skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I find the announcements of 99% of new languages here at hackernews pretty boring, because they all feel like they didn't learn anything from the last 20 years or so.

But this list actually makes me excited!
Weird Languages
This article also inadvertently shows what I think is a big drawback of the inversion of control pattern.

Imagine you are trying to debug an issue with user creation.

In the last example, you would have to look up everywhere `createUser` is being called, and follow the code path through several different scattered files until you find your issue.

In the original code, you can simply look up `createUser` and you have the complete code flow in front of you.
Thought this was from The Onion.
Nvidia to face EU eyeballing over Arm takeover
The pattern of the articles the and a/an being affected by the sound of the following word dates to Old English. The use of the stressed form as an emphatic does as well. It probably goes back further. There are similar traits in the other Germanic languages. German routinely reduces its definite article die ("dee"), to approximately "duh", and its indefinite article ein ("ayn") to approximately "uhn", as well. Except when emphasized. We even have traces of emphatic "a" in English which is now completely archaic -- except still irresistible in "an historic moment". That probably counts as a fixed expression now. But etymologically speaking, when someone says that they're saying "one historic moment" and emphasizing its distinctiveness. Germans would say "ein historischer Moment" and it's a safe bet they'd say ein (one) and not the usual "uhn" (a).
For the lucky guys/gals from NZ, there are high quality cloud free arial images freely available from linz. In particular check out basemaps.linz.govt.nz/

The images are already blended so much of the work is done.
I don't understand why people leave AWS to join Google Cloud only to replicate the environment they were trying to escape.
This is like saying "Water was always wet" while people are talking about how to navigate the oceans. Please ask yourself which value it brings to this discussion.
Are you so sure there's a difference?
One thing I noticed very quickly. There isn't actually anything really novel about covid or any of the vaccines.

Covid19 is pretty much gob standard coronavirus which which there are already four which commonly infect humans. One of which uses the same receptor even. Covid doesn't have any weird tricks. Other than no one has any immunity to it, and it can cause systemic infections. Because it uses the ACE2 receptor which are found in a lot of organs and tissues.

The vaccines on the other hand are also gob standard vaccines. So there isn't any reason either to expect any of them to cause unusual problems that haven't been seen before. And none of the usual problems have appeared.

The real thing here is the choice really isn't vaccine or no vaccine. It's you get vaccine or you get covid. The risk from the vaccine if you can call it that is orders of magnitude less than getting covid.

Another consideration is while the vaccines don't show any effect on fertility or pregnancy, covid absolutely shows increased morbidity and mortality in pregnant women.
How does this figure into unit economics, in terms of limiting the cost involved in mapping data which is more consultancy (based off your BI use case and per dashboard pricing), migrations by nature tend to be one-off and not really a source of recurring revenue. Curious how to bridge the gap between what you have now to a Plaid/Zapier model, a tough problem no doubt!

Also, I may be misunderstanding your current offering.
That was in reference to discord, sorry
Not exactly surprising since The Economist is owned by the ultra wealthy ruling class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Group
> What could be improved is speed.

Native compilation is coming in the next version and should help quite a bit.
It's not risky, it's just pointless.

But considering how colossal government waste on all levels is, this is relatively unimportant and harmless (it'd cost them nothing to switch to silver, but instead they spend taxpayer money on this gimmick) and I wouldn't be opposed if I were a Salvadoran.
Put this into our whole domain blocklist, but can confirm only about a 20% reduction. In the end, it's playing whack-a-mole.

I've played with the idea of building a managed incoming email gateway SaaS (Codename Project S.H.I.E.L.D) where you can just exclude whole cohorts of unwanted inbounds (recruiting, offshoring, monetization, linkbuilding) powered by Machine Learning, but I'm too busy to build it any time soon.

If someone's in and wants plans from my drawer, I'll be a paying first customer ;-)
The Different Stages of SaaS Business
> What have you got to lose?

Attorney costs?
Right there with you
It’s Not in Your Head: The World Really Is Getting Worse
Free bus rides to wherever in the US based on someone else's word over phone call

https://www.streetsheet.org/homeward-bound-program-offers-fr...
Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?
Wait, what's the conversion rate of HN karma to ducks? I haven't received any ducks at this point. When should I start to expect them? I'm fond of mallards and mandarins. Do I get a choice?
Sorry, that came across a bit harsh. But…

> Either the researchers do that themselves

Has anyone suggested that? I don’t think anyone is concerned about the motives of MIT researchers.
Yep, and I don't mean to underestimate how tough this is for retailers, big and small.

If you think of the pace of change over the past couple of decades - it's still a relatively short space of time for an entire industry to make a course correction, and realise that no-one cares about the core of what they used to do. At all. They need to create whole new reasons for customers to care, and see value in what they provide.

It's definitely a tough industry to be in right now, and a tough problem, but not insurmountable.
No, there will be no winners at all.

"Winners of climate change" is pure propaganda talk and if you read basic literature about what 2 or 4 degrees more even means you will have a better understanding for that and it will enable you to dismantle that fabricated idea.
I suggest you just don’t reply to cold emails and mark them as spam. Automated mass cold emailing is spam.
Overuse of "the" considered creepy.
Yeah, I think Samsung's consumer SSDs are up there. I have two and they're great. But, there is no "sort by highest quality first" option on Newegg or Amazon, and their happy customers are already happy with their SSDs.

(This is going to digress into reviews being the "sort by quality", but I think we know that reviews aren't very good. The fundamental problem is that most throwaway reviewers don't know how to review something as complex as an SSD. So unless the option on the ecommerce site is "sort by what Anandtech thinks about this", you are probably just sorting by a random and easily-manipulated number.)
Thanks a lot for your comment! I actually agree with you, maybe it did not come out from the post so let me clarify a little bit.
Align your team with the goals of the people above you takes you out of the picture as active contributor and excludes any type of experimentation and fail-safe environment on how to set those goals, which is normally what a lean manager wants to do.

You can also give feedback, and normally is also requested by the org, but for what I saw, directly and by asking a lot of corporate managers too, usually only to confirm that "everything is fine". Upper Management wants a happy, engaged org and does not want to deal with individual problems and misalignments, that's why they hired you.

If your team reports critical feedback, normally the org (meaning the people above you) only want you to manage that discomfort and change the team opinion, as you say, aligning them with the objectives and reality.

I'll give you a more relatable example. Some projects don't invest much in testing, the client does not want to pay for that, ICs complain to their manager and the manager is not supposed to give feedback up or force the client to invest in testing, instead it's supposed to help them understand the situation and refocus their purpose aligning them with the objectives of the team/department/vertical etc.

And to be super clear, while in the beginning of my career I hated this, I don't think it's wrong! As a matter of fact, given the situation, that approach is the best thing to do, for the people, the team, the company and the client.
If you put a Lean Manager to manage that situation, the manager will be extremely unhappy to handle it and will have a hard time motivating the team because it goes against its own values and beliefs.

As I said in the post, one is not better than the other but they need to 1) be aware of the expectations and requirements of the job and 2) be honest with themselves because the 2 different environments are not compatible.
Wikipedia has a basic overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)
Yes but perverse incentives like this are very often neglected in peoples happy path analysis.
NetBSD users, why do you use it over FreeBSD and OpenBSD? (2019)
> Free markets in America produced the highest living standard in the world.

A bit dubious. If I were asked which place in the world I thought had the highest standard of living, it sure as fuck wouldn't be the states.
Could you elaborate on what The Netherlands does differently?
The paper mentioned in the article, Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?, can be found here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
Yeah, the martry comment was pretty rude but I do not read it as a threat. More like "stop trying to make yourself such a big martyr".
I find the answer of JuvenalUrbino very compelling:

https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/90-netbsd-users-why-do-you-use-i...
Or just write HTML, save to file, done.
Greenhouses are extremely successful here in Iceland.
The problem: a war in which you take away the ability to live on the land ("scorched earth") leaves a lot more refugees and resentment behind. Do you really think Germany would be the lighthouse of democracy and economic powerhouse that it is today, had its foundations been destroyed post-WW2?
Personally, I would go for a "power tower" type of setup(dips plus pullups) plus some mats, boxes and light weights to flesh out calisthenics routines. And if noise isn't a factor, I'd go for a Stepmania setup first over more traditional gym equipment - way broader appeal when it covers "video game", "exercise", "customizable jukebox" in one package.
“Pick a language that most programmers consider weird but whose median user is smart, and then focus on the differences between this language and the intersection of popular languages.”

Any suggestions on which languages could fit this criteria?
Ask HN: How should people get their news, given that online NYT is $221/year?
How Small Developers Compete with the Defaults on Your Phone
Does Idris qualify?

https://www.idris-lang.org/
Zig is one that’s been on my list for Paul's stated reason.
Compared with Rust’s Result monad, which allows developers to clearly see the effects of error handling, there are two other hidden fallible effects in Rust that are much harder to tackle:

* Panic rewinding. I am not sure how to ensure your Rust function being panic safe. It is quite easy to cause soundness issue if some invariants no longer hold due to panic. I see `PanicGuard` sometimes used in Rust std library.

* Future cancellation. `tokio::select` is one of the infamous examples, where it is quite easy to introduce bug if the future cannot handle cancellation gracefully.

When trying to handle them properly, it feels more like writing traditional C code than Rust.
What do you expect? They're a business.
Hospital admission and emergency care risk for Covid delta compared with alpha
The market isn't so segmented. If there's a massive availability of cheap rental apartments, there will be less demand for cheap or far away houses, which in turn will reduce their prices, which will in turn reduce demand for million dollar houses. Additionally, land can be divided/merged to turn cheap/expensive houses into expensive/cheap houses.
I'm not so sure that's the only reason to intentionally distance from the "SmallTalk" brand. There might be a advertising benefit, too, since ST is sometimes maligned for having "lost".
Landscapes are migrating faster than ever in times of the Anthropocene. They have never been static, but instead moving, mutating and transforming. Only now their migration is greatly accelerated by climate change and other anthropogenic factors.

To complicate things even more, we currently lack a good concept of migration that could be used to describe the migration of landscapes. Even in great old stories of migration and climate catastrophe like that of Noah's Ark, only the animals were ever collected and saved, as if their bodies with the clear physical boundaries were the only thing needed in order for them to survive. As if the landscapes they inhabited would magically reappear after a climate catastrophe. Nobody ever built a Noah's Ark for landscapes.
If people want to log things they'll just write bots that appear to be regular users. They'll get access to all message content and history.
Stop accusing other HN posters of "spreading lies", when they are, in fact, looking at the data and arriving at conclusions that differ from yours. Your approach may involve looking at data, but your shrillness shows that your attitude to understanding that data is unscientific.
Mozilla makes Google the default search engine in Firefox because they're paid to. What's your point? Without money, the biggest projects would struggle to stay afloat.
Besides Lisp, languages like Haskell and F# would probably fit. As would Forth and modern stack languages like Factor.
Note that it doesn't play well with ZFS, but see here for workaround: https://old.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/m9ce8s/got_docker_...
Writer Ben Macintyre has written extensively, and lucidly, about deception campaigns of WWI. Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and Double Cross all capture the efforts made by the British and its allies. No individual operation swung it but there was an amalgamation of disinformation on various fronts. It’s hard to put a tangible outcome, other than intercepted messages did show the Germans were giving the disinformation due consideration.

I highly recommend any of Ben Macintyre’s books as they’re hugely accessible.
I'm not an expert but I do not think that commercial viability was really something they were interested in. Again, flight inside USSR were pretty common, and there was a demand for those flights, but only at heavily subsidized prices. So the idea probably to have this token supersonic jet as more of a demonstration of capabilities of Soviet technology, operating at a loss. Also, technological parity. I think it is more of a execution failure rather than idea.

BTW, country dachas was not exactly a marker of a bureaucrat class. More precisely I believe there were two classes of dachas - small summer homes for common people and 'nomenklatura' dachas for people with personal drivers.
You read the article several times, yet didn't understand it.

As noted in the article, the Scottish play displays other oddities. But this one had not been commented upon before. To demonstrate vacuity, you would need to identify other plays that do not come off as creepy, but use "the" in the way noted. For an academic presentation, we might expect the authors to have checked for it in other plays, but this article was not.
> I hope they enjoy their unenlightened society.

American hubris at its finest. Invade a country, try to install a Western-style democracy despite the fact that the country has no history of such, bet heavy on corrupt local power-brokers and politicians, predictably fail spectacularly, creating an epic humanitarian disaster in the process, and then...blame the people of that country for being so unenlightened.

Here's a thought: if American society was so enlightened, it wouldn't be leaving Afghanistan with its tail between its legs, having squandered thousands of American lives, trillions of dollars and its credibility on the world stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFa63DZGOs
In light of the chip shortages everyone is talking about, I've been scratching my head about all the laptops, desktops and AIOs on the market - there are millions of them, from dozens of manufacturers (or so it seems).

All soldered down but using modern chips from Intel and nVidia, same chips everyone claims are in short supply.

Who is buying these things?

What happens to them when they're not sold?

Where are all the old ones going?

Is anyone even bothering to desolder older generation chips like Intel 9xxx CPUs and nVidia 10xx GPUs and even RAM?

It has always seemed weird to me, but now that building a desktop has become more expensive than it should be it just seems insane.
Research finally reveals ancient, universal equation for the shape of an egg
If i read parent charitably i find things i can agree too, would phrase them differently thought.

> Most folks don't naturally like to measure things.

Heuristics save a lot of energy in contrast to critical thought.

> Most people view the world through their own personal lens and they categorize phenomena through their experiences.

Our perception is often coloured/distorted by our beliefs, which then lets information through that agrees with our presuppositions.

> It makes it hard to "sell" the idea of measurement, since most people only see the things they're predisposed to see.

I often experienced people reacting annoyed when i cited studies, could have been my tone, could have been me/them wanting to win/be right.
All these crops do not work as you think they should work.

Their function in modern agricultural industry is to chain the farmer to buy more and more chemicals and patented crops.

"Saving the world with gmo crops" is marketing talk by companies that make big money selling these chemicals and crops.

Please check https://www.gmwatch.org/en/ to train your critical thinking.
The APL/J/BQN family of array languages, or Prolog & other Horn clause languages. Both will change your idea of what’s expressible in a programming language.
When you join a server you can go through the entire history of that channel. A user or a bot pretending to be a user could come in at any point and slurp all of that up.

If you restrict this capability then ultimately you'll just end up with bots pretending to by users.
Is Zig weird though? I find it eminently pragmatic and a lot of the interest in it comes from people migrating from popular languages like C and C++ (not that C++ isn't itself pretty weird).
Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell which are covered in "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" are quite nice for start.
This could be a bit discriminatory, Brazil has a high analphabetism rate, it will be worst in prison, I suppose.
The ones who can't read should be offered courses and maybe start with easy comics.
This is such a condescending understanding of why most crime happens. Especially in a country with as much wealth disparity as Brazil.
Netflix Games Come to Poland
I partly agree, but the "super" in "super careful" is going too far. It is OK to take risks when trying to rescue people from a burning building.
As a legal layman, is this possible class action territory?
Efficient I can believe, but I’m curious why that’s simpler than electrolysis? I first played with electrolysis when I was nine.
But in this case, his parents broke the toy, not him.
multiple sources.
Well, in my limited experience, the best way to do testing is to start with tests first (TDD/BDD) - and the second best, when you've started, and have no tests - is to start from a bug: someone reports a real bug, in your real system - and you try and write a test that's failing in such a way, that when you alter the system to fix the bug, the test will pass.

Typically the first test will be quite painful - you might have to install a testing dependency, possibly re-work some code to allow for testing etc. But then, the next test should be a little easier. And after a few bugs and tests, you might find that for your next feature, you can somewhat easily start with a failing test.

/unsolicted_advice
> Pick a language that most programmers consider weird but whose median user is smart

This just comes across as arrogant. You can neither know how smart the median user is, nor does it say much about the merits of the tool. It encourages some weird sense of superiority by putting yourself in a group that's exclusive and think they're smarter than everyone else. There are better ways to pick programming languages than trying to maximise your own pretentiousness.
At school we had a teacher who tried to make us read 10 books a year.
You could choose whatever book you wanted, and you had to write a small summary.
So every one headed to the school library and looked for the smallest books available.
The most popular book that every one read was called something like: "Collection of letters from from my Grandfather" and had around 50 to 70 pages and was very boring.
Many also cheated by watching movie adaptations of books.

Edit: This was back in the time when you could not go online and find dozens of book summaries within minutes.
Maybe it was deliberate word play, but 'their' here refers to the prisoners, not the books, in case anyone else misinterpreted this headline to imply they were actually editing the books.
It’s not even attempting to describe why crimes happen. It’s just offering people an incentive to read because literacy is strongly correlated with job prospects. I can’t see a downside to this pilot program. I hope they expand it to include technical/practical training.
The child is humanity in general.
That's pretty sad - that the climate has changed that much. I am glad he is enjoying them, I wish it were on better terms.
Rebranding Chernobyl
Yeah that sentence felt quite weird. I’m not sure I would say that “smart” is a rigorously defined term.
To be honest, PS’s inbuilt merge and stitch is pretty damn good - I use it on astrophotography outputs where I need to match subtly different processes between subframes of a mosaic. If there are flaws, they’re not ones my eyes can see.
The US is still on a path to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement, so I'm not sure how this makes any sense.

source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paris-agreement-united-states-c...