skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why didn't he replace each one of: "// 10 repetitive lines of math" with: "doRepetitiveMath()" ?

Sounds like he did a lot more than eliminate duplication, and perhaps that's what his boss was unhappy about.
Seems odd to talk about the early and pre-CIA (OSS) without mentioning one its most influential academic writers who is on almost every university syllabus today, and whose work essentially founded the movements that produced everything from Alinsky to intersectionality by studying and adapting the soviet and other european methods, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

Trumpism was a reaction to perceived cultural nihilism, which the CIA has earned popular credit for producing in its role as the O.G. american "deep state." Catholicism has always been state religion, so the base rate of anyone in govt being Catholic was already pretty high in those earlier years and I'd probably not attribute much to it. If you wanted to look at peculiar religious influence on the U.S. intelligence community, I've been told by other contractors that Mormonism has an unusual representation cluster though.
However, the interesting bit of Catholicism that lends itself to an organization like the CIA would be the Jesuits, who have been the butt of conspiracy theories since their founding, but also run an old network of elite schools and are considered the Vatican brain trust.
His Patreon page is https://www.patreon.com/PracticalEngineering/ – I send a couple bucks a month. There’s no special reward for supporting, but it’s nice to encourage people making excellent educational materials.
Growing tech censorship continues to spark rapid gains at alternative platforms
You're missing the basic mystery, which is "How does this generalize? Why does it work for a square of side 2r, but not a square of side r?"
That's why many choose AWS, they eat their own dog food.
In principle that’s ideal and commendable, when all is well; this is unfortunately a detrimental symptom of a high-functioning democracy in a declining empire.
Okay, maybe not antithesis, but I think of wholesome stories as being full of easy choices where no one dies at the end.

From the books I've read that I'd say fit into hopepunk, they're not like that at all. Good people die at the end sometimes.
> Router use excludes Intel Wifi cards, sadly

Why? Do you have any other manufacturer you could recommend for a reasonable price? What are you using for your Quartz?
I don’t disagree with the premise of the article but

> 34% of failed ventures are a result of not finding the right problem to solve. The second and third most common reasons, marketing problems and team problems, only account for 22% and 18% of failed startups respectively.

A 1/3 plurality isn’t as significant as it sounds when your next two also-rans are larger combined, and likely have huge overlap with your first place reason for failure. If the three together account for 74% of startup failures, I’d be more focused on how they overlap and reinforce each other than any one of them in particular.
I used to live in the former garage of a soft story building (they built a kitchen/bathroom/etc - it was around 1,000 square feet). It was a great deal because we got sole access to the backyard (it was a house). But after reading about how they relaxed building standards after '06 rather than increased them, I couldn't wait to get out - the house was built in 1918.

The landlady would always talk about how the house held up great during the '89 earthquake. But that didn't impress me considering the epicenter was in Santa Cruz.
So is smoking, I'm sure.

(Especially if you ask a tobacco company.)
Or Paris, or Amsterdam.
Well if one ever needed evidence that too many programmers like to think they know the answers before understanding the problem, this thread provides it. :-/
Love this. Most North American cities are built around cars, it'll take a lot to change this. But it won't happen by the free market alone, cities need to hire good urban planners and user experience designers to build these cities.
Both huge markets for private car services. The rich taking public transport everywhere doesn’t really happen anywhere in the US.
SiriusXM Auto Renewal Investigation
The Inability to Think in Terms of Principles
And where "more" isn't necessarily better.

It's super frustrating that Google Maps doesn't include the time it takes to walk to your car, the time it takes to drive out of the parking lot, the time it takes to find a parking spot and the time it takes to walk from your parking spot to your destination -- or the time it takes to wait for an Uber. [edit] It just assumes there's a car out front of your house, idling, that you can drop directly off in front of your destination and forget about.

On the other hand, with public transit directions, it takes into account not just how long it takes to walk to and from your destination, but in places without fixed schedules for certain routes, assumes you'll miss one and have to wait for the next one. A good example is getting from Brooklyn to JFK with the A and AirTrain via Howard Beach Station. It just adds 15 extra minutes, making transit look much worse than an Uber - where in reality, it's usually a good 10 minutes faster.

In a lot of cases, biking or taking public transit are simply better choices - faster, cheaper, more convenient. That's not how they're often presented, however.

I live in downtown SF, and I now exclusively take transit, scooters or my e-bike. It's just better.
Ohio sues Meta over whistleblower revelations
It seems odd that you can't distinguish between a racist joke, and portraying being racist as a joke.

One is pro-racism, and the other is anti-racism.

This show portays being racist as something stupid and worthy of ridicule.
And if you need colder than 2mk, nuclear demagnetization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration#Nuclear...
I'm not saying it solves every problem for everyone, but have you looked at Nix? I've found it to be great for portability (at least on other Linux distros), and you can easily install anything from stable nixpkgs packages to Git repos. I'm currently using it to manage OS packages and development dependencies for some of the projects I work with (a couple at Work™).
Posted this as it's a fascinating look at some of the underground revolutionary movements in the 1970s based on Bryan Burrough’s book of the same title. I hadn't heard about many of these before.
I just switched from Spotify to Apple Music because of the UX of Spotify lol.

Not noticed any data leaks so far.
I think you're mistaking feelgood for wholesome. Wholesomeness instills people with positivity and good morals, oftentimes through good but difficult choices.
Compiling Ruby to Native Code with Sorbet and LLVM
No it's definitely not an 'American' thing, in the broader sense- it is the most popular show of all time, I believe. I'm with you, I love Seinfeld but consider it very milquetoast- the comedy is centered around mundane daily events, just like Curb, and their over-the-top reactions, it shied away from anything remotely controversial. Various social norms have changed since the 90s, of course, so apparently that can offend people (?!), but there's no accounting for taste, as they say.

I only saw periodic episodes as a kid (had no TV), but watching it now, the physical comedy really stands out to me- a genre I've never been into, but Kramer, Elaine and George are great at it.
Since intercity travel via car is cheaper than the trains, if you take whole Netherlands as a very big city, their understanding of being advanced looks quite different.
Yeah, agreed. I don’t know what the proper measure of a good economy is. I’m just critical that said measurement is “jobs”.
I went back to edit my comment before I saw yours about "more" potentially not being better so I completely agree. I'm in Palo Alto and very happy getting around on my bike or the caltrain (or renting a car for the one-offs).
For implementing things like programming languages, I think parser combinators also allow you write better and more specific error messages than something like a parser generator. Though I think most programming language authors optimizing for error messages tend to go with a bespoke approach.
Prisoners in Finland lives in open prisons where they learn tech skills
I'm not sure this is what you're making it out to be. Russia is one of nine countries that have nuclear weapons, and has one of the two largest stockpiles. For a "world news" site, does it not make sense to focus on this major power which is also geographically close to the UK?
HN is not a social media website. Try again. YT is also not a social media website. In case you meant that.

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Be careful with stackoverflow though. Some highly upvoted answers are sometimes broken or even dangerous. But reading the tiny comments and other answers is usually enough to identify a better solution.
I agree the novelty of implementing these protocols wears off as soon as one looks into the security nightmare a poorly implemented protocol can cause.

But I still would like to see efforts happening in applications like Nokia's mobile web server. Another such effort from a decade ago was Opera Unite https://linkdekho.in/1e2vAy
In my world of enterprise development, I see a mix of bad coders, ok coders, and good coders. I feel like I can confidently take on anything that comes my way, and do a reasonable job of it.

But graphics guys working on stuff like this are just working on a whole different level. I'm in awe.
That quote is quite ironic to tell the truth. Peñalosa created a public transport system that's overcrowded and unsafe. Nobody wants to use it, but many have no other choice but to use it.
I am skeptical of such claims despite the sophisticated vibe one may carry in their belief. It's natural for less economically prosperous jurisdictions outside North America to try over-glorifying themselves with non-quantifiable metrics like "happiness" and claims like this to "feel good". There is also a certain "petty jealousy" targeted at the US lifestyle that I sensed in Europe for example. (To be clear, I am saying this as a non-American). The truth is probably to have more availability of both.
As far as I can tell, many planetary scientists aren't particularly fond of the definition either. I believe the initial plan that the IAU had after the discovery of Eris was to classify dwarf planets as planets, but some of the members didn't like the idea that our solar system would suddenly get a lot more planets, so pushed for the current awkward and ill-defined IAU definition.

Though there are a lot of people that present the IAU definition as if it were simply the will of "science," if you look at the 2006 debate about it amongst scientists, it was actually fairly contentious.
Something interesting about them though is that they were mostly simple, plaintext, protocols and you could learn a lot by popping open a telnet connection and playing around. At least I learned a lot that way when I was a kid. I figured out how to make HTTP GETs, use IRC, etc playing around with telnet.
You don't seem to understand what "charging rate" means. There is nothing magical about subdividing lithium cells. No matter the size of the cell, you can't insert energy at a higher rate per unit of volume.
As someone who has developed similarly playful online spaces with spatial audio I am pleasantly surprised with Skittish. They really "get it" when it comes to essence of digital places in a way that virtually no other apps in the space seem to understand

Glad they exist, and I hope they may inspire people to build more creative, fun, and playful spaces for themselves and their friends :)
Social media doesn't literally mean "a place where media exists that can be social." It's much more than that.

Neither HN or YT are social media.
People in the US live in suburbs that are several towns worth of distance away from the city. In many cases, the train lines don't exist on those places.

This culture of suburbia needs to change.
Just saw a post from my cousin in Victoria the store shelves are empty it’s crazy.
From the CBC:

"The rail lines in question are the main arteries in and out of the port. "The mere fact that those trains are stalled means that it's going to back up further because those ships are still underway," Prentice said.

Adel Guitouni, a business professor at the University of Victoria, says the pandemic followed by recent natural disasters have underscored just how fragile global supply chains are.

"It would have a huge impact, and it would be felt not just in B.C. but across the country," he said in an interview. "You start having shortages in places and a lot of accumulation in other places."

Depending on the extent of the damage, he thinks the rail companies will likely have most of their lines back up and running within a week or so, but clearing the global backlog in supply chains will take much longer.

"This will take until probably 2023 to see some kind of getting back to normal," he said"
In both the US and Europe, public transport is, for the most part, very safe, but there’s still an attitude that many people have that only poor people use it. This is more of the issue that prevents people from using it (and also a reason they don’t want to build it in the first place), as social perception is a very strong motivator.

When a country is at the point where issues like kidnapping and murder are a widespread problem, now you’re talking about a complete failure of the law and government, and at that point public transportation is relatively low on the priority list.
I can't talk about Lambda, but I know a bunch of successful devs (including myself) that started with no prior programming experience. Many don't even have anything more than a highschool diploma. (If that)
This kind of advanced city is so expensive that the middle class has to use public transportation, even when they wish to ride a car.
That's not about the rich. Really rich people do not use public transportation, they can afford a car with a driver, or a helicopter even in the most expensive cities.
Taxis exist all over Europe, even though middle class often uses the public transportation.

So I would rephrase this quote as An advanced city is the one where public transportation is clean, safe, time-reliable and abundant (covers most of the city/metropolis).
I might be. I think the term wholesome has been somewhat redefined to mean feelgood colloquially though.

Could you explain why wholesome stories are boring to you?
She was ostensibly fine with it, but it made me feel weird. It felt like I was endorsing the kinds of thought patterns represented. I knew she wouldn't be offended per se, but I didn't want her to get the wrong impression of me, and I also don't want to be a person who acts like that's normal for my own sake. There are 100% appropriate contexts to watch that and know that it's antiquated and that nobody present is endorsing it, but I had put it on intentionally because I wanted something light, and at that point it started getting too stressful.
Inspector General: NASA will miss 2024 Moon landing “by several years” [pdf]
I don't use 100% of the features I pull in. But I also don't use 100% of the features of libc or gtk if I'm building a GUI app in C.

I have 35 MB of node_modules, but after webpack walks the module hierarchy and tree-shakes out all module exports that aren't reachable, I'm left with a couple hundred kilobytes of code in the final product.
Pathetic response. Misdirection, bending half the points made, ignoring the rest. Go away, stop trying to argue antivax stance is as valid as Galileo’s literal science, the data is clear
FDA Authorizes Marketing of Virtual Reality System for Chronic Pain Reduction
> But these same democratic systems have historically not just expanded the overton window, but exploded it

It seems when the rate of change is endogenously high, things have happened in the US, but now with more stagnation the many veto points strikes harder.

> We can't just print money to the extent that's required for the really big policy changes.

I still disagree.

Free healthcare especially can save money because the current thing is so inefficient --- though in the first few years I expect the backlog of "deferred maintenance" to get in the way.

Unpayed UBI is scarier, but I think we can still try it. There might an awkward adjustment period, but I wouldn't be surprised if it his a new steady state.

> And the US is the most likely to be able to get away with it

Yes

Last thing to consider is the MMT reversal scenario, where the technocrats just worry about reaching "potential", and quantitative stuff ensuring enough spending and taxing, and the politicians decide the qualitative stuff, and also what level of inflation is acceptable -- because it is still a subjective decision somewhat.

In particular, doing a UBI first might be the best way to force higher taxes: people will fight harder to keep their existing UBI than they will to get a UBI in the first place, so with inflation vs loosing it vs more taxes or JG (which is supply and demand of a sort), the latter options might have a better shot.
The How is not the issue. A combination of various drugs or an opiate overdose should do the trick. It's already legal in Switzerland, Canada, and Belgium.

Voluntary euthanasia is ultimately challenging because of similar legal issues as with the death penalty - it cannot be undone, and there are forces in society that can lead individuals to use it for other reasons than just being over and done with suffering through old age.
Could that mean that the password is stored unhashed?
I don't think this is unreasonable. For juniors, often it takes 50-100+ applications to get a handful of interviews anyway. 460 jobs can easily be racked up over a 6-12 month timeframe of searching.

Just look at cscareerquestions on reddit. Juniors face these battles all the time.

I don't think it's reasonable to apply for 30 jobs, get rejected, then give up. I'm a staff level engineer with a lot of experience and still I get rejected a significant amount of the time.
Speeding-up the Wolfram Language (2020)
Isn't every job in China technically a gov't job? If the gov't owns all business blah blah
it's not confined to less prosperous regions. Bankers in NY, London, Tokyo take public transit. In any city that is safe and dense you'll see plenty of professionals take public transport. Singapore has a car ownership rate of 10% and I wouldn't accuse them of petty jealousy.

I don't think people are jealous of a lifestyle where you have to drive an hour to the next city and spend hours of your day behind a wheel. Nobody outside of the US envies that lifestyle
I believe there was an oral tradition in place to keep track of important events in certain cultures.
Well, that's what I'm wondering. GNU/Linux distros like Debian and Ubuntu don't seem to suffer supply chain attacks, but it's not entirely clear to me why. Is it because the distros are more carefully curated, and the infrastructure for extending them older so it has had more time to wrestle security concerns to the ground?

Or is it, disquietingly, the possibility that they are completely vulnerable to this sort of attack and either nobody has noticed there compromised or attackers haven't decided that compromising a major desktop Linux distro is worth the time?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-software-how-many-...
WFH workers want home office.
It’s not like the housing supply changed, but the demand very suddenly did
So you have chosen death.

There are reasons to worry about the ethics of longevity research (especially if the benefits of it are not justly shared), but I don't think you can justify withholding life-improving medical treatment from people just because you want to help science by letting people die early.

That sort of thinking is how we get Logan's Run.
That's also useful in mixed JS/TS project (e.g. during a migration). I wrote a short guide: https://darekkay.com/blog/javascript-type-comments/
Or perhaps, the sky is not falling.
From the report:

Currently NASA’s most ambitious and costly activity, the Artemis program faces schedule, procurement, technical, and funding risks. This includes procurement of Artemis-related technologies and space flight hardware using research and development contracts that leverage commercial capabilities but require a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) deviation for acquiring services and hardware. SLS and Orion have also experienced technical challenges in later development phases as well as the effects of COVID-19 restrictions and severe weather events. Additionally, the Gateway and HLS Programs received significantly less funding in fiscal year (FY) 2021 than required to meet NASA’s initial acquisition strategy.

NASA’s three initial Artemis missions, designed to culminate in a crewed lunar landing, face varying degrees of technical difficulties and delays heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic and weather events that will push launch schedules from months to years past the Agency’s current goals. With Artemis I mission elements now being integrated and tested at Kennedy Space Center, we estimate NASA will be ready to launch by summer 2022 rather than November 2021 as
planned. Although Artemis II is scheduled to launch in late 2023, we project that it will be delayed until at least mid-2024 due to the mission’s reuse of Orion components from Artemis I. While the Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division—which includes HLS, Gateway, and next-generation spacesuits—is working on an integrated master schedule (IMS) for Artemis III that incorporates Exploration Systems Development (ESD) Division programs—SLS, Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems—the draft version does not include information on programs critical to Artemis that are outside of AES and ESD. Given the time needed to develop and fully test the HLS and new spacesuits, we project NASA will exceed its current timetable for landing humans on the Moon in late 2024 by several years.
Fake Food Covers Empty Grocery Store Shelves to Hide Shortages
I wonder if they could run liquid nitrogen through new piles down into the weak sub soils to seize it up?
"Economic prosperity" is just as non-quantifiable as happiness. GDP vs HDI

It's commendable that these countries are setting meaningful goals than to simply chase empty GDP growth.
In which case one could more accurately substitute "dense" for "advanced". There is an implicit assumption that dense == advanced that may or may not be true.
Ok but why not use a PRNG for a hash function using the value as the seed? It will scramble the bits nicely.
After experiencing Sam Aaron's Overtone - a Clojure REPL for SuperCollider - this does not exactly inspire:

d1 >> play(P["x( x) "].palindrome().zip("---[--]").zip(P[" o "].amen()))
These kinds of articles always make me wish there were some sort of "financial history book" (or series) that tracked the flows of capital through history and endeavors. We see so much of how ideology and politics evolved, but history of capital flows in any specificity is (or, seems to me) so opaque.

I expect someone to point out that opacity is natural given the sensitive nature of the subject. Consider how much commonly known history is made up of once dire secrets.

Then again, perhaps it's all out there. I guess a good place to start would be US, UK and French treasury reports on actuals. Maybe with python that becomes a more manageable task.
I'm sure the terms and conditions specify against this, but couldn't you just apply to positions like CEO of Google, or President of the UN?
I've always been curious why the visible light spectrum appears to "wrap around". Why does the color wheel appear continuous? Is it related to the fact that the frequency range is about an octave?