skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was he? I didn't watch all his Trump skits, but the ones I did were not memorable.

Trump should be a gold mine for parody, but SNL muffed it.

Jay Leno was always good and skewering both sides. He never took it seriously, and his targets usually found them funny, too. Perhaps Baldwin's jokes fell flat because they sounded more like a "let's all pile on him because we hate him" form of bullying rather than funny.
if you come from a imperative background and everyone is used to working in imperative languages... I guess thats anyone.

Someone coming from, say ruby, or javascript would find list comprehension jarring. You can't compose them and you basically have to rewrite them when its time to extend them.

readable by anyone is pretty subjective.
Excellent, thanks for sharing!
The author doesn't justify it but I suspect the thinking is related to how fixes are prioritized.

If there is a bug/performance issue that only happens in the context of AWS, then Corretto would be the most likely to rapidly patch the issue as it impacts their customer base. Potentially patches for those sorts of issues would be discovered by AWS through their own use and testing.

Likewise for the other vendors and their own platforms.
‘It’s Not Sustainable’: What America’s Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close
Ireland’s bloody path to independence: A mini history
> The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.

- Elmer Davis, director of the US Office of War Information
You obey authority instead of your conscience.
https://archive.is/hcl5t
Enemy at the Gates is pretty good.
Maybe my reading was too coloured by my own emotions and experiences with the job, and I apologize if so, but continuing my rant I have a real problem with anyone who takes very optional and voluntary hardships on and complains they're hard. Especially when the problems he openly talks about are so in his control. Email, really? Tell me about the times your own board tried to oust you or the funerals you missed for a biz dev meeting that went nowhere and maybe I'll take you seriosly.

It makes me uneccessarily mad to read about sacrifice in privilege. CEOs sometimes want to quit the job? How about grunts on deployment? My paternal grandfather was a military man - wartime general. Never heard him complain but did hear a proud story of when he was a platoon commander in the jungle. If his platoon happened on a mine field he'd stand besides the poor sod tasked with defusing it until the job was done. That's leading. That's grit.

Let's have conversations about mental health and sacrifices, but let's not pretend san francisco tech entrepreneurs leading large successful companies are in a uniquely hard place in life.
Southwest Airlines cancels 1,000 more flights as disruptions mount
x^-1 crashes as well.
To clarify, abbreviation ZFC stays for Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the Axiom of Choice included [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo–Fraenkel_set_theory
When I think I “can’t stand people” (which happened a lot to me from my teens to adulthood), it’s always because I’m in a bad place mentally, which can be identified and solved, or because I’m hanging out with the wrong people, which is easy to solve by meeting new ones.

It’s not always easy or fast, but it’s something you can fix.
Is there a source of work that doesn't mind having its usage varied? And also will not be exhausted?
https://activitywatch.net/
Wow, you're actually right — I wasn't able to find it before (maybe Java 17 was too new back then).

If anybody's interested:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java17-installer oracle-java17-set-default
Oh my sweet summer child. You wouldn't believe how much "action" goes on at night in those old age retirement communities.
But I'm not debating, I'm evaluating. And when you only hear one side of an argument, prudence is merited.
Personally, I’d do anything to avoid pitching someone, so that bit is very complicated for me.
I knew that `assert` behaved in a similar way. Turns out it's actually equivalent to an `if __debug__:` https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#gramma...
It was, it recently transferred to Eclipse
How to Disable VBS and Speed Up Windows 11
What would be ancient then ? Because if 2B is recent, 4.5B can't be ancient, yet the moon potentially didn't even exist ?
Show HN: SpliceOut, a Simple and Efficient Audio Augmentation Method
I read your comment ... you are calling me a liar, and I don't appreciate that.

I'm providing scans of exactly the part where Knuth says the Bubble Sort only compares adjacent locations, just as I said.

You said:

> Bubble sort is the comparison of every pair.

This is contradicted by the scans of TAoCP that I've provided.

You said:

> If you compare only adjacent pairs, you eliminate an enormous number of redundant comparisons.

That's true, but you are eliminating redundant comparisons from something that is not a Bubble Sort.

> This is bubble sort without the redundancy elimination.

This is contradicted by the scanned excerpts from TAoCP.

> It's just that the elimination is so common that many people don't know about it anymore, and think it's a defining part of the algorithm.

The comparisons between locations that are not adjacent was never part of the Bubble Sort. You continue to claim otherwise, I have checked your references, as far as I can see they don't support your assertion. Please provide scans to support your claim.

Otherwise I bid you good day, and good health.
> By my interpretation, our health system is dysfunctional to the point that it can't reliably and practically collect immunity information in a way that's useful to the immunization effort.

Wouldn't this apply to getting a vaccine, what makes tracking a diagnostic test so much more difficult? People could just have a photo of their positive test, just like they have a photo of their vaccine card...
Time masking has become a de facto augmentation technique for speech and audio tasks, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and audio classification, most notably as a part of SpecAugment. In this work, we propose SpliceOut, a simple modification to time masking which makes it computationally more efficient. SpliceOut performs comparably to (and sometimes outperforms) SpecAugment on a wide variety of speech and audio tasks, including ASR for seven different languages using varying amounts of training data, as well as on speech translation, sound and music classification, thus establishing itself as a broadly applicable audio augmentation method. SpliceOut also provides additional gains when used in conjunction with other augmentation techniques. Apart from the fully-supervised setting, we also demonstrate that SpliceOut can complement unsupervised representation learning with performance gains in the semi-supervised and self-supervised settings.
I thought of it more as a bunch of ideas, than some kind of scientific evidence of what works.
Unless there's a bug in the JIT compiler, managed code can't accidentally write into another process's memory or jump to an arbitrary address, meaning that when an application goes off the rails it only crashes itself.
I mean this post is literally it. Look at the talk page of literally any remotely politicized article and you will see a consistent, massive power imbalance in one direction, enforced with implicit conflations like the one you're making with your reference to dog whistling.

Given the wide range of policies on which the American left and right differ, "perspective" is an appropriate and unloaded term.
Perhaps you are offended my gall to suggest that we treat right and left leaning perspectives on equal footing, but there is no deception on my part here. There is far more to "right of center" than racism and so called whiteness, but reading from "authoritative" institutions like wikipedia, you'd never know it. And that's entirely due to bullying and bias from entrenched activist editors. It's telling that what is excluded under the guise of "trolling" almost exclusively leans in one direction.

It's not just wikipedia and it is disenfranchisement, to the degree that recent polls suggest approximately a majority of republicans and something like 35% of democrats are supposedly starting to look at balkanization/secession favorably. Is this really the path you want to go down?
Not going to lie, if I could enable stricter compile time conditions without debug mode that would be a very welcome RFC
FWIW I think that says more about SNL than Trump, just seems a bit crap really from my admittedly non-nostalgic European-elitist perspective.

If you've heard of the private eye, they had some very well observed pieces on trump e.g. Trump likes it when people call him an orange racist because it plays to his base, call him a poor businessman and a fraud and he's not so happy.

P.S. on the subject of trump, Michael Lewis's book "The fifth risk" is very good. It's a good insight into the man, his team, and basically everything you shouldn't do in their shoes.

My favourite piece of trivia from the above book is that Trump never fires anyone personally. The whole "Yuh fired"-schtick from the TV show is just pantomime.

He was also apparently unable to understand that money raised in his name to fund a transition team wasn't his own personally, which didn't exactly surprise me but should shatter any illusion of rationality.
Self-Assembling Wires
yeah but silicone will pick up microscopic details, so you will retain the grooves from your print doing it that way, which retain moisture, which gives bacteria a chance to grow.
I legitimately wonder how many people feel free from lock in after they finish paying $75k to Canonical for a 12 node OpenStack "private cloud build" (https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/d4766546-Private-Cloud-Build_Da...), not to mention ongoing support bills and billing for addons "starting at $25k".

Just because something is open source does not mean your org will actually have the expertise to be successful at running it yourself. That's how most "open source" projects like Kubernetes and OpenStack become so successful: the supporting orgs behind the project make lots of money charging companies for support and maintenance and issues that pop up with the setup.

There are many forms of lock in. Buying a big upfront investment that has to pay itself off for the next X years is a form of lock in. Paying for expensive professional consulting support to build out the system and keep the system up and running is a form of lock in. Or even worse, hiring or training expensive dedicated employees to learn the open source system and become the internal professional consultants for the rest of the org, that is also lock in.
> NixOS could be used to build reproducible containers

You absolutely can build docker images using Nix via dockerTools.buildImage [0].

[0]: https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images
In general you are right that the Java ecosystem is highly backwards compatible, but 9 is a bit of an exception. The module system breaks a lot more stuff than usual, and is the reason a lot of legacy is stuck on 8.
more than the movie character I suppose, they probably kept track of that during filming
the bees wax to smooth it instantly and painlessly.
At least for me, I never expected production code to be this bad until I spent a few years working professionally.

One company I worked at had poor code quality, but I chalked it up to poor engineering culture - a lot of outsourced crap code and no time dedicated to go back to clean it up.

Another company also had a code base with terrible quality but I figured it was because it was a startup and they were rushing to get features out.

None of the companies I've worked for are big ones, and I've always wondered if these levels of quality were the norm, and leaks like this really give me insight to what would otherwise be private code.

Of course, Twitch was also a startup so maybe this was a hack that made it into production as the author notes, although I don't imagine a better solution would've taken much more effort to implement.

Well you could also argue that I'm the common denominator here and the code isn't poor per se, it's just that my expectations were too high when coming into the professional scene - which is what I'm leaning towards currently - I don't really know what to think.
”The 996 work schedule has officially been made illegal. Firms relying on gig work have been ordered to improve pay and working conditions. The Housing ministry has capped annual rent increases at 5%. The $120 billion private education and tutoring industry was effectively killed off overnight.”

aand this is why China will win. The last time western governments had enough agency to do stuff like this was WW2.

Fully betting China will solve the youth fertility crisis within this decade. Be it via arranged marriages, algoritmic fuckery, or plain old tax hikes for not having children.
Wholeheartedly agree. Journalism is pretty much dead. In an age where you can research most things for yourself, it seems you also have to.
Automated Text message and Calendar integration
working on a simple Text-message and Calendar integration for our tennis group

1. Person texts a pre-defined number; response text should show 3 available day/time slots from a pre-defined Google calender
2. ask the person to press a number (1,2 or 3) to select an option, {or ask to enter HH:MM AM/PM} (none-available or other edge-cases can be addressed later)
3. Update the G calendar with person`s name and phone number and the selected slot
4. send a confirmation to the person 24 hours before the event

source of text: Whatsapp or iPhone text message (via iMessage) or Android text message (via Android Messaging) or Flip phone text messaging (older demographics)

Any help on how to create above integration and what low-code tools to use will be much appreciated!
Yikes, you broke the site guidelines incredibly badly in this thread, which unfortunately I didn't see at the time. Please don't post like this to HN again! That means not fulminating, not name-calling, not posting insinuations, and most of all not flaming. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28764935.
One related area where Python is not consistent is operators like +=.

In pretty much all other languages that have them, the expected behavior of A+=B is exactly the same as A=A+B, except that A is only evaluated once. Now lets look at lists in Python:

xs = [1, 2]
ys = xs
ys = ys + [3]
print(xs, ys)

This prints [1, 2] [1, 2, 3], because the third line created a new list, and made ys reference that. On the other hand, this:

xs = [1, 2]
ys = xs
ys += [3]
print(xs, ys)

prints [1, 2, 3] [1, 2, 3], because += changes the list itself, and both xs and ys refer to that same list.

(Note that this is not the same as C++, because in the latter, the variables store values directly, while in Python, all variables are references to values.)

The worst part of it is that Python isn't even self-consistent here. If you only define __add__ in your custom class, you can use both + and += with its instances, with the latter behaving normally. But if you define __iadd__, as list does, then you can do whatever you want - and the idiomatic behavior is to modify the instance!

For comparison, C# lets you overload + but not +=, and automatically synthesizes the latter from the former to enforce the correct behavior.
What we can really learn (or remind ourselves) is that code “quality” is rarely representative of company value.
Local pub, church, tech events ...

Charity events ... nothing works like working in a team for a charity.

Join a sports team ... darts, baseball, etc

Find a meetup group in your area for something you are curious about.
I believe Enemy at the Gates was a major blockbuster.
Sounds very much like a personal cult.
Gavin Andresen: A Possible BTC Future
yup can do that
I have the same question. The documentation does a good job presenting the language, but not the motive or sweet spot use case.
You are overestimating the "research shows" part, and no research shows that "natural immunity" is achieving a higher than 90% immunity against any infection.

Nor is it clear who actually has a "more effective" or even "sufficiently effective" immunity, given that the infection could be up to a year or more ago, and almost nobody knows exactly what strain they got. And no, you can't tell any of that easily, reliably or cheaply by antibody testing.

Proof of vaccination is the cheapest and most reliable proof of a reasonable chance of immunity.
So, if you have post-infection immunity against virus that you can prove (test blood reactivity against virus protein), and it's likely better than typical 2 doses (research shows), you should still be legally required to take 2 jabs even though there are often side effects, even serious ones?

Not OP, but if arguing against it is anti-vaxx, then I guess you should call me anti-vaxx and I'll call you unreasonable.
Really? Why do you say that? I use it extensively in large Electron apps. It's saved me from myself so many times and it makes JS so much more structured. I dunno, I think it adds things javascript missed because it was never intended to be such a significant language: it was designed for handling buttons and submitting forms, but it is so much more important than that today. It's the hands-down best cross-platform language in existence.
You broke the site guidelines badly with this flamewar. We ban accounts that behave that way, so please don't do anything like that again. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28822026.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28763252.
I Think is Good Option For Fast Charging and many more.
Carcinogens
Abandoned Juragua Nuclear Power Plant in Cuba
Just do the 8-11 upgrade first. The XML part has a lot of life left in it, still lots of advantages over attributes.
You can try EC2 Instance Connect, but I remember there being some use cases it won't work for (but I don't remember what they are).

You can use SSH Certificates, but management is kind of a pain. Not only the certs, but to do quasi-RBAC you'd need to configure the host to accept/deny certain certs for certain users to certain things, but that's still not really RBAC.

You could set up your hosts to use an LDAP server, but the LDAP server would be the central attack vector.

Honestly, Teleport is probably the only thing that provides a complete solution for what you want and more. I have tried to get my company to pay for it because it would save us so much time trying to cobble together something that's almost the same, but they balked.

This whole situation is really interesting to me. Nobody has invented a piece of technology to solve the problem we really want solved. We don't really want to "port forward through a bastion host", we want to grant specific users limited access to a private network. I think what would solve this is an SSO-authenticated Wireguard that can forward to arbitrary Wireguards - does anyone know if that's a thing?
From the guidelines[0]:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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You get out of it what you put into it. Don't just follow the instructions, find out what everything is and what it does, why the instructions are what they are and why they are in the order they are. Maybe learn make and autotools. And for the person with way too much time on their hands, read the manual for each. For the retired or student on break, read some of the source code.
Plausible deniability indeed.
Hey, I'm a CS major who just finished a systems programming class in C++, and was looking to learn more of it, specifically how it's used in bigger projects (this one happens to be one that I use everyday). I really cannot express how thankful I am that this exists, thank you so much for taking the time to make this!
> [...] the person who chose to use the phrase "Linux commands" doesn't really know what they're doing.

I'm quite certain they know pretty well what they are doing. To catch people's attention, you need to use "their" language. People will search for "linux command" more often than for "posix command". And it's totally fine to use that in the description, just to make it more precise in the Readme.
Thanks for posting this.

This is a work in progress and definitely isn't at the point where, for example, a Ubuntu user with little technical background could switch over easily.

As many commenters have pointed out, users will still be questioning which options they should change to accomplish a goal and will need to use a search engine.

To alleviate these problems, our next major step is "Guided Configuration"[0]. This will allow users to select a task (e.g. add a user, add a group, configure your desktop environment, configure sound, configure bluetooth, etc) and be provided a list of options relevant to the task.

Additionally "Recommended Options"[1] will inform users of options relevant to their current configuration which they have yet to define.

There are a few other smaller changes in the works to help with usability, and I'm open to suggestions for how we might continue to improve UX and make configuring NixOS intuitive.

Also, if you've used Nix-Gui, please consider filling out the UX Survey: https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/129

[0] https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/77
[1] https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/21
Sometimes what works is the right choice. Duct tape doesn't look nice but it gets the job done and fast.
Where does it say it’s proprietary? I looked (albeit while on my phone) and count find it. Is that on another site?

The reason I ask is because I wonder if it’s truly proprietary or just fell under their early release license and someone missed something while prepping the release.
So many come to mind, I could write a whole article about it.

None of them have an acceptable side effect profile, many of them can potentially cause persistent inability to have sex to the point where not even megadoses of pde5 inhibitors help.

I strongly advise against ever taking SSRI or 5ari for this purpose. They are now known to cause persistent ED in susceptible individuals.
Classified tank specs leaked on War Thunder game forums again
It does make for some amusing code golf techniques, e.g.:

print([
f"{(not x % 3) * 'Fizz'}{(not x % 5) * 'Buzz'}" or x for x in range(1, 20)
])
Ask HN: What's Up with Palantir
There's a lot of misinformation going about Palantir since they went public.

Any news on them?

Former threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646587

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1460663
This book https://www.bookdepository.com/Life-Is-Tough-But-So-Are-You-... has a ton of great recommendations coming from someone who has cancer.

The main thing is just showing up and doing little things that will be helpful - like clean their place if it’s messy, make them a few meals, talk with them, etc
I always appreciate it when folks write about their humanity, in this venue.

Of course, everyone will have their opinion, as to the "validity" or whatever, of what people share here, and I can't always say that I'm thrilled with what these folks write, when they share their humanity, but I'm still glad they do it.

Despite all the technology, infrastructure, money, and culture, the basic work unit in technology is always a human, and humans are complex, emotional creatures. Our relationships with each other, and the teams we build, are what make great product and endeavors.

I have nothing to share about, regarding this chap's journey. We have had different paths in our lives, and I don't really relate too much to this article. I have liked other articles that he's written.