skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the "technically precocious boy" is her entire thesis in a nutshell

Yuck? Amidst the many confused claims people have made for OLPC cultural imperialism, one that's valid (but seemingly rarely mentioned?) was its insistence on On Laptop Per Girl, even where that went against the grain. And IIRC, that was as much over XO for reading books, as over XO for writing or "computing". Mashing "literacy for girls" into "toys for boys", or "access to books" into "tech toy"... I hope that's not the thesis?
I don't know of any example, but I immediately thought of a use case: to use it as a sort of CSS language where you take a graph with only 'semantic' custom attributes and use the GVPR language to transform these into shape and style attributes that are recognized by Graphviz, so that you don't have to repeat all the style information for each node and edge. That's already pretty exciting to me!
Only if it had evolved independently during this step. Which is not certain either because we know big asteroid impacts can transfer material to other planets.

But I think the whole Fermi Paradox is a bit chauvinistic. It's assuming all life is like us, and ending in a colonisation explosion. Like our way is the only possible way.

Maybe other aliens do manage to reach a balance with their environment instead of screwing it all up like we are doing? After all, never-ending growth is simply impossible. It always reminds me of Agent Smith's speech from the matrix :)

But we as humanity have a habit of defining things around us in our own terms. We thought earth had to be the centre of the universe. Perhaps here we're also wrong and most life is just not like us?
Crypto Broism is from SV
I agree with both your points. To be honest if the same signal is sent by merely confirming employment dates but not literally disparaging the former employee, I fail to see how there’s any additional legal protection. The implication is tortious interferus in both cases.
Is the extension language kakounescript documented somewhere ? I am having a hard time finding a reference. I wish they just used lua/js though.
When I saw

> I try to keep my C++ simple and somewhat C-like.

... I knew this would not be very informative.

On one hand, the author's failure to take advantage of the power C++ offers means he will likely also fail to see how to use well what Zig does offer. (One doubts he makes any more effective use of Rust, another powerful language, than of C++.) At the same time, it should make him a better prospect to become a Zig user, not missing powerful features that could make him a more productive programmer.

But he is right that "no hidden control flow" is an anti-feature. What they call "hidden control flow" seems to be what we know of as destructors (or, in Rust, the Drop trait) that is about the only piece of programming automation invented in 40 years.

One might as well dispense with running water and cooked food.
Russia starts manufacturing reactor for Kudankulam nuclear power plant
I get a paywall, but my main question is why? We don’t need as many college educated students as we are producing today. There’s no need to incentivize it further. So is this just vote bank politics at work?
I don't think a chat message is or should be an arbitrary tree structure?
Impossible because it doesn’t
>Now do the comparison of hospitalization and death of the unvaccinated against the vaccinated

Official UK data shows approximately equal rates of death between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

>There's papers that have been published by every single government, relevant NGO, hospitals, literally the entirety of modern medicine dedicated towards working on this. The conclusions are always the same

Yes, because the orthodoxy is rigid and pervasive.

>There are tons of qualified experts who are more than happy to talk about the failures, doubts, and validated skepticism of big pharma in a myriad of drugs and medical trials.

But there are exceedingly few fields where questioning the orthodoxy is career and social suicide. Your faith in the system blinds you its politics. The bottom line is that, again, there is no incentive to report breakthrough cases, few people are doing so. All data is therefore suspect, and all current conclusions stem from this faulty data. And officials have yet to acknowledge this problem. Meanwhile despite high vaccination rates the virus continues to spread at record pace, while we are lied to about the effectiveness of the vaccines, now retroactively with emergent claims by apologetic laypersons, that the vaccines were never intended to stop the spread of the virus.

The same bias at the heart of this collective goalpost shift has infested the academic and political establishments and is kept in place by the implicit threat of being labeled an "antivaxxer".

Step outside of the argument and consider, for a moment, how many political, corporate, and academic careers would be destroyed, how much credibility would be irreversibly trashed, if it were proven that the vaccination campaign was a failure, or worse, that it caused more harm than good? Same for social distancing, masking, and lockdown campaigns. Don't you see that there is a mountain of momentum behind the official dogma regarding covid vaccination? Ultimately these are people with families to feed and career aspirations to maintain, with lifetimes of sunk costs to protect. It is reasonable to presume that the truth may be suppressed in an implicit, emergent manner, especially considering the current unabated state if the pandemic. At the very least I hope you would acknowledge that the messaging is not quite lining up with the statistics. We can pretend that this is just part of the scientific process, but I am alleging that because of political pressure (both state and corporate) the process has been heavily biased from the start. It is trivially easy to massage data, models, and analyses to match preconceived conclusions, intentionally or otherwise, especially when turning against the consensus comes with severe social and career costs.
Because someone made a shitty policy.
> the most complex system in existence

And by definition, anything that uses a chip will depend on this, I think?
Cars, airplanes, game consoles, mobile phones... Heck, we have chips in pregnancy pee sticks these days.

So, I think all supply chains for "modern" things are insanely complex and effectively incomprehensible.

And this is not new, see the classic "I, Pencil"[0].

> Since only God can make a tree, I insist that only God could make me. Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a tree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
It's often disappointing, I've found, to hear an artist talk about their own work.

The artist rarely, if ever, lives up to my expectations of them, as the creator of something I like.

Instead, I've started to look at artists as separate people, who are capable of creating work I like, but otherwise I try to think of them as entirely separate, and hope I can come to appreciate/like them for who they are, beyond just, the "vessel" for the art I like.
Only one I haven't seen in the South African catalogue is 30 Rock. I've been binging Parks and Rec. I blame the licencing agreements.
Here is an interesting practical way to turn Sparse linear regression solvers into Sparse PCA that’s not quite like reduction: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10106
I personally enjoyed that early flat earth momentum.

It forced me to check the working of great science thinkers that came before me. I learned a lot about the earth in general attempting to prove the flat earth trolls wrong.

Its like you are offering a conjecture, a thought experiment where you are forced to ask could this model be possible.

I remember a story about Euler I believe, suggested the thought experiment that the earth was hollow and has a central sun, to explain a interesting observation in the magnetosphere.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/85-inside-the-hollow-earth...

The earth is not flat, but the universe might be, according to Inflation theory, if the universe is flat the earth could be a holographic projection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
Yeah the Ford-class is obnoxiously overpriced. There is no way the key metrics of an aircraft carrier (sustained sortie generation rate, survivability, long-term maintenance) improved by the leaps-and-bounds necessary to justify tripling the price compared to a late-model Nimitz-class.
> Japanese for "let's write". (書こうね)

So it's pronounced like kah-kooh-neh or similar.

Three syllables, drag out the middle "oh" sound a bit longer.
> (I am the OP you're talking about)

Yes, sorry, I edited it before you commented.

I agree. I was going to write exactly those commands. OK, you usually have to execute "autogen.sh" or run "autoconf" when you clone a repository, and I am usually fine with perhaps even "mkdir build && cmake ..".

> A major differentiator for this one was that getting and using the model was "wget this single 40M file and place it here". And then at runtime, the program correctly grabbed the right microphone and automatically output text to stdout and was mostly accurate at doing so:)

Damn, that is crazy as well. If I was the one whose software was dependent on models or assets (that are relatively large in size), I would either put them into their separate git repository and use them as a git submodule, or host them (probably with mirrors) and have a Makefile target (probably) that downloads it using "wget" or "curl". That, or execute a script from Makefile, or anything of the like.

For programs like this, grabbing the right microphone and outputting text to stdout should be pretty common, too[1]. If the program does not do this, then it should be considered buggy, and I would think that the developers did not even test their own stuff!

[1] I still have related issues with Audacity to this day! I cannot complain that much, but yeah.
I like that there is hdmi input, but can ffmpeg or the storage system keep up with it on that little board? Is there enough driver support to even get the data in? The bit rage at 4Kp60 must be a heck of a lot.
Then you should worry less about unlikely things you can’t control, like civil war in the US, and worry more about why whatever country you live in doesn’t have redundant cloud services that could work if the US got shut down.
Spammers are in it for the money, so why do you assume that they wouldn't pay?
I think zepto.js is a better choice. It's slightly bigger than cash but much closer to jquery (for example it has $.ajax)

https://zeptojs.com
Then the network would need to have enough towers to handle everyone's streaming traffic and the cost of that would have to be passed on and eat your savings. Wired networks have lower cost when dealing with high data rates because they don't need scarce shared radio spectrum for higher speeds.

You can already pretty much get what you want by going the other way. Get a fast home internet connection, use WiFi at home and at work and get the cheapest available pay per use data plan for the small percentage of data you use while in a car etc. Doesn't work for people who use a large amount of data while traveling, but that's not actually most people.
> Heh. Stealing this...

Yeah, please popularize it. In my case I am unable to make management see reason. If more devs become vocal about it make it a trend, it will be a good thing to happen.
You'd be surprised at the kinds of hr policies that makes their own sense, but has no common sense.

Most likely to avoid someone returning on false pretenses to retaliate against being downsized in the firstplace.
I recently read the book: "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena. Chapter 11 is a good resource for this line of inquiry concerning reductions/translations between problems and NP-Completeness.
> How do namespaces help with versioning? That seems like a complete non-sequitur.

They tell you how to interpret data and to which schema definition the data conforms to. Elements `<a:MyElt>` and `<b:MyElt>` tell you explicitly how to interpret them. Without the namespace, you have to guess.

> The tooling for that is very limited and ineffective, IME, to the point that you're better off writing some class definitions and generating XML or JSON serializers from those. There's a huge impedance mismatch between the kind of constraints that are natural to express in XML schema and the kind that are natural to express in programming languages.

My experience is totally the opposite. If anything, XSD can express more constraints than most PLs will allow.
I think people use the word Docker to mean "produce an OCI-compliant image that a CRI runtime can run".
Aside from the replication issue, Postgres is just a better SQL database for actually managing your data than MySQL. It has proper typing, proper validations, standard SQL and its documentation is second to none for any software product (FOSS or COTS) that I've used over the last 20 years.

Replication and failover are actually hard problems to solve and the logical replication now gives Postgres the flexibility needed to avoid the WAL-shipping (and the Oracle et al equivalents).

In particular, RDBMS with ACID require 2-phase commits to have true replication, which then requires a transaction controller, which then needs to be HA and have failover. Lots of people cut corners on this and only discover their loss of data when a failover event happens.

PostGIS is truly amazing and I'm not sure any other RDBMS has a similarly extended GIS capability.
She still lists Batman as her favorite comic book character on this website's bio of her.

I don't think she "hates" comics, considering it's her entire job, and has been for her whole career.
Ah, that explains the confusion. Yeah, I didn't mean static as in the "static" keyword in Java / C++, but as in specified in the statically-typed code. Defining constructors that accept dependencies -- exactly. Ah yeah, I can see how Java exacerbates things here with the one-class-per-file rule -- ugh.

Go doesn't require one class (well, type or struct in Go) per file, and has much more flexibility in how you build packages as a result. I think it's a good thing that dependencies like the logger and the database are passed around explicitly: I've learned the hard way that "explicit is better than implicit" even when it means a bit more boilerplate.
Dubbing and Localization with the Help of Voice Cloning: 3 Main Benefits
One of my most used VSCode extensions at the moment is "Fix JSON". It fixes problems in JSON by running the broken JSON through jsonic. If you ever need to take a JS object dump (from an error stack trace, or a Redux state dump, etc) and turn it in to well formatted JSON it's very useful.
Huh. My company won’t do anything more than confirm date of hire and salary.

You could probably get a manager to give an informal reference “off the books”, not on company time.
AFAIK, Soong -> Bazel - https://blog.bazel.build/2020/11/12/aosp_migrating_to_bazel.... (2020)
The Power of Capitalism
Just a note: I overloaded (excuse the pun) the word "static": I didn't mean the "static" keyword, but "statically compiled/typed". So it doesn't mean singletons, just that you pass dependencies as explicit arguments to constructors and functions.
All of those scenarios would create much more urgent and immediate problems than losing access to Twitter or Jira. Banking, for example. Food, energy, transportation would all suffer, globally.

The Chinese economy and internal US conflicts are out of your control, so they merit as much worry as an asteroid strike. We’re suffering through a global pandemic now and the internet has so far survived. If demographics worry you get busy having children.
Doing the motion first lets you visually confirm the range before invoking the command. You also have the opportunity to adjust the range if you didn't get it quite right.

Mnemonically the vim order works better for English but in practice I find the visual feedback from selection better for anything even moderately complex. An example would b `f` or `t` since I tend to hit the letter I was aiming for earlier than I was expecting.

> In case were `wd` deletes a word - there should be some lag, no?

There's no animation or forced latency. For a short motion that's predictable like `w`, you're typing the d before you actually check the result and it's just as fast as vim but in the opposite order.
Pre-pandemic, LTE was just too congested in busy city centres and other high demand locations in the UK.

5G will help alleviate the strain on LTE networks in the long run, so I want (and have) it for that purpose.
I remember when asking for “salsa” north of Denver resulted in your eggs being covered in ketchup - and having to get relatives to send me cans of hatch green chilies because pickled jalapeños were the only option in NYC.

Things definitely got better, you can go pretty much anywhere in the US and get real salsa now - thank you taco bell for educating people. Today I can buy hatch green chilis in the ethnic isle of most grocery stores in NYC (and you can always order them from Amazon or Walmart). In the northeast poblano peppers are in all the Mexican-ish dishes - huge upgrade from the pickled jalapeños and very close to the hatch chilies I grew up with. Some of the stuff I get at the taco trucks is even more exotic and really wonderful - I’m a big fan of Oaxacan cheese, wish I had discovered that years ago.
Your registration in the DNS is always subject to the policies, procedures, security, and legal environment of the controlling registry.

This is one reason I always recommend avoiding obscure ccTLDs, especially if you have no presence there.
From experience, what’s key is the system you have to keep track and restore things so you’re not consciously filling your brain while working on tasks.
Ah I see. Fair enough. Though it's still a very wasteful way to do it IMO. A human could open those liquid capsules and save all the plastic. I hope the big labs don't do it like this?

But there was another covid test in the press lately that was really just a $2 lateral flow test with a bluetooth module attached ready to be disposed. I incorrectly assumed this was the same idea. Apologies.
so I agree with you on the Punjabi food, but there's some commonalities that I've found people enjoy between different regions of south asia. Friends from Pakistan that had never been to a Sri Lankan restaurant before very much enjoyed the dosa places we went to, and the authentic spicy (4 out of 5 on a spicy level?) dosa fillings were similar in many ways to some of the spicier pakistani foods...
I wouldn't consider the Japanese analog a great one because sushi, ramen, and yakiniku are not particularly regional specialties.
> (Feel like I’m a cheer leader posting this comment every week)

I haven't seen it yet, so thank you! And in the name of others like me who haven't seen it yet, keep cheering please.
Never heard of Ferret before. Hedgehog is bytecode interpreted and garbage collected while Ferret looks to be trans-compiled and tries to run without a GC. So I'd say they aren't trying to do the same thing. Hedgehog by now may be a little bit obsolete, since we have things like Micro Python. It is still pretty cool though.
Anyone else spot the iso646.h macros[1] in the screenshots? E.g., https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/src/buffer_mana...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_alternative_tokens#The_macro...
Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out (2021)
The thing with semiconductor tech, though, is that not only are new nodes faster, they also use less power and (eventually) are cheaper as well. Don't invest in new nodes, and it'll cost more money for the same number of transistors.
This visualisation really shows you how unintuitive matrix multiplication is.
I hadn't figured that out, thanks!
"being able to walk around a city and not get lost"

I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night).

I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a trained "module". I walk a lot (mostly in cities), and I played first-person shooters since the first DOOM back in 1993. And I recently found out that I strongly prefer first-person games to top-down / 2D games -- I instantly feel "at home" there.

So I guess my advice to someone who wants to train this "navigation module" would be to 1) walk on foot in complex spaces like cities, and 2) play first-person games without objective and map markers where the knowledge of the game space is critically important. Modern survival games, such as Green Hell, Subnautica, and The Long Dark, are a perfect fit.
What about a slow seemingly unarmed takeover?
I think it's unlikely that the west would respond militarily, and that's probably what the Chinese govt counts on.
Yes, likely they will become something like the modern GPU card.
This. The virtual supervision by a doctor part is necessary for it to be considered a valid test for international travel per CDC guidelines:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-...

This is one of the rare cases where having an app and Bluetooth is indeed useful.
When I tried Kakoune, it seemed like a really cool idea and implementation, but it didn't seem like their configuration language had basic functions for string manipulation, path testing, etc. So a common pattern with plugins etc. was to shell out to sed, awk, etc, which was a _huge_ turnoff. I now use Neovim, but if they have recently implemented that functionality, I'd be willing to give Kakoune another shot
Once you realise that it's, er, let's say, inspired by vim, you look at the logo and see that it's basically a clone of the vim logo/icon - the orange part of the K looks like the V in the vim icon, and the green lozenge background is almost exactly the same. Which makes it even stranger that they are trying to hide that - there is no mention of vi/vim on the site's landing page. Ok, I understand that they are wary that mentioning "vi(m)" could scare people away, but come on, they are going to find out anyway sooner or later and lose interest then, so what's the point?

Also, what happened to proudly mentioning your software is open source and all the "fork me on GitHub" ribbons/banners/whatever? They seem a bit shy on that too - which is all the more bizarre because most of the links in the top navigation actually go to GitHub, but none of them are labeled "source code".
1) If _you_ are designing a new API, then my answer still holds. Choose a serializer and let it decide the wire format for you.

2) If someone else has already published the API, well, then it's already decided.

In both cases, your objections are moot.
Why would you assume scapegoating and not firing offendors who aren't "too big to fail"?

Not disclosing a reason is the opposite of scapegoating. It's downplaying to avoid a fresh news cycle with lurid details.
> IMO keeping someone like Kotick around for his money making prowess is extremely short sighted.

For a gaming company? Even the best-run gaming companies struggle to last a decade financially. If you’re a shareholder, you’re looking at these returns and realizing that this man is a unicorn.