skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to the US, which has routinely executed kids aged 15+, and still kills mentally disabled, and people caught while black often with BS charges -- and also has things like "three strikes for life" -- to this day?

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

I mean, sure, never go there again, and tsk tsk those who anchor their startups there. But not from the US/S.V. glasshouse. If you want to be consistent, you can come here and tsk tsk both Singapore and US while anchoring your startup in E.U, which has long been done with the death penalty.
Looking just at the "syntax" to discard or like something is very naive in my opinion.

Thinks such as the performance, the reactivity model, the "gotchas", the ecosystem, the libraries, the tooling, etc are far, far, far more important than "I like IFs done this way".

This is the same thing as when people discard Tailwind because "I don't like reading that many classes". There's so much more behind it to like or dislike it.
Probably for the same reason you sometimes see unfinished drywall in basements and attics.
Gnome is an excellent desktop. It's focused on serious minimalism, accesiblity and on getting-the-heck-out-of-your-way when you are doing stuff.

Lovin' it. I'm very happy they broke away from the 'traditional interface paradigms'. I always have to suppress a giggle when I see people using other desktop juggling their windows, playing "Window Manager" all the time.

Gnome gets rid of that. Just use all app in full screen and never touch your mouse again.
I feel sorry for those in the US. You have made a miserable new normal for yourselves (and, as you say, despite everyone dutifully wearing masks and getting vaccinated, and now having the option of an effective treatment).
> They put their "step-by-step" explanations behind a [login/pay]wall which made it significantly less useful.

Maybe, but what else can do step-by-step explanations? Perhaps octave?
Generally yes when they leave it to the professional educators. The problem is when politicians start meddling like all the conservative laws in response to the current CRT panic.
This right here. Mandates are hypocritical and people are supposed to blindly accept that. It is hard to even bring it up in certain circle without automatically labeled a right-wing anti-vaxer Nazi who deserves to die.
Hydrogen - Boron fusion is a really good thing, if it can be achieved. It requires high temperatures, but is aneutronic [1], only producing electrons which can easily be siphoned off to directly power an electrical grid:

Proton – Boron-11: 1p + 11B → 3 4He + 8.7 MeV

This means it doesn't create radioactive waste or have the metal brittling problems that neutronic (H-H or H-D) fusion has.

Some groups [2][3] think the high temperatures can be achieved in small plasma bubbles without large amounts of magnetic confinement, making for small and inexpensive reactors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

[2] https://lppfusion.com/technology/dpf-device/

[3] https://hb11.energy/how-it-works/
Unity, as I remember it, was insanely laggy and unperformant
It lacks a GC however, which Haskell has for a reason.
Location: Minneapolis, mostly (Greece occasionally and until March...)

Remote: Preferred - Twin Cities companies welcome though
Relocate: No

FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, always open to contracts. Couldn't start FT until at least Jan 1. Open for short-medium term contracts always.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, ops (heroku/aws/ansible/docker), CI/CD, testing, API design, integrations/plumbing. Some: Python, Elm, IoT stuff, machine learning

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Senior full-stack dev (lean more towards devops->backend than backend->frontend, but I can still sling some React components together and reduce your JS payload size). Lately

I've been loving Stimulus Reflex and playing with a lot of micropython/ESP32 stuff lately.

I excel at figuring out how to solve problems at all levels of abstraction (including what level of abstraction you should use), getting a solution in place, and then figuring out the feedback loops to iterate on that solution. I'm the senior engineer that knows that most coding is coming to an understanding of what problem you are trying to solve. Sometimes the most impactful code is the code you don't write.

Trying to change the world, still parsing the source code. I've been programming on the web since 1995, had a first career as a social worker and policy statistician, and have worked full-time as a programmer for almost a decade now.
Especially enjoy API/architechture design, integrating with crappy systems, user research, and really weird bugs. Make a decent PM in a pinch, but would prefer you have great PMs.
Will give you more looks if you can tell me why what you are doing makes the world better, but you've got to really believe it in your heart.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/estiens/

Email: hello_from_hn@ericstiens.dev
I think that's the point. "My internet speed is fast enough that it is not the cause of slowness, so any delay is all on Wolfram|Alpha."
That's what I assumed, until I saw "we are live-aboard ourselves"

Addis Ababa is a significant way inland, and indeed Eithiopia is landlocked.
I can see it for Part C, but why A and B? If someone's been charged and done whatever was required to be free enough that they can fly, then that should be the end of it. Especially things on that list. If treason isn't enough for the government to execute them or lock them up and throw away the key, then it shouldn't matter to the TSA.
This is the old narrative and it’s wrong. Physical addiction is an exceedingly small part of the problem. And most cases of physical addiction are brought on by continued use which is almost always brought on by the cause of addiction which has been shown to be emotional and psychiatric problems.
I think you hit it spot on.
Don’t use DB providers that charge for rows/data scanned. Use Amazon RDS or Google Cloud SQL or just install it yourself on a VM. Pay for CPU, memory, and storage instead.
With no animals to help and no wheels... Every bit of soil had to be rolled by hand and every product carried by foot.

...it was most definitely worse than others.
For trivial functions, I'd rather just copy them into my source code.
The public is everyone, citizen or not, taxpayer or not.
Real estate is extremely pricey and the number one priority for a university in the US is making money. We have a lot of universities here with 50k, 60k, even 70k students enrolled, so you're either packing people in close and forgoing things like windows for a lot of residents, or building a lot of sprawling housing. One is obviously much more affordable for a college student in the US.
> I'm not entirely sure why buzz around "developer learns basic knowledge" has this on the front page.

The problem is that in the old days, not knowing about indexes left you with an underperforming system or downtime. But in The Cloud™ it leaves you with an unreasonably huge bill and that somehow as an industry we're accepting this as normal.
sucrose can be a great battery.

It's biodegradable, relatively cheap, dissolves in water (unlike oils) and has a high energy density.

1kg of sucrose has an energy density that is equivalent to 4kW.
A typical daily power consumption of a family home is ~ 11kW
It means that we can power an entire house with ~ 3kg of table sugar.
Something tells me they can get away with paying a bit less and still attract experienced candidates who would like to work at a small company with a mission they believe in while working in their preferred language/framework.
Hi is there other react19 groups in other countries like in NZ. Would this group promote setting up other similar groups in other western countries like NZ
Well it's certainly pretty but here's my cynical take. People do understand we aren't going to be living literally in Waterworld, right? Even if both of the dang ice caps melt entirely, there'll still be plenty of dry land (with a great ocean view!) in Kansas. Relocating inland in many cases is bound to be cheaper and easier than trying to live on the high seas. I do appreciate the thinking outside the box, though.
I think Google search doesn't include the special symbols, so it's like searching "48 6".
Ime, companies that have an environment of terror-by-default generally know, and brand it is "high expectations" or "fast paced work environment".

Sometimes they back that up with high pay, and in those cases, perhaps it's fair enough. Oftentimes though, it is not.
I wish people would stop treating Dvorak like it's God's gift to every typist on earth.

(Sorry, just joking, could not resist :P)
> success of former soviet countries in Maths [...] there appears to be a difference in how schooling handles suffering/frustration in those cultures

I agree with what you wrote, but there is yet another part of the puzzle, various extracurricular educational activities. Things like the International Mathematical Olympiad, which during its first two decades was mostly an Eastern Bloc thing; or the Russian popular-science magazine for kids, Kvant.

I suspect that these extracurricular activities were more responsible for the peak math performance in former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that whatever was happening at schools. Mere school knowledge was never enough to win the math olympiad.

Going further, the reason why so much energy was spent in this direction, was that mathematics and physics were the only sciences that you could do in former soviet countries without risk of accidentally saying something politically incorrect and bringing doom on yourself and your family. (As far as I know, there was nothing in math comparable to e.g. Lysenkoism in biology. And humanities were pure ideology.) The smart people couldn't become entrepreneurs anyway, so many of them enjoyed teaching math and physics; it provided them a parallel universe they could escape to.
I think there’s a strong linkage in America’s history of both slavery and explicitly modeling our image as continuing some kind of tradition from Rome & Ancient Greece. Slavery can’t be so bad if the governments we view as inspiration practiced it, just as many white Americans will downplay the horrors of the American system rather than fully acknowledge what their ancestors profited from.
>My whole extended family runs on vanilla Fedora. Even my two surviving grandparents use Gnome as their desktop.

And then everyone stood and started clapping
The problem isn't selling (there's plenty of dubious or badly-priced products being around), it's that someone thought buying said product was a good idea.
My laptop was capable of upgrading to Win11 and WSLg was my main motivation. I like the mix of Windows and Linux and having Linux graphics and pulseaudio mixed in with native Windows. This most likely wouldn't be described as a "consumer feature". More important for me are some opencv projects I have: You get access to your GPU compute. I can install CUDA+DNN on my WSL2 Debian. This is compelling IMO.

An option you can consider by sticking with Win10 is to either wait for Win10 21H2 or join the Insider Program Preview to get it now. Win10 21H2 gives you GPU compute access (no graphics or pulseaudio). On an older machine, I was able to build opencv-4.5 and leverage CUDA+DNN just like on Win11.

EDIT: Win10 21H2 should be released this month. The fact that it is in the Preview Channel means it's most likely a final build.
An example user page is my page here:

https://keyoxide.org/4af679d0aba0ed4b07bf7b6932ca3267c8d187d...

Keyoxide is a really nice, but difficult to set up, tool
This is what a I thought too. A classical case of projection through accusation.

"All narcissists tell on themselves" https://medium.com/@OwnYourReality/projection-the-narcissist...
If I didn't include that note, someone would say "Is is slow because you're on 56kbps dial-up?"
You might like this little toy website I made a couple of years ago:

https://interesting-anniversaries.com/

From my readme:

“Have you ever wanted to know when you turn 2 billion seconds old? How about 33,333,333 minutes old? When do you get to celebrate your 555,555th hour of life? As it turns out, all three of those milestones occur in the same 24-hour period!”
Cellular Automata in F#
If only there was some way to contribute to the english wiki (article or search) when you are lucky enough to understand the (better) german one...

:-)
Ezra Kliens new book why we are divided asserts that rationality is also an emergent phenomena, individuals post hoc justify even smart ones.
then I am reminded of the nietsche quote about groups being mad and indivuals rational. both positions have good supporting evidence and show we need more specificity, and need to talk about a distribution not just an average.

I suspect there are pronounced peaks accross different group sizes where rationality is more emergent, and of course it depends on lot of factors: subject matter, groups homogeneity, expertise, connectivity probably this is a game theory field of study.

I think luskin's citizens assembly research showed that a few hundred people from a culture, without any prior training, could with the help of domain experts make seemingly excellent policy decisions about difficult moral and technical issues.
Sounds like adult immaturity.
> To compare: the US occupation of Afghanistan cost about this much per year, but that budget has been freed up.

It has not. Do you think we downsized our military after leaving?
You'd be surprised and frustrated. If you ever see someone say "We hired Oracle consultants and they are miracle workers" or "NoSQL is sooo much faster than SQL" you can be pretty sure they missed databases 101 and the requirement to add indexes.
Please can a group like this be set up in all western countries ie NZ
Have you seen kids these days? Video games are an addictive substance like cigarettes or alcohol.

(Yes, I know you played Mario Brothers as a child and turned out fine. So did I. But the stuff we had back in the day is extremely tame and weak compared to the hard stuff they peddle today.)
It is pure speculation but I don’t believe Epic’s Verse language will be a functional programming language.

Verse is more intended for Blueprint people and there is no way people working on the Blueprint code will be able to move into functional programming.

Also I don’t get the investment into Verse language itself, why not just fund LuaJit, do we really need another scripting language when LUA nailed some many things right?

I guess Epic will craft a pretty fast scripting language and try to lock game developers to their own ecosystem.
You can read it. It is a public document.
List of Food Contamination Incidents
Yes. The difference between fossil fuels and fission is so gigantic that compared to fossil and fusion it really doesn't matter.

Fission actually has the cheaper more abundance fuel source.

Fission is technically much, much easier.

I really don't understand the money we waste on fusion, with that money we could have build viable fission thermal breeders that could have solved all energy our problems long ago.

Unless your trying to build fusion rockets for interstellar probes, fission is preferable in almost every situation.
Could you point out what they got wrong?
Used a lot by math students to check answers.
Don’t forget the salt!
>Then you're under-informed.

Always an excellent (if mis-spelled) rejoinder, if the burden of proof is on you, and you are failing to meet it.

>They literally introduced laws

You've claimed this 5 or 6 times in this sub-thread, and yet I've not seen a single reference or link. Here, you link to "fatherly.com", which I will not visit. Link to something reputable, ideally the law itself, or major news coverage of the law.

>210 fatalities and 15,000 injuries

I know a case is weak when they start quoting absolute numbers at me on national issues. The order-of-magnitude of people in the US is 10^8. 200 dead is close to the noise floor on unlikely death. Literally 1-in-a-million. It's like the number of people that die from snake bites and shark attacks and lightning strikes.

>No mirror is showing you where you need to see to avoid these fatal accidents.

Here's where you get to the actual danger of what you are saying. Because screens do not come without considerable cost, not just in terms of hardware, but in terms of distraction. Do you think the number of fatalities caused directly or indirectly by screen-use-while-driving will exceed 200? (I would bet it's at 20k right now).

BTW I will carve out an exception - it's probably a good idea to have a dedicated backup screen, as with a 3rd party dashcam you can install yourself. However this is a very different beast than the center console infotainment center that, for that brief moment it becomes vital safety equipment, becomes a massive, constant, deadly liability to the safety of everyone within eyeshot.
These tools of analysis should be used for self reflection and not for explaining positions and behaviors of others that you don’t really understand at all.
Can We Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs. Gillian Tett
Well if that's the design I'd say just add 10 feet between the houses. Now every common space and 1/4 of the bedrooms can have windows.
They have tried to contribute to gnome. Non of their patches get accepted, pop_os currently ships with a fork of gnome. One of the reasons for this new DE, is because they have tried to contribute to gnome, and failed. And if they are going to have to maintain their own fork anyways, they might as well make their own thing.
As someone who just signed up for an open university this semester, I'd love to hear opinions about Octave and Maxima for general purpose use. Especially for study, such as replacing Wolfram Alpha's step-by-step solutions.

I'm a Linux user and prefer an open-source solution. But I have no objection to paying a reasonable amount of money for a good commercial solution. Maybe Maple is worth looking at?
A single tennis-ball sized thorium ball is enough for your whole live. I really like that visual.
C++ has const generics, and they seem to be a lot more powerful, as you can use expressions in template parameters, as long as they can be evaluated at compile time of course:

https://godbolt.org/z/7Tbzhx5Kc

Rust is a very nice language, but I feel they forgot to copy some useful features from other languages.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyB_7LdRh6c
Please compare with a modern competitor: json-patch-plus https://github.com/n1ru4l/graphql-live-query/blob/main/packa...

It’s a bit different, but I think it covers more cases.
I’m speculating. Perhaps this practice is common because it keeps the books clean on final payouts. Plus it allows the employee to finish any projects they’re working on during the week. Not 100% sure though.
Do we have archeological records of this prior to development of language?

Seems like a fairly complex tech to pass on without some fairly involved language?
Yes the non powered landing was the most profound part of flying lessons for me.
Fusion for interstellar travels only works if you have magical reactors that don't mass hardly anything.

ITER, if it could run continuously indefinitely, would take 300,000 years to fuse its own mass in fuel.

Beamed power makes more sense for that use case.
> which portrays itself unambiguously as the One True Way to manage human societies

I get it that you are not familiar with Marxism.
You'd need an out-of-country provider, you'd have to assume international calls aren't disconnected, and I do think you'll be disapointed with modem speeds over international circuits
"Not having a system where trains can pass each other usefully" is, from a european perspective, exceedingly strange.
UK's greenest and most innovative prison unveiled
Thread about companies upgrading to M1 Max MacBook 2021
Would it be possible for you to add a spending cap? The user should be able to tell your system "here's how much I want to spend max" and if they exceed that they start getting errors or reduced performance.
I'm a Vitess maintainer and I feel the same way. I don't plan to use any of the Online DDL because you'll have to pry my foreign keys out of my cold, dead hands. I understand the reasoning and limitations, but like you, the trade-off isn't worth it to me.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. I don’t want to publish bad versions of private commits. That’s a reason to rebase. I like cleaning up local changes before publishing, and I like it when other people do too. I want to understand and preserve the semantic content of changes, not some useless timestamped log of every keystroke.
Would you say that your username is PII? I sure can't identify you in the real world, but I can identify you as a real person.
I would consider it PII even if I know nothing else about you other than that I am talking to the same person.
You should search comments, rather than stories. It's very regularly referenced in HN comments, often for calculations, sometimes in other contexts.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> At this time, Rust is the only viable alternative to C and C++ in these domains.

No, it’s not. See Ada/Spark.
It's better than ads though.
It's still a bill authorizing a trillion dollars in spending. Of course it's spread out over time as it's for things that will need money over time rather than all at once.

But it's still a trillion dollars.
> Yes, Go, the Google language. Very surprising that it became mainstream.

It sure is. Dart, also a Google language, did not fare quite as well.
Glad you came here to say this because my takeaway was "What a terrifying pricing model. That would keep me up at night"
Thanks Sam! As mentioned in the post, the PlantScale team was quick to credit our account for the overages and help us figure out what was going on. I'm personally super bullish on PlanetScale!

With any new product there will be tradeoffs and rough edges but the positives, like easy migrations and database branches have definitely outweighed any difficulties.
25 years ago i built and ran a biggish database system that supported a reservation system.

Even given the limitations of the time (RDBMS cost, 9GB disks, Sun kit, etc), our cost of good sold for that type of workload was exponentially less. (At scale) Today, I could probably run that company off my MacBook Pro and have room to spare.

That said, the rationale for choosing this technology is cute: “After seeing a ton of the best GitHub engineers end up at PlanetScale and seeing the process GitHub went through to issue simple migrations, we chose to use their service.”

If you use the same methodology to choose a database that the public uses to choose between Bud Light, Miller Lite, and Coors Light, expect a suboptimal outcome.
Fiber to the basement, 1 to 10 gigabyte internet speeds?
Attempted robbery victim shoots, kills attacker in SF Haight-Ashbury
"fact"?
What is your point? Some sects of Marxist ideology, like Soviet Communism, do the exact same thing.
Nobody should try anything new in the DE space because more mature things have been established with far more engineering hours?

That's odd to me. You don't think they'll look at the design and learn from the advances made during those centuries of hours? That's hardly throwing it all away.
Thank you, seems interesting. Down into a rabbit hole again :)
FSecureLabs used a stack-based buffer overflow over an HP printer to plays AC/DC
> But Fortnite is a not a pay to win game.

No, but that's not the point.

The "addictive" factor comes from micro-transactions with randomized returns on investment ("loot boxes"). Kids get sucked into chasing the most valuable skins for characters, weapons, etc. This either results in them spending an inordinate amount of time playing the game (increasing odds of paying money) or just paying money directly to purchase in-game loot boxes that have fractional chances of dropping the rarest gear.

It's not "all games" that are problematic in this way; it is games which are monetized through micro-transactions with loot boxes. It's essentially legal gambling for kids, and it's absolutely a problem that we should be taking more seriously.