skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start by understanding that this compile/run process is a crutch. Rather than use your knowledge, experience and intelligence to predict if it works you resign yourself to just waiting to see.

This is a problem for many reasons. One is that this may help you get something working, but with lack of deep understanding the outcome will likely be subpar if only because not all problems that you could have predicted will show themselves on execution.

Another is that it basically shrinks the part of brain that is necessary for understanding and predicting behavior of your code (figuratively). Sort of like driving with GPS makes me helpless without it.

Try to write larger stretches of code without compilation.

Try to focus on modularizing your application so that you can reason about modules separately. This is always a good idea, but it is even more important when you need to be able to predict how something works without trying it.

When you have finally compiled your code and it failed, do not immediately go to fix the problem. Try to spend a moment to learn from the failure and improve your process so that you minimize chance of this happening in the future.

Ask yourself, what you could have done to prevent this problem from happening? Could you have specified some function or module better? Could you have simplified your code to be able to better reason about it? Would it help if you have spent a bit more time getting acquainted with this internal or external library before you decided to use it?

From my experience, most of this comes down to following things:

- defining your modules and APIs correctly -- badly defined modules make it difficult to predict the behavior,

- finding simple solutions to problems -- complex solutions tend to make it difficult to predict behavior,

- using only tools you understand,

- only interacting with existing code after you have understood how it works (I typically at least look over the code that I plan to use),

- thinking hygiene (make sure you base your work on hard facts and not beliefs),

- refactoring, refactoring, refactoring -- first solution to the problem is rarely optimal. I write something that works and then immediately keep refactoring it removing any unnecessary complexity until I am satisfied. Don't leave refactoring for later -- when you have just written a piece of code it is easiest to change it.

- as much as possible, writing your code in a way that it is not even allowed to produce wrong result. This is very large topic so I won't explain. There is a lot of techniques that you can research.
The dust bowl looks to have lasted 6 years, I wonder if what we are currently experiencing will differ in terms of longevity. If we are in for multi decade heatwaves this is something entirely different.
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Also, unlike e.g. phrenology, I wouldn't say lobotomies were one of the darkest chapters in the history of mankind. Sorely misguided and tragic, but not that.
This technology will inevitably be abused to do terrible things to these kids. I have absolutely no doubt about it.
They are using tactics that make it difficult to say no, such as pitching this as something that can prevent school shootings.

It's absurd but once you say "this can prevent a school shooting", who can say no to that?
There are many ways to safely count
In a different part of the world with different weather patterns?

I'm willing to assume that professional climate researchers are aware of the 1930s heat wave.
I've seen quite a few developers say that they chose the M1 Air over the M1 Pro mainly because they didn't want the touchbar.
>even a halving or quartering of the population of any country with more than... 50 million people, won't mean that those nations will go extinct.

No, but it will mean they will go older, with less dynamic and more geriatric society, worse economic momentum, and so on.

Historically momentum (not absolute position, which depends on prior trajecory and other accidental factors) is tied to population.

When France ruled the world, it was the most populous nation in Europe (1/3 Europeans was French). When Europe in aggregate was the center of power (through colonialism, science, industry, etc), European countries were in the 10 most populous globally (along with China and India). The decline in influence of Britain, France, etc, followed their population decline - in 1950 still 4 of the top populated countries in the world were European (including Russia) and 8 of the top 20. In 2015 only Russia remains in the top 10, and soon there will be no European country in the top 20.

Similarly, when the US emerged and established itself in the international scene as a strong player and then a dominant one, it also got in the top list of most populous countries.

(Historically, China, with its huge population, was the strongest economy on the planet, until the "historical accident" of the New World in the 16th century. Now that the European momentum has stalled, it's getting back up there again).
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I did not mean to come across as unempathetic, on the contrary! My view is that only if you admit some level of design in our inhumane system can you even expect that we can change anything about it. If it were all automatic, doesn't that make it basically inevitable and merely 'natural'?
Were these extended (in time) heatwaves or just a particular few days with record temperatures? The current heatwave over North America seems like it's going to carry on for all of the next week, and who knows how longer after that. Maybe that's the difference?
But I really wonder if that happens frequently. Cigarettes really taste and smell awful. I discovered how terrible they really are only after I quit smoking. As long as e-cigarettes remain available, I doubt that many people would switch to real cigarettes.
Sweden checking in, and no, not the biggest. At least not since the orange baboon left office.

I'd personally rate the US as somewhere around third or fourth, behind Russia, China and possibly Israel.

But surely more liability than world police.

And don't tell me the last X wars the US has engaged in were entirely motivated by financial gain, cause I won't believe it!

(It's ok though, our nation also went through a phase of plunder and rape, your country is younger, it's only natural you should have that phase a bit later than the rest of us)
Science education research, sorry.

Which understandably focuses on individual deployable innovations. Rather than on exploring mashups of multiple hard-to-deploy innovations, with interdependencies, regardless of how awesome their potential synergies.

For example, on better teaching of deep time, or genetics central dogma, or natural selection, separately. Rather than on say "if all of those, and more, were simultaneously done cutting-edge-research well or better, what possibilities might that open up for an evolution-rooted biology learning progression? How about in K-6?" Or "if we managed to successfully teach both size/scale down to atoms, and a novel atoms-up foundation, in K-2, neither of which have been done even in (quite unimpressive) research, what might a broad and modern material sciences preK-8 progression look like? Including atoms-dancing phonons, gels, multiscale structure, and so much more."

And instructors are understandably focused on the performance art of triage education of their students at hand, towards standardized exams and incremental outcomes, under severe resource constraints. And textbooks... sigh.

So there are few incentives for anyone to explore "what might this all look like, if it wasn't wretched". And the expertise requirements seem extreme - like "biology tome with a hundred authors" extreme, but with extensive collaboration also required, and for something much much smaller. There's hope, but it's non-trivial.

Whole-program learning progression rewrites in life-sciences professional education is perhaps the/a closest analogy. But even there, time and effort constraints severely restrict exploration. You can't afford to explore both how to successfully give med school graduate students a firm grasp of size, and how to use that to better teach physical biology. The absence of each denying incentive to the other. So basically neither happens, on a timescale of decades. But perhaps, if there were a clearer vision of what it might look like, of the payoff, there might be greater motivation to work towards it.
> Isn't compiling several languages, including Rust, actually undecidable though?

While Rust is Turing complete, the compiler has a recursion limit, and if you take that into account, then compiling Rust is decidable (you only need to evaluate compilation up to the recursion limit).
> Doesn't seem plausible that stress causes a factor of x10 or whatever number of OGs

It isn't. See other comments in this thread for the more likely reasons (changed interpretation of "last touch" etc).

My comment was mainly replying to parent comment about why the players are/could be under increased stressed in this tournament.
It's "hear, hear".
My boss, who is in his 60's, still insists on having his AIO printer hooked up to a copper phone line (!) so that we can receive or send a fax "just in case" lol. He still gets spam faxes on occasion, but we're never had to use it in the 4 years I've been here and counting.
> No one's going to guess your thumbprint.

They can steal it though, which might involve pain.

And it's usuallly fairly painless to change your password - unlike your thumbprint.
> but anyone could independently check expected earnings

How? In order to know the earnings of the company I basically need to audit everything. I need to know all the lease agreements, I need to know all the costs etc.

How do I know that the company has made less money this year because we just got unlucky with low occupancy or expensive repair bills, or if one of the people running the company is funneling money via some subcontractor?
... and in the UK apparently. I just took delivery of a new HP colour laser printer/scanner which comes with fax software and a phone jack & cable. I can't see me using it though.
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Child molesters making an open confession. After years of gay people saying they are not child molesters as it turns out they 100% are child molesters. As a molested person I genuinely hope you die a painful death by the hands of a molested kid.
Use a second word to identify it. A "Foo plug" or if it's just the reverse of what you normally have, an "inverted plug."
This is pretty cool.

Spreadsheets are so powerful and really great and producing one-off solutions, but when you want to automate them you always need to redo most of the work in a "serious" programming language and wrap all of it in an API etc.

I always wondered how one could bridge the gap between creating a PoC computation in a spreadsheet and getting the same code to run in production without the rewrite. This could be a nice first step for a python server application designed in a spreadsheet.
Generally things are "better" here but that doesn't mean the problems don't exist. They might just be less severe or be expressed in a different manner. "Exactly" was probably the wrong word to use. The sentiment I'm arguing against is the idea that "these things don't happen here", which I find is typically an excuse to ignore or downplay the cases where it does happen.
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Those highs are 105-110 in the Great Plains … seems substantially cooler than 125F in Canada.
I do make assumptions about people pushing this at this point. I don't realize the problem and nobody can explain it. I see this as PR and people falling for it that wait for empty promises about something.
I don't think they expected you to come up with a solution to managing societies; I assume if you know of a better way to come up with reliable guidelines for running society you wouldn't have thought of it yourself. Maybe you could link to a book that contains the methodology that you think is better than science.
They have picture of Lytton that was destroyed by fire. Did anyone notice that the trees that were close to burnt houses still have green leaves? I know nothing about subject but it feels a bit strange how the leaves can survive when the houses are burning in such close proximity.
This is totally off-topic, I'm just startled (I don't know why, esp. knowing you worked at RIM) to see your username here! I recently discovered your channel & site (via Marius Hornberger's) and have had hours of entertainment 'binge-watching' through the entire back catalogue (nearly finished, sadly) - very many thanks.

To anyone else - wholeheartedly recommend woodgears.ca & https://www.youtube.com/c/Matthiaswandel/videos. The former's been discussed a few times too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... (But again, because it's of general HN-type engineering-y interest - not all 'just' woodworking - not because it has any relevance to this particular submission.)
The original comment I was replying to was speculating about how they imagined youtube worked without evidence. All I did was provide an alternate explanation. I wouldn't even go so far as to suggest it's a bad thing that social networks avoid using more aggressive classifiers, just that I'm skeptical of the "we don't have the ability" explanation.

By all account YouTube are arbitrary with bans and blockings. That's not the same as unlenient.

The standard example of the phenomenon I'm describing is from Twitter. They successfully keep nazi content out of German twitter, but not the rest of the world. That suggests that Twitter's moderation is partially constrained by their own policies, not just technical ability. I don't think this is a far fetched understanding of how any social network works.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-germany-nazis/
But it's not a smoking cessation product. It can be used effectively as such, but it's first and foremost a healthier substitute to smoking.

People like to go to both extremes wrt. vaping - "but it creates new addicts" vs. "but it's effective tool for breaking addiction", forgetting about the biggest benefit vaping brings: letting smokers who don't want to quit to keep smoking, without risking lung cancer.

I'm definitely against marketing vaping to non-smokers. But I'm fine with converting existing smokers to vaping without any talk about quitting, because smoking e-cigarettes is strictly better than smoking analog ones.
> In their study, the team of researchers says that the deadly heatwave was a one-in-a-1,000-year event.

Did you find a flaw in the researchers' reasoning? Or do you have knowledge they do not?
they're posting them selfs in social media ... no they don't want to be left unknown
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Vaporizers are extremely useful as smoking cessation tools. Juul is not really configured correctly for this purpose. You have to give your customers control over the nicotine content, there need to low-nicotine and nicotine-free options.

But yes, the hysteria over flavors is uncalled for. Flavors are useful. If you don't prefer the taste of your vape to the cigarettes, you're not going to switch.
Great North Road: cycling the old route from London to Edinburgh
I agree but also these things take time and removal and reductions are not mutually exclusive.

Personally I think that development of both in parallel is what can bring the most success.

We covert to an emissionless society in the future and use carbon removal as the net-zero emissions bridge during the transition phase.
Yes, that is the joke I was making. Thank you for explaining it.
I answered in other threads here, e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27770605

Largely this question comes back to decentralization, trust, and a novel paradigm of digital ownership that is enabled by elliptic curve cryptography and blockchain tech.

The blockchain acts as a social consensus mechanism - we can all agree that "X public key owns Y unique token" - which is not the case with a centralized database record that can be mutated, or a file that can be easily copied/edited and shared.
The famous example of an "out of place" language is Madagascar, where they speak a language you'd expect to find spoken by Pacific islanders.
You can see the trailer for the game they developed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2J11YFTsAE

> the first games were played on machines that only had text mode

This is also mentioned in the video, the author's aim seems to be to describe all elements of the game with natural language (e.g. rogue doesn't count, it uses text but in a graphical form).
Should we ban everything until we don't have solid proof that they don't cause cancer? Not banning something isn't acting like the substance is benign, it's acting like we don't know.
Justify yourself.
A heatwave in Iowa and Wisconsin does not invalidate the statement that this heatwave in the Pacific NW / BC was once unthinkable and will now be common. Relevant quote from the article:

"According to the analysis, if the world warms by 2C, which could happen in about 20 years' time, then the chances of having a heatwave similar to last week's drop from around once every 1,000 years to roughly once every 5-10 years. "
Pfsense and opnsense do far more than just packet filtering
yes of course, the magit rebase buffer is literally the git rebase file with a custom emacs mode on top for interactivity.
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Not that no one will, just that no one can

I give you until the end of today to show me someone (anyone!) step on Mars

It was just someone being cheeky about someone being cheeky. Now I'm being cheeky about you being cheeky over someone being cheeky about someone being cheeky
Maybe look at Vyos? It is what I switched to after leaving pfSense. Linux based and cli only. Based on Debian, you can escape the router cli to get a plain Debian terminal and use apt to install whatever you want if you care to.
Many ex-smokers try tobacco flavors when they start vaping. Many switch to other flavors after a while, because tobacco does not really taste nice.
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996 meme is essentially the Chinese version of American companies telling that you need to "hustle", ignoring or outright violating labour standards. It's a very much capitalist practice pushed by successful private (or as private as it gets in China) entrepreneurs among the rich (who of course don't really work that much).
"Canada broke its temperature record for a third straight day on Tuesday - 49.6C (121.3F) in Lytton, British Columbia."

"All across the region, in the US states of Oregon and Washington and in the west of Canada, multiple cities hit new records far above 40C."

Not sure how you can point to 1936's records of 111F and say that was "worse" than 121F today.
This seems like a really difficult issue to solve in the general case, but I found that solving it for the specific case I had was a tractable problem.

I have a need to diff the output of a query and compare it to the last time it ran, to do regression testing. Just diffing the resulting CSVs wasn't very useful, because I needed the ability to do things like ignore new columns, and report the exact column that had differences from the previous version.

I was able to do that by defining a primary key on which I could outer join the two tables. Missing or new rows would be the ones that didn't join, and then I could do a per-column comparison for each row that did join.
>> The US, China, India, Russia, etc are unwilling to pay for significantly accelerated reductions in CO2 emissions even when directly economically beneficial

How is it "directly economically beneficial"?
I really miss m0n0wall (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M0n0wall). A really minimalist firewall distribution based on FreeBSD. I used to deploy it to my clients’ as an easy to use firewall and router on Soekris Engineering embedded x86 systems. Very compact and efficient.
Attacking eyes, fingers, groin, etc. would change everything. Everyone thinks grappling is more “realistic” than pre-MMA striking styles, but they forget that most of those grappling positions leave tons of delicate targets wide open for poking, ripping, gouging.

The effective techniques in MMA are just as defined by the ground rules as any other martial art. Real “anything goes” fighting would be as different from MMA as MMA is from kickboxing.
... orignal source and link to the study: https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...
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Often you can be certain that you know what tp expect from your own code, but not from dependencies or external systems. So checking that your assumptions about them are right is a major reason to run and rerun your code.
I wish this was around for a friend of mine. I might have been able to talk him into these vaping products. He didn't want the gum, or the patch.

He smoked 4-5 packs of Benson & Henson Menthols/day.

He stopped when he was 64, but it was to late. He didn't die of lung cancer, but they just stopped working one night in his sleep.

He had some undiagnosed psychological problem that I believe added to his constant smoking?

I must have asked him to cut back a 1000x.

I don't like nicotine, but I'm glad these are still legal.

(That said, I had him go a doctor to check his coronary arteries. They were completely clean. I think the only thing that saved him besides good genes, he didn't eat much.)
I don’t think there is any whataboutism or desperation in asking where one puts the line. Effectively you are asking to punish one group of people based on their ancestry so having some idea where it stops would be nice.

> The poor place remains poor

Relatively yes but in absolute numbers no (this also applies within individual counties even the rich ones). In most places the poor have been getting richer, live longer and are better educated than ever. Basically being poor 80 years ago was much much worse for the individual than today.
Do you mean the Workers’ Party? It doesn’t really fit the term ‘Labour’ since the NTUC is pretty much entirely government-controlled.

And yes, from ~1980-2020 we’ve gone from no opposition to over ten opposition MPs and multiple opposition GRCs(!) but it is also worth pointing out that from 1963-1980 parliament went from 37-13 (PAP-BS) to that. If one buys Thum Ping Tjin’s analysis, elections since the 1980s have become more unfair even as the opposition’s share of the core has increased.¹

> The first of the two turning points was in the 1950s, specifically 1954–57, when the increasing demands of the people of Singapore for self-determination meant that universal suffrage could no longer be denied by the colonial government. In response, the colonial government kept the vote generally fair but sought to limit voters’ choices of candidates through anti-democratic legislation and regulation, like detention without trial and the infamous “subversives’ clause” of the 1957 Constitutional Agreement, which prevented anyone arrested (but not necessarily convicted) for subversion from running in the next election. This policy was then continued and amplified by the People’s Action Party (PAP) government, using lawsuits, harassment, arrests, and other measures, until the 1980s, when the will of the people for wider representation and greater accountability in Parliament became inexorable.

> Up to that point, voter choice was restricted by limiting their choice of candidates. However, from around 1984–1991, a second shift took place, in which legal and regulatory changes made the elections less fair, and qualitative factors were introduced to discourage voting against the PAP. The elections were fundamentally redesigned to maximise electoral outcomes for the PAP. That is the situation which remains today.

1: https://newnaratif.com/a-brief-history-of-elections-in-singa...