skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the time I picked up a brush for the first time in something like a decade and was surprised to find that all the time I’d spent drawing stuff with my Wacom tablet meant that I was able to put the ink exactly where I wanted it to, while thinking a lot about how much pressure I was putting on the brush to make its line width change organically. The last time I’d used one was when I was still struggling with properly constructing forms on the page.

You do a thing long enough and it sticks in your head in some surprising ways. Though I wonder how much the constant churn of this year’s hot language and framework gets in the way of that for programmers. I’m glad I went into art instead.
Based on absolutely nothing, you don't believe the *Office projects are rigorous enough about solving those issues, in the way Blender and other similar projects are.

There, FTFY. HTH.
The real truth is that brainy people need a way to blow off that brainy steam, and it kinda doesn't matter if it's designing a novel WMD or playing a board-game.

I'd argue on that basis that stimulating board-games can save the world.
Poor choice of words on my part I guess.

To clarify, I didn't mean suspicious in the sense of expecting malicious behavior, rather than in the sense of not being overly optimistic about this type of progress, because I think it is very hard to incorporate new tooling/languages despite their merits.

In other words: it would be nice to see this being fruitful, because it would possibly a strong, positive signal for programming and programming languages in general, but I'm cautious or "suspicious" still.
Curious, what does an LOA give you? I dont suppose you get paid or still get health insurance. Is it just a stopping of payroll/benefits and resuming it once you are back?
I have a couple.

I'd suggest looking at my HN handle, but here's one:

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany
Plenty of handguns, shotguns, and lever and bolt action rifles are legal to own in Chicago.
Edited my post to clarify the last 2 decades.
What I've been wondering for a long time is how do these two passwords compare:

hiKxChDiaHNAtgVz

vis-à-vis:

kähdikyylkönekkimahdakerttaksa

One is a 16 random `[a-zA-Z0-9]` characters, the other is a 32 character long nonce word, containing <ä> and <ö> among others that conforms to Finnish phonology, but otherwise is devoid of any meaning and phonology but easier to remember to speakers of Finnish.
One is a 16.

Does 32 characters opposed to 16 offset that the latter conforms to the phonology of a language with 6 million speakers?
And after 1860, travel and communications started getting better, so the specific location of the capital started mattering less.
I found Rogue One to be very interesting, but the newer episodes or Solo couldn't keep me interested.
Gimp was made by 713 people. Krita (the project I maintain) by 574 people. But Gimp's count includes translators, Krita's doesn't. Source: https://www.openhub.net/p/_compare?project_0=Krita&project_1...
Yes, you can! Enso is a purely functional language with currying, immutable memory, algebraic data types, data-flow errors, type inferencer, JIT compiler, and even a special kind of a monadic type system with auto-lifting (although we do not expose the ability to define custom monads to the users yet) :)

You can create closures in multiple ways:

1. The simplest and most visual is by using currying! If you create a node (a visual component) and you do not connect all its required inputs, the output of the node is the curried function (function with partially applied arguments). You can then connect it to other expressions, like `map`.

2. Another way is to use expressions on nodes. You can use the lambda syntax, like `x -> x.noise` to define a lambda. You can also make it shorter by using curried operator sections `(. noise)`, and even shorter by using the Enso's operator precedence as `.noise` and use it for example as `map .noise`.

If you want to learn more about Enso syntax, we have a page describing it here: https://enso.org/docs/syntax . Also, if you go to our language-focused subpage, please check out the video named "Higher order functions". It does not show currying, but it shows the usage of the expressions on the nodes: https://enso.org/language

Did I answer your question? :)
I presume it's mostly that the kernel ships so many drivers.
Hi there, I think we are both based out of Krakow? Anyway, how does Enso fit in the Cloud ecosystem? Basically all data analytics is moving over to Cloud the way I see it with CI/CD and version control practices becoming more the norm. I know many people in Enterprise are still doing local dev in Excel, Alteryx, PowerBI, but that process is hard to productionalize in my experience.
I've always thought about the fall of an empire as the moment the bureaucratic wheels seize to function and the shared cultural values fall apart.

If a new war lord storms in but just sets themselves on the throne with the machinery in place the empire staggers on culturally and bureaucratically.

A mongol like situation and the whole structure and culture is shattered.

Rome in 476 I think had a broken bureaucratic system and shattered culture.

The Byzantines kept that stuff in place until the final fall of Constantinople.
For those who'd like to know more, play Europa Universalis 4, it starts in 1444 and you can play all of the abovementioned states.

Not recommended for beginners though (except the Ottomans).
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Why did cultural and technological development seem to subside after 476?
We continue to have lead poisoning problems.
If I could make the kind of money I make in software doing some kind of hands on manual labor I'd be all over it, honestly. Or maybe I'm just romanticizing.
This is shameful either way, but per the NBC article it sounds like they will need a few years to be sure the lake is warming:

> A full thermal study hasn't been produced and won't be until 2023, but residents protesting the plant say the lake is warmer with Greenidge operating. Greenidge recently published average discharged water temperatures from March 1 to April 17, during the trout spawning season; they were around 46 degrees to 54 degrees, with differences between inflow and outflow of 5 degrees to 7.5 degrees.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/some-locals-say-...

But apparently they plan to expand this business model.

> In March, Greenidge said its Bitcoin mining capacity of 19 megawatts should reach 45 megawatts by December and may ramp to 500 megawatts by 2025 as it replicates its model elsewhere. Larger gas-fired plants in the U.S. have capacities of 1,500 to 3,500 megawatts.
> Some will be retrieving that from memory, but many will be using a generative process that generates the same code, because they've seen and done similar things thousands of times before.

How are these not both the exact same process of memory recollection? Can you elaborate on the difference between memory recall vs a generative process based on conditioning? I understand how these two are different in application, but not understand why one would say they are fundamentally different processes.
The percent of hospitalization increased from 1.8% to 7%, which is about four times. This is basically lying with statistics
Do yourself a favour and disconnect from your TV / media. Now tell me, is COVID still here now that the fearmongering is gone?
> And Blazing Saddles is the poster child for "could not get made today" arguments.

Blazing Saddles was the poster child for that when many of the movies that argument is now made about were made, too.

Because its the kind of movie that could never be made, except that it was. And if there was a Mel Brooks-in-his-prime now, the modern equivalent (which, presumably, Blazing Samurai this year will not be) could get made today.
> probably

can lead you to some fun places.
This is news to me. Do you have any links that details this?
Washington, DC was originally a pestilent, disease laden, parasite infested swamp. After the federal government was established there, people decided that was the best possible use for the place.

In other words, why ruin anywhere else?
> it's disheartening that this essentially boils down to a failure of hype.

That kind of thing happens; we're in a profession that is made up out of people.
I'm not complaining, I'm pointing out that the Delta variant also has a higher chance of hospitalisation, not just getting sick.
That's a great benefit! We do get paid during the sabbatical but they are a growing company so I don't think they feel they can afford to make it that long, but they recognize the good that time off brings.
> As a Canadian, the most educated nation in the world

> we do pretty much give diplomas to anything with a pulse

What's the metric for being the most educated nation? 'Cause ya know if it's "most diplomas per capita" or something and you freely give them out... we might want to rethink that lol.

Just something to think about I guess
Well, from my perspective rights come with responsibilities. If you want to have a right, then there's an obligation there to justify any cost that might have to society.

I believe in free speech, including the right of others to say things that I find offensive. I think I can provide arguments that justify that right. I can also give a good account of the reasonable limits that there should be on free speech such as slander, incitement to violence, criminal deception and so on. Unrestrained 'free speech' could be weaponised for malicious ends, so it's really important to get the reasonable constraints and limitations right.

If you want to have a right to bear arms, I think the same applies to firearms ownership and use. Personally I think that the current levels of gun violence in the US indicate that it is not under reasonable constraints of that kind. What do you think, is the current level of gun violence in the US acceptable to you, and if not what do you think from the perspective of a 2nd amendment advocate, is the best way to address it?
> Romans studied lead poisoning to some extent. Their word for lead poisoning was saturnism[1]

The linked article, surprisingly, doesn't seem to give any support at all for either of those statements.
I don't follow. Can you elaborate?
I think they meant, why not upload then on arXiv.org

See https://arxiv.org/help/submit. That will make your paper easily accessible to all. And, of course, to yourself, wherever you are.
The fall of the Roman empire interpreted as a moment has no explanation because as you point out, there was no specific moment to explain. The fall of the Roman empire interpreted as a process taking place over centuries has an explanation, and longterm factors like lead poisoning fit the bill.
What makes you think it subsided after 476 and not, say, 235?

I'm not an expert in Late Antiquity, but it should be recalled that when most people think of Rome and Roman innovations, we usually harken back to Classical Rome, that of say from 200 BC to 100 or so. If you think about Roman political figures you know, or Roman escapades you remember, or Roman authors you read, chances are you're going back to that time.

Of course, there is one very, very, very major cultural institution after the Crisis of the Third Century that Rome bequeathed to the world. But many--perhaps most--people would stridently object to considering it Roman. I am of course talking about Christianity.
So the population of the countries you listed.

San Marino - Around 33k

Lichtenstein - Around 38k

Monaco - 38k

Andorra - Around 77k

Luxembourg - 600k

With population of 77k, Andorra won't even make it in the top 300 populated cities in India. I bet it's not even in top 500.

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

The population of least populated state in India is Around 600k. So Luxembourg would barely be a state in India. There are more than 70 cities with bigger population than Luxembourg in India

Honestly it's not a great way to compare democaricies which are not even the size of big Indian cities to India. But yeah. You did come up with 5 democaries that seems like legit good when it comes to Human rights. I didn't investigate about the human right violations. But with population so low I won't be surprised if there are not many.
I’ve seen this a month or two ago and I was impressed. Love the name too because it is much easier to Google vs Luna.

I did run into some issues with running it in Windows. If I have time this week, I’ll will try to post the issue on GitHub
Appreciate your being on point. Hope you are doing well now!
Every US movie watcher could stop watching certain movies and the studios would still make a lot more money globally than a US centric comedy, for example.

The consumer does not have that much power. The individual consumer almost certainly doesn’t.
In pandoc's extended Markdown you can just write

# Usage

See [Usage].

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-implicit_header_ref...
> Musegroup has a new CLA and said that they made it sign to all past contributors, which allows them the right to relicense the product as they fit.

Wow, adding a CLA is much more egregious than adding telemetry. I'm disappointed that it hasn't received nearly as much attention on HN.

I wish they'd gone for a DCO.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/12/DCO.html
Didn't the article cover the scenarios you mentioned? The article said that the lab's normal job was to look for new bat viruses, and that it's pretty hard to get infected from a qtip swabbed over a bats anus stored in a stabilizing solution. The bottom line is that the evidence we have at this time points to nature as the most probable origin, and it's not unusual for it to take many years to figure these things out.
Life expectancy is a long term trend. Why would you use it to measure the impact of a pandemic?

Answer: Because you can hide the one bad year with the last 100 good years of data and trending.

Maybe you should use population growth projections from 1970 to 2070 to show that this isn't even a pandemic?
The impossible dream of the nuclear-powered 1958 Ford Nucleon
You seem to be arguing as if this effort should have gone to Ada instead. So go ahead and do it. There's a group of people who are trying to get kernel support for Rust. This is not a statement about Rust being superior to Ada or Ada's (in)suitability for the same job. It's only a statement that this group of people likes rust for it's safety features. I'm sure they are all aware that there are other, even safer languages, but these people like Rust.

We can lead academic discussions about which language is safer/better/leaner/whatever-er, but the fact is that Rust has a larger and growing mindshare so this effort is unsurprising. For Ada, the solution isn't to try and prove to anonymous forum goers it would've been better choice if only people recognized the fact. The solution is to mobilize the Ada community to put the same amount of effort into the publicity and marketing (yes, the bad M word) of their ecosystem.

Ada clearly lives on in many safety critical systems, but judging by the admittedly biased topic frequency on HN and other technical sites, it has a tiny community who mostly keep to themselves. That's fine, but then don't be surprised when it's Hip Language X that gets the headlines and these sort of efforts.
WebKit is a mixture of LGPL and BSD, not pure GPL.
People have lost their individual minds. The collective mind prevails.
Came here to say this :). Especially with the Foundation TV series coming out now this could almost be a PR stunt.

The thesis seems sound, though. When you have a large number of people who have the aptitude and have invested heavily in joining the ranks of the elite (both financially and time-wise), and there's just not enough room at the top, what do they do?

We see that in India with the rise of a huge number of engineering colleges. There's a massive over-supply of engineers, so people who have invested in a masters degree at great cost and 5 to 6 years of studying wind up working in vocational jobs that could have been done with a six-month diploma / apprenticeship. They're not happy.
The article posit "erratic rulers" as a possible cause for the downfall of the Roman Empire. As examples of such erratic rules it mention Claudius, Caligula and Nero. The problem with this theory is that the fall (if we take 476 AD as the date) happened about 400 years after these rulers.
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Many coding challenges are great drill work: but if you can, have your code read by someone else to ensure you're practicing how to write readable, maintainable code.

Leetcode solutions seem to be regularly "golfed" into being unreadable and intractable. Don't practice that!

At least in my experience, well-defined and functionally isolated coding challenges rarely happen at work, though.

Another skill you'll need to hone is listening to your userbase/business partners and translating what they're saying into actual specifications.

Doing this adequately is a prerequisite to success.

Doing this well (hearing what they need, separating the "need" from the "how", and being imaginative in what a clean implementation would look like) can both reduce what work is needed now, and set up future success to be more likely.
Feasible? Yes. But it certainly requires effort and saying now to things that are considered standard parts of daily life by much of society, such as engagement with platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
You can follow a chain of links and see the actual report here: https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...

Amnesty International also has an article with a lot of technical detail: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/india-hum...

Scroll down to "Variant 1" for a pretty detailed answer to your question.
Are you imlpying that Twitter is somehow a beacon and saviour of free speech?
This is the subject of a painting by artist Hernan Bas, "The Ornamental Hermit".

https://thelonelyonedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/bas17...

The concept raises questions about power, class, voyeurism, contemplation, and loneliness. Reminds me of this story (pardon the source)...

"""As for the contracts, they were usually very rigorous. The most famous arrangement between one such hermit and an aristocrat called Charles Hamilton illustrates the strict conditions under which a hermit was supposed to act:

(A hermit must) continue on the Hermitage seven years, where he shall be provided with a Bible, optical glasses, a mat for his feet, a hassock for his pillow, an hourglass for timepiece, water for his beverage, and food from the house. He must wear a camlet robe, and never, under any circumstances, must he cut his hair, beard, or nails, stray beyond the limits of Mr. Hamilton’s grounds, or exchange one word with the servant.

Unfortunately for Mr. Hamilton, the only known hermit that agreed upon these conditions lasted merely three weeks at his “workplace.” One day, he vanished from the estate and was later seen in a local pub, probably enjoying his freedom with a pint of beer."""

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/09/13/the-life-of-a-19th...
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>Seeing the downvotes, I'd be genuinely interested in counter-arguments or thoughts on this

They are probably downvoting because time and time again people explain that the _purpose_ of GPL isn't to stop commercial use (commercial use is fine), it's to stop developers from depriving users of the same rights to the source code that you, the developer had.

I'm not even a GPL guy, just a guy that can take 10 minutes to read a license and an FAQ. I've also used GPL in commercial software, it's very simple to comply with the license.
China refuses to allow research into the origin of the virus and blames whoever is pissing them off that day.

I don't think it's beyond reason to think, in a country where officials routinely fudge numbers to avoid jail time, that someone covered their ass for too long and now it's the entire CCP's problem. This article looks like it's just running cover because, idk, GOP evil I guess.
I don't know in the rest of Europe, but in Spain there is a new law that forces companies to keep spare parts for at least 10 years.
I think this is too much for mobile phones, but I find it pretty correct to laptops and other consumer electronics.
A lot of what's good about the film's wrapped up in technical film-making appreciation. The remarkable quality of the action-storytelling, how "legible" the action is, the quality of both those things despite the by-modern-standards limited use of CG, how good the practical effects themselves are, the costuming and set-building and world-realization stuff, simple efficiency and competence at "set-up, pay-off" screenwriting (less common than it should be, especially in flashy action movies), that kind of thing.

[EDIT] Basically, I think there are three general viewer-categories for the film, here presented as their reactions:

1) "It had lots of action. Seemed like normal action in an action movie, I guess. Hated the story and characters. Movie sucked overall, don't get why people like it."

2) "The action was notably good. I can't explain why, but it was definitely good. Film overall was just OK. Liked it fine, some stuff about it was neat, but don't get why some people are raving about it."

3) "Oh my god I'm going to need several days and pages of notes to unpack everything that was great about the action and storytelling, and especially the two of those together, in that movie. There's so much to cover. I can't wait to be able to watch it at home so I can analyze the editing more closely, that's going to be great. A+."
Since they live in Romania, it’s very possible that they’re doing outsourced work (for HQ in another country, or even for another company altogether). In such case, the real management happens in HQ, while local managers are just handlers/babysitters like they described.
I'd rather have more submissions like this on the HN frontpage than the slew of entrepreneurship advice (good or bad), programming-languages-du-jour and disguised content marketing.

Anyway, the premise that "everything I see has to appeal to me" would best stay on YouTube where it originated.