skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s not possible to write in most languages. If a language does support compose operator or custom operators then yes I think that style is good too. But there is no way to write that style in python/ruby.

Ruby has composition operators in both directions:

given:

x = 2
f = lambda {|a| a+1}
g = lambda {|a| a*2}

the following are all equivalent:

f[g[x]]
(f>>g)[x]
(g<<f)[x]

What’s inconvenient is that to use it with methods, even ones that can be invoked in ways that look like function calls in other languages, you have to realize a method object, since method names don’t name objects. Or, as Matz says (I don’t think of Ruby as a Lisp at all, but in this context it makes sense) Ruby is a Lisp-2, not a Lisp-1.
Also I think in these lines (FL/DLBCL) the costs have indeed dropped below the $600k range significantly.
It says a Big Mac in the U.S. is $5.81 which sounded high. Popped open the McDonalds app and sure enough I can get one for $4.39 plus a free medium fry. Prices must not be uniform across the U.S., but I find it hard to believe the average is $5.81.
California's rolling blackouts were not the result of any particularly extreme (for California!) weather. Similarly, hurricanes are not new to most of the hurricane-afflicted parts of the country. Wildfires have been a force in the US for a long time, and the West has experienced seasonal wildfires for decades.

The difference is the US doesn't generally build or maintain infrastructure in a fashion commensurate with the extant risks here (which are different than those of e.g. Germany). Obviously, it is possible to keep a grid running when it is extremely cold outside, see the Nordics and Russia, for example. The US just makes systematic choices not to build & maintain to that standard.
Every description of a scientific idea always carries the implied disclaimer that we are talking about the present state of our knowledge. Every "fact" is in fact a belief that's held on a tentative basis pending the introduction of better evidence. That sounds quite noncommittal, but in fact it's the best that we can hope for.

One interesting thing about protons is that you can describe the effect of exchanging any two of them in precise terms, and end up with macroscopic predictions that can be tested. So you're not limited to just trying to measure every proton in a bag to see if they're all the same. There are other ways to test the hypothesis.
Is it? In engineering problems you have to consider practical feasibility. Would it turn out that for the expenditure of energy to get things isolated we may as well spend it on classical computation?
> But also the rest of the front page is often either seo spam (like those Pinterest links which catch whatever search term you’ve used) or shopping sites.

Hey now, SEO spam is often packed to the brim with high revenue ads.
LinkedIn is good for networking and keeping up with existing connections, but the "social" aspect of it definitely feels awkward for me.
I don't see how this is even legal, GoFundMe is basically stealing the funds and doing whatever they want with them. Refunds should be automatic without an opt-in required. The fact they waited until Friday evening is even more sketchy.

If ever there was a use case for crypto and smart contracts a GoFundMe replacement would be it
Funny this was posted because I have been thinking the same recently, more so than normal.

LinkedIn is a good way to connect with my clients/friends/colleagues and establish what is a small network of people in my field, who know each other and often benefit from each other. I also think the ability for recruiters to see my experience + the people and clients I work with has meant that my job opportunities are far greater than if I didn't have LinkedIn.

But my god, some of the posts on there are absolutely cringe and I don't normally like using that term. Don't get me wrong if a colleague or a client I have worked with recently is promoted or changes positions I am genuinely happy for them and it deserves a like or a "congrats".

But don't go around preaching your corporate life story like your experiences are gods gift on earth, or go around preaching vague and ambiguous virtues that we all know. You don't need to make a story about everything that happens to you and the majority of your network couldn't care less.
The charge-backs is what I'd really worry about if I were GoFundMe, besides the massive hit to their reputation they just inflicted on themselves of course.
No problem. Roughly 700k CAD.

I'm half a block from a pump park and playground, a block from the elementary school, and two blocks from the ocean. Not city blocks, mind you. Each block is roughly large enough to hold 4 acres of land.

For my young kids it's night and day; they are much happier than when they were living in Vancouver. We have a large house with enough rooms for everyone to have their own; more yard than we know what to do with; and the kids are safe to run around outside without being heavily monitored. Unlike where we left, where they shared a tiny bedroom, the parks had to be swept for broken glass and used needles, and we had no yard to speak of.

There are gangs of roving kids all over the place, every evening and weekend; it's totally unlike living in the big city.

The only downside is that family doctors are hard to come by; you basically can't access non-emergency health care without one, either, as there's only one drop in clinic for the entire region. But that's a province-wide crisis that the NDP government seems happy to ignore.
I’d pay a lot of money for 2012 era-ish Google search…

Unfortunately, I’m sure they rake in magnitudes more cash from ads than they ever would from subscriptions.
This is getting too close to LinkedIn. I’m out…:)
Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn't heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn't recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms "lyrics" and "r&b" at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn't contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn't contain the lyric (good job Google, you know an R&B band), a link to peterbe.com to find a song by lyrics, and a bunch of other useless links. I clicked on to page 2, which hilariously presented 3 of the 4 YouTube videos that were on page 1.

I was immediately turned off, so I pulled up DuckDuckGo and Bing, entered the same exact query, and both engines returned the song I was looking for in the first result. I laughed out loud.

I then thought to myself, "I wonder how many pages I would have had to flip through in Google to find this result." Eventually, I found it. It was the 68th result on page 7.
DDG uses Bing as its search provider, and Bing isn't any better than Google right now when it comes to prioritizing ads and dark patterns[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28517187
> the org still has to ensure it has at least X% turnover per year

Can anyone explain the motivation for this?

I've never understood why a company would want to routinely fire X% of otherwise well preforming employees in a team, when they're going to need to hire that many again anyway.
Same boat. After the Wii I was done. If I wanted to put money into gaming it was going to be on PC. The Switch isn't the most powerful, or has the best library (Nintendo first party games notwithstanding), or the most portable, but it's "good enough" at everything in the way VHS and MP3s were/are. It also helps that it's relatively inexpensive to get into, and has a huge indie game scene. So while you may not get the best version of "Soldiers on a Battlefield 2022" or whatever, there are hundreds of semi-exclusives.

Getting a console and a portable in one unit was also brilliant and something that neither Sony or Microsoft can do with their "most powerful hardware first". Nintendo cares about things that affect the gameplay experience, and Microsoft and Sony care more about how cool the software is. Orthogonal purposes but it lets Nintendo, a relatively small company, compete globally and effectively against two 9 million pound mega giants.
Bear in mind that (warning: assumption) most of these rules in most places probably haven't had a significant update since checking your work emails became a thing.

So yeah, technically that might be a volition of the visa (or visa waver). That is the point of the change we are discussing. Previously people visiting Iceland could not work without a work visa. Iceland is updating its set of visas acknowledge the current reality.

Again, you probably won't get kicked out of some country for checking you emails, but that doesn't mean it doesn't violate the conditions of the visa.

Edit: and no, in most places a tourist visa means you are not allowed to do work (for anyone) in that country. The point is to make employers (both foreign and domestic) hire locals in the first instance. Doing work for a foreign employer still requires a specific visa.
The cringiest thing is that they don't have laughing emoji response on posts. It's probably because someone at a meeting said that "we must provide a safe place for everyone to feel empowered to share anything without being laughed at".

What they didn't consider is that this also accelerates the toxic positivity that existed before emoji responses.
Very possibly I don't understand: It is the name of a movie, if that helps explain it.
I'm a little sensitive given what's going on on the streets of Ottawa and other Canadian cities up here right now.
I really can’t express how much joy the Switch has given me and my family. I loved it when I first got it all those years ago, but in the last year I’ve been replaying lots of games with my 4yr old.

Mario Odyssey, Mario 3D world, Yoshi’s crafted world, New Super Mario Bros., Pac-Man competition edition and recently we blasted through Unpacking over a rainy Sunday. We’ve easily logged hundreds of hours together in the last 6 months alone.

Meanwhile the PS4 and Xbox have been sat gathering dust.

There’s a few reasons for this IMHO.

1. There’s no bullshit on the Switch. It switches on instantly, it sleeps instantly. It rarely wants updates for anything. It’s so easy to dock and undock for playing in the car on journeys. It’s totally unobtrusive under the TV. It just fits into our family life seamlessly with zero frustrations. Even the grandparents enjoy playing it when they come over.

2. Nintendo games are totally family friendly. We all sit around playing together, passing the joypad between us or playing coop together. I never have any worries about the games we are playing being unsuitable for a 4yr old in anyway. There are no loot boxes, unsavoury material, etc. it’s just pure fun and entertainment. I find my kid has a much greater understanding of cause, effect and 3d space than he would do if that time was spent tapping away on an iPad screen on some ad ridden, loot box infested shovelware. I’m actually amazed how quickly he has learnt using the camera stick, but it’s probably because Nintendo finesse their products to the nth degree.

3. Nintendo finally opened it up to adult games, so if I do want to blast through gore on Doom or Wolfenstein late at night on my own, I can. When I do, I just find myself reaching for the Switch over the PlayStation or Xbox, which I know will try and demand all sorts of updates and downloads before I can play.
From that post;

> There's no one thing, not even a collection of things, that can be identified with what we think of as the conscious mind. Instead, we've got a whole bunch of different things, none of which has "consciousness" in a traditional sense, and these come together in a way that makes it seem as though we're conscious.

I just don't buy this at all. This seems precisely as I described it:

> "well, we have detectors for this and that and these predictive capabilities and these modelling systems, and so ... ta-da, we're conscious!"

Also, note the heavy lifting being done by "makes it seem" from the Reddit quote. This goes back to the basic problem: Dennett (and the authors in TFA) are describing what we are conscious of, what makes up our consciousness, but he and they are not addressing how it possible for there to be any subjective experience at all.

I would go a little further, even: the whole reason why there is a sense of self is precisely because there is a singular subjective experience. You can figure out what drives that experience, and even note that it isn't rooted in any kind of singular and/or stable physical system, and that's actually really interesting. But that's not addressing how subjective experience is possible at all.
You push Thrift clients out into the world expecting to a certain API field to be typed according to a 3-element enum. You add a 4th element to support a new feature in a new client. If you ever accidentally serve this 4th element to an old client, it will crash on deserialization. Bonus points if the client is old enough that it's not part of your testing regime anymore.
Here's the thing: when I answer to such a question that I'm French, I also do get the followup question "where in France?". (although if the question is "where do you come from" rather than "where are you from", I now answer that I come from Japan, which gets WTF looks and different followup questions (but I only do that outside Japan, where I live))
What group? I've only seen plenty of peaceful footage. The "desecration" of the Fox statue was just a neat poster stuck between the arms. The "desecration" of the soldier monument was a woman walking on it.

The Confederate/Nazi flag groups were splinter groups of less than 10 people who may have been agent provocateurs.

The protests were more peaceful than BLM with burning buildings. The PM supported BLM, which says how much he cares about peaceful protests.

If this is the state of affairs, any demonstration can be discredited and defunded by organized groups of less than 100 people. This is extremely dangerous for democracy.
Minimum wage in my state is still nominally $7.25 but even fast food joints are advertising starting wages of $10-$12/hour with no experience.
A couple things: the Objective-C methods you listed are often accessible via the runtime APIs unless they are marked as being direct calls. And kSLSBrightnessRequestEDRHeadroom is unlikely to be a function; from its name it is probably a constant of some kind.
GoFundMe Campaigns for Medical Bills Almost Never Work, Study Finds
I run both Linux and Windows. Somehow I manage not to feel miserable. Both have made and keep making me decent money.
Indeed. I subscribe to [ruby] and ignore [ruby-on-rails], it can get pretty lonely in there. Usually just basic questions. I wish someone would ask something that would require me to study the virtual machines in order to answer.
EU does care about developers very much even if USA doesn't. Credit card tax is the same, the store pays it and not the user, EU realized that 3% was too high for credit cards so they went after Visa and Mastercard and now it is 0.5%. They can get away with 30% in USA, but I doubt they will in EU.
I've got complicated feelings for Nintendo.

As a kid, I was a big outdoors person until I got my SNES as a Christmas gift. It set me on a path to becoming a night owl software engineer.

I fell in love with Zelda, Donkey Kong Country, Mario RPG, and never worked harder to earn enough money to buy an N64. The web was just starting to take off, and it was at that point I started using the internet to look up cheat codes and make friends to talk about games with.

Because of Nintendo I found out there was incredible depth to Japanese culture. I learned Japanese, discovered anime and manga. Dragon Ball, Cowboy Bebop, Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, tokusatsu, that whole lot. I also learned to build websites to share cheat codes (strategywiki.org), and started to engineer chat, matchmaking (dsmeet.com), character designer tools, and more. I eventually wound up in Japan teaching English for a bit, working on code on the side.

Eventually video games lost the magical spell and I preferred to spend my time with building and creation. But I don't think any of it would have happened, at least not quite the way it did, without Nintendo.

But it hurts to see that Nintendo can be real jerks to their fans. They force take downs for indie games, ROM hacks, and even music. For a long time they vehemently tried to destroy the vibrant Smash Melee scene. Contrast this behavior with Sega, which actively leans into their fans' excitement and issues artistic license for their creations.

Nintendo also doesn't get the broader picture. They consistently fail at online gaming and paint themselves into boxes.

Switch was a success, but Wii U was not. Wii was a success, but Gamecube and Nintendo 64 undersold. I don't know what they're going to do against the juggernaut power of Microsoft and all of the studio consolidation. Or how they'll fare with Steam entering their lucrative market. They're going to need more successes in this crowded market. I hope they continue to innovate. They're the Studio Ghibli of the gaming world, and it'd be sad to see them go.

I also hope they learn to treat fans better.
Hitting an out-of-memory condition (or even swapping to disk) might be far more catastrophic than your program hitting an assert.
I wouldn't consider OpenSCAD real CAD. It doesn't aid you in design really, it's just a language to represent the design you already have in your head.

Without constraints, you're still doing a lot of stuff directly rather than declaratively, and without a GUI you're mostly limited to geometry you can imagine, because doing anything by trial and error in OpenSCAD takes forever.

The whole thing feels very open loop, like it's meant to be "imagine it>reason about it> code it" rather than "vauge idea > iteration > verify"

I could see it being useful in some cases for high level professional designers though.
You use Pyrex on the stovetop?
If I had to, if I absolutely had to, I could stop using vim. But the more I use, the more I can do with it.

But do I care what someone else uses? Nope. Not a whit. Not even a little bit.

A colleague with whom I work very closely is VScode guy. He can make it do it impressive things. We chide each other from time to time.

But neither of us cares. What we care about is the code we write using these tools.

We both have our favourites in the garage as well, but those tools are irrelevant by the time we get to the rocks and camber. What matters is the work, not how the work was done.
It's at least better than most chemos. If CAR-T introduced a decent remission (1-3 years) and didn't invoke CRS, you can at least consider trying it again, unlike doxyrubicin etc.
> Holding on to cash is like running your own bank. You have to check that the money you're given isn't counterfeit, store it safely, insure against loss, protect against theft, project future needs, etc. It is a massive faff.

The author is trusting banks too much.

-> counterfeiting: It's impossible to check that your bank is not counterfeiting money by cooking books. There are strict measures but not all countries have these. Also, your government can "counterfeit" your currency and neither cash or a bank account will help against that.

-> store it safely: You need to store safely your online access codes and your credit/debit cards.

-> insure against loss: Banks lose money but it's socialized on all customers (or multiple banks). Theoretically, you should compare people loss vs bank loss of money; but insurance gives you protection against a single accident and it's difficult to get such insurance as an individual.

-> protect against theft: Banks do help in modern countries but it's far from a 100% guarantee.

-> project future needs: don't even know what this means?

> So people use banks. In the UK, they're mostly free. I give an institution my money and, due to a combination of their size, insurance, and regulators, I'm confident that my money will still be there tomorrow. They are unlikely to give me fake notes, and they can refund me if I've been defrauded. I trust them.

Fair enough. 2008 was 14 years ago. I guess that's the average person's memory?

> So people will gather around big institutions. Those which have the funds, insurance, and regulatory oversight to provide a reasonable degree of trust.

So that's Coinbase & co but with the extra feature that you can take matters on your own hands. How is that worse than a fully closed system?

> But don't come running to *me*

Sorry but this dude is full of himself and I don't think he understands cryptocurrencies
Carl Sagan’s Conjecture of a Message in π
Home-labbers in Tonga getting sweaty palms.
One of the board members goes on a bizarre tangent about a poem which includes the line "The heavenly blisses of his kisses, fill me with ecstasy,"

The "poem" is actually the lyric to the 1921 song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry", for a Broadway musical, "Shuffle Along"; it was the most popular song in the show. It was later sung in a movie by Judy Garland and and was covered by other artists such as Peggy Lee. It was also used as a campaign song by Harry S. Truman in his run for president.

The song has a Wikipedia page [0] as does the show "Shuffle Along" from which it came [1], which was the first Black Broadway musical and which launched the careers of notables such as Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson and which was "credited with inspiring the Harlem Renaissance" [1].

P.S. The original (it's a comic duet in the show) [2]
Judy Garland's version [3]
A new rendition was used in 2020 as the theme for a TV rom-com [4]

And there are other versions on YouTube.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Just_Wild_About_Harry

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle_Along

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IlwAuSEunM

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDu-qmYtEdU

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-_tVp33_4
Bing is one source among many. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Downvoting gives more ways to manipulate a conversation and promote a narrative.
but they reported great financial results.