skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me (a Democrat): "When I drive through the California Central Valley I marvel at the amount and variety of crops grown. The valley is truly a world treasure. I can't understand why we aren't doing more to extract water from the ocean"

My Dad (a Republican): "That's what Caitlyn Jenner is saying"

Me: "Great, but she won't get elected governor on running on that. Things haven't become bad enough for people to start spending money on high tech solutions"
I’m always amazed just how tolerant javascript’s import system is when I have circular imports. I guess maybe because it doesn’t care about modules and just cares about specific elements that are being imported/exported.

When I do have a nasty circular dependency Webpack usually does a bad job telling me what’s wrong.

Though I should still treat circular imports as, at the very least, an organization code smell.
Ah I wonder if that's related to the bot flood I got recently.
Yes, and my argument is that you can reduce the risks of that recklessness by teaching them about driving (or for that matter about alcohol) early, rather than treating them like children.
This thread is not about a tort. The article doesn't mention it (to my recollection) and your post didn't either. Can you clarify why you think it does?
Never said the target was impossible, I said it was impossible 'in the near future'.
I agree. I've migrated multiple large codebases from a weakly-typed language to a strongly-typed language, and in my experience this is the only way to do it. And it's also not as bad as the OP makes it sound: you get your stronger guarantees gradually, and that's fine.

One gotcha, though: a stronger type system encourages the removal of runtime checks. When doing a partial conversion, I've found it's best to leave any existing runtime checks in place, even if the type system makes them "redundant", because it doesn't really until the calling code has also been converted. Once it has, you can go back and remove them.
It's complicated. The thing to remember is that successful cultures don't throw away elements that work(ed). The same way our genes are 90% to 99% "junk" our cultures are full of assimilated, dormant beliefs, myths, legends, traditions, children's stories. I think masks are with us forever. They will become more fashion-statement, like a bow tie, but they are now a part of us. Get used to it. We are going to see more Luddite, technophobe splinter-groups. This is a backlash against manipulation. In any argument, he who defines the terms wins. In a connected world, those with the best surveillance get to define the terms so they win. Splinter cultures using religious-fueled techno-phobia-as-a-shield-against-reason will create oases of resistance to globalization. Transportation is already in trouble. That means food can't get to where it is needed. Food is like money - beneficial if spread around, but when too much collects in one place it begins to stink. Producers and consumers are symbiots - neither can survive without the other. Victory gardens will come back into vogue. Globalization is now a Chinese emphasis so they are going to win. China doesn't need the rest of the world - they can be their own best market. Western culture is a threat to their oligarchy but western culture is necessary as a technology incubator. The west is going to find itself living in a reservation, a wild-life preserve of an otherwise Chinese world. Climate change (human caused or natural) is going to disrupt trade causing the human population bubble to implode. This will take more than 12 months, but the avalanche has started and we are just along for the ride. China's asset (endless manpower) is also their vulnerability. The question is which will come first - the computer virus that ends domestic control of ideas, or the organic virus that "if it kills one it kills all." The good news is that we are not doomed to death; We are doomed to be different than we were. "It is nice to remember in times like these that there have always been times like these."
Oh, I think it's probably bad practice to knowingly depend on that.

But I also think that it's unnecessarily problematic to make the order non-deterministic.
All of them? ;)
I love it when company representatives reply meaningfully to all questions of a thoughtful request instead of just cherry-picking the convenient ones. Thank you for setting a great example.
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Driving through the mountains here in Norway this past week, I saw plenty of electric cars and plenty of charging stations along the way, no matter if I was off in the countryside or not. They do well enough for vacation, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

The chargers are an amazing enough feat: So much infrastructure has been built. Most of Norway is sparsely populated and getting the proper infrastructure has been really important. I've only lived here 8 years, and have seen an increase in that short time.

New Jersey has a much higher population density, and though that leads to its own challenges, it makes the sort of infrastructure you need for electric cars a little bit easier.
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>but this is speculation from general observation.

Well you are actually correct, the loss of trust is never really addressed, and it cannot be. How can you even trust data from govt/pharmaceutical companies, let alone carefully analyze it?
Officers manipulate news stories during Income Tax raid on a news publication
* a video conferencing service to put comedians in touch with audiences
on whom to try out their material

* a stock market trading game monetized by trading my own real account
based on the trades chosen by the players with the best previous
returns

* a game/forum in which participants have to register their political
affiliation, post checkable quotations from noteworthy people which
are displayed uncited, and score points based on how many players they
trick into to upvoting quotations in from people on the opposite side
or downvoting something from people of the same side (e.g., by getting
liberals to upvote something about wildlife conservation from Hermann
Goering, etc.)

* a service for parents to create squeaky clean fake facebook profiles
about their children from the day they're born until they apply for
college

* ad-supported hearing aids
Would you mind sharing it?
A large number of these infections are simply too recent for "long haul" Covid to have settled in.

There's also not a globally accepted definition of the syndrome yet, so it won't show up in stats.

If you go by "still experiencing at least one symptom after 3 months", it's closer to 10-20% than 1% : https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/13775492575703162...

Another study found that around a third of these 10-20% consider it debilitating (significantly affects their daily lives)
Yeah this is a tired argument from the early days of ddg. Back in the day it was really bad for programming but these days it’s on par with Google at worst and usually better. I’ve used ddg almost exclusively since 2012/2013.
Surely, higher oil prices would be good for the environment, though. While I don't think one necessarily has to agree with the arguments in the article, this is hardly an insane take.
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Though with TPM/full drive encryption you can have a box you own hosted by a third party but that third party cannot "open".
What version/edition of Win10 are you on?
Related: https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-mod...
Table column order is not meaningless.

```
INSERT INTO foo
SELECT * FROM bar
```

The harder problem however, is order in composite types.
HAProxy can as well (as well as listen on unix sockets)
> Compare this situation to Nigeria

Not really comparable. Nigeria is in this case more like China during the opium wars - the western companies are taking away their oil from them with bribery, political and economic threats. Just read a bit about how Shell operates there, they have more power than the government.
They were a very poor country before exporting oil.
> everyone in the community knows more or less everyone else in the community

Sometimes "impersonal" is a feature, not a bug. I really don't want community sysadmins with access to logs of information about other community members. That has much more potential for abuse than a more impersonal service with a stricter expectation of privacy.
Apart from the masks, it’s how much of Canada lives for four months of the year (summer). We hardly do any indoors socializing.

It’s what I based the above on. Both pandemic summers Canada has had collapsing cases even while there were surged in parts of the world with winter or that use AC more than us.

Go to any restaurant with a patio and you’ll hardly see anyone inside. Everyone goes to the patios in summertime. And people tend to open windows rather than use AC on anything but the hottest days. Backyard dinners or rooftop drinks are one of the main ways people socialize privately.
Doesn't that assume the mind is blank slate to start? Don't you think its possible that the human brain has many important and hard won (over millions of years of evolution) hard-wired pieces that a blank slate NN can't easily learn?
My DC license from ~2012 was just 2 decals stuck to a white plastic card. No raised lettering. The front decal started to peel back after a few years. It sure looked like a fake ID.
The link from where you took the quote lists another by Ken Thompson which hints at the history between Stroustrup and him.

People are people when it comes to biases, ego and personal relations whatever other characteristics they might be eminent in; so no need to deify anybody. History is full of great people who were mean/petty/egoistic towards perceived "competitors", eg; Newton and Leibniz, Edison and Tesla, James Watson and Racism etc. etc.

>Recent sibling comment has added to the overwhelming tone of HN comments on TFA - that C++ is a poor language

Your original posting of the quote added nothing to the OP article which is a quite nice introduction to Modern C++ features but hijacked the entire thread and set the negative tone for everything else with the result that instead of being a constructive thread on how best to introduce Modern C++ we are engaged in pointless arguments on the features of a language which has already been highly successful in the "Industry".
"how would everyday investors protect themselves from a potential market crash??"

It's tough to predict market crashes. Investors who fear a crash can reduce stock exposure, especially in tax-deferred accounts where they don't need to worry about the tax consequences of realizing capital gains.
Forcing reduced consumptipn will lower costs of alternative energy sources. It's already happening anyway, but governments can enact policies that accelerate this trend.
He's complaining about cost, so a Vampire is not necessarily the best option (euphemism)

A Raspberry Pi 4 with PiMiga is a great way to get your feet wet (and might be all you need eventually)
Aren’t all countries artificial? People decide on borders, not nature.
I'm not particularly aware of why white supremacists hung out with Andy Ngo, or why Ngo hung out with white supremacists, or why Ngo made kill lists for atomwaffen, manufacturers misleading propaganda, etc.,

but pointing out that white supremacists have a token minority friend or collude with someone who is serving their interests isn't really all that "challenging".
> Among other things, that lets you do things like regularly consume dishes that use geographically distant ingredients.

I think that you idealizing ancient Rome.

Ice was a delicacy.

"Dishes for geographically distant ingredients"?

No meat, no fruits, no milk products.

So it's only cereals could be imported from long distances.
Oh, I've just found that they changed it recently and you can have only a single 2FA method – FIDO key. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/stronger-...
At least we've moved from USA being the special snowflake where Facebook is harmful to the more rational position in which Holland is the special snowflake where Facebook isn't harmful. A yet more rational, informed position is still available...
It is a bizarre analogy.

The commonalities are (1) state capitalism (2) harmful effects.

But the analogy kinda stops there.
In the country I live, Brazil, federal police has been breaking into people's homes/offices and taking away all digital devices at once: laptops, phones, thumb drives etc.

That makes me think what type of contingency I should have in place to stay minimally operational after such event happens to me. A VPS somewhere with my work toolkit installed and files synced via syncthing, for example? Maybe... but what if the police could get to the same VM via the confiscated devices? I don't know...
If there's a chance there's any kind of life over there, don't rush into touching it - something could potentially wipe the whole place out.
Slightly off-topic:

One of the simplest import systems I've seen were in q/kdb (like with most things in that language, everything is as simple as possible)

Imports work by simply calling `\l my_script.q` which is similar to simply taking the file `my_script.q` and running it line by line (iirc, it does so eagerly, so it reruns the entire file whenever you do `\l my_script.q`, even if the file has been loaded before, which may affect you state. By contrast, Python `import` statements are no-ops if the module has already been imported).

The main disadvantage is that you risk your imported script overwriting your global variables. This is solved by following the strong (unenforced) conversion that scripts should only affect their own namespaces (which works by having the script write declare \d .my_namespace at the top of the script)

I never found this system limiting and always appreciated its simplicity - whenever things go wrong debugging is fairly easy.

What does Python gain by having a more sophisticated import system?
I think this thread and the levels data are an accurate representation of the top 75% of the Berlin market, yes.
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Wouldn’t a home with that type of insulation be rather unhealthy to live in over time? Homes are designed to “breath” - you not only want to circulate air but also prevent mold, etc from taking form.

Saying that, many homes could use better insulation in their roofs. It’s interesting on a snowy day to see which homes have good and bad insulation.
Would it feel pain? And when? And how much?

Can we devise an AGI that feels intense pleasure when doing any kind of work?
I know the keyboard is being worked on by someone else, not sure when that will be done though.

Someone's done the A4000 in an ATX form factor too
https://www.retrosummit.com/2018/08/21/a4000tx-atx-amiga-mot...
> if you are sending an email to a person using Gmail your basement server for email gives you no protection over your email data a such. Govt. can easily request email data from Google of the recipient's account.

It does give you protection on the fact that they then need to know the recipients emails and do multiple warrants to gather them if they are over multiple providers, which may or may not go through. For sure it's easier considering that most people use a few US providers, but it's not always the case (even less so for governments matters, which include foreign countries, thus foreign providers too).
Not really, Norway reducing Oil production will most likely not affect the climate change, it might even make it worse due to less environmental friendly produced Oil and much less reinvestment of Oil money into trying to reduce the Oil consumption.

At least currently there are still enough Oil reserves around the World that Norways reduction of Oil production would be fully compensated by other sources.

Maybe this would short term reduce the amount of Oil usage due to hiked prices, but due to now countries less invested into green energy profiting from it instead of Norway it likely would not be better wrt. climate change. Maybe even worse.

Furthermore Oil in all of it's forms is currently so widely integrated into our daily live that "just higher Oil prices" won't help. I mean plastic uses Oil for production and is in much more places than many people are aware of and much less nicely recyclable then many people are aware of. E.g. many clothes contain plastic and in turn oil, if we look at a global scale we probably could even say the large majority of clothes contain plastic. Another example is that even if we produce and use electric cars they contain a lot of plastic and in turn Oil, similar you PC, Phone, Couch, Window Frame, Water Pipes, Internet Connection, etc. etc. And even if we would only allow new E-Cars from tomorrow, there are still a lot of non E-Cars which won't go away anytime soon even if Gas prices double...

So all in all our demand for Oil will hopefully reduce, but won't go away anytime soon. And IMHO this demand being covered by Norway with some of the money earned being reinvested into alternatives if largely preferable over all (realistic/practical) alternatives.
No. Security is important and definitely considered.

Some years back there was a viral blow-up where Linus basically said, "security is important but there are lots of things that are important." A lot of people in the security field decided that meant "not even considered" even though that's ridiculous. Linus has always had a pragmatic, holistic approach to the kernel, and many specialists hate that because they think their field is the most important and all others should be second.

If security wasn't even considered, would Linux really have become the de-facto base on which high security orgs (banks, 3 letter gov agencies, etc) deploy? I doubt it very much.

As a security engineer who has seen egregious security malpractice on the part of developers, I fully agree that there can be a real problem with that. However I think it's silly to suggest that the Linux kernel has a history of not even considering security.
That particular metric is derived from "people who use the language outside of work and wish they could use it more at work." The survey doesn't explicitly say "which language do you love?".
I'm not the GP however I do the same, and even as a fairly lousy photographer I'm able to get photos where you can usually see some reasonable detail. Here are some examples: https://imgur.com/a/Nr5NIgt

All shot on a Canon 1100D with a 75-300mm zoom lens, using manual focus with the "full auto" mode for controlling aperture, shutter time etc. Usually I am leaning out of a window or standing in my garden to capture these shots.

As you can see, none of these images are particularly "good": the subjects in the first three images are underexposed due to their dark colouring against a light background, some are slightly out of focus, some show evidence of dirt or other marks on the camera sensor, yet you can still make out various details on all of them. One would imagine that if there were an equivalent photo of an actual "alien" UFO, it would be on the front page of newspapers across the world.
Both. I used the Kaypro in Santa Clara, before we moved to Los Gatos. By the time we got to Los Gatos, the writers had Sun workstations (which had amazing keyboards; I've never typed faster) and Interleaf.
The average python programmer does not really need to deal with pythons import system that much (just be aware of how it does its module loading and that you can conditionally do stuff sometimes with __import__ etc). As someone who has messed around with it a lot (dynamically loading/unloading modules, modifying on the fly etc) I would NOT recommend doing that stuff for anything in production.
Are pain and pleasure prerequisites for consciousness?
> but what if the police could get to the same VM via the confiscated devices? I don't know...

This is usually what passwords are for, something you know that cannot be stolen (short of rubber hose cryptography)
I'd read a book about Marxism or from Saint Marx himself with you. Consider me a quiet fan of how you think and interact with the world (you've been on my list for quite a while: https://philosopher.life/#We%20Could%20Probably%20Be%20Frien...). `/salute`.
I think the OP meant that no fancy physics is required for neurons to work, and consciousness is in some not yet known way the result of our brain wiring.

Just like you do not need quantum physics to explain how muscles work.
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If there was never an "old way" of doing things that didn't involve the new TrustedInstaller system, then would we even be thinking twice about these new restrictions? Or would we just see the restrictions as part of the design of the APIs?

Just because they took a part of the system that used to be externally facing and made it internally facing, I don't think that is the same as making "your PC not your PC anymore". If they were blocking administrators from executing arbitrary code or having arbitrary access to I/Os, that would be a different story.
hah, so my exaggerated example was only 1 order of magnitude off.
Every now and then you see companies make insanely large big bets that radically change a fundamental technology because of a in addressable need.

I'm increasingly convinced that a good chunk of MacOS/iOS security problems are due to the simple fact that it is very difficult to write correct system level code w/ C.

If (and it is a big if) the performance of rust can be in the same neighborhood as C - and these kinks can be worked out, then as a architect, I think it might be time for a ideological come to Jesus moment/protest reformation of the kernel.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment or I didn’t do a good enough job writing mine. I was simply trying to put myself in that position and analyze what I might be feeling and then extrapolate that to what overall affect there might be to society.
What guarantee do you have that Amazon will delete it when you tell them to, though? It doesn't even necessarily come down to whether you trust Amazon ethically and legally, but also whether you trust their internal processes.

Shredding the data on your own hard drive gives you a pretty good guarantee. Drilling a big gaping hole through it afterwards gives you an even better one.
Holy crap you beautiful creature that's it! I've been hunting for that video for years.
I think they may be arguing semantics of knowing versus believing, and especially the loss of information to the eventual increase of entropy.

I don't think there's a calculation to prove it because it would require a very thorough definition in the first place, which could be taken as a sufficient answer in its own right. The answer is of course 42.

On another note, at "17 hours ago" and no response I guess they are still writing trying to work it out, or gave up, if they are anything like me and my random blurts