skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they can't communicate with the "secured execution environment" they fall back to the lower quality stream. It requires some stuff on the OS level to make it work which Linux doesn't have (or at least, Linux browsers don't support properly outside of Chrome OS).
The archive website describes the project in more detail.

https://publicdomainpool.org/en/index.html

"The Swiss Foundation Public Domain owns about 70'000 shellac records. Many of these recordings are in the public domain. They are to be digitized and published for the benefit of all music lovers.

The inventory of the collection is being documented by photos of the labels of each record.

Some of the digitized tracks are published here."
Wow, this is amazingly well written. I have a disability (but not autism) and can't help but be like... well, yeah, unquestionably correct.

I would go out on a fairly safe limb and say that this problem generalizes to most disabilities pretty well. Even in the way that I use the word "disability" there with the same caution and intent of the author, it's more complicated than that. But also in some ways more general I suspect.
lol, my privacy is worth same as yours but you are too technologically challenged to hide it online.
Nope, some of the best players in the world hang out in Quick Play, and they're simply built different.
School boards are much more local affairs. So rather than a state, it's just your town or a small group of towns in a rural area.

That means that upturning the entire system is actually quite difficult, but allows for much more flexibility with regards to community norms. We're traditionally nonhomogenous in aggregate in the US but have a lot of communities with shared values and have decided the best way to administrate that is to allow for flexibility within state guidelines.
It’s almost as if hn is made of of different people
Also Web3 is inherently centred around usage models. One token for each comment or channel.

But a lot of people hate that model and much prefer the "all you can eat" monthly subcription approach.
Given the new M1 Macbooks, this has been one of the best Apple product years of the last decade for me. My confidence in the ecosystem has kind of never been stronger.
Some of this is opinionated, and some is real. It's helpful to separate the two.
We've learned some things over the years.

* Null-terminated strings were a really bad idea.

* Arrays of ambiguous size were a really bad idea.

* Multiple inheritance just gets too confusing.

* Immutability is very useful, but not everything can be immutable.

* If thing A over here and thing B way over there have to agree, that has to be checked at compile time, or someday, someone will break that invariant during maintenance.

* Concurrency has to be addressed at the language level, not the OS level.

* Which thread owns what data is a big deal, both for safety and performance reasons, and languages need to address that. Some data may be shared, and that data needs to be identified. This becomes more important as we have more CPUs that sort of share memory.

* The jury is still out on "async". Much of the motivation is web services holding open sessions with a huge number of clients. This is a special case but a big market.

* Running code through a standard formatter regularly is a win.

* Generics can get too complicated all too easily.

* There are three big questions that cause memory corruption: Who owns it, who can delete it, and who locks it? C addresses none of those issues, GC languages address the second, and Rust (and Erlang?) address all three. Future languages must address all three.

* Error handling has to be designed in.
Primary elections for major offices usually have more than two candidates, and tend to have more subtle rather than massive differences.
25 Sep 2013

I'd say that it's of historical interest at best. The amalgamation exists to simplify matters.
It really sounds like the big data, machine learning, AI and enterprise blockchain craze from 5 years ago. Where those things were used for the most stupid things just so the marketing department could put it on a powerpoint slide.
Ponylang.io - There is a similar operation (toward zero)

https://stdlib.ponylang.io/builtin-Integer/#div_unsafe

and, in Ponylang, i/0 usually results in 0.
There are some misconceptions, I think, here.

1. People learn more than 1 language. What I'm referring to here is complete beginners who need to learn -how- to program. Once they grok that, it's not difficult to move to other languages, obviously with some exceptions.

2. It's not the job of a -language- to teach everything about programming or networking or computers or various protocols. That's the job of a curriculum.

3. There are way more $major_lang jobs than jobs for D, Clojure, Lisp, Crystal, or any of the other languages that are significantly less used. The sky is the limit for how many languages people want to play around with and learn, once they know enough to start learning other languages by themselves. No recruiter is gonna be like "oh, you learned $major_lang... Even though you likely applied to this role because our stack involves $major_lang and that's a language that you know well..."

4. Help, resources, meetups etc for $major_lang are orders of magnitude more plentiful than for D, etc. Imagine telling a student "no, no, you need to prove yourself by making forum posts for <niche language that I personally like and use> instead of having stackoverflow questions or tutorials to follow" in the case of getting stuck. Of course students should strive to do as much as they can themselves, but you would be surprised to see what beginners get stuck on and just need a gentle push to get going again.

5. Being able to be independent is more engaging than having to constantly pester a teacher or a forum. If a student wants to be a go-getter with e.g. python or lua, there are communities and resources to build games or websites, etc. And those already have had common stumbling block questions answered because they have large communities around them.

For the goal of teaching someone how to program, any language other than the major ones like python, javascript, ruby, c++ strictly make it more difficult for students because of the smaller ecosystem, lesser amount of documentation, and smaller community in general. I have nothing against D or other niche languages, but I'm against picking languages just because I'm familiar with them.

It can be difficult for experienced programmers & power users to remember that there's a sheer amount of information that needs to be learned in. There is no reason to make that more difficult for students.
> "The features that I found the kids handled well were basic types like ints and strings (though what a funny name “string” is, that took a while to sink in)"

I have so ingrained in my brain the association of "string" to a text variable type that I didn't even consider the fact the name is bizarre.

It really doesn't make sense at first sight, and this is something I probably would not have realized until someone asked me "Why do they call it a 'string'?"

Fun read. D rocks.
> In many nations, the ability to read a simple sentence suffices as literacy, and was the previous standard for the U.S. The definition of literacy has changed greatly; the term is presently defined as the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential.

My impression from reading the Wikipedia article is that the U.S.’s literacy standards are higher than most other countries. I also wonder how much the immigration rate affects this stat.
Are they actually farming?
I would much rather a defined protocol rather than arbitrary code. It also means you can require multiple distinct applets on your phone for each card provider.
You build an app that will create your backups for you using your free image sharing account. Or maybe instead of backups it's for big filetransfers, or sharing somewhat secret documents.

The main point is to make use of the effective endless storage, rather than to store things hidden in plain sight.
It was in fact, Len Sassaman.

From anonymous remailers and his penchant for anonymously released work back in the mailing lists, to MojoNetwork with Bram. His British spelling, his time zone abroad when working in academia and posting online. His circle. Before he committed suicide due to his neurological issues and loss of passion for life, Satoshi last said

“I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future.”

He kept this secret even from his own wife. Alas, I hate to post this here just like this but it's my belief that it's an open secret. Only those close enough to suspect and know his pathology venture the guess. His wish is to have the work carried on nameless and to speak for itself. He hated notoriety for notoriety sake. I feel disrespectful even posting this, but it was not fucking Nick Szabo.
Ask HN: What are some side jobs/gigs to make some extra money?
Hey everyone, I'm kinda between a rock and a hard place. Without elaborating too much, I kind of need to make some extra money within the next couple months. Not looking for a get rich scheme, but something that could help bring in extra money to help around.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and respond. I'm very grateful for your help.

EDIT: Also sorry I forgot to include I'm not in the US.
“I don’t know how much more we can take.”
It‘s called Trump Derangement Syndrome.

disclaimer: I am European, I have no skin in the game here
There's Bitclout (Re-branded to "DeSo"/diamondapp.com) but it suffers from the same blocksize debate as anybody. No way to stay sync'd if it actually became popular, which it didn't because every new user had to learn how tell real accounts from fake lookalikes.
Web 3.0 is either snakeoil, or a ponzi scheme. Or both.

We'll all know soon enough. After all, it's not like any actual engineers are going to have a say in this: just the donors and their retainers.
Do you have a link to this exploit?
Another way to do value based pricing is to set a license fee proportional to the amount of volume pushed through the software. That license fee would need to be figured out from the business context and some estimate of how much value the software adds, and what alternatives the customer would have to perform the process without that software.

E.g. for bespoke process optimisation software sold to a single huge enterprise customer I've seen a $xxxx fee per "batch" that the software processes, plus an additional annual fee for maintenance and support.

The concept of "batch" was domain-specific and related to the customer's goal, the software might need to be run 1 or 100 times in order to complete a single batch (with user intervention etc to tweak parameters or correct input data errors), it wasn't simply $xxxx per API call.
Looking at the original PIAAC data source (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/skillsmap/), it looks like the level one or below counties are pretty strongly correlated with proximity to the southern border... How many of those people were educated in the US system, or are eligible to vote?

Also, in the future maybe submit the primary data source, rather than a Wikipedia link that cites a Forbes article?
You have to wait until the current set of players are eliminated and a new match starts.
Those examples suggest normal people compare poorly against what I’ve seen from GPT-3, so I have to wonder why? Is GPT-3 actually better, and the tests saying it’s still worse than human because the humans GPT-3 was compared against are WEIRD[0]? Or are the examples in your link cherry-picked?

[0] Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic; although in this case “educated” may be sufficient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
You're cherry-picking the results for cloth masks. The study found surgical masks do better. And I assume by now everyone knows N95 are superior.

And anyway, it's unlikely the true effect would land squarely on zero.
No offense, but my intention was to say people who built the web (infrastructure/protocols), not building for the web.
Web 3.0 is either snakeoil, or a Ponzi scheme. Or both.

We'll all know soon enough. After all, it's not like any actual engineers are going to have a say in this: just the donors and their retainers.
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> Programming is a higher art than painting or music.

No it's not, and it is imho a delusion to think otherwise.

Programming is engineering, it is about finding the best solution based on a series of requirements (performance, readability, time, etc).

There's very little creativity involved in programming as it is the case with pretty much any engineering field.

I don't understand this narrative of making it seem a creative activity which is not. That's not to say that it is #completely# void of creativity or "beauty", but I just dont believe this narrative of it being "art". And comparing it to painting or music is straight up circlejerk material.

In the end for every single argument you can give for programming being art, l can just answer you that it
applies even move to math. Is math art?
Comparing apples to oranges. This is a commercial imaging satellite with 50cm/px, not comparable to the US military satellite generation KH-11 with est. 6cm/px.
Check out datasette: https://datasette.io/
I get a symmetrical 1G on the GPON while I thought I had the best plan... maybe I need to pay even more?
A misunderstanding isn't when somebody don't believe in the same things as you. The GP's source was clearly not going in your direction, yet you acted as if it was by just refusing to understand what it was about. The level of self-delusion is truly incredible.
Yes, it is. And you don't have to suffer under a preprocessor!

(It's impractical to program in C without using the preprocessor, and the preprocessor requires use of a lot of very outdated programming practices.)

D can be used in "BetterC" mode, where it operates as what C could be with modern sensibilities.
Don't forget our old pal smashthestack.org for more fun. Otw and sts irc were the absolute places to be when the scene was still alive. RIP, scene, I never found you again and finally just gave up - you can never go back home.
I would be very surprised if said message board posters were actively encouraging each other to move to California in order to sway gun rights laws there—let alone actually actively doing it in appreciable numbers.
How “stars” are helping the French keep the night sky dark
It is lexically scoped, so you can wall it off with a {} block. And there's 'no integer;' to turn it off as well.

It's a pattern in Perl, like "use strict;" for example, which is also lexically scoped and has a "no strict;" counterpart.
I, for one, think it's fantastically unaware (at best, naive?) of Robin Hanson to assert that smart people tend to assume that others are smart. Overcoming Bias, indeed.

(To poke at this more substantively: Hanson's evidence tests L1-English reading comprehension, not how "stupid" someone is. Somewhere around 70 million Americans don't even speak English at home.)
I would assume there's a decent overlap between tech types/programmers/etc and pilots. They have the money for it (GA is not as expensive as most people think, but neither is it cheap), and they have the whole attention to detail/"The more gauges the better!" attitudes that tend to work well with flying.

There also seems to be a pretty good overlap between motorcycle riders and pilots. Find a middle aged man riding 10k+ miles/yr on a BMW or similar, and there's a very good chance he's a pilot too.
China claims to move moon base plans forward by 8 years
'Jeopardy' champ Amy Schneider becomes show's top female earner
Not just that. Before Merkel, sure there was a brief period of an SPD chancellor (Gerhard Schröder), who after that went to work for Gazprom!

Before that Germany had 16 years of Helmut Kohl, who was Angela Merkel's "political father".

Helmut Kohl (1982–1998)
Gerhard Schröder (1998–2005)
Angela Merkel (2005–2021)
The customer could easily be Russia, U.K., China, France, India, Pakistan, or some other country with nuclear weapons. Not North Korea, though, because Cray/HPE probably can't do business with North Korea.
EP 106: Tennessee
> you'd actually expect the correctness of scientific consensus to asymptotically approach 0

Scientific consensus correctness is calculated as true assertions / all assertions.

If we stopped making assertions, today, the scientific consensus correctness would be fixed at whatever level it is at. The amount of knowledge that hasn't been studied has no bearing on the correctness of scientific consensus. That's a number that is finite with a denominator squarely fixed by the number of assertions that happen as human knowledge expands.

The assertion 1 + 1 = 2 will always be true. If that was the only assertion the scientific community ever made and had consensus over then they'd be at 100% correctness. It doesn't matter that you can also calculate 1 + 2, or 3 + 5, or an infinite number of numerical combinations. The denominator is the assertions, not the unasserted assertions. It doesn't matter that knowledge is "fractile" or whatever. Because, assertions by the scientific community are pretty much always couched as "Given the current data, this model fits best". Newtonian physics isn't "incorrect" it's incomplete. This is the same for most knowledge with that "fractile" understanding.

The only way you approach 0 is if our fundamental understanding of reality is completely fundamentally flawed, but then, that'd be an unknowable knowledge.
I recommend Daemon (by Daniel Suarez). An AI starts making this kinds of decisions. Including: designing builds/communities around expected weather to minimize heating cooling, capping the size of businesses to ensure decentralization, providing incentives for souring 95% of what you need within 100 miles, state of the art water treatment, incentives for local power and food, etc.
Well, if you learn about chars and then realise a string is a "string" of chars, then it's not so bizarre. If we're starting with ints before introducing floats, then why not start with chars before introducing strings.
This seems fine. Fred’s up-front about this being a belief and a bet, not an eventuality. That’s what I expect from investors, and what they should be - along with having basic accounting sense.
Hey, I shipped a game that used Comic Sans all throughout, and it did ok in spite of the ugly font!

https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/awrb09/just_a_frie...

Slack (which was founded by the same founder as Flickr, Stewart Butterfield) seems to be doing ok with their Penis Swastika Logo, so it just goes to show how hard it is to predict which designs will be popular.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/16/slacks-new-logo-is-a-playd...

It could be worse: Wingdings redrawn in the style of Comic Sans to create the "worst font ever":

https://boingboing.net/2021/12/29/wingdings-redrawn-in-the-s...

"Comic Dings" Font Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATI2q7M_eMU
What does that do? How is VACUUM different from BACKUP in this context?
Assuming you're talking about pwsafe 3, it's not Windows-only. I am actively using a Java implementation on MacOS and rely on my Android app for frequent use. Password file is synced across devices via a cloud drive provider. Works great, and I'm in control. (I also rotate my password file + master password every few months.)
Hiding what's going on (e.g. details related to real hardware like machine integers) is arguably pretty good for teaching a complete beginner about what this "code" thing even is.

Though I guess the classic workaround for that is to carefully construct the course such that these details are revealed gradually, without being overwhelming.
Not sure how applicable it would be to your use case, but TETR.IO uses a service called AdinPlay for monetisation.
So don't build on FB and Twitter? You do realize you can build an application and very easily host it for the world to access on AWS/GCP/Azure - unless you're doing something illegal or highly unethical the cloud services aren't going to kick you off. It sounds like you're saying you want to build a social media app but you don't like the fact that social media is dominated by a handful of companies (because the majority of users want to use their product already).
Based on the level of reading and writing comprehension in the average HN thread, I would say we should practice more humility than I'm seeing in this thread so far.
In my experience, when looking at how division should operate for a given well-established language, it doesn’t matter what you and I think should be the result of the operation; it matters what the standard says on it.

From PDF page 94 (physical page 82) of the draft C99 standard: [1] The result of the / operator is the quotient from the division of the first operand by the second

This is a little vague; it would be better if they called it the “quotient from Euclidean division” (EDIT: This was incorrect. Actually, it’s the quotient from algebraic division, with the fraction truncated, also called “truncation towards zero”. See discussion below.), which is well defined as being -3 in the above example; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_division (EDIT: Euclidean is -4; truncation towards 0 is -3)

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
- It looks like a virus...
- But it's the antivirus!

:)
I think Trump was in a different league from past presidents, maybe not because of the magnitude of the lies (all of them have fairly big military lies involving life and death), but the frequency was astounding… I do not know how someone even functions like he does.
Modeling our way out of this mess
Uber/Lift/Grubhub etc

Restaurant industry and basically any retail are hiring like mad

Amazon

Public transit/bus drivers

Do you have a truck? Snowplow drivers are making upwards of 200/hr in the northeast this year
1) I would be interested to see your source that says that enough funding gets sent to private schools to impact public school's ability to try and achieve the goals they are supposed to achieve.

2) If amount of money spent were actually a factor then why do we show no plausible link between literacy rate [1] and per pupil spending [2] by the government in public schools. This also doesn't account for how homeschoolers and private schoolers tend to do better in standardized testing (and other areas of academics) and yet homeschoolers spend vastly less in comparison to public and private schools (Finding a public source for spending that I am comfortable with is a little hard, so I am basing this on what I know of spending in my local homeschool groups. The test score comparisons are fairly easy to find.).

3) I think to try and simplify it down to simply the amount of money spent is disingenuous to an issue that, honestly, has very little to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with factors like like of parental involvement, politicization of schools by parents, teachers, and administrators, lack of motivation and work ethic in students, and a whole host of other issues.

4) Ultimately, and this is likely a simplification in and of itself, I think the largest factor is more about the willingness of a student to apply themselves and put in the work. A school is one of the few places where the playing field is as equal as it can be and a child/teenager does not need to be the smartest individual in the room in order to do well in school. They really just need to apply themselves. I remember reading some parenting advice many years ago about how it is better to encourage your children to work hard than it is to tell them they are smart as this helps put the value where it belongs, on hard work rather than one's natural abilities of which they have little control over.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-s...