skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you are only a huge fan of blueprints because they is no alternatives in Unreal.

The original claim was there are no alternative to blueprints, not scripting languages.

And, of course, c++ is an alternative. Maybe not the best, but an alternative to blueprints. In the Unreal documentation [1] we can find:

- Blueprints only

- C++ and Blueprints

- C++ Only

This is why I think it is common to mix and match them.

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScrip...
That's like calling "getting a C- in a class so that you pass the class" or "not pissing your own pants" some sort of "theoretically ideal" behavior.

Yes, it's "ideal" in the sense that not everyone accomplishes that behavior (some people will fail a class or have bladder issues, obviously). But that doesn't mean "half the population failing Algebra I" or "half the population regularly pees their own pants" is an acceptable outcome in society.

Just because you can define "acting like an adult" as ideal rather than true in all real cases doesn't mean it shouldn't be an expectation.
I often get corporates who won't buy direct, they will put out a request for a quote and I'll get four or five resellers asking for a price on a very specific configuration.

I never give any of them a discount, in fact I'd love to be able to charge them more because they always require more administrative work. Sometimes I'll offer the end customer a discount to try and route around them.

Recently one reseller became particularly agitated about this. After several emails he asked to speak to my manager (I own the business). The amusing thing was that he had lost the bid. I already had an order from one of his competitors.

I should add that I do have some resellers who actively promote my products, they are worth the effort and a discount.
I try to read everything Wolfram has written and generally finds his writings quite enjoyable.

After reading lots of hsi writings, I noticed one thing which I don't like. It seems like he always tries to belittle other giants (albeit in indirect ways) and project himself as an ultimate intellectual. Even in one of his writing about Feynman, he tried to show that even Feynman sometimed couldn't match his genius. Nevertheless, I still do enjoy his writings.
Not only are software development life cycles different, but also the attitude to development. Which is not a surprise when in most cases, the output is not the software (or system), but research or learning; the code is merely a side effect.
So? Reading isn't even a part of knowing a language. Vocabulary is the part of learning a language that causes by far the least problems. Knowing that δένδρον means "tree" is easy, but it won't help you use it in a sentence. That problem doesn't go away if the word that means "tree" is 木 instead.

Here's the opening of a Latin poem:

Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa
perfusus liquidis urget odoribus
grato Pyrrha sub antro?

Here's what it looks like if you have perfect knowledge of the vocabulary involved:

What many slender you boy in rose
soak liquid press odor
pleasant Pyrrha[a name] under cave?

Does that help you to read it? (Bear in mind that Latin and English are, unlike Chinese and Japanese, related to each other. You even got three words that are more or less identical in Latin and English! [In all three cases, as in the case of Sino-Japanese vocabulary, that's due to borrowing rather than a relationship between the languages. But you can also see a true cognate - Latin quis is in a real sense the same word as English what.])
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You're conflating language with writing. While it is true that Japanese writing is related to Chinese writing, the languages are still from two completely different language families[1]. Anything they have in common is due to exposure, not relatedness.

The argument you're making would be the same as this:
"It's easier for an English-speaker to learn Finnish because it uses the Latin alphabet". The only reason that helps is that you don't also have to learn to decipher a new set of squiggles. It doesn't actually help you understand spoken language or speak it.

1: Mandarin is a Sino-Tibetan language, while Japanese is a Japonic language. These two language families are not related in any ancestral way known to modern linguistics.
This seems like a good Docusaurus re-implementation.
I share the sentiment however the grain of truth here is that it does take a lot of effort to appear normal. The essence of being normal is trying to appear normal which is what most people are engaged in most of the time.

The hidden motivation behind this is fear of other people and the fear of evil which for most people has all but conquered their love of reality, truth, and so on.

If one does have other genuine interests and pursuits (for example foreign languages) then the task of appearing normal is harder. So the implication that he isn't smart enough to be normal is in this sense correct.

Which by the by suggests that motivation is the key to learning, not attention control, repetition, particular books, starting young or the other usual suspects and methods. These are downstream from motivation.
This reads like a comment generated by Wolfram's version of GPT3 trained only on his own writing.
A lot of the software I use is extensively unit tested.

This software is still buggy and broken.

Ergo, unit testing is not working.
...or perhaps get a smaller keyboard. I have the Lenovo KU-1255 which is just the right size for me. as always, YMMV.
That’s a great looking blog - what’s it built with?
Just RTM, they explicitly mention Mercury as another option: https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/next
I focus on the time required to accomplish something and it dictates where I want to be at a certain age, as opposed to picking an age and arbitrarily setting goals to hit by then.
I've done this with a very simple MS Access database, I originally did it in a spreadsheet. I'm going to move it to an SQLite dB with a TCL/TK front end (learning the language) eventually.

At no point would I ever put this information online in the care of a third-party company.

I have no idea why everything needs to be online??

Well done on the product though.
Good points. Personally I thought there was a little racism mixed in to it too. I found it amusing that people were like "but that's China". Once it took hold in northern Italy it seemed to magically become real for a lot of people.
This is the core of cognitive behavioral therapy.

Your thoughts don’t come out of nowhere. They are based on your own set of beliefs, usually shaped by experiences.

Change your beliefs and you can change your thoughts.
...concede it? That was my point...

Wolfram's new physics is based on "hypergraphs", not quite cellular automata, but the point stand that they are an entirely general framework, and therefore useless for the stated purpose.
Squid ink ice cream is (was?) a fixture at service area-type places so I think most people have at least heard of it
This is an exceptionally kind take. Thank you!
> The cluelessness re. viral spread almost two years into the pandemic was just astounding and I'm still very, very angry about it.

I agree.

During the first months I would be willing to cut decision-makers some slack (on certain aspects, blatantly poor decision-making is different).

6–12 months in, I was becoming very frustrated at the distinct lack of learning going on.

But as you say, two years in. There is ZERO excuse.
"Medical care" for psychedelics really just means "strap them down so they don't hurt themselves thinking they turned into an attack helicopter so they jump off a cliff, and feed them water so they're not dehydrated" and just waiting until it wears off.
But you're right! All our truths were invented by someone else(s), down to the language we use to write these replies.
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It pains me when I see developers assiduously write unit tests for every line of their code and every single bug in the code ends up encoded in those unit tests so that they fail when the bug is fixed.

Integration tests need to be the default and people need to learn when to use one or the other.
What you say is true, yet we should aspire high standards, so that we can find out what we are able to achieve.

If you set your bar too low, you will never surprise yourself with doing what your previous self deemed impossible, but what your current self managed to do.

Most people I meet can do a lot more, by my assessment, than they think they are capable of. Their own thinking then hinders them from trying, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

The trick is to keep a positive-curious attitude about it "let's see if I can" rather than obsessing about others and comparing. Comparing is superficial (people who want to boast do it a lot), and never apples-to-apples, as no-one has the same starting point (parent connections, wealth, genetic disposition/talent etc.).
I read your post in good faith and respond in kind. There are certainly very important details I did not elaborate in a quick post, but I assume you understand that the question under consideration is how someone pursuing a full-time career might partake in (non-STEM) higher academic degrees. While I regret using the expression “rest of the world”, I don’t believe it’s just hyperbole to say that this is easier in Europe.

You are correct that people pursue different paths after US PhDs. However, as you say, a US PhD contains heavy course work and (outside STEM, where I have few data points since most researchers I knew dropped out to work for startups/FAANG) the average full-time program duration is only going up. There are exceptions of course, but admissions are centered around a personal scholarly narrative rather than a particular project and pricing is generally under the expectation of grant funding. Again, there are further details we could write books about, but I don’t think this is far from a general picture of US PhDs in the humanities and social sciences.

In Europe, MAs and PhDs are separated as many have noted. I know most about the UK context, where MAs are affordable and can be taken part-time, completed in two years with one class a semester. PhDs, which are research only (I agree with the you and would indeed change “writing” to “research” if I wrote the post again), can also be done part-time over eight years for a very nominal cost (about 5k a year for an international student). Systems have become more standardized in the EU after the Bologna accords towards the more professionalized three year track, but I’ve known PhD students in Germany to take 10+ years writing their dissertations. Unless policies have changed in the past few years, the same goes for France.

Again, comparing post-graduate education between US and EU, let alone between EU countries, is a complex topic. I have attempted only to show that there is a substantial regional difference and that, at least outside STEM, the EU system is more accessible for those with full-time careers, who do not plan to work in academia.
This is one of the best "side-effects" of testing, with the reasoning is that testable code is good code (as in modular, cohesive, etc...)
Some store fluorescent bulbs produce enough UV, 24/7, to make printed boxes fade away, and turn plastics brittle and yellow. It's not as strong as full sunlight, but it's still there nonetheless.
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Real time multiplayer strategy game. Can play with friends.

Typescript, node, sockets, react, postgres, custom redux, pixi (webgl)
> stopped reading

> it makes the rest of the blogpost also not true

what do you know of the rest of the blogpost if you stopped reading?
One of the people in my team has a PHD in weather forecast modelling and it was only a few hours ago we were talking about the Met Office having a decade(s ?) old Fotran core with lots of stuff bolted on.
C4 comes to mind (C in 4 functions), https://github.com/rswier/c4.

have you considered adding a backend for LLVM? perhaps a bit heavyweight, but it could be a good way to get C/C++, fortran, rust, etc. if that's something you'd like!
huge news, congrats! and thanks to the team at Anaconda!
You don’t use persistent databases to run these tests but put them on a tmpfs or in memory, right?
True, but it's great that they have a certain comparable hello-world set, so you can just take the 2-n benchmarks for the tech you're interested in and either ungamify it or just implement your own prototype and measure. The benefit of already having a non-random-tutorial-from-google app is a huge win to me personally.
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Try reading his one year update instead[1]

"But now this deflection is not in physical space but in branchial space. The fundamental underlying mathematical structure is the same in both cases. But the interpretation in terms of traditional physics is different. And in what to me is a singularly beautiful result of our models it turns out that what gives the Einstein equations in physical space gives the Feynman path integral in branchial space. Or in other words, quantum mechanics is the same as general relativity, except in branchial space rather than physical space."

Most of this stuff is mind-bending to me the same way statistical quantum mechanics, information theory or higher-dimensional physics are. But I always come away from reading about it with a feeling of "there could be something here, and I'm glad someone is exploring it further"

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/the-wolfram-phys...
> step away from the topic for a moment

From the topic of the article in this case.
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>Tests, whose scope lies higher on Mike Cohn’s pyramid are either written as part of a wider suite (often by completely different people) or even disregarded entirely.

My experience is the exact opposite. Actually my experiences are the opposite of many things in this article.
When you work in a research institute, you get used of receiving messages of people thinking they have a new theoritical model explaining physics. But that's not how science works. When you're a scientist you work on a specific topic of a specific branch of a specific science. Then you publish your work in one of the mainstream revue of your field. Then if your work is interesting, other scientists use your article to gain more comprehension and as a base of their own work. Rarely but sometimes your work is so fundamental that it can be used in other fields.

But you simply don't just say that you're revolutioning physics, biology, economy and the rest. A truly revolutionary work is deemed revolutionary not by yourself but by the other scientists and the impact on the field.

And Wolfram is not some kind of ermite lost in the middle of Siberia. He knows how that work and he has the credentials and the money to publish where he wants.
The bunny suits where because of the unknown and because of hopes for full containment, not because they knew something others did not.

The way I remember this but of recent history, initial r0 values were seem as a strong indication of absence of aerial transmission, because all the known airborn viruses are have an r0 so much higher than the observed values in the low single-digit range. Those just don't ever encounter a population that isn't already quite immunized since childhood. The reasoning went "if it was airborne, we'd see an r0 many times bigger". What they did not consider was that perhaps it was airborne, just not very good at infecting humans. Recent mutations certainly are, and if those had appeared from the start there wouldn't have been any doubts about the airborne nature of the virus.

("Exponential" kicks in even at an r0 of 1.001, but then of course hard immunity would be quickly achieved because it would not take many to push r(eff) below 1)
I think the US making ice cream in their airplanes were the best example of this.

Not sure of which model of craft, but they were essentially able to fly milk to a high enough altitude it turned into ice cream. The ability to have been able to spare aircraft for the sole purpose of doing that said a lot.
Unit tests are useful because it improves software design by encouraging you to develop modular software units that can be tested independently.

However you need integration tests and end-to-end tests to improve software correctness.
Your focus on things being "modern", which is no indicator of value except for hipsters and recruiters, made you forget about the third conclusion with which you might come away from setting up a monolith application:

3. Wow, this actually works. I am so productive and i can actually get my work done quickly, the same way as hundreds of thousands other normal developers out there. And then i can have a free time and mind free of stressing over what's cool or not

It's about what you value. If it is your time and happinnes, if you mainly want to just build stuff to solve real world problems, then choosing good old monolith application will get you there safe and fast in 90% of situations.

If you value to be hip and cool, then Deno, hydrating whatever, edge servers and sorely lacking areas of modern web development will 100% get you there.
Note also that nobody is doing anything to stop him to do what he wants.
Okay, but that is not what eternal September means:

> The only exception to this was September of every year, when large numbers of first-year college students gained access to the internet and Usenet through their universities. These large groups of new users who had not yet learned online etiquette created a nuisance for the experienced users [...] lamenting what they saw as an increase in low quality posts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

(Phrasing it less politically correctly, it sounded like you thought the poor countries would be savages coming without our western etiquette norms to invade our Internet. Apparently you found an entirely different definition of ES somewhere that isn't about etiquette.)
I like the content! You should add an RSS (well Atom is actually better) feed so that people can subscribe.
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Radiation in the red forest is supposedly not terrible _ if you don't disturb the soil _

All the nastier bits are under a layer of "clean" soil and you would have no contact with them ordinarily.

These soldiers actually dug down to the nasty bits and likely breathed some of the dust in.

Between that, and eating wildlife (which acts as a powerful concentrator), I'm not surprised they died. The exposure must have been thousands of times above the already non-insignificant baseline.
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from the patch:

The enhancement applies to string lengths between 1 and 128 bytes long. Support for fast-short REP MOVSB is enumerated by the CPUID feature flag: CPUID
[EAX=7H, ECX=0H).EDX.FAST_SHORT_REP_MOVSB[bit 4] = 1

So there is indeed a CPUID feature flag for fast rep movsb.
That requires for the person to actually care about the complex problem, otherwise they'll ignore it and focus on the the individual building blocks in isolation.
I like the changing background color. Cool effect, maybe a tiny bit slower would make it a bit more subtle, but I like it.
> Even if this is true, the very fact that it was even an option that came up in discussion in Cabinet says a lot.

Like I explain in my nearby comment, two of the most decorated UK epidemiologists, being also current and former UK chief scientific advisers, recommended that strategy. Boris did listen to science, it just turns out that some of the UK's very top level scientists were really bad, worse than the 5 year old kid your talked about.
Is arrogance a fatal flaw? Can we not look past it and appreciate the wisdom and ideas?
Agreed; you have to find a level that clicks for your students otherwise you're just throwing jargon at them. It's difficult to balance because knowing the subject well is required to teach it well, but knowing the subject well also means that your preferred abstractions are going to be too complicated [1].

A lot of people who want/need to understand the broad strokes of a database and how to query it effectively don't need to understand the deep, deep under-pinnings, and (unless you approach it cautiously) diving into it all will be actively counter-productive.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2501/
Units-of-measure are fun, especially in accounting and procurement.
With the increasing expectation that academic research results should be reproducible, there's really no such thing as throwaway "playground" or "prototype" code. Everything is potentially a "product".
Unit tests are extremely boring for people who don't particularly like programming but do it anyway as means to an end. It's just another piece of code you are writing instead of releasing the dopamine of the finished product. It's anticlimactic.

If you first write the test and then try to satisfy them(test driven development) can work to an extent as it can divide the large task into small pieces where you get a prize each time but it also alienates the developer from the larger picture, diminishing their value to the project since they no longer can put their intellectual output into the project.
Hmm, yeah. The Witness.

It was interesting for it’s puzzles, but having just come out of The Talos Principle -which had both great puzzles and a great story- it fell a bit flat for me.

The puzzles are fun, but the world looks it has a story behind it, and as you go along you find out that that’s just not really the case (or extremely minimal).
I have a friend who worked as a food scientist for Kraft and later Mondelez. One day were talking one day about how shelf-stable foods had suddenly gone through a fairly drastic shift in flavor. She told me a lot of that was a result of the banning of artificial trans fats. My guilty pleasure used to be Wheat Thins (hers was warm Oreos straight off the production line) until one day somewhere between 2013 and 2015 they began to taste like a crappier version of salted fried cardboard. I was sure this was a result of cost cutting and preparation to spin off Kraft's snack food division into Mondelez but she assured me that while that may have had something to do with it the major driving force was the shift to fats other than those based on artificial trans fats.

I can't say for sure if Pop Tarts suffered a similar fate but I'd say there's a pretty good chance.
Thank you for sharing this. I always imagined him this way but a confirmation by who met him personally produces a nice feeling. By the way an idea just hit me: Stephen Wolfram probably has a great understanding of how does popular image of a person evolves and lives loosely dependent on their real selves: to me it feels like it's a lot like the cellular automata he described in "A New Kind of Science". We can hardly produce a reliable and concise quantification of popular sentiment surrounding a person but if we could the mechanics would probably be similar.
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>Over time it lead to a test suite that takes a long time to run, slowing down the release process considerably

Slower, but the test suite is far more effective at catching bugs.

These tests do take more up front engineering but since they arent pale imitations of the code they also dont need to be totally rewritten every time the code is refactored. Higher capex, lower opex.
>Environmentalists and many energy experts have reacted with disbelief and anger at some of the measures in the strategy.

>They cannot believe the government has offered no new policies on saving energy by insulating buildings.

>They say energy efficiency would immediately lower bills and emissions, and is the cheapest way to improve energy security.

Doesn't most of the evidence point to people keeping their houses warmer after they have been insulated. Not that this is a bad thing but it doesn't do much for CO2 emissions.