skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first glance that underpass didn't seem that steep, but then I went to look for the underpass which I feel is super steep, I realized, maybe it's just difficult to get a good sense of the steepness from streetview.

Here's one I've gone through and feel is a rather dangerous one: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pU36XG6J89QL2nqJA

The view is from top of the underpass, but if you look to the back left you can see there's a downhill and then a really sharp 90° turn which might lead to really dangerous situations due to poor visibility and high speed.
> We know of modes of computation different from Turing machines, quantum computers.

That's wrong. Quantum computers are Turing complete just like any other form of computation we've found / invented. You can't do something on a quantum computer that you can't do on any computer, albeit in some cases you can get a speed-up by using a quantum computer.
Other people consider you to be a leader if you are tall, you will literally get treated better or get access to better opportunities if you are tall or beautiful. Short and ugly people don't enjoy the same advantage so it's not just feelings.
So that you can write "primitives" such as a queue in unsafe, and assuming it is correct, it is not possible to introduce bugs from other code.

Also, things like queues tend to be implemented in either the stdlib or a very popular library. So they are very well tested and likely to be widely reviewed.
Woke people also drink H2O, eat bread, and use a computer. Just like you.
It is but, for me anyway, it's a world away from Facebook, Insta and similar sites in terms of quality and usefulness. I do find myself opening my phone and having a quick look down the HN homepage listing but I'm fairly safe in the knowledge that anything I do read will of decent quality and have some benefit.

The other big difference is that HN doesn't got out of its way to make you consume more or want to constantly come back, that's not their business model.
Drunk teenagers on the train in Japan would draw a TON of attention. That's just not socially acceptable there. Good chance the police would be called on them as well.

Even drunk adults on trains is hugely frowned upon.
Surprised to see no mentions of Guild Wars 2 among all the discussion about WoW and FFXIV

I think in many ways Guild Wars kept the innovation going better than World of Warcraft. They also made it easy to level up doing your preferred activities rather than grinding “kill 5 kobold” quests. The combat is a lot more action-filled as well with the dodge mechanic and spells that don’t need to be channeled.

I think a lot of their ability to add these improvements came from selling the game as free-to-play with one time purchases so there isn’t as much reason to force you to grind every single day for monthly subscriber growth
Reddit is still one of the best place to find relevant and accurate information, compared to say Facebook, Twitter or some random website. Depends on the subreddit of course, but at least healthy communities can be created and moderated. Of course you’ll also find terrible and toxic communities and users, like The_Donald, which has fortunately been banned. Why is the author only focusing on bad aspects?

What’s the purpose of this article? It doesn’t bring anything constructive, it’s just trying to make it look bad, and discourage people from going there.

It doesn’t say what should be done to improve, what healthier site we should visit instead. It’s only negative.

"No matter what you believe in, wisdom isn’t achieved living inside a bubble of utopian ideals."

Oh yeah ideals are bad, surely, wisdom is better. I wonder what kind of "wisdom" he has in mind… He won’t tell us either. Sounds like this article has an agenda, which involves convincing people that Reddit and ideals are bad.

Reddit is doomed, and will go down into chaos because of ideals, values, mods and corporations. Hmmm that sounds familiar. Replace "Reddit" with anything and that’s your usual anti-system "wisdom". It didn’t bring me any new information.

It looks like Reddit is generally too pro-western values for the tastes of the author… And he had to tell the world about it.
> even if you made an alphabet (strings whose characters had decimal places or something) that was bigger, then it would still be kinda boring cuz the hyper hyper turing machine would still be a lookup table (though maybe even the machine in my example could still just be a lookup table for an uncountably large language on account of having uncountably many tapes/heads).

That's pretty much what I wanted to mean. Although I called it "boring", it was not to take a jab but more so because there is not much effort to spend to understand the limitations of such a machine once you can encode the whole language into the machine's look-up table. Also, such an extension makes us lose the ability to simulate other extended machines in general. Extensions to Turing machines are interesting because of how they may alter the limits of computability (in a completely hypothetical setup) and complexity, and I had some fun when writing the response although I called that specific machine model boring because it ended up being too powerful to be interesting (from a computability theory perspective).
Lol yeah, I can really tell you're just chock-full of empathy by the way you're conducting yourself in this argument. Are you really unironically saying this or are you just trolling the "woke"? Who would you feel empathy for, it doesn't seem to be the woke left.
I just came across Yuri's criticism for the first time, but it makes sense to me. I am not a user of Julia, but have followed it with interest since they published their first paper about it. With hindsight, it is clear that they would run into correctness issues due to their powerful composability features. The solution is obvious and hard at the same time: there must be a way to PROVE correctness. Of course, to incorporate a prover into Julia will be pretty hard, it is probably much easier to incorporate (some of) the ideas of Julia into a new shiny prover.
> I really don't think the PNW and coastal Poland is similar (if it's anything like Sweden). The PNW is like if the Alps had a huge coastline and almost no population to speak of. Check out Olympic National Park and remember that pictures are not the same as being there. It's breathtaking, pristine nature.

Yeah, that's what I imagine. A better, more beautiful, more pristine version of what I have at home. I'd gladly see that. But places like deserts or tropics or arctic are nothing like home, and a bit like traveling to another planet - more interesting to see, although there may be not that much to see there after a first couple of days.

> Florida is extremely boring, the only thing it has going for it is the warm water.

Doesn't Florida still have some pristine swamps? It would be cool to see them. Also, I've just never been to a place with oppresive heat, aligators, plenty of mosquitos (in the swamps) and all the rest of it - it'd cool to experience it once, even if to swear it off for the rest of my life.
For fucks sake… empathy is a human motivator that is unaligned with the political spectrum. We’re biologically designed with a (varying) level of it built in to how our brains work. It’s pretty easy to find an example... Watch a male flinch when they see another male kicked in the crotch. There’s heaps more examples of you want to research this field of neuro-psychology. By dragging fundamental human behaviour into the realm of political alignments your marking the other group as less human.

Which is no way to behave towards fellow humans, not a path to any sort of moral high ground, and I’m pretty sure against the hacker news guidelines.
Why would I pay $10 for something just to be allowed to criticize it?
I've been active on Reddit for 14 years. The quality of discussion has been more or less unchanged overall, but you must choose your subreddits in order for that to be true.

All of the major subreddits have gotten watered down because that's what happens when 29 million users (r/pics) are voting on comments. Communities change fundamentally when they scale up. The answer is to seek out smaller communities.

The smartest thing the Reddit admins every did was to create subreddits. At the time, everyone on Reddit criticized them for it. Users wanted to be able to have a single link get posted to multiple subreddits with a single discussion, so that subreddits would behave like tags. But the admins said that, no, the whole point was to create separate distinct communities that could flourish on their own and they were absolutely right.
Probably no.

But there is a guideline that you should only go at the speed from which you can stop from within the visible part of the road.
That's what I thought the discussion was about, locally 'clean' commits. In this context Rebase is so much more useful. I recently had to use the 'unto' option of the rebase command. 'unto' may show someone that they didn't really understand rebase though they could use the simple form of it, rebase -i x.
The good alternative to Reddit is still Reddit. Reddit isn't "a community" any more than the web or a state is. It's a huge collection of distinct ones. If you don't like the subreddits you're on, find others.
The Swiss are building those too: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/trans-alpine-rail-tunnels...

Being sandwiched between Germany, Austria, France and Italy, Switzerland gets a lot of transit traffic. At this point, nothing is really off the table to deal with it.
Thinking about larger houses with multiple appartments, which is very common in Germany, lock picking is the number one way of entering, as it reduces the risk of detection and quite fast. Beyond the ground floor, no one would try to enter through windows anyway, and there the recommendation of the police is to have locks for your windows. It seems to be very uncommon that one tries to break through the glass. Good glass is tough, breaking makes noise and then there is quite some danger of injury.
Any good lock can make quite a difference and these locks look very promising as they would defeat the typical picking.
I just want to point out that LockPickingLawyer never touches modern high security locks. (Say Abloy Protec or similar). Abloy Classic mechanism (from 1907) seems to be the the only Abloy lock he can pick (with a special tool made for the mechanism).

For some strange reason North American homes have the worst locks I have ever seen. Very little high security locks. In Finland, something like 90% of installed locks are beyond the skills of LockPickingLawyer (he could drill them of course).

If you are willing to pay little more, it's relative easy to buy a high security lock (or padlock) that is never pricked even by hobbyists.
> You can’t strictly enforce the invariant I just stated via OOP.

but you can strictly enforce it in pretty much every relevant OOP language - Java, C#, C++, C, Rust, D, ... by defining a class / struct / record with these two members, which is the only thing that matters. No one programs in abstract design principles, only in actual programming languages.
So if I tell you that upgrading pretty much all databases is a piece of cake but not include the criteria "unless you want to keep your data" you would say that is a fair statement?

If you claim that process X is trivial one has to make some assumptions, right? Otherwise I could claim that going to the moon is trivial but leave out "assuming you have a rocket, resources, people and anything else you may require".

Claiming that something is a piece of cake as a broad statement without any details is meaningless at best.
Big claims. Are all of these things as zero-cost as the things that Rust uses?
The latter is overengineering for safety, using a fast chip isn't. But I imagine it's the cheapest, small SoC that offers bluetooth or wifi, or whatever a "smart" lamp needs. If someone wants to rail against the need for smart lamps, however, they'd have a point.
Belsize Park has a deep shelter which is connected to the station but has been used as a storage facility for a while.

Semi-accessible currently and is known within the urbex community

https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/belsize-park-deep-leve...
The Zeno effect can still occur if there's no measurements.

Let there be a qubit B and a register of N qubits C[0], C[1], ..., C[N-1]. Now repeat the following N times: rotate B by an N'th of a full turn and then perform C[k] ^= B (a CNOT controlled by B targeting C[k] where k is the index of the iteration). These are all unitary operations; no measurement. If you consider doing this for larger and larger N, you find that if B started in the |0> state then B ends up nearer and nearer the |0> state as N increases. B's final density matrix limits to |0><0| as N goes to infinity.
I did not read the article that way. But then I've been a manager for a while now. Implicitly, there is a discussion about phases of team/product.

My experience is that the way to build great software is by small teams, with skilled programmers. Aka your artisan model.

Unfortunately, at least in my experience again, that does not scale as a company grows and the demands grow. You need more features, more people get involved, you can't just build/maintain the product within a single team. And you really want to avoid relying on specific individuals because it is too risky.

So that tension between craftmanship and commoditization of skill is definitely there. I wish there were a way to see a workable scalable model that does not involve commoditization in one way or another. I have not had the chance to see one yet.
To simply stop it, just hit the browser's stop (refresh) button while it's firing network request. That will cancel it.
I'd read up on how the protocol works... There could be a live "relay" attack available , but it's not like someone could just swipe your butt and make a bunch of cloned cards. The magstripe is more of a hazard than anything else as it the numbers on the front un-encrpyted.
Religion/acohol/coffee makes a society work. One gives a common background for a community, another gives stress relief valve and helps mating, the third one lets people stay on the clock and focused.

Meanwhile phone disrupts all of those. Tears apart communities into online bubbles managed by algorithms, increases stress and prevents mating and shortens attention span and disrupts focus.
Or at least eat only few tens of grams of animal products per meal.

You get all the supposed benefits.
I don't understand what makes you think humans operate anything like Turing machines to begin with.

The only way I see to reach this conclusion is to assume Turing machines are all that exist, and the conclusion follows.
If there are no convincing arguments one way or the other, then "what everybody else does" becomes the convincing argument. Why change established conventions for no good reason? There's no reason for curly braces to indicate control blocks and square braces to indicate indexing, but if a language swapped the two, what would you say?
As if HN people don't know how to copy a link... Or stop browser mid load...

Also heavy disagree. [] for array access is better than array.get(0). I have list access like this in Java and it sucks.
That never happens to motorists because the roads are rarely designed by people who don't drive. For cycling, that's not often false than true, unless you consider people who know how to ride a bike because they did it as a child as falling into the "true" bin, or people who never ride outside some vacation resort, and never faster than 10 mph.
All my bank accounts (UK) have some variant of "Never share this code with anyone, not even us." appended or prepended whenever they send a verification code. It's so universal I assume this is mandated by law. I'm guessing this isn't the case in the states?
Pgo: The Postgres operator from crunchy data
Any individual change like that might not have a significant impact, but as part of a range of reforms etc. it's not so hard to believe moving (or better monitoring of) bus stops and other similar public amenities could increase community safety (which may just mean criminals resort to interacting less with the public and more with other criminals, but that's still an improvement). And as part of that at least some criminals may see it as an opportunity to change directions in their lives. Do you have a better idea?
Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement
Hmmm, tell me more about these better communities without centralization, moderation, or even votes.

Sounds like the ideal opaque platform to brainwash people with "organic", shallow and easy to watch content.

The perfect backdoor for an open society.
I think they meant tunnels in general that affect people not in cars, including motorcyclists, because of their lack of a loosely airtight or climate-controlled environment. As opposed to a tunnel specifically for bicyclists and motorcyclists, which is also how I read it at first.
Im going to play devils advocate, when you look at the subreddits banned there are those that are banned for unknown and petty reasons (Tumblrinaction), however at the same time extremely radical or racist subreddits are also included (alt right ones, some extreme left and coontown fat people hate).

And if we judge reddit with 4chan the "free" speech platform, you will notice that 4chan is plagued with extremism and anti-social views, which in some ways is because they don't censor and is 100% anonymous to each user.

Personally some censorship is good to not allow the patients running the asylum, but also make sure you don't overreach.
Dependently typed arrays/lists/vectors with explicit lower/upper bounds would've prevented the errorneous assumption that you can iterate over any axis from 1 to length inclusive.
> Erlang's message passing style is interesting here.

it just hides who owns the message data object though, no ? The problem is still here.

e.g. for instance I work on a C++ software where there is a lot of message passing across threads, but the OS thread on which "malloc" and "free" are called for the messages and any data they may contain really, really matters - some threads must never call "malloc" or "free" under any circumstance. Would I be able to manage this with Erlang, knowing that every thread should be able to send message to pretty much any other ?

Also, looking at that code... https://www.erlang.org/blog/message-passing/
I don't really see what this gains me over the trivial C++ solution:

processing_thread.message_queue.send([=] (Context& ctx) {
int x = ... some computation ...

ctx.ui_thread.message_queue.send([x] {
... show some info ...
});
});

which can become even simpler with coroutines in C++20 if one does not like callback style
Agreed. I used C++ template a lot, it's fine. But Typescript is worse to the point it's not tolerable.
And yet roads are full of highly visible warning signs whereverr there is a turn that might not be safe at slightly beyond general maximum speed in some weather conditions.
The Kennedytunnel in Antwerp is two-level with a bike tunnel on top of the (very crowded) motorway, and it does smell of fumes in spite of the ventilation.

The large detours of the bike path at both ends of the tunnel are also a bit annoying as they significantly increase the distance you have to cycle. The alternative with elevators like in the Sint Annatunnel isn't really better though, because there you just have to wait for a long time for the elevator.

I much prefer bridges but where I've used bike bridges (like in Nantes) they were very low with little clearance above water. Even in Lille they're just a few meters, maybe ten meters at most, above water, so they're easy to climb without a large detour.

I wouldn't take the Pont de Cheviré on a bike for example...
How do you know a piece is tech is dead? They pay you to use it lmao
Not a silly question at all, though. The situation isn't the same with Java, where expensive approval is needed before you can call your solution a JVM.

The Kaffe VM, for instance, is careful to show a disclaimer: technically, Kaffe is not Java. [0][1]

[0] http://www.kaffe.org/

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/433377/
Also, they're also expanding the rail tunnels as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRLA
“Git is hard: messing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is impossible.”

No, no and no. If you do know what you do, then you don’t. There are tons of explanation on git, just RTFM.
Some people genuinely believe in these things. I met a lot of lefty weirdos at house parties in California who would explain these ideas to me with nothing but love, even though they knew I did not agree. But we still drank and ate together and enjoyed the party. I would call them "woke", but not malintentioned.

The people using these things as cudgels are not the same as the people who just believed they were describing the dynamics of the world.

It seems similar to me as the difference between early Christians, and the much later elites who would go on to sell indulgences while imprisoning and hacking off the heads of people who wouldn't agree submit to the regime in both thought and action.

Maybe I'm splitting too fine a hair.
> How the heck did it come into existence?

Probably implementation simplicity: sqlite_last_insert_rowid() dates back to the "dark ages" of mysql (it was added in 2.2.3, released 2002-01-16). The alternative is to add RETURNING, which for that sole purpose is rather complicated. sqlite only added RETURNING in 3.35.0 (2021-03-12), and that was also motivated by the addition of upserts (ON CONFLICT clauses), for which last_insert_rowid really doesn't work.

Furthermore, sqlite really only added multithreading support reluctantly, per its FAQ:

> (6) Is SQLite threadsafe?

> Threads are evil. Avoid them.

Multithreading support was added in 2.2.3 (2002-01-16), but it wasn't even possible to move connections between threads until 3.3.3 (2006-01-31), and using the same connection from multiple threads concurrently was not supported until 3.5.1 (2007-10-04).
I’m not really sure what it will achieve because I doubt Microsoft is going to pull the plug on it.
What was that hobby?
Do the actual inventors have to go through the parent litigation process, why not report it as theft to the local authorities, and use that theft report as a pass to keep working. Why is it for patents that the burden of proof is inverted?
Came for the LPL comments.
Reddit critiques in this thread sound more like anger directed at their moderation because the commenters here have apparently been banned, shadow-banned, removed for transgender "jokes" etc.
Agree with educating developers about not using. Big step forward
Is it so hard to type dictionary?
Btw, you can totally have classes in Julia. And methods will be compiled like all other functions. It's just not considered particularly idiomatic.