skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main advantage of LabVIEW is not the language but the hardware it runs on. While it is ungodly expensive it's very reliable in a wide range of temperature & vibration.

I used LabVIEW to code the control / data logging of a prototype racecar and the hardware only broke once when we probably zapped it with a nasty ESD or reverse polarity connection somewhere. We never figured it out and didn't ask when we sent the part to be repaired.

Programming in LabVIEW is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy though. It's extremely hard to debug and time consuming to refactor. I always felt that I was 10-50x slower than when I would code in a standard text-based programming language. Working collaboratively also put you in a world of pain because, at least when I used it and I think it's still the case, LabVIEW doesn't support git natively so you have to use an external tool. They have a tool to merge / diff their proprietary binary files but the UX is terrible and I think even if they really tried to do something good, diffing diagrams (which is what a LabVIEW program is IMO) is going to stay hard.

From my experience the people that code in LabVIEW are not software engineer and I had discussions where I was arguing that yes the channel feature is broken but that's not a reason to put all the variables used to communicate between components in a single global variable file for example.

But once you fought against the language long enough and have something that works you can be pretty sure it will keep working forever.
Do you believe you could pivot to your own business versus giving up your potentially lucrative app for very minimal comp? You’ve already proven the model if you need investment if you can’t bootstrap from today to ramen profitable.

Perhaps evaluate if it’s time to swap the cushy job for more upside and control over your destiny. Most importantly, have an employment attorney consultation to see if this is even possible based on whatever agreements you have with your employer and your state’s labor laws around IP ownership while an employee. Once there’s clarity with regards to your ownership position, you can evaluate scaling or selling.
This guy doesn't seem to know what he actually wants. He wants the language to be "extensible" by "library authors" (?) but then later on the argues that the language should be locked down, thus hard to misuse.
I wonder if PPP could have something to do with the chart showing the skewing of profits?

It officially ended in May of 2021.
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-o...
Yes, which would have stood well on its own, but was negated by “I’m coming to you now as an ambassador of that culture.”
You make some good points, but I want to focus on one particular part of your comment:

"I also see other commentors jumping to trashing schools or the education system for this. Does a flat number really point to education? What about poverty levels, general cultural attitudes towards literacy, accounting and definition of proficiency, etc."

If you only look at a specific segment of students (e.g. Socio-economically disadvantaged Hispanic 3rd graders), you can compare school districts and individual schools, without having your data polluted by different poverty levels etc.

If you look at the careads web site, you'll see they compared districts in California, and found (i) significant variation between districts, and (ii) worse-performing districts had a higher prevalance of using F&P/Calkin type reading curricula.

The folks who run that site didn't compare individual schools (so as not to over-interpret random variation). I was curious so I looked at the data for the schools in San Francisco.

For my local school (Glen Park Elementary), the % of that segment reading at grade level or above was 4%.

For Hillcrest Elementary, for the same segment of students, it was 65%.

In each case, the sample included at least 15 students.

What explains the large difference in results between schools, even after we control for poverty and home language?
I don't get it. In the OP he shows that the Cray compiler handles this feature. So why not just have the customer use that compiler? Yes there's a license fee but presumably someone from Cray can get a good price on the Cray compiler if they have a customer satisfaction issue.
crowkingblog problems:
1. no link to the actual snopes article, which is this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nbc-vaughn/
2. the link "debunking" that the video was edited on the website is hard to confirm, because it is no longer online, and on archive.org it requires a flash player. But at least in the text version (https://web.archive.org/web/20160807110939/http://www.today....), there is the reference to christ.

investortimes:
I think this is a weird semantic argument. Yes, there are fines that need to be paid by water management companies if they do not reduce the amount of water per capita each person uses, and I think investortimes is correct in saying that the cost will probably be somehow passed on to consumers. But that is still not the same thing as saying how it is illegal. The prices will just go up a lot more, and I imagine some kind of usage based pricing will come into effect to make sure the goals are reached. But calling that illegal is like saying it is illegal to run a mining rig in your home because you will be charged a lot for electricity and a power company might force you to reduce the amount of power you are using. So I believe mostly false is still correct.

also inb4 tldr
If less than half of 8th grades can't read, should it maybe, just maybe mean it's time for spelling reform? It's baffling, that you need a method and something special for such a basic thing as reading.
> They claim to be. [...] I simply don't believe their claim.

But does it even matter whether we, you and I, believe them or not; isn't the main issue whether they themselves believe it? (And I'm afraid enough of them do.)
generics getting too complicated

There seems to be some agreement that C++ overdid it. Both Go and Rust have more limited generic systems.

error handling needing to be designed in

I'm not expressing an opinion on return values vs exceptions. But some kind of standard is needed or library error reporting is terrible.
> Arrays of ambiguous size were a really bad idea.

When? And for whom? Having to make everything a fixed size array like in C is no good either, that's for sure. It leads to bad guesses and comments like "should be big enough".
Any individual statement from the list will suffice. This is already clear in the Overcoming Bias post, but it's equally clear in the source, which says this:

> Correct Answer:

> Any statement such as the following: to enable people to better serve and sell to the Hispanic community; to improve marketing strategies to the Hispanic community; and to enable people to establish contacts to serve the Hispanic community

It is technically true that "Acceptable answers include statement such as:" is grammatically incorrect, but the error is so obvious that it would normally be called a "typo" and not a "grammatical error".
> Except that it makes you aware of the techniques used on you, and able to use them yourself.

To some extent, but even a really good reading level is only going to give you a shallow understanding of that area. There's probably other aspects you'd want to focus on first.
Same. I spent 5 or so years working on a project when I (sh/c)ould have been working on myself. I knew I needed to be doing something so I manifested that change externally which made me feel like I was making progress on something - something apprehendable.

What I needed to do instead was realize what those needs were, where they were coming from, and address them directly. Now I have a lot of catching up to do back-dropped with the emotional texture of lost time.
That has full access to, and modification/control ability over, the main CPU.
The video is edited, so it's possible that some of those things were cut, but I don't think they actually were.
This whole thread is a nice review and excersize of the 2nd chapter of my Computers and networks security course.
What a nice use-case for my recent web1* project, google trends for hackernews! Here's a comparison of "metaverse" vs "web3" over the past several months: https://jacksonkearl.github.io/HackerTrends/?query=%22web3%2...

* Not technically web1. It uses `fetch`, but it's a single 100 line HTML file. Web 1.5?
> There are easier ways to avoid taxes.

Such as?
> If you have PostgreSQL or MySQL on the same machine as your application, you can use UNIX sockets; they won't have much latency at all (I think Linux also optimizes TCP on localhost to skip all the pointless protocol overhead).

Sounds like a nice topic for a study; I'd expect the latency using local sockets to connect to a DB server to be about 3x as much, minimum, as the latency to simply write to a file.

Writing to a file: a single context-switch from process to kernel (CS).
Writing to a socket: CS on write to socket, CS when receiving process writes the data to file, CS when receiving process sends ACK to sender via a socket.

The worst thing you can do in your program is to cause a context switch by passing data to kernel or recieving data from a kernel.

That being said, a trial of the two approaches is not a bad idea for an easily-publishable paper :-)
>REPL-driven-development, or interactive-programming. Inspired by Clojure. But without having to leave your IDE to code in a console/prompt/terminal.

You don't have to leave the IDE to evaluate code in Clojure. It's common to spend most of your time in the IDE and only occasionally type at the REPL prompt.
Flickr is awesome. As Instagram plays out, Flickr, and those that have paid for it for years, will be rewarded with full control over years and years and years of photos. I have full control of tens of thousands of photos I've taken since I was in high school. I LOVE Flickr. hey have excellent customer support, too. I'm less interested in the community aspect, though that is fun, as just the photo storage and organization product. It is indeed leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.
Experimental desktop version of TwidereX client for Twitter
It's not just tractors. Looking around the area where I live, there are a large amount of lorries, escavators forklifts, grain dryers and other veichles, with 20+ expected years in them. Electrifying all that will require massive upgrades of the grid -- remember we're also assumibg we're electrifying heating of houses and personal transport etc. Sure solar will help a bit, but without synthetic fuels, agriculture is not going carbon neutral anytime soon.

Luckily, there's been a lot of progress within that area. Green petrol and diesel would give more maneuvering room, and not just for farmers, but society as a whole.
The people decide which blockchain to use.
Yeah but it's a lot easier to not care.
Well, no, only the minter can do the first step:

> "$doomrobo_public_key owns $k as of $date" signed with the minter's private key

If you mean the minter could sign multiple owners of $k, of course that’s true, but that’s like saying that a painter could paint the same thing twice or sell printed copies of their paintings. Of course they can, and if they claim that each one is unique they’re likely to find that people don’t value their stuff much.
The private key identifies the artist, so that is not a solution.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Well, what do you know about that! These forty years now I’ve been speaking in prose without knowing it!
I am the exact same way, I've watched maybe one or two shows this year and focused on non-fiction books in my free time.

I've found it best to avoid saying "I don't watch much TV" though, precisely because of the reaction you mentioned. People will either think I am a freak or just trying to sound smart (or both) - it is a lose-lose situation.
> Why does entertainment need public funding?

You know that CBC isn't all about entertainment, but also hires a lot of journalists, right? And I don't see Disney or Marvel making content with the Canadian culture and heritage in mind.
I was a hardcore vim user for many years, and switched to Emacs a few years ago.

It’s hard to give a concise, objective reason as to why. My best attempt would be something like “vim is a great editor, but emacs is a great ecosystem”.

I always felt like vimscript got in my way. If I wanted to do something out-of-the-box if was overly difficult to even start. I know there are vimscript wizards out there but it never clicked with me.

Emacs, by contrast, feels like it has no limits. If I can imagine it, I can get emacs to do it. I wasn’t a fan of lisp at first but honestly I have come, over the years, to actually enjoy it.

The thing that really sucked me in though was org-mode. I haven’t found anything like it anywhere else. I use it to manage my team, my projects, my side-hobbies, and my extensive collection of notes. The agenda is amazing and capture templates pull it all together. In the beginning org-mode was what kept the learning curve from driving me away, and now I really can’t imagine using anything else anymore.

Oh, also, tramp is killer. I used to ssh into a sever and open vim there. Every time I was annoyed that my extensive vim config didn’t exist there, but it wasn’t practical to port that sucker over everywhere. Now I just connect from my local machine over tramp. I don’t have to deal with config mismatches, editing happens locally so I don’t have to deal with input lag, and it’s so seamless that I don’t actually miss out on anything. I can edit the file system, open a terminal, run shell commands, whatever.
I couldn't write a coherent sentence until I was 24 years old. A couple years after high school I discovered reading starting with "Cannery Row" however it still took significant effort to learn to write despite thousands of hours of reading. Once I understood the basic mechanics of grammar, fitting words into meaningful structures became second nature. I still can't spell the word coherent without assistance from a spell checker, nevertheless, I write and communicate the meaning I intend to convey.

People are hostile when I say there isn't such a thing as a learning disability but rather only teaching disabilities. Sure teachers especially in public schools are over worked, however, what happened to me is abuse. It was always I who failed and never the teachers or my parents who strangely both have PhDs. The onus to understand how to learn was the responsibility of a child and not the adults. We expect children who fail to understand pedagogy? They told me to think harder, to work harder. What does it mean to think harder? I suffered anxiety attacks and mental breakdowns trying to keep up. They ushered me along through graduation because I never had antisocial behavioral problems.

I taught myself a trade so I could survive. Then taught myself how to write. Then taught myself a second trade for fun and a third. At some point, I'll change my focus to educational software. There have been several individuals, groups, and initiatives over the past few decades since I graduated who have developed amazing tools I wish existed when I was in school with the Khan Academy at the top of that list. Nonetheless, the people at the Khan Academy who designed their course on grammar also happen to be people who are naturally talented at grammar, the fundamental crux teaching. I have one paradoxical advantage: my disadvantage which plagues every working moment gives me a perspective nobody has, er, correction, 46% of people who also happen to be the people doing the teaching with higher education degrees don't have.

One thing is for sure, I would be an idiot to expect a child to solve pedagogy for her or his self. When children fall behind they give up, they don't contemplate the philosophy of how they learn.
I can't win. I was born to lose.
If you mean "just maybe" literally, then sure, it's worth thinking about.

Figuring out the sounds is a small part and we definitely shouldn't assume it's the bottleneck.
For beginners, Smalltalk is totally out of question, then?

:D
Do you think this could have anything to do with how the education system has become fairly politicized?

Adults not trusting schools is probably related to the belief that the school system is incompetent anyway. Having the "wrong" politics definitely makes it easy to consider an administration incompetent.
One thing I don't understand from the article: "Hopefully this explains why we explicitly need to tell each variable whether it is in a load or store context in the AST."

Why does the Name() need to know its own context? It seems like the manner in which Name() is used, whether load, store, or delete, is fully determined by the Name()'s parent and whether the parent uses the Name() as a target or as a value.
Person with Asperger's here.
The one thing that bothers me more than neurotypical people writing about autism without actually speaking with people with autism are people with autism who think that they can speak for the "community"

The first rule is always "if you have met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism". There is no "us" in the sense that we have something in common which distingushes us from all neurotypical people. So I don't agree with large parts of this article.

E.g I prefer person-first language, but that's not because I think, that autism is a pathology. I do identify myself with autism, but I don't think that this is the largest aspect of my personality, so I don't like to be called "autist" (as much as I don't want to be called "bigfoot" because I have 13 shoe size).

Yes, the author says, that there are people with autism who might disagree. But if he knows this, why is he talking about "we" and "us" all the time?
Yea unfortunately I have to agree with your second point. Maybe in Europe they will successfully regulate it since most of these companies are American, but I think the only way we could stop our data from being profited from is if we stopped centralizing the data and giving so much power to service providers.

That’s why I like what Tim Berners Lee is doing with Solid, but I think the main point is we need to build some way for personal data to be distributed and encrypted so that it’s fundamentally very difficult to steal every customers data even if the system itself is broken. I dunno if it’s possible though since most tech companies make a significant portion of their money on their customers’ data.
Don't want to appear as spammy, but please have a look at my project finclout.io. Here people are incentivised to moderate and curate content. Thus supporting the build-up of trust and clout. The incentivces are coming through the monetary policy of the participating proof-of-stake chains, so it's not necessary to put money in to get money out. It's simply taking some of the economic value away from Google/FB. If you look at their insane profit margins, it's worthwhile to attack.
"A deed digitally signed by the government's private key satisfies this need without a blockchain."

Only because the government keeps track of who owns what in a centralized database. Typically they also ask for pretty high transferal fees.
I got my MSc in Computer Engineering in a country where university is highly subsidized, so it cost me very little. Now I live, work and pay taxes in another country. People that paid for my education are getting nothing in return.

About freedom of choice, for me the line is whenever your freedom directly impacts the freedom of someone else. You can't have slaves for this reason. But for the same reason you shouldn't have others pay for your education.
Of course you have more choices if someone pays for your education. But that's not the point. Society has no say on what type of education you choose to have, so it should pay no cost.
As I mention in another comment I only believe negative rights should be a thing - and I think I have strong reasons to believe this.

Nukes are only good for war, hence you probably shouldn't have them. On the other hand private companies or individuals with the right clearance should be able to own and manage nuclear power plants - as they do.
Not widely advertised, by my provider (Telus) offers "call-control" which asks callers to enter a randomly selected digit before the call comes to me, unless they are on an approved list, or they have passed the challenge previously. I can turn the service on or off, and add approved numbers using a web app. I had to contact them to activate this service, but I am very happy I have it.

Of course not all robo-calls are by bad players. For example, if I am offered a call-back from a tech support call because of wait times, I need to remember to turn call control off until the call comes. Rob calls from political parties during election time, on the other hand, I am happy to live without.

I wish all providers were required to provide this service.
Agreed. The Reddit discussion on this is full of anecdotes, questions, first had experiences with the school system and how this happens, etc.

HN? Attack the article. And that’s the nicest comments, the ones that don’t attack the people with reading issues.
makes you wonder what’s so threatening about religion that they want to ban it… maybe because in totalitarian systems, the state is the source of moral truth?
I don't mean to be too glib, but to me this reads like: "I am concerned about SPOF so I outsourced that."

Except now you are not in control of plugging the cable back in, and pay (less?) for that convenience.
Between C89 and C99, the standard was updated to require integer division to truncate towards 0.

C99 draft standard: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf PDF page 94, physical page 82, “When integers are divided, the result of the / operator is the algebraic quotient with any fractional part discarded.” with a footnote: “This is often called ‘‘truncation toward zero’’”

I wish % was a modulo instead of a remainder operation; this bug has bitten me more than once.
OK, let's say your plan is put into effect.

I will set up a front company, and create thousands of phone customers that are hard to track back to me. Then I'll have my front company call all of my 1000 fake customers repeatedly. Those customers collect $100 each for every call from the phone carrier, and when the phone carrier tries to collect from the originator, poof, they don't exist anymore.
This is great! Does simply owning the record give them the right to play/distribute the track? Or is it because they are out of copyright and in the public domain?
Chomebook is at least a computer, iPad is an entertainment device.
> health insurance doesn’t count, because if you work at a normal job, you get tha

Plenty of normal jobs without health insurance. Only 71% of private industry employees have health care benefits available. [0]

[0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs2.pdf

> the ER never refuses anyone

The ER is only required to screen for and, if found, stabilize emergency medical conditions. For many health conditions, by the time something is an emergency, its too late to do much. This mandate is important, but it doesn’t substitute for having insurance for proper medical care.
Do you have anything to support this “dummies” claim? What I remember from the N95 “guidance” (it wasn’t a “ban” iirc) was that the reason was to ensure there was enough supply of them for healthcare / frontline workers, who need them more than the rest of us, which made sense at the time (and I can see reasons why it would change later). I’m curious when that reason switched to “you are all dummies who can’t be allowed to use masks”?