skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a subset of Python where "def fun(*args)" is your only option for a function signature. And you have to do all the work of pulling apart *args to get the data you want, including manually throwing errors if you didn't get what you expected.

Python lets your function signature have required positional arguments, variable positional arguments (*args) AND variable keyword args (**kwargs). And everyone uses these features because it makes programming much more pleasant and manageable.

**kwargs is especially important for complex packages like sklearn or pandas, which have many functions with lots of options that often change with version. It would be utterly unimaginable to build these magnificent packages while chained to the underpowered, antiquated Perl style of argument passing.
To add to this even further:

In europe we just directly regulate behaviour either by directly taxing it or making it illegal.

In the US they set tax levels much higher and then offer breaks as incentives.

The latter has the philosophical virtue of making behaviour "expensive but not illegal" (ie., in europe you cannot legally avoid the tax).

However it dramatically complicates government and makes US citizens dramatically "overtaxed" absent these breaks. What we in europe often miss is that the US anti-tax lobby is reacting to a very different tax environment that is, on paper, very extreme.
Do you have evidence for your claim?
As per my original post, while the lack of tooling is my biggest pain point around the language ecosystem, inside the language itself, my main gripe is with the error messages. I find them quite impenetrable a lot of the time. Which is not ideal when confronting a new language.

Crystal could take a leaf out of V or Rust's book here. Whatever you think of the languages themselves, the error messages are top notch. Errors that say "Ah. I see what you were trying to do here. Maybe you should try this instead?" are so much more helpful than "Why on earth did you do that?!"
zee germans
Possibly I'm biased by a former French firefighter who lives a few houses away and likes to tell stories from his service. He was with the military firefighters...
Here in germany it depends... if the dispatcher has serious doubts regarding the validity of the call he might simply tell the kid on the phone to "f... off", if there is something sounding valid you might -depending on the region- get either a "visit" from local police or directly from the SEK (the german version of SWAT). But... the SEK has a relative good track record on capturing the subjected fellons alive.
Other things besides lockdown is obviously at play considering Sweden being smack in the middle of the statistics. Ahead and behind countries with law mandated lockdowns.

Many pieces to this puzzle - generational living, skin tone and diet for example.
Oh, I'm not judging Sweden at all. I'm just agreeing that a lot of people (myself included)feel that Sweden is 'otherworldly' and does not have many of the same problems that we experience in our home countries.

As usual, life is rarely that simple :)
How many died from starvation? Or is it something you feel happened.
We also have a much higher per-capita rate of incarceration regardless. Perhaps it isn't that we have a lot more murders because of guns, but because we're a culture that likes to solve problems with violence following our government's example.
You are totally allowed to store ammo at your house.

The ones that you get when you go do your mandatory shooting rehearsal have to be completly expanded but you can just buy a case and bring it back home.

With some friends we were going to the shooting range quite a lot and bought like 1000 rounds and stored them at one of my friend's place to take advantage of a bulk discount.
The chap who runs the biggest bookshop in Wigtown is a funny character who's written a hugely enjoyable book called "The Diary of a Bookseller" about the ins and outs of running such a book shop. A way to get rich it is not.
We don't know. It's not that rare though, pricecharting seems to have 1 on average sold a month. The "condition" and high grade of 9.8 are supposedly what makes this super valuable. The thing is grading is somewhat subjective and depends on the grader. It's entirely possible to crack the thing open get it re-graded and have it come back as a 9.5.

It's also entirely possible that someone out there still has a sealed case of the thing and we just don't know about it since it's such a common game. The price to me is just incredibly detached from reality.
Here is the send more money puzzle in Gecode: https://github.com/Gecode/gecode/blob/develop/examples/money...
I've seen this so many times.

US Tax law is far too nuanced and complex for this. Just simple things like donations create issues.

Donations to registered 501(c)(3) charities are tax exempt. But how does the IRS know if you gave the Salvation Army bell ringer $20? You have to tell them. On your tax return.

Medical expenses in excess of 7.5% of your income are also exempt. And the IRS has no clue which of your expenses were medical. So you have to tell them.

It's far more involved and complex than even just this. Did you move? Are you a member of the military? Costs related to your move are not taxable.

There are probably thousands of potential exemptions. Few of which could be automatically identified and credited without massive privacy issues. And even then couldn't be perfect.

That cardboard box you bought at the local big-box store? Was it a tax exempt moving expense?

Oh, and the IRS has been sitting on my return for 2 months now and I did all the work for them. Could only imagine what it would look like if they had to track all of this.
I lived near Zurich in the early 90s (Canadian) and would often see people headed off to military service on the normal, commuter trains with an assault rifle as part of their kit. I assumed everyone just took them home with them when their regular service was done and took them back when they revisited it next year. Most of my colleagues that did military service would go for a couple of weeks a year and loved it (you serve with people from the area you grew up in, I think, and they looked forward to seeing their buddies again, drinking some beer, etc.).
Volunteer firefighters in cities are often used to fill up the rows of the paid ones or to relieve them, so they can return to standing by for the next alarm and ensure short reaction times.

That's at least how it works in the city where my brother is working as a firefighter and I think it's comparable all over Germany.
Back when I was presented with that choice, I was entertaining it briefly. But I knew that I would move away to go to university. That, and the fact that 7 years seem like a very long time when you're 18 made me decide against it.
I'm not a Liverpool resident but I do live in a UNESCO site myself. I'm glad that they are willing to show they have teeth and pull the status from people who are ignoring their guidelines

If we bulldozed the Taj mahal and put a football stadium there, it would rightly be stripped of its status. I don't know why Liverpool thinks they would be special except;

> "I find it incomprehensible that Unesco would rather Bramley Moore Dock remain a derelict wasteland, rather than making a positive contribution to the city's future and that of its residents," she said.

This isn't a binary decision. Instead of leaving a world heritage site to decay to a point where it's the cheapest place in the city to bulldoze and buolda football stadium, investing in maintaining the area would " make a positive contribution to the city's future" to use their words.
If colt maintains a list of journalists to be shot, probably.
The study they're using as reference for IFR (Levin) estimates 0.6% for the US. The IFR for the US as of end of Mar 2021 is ~0.5%.

More importantly, their rate estimate does not taken into account obesity. US is at ~36%; India is at ~4%. As per Global Diabetes Atlas, estimated (not just diagnosed) prevalence of DM for US is ~9.3% and for India, ~5.5%. The translation of IFR needs to take into account of these factors, but they don't.
I think you are misattributing the source of Heartbleed. Can you point out the security issues in NaCl. It is written in C. According to this "no one can write C" logic, there must be bugs because "no one can write C". https://nacl.cace-project.eu/

The other bizarre aspect of this logic is that not only is the author of the code irrelevant but apparently the task is, too. It would appear to apply to, e.g., even the most simple programs. The only factor that matters is "written in C". I use sed every day. It's written in C. Show me the bugs. I will probably be dead before someone finds them. Will I be using a "memory-safe" sed before then.
So UNESCO status means a stagnant city that never changes?

Liverpool is a working city, not a museum. By all means it should be respectful to its heritage, but also respectful to continue the the development that made that city worthy of UNESCO status in the first place, and continue it.

If anything, not developing a progressive industrial city, keeping up with the times, would be worthy of removal of UNESCO status.

The city made the right choice.
I like Knuth's take on that matter, saying that P=NP and that it doesn't really matter. The space P is huge and still virtually unexplored. There are extremely powerful algorithms inside O(n^googol), and this is just barely scrapping at the bottom of P.
They wouldn't since the property deed was transferred; as long as a court doesn't rule that the transfer was illegal because of forged signatures, the bank won't / shouldn't do anything - what if the accusation is baseless. If a court does rule that the transfer was fraudulent, the bank can cancel the mortgage and demand immediate repayment.

Of course, once it's time for a criminal to pay up, both they and the money mysteriously vanishes.

TL;DR, identity verification should be improved. Signatures are not working.
I don't understand why people would think meditation does nothing. Your brain is connected to the rest of you and reducing stress is good for it even if that's all you believe you can learn to do.

But otherwise, paying attention to things is a skill that can be exercised just like muscles are.
It's just marijuana and hashish in the payload. From Morocco, that's Bush and Rocky.

Too bad. Better luck next time.
A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it
Resources need to be spent on all things no ..... not just on the poor, but even on things which may payoff in the future. Another point is, you can never alleviate poverty by just giving the poor money
Hahaha same here
You don't, but the legal case will be thrown out if the victim assaults the accused and the victim may go to jail for assault or whatever.

Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, of course.
Single "big bang" atomic commits that update both the client and server with new features usually aren't practical, I can agree with that.

I think the real intention of the "atomic commits" idea is a total ordering of commits between both the client and server code. Both a "big bang" strategy as well as the author's incremental change strategy can benefit from that arrangement.

The key is that at any given point in the repository's history, you can be sure that the client and server both work together. The point is not that each commit atomically completes an entire new feature, only that each commit atomically moves the repository to a state where the client and server still work together.

In that sense, the author's incremental commits actually do have that kind of atomicity.
Nobody is actually saying that four million people died. These are estimates based on surveys and other derived data.
As an immigrant, I'm glad I chose to go to Europe over the United States, because the H1B is something that I did not want to deal with.

Not having citizenship or permanent residence is like The Sword of Damocles hanging over your head; you know that everything you've worked so hard for can be taken away instantly. So, I understand the pressure and hardship that a lot of these engineers face.

Furthermore, you can bet your house that these engineers are hired because they deserve to be there, not because they are filling some quota.
That's less than I expected. I'm going to give it a try.
My initial though was "OMG were the Beatles immigrants?"
The cost of space missions done by ISRO is extremely low. Even if you cancel all the space missions, the money saved will be in pennies and the loss of tech know how will be enormous.

The wastage of finances is in other areas. Full page advertisements by govt departments on nonsensical things. Useless litigations. Implementing big changes to laws and systems without proper discussions and studies. Awarding contracts to entities whose track record is a bad one. And so on.

India has become a morally poor nation and 90% of the citizens do not try to see and understand the big picture. They have on interest in spending time to learn what is happening in their nation and see what is happening in other nations and then question why we are doing things in proven wrong ways.

Indians believe more in what is circulated on whatsapp and facebook than if you get a bunch of Nobel winners to explain the truth.
Unesco status mean that you preserve the past.
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I don’t see that as a counter to what I’m saying, that seems like part of the model of those other countries.
It's a chance for the tech type to act as mercenary and just as immoral.
It requires min internet speed of 5 mbps and ideal speed of 10mbps.
Can you expand on that concept?
I think having your life depend on your performance improvement either gives you strong motivation or ptsd. (probably both)
Preorders generate risk for a business, because you take money and owe a customer goods, potentially for months. You cannot spend that money because you need to be able to refund it, but you're also carrying the risk of storing and protecting that money because it's technically yours.

If the date, costs and shipping of the next batch aren't even known yet, it makes no sense to open up for preorders. Also, the company risks taking on more preorders than stock they can get their hands on, which will only help to disappoint customers who will have to wait more weeks for the next batch to arrive. There's a lot that can go wrong for the company.

If it took more than a few days to sell out for each batch, it might make sense because it'd allow for the store to be sure that their entire volume is moved. From what I've seen, these watches go out of stock in hours. There's no need for the store to carry risks to make ordering extra convenient for its customers because they will sell out regardless.

There's benefits for batching orders before you back order from the factory, but there's also downsides. From a business standpoint, I don't see the advantage of taking on back orders for a product that sells out instantly anyway.

If you're anxious to by the Pinetime, the hardware is practically the same as the Colmi P8 if I recall correctly, and the open source OS can be flashed on that with some extra steps you can find online. You can find that watch, and many similar ones, on your favourite Chinese import website. You lose the official support, but you'd get your hands on a hackable watch without setting a calender reminder.
They are talking about ChessBase the product. Ugly and expensive but the best in class.

OP is about other prosducts by ChessBase the company.
Currently working as part of https://treblle.com, a tool that makes it super easy to understand what’s going on with your APIs and the apps that use them.

It has features like real time monitoring, error tracking, auto generated documentation and more.

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> I don't doubt death from starvation is a possibility, but probably not the majority cause.

There is quite a possibility it is.
While I don’t doubt that the actual deaths from covid is far higher than what’s officially reported, I find the attempts to come up with a multiplier amusing. India has never had high quality data to use as a baseline, even those reported from cities. Besides as others have pointed out, the actual cause of death reported isn’t necessarily accurate either. Which is why we see “studies” predicting the actual number to be anywhere from 3x to 10x.
> not developing a progressive industrial city, keeping up with the times, would be worthy of removal of UNESCO status

I don't know if you literally don't know what UNESCO is, but the point is the opposite of promoting 'progressive industrial' development of historical sites.
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>The internal memory consists of 64KB of RAM, 512KB of Flash system storage, and 4MB of additional flash storage. The watch is powered by a 64MHz ARM Cortex-M4F as part of the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 SoC.

How is this thing able to run Linux?
Yeah, we occasionally get Americans complain about how little diversity is in our European branch office because it's like 5% black, 10% Asian, 80% white.

The country is 95% white, 2% Asian and 1.5% black.

Public discussion of discrimination then tends to be focused on travellers (a white ethnic group) and eastern Europeans (also white) but it doesn't fit into American trends as much so internally its rarely discussed
Because the author hasn't seen the actual study, they've just rehashed something from Reuters/AP/similar and fleshed it out a bit with some more 'India facts'.

Also because, although I agree with you, 99.9+% of BBC visitors don't care and won't click it, and some high proportion of the remainder won't have access to more than the abstract, another will immediately bounce because they clicked accidentally or didn't realise studies had lots of boring words and weren't YouTube videos of exciting lab experiments with white coats, etc.
The part about cynical managers depressing value of engineers and firing them before they figure out what is going on is accurate.
Yeah, the system is worthless and nothing can fix it. So why try? This is the kind of nihilistic ideation that leads to a generation of basement troglodytes waiting for their mom to die so they can own a house. The system is definitely here to stay, so either working harder to fix said system is a notional good or else we're all supposed to give up. This is the problem with quests for justice being entirely online and not based in any kind of daily reality.
Some people in Poland, one of the whitest and mono-ethnic countries out there in Europe are quite racist/xenophobic.
True, the cost of typing 1 is the same, but the cost of changing the numbering on all consecutive items if you break one up or add one or remove one is higher. It's just unfortunate Markdown used that syntax to indicate a numbered list in order to be "human readable".
It's not “memory safe in practice”. It's “we provide tools to make our memory unsafe language with as little memory issue as possible”. Is it better than what C or C++ offer out of the box: yes. It's totally reasonable to think that it may be as good as C or C++ with state of the art tooling that most programmers aren't using today because they don't want to invest the effort, so this is a big progress over C.

But this shouldn't be called “memory safety”.
Correct, and the hypothetical establishes that the proportion of maliciously false calls is essential for determining the reasonableness of the policy. At 0% maliciously false calls, reasonable. At 90% maliciously false calls, unreasonable. Clearly, that number is important to the discussion, which is the sole point of introducing the hypothetical.
If anyone's curious to see a bird's eye view of the dock: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4245822,-3.0041219,527m/data...

Wikipedia also has an image of the listed building on the dock (a type of UK protection for historic buildings): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramley-Moore_Dock

According to the development plan, the listed tower will be re-developed as well.

Currently, the entire site is inaccessible (including the listed building), and sits behind locked gates.
> There are some things the government can't realistically do. Like taxing oxygen consumption or preventing people thinking things.

Ya think ? People are indoctrinated from as soon as they start school. By the time they reach adulthood they are fully institutionalized.
Is there a list of init systems that aren't made of shell scripts? Epoch is the only one I found.
In what sense is it "more data" ? Did you know you can hook up a CRNG and just get endless streams of such "data" for almost nothing? If "they" just want "more data" they could do that all they like.

Earlier you gave the example of Facebook harvesting people's phone numbers. That's not just data that's information. But a Yubikey doesn't know your phone number, how much you weigh, where you live, what type of beer you drink... no information at all.

The genius thing about the FIDO Security Key design is figuring out how to make "Are you still you?" a question we can answer. Notice that it can't answer a question like "Who is this?". Your Yubikey has no idea that you're o8r3oFTZPE. But it does know it is still itself and it can prove that when prompted to do so.

And you might think, "Aha, but it can track me". Nope. It's a passive object unless activated, and it also doesn't have any coherent identity of its own, so sites can't even compare notes on who enrolled to discover that the same Yubikey was used. Your Yubikey can tell when it's being asked if it is still itself, but it needs a secret to do that and nobody else has the secret. All they can do is ask that narrow question, "Are you still you?".

Which of course is very narrowly the exact authentication problem we wanted to solve.
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Also, "68% of Indians have Covid-19 antibodies" [1]

Really unscientific calculation: The death rate is estimatedly (4 million) / (0.67 * indian population) * 100 which makes the death rate 0.4%.

[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/68-of-indians-have...
The correct tagline for this is 10x more susceptible to hacking.
Can I ssh to it? Seems like no WiFi stack but if it has Bluetooth there might be a Linux sysadmin wizard out there who can tell me how to patch and Jimmy my way into an ssh session?
Next to 'out of stock' should be a 'email me when there is stock again'.
I do exactly the same

I don't even put ".txt" on the end.
> I don't know why Liverpool thinks they would be special

Liverpool culture in general is to see itself as something a bit different to the rest of the UK, and to have a bit of a defiant attitude to authority and what anyone else thinks. There's a lot of historical and political reasons why, some that are still very raw in people's minds.

> Instead of leaving a world heritage site to decay to a point where it's the cheapest place in the city to bulldoze and buolda football stadium

Right - they should have maintained and used the docks in sympathy with their heritage, rather than just erasing them entirely.
It's from the pandemic, excess death and "people are dying because they didn't get medical care for other things" has been a regular talking point, ... At least on HN, commenting on just some snap impression from the headline shouldn't quite cut it, commenting things the article already covers, and a large previous subthread already covers, doesn't really tell us anything new.
> I'm sure a big chunk of the world trying to get away from unreasonable US sanctions will agree

You might not agree with every use of US financial might, but I do not think that a “big chunk” of the world are affected by US sanctions or that a big chunk disagree with US sanctions that exist. Most of these sanctions are against demonstrably hostile governments. The US isn’t perfect by any means, but cutting off NK, Iran, etc from international banking to extract nuclear compliance is, I think, a good use of sanctions.
You can change all you want, but then you will no longer fit the definition of World Heritage site.