skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it easy to learn compared to other systems languages? Very much so.

I think this is debatable and depends on your background.

If you come from a Java/C background then many things are unintuitive e.g. error handling, dynamic interfaces, package/library management, whitespace parsing, style enforcement etc.

Golang is easy to learn right now because it's basic like say Java 1.2. But since it likes to ignore what other languages do I wouldn't say it's an inherently easy language.
I do!

A long time ago I started computing entertainment in terms of quality hours per dollar.

So for example a good book might cost $20 but last ten hours of high quality entertainment, which is very good value at $2 per hour.

Movie tickets are not-so-good at something like $20 per hour, $40+ if I have a date and we're buying snacks.

Some computer games are ludicrously efficient. I never paid a cent for some games and played them for thousands of hours. Even factoring in the cost of the PC and electricity, we're looking at cents per hour.

Holidays are the worst, at something like $1K+ per day or $60 per waking hour.

I had to explain to the missus that we're wasting money going to a so-so restaurant on an overseas holiday. Since we've already sunk thousands into just being present at that location, and every hour was costing us Real Money, we may as well go to restaurant that's just shy of 5 stars and costs triple digits. Do the sky dive. Then do a dive under the ocean. Snowboard. See something spectacular! Otherwise, what's the point? We're burning money for what... doing nothing... but in a different part of the planet!?
This video helped me understand what RPG Paper Maker is about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27B25ZXgG4
Ok? I feel like it's relatively clear from the question that in this hypothetical world there are only 2 states, married or unmarried.

Logically the question can be cut down to:

Given an alphabet {A, B} is there an symbol x such that for the string "AxB" an A is not followed by a B.
Hence my last paragraph: that would mean that psychic powers aren’t all that impressive and just have effects on the 32nd most significant bit.
The Genetic History of France [pdf]
>There is no promise whatsoever that they will be worth something in the future and that is the big difference. Nobody gets conned

Of course there is, that's what the Brazilian guys in the article we're commenting on were arrested for. Schemes worth 5 billion in total that included false promises of delivering monthly returns of 10% on bitcoin 'investments'.

Pretty much the entire value of countless of coins, nfts or other largely imaginary financial products is a game of bigger fool. People paying tens of thousands for NFTs of pictures or tweets makes no more sense than that old scam of buying an acre of land on the moon or of an imaginary country.

And of course the other big similarity is the shared psychological reaction. Rather than people waking up to the fact that they're entangled in increasingly bizarre financial transactions, the rationalizations for the behavior become weirder and weirder.
Really?
In Germany, 79 cities > 100000
In Ireland, 3 (including Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

My comment was not meant to express any valuation or disvaluation of Ireland. It’s focus is about differences in age structures, population density, and vaccination strategy / execution, which makes it difficult to take Irelands approach as template for any other country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_settlements_on_the_isl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_p...
https://archive.fo/l5yOq
That’s because poetry’s success is a function of social consensus rather than objective reality. But anything that depends on something real can be industrialized.
In the Netherlands they rose 15% in 2021 compared to 2020. But that wouldn’t be in an article from April 2021.

Teens aren’t getting hit by cars more due to lockdowns. But the suicide numbers are up due to lockdowns. That’s why they are brought up when talking about how COVID should be ‘managed’.
Why the Online Game Wordle Went Viral, According to Psychology
I think you're misrepresenting the debate.

I've never seen anyone argue that generics aren't a useful concept, but I've seen plenty argue that it isn't worth the cost in incurs. That is a quite a different debate then the one you are outlining.
My comment never said that this outage 'WAS' got to do with web3.

That is why I said 'IF', given that Roblox plans on moving to the metaverse and web3, hence the 'quotations'.

So 'IF' this continues and they move to 'the metaverse', it will not only get worse, but it will create an outage domino effect crossing towards others services ('or metaverses')
My favorite thing about that hole is that we always imagine it to be human-sized or something, but it was as wide as a football or so.
Maybe true but how can you audit this?
Gentle reminder: heritability isnt what "most people think it is".

It's just covarience with genes -- this might seem like it means "X is genetic" -- but it *doesnt*. Consider accents (eg., the scottish accent) this is highly heritable: typically only people with the genetic profiles of those localised to scotland have it.

Consider using heritability to determine genetic vs. envrionmental causation (largely: you just cant use it to do this). Eg., even in the case of height: it would seem that the genes of people in poor-nutrition countries were the cause of their low height.

The movement from "heritability" to "genetic causation" *asssumes* (and always, by assertion *assume*) that the trait studied is already genetically caused. IF we know this, THEN hertiability is a somewhat reliable measure of "to what degree".

But in almost all cases we have no grounds whatsoever to independently assume this. Rending most heritability studies basically useless.
> for some reason

(a) it takes effort; (b) it’s working, right? so why would I spend $6 + my own labour, or probably $50 for someone else to do it, on a new cable?

You are quite right that bicycles need maintenance, but they work well enough for many people with limited to no maintenance, so that even when they experience what their bike is like when maintained, they often still won’t find it worth the bother. (I would be inclined to be like that if only using the bike for fairly short trips; as it stands, my standard trip is 40km each way, so such losses would become too galling.)

This preference not to maintain incidentally points to a way in which I think electric drive-trains have real potential: they should require much less maintenance, and generally retain higher efficiency. “5% less efficient than a chain”, perhaps, but that’s a maintained chain. Minimally-maintained chain drivetrains will probably have lost that 5%, and unmaintained ones can easily lose 20%.
I lived for a year in 12 story apartment block that was U shaped, I lived on the inner part of the U and this was exactly my experience. If anyone of the 72 inner apartments was having a party or just some late night drinks with friends you couldn’t sleep. Happened about 1-2 times a week.

I was surprised that building codes allowed such construction here in the UK as there’s lots of rules about sound insulation between units.
Shortscapers linked with bridges/“skywalks”?

But that won’t happen between buildings constructed by different companies so it would have to be mandated in some way. Maybe modular cable cars that can be put up between buildings later?
My cheat script will not help with refactoring your code, but note that with a helper data structure, you do not need multiple passes over the guess to mark each letter in one of three states. Write down the process in human language first, then write the code to do the thing instead of immediately diving into the code and rearranging it until it produces the desired result.

These exercises are great at improving your intuition and aptitude for refactoring code in a way that makes it more maintainable, easier to read and reason about.
It's not exactly true that your salary is public -- what's public is your taxable income, taxable wealth, total estimated tax, birth year and postal code. Various deductions apply to the income which makes it non-straightforward to deduce a person's actual income, and as for taxable wealth the minimums are high enough and deductions are substantial enough (especially if you own a home) that a lot of people with wealth much greater than zero will be listed with a taxable wealth as zero.
Not sure what you've been reading, but I've been reading lots of Go users who don't like generics arguing with lots of other Go users who do like generics. It's not a "those Go users" vs "us sensible people" flame war, it's a multifaceted debate with lots of sides, all of which contain some Go users.
I don’t think it’s nearly that cut-and-dry. A core question is whether or not it’s useful to engage in the discussion.

If I were involved in a public debate for some reason and someone asked me, “suppose that blacks ares naturally inferior to whites…”, I would likely also decline the “discourse decoupling”. It’s hard to see how that conversation is going to go anywhere useful and it feels very much like granting a platform for a white supremacist to speak to white supremacy supporters.
“Wizard” is the right way to put it. There’s a certain kind of “experienced” developer who enjoys being the local guru way too much. Even regardless of technology, their projects are invariably set up in such a way that no one can do anything without them.

C++ seems perfect for these people because there are so many little traps and arbitrary rules to remember. “Ha ha, you wrote for (const auto x: y) instead of for (const auto& x: y)? Stupid fool!”

(Or is it auto&& now? decltype(auto)? I honestly don’t remember and don’t really care.)

I’m not remotely suggesting all or even most C++ experts are like this, but anecdotally, their share is higher than among, say, Python programmers.

It’s not like Rust is particularly easy to learn. On a conceptual level, it’s probably harder than C++ (traits, generics, lifetimes). It’s just so much less arcane.
Yosefk had one of my favourite programming blogs ever, sad he no longer updates.
Even then, it's remarkably easy to read Go programs. This is very important.
Loved the SPHINX C-- IDE for DOS, no idea if it's the same C--
His voice became my constant companion
Yeah, ramp it up to all the way to 11, C++. Or as they call it, "strawman".

I don't think many people would call Java 1.5 or C# 2.0 super complicated.

Do you know what Java 1.5 and C# 2.0 had in common, that Go didn't? Generics.

For reference:

- Java 1.5 - release date: September 30, 2004

- C# 2.0 - release date: January 22, 2006

That's ~18 years ago and 16 years ago, for whoever's keeping track.
B2C - you have to design an app that appeals to people who will buy and use it.

B2B - you have to design an app that appeals to people who will buy it and force other people to use it.
Wishful thinking :-D
> plenty argue that it isn't worth the cost in incurs

The other "plenty" were arguing that it was worth the cost.

So color me surprised that this side was right.
Azure offers three CDNs directly, one of which is EC (shown as Verizon due to the acquisition).

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cdn/#prici...
> "don't let people get away with appeals to emotion and other fallacies, just because they disguise them as sophisticated arguments - call them out"

That’s much better stated than my response. Don’t let them abuse the platform they’re being granted.
Thanks for giving a snappy way to call how I now feel about the lack of original-version American movies and TV series on streaming services in Germany. They’re all dubbed into German, and there is no legal source where I can hear the actors reciting their own dialogue. I understand and like German movies and even some TV, but can’t stand dubbed ones that I can almost lip-read in my native language.

Instead of taking the trouble to pirate or talk someone in the US through configuring a RaspberryPi on their home network, I just miss out. Previously, resentfully; now, joyfully.

JOMO.
NASA’s James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space
This kind of restraint and level-headedness is the most important trait of a senior developer. The industry sorely needs more of them, not just in C++…
What's better about chrome's console?
CF’s Durable Objects product which I neglected to mention above attempts to be that huge database and cache. The CAP theorem isn’t violated, it just embraces consistency while relying on the partition tolerance of their POPs and backbone. Their KV store is more about availability.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/durable-objects-ga/

I don’t disagree that a huge database can handle an astonishing amount of load but at often unreasonable expense. There as many cases where FaaS is dramatically more affordable to run, both in compute cost and ops time. There are others where its costs spiral out of control under load and with dev effort to fit its constrained programming models. Its hard to say its entirely a trendy frivolity when there are many use cases where its the best tool for the job.
Did you read the article? Or do you dispute its points?

> Anyone who has worked with DNS servers knows what goes into such logs and in order for Cloudflare to keep their promise they need to: Delete the DNS requests information, but at the same time somehow still keep "anonymized" logs of the total number of requests, a list of all domain names requested, a so-called "sample" of complete DNS queries along with date and time.
Hmmm...

"To help ensure that no code explosion occurs for what appears to be a very simple operation"

How does constant propagation cause code explosion?
Skyscrapers in parks don't make for very good cities.
> As formulated, the resistance to D-decoupling is simply a refusal to discuss issues

There's an old adage that tells us that what is discussed frequently seems more acceptable. I think there's a fear that if we start discussing how an IQ difference between races WOULD looks like, the notion might start feeling more "right".
That's very true, we must only rely on the Big Banks, they are resource free, green, love the planet and the poor people.

Another article full of complains but without any idea or solution.
Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 Can Be Used to Hack Your Computer
i like the snooze
> Above six or ten stories, it's actually counterproductive in terms of things like energy efficiency.

um, those crumbling, 40 years old, 15m across, entirely uninsulated, six stories buildings obliterating every surfaces within 25 miles in every direction from the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...those are...not exactly wonderlands always.
How many would fit in a football field?
> No, this is not the same thing as "undefined behavior" in the sense the ISO C spec defines it.

Well, it's not UB the way optimiser-extremists (mis-)interpret the ISO C standard.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

We all tend to worry too much. I used to make plans to fix the future. Something which we can not fix. I have learned to make plans with broader strokes. I have been fortunate in my working life to pursue my love of technology. I am very grateful for where I have landed. Not where I had planned to land but possibly where my heart wanted me to be. That may sound corny. Let me phrase it as my work is now doing what I once mused upon rather than the business I thought I would be running. As someone else put it, plans are useless but planning is invaluable.
What's the most efficient language?
But this doesn't protect from faulty REST entrypoints, XML-rpc, wp-admin/* links, right ?
The passenger planes have a tendency to break in half mid air if they are subject to sudden stress, turns, etc, like TU 144 did at a paris airshow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=iEsLQd_yY0s...
> It's also hard to know anything other than C++, because of how taxing the language is; there's little energy left in you to learn something else.

When I think that in my industry, good mastership of C++ is, what, 30% of what it takes... Throw in real-time design principles and a few different kernels, several CPU architectures, unavoidable Linux and a one or two build systems (Yocto anyone?). And only then comes the real problem domain, communications protocol stacks or image-processing algos, or what have you.
Some do. Orange Pi Zero (and Zero Plus, Zero Plus 2) has two USB2.0 ports on its internal "1x13 Header":

https://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_Zero
> We still need cars, but we don't need meat.

You're saying, we should change the way we eat so we can keep our cars?

> Buying beans instead of meat at the grocery store is not a hard problem, and one any of us can immediately do.

Buying beans and then buying supplements also because you can't live only on beans, or plants. You need to supplement minerals and nutrients that you can't get from plants.

Or you can eat a balanced diet that includes meat, eggs or dairy along with mostly plants and not expose yourself to the danger of malnutrition.
I have called with electronics for years, and I never make any progress unless I have something I want to build or fix... and it is not easy in the world of 'its cheaper to just buy a new one' that we live in.

By far the biggest motivator I found was getting my amatuer radio license. In many countries this is a staged process with a very gentle introduction to electronics. Most off all there are meaningful things you can construct at home. I built a tiny radio, some baluns, morse practice oscillator, dummy load, lots of antennas from dipoles to Yagis and quite a lot more. Currently I am getting the bits together to build an interface between my radio and my pc so I can use digital communication modes like ft8.

I rarely actually talk to anyone, I just like building stuff!

To get started in US search the ARRL, in the UK the RSGB. Otherwise a web search should sort you out or look here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_radio_organi.... Try and find a local club. There will be lots of interesting people there. I met a guy who built his own machine to reprogram 1990s commercial radios. Another who built a morse oscillator that always started and finished at 0v and went through complete cycles... just because. Another who is a specialist in surface mounted devices. Then there are people who work with satellites, bounce signals off the moon, send tv....

The only other major community of diyers I have found is the people who modify and build guitar effects pedals.
Privacy violations on the internet are almost always related to AdTech.
Is criminal court the only meaningful evidentiary standard? Even then there's appeals, so something cannot be known until the Supreme Court rules on it? But even then, they can change their minds later...

Arbitration and mediation is a far more common way to deal with disagreements in civil society, and that's what the board has done here.
Optimal coverage for Wordle with Monte Carlo methods – Part III
just don’t install tons of untrusted plugins and themes like you would also not do on any other platform you host.

even whitehouse.gov uses WordPress: https://wordpress.org/showcase/the-white-house/
These generics are not the way Java generic works. These are essentially specialized code genereted for each type (just like C++/Rust).

You can have a look at the essembly code generated by Go program while using a slice of interface{} vs using slice of specific type on compiler explorer.

Edit: Removed C ... somehow have a habit of writing C/C++ together :)
Ethereum is slated to use proof of stake soon too (no idea how soon, AFAIK it was supposed to be last December).
['brick', 'glent', 'jumpy', 'vozhd', 'waqfs']

"Optimal coverage" in the article title refers to unique letters. It's not the case that playing these is optimal, due to frequencies and position-density of letters (obviously).
If refusal to “discourse decouple” is a refusal to discuss then attempts to “discourse decouple” must equivalently be a refusal to accept objections to the premise.

It’s not a given that the opponent attempting to use decoupling is operating in good faith.
Loans are an important concept, that's true. Do blockchains inherently prevent loans? I'm not sure, I think Ethereum smart contracts enable the concept of loans. The 3rd party here is the contract itself, as I understand it.
Sure, but is there any alternative to C++ if you are looking for an object-oriented language that compiles to native code?

Many modern languages don't have "proper" object-orientation, with subclasses, polymorphism, liskov substitution principle and so on. Rather, they have compile-time polymorphism, or opinionated other ways of doing it (composition in Go, traits in Rust. Methods in Nim are wierdly attached to the language, and if you want interfaces, the author recommends you use a closure and function pointers...)

Other "classic" object-oriented languages are all managed (C#, Java).

What I'd want from a language is:

- a powerful but ergonomic type system (stuff like Nims "distinct" types are nice). Maybe we can even get simple dependent types.

- Class-based object orientation is nice for 1) writing UI code and 2) getting rid of duplicated ifs everywhere.

- Generics. Bonus if we can control contra/co/invariance of type arguments. (A Ptr<ToggleButton> is a Ptr<Button>, but a List<ToggleButton> might not be a good List<Button> everywhere, since you can add ToolbarButtons for example.)

- Functional programming: Functions and methods as first-class-citizens, built-in understanding of pure functions and const data

- Async programming: async/await as first class citizen

- Compiles to native code

- No frickin UB.
a defense of it, from someone who's not in the cryptocurrency scene:

blockchains are useful because they offer decentralized centralization. Ethereum has no policies, no embargoes, it's a neutral platform. this is because everyone can agree that what's on Ethereum is canon, and everyone can access Ethereum (except for how pricey gas is.)

this is the opposite of federations where servers host their own state, with their own terms and conditions or API keys. everyone can agree on putting things in one place. I think that bit is genuinely useful.

so the major problem is that gas is expensive (and PoW is immoral, but I'll leave that for another time.) gas is cheap on altcoins, but nobody (rightly!) trusts bespoke altcoins because they're too small to be secure.

this L2 stuff is the solution, because rolling up to Ethereum keeps the not-an-altcoin L2 chains honest, along with verifying that their aggregation or challenge protocols or whatever are secure.

whether you find a scalable blockchain useful or not is a different matter, but I think L2 protocols will get it there.
One has to wonder why no successful team tried to share their innovative solutions. Either for academic credentials (e.g. as master's or PhD thesis project) or even commercially. This strikes me as a huge waste of effort - anything that can be replicated by students seems to be very valuable for future projects, no?