skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never happened to me TBH. There's very few cases where the semicolon is actually significant, and when it happens my autoformatter produces garbage which makes it very obvious, or it adds the semicolon itself.

That doesn't mean it never happens (most of us inherited a shitty codebase lacking things like code standards and autoformatting at some point), but I always find it strange that people keep talking about this thing I've never experienced in years writing JS professionally
It’s not a worker shortage it’s an affordable housing crisis nobody can afford to live where the jobs are.
Nobody would had used it though as long as it was only supported in Firefox.
> The 69% figure is out of “eligible” people according to the report.

The vaccinated population is still skewed elderly, and the elderly are more likely to become “cases” than younger people in the same vaccination status. The population isn't a homogeneous blob.
>Yeah microplastics might indeed be worse.

Doubtful, not saying it's harmless but microplastics are everywhere, asbestos is not. We should research it but should not jump to the conclusion that it might be worse than a known horrible material.

Asbestos had clear links to various kinds of horrible conditions known all the way back to the early 1900s. Microplastics might increase some kinds of cancer and screw with some hormone signalling but we haven't seen such clear links yet to the same kinds of conditions.
Of course, but the consistency of the false positive is the issue. An able-minded person can readily reconcile their confusion.
There have been numerous cases of finding plastic waste in some fish, and because it doesn't decay organically it can form blockages in their digestive tracts. Whatever they're using in 300 years, they'll still be finding plastic in oceans and rivers(absent a massive clean up program)
Sometimes (regularly actually) i'm fascinated about society as a system, so much fuzz so much ignorance, so much unknowns and noise .. yet it kind works (massive crisis aside).
1 gather good learning resource (videos, tutorials, teachers...)

2 pick a interesting project (if you're learning programming, create a software or an app, if you're learning an instrument pick a song, woodworking, a chair...)

3 have fun doing it

That's how I do it, not that I'm an example of anything, but people usually say I learn quickly.
Indeed, for Matt Godbolt, and the whole community that has added the remaining AOT languages, .NET is one of the few missing from Compiler Explorer, but it has a similar one at https://sharplab.io/ and there is one at http://shader-playground.timjones.io/ for GPGPU shaders.

Here is one talk from Matt Godbolt about how Compiler Explorer was born,

CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIoZDUd5DKw
Taxes are theft, xill yourself.
Funny Moments Caught on Camera
When learning a new programming language syntax will be the least time consuming thing to learn.

You can skim the syntax on https://learnxinyminutes.com

Instead use a day or two on learning tooling and best practices and then try to implement a small toy project.
> That contradicts what I've often been hearing that you should get the vaccine for the benefit of others

I don't know why everyone keeps harping on this to blame the experts and cast doubt on them. The virus changed. What was said in the past was true about the earlier variants. The Delta variant works differently.
This is a wonderful response. Love the notion of reading until something violates your understanding of the world, I’m definitely going to try this. Is there any more satisfying feeling than ingesting a new, worldview-changing idea? I can almost feel my neural pathways being required when it happens.
Huge congrats, Ishita - amazing to see all your progress!
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Large Array
The requirements for the ALMA Local Oscillator
are specially interesting:

https://youtu.be/lbjCq8-ksBQ
The rational argument is pretty simple. They have data about what things you click on, comment on, react to, etc., and use these to show you more similar things and show you fewer things you just scroll past. I'm not sure how you argue against what seems like pretty objective data.
Maybe if we could invent quantum DNA computing + ML = artificial intelligence that would be perceived and understood by humans.
Somebody explain it like we're 5 pls :)
Have you seen my Xi CRDT writeup from 2017 before? https://xi-editor.io/docs/crdt-details.html

It's a CRDT in Rust and it uses a lot of similar ideas. Raph and I had a plan for how to make it fast and memory efficient in very similar ways to your implementation. I think the piece I got working during my internship hits most of the memory efficiency goals like using a Rope and segment list representation. However we put off some of the speed optimizations you've done, like using a range tree instead of a Vec of ranges. I think it also uses a different style of algorithm without any parents.

We never finished the optimizing and polished it up, so it's awesome that there's now an optimized text CRDT in Rust people can use!
Professionals, what is the most annoying, repetitive and tedious task...
Professionals, what is the most annoying, repetitive and tedious task that you must do as part of your job, which you wish would be automated / made easier by technology?
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Why Leaving The Art World To Become A Programmer Was The Best Choice I Ever Made
When answering captchas I always select the moon when it asks me to identify traffic lights. Jokes on you Tesla!
Isn't that from Arabic?
> 1 in 250,000 get blood clots after the vaccine.

Were does this number come from? If it is from VAERS, this number should be multiplied by 100, to offset the under reporting, (only 1% of the actual events are reported, but even that is speculation, and truth is, we have no real idea)

So 1 in 2500. And this is just one AEFI, blood clots.

Also, in addition to keeping VAERS powerless to capture high quality data, things like this

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin...

Does not inspire much confidence..
>Every day at work, I show up and do a minimum of 4 straight hours of concentrated and focused work.

It's a lot TBH. I'd laugh loudly if I can do that everyday. 4 hours of focused work most likely will deleptes all of my energy and leaves me drained after work.

On my side. I work as a BI developer so a lot of time is spent in meeting. A day with 3 hours of meeting is fairly common but most of the time I don't need to speak so I mute the mic and only turn my focus to them when someone called me for advice.

A lot of time is wasted on things such as waiting for answers from a team in HQ which is located at the other side of the earth. Sometimes someone puts up a shiny new framework with quirky DSL and dumps it on our team with little documentation and you can foresee how much time it takes to "learn" and "unlearn" later. I'd recommend avoiding working in a team that has zero control of the tools and processes.
Google is the dominant ad provider on the websites themselves. Embedding yet more ads (beyond their sign-in push) may be counterproductive. And they don't provide a simple way to turn those off, unlike Mozilla's sponsored sites.
Please, apply some critical thinking and stop regurgitating this propaganda. If a judge tells you to stop doing something, you stop doing it, especially after being warned multiple times. Whether your reporting ended up being the critical missing piece is irrelevant.
(Not parent) maybe losely related to: https://gleam.run/news/v0.16-gleam-compiles-to-javascript/
People perceive nonexistent threats all the time and call the police. The threshold is simply higher than current AI but that’s a question of magnitude rather than inherent difference. Fine tune a reinforcement model on 5 years of 16 hours a day video and I’m sure it will also have a better threshold.
> I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ‘machine learning’ field that leads to a general AI any more than I can see a path from continuous improvements in horse-breeding that leads to an internal combustion engine.

While I also don't expect that AGI will emerge solely through optimizing statistical inference models, I also don't think "improvements to the machine learning field" consist only of such optimizations. Surely further insights, paradigm shifts, etc., will continue to play a role in advancing AI.

Perhaps it's more a matter of semantics and a bad analogy; "machine learning" seems far more broad a field than "horse-breeding." Horse-breeding is necessarily limited to horses. Machine learning is not limited to a specific algorithm or data model.

Even calling it a "statistical inference tool", while not wrong, is deceptive. What exactly does he or anyone expect or want an AGI to do that can't be understood at some level as "statistical inference"? One might say: "Well, I want it to actually understand or actually be conscious." Why? How would you ever know anyway?
What is the point you are trying to make? I don't quite see how your comment fits into the overall topic, re: lead based crime.
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This is humbling thought.
> Exactly, it's impossible to describe that in human language which doesn't have precise enough semantics.

On the contrary, this implements specs that are defined in a human language. For example, the full semantics of rendering HTML were standardised with HTML5, and now all browsers render HTML the same way.

The problem isn't the human language. The problem is the sheer number of these specs. Hundreds, if not thousands.

However, good luck understanding these specs by reading code or unit tests (and yes, there's a multitude of tests [1]). How do you know what a piece of code encodes? Or a test tests? You really propose to reverse engineer behaviour from code?

Example: here's a test: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/html/s...

What exactly does it test? Why? Is this a correct test for this behaviour? Care to pinpoint the exact precise location of this spec in Google Chrome's code? [2] It's only 12 or so million lines of code, should be easy to find.

> The goal should be to move chromium away from being controlled too much by Google.

By doing what exactly?

[1] https://web-platform-tests.org

[2] https://github.com/chromium/chromium
Not the answer you’re looking for but hopefully it will help: the best time to learn something is when you don’t need it. You should set aside time, each day to play with something new and to learn. The lack of time pressure will help you take the new thing you’re learning and anchor it in your existing knowledge.

When the time comes to use this new thing you will have a pretty good idea on how to handle it and you’ll only have to brush up on it a bit.

Last, but important: you never want to learn something just to learn it. Build something with it - understand why its’s useful and apply it, even on a small scale projecy
On the line after the printf where it looks like they’re getting status strings for returns… it looks like there is are three ternary options. Is that right? How does that work?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7mllyLXoAQmjbT?format=png&name=...
So if you go to a listing of groups, without some active curation, how do you prevent it from being that kind of content, or hate groups, or other undesirable content? The standard gets real blurry real fast.
Thanks for linking "The Story of Stuff". I remembered the content but forgot the title. I would look at how gasification is evolving for waste disposal.

So, who is responsible for improper disposal of waste? I would say that the end consumer has a responsibility to dispose waste correctly. However, it seems the ability to do so has been tainted by a horrible waste management system.

Plastic Wars: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/

Plastic is a cheap and versatile material. It is a by-product of an independently lucrative business; oil. I would love to see alternatives but, the development of sustainable packaging is hiding behind a research market barrier and the economic cost difference between the cheap "waste" product of oil. I hope consumer choice leads use to a better system... where those choices are informed and have influence.
"All you wanted was a Banana. All of sudden you have Gorilla with a complete jungle."
Sure, but, we're already well over capacity as it is. Feel free to experiment at your company.
Keep this in mind the next time you are scheduled for surgery. :)
The flagged comment called the headline a lie. You called that a fact. Your comment isn’t up for interpretation; it’s objectively wrong.
Neat. Just not to be used for authentication!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/outbound-3

Hey everyone! My co-founder (@WillBer) and I made this last week after getting sick of doing cold-emails.

Templates get you no responses, personalization piques people's interest in your product.

Our AI will generate you a good starting email to build off of - I have basically no cold-email experience in comparison to my co-founder, but I was able to get out around 100 personalized cold emails each day since the effort was so much lower.

Please contact me at arman@tryoutbound.ai and I will add you to the whitelist - the first 10 people will be given immediate access for the beta.
it's kinda like demanding to be backed by a gold standard, but on a conceptual level. the author is not satisfied by the extensionality (metaphorically, the exchange-value), he need Bitcoin to be conceptually "backed" by some kind essence
Not at all, they use C dialects like MISRA-C, Frama-C, ACC3 among others, that are basically Ada with C syntax.

Additionally they use coding practices that would make the most hyped TDD advocates from Silicon Valley startups walk away from the projects without looking twice about what they were leaving behind.

When code kills, every line of code gets validated.
It was one of the motivations. BUT the people who voted for brexit were mostly not employed (too old, on various benefits etc). And as consumers they didn't want the immigrants THEY rely on sent away. So their wages remain unchanged and suddenly they have to wait longer in restaurants or the corner shop is shut early...
The process removes almost everything except the lignin, leaving the same lignin structure - but broken and slightly hydrophobic from the residual creosote.
Pointers would be much appreciated.
No. No, no, no.

First, MVC isn’t flat. The (V)iew of an MVC triad can itself be an MVC.

Second, MVC is a UI pattern. Decouple your business logic from your UI. Put it in a utility or “service” layer (which itself can adopt patterns to manage complexity, as needed).
Two of Murray's claims in his defence were:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/01/my-trial-and...

> 5. The court order protecting identities did not come into being before 10 March 2020. Most of the Crown’s alleged examples are before this date. We absolutely deny my articles enable jigsaw identification, but even if they did they were not illegal at the time of publication.

together with:

> 6. Up until 10 March 2020, had I wished to publish identities I could have done so quite legally in the articles before that date which the Lord Advocate cites. Unlike England, there is no law in Scotland barring publication of witness identity absent a specific court order. The fact I did not do so in the year between my learning identities and the ban coming into force, in several articles on the case where I could legally have published the identities, make nonsense the Lord Advocate’s contention that I deliberately gave clues.

Much has been made of point 6, and I can understand not being convinced by it.

But is there not truth to point 5? I guess not, since he was found guilty. I'd be interested in reading why this was discounted.
Although iOS browser locking is troublesome and dangerous for free and open web it's not the reason for why native apps are preferred on smartphones; It's because mobile apps are easy to access, faster to use and Big Tech invest humongous amount of money in promoting those apps as it can siphon more data.
There is a theory about Preons.

This theory has fallen out of fashion.

"In particle physics, preons are point particles, conceived of as sub-components of quarks and leptons."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon
For a short and very non-technical article, this is well written.

The current approach to machine learning is not going to go towards general-purpose AI with steady steps and gradual innovations. Things like GPT-3 seem amazingly general at first. But even it will quickly plateau towards the point where you need a bigger and bigger model, more and more data, and training for smaller and smaller gain.

There need to be several breakthroughs similar to the original Deep Learning breakthrough away from statistical learning. I would say it's 4-7 Turing awards away at a minimum. Some expect less, some more.
Kind of does exist even with colors: try to map "brown" into an RGB or CMYK data point.

I think the real difference is that in qualitative data the numerical representation does not mean anything. Sure, the names of the archangels can be represented digitally (quantitative) but that is just a change of representation - the bit strings' numerical value carries no theological meaning.
> I would say we haven’t evolved in thousands of years.

We’ve become slightly more lactose-tolerant!
OK, we need to be specific that most of the plastic that end up in oceans and landfills are those called "single-use", mostly used in food packaging.

> all of the human advancements in sanitation, food safety, and transportation energy afforded by plastics

The pollution negates the health benefits of sanitation and food safety though, especially in the places where they are dumped, which are in rural communities in developing countries, whose people are somehow expected to make a living out of it for themselves and for their children.

Besides, there are so many uses of plastic in food packaging that aren't even necessary to begin with, and which shouldn't exist. How much of single-use plastics are just bags of unhealthy junk food and candy wrappers and carbonated soda? Is it even necessary to have such a large economy based on unhealthy food sources?
I've been hiring a lot lately (software development), two senior level positions (5 years or more experience) and one mid, three hires so far, two more roles to fill. These are all remote positions in a full remote team. Just be living the continental USA.

For the senior level positions we had maybe 10 applicants. Only two met the requirements (5 years experience with Asp.Net and C#, and be able to legally work in the USA). We hired both of them. Both had multiple offers within a week or two.

For the mid level position (2-3 years, had done web development, we prefer .Net but will take Java, Rube, Node, etc) we had 150 applicants. 140 of them were fresh grad school grad with no work experience, all needed visa help. OK, threw those out, now down to 10, found 1 of those with decent web development. Hired.

Really, I don't think I'm being crazy with the requirements, but we just are not seeing applicants.
I'm in favor of changing the terminology from AI and ML to something along the lines of 'prediction model' so that the idea of machines 'thinking' is replaced with them 'predicting'. it's just easier for our mushy meat brains to think that AI and ML means that it'll lead to general AI or as I like to call it 'general purpose decision maker'. it's all about the language!
Ummm... the USA exports a lot of plastic recycling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/climate/plastics-waste-ex...
Homicides and crime overall are at almost historic lows globally, for various reasons (see this entire thread).

To prove that gun culture and ownership doesn’t lead to crime, you’d need to show more than the data linked, such as a comparison between countries with strong vs. weak “gun culture” or high vs low gun ownership
I think stability is important too. Currencies do fluctuate but not very much, and volatility usually leads to bad consequences. That's the main problem with Bitcoin - it is too unstable. Using it as a currency is much like using shares of some random company as currency. Imagine getting paid in, say, TSLA stock and using it to buy everyday needs!
Then that’s a question of training data.
Is SQL Still Relevant?
Am I reading this wrong, or does the text show that the writer doesn't really understand SQL at all?
Hmm... I would have thought they implemented something similar to a std::deque so that you have ammortized O(1) insertions into the middle of a vector.
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Contaminated recyclables isn’t the equivalent of garbage.

The issue is the degree of contamination. Different municipal waste streams all have their own internal systems a 98% plastic stream and a 99.9% plastic stream are very different economically.

Completely separate from that it’s a political issue as nobody wants their country to be thought of as a dumping ground. “Malaysia says up to 3,000 tonnes of rubbish will soon be returned to the UK, US, Japan, China, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Norway and France.” what’s not mentioned is this represents 1% of plastic sent to the country. The don’t want to ban the process because the other 99% is quite valuable domestically.
Both you and the parent seem to assume that 'evolution' means 'improvement'

Humanity has clearly evolved, even in the last 200 years.

Doesn't mean we are getting better
How to improve your Docker containers security
This is _exactly_ why I stopped keeping TODO lists, and started keeping DONE lists instead.

What's a done list? Think of it as an anti-TODO list: your DONE list is where you write down everything that you've, well, done. You know that little dopamine kick you get from filing a neatly-tagged TODO or marking off something that you've finished? A done list is just that, and the only way to use it is to train yourself to stop organising and just...get stuff done.

I love it so much I built my own done list app: https://donel.ist . It's 100% free, and there's even an API to play around with if that's your thing.
It never felt like Lego to me. It feels like cheap knockoff Lego. Pieces all sort of fit together. Until they don't. And then the whole thing starts falling apart.

Like, just look at something like the -print0 option to find.
for the basics, however http/1.x is pretty simple. you can test webserver health by literally typing in the request.

i suspect the complexity you speak of is similar to MIME. where SMTP/POP/IMAP are pretty simple, things got pretty hairy with the introduction of MIME, SASL and friends.

i think, though, that most of the complicated stuff in http is optional, is it not? like if you don't send a header that compression is supported, the server won't compress... or am I misremembering?

either way, simpler to understand from a packet capture than a grpc stream or spdy/http2 stream.
There's already Benchmark.

On x86, absolute_time

https://github.com/bwbuchanan/absolute_time
Any rural community that has a trade deficit with the outside world slowly spirals into poverty. Buying local increases the number of times a dollar travels around the community before leaving.

There's a huge useful area between giving Amazon less power and giving them no power. Amazon is always the 4th place I look for something. Most of the time I never even have to go there. And things like their little tantrum where they stopped selling a bunch of Apple products just made that easier for me.

Also remember the audience. Most of the people who can't afford to shop anywhere but Amazon also can't afford to hang out on hacker news. Most of the people here can do better.