skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's enough difference between 1435mm and 1520mm to use a 3-rail system.

Can you provide an example? I've only seen 4-rail dual-gauge systems for those gauges.
I wonder how long it'll be before organizations that provide abortion services to out of state women will be declared more or less terrorist organizations in red states and you'll get arrested for donating to them...
I played the original Everquest from 1999 until 2004 or so with some gaps. it really was amazing at the time. WoW killed it of course. There's good reason for that but it's wild to think of how hard core EQ was at the time.

For example, if you died, your corpse was where you died. You reappeared with literally no gear. If that was deep in a dungeon (Sebilis anyone?) then recovering it might be nontrivial. This led to corpse-run ("CR") groups. If you failed to get your corpse within a week it would disappear taking all your stuff.

You also lost XP when you died.

Another example: wood elves started in Kelethin, which was platforms in the trees with no rails. It was a rite of passage to fall off those passages and die. If you were fighting under the city at times you'd often see newbies falling to their deaths.

Travel originally was originally nontrivial too. One continent had a big city on each side (Qeynos and Freeport) and it was almost another rite of passage to do the Qeynos to Freeport run as a low-level (which could take 30-60 minutes IIRC) because you wanted to level somewhere else.

This is a genre I wish there was life in but sadly I think it's time has come and gone. A big part of what drove it was that it was the era before social networks. You met people in MMOs. Now? Everything is so results-oriented. Play a modern MMO and to do a dungeon you just queue, join, kill things off the checklist and then leave. You may never talk to anyone. People may leave mid-dungeon and get replaced without you ever noticing.

It's interesting to see how many small changes players demand ultimately kill the genre. Levelling too slow? Eliminate it. Um, what? That's half the game. Dungeon queueing. Raid queueing. Solo content, which has definite merits also means you rarely have to talk to or cooperate with anyone to get a lot of things done.
As I like to think of it, “being yourself” and “becoming a friendlier more approachable version of yourself” are not incompatible.
Well, yes, but tell that to the proof assistants, automated theorem provers, academic snowclone^W^H phrasal template banks, and highly bullet pointed lists of Corporate ISO9000 series GRC Policy & Procedure Work Instruction Drafting Style Guide Manual Template Files as well as the resulting legislative outputs( via lobbying, lol). Cf. my points in the Twitter thread, on proforms, thematic relations, and one anaphora¹.

There exist only so many ways in which to formally answer arbitrary instances of the 7 fundamental questions (yes, 7, not 5—or six, like IBM's Zachman framework would have one believe.).

¹ the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza place and asks: Can you make me one with everything?
You shouldn't use ENV variables for secret data (2017)
This is just my opinion, but I can't imagine systems programming being the objective of any beginner. A beginner probably wouldn't even be able to differentiate systems programming from applications programming.
I am not talking about the circumstances. He said it was not a priority and it was "too controversial". That is weak.

> not waste valuable limited political resources on abortion, which already was protected

It was not protected, as we now see.
That’s a different point—you can’t conceptualize an orange if you don’t have a word for orange. OP is making the opposite point: you don’t have a word for orange if you don’t have oranges. The absence of a clear word (much less several) for a “nerd” stereotype might reflect a culture that doesn’t create that categorization.

Coming from south Asian culture, for example, we don’t really have a similar concept either.
It's one instrument on the MARS Express orbiter that needed a bit more processing power than most spaceflight computers could deliver. They sent a P90 running a stripped down 98. Not an ideal choice, but not terrible, either-- it's just one instrument.
Seriously. Give that robot some more senses. Echoic, magnetic, infra-ultra, spectrographic analytic, nuclear magnetic resonant... the whole schmeer. It's certainly easier than making them smarter.
These are good numbers, and I hope they point to a better future for automobile safety. But I am very concerned that the claim of Full Self Driving leads to unrealistic expectations from drivers. Such a course is irresponsible given the automation fatigue that has been documented. When people are required to pay close attention to a task that is nearly fully automated they just cannot do it. Then lives are put in danger.
> I had a similar journey. I’m even writing a book on it.

I'd be interested to hear more. Do ping me if you have time.

> While there’s a number of titles talking about internet or tech
addiction, all we're doing is pointing out a problem rather than
taking actual steps to improve our character to rid ourselves of
these things to begin with. This problem is only going to get harder
for the individual, and it’s up to each one of us to battle our own
battles. No amount of reform will solve it for us.

You might be interested to read Digital Vegan [1]. The food metaphor goes
quite a long way. I really see it as a public health issue.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net (can send you a review copy of you like)
I’m developing a personal opinion that being on a phone all the time is like being high all the time.

Eventually you look back and see thousands of hours you could have spent building something or learning an instrument or whatnot.

Instead you just kinda pissed it away on gossip and getting anxious about events you have no control of.

My most productive time on this phone is when I’m learning new stuff here on HN. But even that can probably be curbed a lot.

I’m thinking about how I break this cycle. One main issue is that I want to create using a laptop. But I have young kids who rightfully demand my attention often. That’s why social media fills the thousand little gaps so well.

I’m thinking I need to learn how to write code in short segments of as little as 15 minutes. At work I need to build up context and state in my mind. But I can’t do that in such short bursts. So I need to learn how to do “stateless programming” per se.

This leads me to wondering: if I had the memory of a goldfish, how would I go about writing an application? Some way to spend 15 minutes breaking a big problem into self contained 15 minute tasks. I’m convinced the software architecture will reflect this and as a result I’ll discover different paradigms for how to write software.
Gohper absolutely supports images. Basic browsers let you click a link to view it. More modern ones would inline the images.

Gopher is different from the WWW as it's expected your browser to render content in a way you want as opposed to a standard of how each page should look.
"Enter your social security number on our site to check if it's been leaked!"
Turning off autocomplete forced me to actually learn and memorize again, not just libraries, but even my own code. I didn't even notice how bad it had gotten when I went from IDE to plain text editing, felt like my brain had atrophied. Like when you hear people say they can't navigate any more without an app.
Really worth watching. Just wished JCal had ended the video at 55:10. What a sad, petty, reactive way to respond to criticism. He completely blundered the opportunity to take the high road, apologize, and move on.
> But if you want to really understand computer programming, starting at machine code or at least assembly isn't a crazy way to start.

I've long suspected that the CS field was founded on two approaches: The people who started from EE and worked their way up, and the people who started from Math and worked their way down. The former people think assembly is the "real" way to approach software, and probably view C++ as "very high-level", whereas the latter people think everyone should start with a course on the lambda calculus and type systems and gradually ease into Haskell, work down to Lisp, and then maybe deign to learn Python for *shudder* numerical work.
There are much simpler solutions than that. Simply invest or reuse plagiarism models and tag output snippets to source repositories. You can either exclude this code or let the users know it's licenced code.
I think the big differences are that copying and reference taking are automatic and invisible in C++. So a lot of APIs taking string or string& will "just work" for the beginners, and you can delay the part where you talk about how different those things are.

This sounds like a minor difference, but I've met lots of developers who do meaningful work in C++ but who don't know what a copy constructor is. I get the impression that there's an enormous difference between being a C++ "user" vs a "library writer", because there's so much automatic stuff happing under the covers.

Rust tends to have a bit less invisible complexity, I think, but some of that difference is just making the complexity visible (like reference taking), which effectively frontloads it onto beginners. It's a tough tradeoff.
In Berlin people are relaxed and just act normal, rest of Germany it depends on the type of place a lot
No. Preservation of the physical form and preservation of the underlying DNA are two different things. Even then, we cannot just combine DNA from random animals spread apart by thousands of years and expect it all to just work. The number of failed embryos would be immense. Just look to the failure rate at the dog cloning services. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to handle hundreds of failed elephant pregnancies, spread across decades, that it would take to follow through with this idea.
Let me guess, you are not being shot at with thousands of artillery pieces, and with ballistic precision-guided rockets.
I'm sure it's because I'm a plebian, but being able to create infinite short positions from one stock seems like a bad thing, whatever the name is.
I'm a believer in the idea that better places lead to less crime, but I hope these governments are taking a quantitative, evidence-based approach to the subject. The article mentions streetlights, which will come up almost inevitably in these conversations, but there's really no evidence for the idea that light lowers crime, and there's plenty of cases where bright lighting is associated with higher crime. Nobody can prove that is causal, but criminals do need light to see what they are doing, so it might be. https://kinder.rice.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Kinder...
Does sorting done by the general public count as "free"? It takes time and effort to route garbage to the appropriate bin --- maybe not much, but it adds up over the whole population. The desire to avoid this effort doesn't strike me as "lazy" any more than hiring a housekeeper or landscaper is "lazy". Economies of scale and division of labor make our society more prosperous. Why shouldn't we apply these principles to trash disposal and recycling?
Semantic Analysis Abstractions – DSLs in Programming Languages
If you are doing something out of malice for decades to a group of people, that is hate, and I will call it out as such. Your false equivalency holds no water, and while I provided receipts in my original comment, I’ll let Rep. Jeffries do some lifting here.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3485737-hakeem-jeffries-t...

> Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) this week blasted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for his stance on a number of issues facing the court, including abortion rights.
“Let me ask this question of brother Thomas,” Jeffries said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week. “Why are you such a hater? Hate on civil rights. Hate on women’s rights. Hate on reproductive rights. Hate on voting rights. Hate on marital rights. Hate on equal protection under the law. Hate on liberty and justice for all. Hate on free and fair elections. Why are you such a hater?”

See? Hate.
DARPA PPAML (probabilistic programming for ML) was pretty good.

It helped Stan reach maturity, and also led to things like Pyro.

But we need to wait a bit more to see where this goes. The program only finished 5 years ago.
IIRC, that used to be the case, but recent Java releases changed it so that memory is no longer shared with substrings. The former behavior could cause some extreme memory leaks (unless you were very careful to always manually duplicate each substring); a one-character substring could keep a multi-megabyte memory allocation alive. See for instance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33893655/string-substrin... which discusses this issue.
You are just wasting time. You should upskill yourself to the point you can write code with bare vim. Beyond that, use an IDE with good features to save time, that's what IDEs are for.
If you want to be taken seriously you need to pad everything out to 40 paragraphs. It's some kind of unwritten rule of the internet. Literally. They even have bots that cull succinctity or label it trolly. It's psychotic.
You get more protein per X acres eating corn than feeding that same corn to cows and eating the cows.

If you prefer meat then chicken is worse than eating corn but still much better than cows. We eat beef because it’s delicious and that’s it’s only advantage at scale.
>I'm guessing you don't speak any European languages or you'd know this isn't true.

Am I missing something or did you respond to a person writing in English? English being a language created in a place called England, which last I checked is in Europe.
I've had this happen to boots that were stored for a few years. The soles split in the middle, not at a glue layer. It was like ripping foam apart.
This isn't really something you usually encounter, but I have to bring this cute example:

pub fn foo() -> impl FnOnce() {
let non_copy: String = String::new();
let copy: i32 = 123;

|| {
drop(non_copy); // Works
drop(copy); // error[E0373]
}
}

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Not just women, you're also talking about forced pregnancy/birth of for instance 11 year old girls
I don't know of easy to use software for this, but algorithms are there like in https://benedikt-bitterli.me/astro/
Chromium's C++ StringPiece dates back to at least 2012, and pretty sure Google had something similar (I forget the original name) to it in Google3's C++ base library which became abseil's string_view before that even.

And Boost had string_ref at least as far back as 2013.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/master...

https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/string...

https://github.com/steinwurf/boost/commits/master/boost/util...

All of this is arguably before Rust's influence would have been anything to speak of.
In the old days it would have been pretty typical for me to build an application by gluing a bunch of independent libraries together, in which case any slowdowns they might experience are purely additive, and so would not effect the complexity (although linear slowdowns are still not just annoying but potential company killers, and so what an academic tells you to worry about doesn't mean all that much in the crucible of production).

But that hasn't been the case for decades now, and so you can't think of it that way. All of my libraries are themselves gluing together as many libraries as I'm gluing together, and so I can include 20 libraries directly in a large application and end up with 300. There are no guarantees that these effects will be cumulative instead of multiplicative. Assuming they are is not dangerous, it's negligent.

If you can't assume a lower bound, or an upper bound, then you don't know Ω or O unless you code review the entire code base, which almost nobody does. Best you're going to do on that is empiricism, which is the bare minimum amount of responsibility (which is still skipped by many people).

If you don't know Ω and you don't know O, then any claims you're making about Θ are bullshit.
They are under severe economic sanctions. It is entrepreneurship for them.
> If having a baby makes your life so harsh that your own survival is threatened

Give me a break. This is not why the majority of women choose to have abortions and it is way over the top of na exaggeration. I know five women who had abortions. It was career for three, already had four kids for one who is wealthy, and the last did not like the guy she had the kid with but still dated him after.

> it's rather hard to take the high road and try to "fix society" so you can avoid an abortion.

But we have not addressed this the WHOLE TIME abortion was legal, and look where we are now. If we start dismantling capitalism we might be able to address why it costs so much to have a baby and why there is such an extreme divergence in wealth that makes it hard for so many people.
At this point in my life, digital detox is an alien concept to me, and I say that as a boomer who gets antsy when he's more than ten feet away from his phone. Yet, according to my reading diary, I've started over 30 books this year, finished 22 of them (a couple I'm in the middle of, several I've abandoned already), and I still occasionally check in on Reddit, have a bunch of email newsletters and a number of RSS feeds (including some people I follow on Twitter, meaning I don't have to actually open Twitter).

I've read a lot ever since I was a kid, and a couple of years ago when I felt I wasn't reading books as much as I used to I decided to turn the habit around, with what I consider minimal change in what I followed, instead changing how I followed. More than anything it's a matter of ruthless curation. I think it helps that I have a Kindle and the Kindle apps on my tablet and phone. I'm literally never without a book.
Consulting and training are money makers. Like the guys who teach officers they are wolves protecting the sheep, and to see all people as threats - you think they're doing that for free?
Totally agree with both of you. I don't see this issue in terms of "attention span" per se, rather we now have an ever-present device that most often contains software engineered to grab as much of our attention as it possibly can. I can't think of anything similar past generations had that was close to this in terms of magnitude and accessibility. We all know the rat in a box will tap the dopamine button as many times as it can and now, unprecedentedly, we carry that button in our pocket every day.
Can you name a country who hasn't done bad things?
Fnapi/fnapi: A function is enough
I suppose a law could be passed that versions of a product with different materials would need to be visually distinct? Or manufacturers could voluntarily do it.
It doesn’t make sense for a company to pay NYC/SF wages to someone living in Bangladesh.

It doesn’t make sense for a worker living in NYC/SF to accept a job paying Bangladesh wages.

Not sure what the proposed alternative is besides only hiring people in the lowest cost of living areas - which also wouldn’t work in favor of the company.
I'd argue there's also a 3rd foundation of CS: language. Programming languages really are languages in the general sense of the word, and their purpose is to allow humans to effectively communicate with machines. Focussing on optimising that communication is the 3rd approach.
There’s an anime about that (Sword Art Online) ;)
Back in the day I hated EverQuest because it killed Ultima Online. It’s funny you mention how hardcore EQ was because UO was even harder. In the early days you could be killed and your entire corpse robbed clean, people could even butcher up your body into discrete pieces and feed them to pigs, or carry your head around like a trophy or turn it in for a bounty if there was one. Also if someone got your house key and they found your house they could just bust in and loot it dry. And if you were killed somewhere like a deserted island that had no place to resurrect you were basically stuck there till someone came to get you. It was so dangerous.

But then games like EQ came out and made things easier for players, and that put pressure on UO devs to make their game easier, and eventually with time UO became a boring safe game rather than a true virtual world.
I think it’s both a euphemism and perhaps it’s an area that no longer has regular foot traffic (closed businesses, vacant houses,etc) and the foot traffic was the clientele.

I say this as someone who lives in a high crime area.
I recall that Microsoft's Visual C++ user license had a clause that forbid you from creating a C++ compiler with it.
I think by that definition you do not have product market fit yet. You have something though that could lead to something bigger.

I would try to prove to yourself that it is a sales problem. Do you have free trial users who do not convert? Or is it a marketing problem as in you need to acquire leads?

Who are your customers? Where are they? What is their workflow? And how to you get yourself in front of them?
I'm not suggesting it's the explanation for "the majority." I'm tossing out another possible explanation for some women to add to a list of reasons.

I have no idea why you seem so angry at me for noting that this is so for some people and those individuals usually are not in a good position to "fix society" much less both have a baby and also fix society.
PMP is usually required to run government contracts.
CISSP or CISM is required for cyber leadership roles
And any of the pro solution architect certs from AWS, Azure, GCP.
I thought that line was going to end with cops paying more attention to the corner. You know, doing their jobs.
After auth, and pulsing red dot, nothing happened.

Whatever you are doing please provide an example of the expected outcome so you don’t solely rely on blind faith for creating users
I love how Democrats like to claim there was a “realignment” of the parties in the civil rights era, but then claim The mantle of FDR, who was President decades before the civil rights era. Also, Roe was decided by 7 Republicans, against the dissent of a Democrat, 40 years after FDR.

There was no meaningful change to the parties since the 1930s. FDR Democrats believed in social engineering, and Biden Democrats believe in social engineering. All that’s changed is that FDR Democrats wanted to discriminate against Black people, and Biden Democrats want to discriminate against white people.
The consumer sorting is often not very good and requires multiple bins with a higher capital and operating cost for storage and collection. It's a pain for the users. Single stream trash is the way to go with robotic sorting is the way to go. No reason it can't scale. Amazing work, one of the best uses of labeling and machine vision I've seen to date.
It’s often in areas that had factories or businesses that are closed and there is nothing but vacant buildings lefts for the underworld and marginalized to live until the next development.
I got iPad with Cellular, magic keyboard and the cheapest prepaid SIM card with 4Gb of data so I know I can not just browse forever. I got Nokia 6510 and I absolutely love it. New Nokia feature phones don't have the same level of attention to detail and quality of plastic. I don't take my iPad anywhere usually. If I want to take photos I use Pentax ME Super, for reading - Kindle. For music I got iPod Video and upgraded it to 120Gb sd card, new battery, sounds magical with Marshal Mode earphones, I also had iPod Classic 7g but the sound quality was much worse, its like components of music track were decoupled. It sounded consistently worse to me for all genres.