skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Page 38 has an article about The Last One, a program generator that was supposed to make all other programs obsolete.

A bit like the low code stuff we are seeing today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
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developer team pumps out a lot of virtual sessions
i am a pirate and i extensively use a borrowed overdrive. i still buy kindle from olx because i can get them on the cheap, much more than amazon itself.
Right. They were ads for stuff you likely actually found interesting, not ads for reverse mortgages and dubious real estate investments.

Computer Shopper, another (and much, much larger, in terms of page count) magazine of the era was essentially nothing but ads. It had just enough editorial material to qualify it as a "magazine" under postal regulations (magazines had to pay less postage than pure advertisements). It sold like hotcakes.
Did you read the whole thread?
Typescript is so weird. Like this is cool I guess but I'd much rather just match on `Foo` or `Bar` directly. But Typescript doesn't have pattern matching so it compensates with this bizarre paradigm of enforcing dynamic type checks statically.
is kubernetes considered a glue system?
Having driven through Sodom, which is situated on the dead end of the dead sea, next to the apocalyptic salt factory they have there, it boggles my mind that you would be able to measure "increased salinity". What I'm saying is the dirt itself is half salt.
I don't think there has been a non-backwards compatible JS change in a very long time. They even named the array flatten method as 'flat', just to avoid having a conflict with MooTools!
FYI, the reason I downvoted was because of your claim that downvoters must be part of some corporate conspiracy to silence you. That's ridiculous.

The truth is that we observe very very clearly that people, as a whole, cannot use sound methods of password management without a password manager. They revert to password reuse. Just because you can do it and it is easy for you does not make this a functional system for ensuring that all users are doing the right thing.
i listen to audiobooks. come to think of it, i have been doing that for the last decade and i recently found out that i do not sleep well if i do not have some book speak to me while i fall asleep.
Amazon Flex Reddit has a story of a girl whose anal fissure exploded on route causng... a situation.

her story should unfold in the next 48 hrs. Shes got a meeting to attend about "the incident".

Amazons culture is just excessive and harmful. I try and pick up as little work from their systems as possible.
I feel like more people should look into Nrwl Nx to scaffold new projects: https://nx.dev/

It supports Angular, React, Next.js, Gatsby, Storybook, Cypress, and a lot more.

Maybe people don't hear about it, or they stop after reading the word "monorepo", while Nx is also great for stand-alone projects.
Lucas himself foresaw the 'expand the axioms' response, and pointed out that once you do this, you get a new formal system with a new Gödel sentence. This means that no such argument against his thesis - i.e. by adding the truth of the formal system's Gödel sentence to that system's axioms - will terminate.

Note that I am not saying the Lucas-Penrose argument is indefeasible; I am saying that it cannot be defeated simply by the argument that goes 1) it claims the human mind is consistent; 2) we can see that the human mind is not consistent; ergo, it is false. This argument fails because premise 1 is false. If it were this simple, the video here would not be nearly two hours long!

Addendum:
The "stepping out" argument is not a matter of adding axioms, it is a sort of meta-argument that a Gödel sentence for a consistent system must be true[1], and the consistency of the hypothetical system under discussion follows via the Church-Turing thesis (which you could challenge if you want to, but I suspect that, to most people who understand the implications of doing so, this would be an undesirable trade of one implausibility for another.)

This leaves me wondering if the Lucas-Penrose argument can be challenged on the grounds that the algorithm in question probably does not halt (other than for causes outside the system; namely, the causes of death or the causes of a power outage), or that the question of its halting is undecidable. I am sure this response has been debated somewhere, if it is not obviously wrong.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1491061/paradoxhow-...
Phew, this at least spot some real issue (in some cases System.out.println can make multi-threaded program to get "synchronized" on console acces).

At some point I came across a tool (I think it was white source) that was going through Github page of each library used and was checking if there are no bugs reported.

Obviously very often there were totally bogus tickets, support requests created as bugs, rants as bugs, duplicates of already fixed tickets, etc. so investigating all that crap was really hard.

Another problem was licencing. There are a lot of libraries that have dual licence, e.g. GPL and CDDL, obviously the tool was panicking that GPL is used, not noticing that there is a second "business-friendly" license.

Those static analysis tools are not bad as a concept, however ratio of false positives to real issues found is too large to make them truly useful unless one can invest a lot of resources into tuning them.
Personally would love to use an e-reader to read lengthy blog posts, but last time I tried it was very tedious. I converted the post to PDF using firefox's reader mode and uploaded these to the device. Are there any e-readers with something like firefox's reader mode integrated?
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Why would you compute only one iteration of interest when a full term will result in 60-100% increase in price. One month is hardly even a freeze-frame.
It would be enforced by the optional static type checker, not the language runtime.
(Author here) Agree with you as I have to deal with limited data every now and then.

I was weighing whether to go with videos or GIFs a few days ago. Sadly, video in markdown is not supported everywhere (eg. in npmjs.com) so some users wouldn't see them. And the readme wouldn't make much sense without the videos as this project is about motion design, so not much to explain in text.

So I opted for GIFs and spent a couple of hours cutting/speeding up videos to get the file sizes down.

The docs OTOH, contain no GIFs :) https://docs.theatrejs.com/getting-started/
Adding a few more fields would require me to update every case plus add some more, no? Resulting in an hard to maintain explosion of state? Or am I missing something.

https://statecharts.dev/state-machine-state-explosion.html
Probably because of other people.
> most people

I think you dramatically overestimate how many people can do this consistently for years on end. People who don't use a password manager simply reuse passwords. That's what they've always done. Any solution that ignores this observation is doomed to fail.
You can already do this without pattern matching:

from typing import Union, NoReturn

class Foo:
name: str

class Bar:
size: int

Variant = Union[Foo, Bar] # or `Foo | Bar` in Python 3.10

def assert_never(x: NoReturn) -> NoReturn:
# runtime error, should not happen
raise Exception(f'Unhandled value: {x}')

def tell(x: Variant):
if isinstance(x, Foo):
print(f'name is {x.name}')
elif isinstance(x, Bar):
print(f'name is {x.size}')
else:
assert_never(x)

mypy returns an error if you don't handle all cases.
I've been using deepl myself, but it's not always great for translating text to another language.

At some point I translated an English email to French and the Deepl translation translated "regards" to the French equivalent of something close to "I hope you appreciate, mister president, my distinguished salutations". It's probably based on official documents from parties like the UN and the EU that have many if not all documents translated to all member languages, so that was a very interesting bias to spot.
Indeed. I guess I am going for not persecuting humans following other gods in the name of one's own gods.
Yes, but it depends if the goods or service is essential. Is knowledge/ education/ access to information essential?
But the Nix way (how alien and complicated) is the theoretical sound way of handling dependencies. The docker solution is a blanket over a mess.

Hopefully, documentation and tooling can be improved for a theoretically good but badly implemented solution. The other way around is not possible.
agreed, as a english-as-second-language speaker both the idiom and acronym was completely lost on me. concept has potential as long as it's not just another clone of snapchat stories.
I guess I'm in there too. But passports get copied and provided to so many institutions these days that I wouldn't even consider nationality and passport number as private.

Now, if someone is traveling to Thailand to partake of some of the more controversial options, then I can see how this would be damaging.

We should all do our best to maintain privacy, but at the same time we should understand that the concept of privacy is changing. And by that I mean that we have less - and will have even less in the future - privacy than people did 10+ years ago.

It won't be long before biometric and other personally identifiable scanners will be integrated into much of what we touch or where we go. It may not be publicly known or even legal, but it will (and probably already does) happen. Just look at the NFC and facial recognition systems in much of our shopping places...
1. Tech is not the solution to everything. Am I the only one to notice the absurdity of needing yet another app to "connect with friends"? I can see the use of tech to reach out to people you know from abroad, but... Whats wrong with Facetime or similar tech?

2. The template questions seem overly intrusive to me. I'd much rather answer "any covid hobbies?" then any pre-written gratitude nonesense, esp. in written communication. Philosophizing about the world is something best done in a face-to-face situation.
> Is my view of cycling speeds that skewed

Yes

> It's immensely important to riding safely in faster traffic

This why it’s skewed.

I agree that riding close to the speed of traffic is important. But over here in Europe we have far better cycle infrastructure compared to North America. In many cities you don't ride with normal traffic, so you don’t need to go that fast. Instead your just cycling with with other bikes.

It sounds like you cycle in a fairly hostile area for bikes, so speed is needed just to be safe. Can totally understand why you would do 30kph+, and indeed I do the same in nastier parts of London.

But a consequence of the hostile environment is that you’ll only be cycling with people who have made an active choice to cycle and are more advanced cyclists who are happy to deal with shitty car drivers.

As you move towards proper cycle infrastructure the average cyclist becomes increasingly casual and amateur. Riding not for sport, fitness or to be green. But rather riding because it’s just easier that other public transport options or using a car. Cyclist in this category cycle slower, and more casually. They just wear normal clothes and cycle nice and slow so they don’t get sweaty.

If you wanna see more, I would recommend the YouTube channel “NotJustBikes”. It can be quite eye opening to see a world where everyone cycles because it’s just cheaper, easier and faster than every other option.
Having nuclear missiles ready at all times, all over the world (near populated areas) is a risk on its own... In a politically stable world without conflicts, sure, but we haven't had that kind of world for centuries...
Can someone please explain to me what it means to "read code"? I feel like the article said I should do it yet didn't explain what it is and how to do it.

To me, it appears a meaningless phase, like saying "think harder". It's something said in a good faith effort to be helpful, but unfortunately isn't. I wonder if the "meaning" is intended to be something like, "learn to understand code"? Yet that replacement isn't any more helpful. Can code be understood broadly? I don't think to can be.

I had a boss once who tried to emphasize, "you have to learn to read code". Some of the things he wrote were comprehensible to me, some not. He was a senior and I was a junior. He also once said to me, "I don't get what's special about Lisp". When I tried to explain about macros and metaprogramming, he said "but Python has decorators". I assume my boss could "read code". He could certainly write it, he demonstrated an ability to explain the workings of a new codebase, and claimed he could "read code". Yet he appeared to be lost about how Lisp macro programming differed from Python decorators. I could have explained it better. Regardless, this tells me that "reading code" is non-transferrable. So, maybe "read code" is meant as a shorthand for "develop mastery within the language at hand so that you can quickly understand new code presented to you". Again, I'm failing to see how this is helpful, actionable advice. No matter which way I try to understand it, "leatn to read code" feels like it amounts to being told "be more experienced".
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Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar was one of the best parts of Byte magazine, the first thing I read when I got a new issue. There were always a lot of hardware hacking projects in the TRS-80 Color Computer oriented Rainbow magazine, I learned a lot from those although I was always a bit weary of accidentally destroying a relatively expensive piece of hardware with a bad circuit.

The artwork is the biggest thing I miss from the early computer magazines. Really amazing stuff that reminded me of all the sci-fi magazines from the fifties. Nothing like that today.
> Given the number of trainings that he would have attended while working at the NSA

Right, so he was used to doing sketchy things and not questioning the ethics of what his superiors told him to do, just the right kind/level of sketchy for the right people, and didn't realize this was going to be a different kind/level of sketchy that would ultimately make him uncomfortable.
kinda skeptical. I think you need to be in the same room as someone for mirroring neurons to engage
I have ended up with Onyx Boox about a year ago and it is awesome. Being an Android tablet opens up space for a bit of customization. For example, I am running syncthing on it keep book collection in order without any 3rd party...
I think that's my pet peeve with modern frontend tooling, they feel like walled gardens of arbitrary knowledge that only applies to their ecosystem rather than to some fundamental learning about software.

When I learned about OOP I was able to understand OOP code in a broad range of applications, languages and frameworks, but learning how react works gives me no insight into anything but react, and it's even abstracted enough from JavaScript that you could learn React without ever properly knowing how to write JavaScript (which is something I've encountered in a handful of new devs).
I feel like every instruction set eventually becomes VAX.
IPv6 isn't better in my experience. The software out there is frequently very immature and does not support typical use-cases.

It's also so many new moving parts, so I find it very difficult to translate my IPv4 experience, making it a pain to work with. Every time something breaks on my network it's IPv6 related, and every time I have to go digging in RFC's and whatnot to figure out what to do.

The main pain points with IPv4+NAT are still pain points with IPv6, namely dynamically open ports in the firewall.

I'm sure IPv6 will be in a better place in 10-20 years time, and I'm sure a lot of my annoyance with it is due to my inexperience. One day...
From Tall el-Hammam's wiki:

> Starting with the publication of his book Discovering the city of Sodom in 2013 and after fifteen years of excavations of the upper and lower tall, Collins has been arguing that Tall el-Hammam is the site of the biblical city of Sodom. A 2018 conference paper identified a likely Tunguska-like airburst event near the Dead Sea ca. 1700 BCE, which destroyed a region including Tall el-Hammam[18]. According to professor Eugene H. Merrill, himself a Biblical inerrantist, the identification of Tall al-Hammam with Sodom would require an unacceptable restructuring of his early biblical chronology.

Seems worth noting that there's not a consensus in the inerrantist camp.
A passport with a chip in it isn't

`the lack of always-on, uncontrollable surveillance`

And even if it somehow did, you leave the device at home while you go out on your dissidence business.

Again, this is hugely overblown.
The same moral reasoning can make nearly anything immoral. For example, is it morally right to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, knowing he will use them to pay for drone strikes in wars he started killing millions in the third world? Is the only moral option to give up ones citizenship and move to another country?

Yet, very very few people do this.

Is writing code for the UAE to help them kill people so different to paying money to the USA to help them kill people?
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Make that 10-15 kph (6.2-9.3 mph) for 8-16 year old students with all their school books or people in suits on one of these: [0], which is the majority here in the Netherlands. I think you are confusing what Americans know as "cyclists" (a subculture), with just "people on bikes" (our culture), which is most people, at some point during the day. Bike lanes look like this during rush hour: [1]. Silent, broader, 25 kph electric vehicles are much more disturbing in this setting.

[0]: https://www.wheelerz.nl/fietsen/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=druk+fietspad+nederland&hl=e...
ITYM “hawking”.
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If you travel much, or nowadays if you register on just about any legitimate cryptocurrency exchange, you've already shared this information - and usually with a photo.

And with the new COVID stuff/vaccinations, it's being shared more often even if you don't travel.
Convince policy makers to drive and guide innovation and policies .

We won't make it with individual contributions of consuming a bit less. Of course it makes sense to do it at some degree.

Go to every climate strike out there. Including 24.09.2021 is the next global climate strike. Make sure to be there and take your family, friends and colleagues with you.
Most? I’m not aware of any general apathy amongst the atheist crowd (who generally believe those things) and instead see a high percentage of them rising to positions of power and influence in Hollywood and science, IE places they don’t generally have to hide their feelings on the subject. It’s up to you to decide how many of our politicians you think are lip service Christians.
I’m sure another app is what will build deeper connections with friends.

I had a lovely party this week after everyone got vaccinated and it’s the closest I’ve come to building relationships with friends in two years.
Dual Boot OpenBSD and Linux
If you look at it from the bank's perspective it makes more sense. I got a 5 year and paid it off early. The bank got about 8% of my home value. My friend has a 30 year and the bank will get ~110% of his home value.
Which ones? The ones I've used use passport (and often photo holding passport) to enable certain features or raise limits, but they're not used for withdrawl. 2FA and email verification is.
It may be depressing to be on the Confluence “search” team. But wouldn’t it be MORE depressing to be on their “editing” team? Or how about their “performance” team? :-(
We should be able to find the impact geological records and build a probability model.
I definitely understand where the author is coming from, with his stance on not liking ereaders until now. I got my first Kindle back in 2009 or so, and it took me a couple of years to truly convince myself to use it instead of paper books the majority of the time. It really took going to college a couple of years later to push me all the way into ereading, where I discovered that lugging books around for all of my classes was a huge pain and I didn't want to deal with moving pleasure reading books in and out of dorms every few months. Well, that and public domain/pirated books -- it's a very cheap way to entertain yourself when you don't have much money.

I got a Boox e-reader with a 7.8" hiDPI screen earlier this year (my old Kindle was 6"), and let me tell you, it's been transformative. My biggest nitpick with the old kindle was the screen: it was a little smaller than the average paperback book page, which meant that I was constantly turning pages to read anything of significant length. With a 7.8" screen, ebook pages are almost precisely the same size as pages in a traditional hardcover book. So if you're used to that kind of reading experience, it's an easy transition. Oh, and the screen is also big enough and high-res enough to display tables and images at full size, without awkward multi-line clipping. So you can actually experience books as they were meant, instead of dealing with issues in anything that isn't just a stream of text.

I've also really enjoyed using Android (albeit in a modified form) so I can use torrent clients, FireFox, an email client, an Airdrop knockoff, and an RSS feed reader to get content onto my device. You'd think it would be distracting to have all of that at your fingertips, but the limitations of e-ink really rein in the desire to mindlessly browse HN and reddit.

And the WACOM layer that's integrated into the display is truly awesome to use for notetaking, drawing, and even keeping score when I play card games. I've basically moved all of my notetaking over to my ereader. And I don't even have to charge the pen.

One big issue, though? There are a million cases out there for Kobo and Kindle devices, but nobody makes them for Boox devices besides... Boox. But if you're willing to DIY a bit, it turns out that the Nova 3 is almost the same dimensions as the iPad Mini 4/5... so just buy a case for that, and if it's a snug-fitting case, make a couple of cuts in the case to let it stretch over the ereader, cut out a hole for the power button, and you're golden.

Disclaimer, though: Onyx/Boox, the Chinese company that makes my Nova 3 device, is in flagrant violation of GPL with their Android modifications for their ereaders. So you should be aware of that before you decide to buy one -- if you're cognizant of that kind of thing, I assume you don't want to give them money. I figured that it's at least better than giving money to Jeff Bezos and locking myself into another walled garden (that can't even read epub files!). YMMV.
Rather, a dark allegory on life under the communism
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Perhaps or there is something else brewing behind the scenes. https://quillette.com/2021/06/27/podcast-155-heather-mac-don... we might never know what is really happening.
Well, I think it would be cool to correlate whatever sleep measurements you're taking with the subject's dream experience. Could be a good marketing angle for you, too. Dreams are cool.
what kind of audiobooks you enjoy for that purpose?
I thought you were going for allegory of the cave, and were a little sad when you didn't.