skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The way it works here with the Erasmus program is that you go for 6 months or 1 year to study

Let's be honest, in most cases you can replace the word 'study' with 'party'. That's why you end up with "some of the best experiences in people's life", as you say.

In many cases, students do not have the required language level to follow and understand courses, so if they bother to show up, the content flies over their head while they are busy decoding the form. Sometimes they do not even speak a word of the language. In some cases, they follow dumbed down courses in a third language (Globish) with a teacher who can hardly speak it, so they never learn the local language, and they learn some bad English.
I remember (can't find it anymore) a company whose CEO specifically hired people for life, considering them to be part of the family and as you wouldn't fire your sibling or child, they would not fire someone if they were to have prolonged issues. Rather, they'd try and help them for as long as it takes.

It created a completely different dynamic in the company where no one feared for their jobs if they had issues.
Bill Gates along with Soros the Rothschilds and associated Jews have created a fake global pandemic. The intention is to crash the global economy so they can force everyone into a Socialist, Globalist mono state, flooding our country with immigrants. As part of the fear they have also gotten to finally enact their plan to reduce the world population by sterilizing them with a vaccine that also contains 5g mind-control chips, the receivers of which are the real thing that are making people sick not Covid. Oh and they are going to rape all the children too.

You dont think it counts as a conspiracy?
If your cagey about whats in your pill my gut reaction is it either doesnt work or youre overcharging for it.

I am average American.
they accept "digital chops" now!
Placing what you morally or politically desire to be true over the objective truth is religious dogma.

You argument is exactly the same one the Church used to prevent Copernicus's idea that the earth rotated around the sun.
No, it would be a conspiracy only they conspired to do so.

I don't think that's the case with most of them. There are a lot of movements coming from different backgrounds, believing in different things that are meeting at "it's not real, don't get vaccinated". The Bill-Gates-Wants-To-Kill-Us-people aren't conspiring with the Big-Pharma-Wants-A-Perpetual-Vaccine-Business-People, they just happen to come to the same conclusion ("don't do it").

From what little exposure I had to them, I think they're honest in their ideas. I believe they're wrong on most counts, but I don't think they're sitting at home scheming how to fool the masses. I'm sure there are some who seek to influence public opinion by spreading false narratives, but the large majority seems to just have lost pretty much all trust in Western governments and looks for alternative theories that explain the state of the world.
Awesome!
Would love to hear what you think!
> Sweden, covid deaths are near 0

No, they are not. 15k is much greater than zero, especially in such a small country.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

I don't think it's worth discussing the rest of your comment, you believe what you want to believe.
They can still kill you.

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2019/12/31/what-goes-up-must-come-down...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912041/
Ironically I've just bookmarked this article to read later because I got past the intro and can't be bothered to read anymore ;P
Should judges do the same?
Here are just a few of the things you aren’t considering:

* how many people worldwide keep their google places information up-to-date and not their local government office or their website.

* how advertisers can get value for their search ad campaigns; how to convince them of this

* how much google ad/targeting intelligence comes from off-site (eg Adsense, partner programs, xml ads)

* how many websites and website owners focus obsessively on their google presence making sure that even where Google’s tech gets it wrong they can get it corrected.

* how valuable the feedback loop is: google ads literally tells google what pages and terms are useful, what people like, and what to do more of at scale

* giving away free email and chat to build a whitelist of “good shares”

And that doesn’t cover video or the inverted index you need to provide governments access to emails and search terms. And so on.

These are largely not-software problems.
I don't agree at all. I don't want to use the same account across multiple organizations.
Possibly the scariest thing I see at the moment; 'we can't say/do that as it will give fuel to the anti-vaxers'.

Antivaxers will just make shit up - properly exploring the science is not strengthening their argument, refusing to do so is strengthening their argument.
Because humans are cheaper than a drone.

Hell I live in a Western country and people are getting assassinated for just 10000 euro. Plenty of desperate losers out there to exploit for crime cartels.
Enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act.

> Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.

> Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

A few years in federal prison for the CEOs of Apple and Google might change the situation.
http://bh./ works as well.*

* for some definition of "works".
I can't agree with this more. As a child, my technology skills were several orders of magnitude greater than my parents -- and the horrible spyware the school installed on its computers was a red rag saying "crack me" to a rapidly growing bull. These measures, arguably well-intentioned though they are, fundamentally teach kids that they don't own their devices and it's okay to spy on people. Good parenting is fundamentally different from that.
Competitive programming is useless for hiring
Japan only just started converting from Tape to Digital for advertising material for broadcasters a couple of years ago, while tape is almost a thing of the past for the rest of the world.

They were so concerned about businesses whose job it is to make the tapes that they literally built a new business to migrate these workers into new jobs.
Might be dead for FOSS, but still has 5 compiler vendors around and a new standard revision being done.
I think the Wikipedia article is quite good, and I'd also encourage you to experiment with the "dig" tool, it shows very valuable low-level information, which goes well with the theoretics on Wiki.
Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud
Honestly, I am amazed that there are people that don't do this.

I am often wondering how different the world looks through the eyes of someone else, and it's very hard for me to imagine how people can "go through the motions" without understanding in situations like you described.

Personally, I could never remember a fact or a word without understanding the concept behind it or its significance.
That culture is everywhere in schools, not limited to poor people, also in middle class. These kids are suffering, and thus culture needs to be fought. Instead teachers and society are lazy and say "lol whatever boys will be boys, let's just let this kids suffer and waste more time until they are grown ups and then maybe the bullies catch up academically"
Is that what you are proposing?
Thats only for one transacrion between users though.For every additional transaction the money goes through, the roblox takes even more of a cut.
Maybe because it should be fun to use? NSI. I prefer fun to fn and func, because it aligns nicely with four spaces a tab formatting.
> I never used any of the skills I learned professionally.

Well, that's often the case with regular, honest studies too. Most people who work after the equivalent of a Master degree never use chemistry, biology, or post-high-school mathematics in their job (the list is not exhaustive).

(I just mean to say that this shouldn't be taken as a single
definite criterium ; when you add it to the rest in the bigger picture, it can make sense however.)
A Guide for First-Time Parents
True, maybe I was allured by the Dropbox and Robinhood MVP story to attempt this.
Is launching a functional MVP a better choice?
Exclude tech giants.
The start menu is far from usable, but Classic Shell is the first thing I install on a new Windows 10 machine (which gets rid of it). The remainder of the UI, such as the taskbar and the window management are light-years ahead of Linux. The closest thing I could find to replicate this in the Linux ecosystem is KDE, but even that sucks and is very buggy.
Exclude tech giants. FORTUNE100 or FORTUNE500 something like that.
The Obama DOJ had plenty of quotes in the tech wage fixing scandal a few years ago. They didn't bother to enforce it in any meaningful way.

They even had quotes that showed intent and understanding of the illegality:

> "Schmidt responded that he preferred it be shared 'verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?'", the Reuters news agency quoted the court filing as saying.

https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-google-settlement-idIN...
>That's a full octave doppler-effect.

Per youtube comments. Impressive!
Idea of some grouping tool, orthogonal to security and account managment, used to store personal preferences/notification settings/social network links sound reasonable.

Idea of 'identity for the human' reeks of ghastly surveillance and control. AWS has no business with 'the human', only with client - it's not my family, it's not my friend, it's not a law enforcing state with monopoly for violence.
There is lots of fun to had when debugging mismatched dynamic structures sent around the network.

It is no wonder that any new format introduced with hype to release developers from type safety boilerplate chains, a few years in production ends up getting its own flavour of schema definition.
How would we make sure another Covid couldn't happen if we knew that this one stems from a lab and was intentionally released? Do we ban the creation and release of highly contagious bio-weapons? We already have, haven't we?

Do we start a nuclear war to make sure China is no more and therefore they can't do it again (but anyone else could)?

I'm not suggesting there's no use in finding out how it came to be, but unless it was some guy eating a bat and we can all agree on not doing that anymore and create a bat police to enforce that, I don't see how knowing who did it would prevent anyone else from doing it.
Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
Hahaha, so profoundly true - especially the last paragraph!
Comms can also be laser, and the drones can be pre-programmed and self guiding. Though in either case, you can still always dazzle either the sensors or the comms (MEMS sensors used for inertial guidance are vulnerable to ultrasound IIRC). And I’m sure the military either have or are developing an anti-drone-drone.
Clicking the link, I was kinda hoping it was some version of VFS for Git, but for operating systems other than Windows. Kinda bummed that it wasn't, this seems kinda pointless. Microsoft is (allegedly) working on macOS and Linux drivers for that thing, but it's been a while now. I hope it's going to become an actual thing one day, it's such a cool idea.
I know you're responding to the single point as a conversational thing, but it gives a collective theory of: teenagers mucking around, who have enough money that throwing away a $10k+ experimental drone is no issue, and they just happen to live near an air force base where there are definitely no actual experimental drones being tested. My issue then with that is that the modern teenager typically films things for credibility, and this sort of stunt isn't going to be very satisfying at night. (I fly drones. Flying at night, I try to get the footage I'm paid for and then land.)

IMO, either the story as reported has been exaggerated in many dimensions (altitude above the chopper, size of drone, time in the air, distance before landing) or it's something from the air force base that's not commercially available.
A Supercomputer Calculated Pi to a Record-Breaking 62.8T Digits
Yes, optional being the best example, it will be a proper primitive class.
I forgot to mention Eiffel, Sather and BETA as well.
The article misidentifies education as a zero-sum positional good, whereas what's often zero sum is credentialing, and often a rather peculiar kind of credential that doesn't reflect much real-world usefulness. Reduce the impact of these credentials, and people will feel less of a need to wastefully compete for them.
Underwhelming conclusion to the article IMO:

> What if the gaokao (and similar tests) were held earlier in a pupil’s career? If these exams truly test the knowledge required for university, they must be held just before university starts. But if such tests mostly serve as filters, sifting better students from worse, they need not be held so late. An aptitude test at 16 years of age, say, will probably generate a similar ranking as one held two years later. The tests would remain stressful. But an earlier gaokao would save families a year or two of costly cramming, shortening “the obstacle course”, as Hirsch put it, without much changing the results. Such tests will always have high stakes. But they need not require such high effort.

I was somewhat "late" in terms of some aspects of my development, and so there's a chance I'd have been put on a particular track simply because my peers were more biologically mature. I won't pretend to know the solution here (though I'm interested in the research around "mastery-based" learning), but I do know that sometimes a system is in a deeper local optima than you expect, and making small changes like the one suggested here isn't enough to get it out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning#:~:text=Maste....
That could be fixed by checking the identifier for valid operators and offer: "Did you mean a - b?"
Ultimately, the reason many languages use manually written parsers is because the code generated by parser generators just isn't worth the time savings not manually writing a parser instead. The underlying assumption is that that is somehow super hard, error prone, and time consuming. I think that assumption is simply wrong.

I had my compiler course at the University of Utrecht in the mid nineties. The local faculty there had some functional programming pioneers and did a lot of work on parse generators. So, I learned how to write a parser generator in Gopher (a Haskell predecessor). Very nice course and definitely a bit of a mind fuck since I also had to wrap my head around monads at the same time. And of course not really that useful for real world stuff and I've since forgotten most of what I learned as I have not used it in over 25 years.

A few years ago, I had to sit down and write a parser for a little query language that we came up with. I spend some time looking at all sorts of convoluted tools for this and refreshing some decades old knowledge on grammars to actually try to understand what the tools were trying to do. I then found a useful example of a lexer that simply used regular expressions and suddenly realized I was wasting time and that this stuff was stupidly simple. I then knocked out this little project out in a few hours using that. Once you have a lexer, things get easy and they are not that hard to write. I think this is why people end up doing these things manually. It's just not that hard or worth automating and it's rare enough that it's not worth investing time in learning new tools.

Also, modern languages are a lot better at this stuff too. String handling in C was always a bit tedious. But modern languages come with so many built in stuff for that that it's not really a burden. So, in short, parser generators solve a problem that's not really that big of a problem anymore.
True, although FWIW NVC tends to come off as inauthentically appealing to emotion from the perspective of those who are aware of, but do not subscribe to it. That communication can then be perceived as manipulative and work against the communicator's original intent, even if the listener shares their underlying goals of wanting to be kinder and more empathetic.

And since NVC has little impact on those who are malicious or acting in bad faith, it ends up doing more harm than good imo.
All those things are manifestations of corruption. Lobby is corruption.
Zuckerberg a programmer? I think that's quite a reach, to call him a programmer.
I am replying more to the line you quoted than to you, but even when the electricity is generated by fossil fuels, it is still generally more efficient than burning it in your car. The reason being that the power plant is always operating near peak efficiency (often over 50%) whereas the car engine rarely runs at peak efficiency (often under 30% on average), especially when in stop and go traffic. The electric car also benefits over time from improvements in the power plant mix. While you may be technically correct that no country yet has a plausible concrete plan to get to 0% fossil fuels in electric generation, most countries seem to be aiming to greatly increase their percentage of renewable generation.
Network is definitely IO, though I have the impression they are talking more about disk IO. The linked survey shows 49% of devs are convinced their game startup is IO-bound, and I doubt they are all working on a pure online game that absolutely requires blocking server communication/login before showing the main menu.

As much as I hated EA's Battlelog at least it got that thing right: login meant loading a website in a fraction of a second and the only time-consuming loading was when actually starting the game.

I'm glad the PS5 focuses on that detail because honestly it gets really tiring to wait upwards of 5-10 seconds just to get to the main menu. It's a mostly static screen with a few buttons, in the age of SSDs that shouldn't need a loading screen.
Need to reply to myself for correction since it is to late to edit.

It should say base*exponent.

I think other languages use base^exponent, which would be fine with me too.
IIRC git stores copies at first - so interactive time performance is great. It later compresses a set of files into a pack - so long-term space performance is great.

It's like the perfect partner - at least, from afar.
I have a nokia windows phone which will not run apps or social media. Can't be hacked either. Bliss
10% of the median price of a house then vs less than 2.5% today. Inflation isn't always a great measure for comparison, especially as over longer periods of time it starts to get decisively apples to oranges.
Check ML languages with its multiple backends, Eiffel or Delphi/FreePascal.

Go compile times, while great, weren't any novelty to old timers before the .com wave that brought scripting languages into the spotlight and Sun's gigantic Java push.

Thankfully the 20 years detour seems to be getting over.
Of all the invasive things modern tech does, I'm genuinely surprised it is the child porn scanning that has the media in an uproar.

The media doth protest too much methinks? As yet another journalist or elite gets busted for child porn.
When I clicked on "arguments" I was half-expecting it to be arguments like "--verbose" and "--noconfirm" and half-expecting it to be arguments like "why WOULDN'T I do this?" and "no this is actually a GREAT idea because...".

That said, this is pretty neat and I can see a couple use cases for it. If this ran on Windows there're more than a few programs worth of config directory that I'd love to use it to handle.
I typed out my idea on a Notion page, did market research, existing competitors, and all that. It looked quite promising to me.
I included a small demo on my landing page as well. Maybe I should try reaching out to people with a better functional prototype.
Thanks for the suggestion!
If there was no foul play why the fuss to cover it up then?
> Indeed. What's wrong with using _ in identifiers?

Nothing wrong with it. It is usually easier to type '-' though. Use in when naming scripts and files for the same reason. Ergonomics matter IMHO.
I buy my Sony PlayStation games on physical media in six brick and mortar stores owned by three different brands in Belgrade, Serbia. There are also a few online retailers who will send you the disc and you pay the delivery guy with cash. Sometimes I find a game at half the price at one store as compared to the others. I bought PS4 game three years ago in Oslo, Norway, and two years ago in Nicosia, Cyprus, both in different retail stores.

I wouldn't say visiting any of thousands of reatil stores around the world, or ordering online from any of thousands of online retailers count as "only 1 way".
Unless those wage increases were the result of productivity increases.
Have a look at D and .NET 5 for compile time reflection.

Or in Java's case annotation processors.

Yes, not everything gets exposed, but it also does the job.
Cool stuff! Learned a few things thanks!!
Sometimes when the problem space is simple enough you can get the best of both worlds by using regex to perform your tokenization when lexing and then passing the tokens to a traditional stack based parser. It’s possible for this approach to be bad performance wise but it depends on the use case.

The lexer that yacc implements is indeed regex based and as I also recently discovered was originally written by a little known developer by the name of Eric Schmidt [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)
well if traffic is generated by 1% of the population and if that traffic is already very crowded, it's almost true. that would mean the streets are very narrow.
Incredible that they would allow something like that to be recorded in writing! Apparently they are not even afraid of antitrust laws, judging by that.
Madness, if you get blocked by aws in one of their accounts.
Wave good by to all the other accounts
But non of that is _peer_ recognition. HR is not your peer, your boss is probably not your peer, your coworkers are probably your peers.

I would think that your peers are the people you socialize with. If you never had a non work-related conversation with someone, you most likely don't see them as your peer.

People pretending to be your peers, pretending to appreciate you, wont feel rewarding. But you willingly do things for the people you like and hang around with without remuneration. Is your wife, your sibliblings, or your friendly neighbour not your peers?

If you have no peers, whose recognition you appreciate, at work. Then there is something wrong with the work environment and that problem is probablh management.
Indeed it is, since browsers now mark http pages as "insecure". Let's Encrypt's certbot, for one, explicitly asks upon installation if you'd like to redirect http to https.
Thanks, both for your insight and the way you presented it :-)

And yes, you are right that I'm only talking about young people playing games with police/military and I don't have any idea if this is feasible or not.
C++17 added std::variant (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant) and other types so algebraic data types are now officially part of the standard. Of course, it's not as compact to write as in Pyret, especially since there's no pattern matching switch statement (yet).
It's a quote from Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIrlZSYB6tE

(Nobody drove in New York, there was too much traffic)
*another reason

No one's gonna quit their iPhone because of this one.