandso is super elite, wait until they show you they are and don't trust that they did anything right.
Sending large amounts to yourself is a tactic to make it look to victims as though others are cashing in on the deal. There's nothing to suggest this wasn't the case here. Holding 400k in BTC during a bear market suggest the scammers have gotten quite wealthy though.

Does anybody know why the article redirected me to this link https://array/?u=%E2%80%A6&o=%E2%80%A6&m=1 ? am i hacked?
For what it's worth, it seems to be a default option in Linux. xUbuntu, for me, went into Settings, Keyboard, Layout, unchecked Use System Defaults, selected a compose key (I picked Right Alt)

Was able to do a TM by holding shift and right alt, typing TM and letting go of shift and right alt. ™

Punctuation and vowels result in accents: Û Ü Ä Ö Ô Þ Ŷ Ô ⸘ ⸘ Æ «» ¿¡ ¨ ¯--_ ⋄
> experimental AI tech

Doesn't this phrase also refer to every human bicyclist's brain? Human bicyclists generally are not required to be licensed.
I suspect it works like any other sail. On an ordinary sailing boat you’re aiming to balance the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces as efficiently as possible, if you’re heeling over too much you can reduce the power produced by the sail by changing the sail’s angle to the wind, by reefing the sail (which reduces the sail area exposed to the wind) or by changing the angle of the boat to the wind (a less upwind course means less heel).

Sailing boats with a keel usually resist capsizing because as they heel over the keel is pushed to windward at a greater angle, increasing the righting force it provides to the hull. Additionally the greater angle of heel decreases the area of sail that’s being exposed to the wind, further increasing the overall effect of the righting force. It would be interesting to see how these can be retrofitted to an ordinary cargo ship though, sailing boats are optimised for a particular amount of heel whereas as far as I’m aware cargo ships generally aim to avoid heel altogether as far as possible with large ballast tanks where water is pumped around.
A great but completely wrong explanations of how a wing works is:
The cuved shape of the wing means air has to move a longer distance over the top of the wing to connect back together with the air moving under it. So since it’s moving faster it has a lower pressure and the pressure difference between the bottom and top leads to the upwards force we call lift.

It sounds like a great eli5, and it gets repeated in serious educational contexts again and again but it’s just absolutely completely wrong.
https://archive.is/AQ32r

It's my go-to for Medium, almost always already archived and ready to read.

I haven't found a way to effectively get around it with either uBlock Origin or Bypass Paywalls extensions installed.
> It's cheaper per capita to roll out fibre to 50 million people than to 5 million;

This assumes an awful lot of things.

If the average number of linear feet constructed grows when going from 5 million to 50 million then the cost per capita isn’t going to decrease.

What going from 5 million to 50 million enables is averaging high cost builds over a larger subscriber base resulting in affordable prices for more people. Note that this will not however decrease costs overall.
Mumble did use Speex too. I4ve heard the "This is an example of Speex" voice line spinning around my head too many times every time I set up mumble.
The issue is that Discord's audio processing is focused on mitigating the impact of the worst audio setups, not preserving the quality of the best, and I don't even think that's the wrong focus given their casual target market
I'm from Moldova, and Moldovan alcohol producers were hit by this. Since the Soviet times lots of things like cognac, champagne, cahors, port wine and so on were produced in Moldova often using traditional recipes.

And then association with EU happened. Ooops, can't use those names anymore, you must devise new names for what is essentially the same exact product.
> I felt sad for him - he'd poured his heart into it for more than 10 years (he said) and had no idea of how to turn it into anything other than a hobby project.

There is nothing wrong with that. It's fun to do things just for fun.

> He hadn't open sourced it, his aspiration was that "Facebook will buy it".

It's hard to believe that's anyone's real motivation for such a project.
I would like that. It’s easy to understand: Medium is a business, they need money to keep going, so they ask people to pay for the service. Instead I’m left guessing why they so desperately want me to sign up, even though they probably can’t pay their employees with user accounts.
Maybe there could be a middle ground. For math-heavy applications, the editor could implement ligatures same as Fira-Code and the latex name would render as the symbol until you put a cursor on it.
Something like this: http://shop.sdp-si.com/catalog/?cid=p593

So you can decide on a module/PA, buy a few diameters then cut off the required face width you need and machine the bore as needed.
A neat perspective I had not really ever thought of before:

> State is never simple because it complects - tangles - time and value.
This is not true. The GI specifications are very strict on where and how the protected product is produced. With Parmigiano Reggiano, for example, the cows producing the milk must be within the geographic area, and even their fodder must primarily come from the region.
Sorry to be pedantic, but.. Like most articles on this topic, this one fails to distinguish between complex and complicated. Some problems are inherently complex, and attempting to model those in a “simpler” way can actually be a mistake. Complicated software, however, is almost always bad, as it implies that there is room for simplification. Identifying where it makes sense to simplify and where not to is mastery and there are no global rules for how to achieve this, only experience. Software should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
You can use the same recipes in Australia as in Greece. Ingredients could be tricky, but let's assume that you can make sheep milk in Australia that has the same properties as Greek sheep milk. Then why should it matter where the feta has been manufactured?
Thanks! It made me wonder at the time: how many SaaS products out there include these ghost users in their metrics and revenue reports? How many users sign up for stuff they don’t use, but still continue paying for it?
As a biologist I learned to program at 34, it was using Python (pandas and seaborn) in Jupiter notebooks. I mainly did data science in the beginning. I can tell you this worked extremely well for me. I could make small steps, add text and output variables and graphs constantly as I “developed”. It took me quite some time to shift to a full vscode flow, I kept going back to notebooks. I’ve become more of a software developer now but for data science (that which I learned in Excel and Origin) I still go back to the notebooks.
I absolutely love dollar stores. I recently needed to buy a set of crayons for my son and the options were $5 on Amazon, $4 at Target or $1 at the local Dollar Tree (and the pack had 36 crayons, vs 24 from the other sources!).

They're not the right place for everything, but for kids' art supplies, cleaning products, party paraphernalia, seasonal decor, etc, they can't be beat. They seem to have a pretty strong stigma for some reason (seems like most professionals wouldn't be caught dead in one) but they shouldn't. Great place to shop!
> Personal computing is completely dead except for enthusiasts

So you're saying only enthusiasts have smartphones?
I think Dollar General is a little different because it’s not really a $1-price store. As the name implies, it’s a general store, with lower prices than a CVS or similar. You can get beer and stuff there, I don’t think that tends to be the case in a Dollar Tree but i could be wrong
I liked Compounds features so much. Playing alchemy for a real.
A variable named ω is no better than a list named l. Both are bad. Be explicit. Terse, but explicit.
My mother and I had a multi-year argument going about a house we drove past (when I just entered school). One of us argued that they had color tinted windows, whereas the other argued that it was just the color of their curtains.
I've also connected one phone to another phone's WiFi in hotspot mode, even though they didn't have an internet connection over WiFi.

It allows you to send messages to each other P2P at slightly longer range than Bluetooth.
Cognitive Flexibility is key to learning and creativity
I fully disagree. Many developers struggle just the same.
How about "We're all going to die if we don't get along and solve the current crises?"
What is the minimum spec required for running Jitsi for upto 5 participants?
Mental Health Problems as a Risk Factor for Workplace Bullying
As a customer, why should I care if I get an iPhone or an exact, functionally identical, copy?
Rotor sails (large cylindrical sails that use the Magnus effect) have been deployed by Maersk and have been proven to result in fuel savings [0]. Years ago I believe Maersk also ran a test project where they deployed traditional sails on ships.

[0] https://maersktankers.com/newsroom/norsepower-rotor-sails-co...
All Lisp-like languages incur significant complexity, but of these the simplest is probably some form of Scheme, definitely not Clojure. I think even Common Lisp may be simpler than Clojure.