skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is highly concerning that they'd praise any portion of a document that calls for censorship of "misinformation" (eerie parallels to the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was censored and later proven accurate).

It also paradoxically calls for a "decentralized network", and "government partnerships" with the technical community. Doesn't sound decentralized to me.

Tellingly, the principles of free speech and open debate are not mentioned, which makes sense as the document has signatories such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Sweden and Germany which have laws that regularly put people in jail for non-violent Internet speech.

It laughingly calls for a secure Internet while practically all of the signatories are involved in illegal or questionably legal wiretapping and mass surveillance.

The document is a dystopian nightmare, using weasel words and political speak that almost none of the signatories actually believe.
I don't believe TchoBeer, like most people who use gentile had any ill intent. I don't even think it's something to get worked up about. I only responded in the thread because it was brought up.
Periodic functions like sin(x) are the solutions to differential equations like dy/dx = -y that describe for example, oscillations of springs, to name but one of an extremely large number of dynamical systems that behave this way.
Is there any evidence that these academics affect the practice of business much? When I think of ideas or changes coming out of business schools and changing how businesses are run the only thing I can think of is Michael Porter’s five forces. Toyota has likely had a greater impact on how business is run than every business school professor combined, ever.

More bluntly most business professors never even try to become successful entrepreneurs. They’re unwilling to bear the costs of the market test because they don’t expect the benefits to be worth it.
I agree with you, however I think it's even simpler than that: the author is comparing Go to rust, but it's not comparing it to the places where it shines, that is, where Java, ruby, js, python are used.

Now suddenly we go from a poor type system (Java) to a decent one in Go (this is my personal opinion). Or from no type system to SOME type system.
On top of this, we are getting all the benefits of a compiled language.

Essentially this is looking Go as a system language, while I think of it as an application language.

Aside from that, the author is right in some ways.
* How to Code: Simple Data and How to Code: Complex Data on edX. Taught by Gregor Kiczales, of Common Lisp and CLOS fame. Uses Racket and graphical programs to teach.

https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-simple-data

https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-complex-data

* The From Nand to Teris project, The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles book, and/or Coursera course. Builds a hardware stack for a CPU and then a software stack (assembler, VM, high-level language).

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...

* The How to Design Programs book. What the edX course above is based upon.

https://htdp.org/

https://www.amazon.com/How-Design-Programs-Introduction-Prog...

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). Uses Scheme. One can use Racket with the `#lang sicp` language.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html

https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Pro...

YouTube playlist of the course by the authors: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

* Thinking as Computation: A First Course. Uses Prolog to solve problems of thinking.

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Computation-First-Course-Pre...

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hector/PublicTCSlides.pdf

* Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (shares an author with SICP). Uses Logo to explore turtle geometry/graphics. Can use any modern Logo implementation.

https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificia...

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4663/Turtle-GeometryThe-Co...

* Starting Forth. Uses Forth.

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Forth-Leo-Brodie-ebook/dp/B0...

* Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and also The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing. Uses Processing and p5.js (the JavaScript version of Processing).

http://learningprocessing.com/

https://natureofcode.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Processing-Beginners-Program...

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Code-Simulating-Natural-Proces...

The author's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/TheCodingTrain

https://processing.org/
They just eat tons and tons of people.
Double-clicking on text selects the whole word.

Double-clicking and dragging selects text word-by-word.

Triple-clicking selects the whole paragraph.

Middle-clicking a link opens it in a new tab.

Middle-clicking a tab closes it.

Middle-clicking in general often has useful functionality!
Edit: should not be approximated
The Amazon Kindle will support ePub in late 2022
Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium [video]
If you sleep laying down wearing earmuffs, you'd better also place something - like some string - between earmuff and skin: otherwise, you risk suction of the tympanum (and aggravate the situation).
All I can say is... Wow!
"the applicant’s main purpose of coming to the UK is to undertake a permitted activity, rather than specifically to work remotely from the UK"

That's doesn't seem like an exception? That sounds like saying "hey, I'm going to fly to the UK and work remotely from there" is against the law.

What that paragraph says to me is "If someone comes to the UK as a visitor, and happens to do some work - responding to email and/or answering phone calls" that's ok. But actually work full time in the UK remotely, is not legal.
> I cannot watch professional cycling of any kind, they are all doping and cheating one way

You're missing out on some awesome displays of athleticism because of this wrong idea. At the top level doping has been stamped out more than in any other sport.

On the other hand I could name some huge mainstream sport associations that don't follow the WADA code and implement suspiciously lax doping controls, but perhaps that would derail the thread.
I read this twice just to be sure. Well done :)
Source? I would be very surprised if there was a neural symbolic PDE solver better than what’s in wolfram mathematica.
Earth Creates Its Magnetic Field [video]
this is a terrible list of 'brain facts'. they're not interesting or constructive to a larger understanding, and analogizing the cerebellum to a GPU is naive and misleading to the point of being insulting. working neuroscientist don't think about consciousness, we look at neurobiology, develop experimental techniques to allow imaging of ever larger numbers of neurons, try to understand how the brain computes.

I don't see how one could boil down the staggering complexity of the field in the one-bite popsci factoids that leave a layperson with any useful model of the brain. People certainly try though (ahem, Andrew Huberman...).

Here are some facts though: you have some neurons, they do things sometimes. we have some vague ideas about what different bits of brain do in very specific context. we have absolutely no idea how it all fits together, and are decades away from such an understanding. the fruit fly visual cortex, which is several orders of magnitude smaller than mammalian cortex, has been exhaustively studied for 40+ years, and we are only recently starting to build a circuit level model of the computation in the first layers. Here is your fact: brains are the most complex objects in the known universe
Roam Research is an awesome tool, unfortunately it does not get enough recognition on this site.
Debian has Linux RT builds, so I could use those, but really the change in quantum isn't noticeable at all. I just need to figure out how to configure pipewire to keep it at that value instead of reverting after restarts.
> Rabbi Yirmeya raises a dilemma: If one leg of the chick was within fifty cubits of the dovecote, and one legwas beyond fifty cubits, what is the halakha? The Gemara comments: And it was for his question about this far-fetched scenario that they removed Rabbi Yirmeya from the study hall, as he was apparently wasting the Sages’ time.

The irony of this strikes me - all the other Rabbis are applauded for their far-fetched scenarios, then this one is punished for something which (arguably) is less far-fetched.

Scarcely the only instance of irony in the Talmud. I have the suspicion that (at least sometimes) the irony is intentional
I first encountered the use of this pencil in one of the "Dad, How do I" videos on YouTube.
I loathe nearly all man pages, they are written in a manner that is as over the top and an absolute chore to digest. I believe it is a form on programmer one-upmanship, it is largely unnecessary and stalls common usage massively.

I made this recently and tried very hard to make it so that the vast majority of people that could use the command line could grasp what it did, usage is trivial:

https://github.com/tux2bsd/freebsd-update-probe

I guess what I'm saying is I like documentation written for humans (which you do).
A website and email is one of the only means to control your own content.

Podcasts are starting to get centralised, like how Spotify bought out Anchor.

The alternative of hosting ones own podcast doesn't seem easy, nor seems cheap. I explored that idea for a big with my own podcast, The Language of My Soul, but it ain't worth it.
I've had this happen to me when the SD card would snap in 2 inside the SD card holder on the PI. Happened twice with the CanaKit PIs, once for PI3 and another time for PI4, with the SD cards that came in the CanaKit. I just put Raspbian on some fresh SD cards that I bought separately, plugged them in, and everything was back to normal. I think the overheating was from the short circuits inside the snapped SD cards.
TSDgeos' blog: Poppler finally has support for embedding fonts in PDF files
At the cost of how many parameters?
> "Criminal organization" is a crime in itself so it's a different tool to apply tougher penalties.

This is also true in the United States, where it's called "racketeering".
Recently saw a video of a person making a taxidermied porcupine fish very interesting (laborious) process.
The company cares because they have legal obligations as well. Just because you pay for you taxes doesn't mean the employer is in compliance. Just like the US, many employers are obligated to pay additional fee/taxes/payments such as social security etc.
Fun fact: one of the red flag symptoms of a headache or migraine is if it is significantly less severe sitting up vs lying down. Or if it gets worse when you sneeze. I am NOT a doctor, but IIRC this can be a signal of serious issues they could be causing such a headache, as it means the blood pressure caused by lying down or sneezing is potentially stressing vascular structure in your head.

See: https://youtu.be/d2vW_CHWqo4
DLR and NASA Retire Boeing 747SP “Sofia”
The Economics of Seinfeld (2010)
A small shout-out to Differential Evolution, which is my go-to (derivative free) optimization algorithm. Think of a Genetic Algorithm, but the crossover operator is linear interpolation (DE's natural domain is real-valued vectors). It's simple, and in my experience, it works pretty well.
> The lesson that I take is that all non-essential packages should instead be in an official, separately versioned, stdlib.

Hmm, honestly, this is a really great take. A thin OS base, with the "batteries" being optional. Or at least being to use specific versions, bits and pieces from various points in time as needed.

Of course, this could turn into an Eldritch mess, but then again, it might also lead to working software over not being able to update the stuff you want to update because the rest would break otherwise.

Overall, there's probably a lot of consideration to be made about the details, but that seems workable. Stability might still sometimes be an issue (e.g. should the language internals change, a la Python 2 to 3), though i'm not sure whether that can even be addressed all that well, at least in the higher abstraction level languages (with separate runtimes like CLR, JVM etc.).
I don’t have The Elements of Typographic Style at hand; how does their usage differ? Butterick mentions ranges and connexion between two words, which sounds about right.
GDPR class action regime gets the green light
Look at California residency requirements. They don't care if you're out of state for most of the year. If your license is from CA, or maybe you vote there, or you opened a bank account years back in CA, they will send you a tax bill.
You know what? This was the most pleasantly surprised I've been considering how supplemental and nice the art was.
Hosting content and referencing it are two different things. You seem to be undervaluing the latter
Who would teach 1?
From what I've read, PA did expose a lot of driver bugs, but this was mostly caused by it rewinding audio buffers [0], a driver feature that was not commonly used before PA. PW doesn't use rewinding though.

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documen...
One of Armstrong's team mates from US Postal days wrote a tell all biography after he was banned for doping: Tyler Hamilton the secret race, in it (paraphrasing) he said he saw athletes from every professional sport in the waiting room of the private doctor who was doing his doping.
Of course sine can appear in the solution for dynamical systems but the function itself is not dynamical. When evaluating sin(x) you do not need to know about the previous state.
One of my programming starts was Delphi. Pascal is an easy language, but has some fundamental features: pointers, classes, procedures, custom types, manual memory management on heap and so on (it was devised as a teaching language IIRC). Delphi provided a GUI builder and a rich library which made it all fun and visual; you could whip out a first “program” or “game” in no time.

Delphi is no more but there is some successor, seems to be well received on HN.
Use FLOSS and explain why. Python and Geany are great to start with. Avoid proprietary and/or telemetry filled products like vscode. Most IDEs are too complicated anyway.

I also think Flutter might be interesting, though not sure how suitable for begginers.
> Like any brain in such circumstances (the hostile vacuum of space with no blood supply or body), it would almost immediately stop functioning and begin to deteriorate.

that is not such rare fluctuations are ephemeral. they are ephemeral because the dynamical system is reversible, for the same reason that the molecules in a box of gas dissipate immediately after they happen to coalesce in the corner
Proraso anti-bleeding gel is the best thing I have found for razor cuts. It dries into a transparent artificial scab.
I don't think you understand how hypotheticals work and why they're useful.

This particular example is about a sex act that happened by accident. While falling down is a ridiculously improbable, similar instances are not. Once at a party in dark corridor I grabbed a woman who I thought was my girlfriend (whom, I confirmed previously, was liked being surprised in this way) but turned out it was someone else. I was mortified and ashamed, and had I been religious, this would have been exactly the example I would have reached for.
It's good form to disclose that you own the tool you're recommending.
1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself.

2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally.

3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be hard to generate income since most users probably only want to use it for a short amount of time as a joke. I think it is intended to just be a fun API that others can use.
> Right now we feel the right thing to do is to prioritise commercial and industrial customers – the people who need Raspberry Pis to run their businesses – we’re acutely aware that people’s livelihoods are at stake.
> Discharging hospital patients into care homes:

England had 70.000 more deaths than usual in 2020 (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...), how many of those were from care homes? The balance was ~30.000 in mid April, were all of them in care homes? And even if so, how do you justify the remaining 40.000 that died later in the year?

> Killing people with ventilators:

Also April 2020, so the question is the same. How do you justify the excess deaths from the second half of 2020 and 2021?

> except that a lot of countries didn't have any unusual excess mortality in 2020

Which? How did death causes compare in 2019 and 2020?

There are studies for this such as https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35099995/
You might accidentally veer off just at the end of the line - better to take all points into account.
Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave
The book "The Unfolding of Language: the evolution of mankind's greatest invention" by Guy Deutscher explains this very well and has numerous examples. As a language noob, I found it fascinating!
The British Royal family is known to have done it for a long time in the past: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389142/British-roy...

It is very likely that they still do it but because people have lot more power and influence now so they started hiding their more controversial activities. It is very likely that they have included other elites from elsewhere in the practice... which is why I believe the adrenochrome story, which we are supposed to think is a "conspiracy theory", but I think it is much more likely to be happening than it is portrayed by naysayers.
> I didn't care in the last post and I don't care about this one either. I care about my productivity, I care about my team's productivity, and I care about getting stuff shipped. Those are the things I care about, and go works great for that.

If your definition of "productivity" is the time spent in programming, I think you and the author are not in disagreement. The point that the author makes is that using a language with sophisticated type systems prevents some categories of bugs to happen in the first place. That means less time spent in debugging and fixing the code.
speaking about doping - as Russian sportsmen are mostly banned internationally due to the war, the top Russian sports officials have been publicly talking about "taking the Russian sport to the next level" by removing various supposedly stifling limits enforced by the international sport organizations. Officially those officials supposedly meant various technical limits and rules in various sports, while one can only wonder about what they would do with doping now that nobody is really watching (and given what they have already done when WADA was watching), and as they got that huge propaganda task of "taking to the next level" what they have to deliver on. So, get ready for Russian sportsmen say running 100m in 5 sec. with pure doping in their veins instead of blood :)
Really nice work on RadioPaper. I think I have been building something very similar - https://taaalk.co, which is a social network for closed (troll-free), but publicly readable, conversations.

I went with a very different design approach - a bit more slapstick; referencing the messaging apps we are all familiar with.
"In a recent meta-analysis of over 200 prior studies on financial literacy programs, conducted by Daniel Fernandes, John Lynch, and Richard Netemeyer, and entitled “Financial Literacy, Financial Education, and Downstream Financial Behaviors”, the researchers found that interventions to improve financial literacy explain a statistically significant but practically irrelevant 0.1% of subsequent financial behaviors."

The problem is knowledge decay. If you don't use it immediately you forget it. Just like every other academic subject.

12th graders also don't remember their geometry or algebra or history classes.
Isn't that what conferences and journals are for? Reviewing and selecting the most important papers?

When something is really solved (a solution exists without negative side-effects; and this fact has been verified several times), they should indeed look for new problems.
The time to peek up local problem domains are independent of language. The time to peek up language is, well, independent of language. I had an experience when former hardware engineer picked up Haskell in a month.
I tried getting into programming as a kid, but I never really got to a point where I was having fun, printing stuff into a terminal just isn't really... engaging, and gui stuff looked complicated. One day I bought a kit with electronics which had an arduino in it. And when I decided to try that thing out, I found out you can make stuff happen in the real world with code. So ye, arduino, that is what worked for me.
What an absurd dismissal.
> they're not interesting

You have a failure of appreciation, yet those facts are potent and surprising.

>constructive to a larger understanding

Yes they are not, who cares?
Teaching neuroscience is of course a non-goal of my comment, what an irrelevant thing to say..

>analogizing the cerebellum to a GPU is naive and misleading to the point of being insulting.

Exactly, but if you had allocated a few neurons while reading my comment you would have seen I said "a poor simplist-ification" akin to only transmitting the idea that it is the place in the brain with the most compute power/parallelism.

>working neuroscientist don't think about consciousness, we look at neurobiology,

Such a useless thing to say. It is a truism that scientists mostly focus on what can be studied by the means of metrology/empiricism and indeed for now, qualias are low-studiable.
Saying this has no more value than saying water is wet.

Your shallow dismissal is just a pretext to your layman explanation of what is the brain. Explanation with btw zero level of detail.
I have read over 1000 papers in neuropharmacology and there are in facts a lot of things we understand about brains.
But, the C.elegans ~150-300 neurons, which is much simpler than the fruit flies, is as of now unexplained in terms of neural code, despite having an almost complete connectome of its neuroreceptors.
But no the C.elgans is not one of the most complex thing in the universe. This is a fallacy that make seems progress seems impossible. The truth is, C.elgans has a relatively reasonable complexity, however we lack real-time datasets and we lack accurate instruments to observe and retroengineer the while system.
> the first 6 months, they would go to all the team leaders for the teams they served and listen to the problems they faced.

I once got rejected from a manager interview with a billion dollar unicorn. I said I would spend my first 3 months understanding and observing. The director retorted and asked rhetorically what if my team complained that I wasn’t doing any work?

It left a bad taste in my mouth. And I have pondered for months whether I mishandled the question, fundamentally misunderstood management, or whether this unicorn is doomed to fail-at-scale because of poor organizational intelligence.
So basically, they are "thought experiments".
They could have done that… 10 years ago.

Now lots of other companies are in the marketplace to provide this and Netflix would be a late entrance.
The highest number of births by one woman is 69: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most...