skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it doesn’t work. You’d need a foot ball field of area, and a 3 story building, to life a small yacht like space.

The wind forces on the surface would be extreme, and you’d need a lot of power to even stay somewhere stationary instead of flying away. All of this would add weight, increasing the volume of helium needed, increasing the wind exposed surface area, making the problem worse.

You’d need a huge industrial hall to store it safely on the ground, and you can’t tie it with a rope anywhere.

The helium required to fill the balloon would make the operating costs of this thing absurd, cause it’s a lot of helium, that leaks all the time and have to be replenished, and helium is super expensive (and necessary for pricy things like cooling superconducting magnets applications, which have infinite budget).

Any 3rd year University student with basic knowledge of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and mechanic, can draft in a napkin why we already know that this can’t work.

I’ve sat in meetings where the VCs contracted me and others to do DD on these types of companies, where every contractor told them that this can’t physically work, and the VCs with too much money take that knowledge and translate it to “very high risk investment”. These companies got 100 million dollars and burnt through them, without nothing to show, but for the VC was more important to not have that money parked somewhere and be able to tell investors that they have “mobility companies” in their portfolio, which I think is borderline misleading / scamming because everyone knew that these companies “concepts” couldn’t physically move a thing, cause that was a physical impossibility with the tech that they wanted to use.
Yes I agree, students are not consumers, but this depends also on the type of legislation, for example in UK and USA this could be true for the private universities but in other EU states, in the public universities, students are not consumer.

If students can be considered consumers also in public university, then, they should request the refund to ministry, and not to the school.
I would take a guess and say that the overwhelmingly bad books that you've seen are from Apress? I have tried some because of discounts around and ended up thiking that they've become utter garbage?
Using it on my POCO X3 PRO and it's perfect. Bootloader unlocked, Lineage OS installed and now I have a brand new smartphone without chinese crap.
I don't really see how reddit is like that.

Ofc there is downvotes, but most people have throwaways anyways.

There is no vetting before you register, only after you angered enough people, and then you create another account.

And even if it's subjective, there is a lot of what I would call dumb people.

From antiscience to racism, sexism(on both sides), plain ignorance, trolling...

I honestly can't spend 5 minutes on reddit without getting angry and loosing faith in humanity.
Can't you export them via Google Takeout?
I was around at the time.

Java's object semantics are explicitly intended as a streamlining of C++, the keywords are the same for the most part, and it was sold as a C++ which runs anywhere with no memory leaks.

Note that I mentioned the semantics: the object semantics of Java and C++ are so similar as to have corrupted the entire concept of objects in their favor.

This wasn't an accident, and it wasn't malice, it just feels like it sometimes.
There is a wide, wide gap between “believing his crap” and observing the first successful electric car uproot an entire industry, reusable spacecraft become commonplace, large-scale battery storage, and so on. Calling those a joke completely undermines any argument that follows.

And really, who cares that the CEO who was fired from Tesla didn’t get priority delivery, other than people looking for a match to light? It’s an inane discussion.
Google takeout makes both surprisingly easy.
I don’t think so. Frustration usually leads to demotivation in context of studying a subject.
"infection produces multiple orders of magnitude more protein and that vaccination leads to lesser viral vaccination"

Do you have a source for this claim? Last time I tried to research this and get a figure for the difference, there was just no way to directly compare dosages. But it turned out that antibody titer is much higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated-and-infected, which implies the effect of the vaccine is stronger.

The general rule seems to be that whatever you assume about COVID vaccines, regardless of how basic it may appear to be, will turn out to be riven with conflicting facts when trying to find support for it.
I wonder if it would work in Venus atmosphere?
How about leaving the old stuff you want to "replace" alone? People are using it.
Worth noting there are many different ways to get CUDA with WSL2 working.

If you follow the MS docs, they do not mention anything about install CUDA on the Linux VM, you do not get a functional setup to start using CUDA and if you follow Nvidia's documentation, they push you down the docker container route.
I personally prefer to setup Tensorflow using Anaconda rather than pip.

A slight correct on the OP, the special driver NVIDIA mentions is for CUDA only (no display driver included), Nvidia does not "support" installing of their full display driver in WSL2 so YMMV in terms of reliability and performance.

I personally gave up on WSL2, not because of WSL2, but because it is so hard to use remotely (I do not have frequent local access to my GPU workstation). I tried various instructions and WSL2 itself was fine when used locally (via remote desktop), but networking scripts I found were unreliable, or if I used Windows openssh server it kept crashing and bash.exe is too limited to be useful, just not worth the hassle and effort when I can install Linux native.
Well, if examined history starts in 1939, then agreement looks really bad.

If you extend the starting date to maybe autumn 1918 (Polish–Soviet War, Poland's invasion while Russia is in the state of civil war), then it can be considered as less bad, with some justifications that are not out of the historical norm.

Though that Polish invasion from 1918 can be considered as preemptive (defence from evil bolsheviks, trying to recover pre-1772 borders).

Though that Soviet invasion from 1939 can be considered as preemptive (defence from evil capitalists and fascists, trying to restore pre-1921 borders).

Though it is hard to do similar mental gymnastics with relation to invasion of Finland.
It has become very bad; searching for something like an error message, the first result is SO and results 2-9 will be SO scrapers.

Unlike say, Pinterest, I don't see anything Google could gain from "condoning" these scraper sites. I feel it's 1. gradual ranking algorithm changes 2. succesful gaming.
No, lol, but good to know that theirs are bad too.
If i had a "different" ISA to market, I'd think the very first priority would be to have excellent free compilers for it, be they FOSS or not. Write our own and give them away if we gotta. Remove every barrier to people using your product that you can.

IBM doesn't think that way. They're probably using "the longhair hippies can't use this hardware" as a selling point.
Swagmagic is the most seamless solution to get your swag to anyone anywhere in the world. They have a strong print on demand menu which keeps costs down, has no order minimums, and let’s you utilize a order portal that takes literally 2-3 min to place your order. We’ve used them a few times and have had great experiences.
I know it is done in other places - and I think you are right. It could simply eliminate some anxiety and arguments - it takes someone's ability to pay out of the picture completely. Anything that makes it easier to be a good parent with one's ex should be encouraged.
Honestly there are times when I think the attitude is more useful than anything I do code-wise. And I still care a lot about some of the stuff I've come up with in code ;) but these days, more is needed.

It's worth thinking about why this is. I am very determined to stick with the kind of messaging and attitude that I like. I also have a strong intuitive feeling that it's not a good match to what platforms and competition and basically internet capitalism want to see out of me, and they've got enormous pressure to bring to bear, and many ways to direct me towards becoming what's useful to them, and indeed punish me for not doing so.

That would mean that if it's in any way hard to find 'that attitude' you're appreciating, it's because it is reserved for people who both have it and are willing to take a beating to keep it. As we think about stuff like that, think about what ways platforms would like you to be more, I dunno, Logan Paul or PewDiePie etc in nature, for engagement, and in what ways they're able to deliver pressure and advocate for those on their platform to take on that form.
> despite the prerequisites just being “math maturity”.

TBH I've started interpreting the maturity part at code for solid experience with proofs and abstraction.

I'm not sure exactly why they do it, it's possible that there just forgot how it is to be a beginner.
Interesting. From your headline here I was hoping that you used the standard Google snippet with an override of the tracking host. I think it would be more powerful to save whatever the same GA setup would save.
> heroin seems safer than romance

You can’t propagate the human species with heroin
Sorry, I didn’t intend to start a flamewar. The comments I did see (the specific ones I found to be immature) were what this was meant for, but you’re right. Where you saw a general positive sentiment, I only saw the negative sentiment (like the potato “joke” or “Dayton ruined my life”) and I should have just ignored it ya know?

I do attach my exact name and LinkedIn profile to my comments so I hope that it’s clear that I’m not just trolling or have specific bad intentions. Just frustrated a little bit today with those comments I did see, so I ranted. My apologies. Again you’re 100% right.

Cheers!
The problem with all of this is always intangible wealth, and unpaid contributions to the household. Person A got a degree while person B sweated away to keep a roof over their heads. If they divorce the day Person A graduates, with zero net assets, Person B gets the raw end of that deal (Unless it's a degree in Latin poetry.)

Or, person A made money, while person B did all the unpaid housemaking, childcare, etc. Or, person A made the money, did the housemaking, childcare, while person B bummed around, drunk all day.

All of these are special cases, and none of them can be covered by a one-size-fits-all policy. It's why divorce litigation is necessary, as a safety valve, and why pre-nups aren't ironclad.
It s always been a bit fun, I think people at the market 400 years ago liked the bartering and choosing and spending as much the chicken they ended up with.

There's nothing wrong with mercantile pleasure per se. It's probably an incentive/reward mechanism in the brain to encourage comfort.
The issue is that code outside of some_func does not know that f has been destroyed and a new object created in the same memory location, thus wouldn't know that the const member foo::x now has a new value.

As for why the spec prohibits the modification of const values: one of the reasons for compilers being allowed to treat const values as being truly immutable is for performance. If the compiler can see the actual value then it can avoid the memory read entirely, and if it doesn't know the actual value then it only needs to do one memory read.

If those const values could change without the compiler being aware then it now needs to do an awful lot more fetching from memory as it cannot guarantee that the value did not change. Some of it could be optimized away, but it would still make code a lot slower if - for example: mixing reads from const ints with pointer/reference manipulation of ints - as due to potential aliasing the compiler would likely have to read those const ints from memory each time.
That feeling of stupidity usually sets in, when there is no good explanation, using non field-specific jargon. If somebody explains to you a fact, using not yet-explained concepts or words, you are hitting a recursive problem and can not continue.

The best explanations do not use field jargon and that is the reason why they are so rare.

If your beginners book uses field jargon without laymans explanations directly beside it, it is simply a bad beginners book.
Bonus-points if you use field jargon from other fields not even related to the topic of the book.
The Myth of Chinese Efficiency (Vs California) – High Speed Trains
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It’s been a hot minute since I did anything in F# (or .NET, for that matter). How’s the compilation speed these days? And how’s the tooling on Linux? The last time I looked, both were painful.
You realize that political parties are not the only expression of political opinions of large groups of people?
SICP is a scheme course. If you want to experience SICP, why compromise? If you learned JS, you can learn scheme.

Reusing the SICP name is just a marketing tactic to sell something different and probably less special.
How many of them had COVID when they died? Probably not many or none, right?
Would gothy-style, belt-heavy designs work well here? I imagine Victorian women didn't rotate clothes at the rate implied here. This seems just ... bad
I think, the focus on what is actually fine has shifted.

Obviously, everyone has parts of their life they could improve.

But in the past the world expected you to change things that, in fact, were perfectly fine.

We are now in the readjustment phase, what did society want from us that was actually bad and what was good?
Pros/cons vs Pinboard?
Type A/Type B isn’t a thing.

It is a fake latent variable cardiologists (who were being paid by tobacco companies) came up with to distinguish between people who had heart attacks and those who didn’t to mask the effect of smoking.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477961/

It’s not surprising that this vocabulary persists - it’s a nice shorthand to casually describe personality. But the idea that it represents anything objective, measurable or scientific needs to be stamped out.
I don't think you'd have a good community for long, and I don't think I'd want to join. however, it sounds like you hope to be able to gather up all the toxic, "holier than thou" Karen types who are so corrosive to other communities, and thats a good thing. So please do try. Have meetups. Advertise their location with enough precision for targeting.
So how do we tackle that, because that's bullshit.
You're right, we need to draw a distinction between the Real Programmers and the Quiche Eaters. A mere Java or Python user just isn't good enough, they can't write portable assembly like a Real Programmer can.
I think challenging is where you want to be at, not overwhelming. If you are feeling stupid, you're probably missing something along the way. This is still useful information, though. It tells you that you should go looking for the missing pieces.

Your next task after learning 100 basic words in English should probably not be Shakespeare.
It says (part 1) in the headline, even on HN!

As a place to start discussing why a successor systems language is necessary, comparing string parsing across Rust, Zig, and C? Pretty good place to start, because the problems it introduces are pervasive as the discussion continues.

Magic error values that get globally mutated? Check. Pointers which are either null or exist so you can do arithmetic to deduce a byte length? Check. An almost aggressive distain for handling sum types of even the simplest sort? Check.

Turns out Zig and Rust are whupping the ol' llama on undefined behavior and build processes as well, not to mention memory safety. If only this author had indicated that they might continue writing on the subject...
The older XPS "developer edition" models with a lot of ram and an SSD also make very good home servers. Power usage at idle is a fraction of what you would otherwise use and the performance is great.
Cranes also use counterweights.
But unlike Palo Alto, Columbus can expand in all directions indefinitely. So while it may have housing issues, it would be completely surprising for houses to get as expensive or even relatively as expensive as a place like Palo Alto. Though the downside here is because of car-first urban planning and design we will create our own little version of Houston.
Try it out, and if you feel you didn't help someone the way you are satisfied with, don't charge them.
Definitely for me too.

I currently work at a large fintech company and have a decent salary. I have been there for quite some time now so I have the reputation and trust in the organization however, I am having the worst time of my career. I can also barely work a few hours a day and I feel horribly burnout. Hence I made the opposite decision - to move to one of the FAANGs where I will massively shift my current WLB. I am confident that I made the right decision.
Why create a new language if you only remove things? You should be able to achieve the same with a strict linter.
IBM had the opportunity of being the royalty-free ISA that RISC-V is. Or even release the cores "IP". They squandered it.
You don't have to be married to the mother of your kids in many countries.
Ordo Praedicatorum?
Well, that's why I asked my question, ("What are you proposing that's different from that?") because I don't know what he means by mandatory pre-nups, because we already have a mandatory pre-nuptial agreement, and indeed it sometimes kicks in literally before any nuptials.

Clearly they intend something else than a mandatory agreement you sign up for before marraige, because that exists, but they're not really providing any details on how it would differ?
> If something is needed in pretty much every program, it should be a part of the language or the standard library.

It sure would be convenient that way. That said, you don't need to convert strings in pretty much every program. There's a lot of C code out there that does very little with strings.

Now do you dismiss an entire language if its standard library is lacking or doesn't exist? IMO that would be throwing out baby with the bathwater.

> npm install, cargo install, nimble install, cabal install, gem install, …

Yes, I've witnessed the mountain of unaudited dependencies that somehow turn a 300 line program into something the size of my kernel.. should I dismiss all those languages because people do something I don't like with their libraries?
Let me guess.

Your single without children?
"modern reactors are much better than old designs, but when we talk about shutdowns they complain that reactors which have been running much beyond there original design lifetime are being shut down"

These two claims aren't contradictions though.

It is both possible that nuclear tech has improved a lot, and that newer reactors would be better, but the alternative of "no reactors at all" is much worse than even running the existing ones beyond their design lifetime.
You are not using the same meaning of "addiction". I'm most definitely an addict, of various substances. Can easily put them down for months or years, that's not proof that I'm not an addict. The addiction is the part where I keep coming back even though I can quit.
TIL LLVM and gcc are not excellent free compilers and useless for longhair hippies. What do your hippies use?
Or rather, the scheme was being what it naturally was. Falling apart implies that there's a together for it to be, behind the scenes.

When it's designed from the start to be an expanding shell powered by new belief coming in, the philanthropy and big gestures are core to the nature of what it is.

Back in the day I read an old book by Harvey Mackay (iirc), one of those business-guy self-help books, and he had a chapter called never buy anything big in a room where there is a chandelier. :D The point being, it's normal for scamsters to influence people by making their pitch in a place all decked out to look like the most wealthy, influential place you could imagine, and there'd be a chandelier because it would look like everybody was rich. And so, never buy anything big in a room with a chandelier, because it probably meant you were being ripped off.

All this predates crypto by a loooooong way. There's nothing really new. Maybe back in the days of travelling traders on camels it was, never buy a camel in a room with a carpet that's bigger than the camel is :)
3.5 years at Facebook, and concur with everything you said. I'll add two things.

(1) You allude to it with "even continued employment" but it deserves to be explicit: "up or out" makes everything about PSC twice as bad as it already is. I wasn't subject to it myself (I was hired at a "terminal" level) but I saw it cause much grief for more junior folks.

(2) Mandatory oncall can be "meh" on some teams but absolute hell on others. On my first team (small service) I was in a rotation that had as few as two members at one point. Oncall every other week. On my second team (large service) I was on three rotations for a while. In both cases things could get very intense. Not only no work/life balance either way, but also no time for "impact" on your PSC when you spend the whole time fighting fires, plus cleanup the next week, plus working on follow-up tasks after each SEV review.

The combination of these two factors led to many people deferring everything they could from their own shift into the next, plus never working on cleanup or follow-up tasks, because that's the behavior PSC rewards. The intent behind PSC was good - to be quantitative and fair - but in effect I agree that it drove much of FB's internal dysfunction.
Frustration is very much a mindset-problem though. In part, it's misaligned expectations, but also a learned behavior of giving up whenever something doesn't immediately give away.

People have spent decades trying to solve difficult problems in mathematics and science. A big reason they didn't get frustrated and give up after 4 minutes was largely because they didn't expect it to be a 2 minute problem.
Indeed, the Hindenburg could lift over 200tons however it’s useful lift (lifting capacity minus its own weight and structural limitations) was only about 10 tons…

Even if we ignore the lifting gas requirements just the structural requirements to be able to tie 250tons to the lifting body make this pretty much impossible.

This makes solar roadways and the air condenser solar water bottles seem viable.

For comparison the Airlander and P-791 only lift about 10-20 tons…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_P-791

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_Airlande...
I upvoted this because hey, no lies detected.

The problem is that this particular design principle of C is ready for a comfortable retirement in a beach community.

The machismo is probably why you're getting dragged a bit, but the bottom line is that being intimate with the hardware is orthogonal to pointlessly segfaulting. C does both, Zig is aiming for one of these things and I'll let you guess which.
Kiva has always seemed to have people who aren't fans of the model and has had problems in the past[0]. Lately it's been more of a feeling, the messaging has a corporate spin to it that makes it harder to give them the benefit of the doubt. A specific thing is they have done recently made the page where you withdraw funds harder to use, and it seems like they have stopped sending emails to me when I have funds available in my account.

[0]https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/16/not-our-last-words-on-t...
Note that Hetzner has a datacenter in Finland! Feeling lucky right now that I picked Helsinki DC for my own server.
> If you're going to sing praises to cooperation and mediation, how about you try to get people to do that during marriage?

What makes you think that people don't do that?

I would imagine that most people don't divorce for fun but because it's the best of all the sucky remaining options.
This just made my whole week. Thank you.