skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically this:

sub() {}

does not try to parse the /1;#/+ as an argument because the () indicates there are no arguments (although they could be explicitly included if f were called with (), whereas this:

sub f {}

does try to parse the /1;#/+ as an argument because that's perl's behavior if () are omitted?
Talking of Reddit downvoted, I am not sure it is that bad. I have been downvoted to hell and I have downvoted. But my observation is that downvoted comments get hidden quickly so only the truly extreme comments are downvoted big or only the true believers go and find comments to downvote. Net net it happens but it is easier to get a 100 votes than to lose them and I think it may be easier to get 1000 votes than to lose 1000.
I don't love reading long articles in fixed-width fonts.
Some vandalism will always happen, but the key seems to lie in making such an amenity loved by the people rather than forced upon them by faceless and unapproachable corporations.
Does China have the right idea with respect to kids and the internet? Should we effectively ban kids from social media and restrict their usage at the ISP level?

Would like to see the arguments for and against.
I came here to also say In-Q-Tel. Great people
Show HN: Pordle, Wordle for Python packages, implemented in a single Python file
We're Python developers who also like playing Wordle. So we created Pordle [1]. It's like Wordle, but letting you guess Python package names instead of English words. Every day, Pordle picks up a new package. At the end of a game, it shows the package name of the day, along with a brief intro and links to more resources. We hope to help people learn Python, one package a day. Here [2] is a video demo on how it works.

The entire game is implemented in a single Py file, including backend and UI, with ~150 lines of code. A beginner-friendly version of the source code can be found here[3].

Pordle does not copy exactly Wordle's features. E.g., it does not support hardware keyboard, and automatic submits a guess upon completing a line. Please give it a try and let's know how your guessing goes.

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[1]: https://aptx314.pyweb.io/pordle/app/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLWF11adJ0&ab_channel=PyWeb...

[3]: https://github.com/pywebio/pordle

Edit: formatting
Extracts from the LSE report summary below:

Recommendations relating to specific commercial practices

Declawing: We have high confidence that declawing (removing one or both of the claws from a crab before returning it back to the water) causes suffering in crabs.

Nicking: We also have high confidence that the practice of nicking (cutting the tendon of a crab’s claw) causes suffering and is a health risk to the animals.

Wholesale and retail: We recommend a ban on the sale of live decapod crustaceans to untrained, non-expert handlers.

Stunning: Current evidence indicates that electrical stunning...can induce a seizure-like state in relatively large decapods, and that stunning diminishes, without wholly abolishing, the nervous system’s response to boiling water. We interpret this as evidence that electrical stunning is better than nothing.

Slaughter (decapods) We recommend that the following slaughter methods are banned in all cases in which a more humane slaughter method is available, unless preceded by effective electrical stunning:

- boiling alive,

- slowly raising the temperature of water,

- tailing (separation of the abdomen from the thorax, or separation of the head from the thorax), any other form of live dismemberment,

- and freshwater immersion (osmotic shock).

On current evidence, the most reasonable slaughter methods are double spiking (crabs), whole-body splitting (lobsters), and electrocution using a specialist device on a setting that is designed and validated to kill the animal quickly after initially stunning it.

Slaughter (cephalopods): Various different slaughter methods are currently used on fishing vessels in European waters, including clubbing, slicing the brain, reversing the mantle and asphyxiation in a suspended net bag.

We are not able to recommend any of these methods as humane. On current evidence, there is no slaughter method for cephalopods that is both humane and commercially viable on a large scale.
Sorry to hear about hat - it must have added a huge amount of stress.

I had a similar experience thirty years ago, after being hospitalized for ketoacidosis. (Fun fact: As a DKA patient, I found myself next to an attempted suicide, and noticed that med staff treated us both with disdain. Seriously bad way of managing health outcomes. But I digress.)

The experience in question was a doctor-prescribed insulin injection that the nurse insisted on injecting. I objected, but was unable to be heard. I calmly demanded that the nurse return at 11PM with orange juice to counteract the reaction that was inevitably coming. She did, and the crisis was averted. The next day the doctor prescribed that I could manage my own dosage.

Diabetes management is remarkably complex, and few medical folks know how to do it.
> It seems as though they are projecting an unhealthy addiction on all members of society. I see that as likely incorrect and potentially harmful.

There are always some folks who show up in these threads who seem to have perfect control. Or maybe a well developed ability to delude themselves, I have no idea.

But out in the real world, my observation is that probably better than 90% of random citizens are addicted to their phones and spend damn near every waking minute on them if there isn't something else to entertain them.
Be kind, listen, and demonstrate that you're listening.
Any investable public companies around this?
Can you elaborate? This particular comment of yours reads to me as agreeing -- as in agreeing that selectivity accounts for some of the decrease in sex, but not all, which I think is what I stated.

Your other comment in this overall thread gives me the impression that you actually disagree though, so I think I'm missing something and would appreciate more explanation.
This is (to me) a very odd article. It creates some straw man definitions and points out that Rust doesn't hold up to them, and then gives a more accurate definition and complains that it isn't expansive enough. It concludes by pointing out that unsafe code is unsafe.

Speaking personally, Rust offers a rather nice featureful syntax (and libraries), and saves me the trouble of worrying about certain kinds of very typical mistakes.

I may want a hole, but a cordless drill with a comfortable hand grip is very likely my tool of choice. Especially thinking back to my father's corded underpowered temperamental drill with the easy to lose chuck key...
The FBI is all kind of hanky. This just affirms my experience.

In my experience, they don't do their due diligence of a victim's reporting: they take what they say at face value if it's a corporation. Multi-million dollar loss? Couldn't have possibly been calculated in bad faith.

It was.
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I also find that pair programming can be a great way to train programmers in areas of knowledge they may not be up to speed on, to mentor junior programmers, or to just learn from your peers as they approach problems from different perspectives.

i also find paring to be useful when troubleshooting or working on a hard to find bug.

pairing shouldn't be the norm, but it can certainly be useful.
Not just civilian VCs, but mixed country of origin? Somewhere along the line it will matter if you have a British board member, or maybe angel investor.
> makes it seem as if everybody else is/was 'doing it' and having fun.

Just to dig into this part, I think media dramatically over-represents how much sex everyone is having, which causes people to think they missed out on a lot more.

The average heterosexual person has had sex with 4-6 people (lesbians are about the same, gay men are higher). It's not hard to find a TV show where the characters are above that amount in a month, which I think gives the impression that people are having sex with a lot more people than is really realistic.

Likewise, the average age for losing virginity is 17, so it's not uncommon for people to be virgins in college and beyond.

That's not to cast aspersions on anyone above or below, but I think it's important to keep in mind that there's a separation between real life and movies about college.
Second this.

The only room for innovation is ambiguity in some legalese.

proactivity is either immediately repudiated or heralded as the new status quo.
Yeah, if you're technical, there's options. But if you're not, it can be harder.
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Private equity firms are involved in the space, mostly to profit from the acquisition of smaller (but still somewhat established) defense firms by larger ones :/

In any case, I recently left the defense industry after a 20-year career and am working in the private sector (financial-sector stuff using Clojure) now. It's a completely different world. Tech that was just being introduced in the govt space is old hat out here in the real world -- and my last defense job was working in the R&D space on ML/AI projects where we were allowed to experiment with "cutting edge" (i.e., only 5 years behind state of the art, rather than the usual 10-20) tech.

I had a brief stint as a SETA contractor several years ago, during which I learned what a clownshow the acquisition process is. I was supposed to be providing technical expertise and evaluating proposals - but really I was there to justify decisions that had already been made, and to be the "technical guy" that decision makers brought along to meetings to support them :)
When young no-one has had time to be a financial success, some lucky few are born into wealth but that’s a small minority. Generally if men could change something they would have, so in order to continue discrimination it has to be done in immutable characteristics, height, hair, jawline. Women’s appearance is usually down to weight which compared to height is easy to change, yet they’re getting heavier not lighter.
See above - it's strange to discount management techniques for promotions and pay rises, but still use it for firing people.
Then again most five-year-olds seem smarter than most college students.
I like sharing ideas with someone while we're both coding together. I think "pair programming" works a lot better when two people sit down and work together on different parts of the same problem.

Example: Alice is building the front-end for a product search page. Bob is building the product search APIs on the back-end. Alice and Bob working together can share immediate feedback on each other's designs and implementations, and work out any tiny ambiguities that weren't covered by whatever specification they previously agreed on.

I think some of the best software dev experiences in my career have come from this style of collaboration.
At what point would you waive the right to a trial-by-jury? I think about that from time to time; if I'm accused of something, what crimes are less sympathetic to my peers than to a judge?
Haha, seems they just had to do that re-design, and wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember hearing the saying "Programmers are like beavers. Leave a beaver alone to decide what to do and they'll just keep building dams, regardless of the fact that their home is done." I don't know if that's really true about beavers, but it's true about programmers and it's also true about UI designers. If there's no clear direction to take the product, they'll just re-design, refactor, move classes around, change button colors, break things into microservices, rewrite in Rust, re-do the brand design, invent unnecessary custom controls, port it to a Raspberry Pi, add whitespace and 'flat' design, move the search bar to the bottom of the screen, and on and on and on. Programmers gotta program and designers gotta design.
The real question is whether Unix could come from a corporation. Unix came from Bell Labs through somewhat circuitous paths - it wasn't a planned product, or even a planned project.

I see too many examples of OSes that compete with themselves to imagine that any of them, even using all of the lessons available from Unix and VMS, gaining widespread acceptance.
At least for the Starship bots that we have on my campus, they can go up and down curbs. But they will go down very narrow sidewalks where students have to get off the sidewalk to avoid them
This wasn't funny the first time someone said it. The hundred millionth time doesn't seem to fare much better, either.
Yes that is something that comes up on hackernews a lot, and I personally still struggle to accept it.

According to the Daily level system I should be in their band 5, so $210K, but in England I am paid less than half their entry level salary (at current exchange rates).

Americans don't have IQ scores, or any other metric to suggest being approximately 4-8 times the quality of other developed countries workers, so it's hard to just take it and accept that their compensation isn't due to their ability (on average), and that life isn't fair.
That’s right - you can apply same reasoning to any subjective internal feeling and attitude.

This is the fundamental problem in philosophy, unsolved even in principle.

May be some day well solve it.

But so far it’s just a wordplay. This was exactly my point in the beginning.
The "Gary Explains" channel on YouTube is pretty good imo.

Not 100% the same topics, but still informative.
Let's be real, no one's going to walk. If they scooter instead of driving, it's a win.
Difficult but doable. You'd have to shim some syscalls and kludge the build into an embedded toolchain, but there's no technical reason why it can't work.
Facebook’s $10B Breakup with Advertisers
It's a popular science article. What did you expect? If you want all the details, read the actual published studies. For the general public, scientists need to simplify things.
I really like this approach, but there are things I don't understand:
* Dragging a color dot outside the color space area continues to update it, making me think the color space isn't properly defined. Shouldn't the color clamp once you go into the grey zone?
* I don't understand how the grid on the left works. What do the numbers across the top mean? How can I adjust a column?
Overall seems very promising!
What a weird comment full of assumptions and hatred.

Nothing in the parent comment warrants what you said. What happens in practice is that being white in poorer countries makes you stand out and sometimes this comes with negative feelings of being unwanted there.

This is just a fact being told and it doesn’t justify a “you guys and your politics” comment. It’s just to point out, perhaps, that some places are more welcoming of foreigners than others.
> The crime in this case is littering

Doesn't something have to be trash for leaving it somewhere to count as littering? After all, improperly parking a car isn't littering, even if it's a Zipcar or something.

> leaving your car idling with a key in the ignition and the doors unlocked

But it isn't like that, since these scooters do lock their wheels.
Well, yes, pair programming comes with a builtin permanent reduction on individual productivity. Partial knowledge comes with a builtin sporadic reduction on individual productivity when there are personal changes.

What is higher depends on a lot of details. You will see a lot of completely different experiences, all real, none alike.
Isn't that just a techspam website? I only read their monitor reviews and they were all wrong.
Thoughts on Ckiii: Royal Court
Nothing prevents serving this style of login from a front page that offers everything you just mentioned as an alternative. Groaning may express dismay but -- this is mere inconvenience we're dealing with here.
Sperm count dropping is caused by obesity
Sounds like a task for a browser extension! The minimalist approach to HN is desirable. Adding features clutters it up.
This is consistent wit my experience. The defense world is very different from the normal market. Defense contractors tend to be very big (Lockmart, Boeing, L3) or very very small and specialized. For example there is a cottage industry around Ft. Campbell that supplies custom gear to Army Special Forces on essentially a walk-in basis. Getting in to either side of the industry isn't exactly easy.
I know people here are mostly focused on the robots themselves, but as someone who was penniless through college, the more shocking thing to me is how affluent and luxurious the lifestyles of average college students are today. A minority is because they have rich parents paying for everything, but there's a huge lifestyle inflation of middle-class and working-class kids funding the lifestyle with student loans.

College students 1950-2010: survive on ramen, peanut butter and canned tuna, live with roomates, walk everywhere, shop in thrift stores

College students today: get robot-delivered restaurant food, complain about lack of parking on campus from their new iphone, demand tax-payers pay back the student loans they took out to live in luxury for 4 years
I must say I visited Jordan with my wife in 2020, right before the pandemic and I had a wonderful experience. No heckling, we felt safe all the time, people didn't rip us off, and when looked at we felt it was more curiosity than anything else.

We loved it. I'm learning arabic on Duolingo now because I got curious about the script.

Of course, YMMV.
> Mac for development

Is Mac really any better than Windows or Linux for dev? Or is it just that a Macbook is more convenient to carry around?
I spent hours upon hours in Stellaris as well.
> most recent, active archive entry. As far as I know, this isn't easy to determine.

https://web.archive.org/$link will always take you to the most recently archived version of the link.

Eg: https://web.archive.org/https://example.com
This is a great way to lose your best people. Or it's pure /s
> you'll always feel like you have a good reason for them

This is the shitty part about realizing how things change your mood
> Zoom is bad enough.

...have you met Microsoft Teams? Compared to that abomination Zoom is a work of art.
Who are "they"? The Donbass milita? They have been engaging in various forms of combat with the Ukrainian forces multiple times since the ceasefire in 2015. This is not news. Stop reading and watching garbage media outlets (that, unfortunately, could be applied to all mainstream media of the US and Europe today).
Have you read it? Is it good? Maybe submit a link to a review?
midnight until 3am is a weird time imo. Midnight is way to late for a child to be up I started cutting my kids off at 9pm but at the router as I won’t pay for them to have a cell service and was experiencing the same issue with my oldest kid. Is there a way you can do the same thing for cellular signals? I guess my solution would be to just take the phone at 9pm. Also I would punish my kid for repeatedly ignore my rules.
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Singapore is much more laid back. Usually the worst that will happen with foreigners is they deport them. Apart from drug dealing which carries a death penalty but they only do that when the person is guilty so don't deal drugs there!

I thought they were quite long suffering with "Briton arrested for not wearing a facemask in Singapore' because he said he didn't believe in them and wouldn't do it. I think he was jailed a couple of weeks and kicked out https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9864365/Briton-arre...

They can be a bit harsh with asking foreigners to leave if they have a work permit and lose their job. I think you get 30 days to go which is a bit of an upheaval if you are fired.
If I were go to such great lengths and finally resort to order a multi-frequency signal jammer isn't the next follow-up question: Is it powerful enough? Or could it disrupt like ... I don't know ... 911 calls in the vicinity? No experimenting? Really desperate, I guess.
I think a lot of these articles come from a place of surprise more than necessarily projecting that everyone has the same issues: they recommend everyone try it because it becomes a surprise how much online activities have become the background radiation of our lives. We live with such things as absolutely normal every day things, "addicted" or not, and have stopped questioning their general place in our lives because they are just so "normal". It probably is fine that all of these things have so quickly become "normal", but it is noticeable how shocking it can feel when you take a break from the current "normal", and that probably is worth reminding people to try to take such breaks if only to also experience such "culture shocks". (Whether or not you projecting that as a societal "problem" or not.)

More than 50 years ago one prominent philosopher anticipated an increasing problem with "Future Shock" where the world has just changed so much so rapidly that people would have a harder and harder time dealing with technological life. (This was a spark that ignited a lot of Cyberpunk tropes in the 80s among other things.) With hindsight, it seems clear that we've intentionally and/or inadvertently "boiled the frog" better than philosopher's like that one anticipated. We made technological life the background normal of a huge populace. So much so that it is perhaps a lot more noticeable this sort of "Past Shock" where someone disconnects for long enough to feel it.

Speaking only for myself, about a decade ago I started taking advantage of some of my vacation time to entirely disconnect for at least a week. (In my case, by doing Caribbean cruises where data plans are so expensive to not be worth it.) It is shocking. It does feel healthy and useful to me and my mental health. I don't consider myself an "addict" and have taken a lot of steps to eliminate some of the worse "addictions" of modern internet life (I left Twitter for slower Mastodon feeds, Discord chats with chosen communities, and a broader return to RSS; I dropped all non-comedy news sources; as a couple examples), but there's still so much I take for granted in the current "normal" that is lovely to have at least one, shocking, week long break from each year. I would recommend it to other people. Not because I think other people are "addicted", quite the contrary, I think other people are "normal" and maybe just don't realize how hot the water is all around them (whether or not that's fine to be in such generally hot water; to abuse the metaphor a bit, as my vacations also remind me sometimes it's great to be in a hot tub or sauna for longer than is "strictly healthy" per posted signs, it feels normal and fun and if you don't dehydrate yourself or accidentally heat stroke in the process what was the harm).

(ETA: given some of the other comments in related threads, it may say something that for me it takes at least a full week to really feel the shock. Three days does seem too short to me. I don't know if that says my attempts to eliminate some "addictive" sources have worked better than I think they have or not, but anecdotally, it is interesting data to add.)
What lockdowns has the US had?
For those who did not bother to read the article, it is about fraud during the financial crisis. I feel sad for Cornelius and wish he is set free. As a resident of Dubai for 30 years, I am always curious to learn things that I may have missed about 'my city', yet this article is misleading in many ways, its few first paragraph where it states that Ryan Cornelius 'thought the authorities had simply made a mistake;' Really? He has taken a loan to complete a project in Dubai yet he took the money for a project in Pakistan. Later the writer says'Cornelius’s business forged invoices for items such as furniture and building materials to match the investment capital being funnelled to the Plantation. A later civil case, brought by dib in Britain, concluded that Cornelius was “fully implicated” in the creation of fabricated invoices to perpetrate a fraud'.
The Economist used to be a decent publication with great journalism, unfortunately that is not the case anymore.