skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I back on Reddit? Such ivory tower elitism is what's wrong with intellectual authoritarians. 80% of litigants in my country are self-represented. You are showing elitism towards them.

Also if you read that post you dug up carefully, I wasn't asking for "how to use software to write a lawsuit". I was asking what alternatives to Google Docs and Word do lawyers use. Those are 2 very different things.

And you are agreeing with the person who clearly incorrectly thought of the wrong word even though I said "4 letter word". So you are okay with misinformation for your agenda. Nuance and facts are clearly not an expertise as you missed in my original comment.
Well lets see how well that attitude works out for them. They are barely addressing the problem currently so unless some serious changes are made governments will simply force their hand and compel real moderation of the content they allow as a media company.

No one HAS to look at gore or CP in their feed, they can block that "friend". So why does Facebook bother to remove such content (rhetorical question, i realise the implications of them allowing CP)?
"places" uninhabitable is not the same as the planet being uninhabitable, as the parent post claimed. Parts of the planet have been uninhabitable for ages.
So, instead of reading a keyword, you had to memorise the names of a couple dozen symbols and their meanings. Not impossible, but not great.
Which elections weren’t “real”?
And while those stories are interesting to hear, I don’t know why they so often make it to the top or near it. Like is one PM being bad at listening to user feedback really the most interesting topic of discussion for this post?
I've listened to the two interviews you have published, and I intend to work my way through your publications. I'm currently in love with OCaml, but I'm resolving that D should be my next language. Funnily enough, I'd already downloaded it a few months ago; I have a dedicated flash drive for storing compilers, it was a very pleasant surprise to find Walter Bright already chilling in my memory.

I loved the podcast you did with Alexandrescu on GoingNative! The two of you said that you want D to have a million users; how does user accumulation work in programming languages? Intuitively, I'd expect linear growth until some critical point, and exponential thereafter. Do you agree? if so, what do you think that critical mass might be?

Also, on that same podcast, the host evaluated that D is ready for the million users you're shooting for. Do you have any plans to open a software shop or a consultancy to bring D into the industry? I've seen certain other language organizations, like the Haxe folks, do similar.

With regards to D-Lang: why do you ask that contributors assign copyright to you for improvements made to dmd? Is that just so you control the code-base?

Finally, I'd love to see a section of low-hanging fruit for novice contributors to work on. Whatever incentive it's worth: I will personally commit to fulfilling at least one item of any such list, if and when it should ever be published.

I'll be following D-Lang much more closely, I'm very excited to see how it evolves!
Old Programming Languages never die, they just fade away.
> Not for using the clock no, charging people for reading time would be ridiculous

Agree, what about the other tools on the website, that is using the new time format you've created, are they within the patent too? It's really unclear what the patent is covering, and unfortunately your comment didn't help.
The actual truth is that kids will value whatever adults tell them to value. If critical thinking were an important part of early educations, kids would care about it.
Columbus never even set foot in North America. He "discovered" some islands in the Caribbean and Bahamas.

The narrative of Columbus "discovering" the land that would become the United States has never been anything but propaganda[0].

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/15/columbus-n...
No, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the US are booked as indefinitely lived intangibles.

That means that if the asset falls below their most recently booked price at any point in the quarter, they are required to book an impairment charge in the amount of the drop. If it goes up, they cannot book the profit until they sell.
If your platform is to silence speech so your preferred world view is not questioned you are on the wrong side.
Darkplates 2.0 Checkmate, Lawyers
The top ranked port is Yokohama. Do you think Japan is worse in the regards that you listed than the United States?
How does Apple's profit compare to every other cell phone maker?

And how does Tesla's profit compare to every other car manufacturer?

Clearly Tesla is very early in their journey, and their valuation and PE is wildly different from Apple, they're not even in the same ballpark. The equivalent in Apple's trajectory would be Apple being valued in 2008 say after the promising iPhone launch at almost 1 trillion, does that sound reasonable to you? In fact they were valued in 2008 at 80 billion, 1/10 of Tesla at present.

I think it's too high, the parent thinks it's too high, and even Elon Musk thinks the valuation is too high (as he said twice earlier this year).
Yes. Meaningless. 1492? Very meaningful.

One of the most important feats if not the most important of what we used to call the Age of Exploration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery

This led to global trade that changed the face of the earth. It opened philosophical debates about human rights, the legality of wars, etc., which are still important today.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-salamanca/#IusGent...

These debates led to the prohibition of American Indian slavery in... 1542!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws

The first recorded christian marriage in current United States was an interracial union in 1565!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_Am...

I could go on an on.
The government's strategy is probably a result of it being easier to maintain an advantage by keeping weapons secret than by distributing defences to only the good guys.

It would be interesting to speculate how close we are to replacing all networked services with provably secure implementations (like the work of Project Everest[0]). Of course there's no such thing as perfect security (or perfect proofs), but I think we are close to reaching the point where attacking implementation flaws is less fruitful than attacking the software supply chain.

In fact, we may already have reached that point, so I think that efforts to secure the supply chain (like sigstore[1]) and potential government efforts to attack it (like recent changes to iOS and Android[2]) deserve more focus.

[0] https://project-everest.github.io/

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/introducing-sigstore...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27176690
there are png optimizer programs, e.g. optipng
impairment means decreased in value on the books
If it isn't good then what does that make the failed alternatives? While both money and bullshit talk, actual ability takes action and gets results.

Communism is an outright religion - there is no experimentalism, outcomes are preordained, and no results may change the assumptions. The only thinking is telological. If anybody pays X for a product and sells it for X + Y where Y is greater than zero it is automatically exploitation by their conveniently loaded definitions.

1. The idea that loaning it out isn't providing any value in itself is objectively wrong. If it provides no value is ridiculous in even a preindustrial economy - let alone an industrialized one where economies of scale and large capex are why markets wind up dominated by big players.

2. The idea that it is a small monopoly is also objectively wrong - money is fungible and it doesn't matter if you get one million in a loan from one entity or ten thousand ones. Even if we accept the standards of morality "if it is a good thing" is irrelevant a question as asking if it is a good thing that vehicles use electricity or break down fuels to move. Those are the mechanisms by which it works - we don't have an option of movement without expending energy. Similarly if you ask for all loans to be free to avoid "exploitation" there is no reason to lock up the money in delays and put it at risk.
I think this really captures my view on the stock. There is one electric car in outer space right now, one premium brand. Everyone else is going to be in a race over market share and Tesla has a shot to keep high margins and use those margins to keep finding its lead.
Renewable power doesn't displace coal elsewhere. It's a fairy tale.
They don't have to, they just have to buy it

Edit: yeah, what you said.
Okay I did a bit of research along the line you said. From what I can find it seems the basis of Finland's school system is that not all students are equal. Report cards are based on individualized grading by each teacher. (https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-am...)

The idea behind banning gifted/special programs is to treat all students equally with equal opportunity and the same curriculum. Individualized grading by the teacher completely violates this idea.

So I am still unsure what point you are trying make. Based on my research Finland clearly rejects that notion of teaching and grading everyone the same.
What about this makes you think that? Microsoft cares about getting Android _users_, I don't think they care that much about the Android OS beyond their rather poor implementation on the Surface Duo.
The entire reply to my question at this time:

>” For myself, why should I care about other peoples use case. That's irrelevant”

I didn’t actually expect them to be so blunt and honest about the impact on anyone aside from themselves being irrelevant. That reply really speaks for itself and needs no response.
I don’t develop on the Apple stack, but is that true?

I just try to never jump on stacks that are more PR than developer success stories such as the UWP.
According to this tweet, Tether has over 1.62 billion USDT to get through before it needs to print.

https://twitter.com/realpauleverton/status/14508758913624350...
A Talos workstation?

But the question is moot because GPUs have proprietary firmware, and NVidia drivers that give you CUDA are also closed-source.

Maybe air-gapping your sensitive machines is a more viable approach for ML.
Unfortunately this plague of bland boxes has come to my neighborhood. Internal volume is more valued than neighborhood aesthetics. It seems there's a correlation between these boxes and people never leaving the house but to work.
With react native you can create windows and macos native application. I never try the API but they are there.
You mean the most profitable company in the entire world?
Predicting spreadsheet formulas from semi-structured contexts
I remember our G&T program (Aus.) was just ten kids sitting in the library doing puzzles, tests, spelling bees and playing Wii bowling. It was a bit underwhelming. It was fun, but I couldn’t see the point. I wouldn’t want it to be dismantled though. Anything beat the other classes.
Which airplanes are on the market today that require leaded gas? Specifically which power plants?
There is a possibility that this was known much earlier than the 14th century. St. Brendan may have been speaking about the americas as early as 500 AD.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan
Interesting read: https://www.amazon.com/Brendan-Voyage-Sailing-America-Explor...
Platform for musicians to help learning new songs and organize setlists
Hi everyone,

I'm a programmer and also a musician in my free time. I have been teaching myself music for about 10 years and decided to create a platform to help other to learn new songs on their own.

With this in mind, I created the Eager Musician platform!

The platform has a method that consists in 5 simple steps:

1. Listen to the song repeatedly;
2. Watch video covers;
3. Watch video lessons;
4. Read song tabs/chords;
5. Play along a backing track.

I have been using this method for almost every song that I learned. It works very well!

The platform also focus on organization: you can create setlists and organize your songs in a kanban board with columns To Learn, Learning and Learned.

The song page also has many interesting facts about the song, like a brief description with interesting facts about the song and lyrics, who is the writer, who play each instruments and so on. For me, it's a very interesting feature, because when I discover something cool about the song that I'm learning, my perspective about it changes completely.

The first version of the platform is almost finished and will be released as soon as possible.

Feel free to leave your feedback!
i mostly agree with this but I think the philosophical position might have an impact on how open one is to new methods in mathematics.

If one holds the view that mathematical objects can be understood as 'language games' rather than real ontological objects I think it creates a more pragmatic view on what is permissible, what constitutes a proof, whereas I think the more Platonic views might make someone more purist in how they approach maths.
> Exist or not exist, why does it matter?

Yes, that's exactly how pragmatists[1] answer the question. It depends entirely on what you mean by exists and what you mean by exists always depends on what you're trying to do, i.e. your goal. That's what the whole squirrel* anectdote that William James came up with was about.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism

* The squirrel thing is in section 1 of the linked article.
This is almost already a thing, and if this does happen, it will surely be an extension of "Game mode":

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/games-apps/game-setup-an...
I find the PS3 historically interesting partially because the convoluted architecture was a natural evolution of Sony's continuing steps to make developing for their consoles harder and harder, driven partially by their arrogance at past success.

The PS1 was basically a repackaged project from their Nintendo partnership. They didn't really have time to develop proper development tools for it, and almost as a consequence of that, the development environment was very scrappy - it hooked into existing PCs and included a bunch of libraries that developers were somewhat familiar with using. As a result, the developer toolset was relatively easy to use. It allowed many developers to get started making 3D games and experiences very quickly. This caused developers to be swayed to the Playstation ecosystem early, and drove all 3D resources into Playstation development away from the Sega Saturn, which had the typically convoluted development environment from past generations (further exacerbated by Sega bolting together additional chips onto the Saturn to try to compete with the PS1).

PS2 came along, and Sony was already deviating from their easy to use console debut. Their "emotion engine" was notoriously hard to develop for, but Sega with the Dreamcast didn't have the legs to compete with Sony's momentum from the PS1, and quit the console business. Nintendo also screwed the pooch that generation with the Gamecube and Microsoft didn't seem to be a threat with the Xbox which was a major flop in Japan.

Along comes PS3, and Sony goes full speed ahead on their hubris - expensive console, impossible to develop for, an architecture somewhat reminiscent of Saturn's hodge podge of chips. At this point they completely lost their way from what made the PS1 set them up for multi-generations of success.

It's interesting to consider how the ecosystem matters when developing these hardware products, and how easy it seems for companies to lose sight of that.
After Amazon and Alphabet, my money is on Aardvark.
> what if something else is using that object and we're mutating it?

You're probably aware that in Rust we have other, better safeguards against that, and you were probably talking about languages like Java and C++ where you don't, but I thought I'd mention it in case someone reading the thread doesn't know that.
This is my position as well. Maybe not stadia specifically, but something on that axis.

The edge is going to eventually get so close that no one is going to care. As a person who enjoys competitive gaming, I would be more than happy to surrender local simulation for a guarantee that no one has access to more information than I do.

The path Riot has taken is never going to work. The most devastating user experiences are going to hide in the shadows of "world's best antihacks". The best hackers will continue to be undetectable because they use other external computers and low-level hardware magic that doesnt give a shit about TPM or other measures. All someone really needs to do is break whatever encryption exists on the network stack to gain access to 100% of the available information regarding other participants.

The only solution is restricting the theoretical information at the source. Nothing else could ever be trusted by any participant.
I've mentioned this before but I would again advocate for a subscription based FPS with a seriously low subscription price - then ban people by CC number. Sure, some people can infinitely cycle CC numbers - but most people can't.

The farmers will continue to find work-arounds if farming is profitable, but honestly, wtf is farming doing in an FPS - that's a bad design decision. Just let people play the game and enjoy stand alone sessions.
Full steam ahead.
How? By completing much larger manufacturing plants in Europe and Texas for end of year 2021, I guess.

And making their own battery cells in each plant.

And converting the Tilburg assembly line into another stationary energy storage factory. And researching locations for a few other new plants in 2023 as per Elon. And opening negotiations with India (as per Reuters, today).

Sounds solid to me.
Yes, but they continued the Buddhism tradition (orally). The Vikings did not continue commercing and tell other people... hey! there are humans in this place! its a new continent!
Yup. In my view not super meaningful for the co’s holding bitcoin.

In, say, Microstrategy’s case, the market has entirely ignored any impairment announcements. This has been sensible I think.

(The market also has Microstrategy well overvalued compared to its holdings, but that’s another matter)
Additionally, anyone reading about C++/WinRT shouldn't be fooled about "modern" references.

The team that pushed it over C++/CX, brought back ATL style development, without any kind of IDL tooling support on Visual Studio, and after C++ files get generated by the XAML and midl compilers, it is on us to merge the files manually.

Whereas C++/CX provided an experience similar to C++ Builder or Qt, but politics, and now it is deprecated, while C++/WinRT team seems to be quite happy reliving the ATL/WRL experience.
Stadia will only ever be a niche and honestly should not have been launched. You can point out the fatal flaw with two words: "input lag".

No one who cares about actions-per-second or reaction times is ever going to seriously use Stadia.

Now is there a market for more casual users who don't care about that, want to play games and don't want to have their own hardware? Maybe? But I'm not seeing any evidence it's anything more than a niche.

You could probably play Civilization that way. FPSs? MOBAs? Not so much.
It's generally accepted now that more diversity has multiple business benefits, from IC level up to board of directors. And paid referrals tend to attract similar demographics and backgrounds. I only have anecdotal data.

I honestly didn't read the article, Google can give you more info/data than I can. I vaguely recall HBR has had some good articles on it the last couple of years.
You also had millions of years for diseases to evolve to infect people in the Old World. Then there were fairly small populations that traveled to the New World. If they didn't bring the diseases with them, there was only about 10,000 years for disease evolution, and a much smaller population for much of that time.
At scale at current margins, Tesla will be substantially more profitable than traditional car makers.
Yeah people forget that Docker is built to run on Linux. That is why it exists. You deploy your containers onto a Linux host that runs docker for containerization, that is the point.

The reason we have Docker for Windows and Mac is so that developers can emulate the docker environment for testing and building purposes. But ultimately it is expected that you will take your container and eventually deploy it on Linux. So Docker will always be a second class citizen on these other OS's because it is just there for emulation purposes.
Best bet is to use the APIs that standards/compilers guarantee things about. The compiler is totally free to optimize volatile variables under very specific situations. Volatile has a very specific definition, but it does not mean “compiler is not allowed to optimize this”.

Trying to structure code to trick the compiler is a bad idea. The compiler authors know the standard better than you and eventually the compiler will exploit your misunderstanding.
It seems Apple thinks it _can_ map the essential ones to the GPU, though. If they didn’t, there would be more CPUs and less powerful other hardware.

‘Rather annoying’ certainly doesn’t have to be a problem. Apple can afford to pay engineers lots of money to write libraries that do that for you.

The only problem I see is that Apple might (and likely will) disagree with some of their potential customers about what functionality is essential.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say it's a trap. The debate is "current model + gifted programs" vs. "current model with no gifted programs", not abstract pedagogy - NYC is currently executing on that second option, and multiple other school systems have announced similar plans. I completely agree that gifted programs are a band-aid for a poorly designed school system, and in an ideal world special interventions wouldn't be required to let students learn at a faster pace, but that doesn't mean the debate on whether we should or shouldn't have the band-aid is unimportant.
Build factories outside of China?
Interestingly, the iPhone's A15 SOC did get a newer version of Apple's big core this year.

>On an adjacent note, with a score of 7.28 in the integer suite, Apple’s A15 P-core is on equal footing with AMD’s Zen3-based Ryzen 5950X with a score of 7.29, and ahead of M1 with a score of 6.66.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...

On floating point, it's slightly ahead. 10.15 for the A15 vs. 9.79 for the 5950X.
Sorry, I think you meant to reply to this post with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28935095
Newfoundland is an island and it was, at best, extremely sparsely populated when the Vikings arrived. According to Wikipedia [1] the estimated local population when Europeans arrived in 1497 was 700 (that's on an area only slightly smaller than England). So I'm thinking that contacts were very limited and the potential for any disease to spread minimal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)#First_in...
Thanks for the feedback! What are the confusing part except for the tabs? I'd love to work on that and improve it.
My reaction to Alphabet was, "If you wanted to look like supervillains who planned to own everything in the world from A to Z... that would be how you'd do it. Was that intentional? I don't understand what else they might have intended."
The chief political risks are from the USA, not China:

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/19/president-bidens-pick-f...

https://electrek.co/2021/09/29/elon-musk-calls-out-biden-con...