skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how can you tell whether something is part of "nature" or just part of our nature?
Not related to RPG Maker on surface, still working in the same field, I can't see this going well once this become fame enough. Does anyone know more regarding this projects' history?

My first impression was something pen&paper, then seeing its software I thought it was some extension for RPG Maker. But as this seems to be some kind of RPG Maker 3D, is this a ripoff that tries to harvest on the name, or is there some real connection on a personal level?
I don't know if I'm the only one, but I always felt like Watson was roleplaying being a relevant tech company. Something about the way they marketed it just seemed like it was a big PR campaign with no meat behind it. I always had a suspicion that most people agreed but was never really sure.
That's NOT a product you should be launching with planes and cars, considering what would be happening the other 1% of the time.
How bad have universities got?
A mortgage is indeed a form of financing because the lender does not keep the collateral until the debt is paid off in full. If they did, there would be no financing going on. It would be equivalent to saving for 30 years and then buying the house.
In what way do you think that React does things "its own way" that Vue doesn't?

React is easily the simpler of the two, and Vue is the one that forces you to do things "its way" a lot more than React does.

If you're referring to being able to, say, interact with state by just mutating it.. well, that's because Vue has a built in reactive state system that works similar to Mobx.

In react, you can just use Mobx.. or recoil, or redux, or even your own custom state management system if you really wanted to(as long as it talks to react properly).. In vue? Maybe, sort of, but you've already bought into one heavy-handed abstraction which is their own reactive stack, so the best you can do is build on top of that.
Try TikTok for a few weeks, genuinely
What about:

def foo(Bar=Bar):
bar = Bar()
...

Pass in the class or any callable and then call it in the body to make an instance.
It may take a while, but you’ll win.
I do modeling in the sense of computational fluid Dynamics (cfd) or finite element analysis (fea) or just basic physics-based models and my background is in chemical and mechanical engineering.

if you want to get into the field doing it though, you'll ideally need a PhD. It takes a lot of time to understand all the nuances of how to model a system and reading and practicing are the best ways.

If you don't want to do a PhD, the best way to break into the field in industry is develop your own EASY TO USE open source copy cat of the commerical software. By easy to use I mean no command line, no OS or hardware dependent implementations (best to assume all users are on windows), and doesn't rely heavily on any programming.

Most people doing modeling in industry have backgrounds in engineering, math, or physics, not software. Most of us code but it heavily varies.
There is no need for e.g. Hugo, Jekyll, ghost or many such setups to be audited. Because their model is inherently secure.
so I worked at IBM cloud, and can confirm this. They bought a cloud service, that by itself, and if left alone would been great. Soft(....something...) was the company... then IBM came and changed everything. I remember the SVP / President of ibm cloud showing up... talking 3 hours about how her son is so great and that we should 'follow' his example... after hour 3, man goes and interrupts and asks a question that was "please get to the point of talking about your son".

Few weeks later, massive layoffs, that triggered the warn act. So now I know how IBM works, see first hand meeting, after meeting being totally worthless. I would say stay far away from anything the touch. Just be glad you could move off their platform and not stuck using their platform with their CICD ... else you would be in living hell.
> isn't this everyone's first-year CS homework?

Maybe, but I wager most people who work with computers didn't even go for a CS degree.
I think it really depends on your location. Craigslist is super hot in Dallas.
It's anecdotal, but on the F# Software Foundation's slack workspace[1], 4 out of the last 5 postings in the #jobs channel were in Europe.

No doubt, any company that picks a niche programming language as their business's lingua franca is taking a risk. For me, though, that is an indicator that they care about quality and do not have a culture of treating engineers as replaceable assembly line parts.

[1] https://fsharp.org/guides/slack/
Good question. Prediction markets [1] allow people to bet on outcomes and benefit financially if they are correct.

However, many jurisdictions ban them outright claiming that they a form of gambling and challenging the unregulated nature of questions leading to misaligned incentives (“When will that building burn down?”).

Yet despite these issues, the scheme can offer a neutral ground for betting against overhyped technologies or registering dissent against the policies of authoritarian regimes.

Cryptocurrency based prediction markets further protect the participants by masking or hiding their identities.

The combination of these features makes prediction markets an effective way to deliver global-scale censorship-resistant voting to the masses.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
Amazon SES will cost pennies for personal use volumes. You really need to stay on top of any reported abuse complaints or they will shut you down quickly, which is a good thing in the big picture.
I definitely prefer Vue over React and I believe it’s still a better version of it but this composition api bullshit has really caused a lot of people to question the whole thing.

And by people I mean the actual developers using it in production, not the dozens of charlatans hyping the latest change or addition with millions of demonstrations at the latest conference of how composition api hello world is somehow better than what already exists.

Alienating the actual fans and users alike is a poor strategy.

——

As for the build tooling and dead ecosystem and poor components yes I absolutely agree, it’s a bit of a dumpster fire. There’s certainly good libraries and components but in comparison it’s miles away from react.

One of the things I strongly dislike about Vue is the fact it’s prototype is just freely floating around everywhere and all the plugins just attach garbage to it and then get users to do the same.

A strong lack of software engineering practices and competence means that on average many Vue libraries are absolutely horrible to use with equally awful code.
In many cases it’s been better so simply have a quick scan of what a library or component is doing and then write a better version yourself - this time with actual unit tests and linted code.

For example, find some library that does something fancy with the DOM like a tooltip or some animation or some wrapper for a popular library.

The process is like this:

> Google for it and find 1 or 2 results

> One was last updated in 2017 and has “Vue2” in the package name (poor)

> the other mostly works and has a few hundred GitHub stars simply because it’s the only one

> use it and find some edge case that makes it useless

> also discover it doesn’t use slots (the actual way to do “composition”, much like reacts child render props to allow components to be inside others) meaning it’s now fully useless for your use case

> write your own version, based roughly on the code in the library - and read the unit tests to make sure you account for anything else you might not have thought about (if it even had any tests, most don’t because it was written by someone that barely knew what they was doing or is the kind of person who hates testing (because then they don’t have to be accountable) you have to argue with over the value of unit tests)

> job done, many days or weeks later

This poor ecosystem seems to go hand in hand with a vocal minority of Vue users that seem hopeless at trying to debug any of their issues or self inflicted bugs.
No, since I've upped the boldness since day 1 lol. I never noticed it being "low resolution".
Google is the next IBM.
that's great but how do I make my appointments if we don't have clocks
You know, as much as I admire the drive of people to write tools and hack together scripts to brute force and essentially break the game - I also hate that the world is like this sometimes. Cant we just have a fun game that people can while away a few minutes a day being human and imperfect for once? Do we have to find the optimal solution to everything... all the time?
Ah yes, that's the reason for the argument then. On a French (AZERTY) keyboard underscore is its own key, no shift or ctrl.

(There are ways to configure the keyboard to change the arrangement of keys to best suit your needs. I used to do this, but the big drawback is that if you change machines all your habits are wrong and you waste a lot of time finding the keys again.)
One thing I never understood is that star fleet and the federation are somehow post-scarcity utopias, but you still have "gold-plated latinum" driving a huge underground criminal counter-culture. What's the point? The ferenghi should be having a cultural existential crisis, but instead they are happy just charging people for drinks that can be replicated freely.
For material breach of contract and negligence? Easy peasy.
They may not but we’re supposed to reply in good faith, not assume OP is some sort of envious asshole
His YouTube videos are awesome and worth checking out!

https://youtube.com/c/SamZeloof
> Sadly, because of the nature of the web, one can never be sure that the image actually stays within the browser. There's no way to prevent it from secretly sending everything you convert with this to some shady website because it runs in the browser.

The thing is, that logic applies just as well to desktop apps. There's never any guarantee on either desktop or web unless you have very specific counter-measures in place (firewalls, airgapping, ...).

It's just "closer to the web" when it runs in the browser, but if malice is the intent, it's as likely on either. Desktop apps are just "harder" to install.
bar = Bar() if bar is None else bar
No I didn’t tbh, I didn’t read much further. Notice how one sentence says Postgres was chosen because it was somebody’s preference
It'd be nice if you edited your post with the correction.
Lol, love this. It’s amazing how you can frame a question or proposition when you are always pushing an answer.
Level 2 says Tomorrow as in technology that’s in development. I read Level 3 as when people talk about the potential for say intersections without traffic lights and the end to gridlock. That’s not just exaggeration or extrapolation of current research but hopeful projections without anything even vaguely in the pipeline for development. Aka the semantic web and other rather grandiose ideas.

The first generation of cruse control didn’t shift gears making it useless for maintaining speed up and down steep hills but it provided the basic functionality on a reasonable subset of roads. It was still called cruse control. So, my point was a Tesla’s ability to drive from a limited set of parking spaces to another set of parking spaces by crossing public streets, covers the basic description of self driving. It’s a poor implementation but fulfills the basic premise of you not having to turn the steering wheel and ending up your destination even if it has a host of limitations. Doing that but in Paris is really more of the same.

(Edited the above several times.)
This article's a great example (albeit an utterly ludicrous one) of how critical/postmodern theories work. They roughly follow these steps:

1. Pick a random concept

2. Talk about how the concept doesn't always apply, isn't always useful, and that it contains arbitrary elements (e.g. the 7 day week)

3. Point out how the concept influences language, and assert or imply that language has an enourmous influence on how people behave ("Contemporary society is obsessed with time — it is the most used noun in the English language")

4. Talk about how the concept is viewed differently in different cultures, making sure to imply that this means it's arbitrary

5. Assert that the concept is rooted in colonialism, imperialism, racism, whiteness, and patriarchy.

6. Conclude that this means the concept is completely arbitrary, and was created by those in power for the sole purpose of oppressing others.

7. Pat yourself on the back, and feel proud that your genius-level intellect allows you to see how things really are.
I took into account the position constraints you learn from the game after entering the word too. This is why "raise" beats "arise" for example.
This is one of the reasons i am not implementing a rich text editor and instead i am using Notion as CMS.

A lot of individuals and companies are already using Notion and this makes it easier for them to write blog posts with it.

I know that for developers like me and you markdown is everything we need but non technical people need something more high level, just the act of embedding an image in markdown is very difficult for them
Honestly, I’m not sure IBM is a step up from the Indian firms. It’s certainly more expensive (like, ridiculously so) for not much more quality, if any.
If the collateral is "held by a smart contract" it means your buying power hasn't changed and you haven't financed anything.
Yes but GitHub is “another garden”, surely is way more open than Medium but you still have to rely on other resources (Microsoft), you are not the true owner of your content.

Instead, using my own VPS I can have the full control on my blog (yeah there are still the laws obviously).

Anyway Jekyll has some limitations with GitHub, but is a lot easier to setup, especially for the comments and builds.
I'm replying to "Use WP Super Cache, and most of your pages are static anyway", which means PHP is running each request?
How We Changed Our Minds in 2021
Yes, due to massively inflated prices.
What exactly is the point of utilitarianism then? What can you say about utilitarianism itself? Under this scheme, it seems to possess no qualities.
In a disagreement over the use of “not”, if neither party changes their mind, it is considered a “tie”.
This was one of the most "WTF?!" pieces I've read in a long time. I live in the region, 1-2 degree separation from several impacted.

I read the dead tree version while flipping through the mail, floored me. Great reporting here, the kind that motivates others to investigate as well.
You can buy many things that are not allowed for sale in many places that do not allow them, but I would not recommend it in this case because it's a market where sellers like to post "9,999 mAh" batteries that are just pulled from discarded laptop batteries and maybe re-wrapped with a fancy label.

ilumn.com and 18650batterystore.com are legit as far as I know.

https://www.compliancegate.com/amazon-lithium-batteries-requ...

> Amazon prohibits the sales of the following products containing lithium batteries:

> Electronic cigarettes
> Cylindrical lithium-ion cell battery types: 14500, 16340, 18650, 20700, 21700, and 26650
I think a lot of heavily used UI tends toward this.

Like drivers license test kiosks and playing solitaire on life fitness machines.
I'm not so sure, sure the first generation might throw a tantrum, but the next generation will a accept it... Much like cars or trains..
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My stepdad manages a team in IT for a very large, very slow company in the banking/financial sector. The decisions about what software and hosting solutions they'll use are made by execs at the upper echelons, probably over games of golf by people who don't know that much. They just know, "I really like Jim over at IBM, he's got a real swagger to his step" and "other big companies are using them" and "hell they just bought a Super Bowl commercial." So a $2M deal gets done, and IBM stays in business.
I would be careful with the "if they do it it must be sensible" reasoning. There are a lot of reasons that modeling firms using homo-economicus and perfect markets doesn't pan out.
Mold 1.0.2
Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]
Is it possible to get a non paid link ?
If turning ADSB off is only allowed for government / military / intelligence airplanes, would using a CV algorithm to capture these airplanes be against the law?

Recently there was a post of Google satellite cameras capturing a B-2 Stealth Bomber showing up on Google Maps [1]. Would such planes be captured by a vision system only, and would that be of concern to the government that might be trying to keep it undetected?

1: https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B001%2718.5%22N+93%C...
Go package for printing human readable, relative time differences
To be clear, I'm not saying it cannot be done — just that it's hard, especially if it's a one-size-fits-all solution that needs to support many databases and SQL dialects, and that a tool like this is going to continually be fighting the various disparities that exist between databases.

I ran into an interesting challenge recently where it was necessary to replace the primary key. The only way to do this (with Postgres) on a live production database is drop the key and add it again in the same transaction, with a USING INDEX; so:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS foo_new_pkey
ON foo(bar);

ALTER TABLE foo
DROP CONSTRAINT foo_pkey CASCADE,
ADD CONSTRAINT foo_pkey PRIMARY KEY
USING INDEX foo_new_pkey;

There are some challenges to making a tool be able to do this seamlessly:

(1) The tool must understand that a modified primary key will need an existing index.

(2) It must understand that it has to be done in a single transaction.

(3) It must understand that this modifies the underlying catalogue: Postgres will rename the new "foo_new_pkey" index to "foo_pkey" and drop the old index.

And that's just Postgres. I bet other databases are different. Most databases don't even allow transactional DDL (e.g. Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server).

Does the amount of work required actually justify the end result? As I said earlier, developers need to understand migrations and their ordering in order to be able to plan their rollout. If a system cannot craft and "orchestrate" migrations perfectly — and I argue that this is infeasible without tons of work — then this means engineers have to run the tool and examine the output and understand it before rolling it out anyway. So now you have a smart, complex tool to learn that doesn't even do the whole job. And in the case of complex migrations it might not even do all of it, requiring the suggested SQL output to be tweaked before it can be run. You might as well just write migrations by hand, then.

To be clear, I think it's good to be ambitious, I'm just generally skeptical for the above reasons.

Last point: Having an SQL parser in Go would be great, so kudos if you manage to build this. Again, I think you will be fighting here to stay up to date with all the dialects, but it's a worthy goal.
If they were just proof that someone verified identity, and anyone could get one, they'd be a good feature. But Twitter wanted them to be culturally significant or famous people, and that's where it fell apart.

As for expressing unapproved thought, I all BS on your statement. There are blue-checked people who continued to express heterodox thought who kept their checks right up until they were permanently banned for TOS reasons.
Why I'm comfortable publishing foolishness
Sendgrid, but SES also is a good choice too.
If statements are not an abstraction though.

But I do actually try to minimize them, to the extent that's reasonably possible. And will especially try to minimize "else if" and "else", when reasonable, since I find it increases the cognitive load when reading something.

Interfaces are a better comparison. Interfaces are very useful and I've often used them with great success, but with generally see if other simpler "more direct" solutions work before using interfaces, as those solutions typically less abstract and easier to understand. I've definitely seen some code with "interface overuse" where it could be quite hard to find out what "foo.InterfaceMethod()" actually really does.
I'm sure it can improve in the future, but it seems that at the moment Ethereum is very unsuited for small transaction style fundraising, like this. The level of transaction fees is orders of magnitude higher than other options (heck in some countries the fees to move money to another bank account is 0)
Java was released in 1996. It got generics in 2004, 8 years later. I don't remember anyone panicking and yelling from every corner that the world is ending. Everyone understood the benefits and it was a much awaited feature. And yes, after Java got them, it became easier and more typesafe to use. End of story. And by the way, Java too was a very simple language and generics didn't ruin it.
There's a ton of expertise being bandied about here.

It's sad any of it is being directed towards sophistic, quasi-religious
debate.
This is tangential (and just an observation on poking around their homepage to find out what fwb.help is), but if landing pages are going to swing back toward having 90s-styled tickers, then is there a reason we don't just bring back the <marquee> tag in some form? (Or standardize a modern equivalent, like <ticker> or something?)

Asking as someone who actually used these in my nascent dabblings in HTML and is really confused that modern webdev has moved to replacing them all with non-semantic (and manually-styled) <div> tags. I'm sure there's a reason that I missed sometime between my junior high message board days and when I actually picked this up as a profession, but whenever I get an immediate glance at one it's always kind of seemed like kind of a regression. (At the least, having a dedicated standard for this again would allow for element-specific CSS options, like what <li> has for instance.)
I think secretly they are aiming for the digital currency aspect of blockchain, e.g. Bitcoin but couldn't understand how it works as MBA schools havn't mint out bitcoin graduates yet. Maybe in abother 10 years.
The same as with any software: a deployment pipeline.

Depending on your needs, a staging version can be built and hosted. To be promoted to production once chief editor Acks. Or multiple such versions.

You can have multiple stages. Or just one, with a preview on localhost. You can have testsuites crawling a build. Or just a manual quick glance.

This problem is not hard. It is, in fact, much simpler to solve with static sites.
You need to read past the second sentence where I explain that WP Super Cache can be configured for fully static operation.

Or if three sentences are too much for you, you could read any of the other comments, all made hours before you jumped in with your inane "well-actually".
Author fails to mention that he minted his own (as yet unsold) NFT, paying $80 for the privilege: https://foundation.app/@behrouz/~/125372

Thousands of artists have lost money in a likewise fashion in that digital goldrush. Here's an incredibly comprehensive summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
I think there was also a time when many people assumed--not knowing any better--that something published on Medium was more authoritative than something on a random personal blog. I used to sometimes cross-publish to Medium when something was going to be linked from a company newsletter if we wanted it on a third-party site. But I haven't done that for a few years now.

While it's nothing great, I just use Blogger/Google. It's free, clean, exportable, and can handle traffic spikes. You can run ads but don't have to; I don'tI've thought about moving to Wordpress and went so far as to start a more focused blog there at one point. But I dropped it and just continued to use Blogger.
That’s about control, not time.

Plenty of soldiers, laborers and miners shit their pants on duty because of the controls placed upon them. That has nothing to do with time or clocks.