skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar interpretation. I read it very much as being about working conditions (in which case the letter would be protected by labor law), and was surprised to see the twitter behavior as the primary action item, citing working conditions as action items 2 and 3.

Not a lawyer, but the primary action point being about the twitter behavior seems to significantly cast doubt upon what would've otherwise seemingly been a slam dunk labor law/retaliation violation case.
I think people are conceptually fine with null. What they’re annoyed with is the inability to know if null is a possible value for a variable in many programming languages, e.g. Java.
bubonic plague killed the tulip derivatives traders

We don’t know what would have happened, the entire futures and spot price divergence was 3 months

Its the worst example of a bubble
When I first read this book I was working at a company building a product that no one used. The company was propped up by investors and eventually folded. It's not a great feeling developing something that no one will miss when it disappears.
Does anybody here feel a sense of sadness watching a video of a middle aged man from the mid 90s? I am closer to his age now than I am to myself in age from back then. Every time I watch an old movie (eg. The Godfather), I can't help but see myself in the younger folks then and realizing how old they are now. Makes me want to make the best of my time now.

Do you folks feel that way?
> The null-ls.nvim neovim plugin let’s you use vale as a prose linter.

Not exactly selling the value of vale when I see "let's" used like this.
You make good points. But maybe situation would be different - they could be a paranoid race (maybe even for good reasons, based on previous experiences), or race looking forward beyond next few thousand years. Planning/doing colonization of entire galaxy, at massive scale (ie insect-like).

Resources are finite, room is also finite and other galaxies are ridiculously far for sub-light expansion. When cold hard logic is applied, even great ally will eventually turn into competing party, just a question of time.

Its true that in that case Earth would be probably preemptively wiped out long ago since life markers are here for billions of years. Its fun mental exercise, just highlighting how we don't really have a clue, just wishes/fears and some (doubtful) statistical projections like Drake equation.
We're a fund regulated by a government other than the US. Our regulated investment manager (which confusingly is the entity that one would say does "investment advising" in the US) does not have any staff with US-specific licenses.

Despite all this, we could trade US equities, if we wanted to trade in markets that are deeply unfair and have fixed costs for data feeds and colocation in the tens of millions of dollars.
ISnowflake: The Anatomy of a Data App
Hoarding money isn't a bad thing if that's your normal state, but it's a bad thing to go stop lending and investing during a recession when that is what is needed the most.

Mortgage backed securities caused the GFC, but only a small part of the bank dealt with mortgage backed securities. It doesn't make sense to let that drag the rest of the bank and the economy down along with it, which is why the bailouts were necessary. It's not the job of central banks to punish bad actors. Their job is to prevent the next Great Depression. You don't blame the ER doctor who delivers a frightening dose of blood thinners to a heart attack patient. You blame the patient's bad habit of eating barrels of pork, which in this case would be Congress. If Congress did not force the treasury to issue so much debt, the Federal Reserve wouldn't have to buy so much of the debt back in order to lower interest rates.
"HN [...] degenerate[s] into what I'd expect on reddit" is a no no ;)

I suppose I'm a supporter of the "right to repair" and curious. Do you have something (more on the general side) that one has to be aware about this topic when discussing?
I'd like to know how this translates to other frequently used modules that are potentially computationally heavy, if at all.

- Numpy.

- Pandas.

- Scikit.

- Dask.

- Flask / Django.
Others?
Yeah. I was viewing the comments link.

Title: How do you recharge your batteries?

Reply [1]: "You are never alone. You didn’t choose to come into existence-at the very least, your parents (and others who raised you) will always have a physical and emotional bond of care and concern for you..."

And I'm thinking wow that's a whole another level of orthogonal...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31787637
Sad thing is you might have been the best candidate. Just didn't know the secret handshake.
Interesting to read about variable mutability here:

https://verdagon.dev/blog/on-removing-let-let-mut

Originally there was let and let mut like Rust. But that was changed to simple assignments, followed by the compiler checking for subsequent reassignment with set.

While I can see that might make for cleaner code while still allowing the compiler to get on with its job, surely one of the benefits of explicitly immutability is to stop the coder accidentally letting off foot guns. If simply setting a variable after declaration makes it mutable, it feels like it could open the door to data in a code block being allowed to change behind the scenes when the assumption in that block is that it is fixed.

I'd be interested to know how this works in every day practice and possible unintended effects.
Computers produce a dividend (their usefulness to produce other income, and/or as entertainment)
This is not necessarily true. It depends on your security model. You can use a bloom filter on each row. When the client does the encryption it encodes properties about the encrypted value into a bloom filter. The filter’s construction can be scrambled according to the user (salted) using regular means (xor). An attacker would need to unsalt the filter and know how to query the filter in order to derive any useful information. Arbitrary querying of all users data is computationally impossible. The client can even do the salting and pass the salt to the server to support server-side querying, thus allowing a user to consent to a server to know information it otherwise wouldn’t know.
Just as absurd as an office supply company named after an office supply doing the same thing

The next generation will have fond memories at that stadium and won’t think about the name either
> Imagine if food were as cheap and plentiful as air.

It was. There was a time you could just walk out and pick it off
trees.

Food didn't change. We did.

Progress is not a scalar. It's a vector. You must always ask:

Progress towards what?
Nor do we have a way to make our bodies less energy efficient by the same factor :-)
Ok but still, if you build a gigantic solar panel field, and with dust let's suppose it reduces the energy output to 20%, isn't 20% of a huge lot still a huge lot?

Moreover there are probably solutions to remove the dust when it becomes too thick, like to rotate the panels to let it drop off.
Doesn't it depend on whether the job holder himself thinks the job is BS?

I'd say anecdotally there's a heck of a lot of people doing jobs that they themselves don't think really contributes anything worthwhile.

If you loosen the definition a bit you might also count things that the job holder would say could be done vastly better, which would start to encompass some of your middle managers and compliance people.

I dare say most of what we do in society is essentially useless, it doesn't need to be done, and only exists because everyone in the current system needs to be seen to contribute. That need itself grew out of an inherited fear of hunger that might result if we let people slack off, and might take a long time for us to change.
I'm confused; every explanation of Dark Forest Theory I have read has asserted that aliens do not want to visit us, and would not try and invade our planet? (Maybe I just don't understand Dark Forest theory?)
Whose problem is it anyway? 4 questions to ask
Fred was a British TV star in the 80s young person. Back before HD TV and DVD quality.

I grew up around people like Fred (and they may have known him from his steam engine work) - good at hardware. Luckily software came along for me to not lose eyes and limbs to my job as would have been the case otherwise.
Woodworking, of course. Very popular with programmers.
News websites are so terrible about canceling that its actually a feature on a news site I built at https://legiblenews.com/upgrades/hassle-free-cancelation

It has to be one of the stupidest features I’ve ever written, but sadly it’s where we are today with the average news website.

Another really stupid feature is simply building a news website that doesn’t blast you in the face with 10Mb of ads. Legible News has a 100 score on Google Page Speed insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegiblene.... It FULLY loads in about 1s on mobile and desktop.

Compare that to NYTimes that takes about 10s to fully load: https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytim.... Pretty much any news website you plug in there will get a score of 25, take 10s to load, and hardcore spy on you. Thanks advertisements!

I wrote more about the many problems of traditional news websites at https://legiblenews.com/about.

Check it out at https://legiblenews.com/ — daily news is free, there’s no third party scripts or tracking, and if you like it the cost is $10/year at https://legiblenews.com/plus (I’m probably going to raise prices soon by a few bucks)
Agree, but this isn't all bad: their broken Web platform gave me free online access for years, because I noticed the "temporary instant access" link from the original subscription confirmation email was both reusable, and had no apparent expiration date, so continued to yield "temporary instant access" on-demand for at least five years after my subscription lapsed, and only stopped working as an apparent side-effect of a site reorganization that included a new authentication flow that wasn't compatible with the old link.

As far as I know, it'd still work if I took the time to figure out how to enter promo codes into the new system, but, hey, it was a good run.
If I imagine choosing between being totally unable to make appointments or do paperwork and buying some stuff once, it seems like an easy choice. They also put you back in jail for not showing up to your appointments, you know.
I had very connected-universe and even very spiritual experience (as an +-agnostic) when on shrooms, consistently every time since I took my time with setting and mood (and was alone).

It didn't bring me a nanometer closer to believe in religions, in contrary - when you know some tweaks to brain chemistry and receptors can produce this, religions are very close, just another tiny step, and eventually somebody charismatic will pick it up and succeed.

It did bring me much more respect for my brain and deeper insights into my personality than I could ever gain even doing ie very intense dangerous sports (which definitely do make you know yourself much more, and even redefine personality a bit).
I wouldn't buy a "real" Saleae though. Insanely overpriced these days. You can buy clones for literally a 50th of the price.
Brian Cantrill has a video out there where he rewrote some C code in Rust and the benchmark was enough faster that he couldn't make sense of it. After much digging it turned out that it was because Rust was using a better data structure to represent the data, one that's difficult to get right in C.

In the end his test was comparing algorithms not compilers, but there is still something to that: we always make algorithmic compromises based on what is robust and what is brittle in our language of choice. The speed limits don't matter if only a madman would ever drive that fast.
> don’t bother, just use Qt. Or Electron...

Qt and Electron are horrible options. What makes modern GUIs so complex that nobody's able to come up with a viable alternative that's simpler, faster and smaller? Whenever I talk to video game programmers, they scoff at the idea that UI is a difficult problem to solve. And they're right. They can get a computer to draw hundreds of complex 3d objects 120 times a second. Why can't we draw some text and a box 60 times a second so my window doesn't skip when I scroll?
I guess there is some kind of delication to write 4000+ fake entries
I almost totally agree with you, but have a few reservations-
1. We could have cheaper, more abundant food, but a lot of grain is dumped into the ocean to create an artificial scarcity to keep prices high.
2. We have planned obsolescence in electronic devices, to increase profits
3. Closed source technology have made it unreasonably hard for small groups with limited funding to innovate

If you want innovation and technology to thrive, you will have to notice that valuing money as highly as it is, is detrimental to progress. And if like you said, UBI reduces the value, that's precisely what can help, right?
Long time no see :) Great demo.
Noob question: how many PL books I have to read to be able to design a programming language like this?

The "7 programming languages in 7 weeks" doesn't seem to be enough. Could anyone recommend PL (1-3) books that nail all of these concepts?
>In this SpaceX case, they were very clearly discussing working conditions in a substantial part of the memo, and it's quite possible that is in fact protected speech. What muddies it up is adding the parts about also needing to tell Elon to stop being an ass on Twitter; that's probably not protected.

Completely agreed - this reads very much like a protected letter about working conditions, up until the authors made a terrible error by citing the primary action item as addressing Elon's twitter behavior, and putting working conditions as the secondary and tertiary demands. IANAL, but it seems like that will give a lot of ammo to SpaceX's lawyers in what would've otherwise been an open and shut retaliation case.
> There are websites out there dedicated to religious clergy

I'd be interested in reading that. Have a link?

Although it might be difficult to prove if those sites are legit...
whenever I see a list of properties like this I always add 'choose two' in my mind.

In my experience it's generally easy that gets dropped, reading the site I don't think there was anything there that made me think this is easier to learn than other mainstream programming languages so I think that's the case here as well.
SMT solvers are built on top of them which can do useful things like crack license keys or do cryptanalysis.

https://zeta-two.com/assets/other/nixucon18-slides.pdf
https://github.com/TechSecCTF/z3_splash_class
> and why must a normal person give a damn about the misfortunes of
junkies and alcoholics?

Try giving up your smartphone for whole one day, and then get back to
us on "junkies". :)
"Mammalian brains are the only things in the universe that we currently recognize as capable of sentience" - mm hmm. Poor birds.

Anyway, language is clearly not necessary for sentience, nor is it sufficient. I think it's just as likely that sentience is caused by a mystical ethereal "soul," made of ectoplasm that we can't see, than that it's caused by a graph of nodes and vertices with lots of edges.
It's not unheard of, but usually you need a PhD is a hot field with several conference papers. But it does not seem the norm yet.

However, anecdotes make up hopes.
Less horrible than other solution OP mentioned. Go ecosystem is great for CLIs, Web services but Desktop app support is not so great
Probably because a game just has to entertain. If there is something the platform can’t do then no biggie.

For business software the thing the nocode can’t do can completely make it infeasible to build the thing in the nocode tool.
No, there is no downside to this

There are going to be some great discounts when correlated assets bid down during these liquidations, and some nice block space available

Just pick the right asset if you want to speculate, there is always some that move

pre-2017 crypto was not a beneficiary of quantitative easing, the hedge funds didnt exist (barring like 3 with low AUM) and the LPs had no vehicle to purchase crypto

its more closely a return to that environment, except with waaaay better infrastructure

There is still over $200bn in stablecoins ready to move into any crypto asset at any moment 24/7, the redemptions to fiat aren’t really happening
Why would a run-time check make anything less safe than a compile-time check, if they perform the same check?
I thought we decided 20 threads ago, that OpenAI is anything but open?
Good Solutions for Paywalled Content
Oh that’s pretty cool, I wasn’t aware of that! Nice to that functionality added!
These men from decades ago and before are why you live your easy privileged life.

The risks they took built society.

If you think "Bullshit Jobs" is real then I hope you realise that's exactly you. These men are doing real work. And the idea they could just get other work is pretty insulting.

How much OH&S should be done in today's society is complicated. But what still keeps society running is a whole class of men doing hard dangerous work.

(And this an awful example about working from heights, that kicks in at 7 feet. The fact it start low is what matters. He is doing speciality work which is totally seperate and obvious he'd die)
Exactly. It’s time for a name change.
Me too, pity that is something that only Solaris SPARC has had in production at scale for the last decade.

C++ might be getting hazardous pointers thought, although most likely they will only make it to C++26.
This is basically the SETNX Redis command, as a service. Redis servers are already quite the cheap commodity. I think the success of this service really all comes down to performance, uptime, and scalability. There's a lot of overhead with HTTP(S) which will certainly hurt perf.

https://redis.io/commands/setnx/
> Doesn't it depend on whether the job holder himself thinks the job is BS?

That’s the initial definition, but eventually the author makes his own assessments.

At once point he describes being in the military as a bullshit job.

Tell that to the Ukrainians.
Any service can provide value, and Bitcoin does provide value: secure peer to peer transfer of money without a third party, nearly instantly. Why do you say there is zero use case? But like any service, its users decide what it's worth and sometimes that means network effects impact the value. I'm not making an argument for how much value this is or should have, but please stop saying the value is zero. It simply isn't true.
You’re a team. It’s great for you that one of your teammates comes up with good solutions. It helps everybody move forward.

Now you’re good at selling these ideas to the rest of the company, so just do that. Make sure you give the credit to the right people, and they’ll feel rewarded.

If you want you may give people some slightly more specific title like “lead developer” or “solution architect”. Though this may annoy some other people. You may also reward the person with higher salary (disclaimer here: I am not that person).
That is not really nocode and there is definitely a limit before you need to concern yourself with architecture, structuring code, dealing with complexity etc.

I remember those old visual tool where you could even drag on DB connections. But soon as you have a complex requirement like joining two tables or something then boom you are in yescode.
Billions isn't much to the USA or the EU.
Our GitHub actions are working fine via tags.
Some of those are bindings to C and C++ libraries, so hardly any change.
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> Why can't we draw some text and a box 60 times a second so my window doesn't skip when I scroll?

Battery, for starters. If desktop UIs were all written like games, nobody would carry their laptops anywhere. Because they all be plugged in at home.
Can you post articles.that show Bukele in a positive light and explain what he is trying to do? I am genuinely curious.
Given the possible confusion with Vale[1] and Vala[2], I suggest to rename the language to some new unambiguous name asap in order get more visibility.

Otherwise, it looks very promising!

[1] https://github.com/project-everest/vale
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
It is, I'm 20 :P
I think, as of writing, I have a new high score: 444823.

I achieved this by trying to keep interest rates as high as possible. I started out with 5% which gradually increased to 7%. During the prosperity, I was mostly fixed at 13% and then lowered to 6% just before the drought. I kept the interest rate wiggling between 6% and 8% for the rest of the game (though I probably could've gone much higher until the people spend 10% less).

Keeping the interest high is key, since it's (afaik) the only way to generate new money. Additionally, income from interest will be spread out between the population, so going for high wages is not absolutely necessary, since the investment income from the orchard will also reflect in the population's income.

edit: Just going to piggy-back on this comment. Are there any interesting, recent economic simulation games out there? Especially macroeconomics are fascinating and would make for a challenging game.
Generally speaking, I agree with you.

But I don't imagine it as straight forward (easy) as you describe it.

> quitting the religion is always the Plan B

No. Quitting the religion is 'quitting Plan A'.'Quitting Plan A' is not plan B - it's having no plan at all.

They put their life (probably decades) into a highly ideological field. Leaving that is not easy, I suppose. It's more than giving up convenience
>Even QT, a C++ standard is quite complicated

What is complicated about Qt ? You have widgets and events(called signals) , you have clear way to do layouts and powerful ways to extend things. My only complaint is not about the API but is abut C++, when I was working with Qt4 there were not good official or unofficial but stable bindings to memory managed languages.

So personally for a quick side project I don't want to use c++, since is a side project some ugly and slow Electron app will be good enough and if I were on Windows I will probably do a C# Windows form app , or a Java Swing app.
Completely agree that objectively, Python has really bad underlying tech.

Emotionally though (once you have the environment set up), it’s just such a breeze to write it. It’s like executable pseudo code with zero boilerplate. You can focus purely on the algorithms and business logic. Compared to many other languages the line count is often 50-80%, even if you include type annotations! This doesn’t only apply to plain imperative code, using the dynamic features you can also turn it into your own DSL where needed.

Then there is obviously the huge eco-system around it, there is not a single service, file format or database that doesn’t have a good python library for it. While go might have equally wide library choices, I wouldn’t be so sure about nim, go on the other hand has a lot of other wtfs even though it provides a lot of good fresh tech.

Would I use it for a big service with potentially lots of performance requirements? No. But there is no doubt why it’s so popular. For many applications where the the outcome of the program is more important than the performance or environment, like glue code, simple intranet applications or exploratory coding, it is still the perfect choice. You also have to consider what it is replacing, often the alternative would be even worse; bash-scripts, Excel or Matlab.

Another way to put it is that it’s a very good Swiss Army knife that is good at everything but not best at anything.
But why...?

One of the big rules of hiring is to get people that require the fewest hours of training. That's why most companies welcome "alumni" back.
The "cross platform" part, which is maybe less of an issue these days?
Well the heavy lifting in the numerical libraries you listed is done in C so it won't make any difference at all.