skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Maybe he has some hard won insight into humanity."

Why would we presume that?

He obviously believes humans are not a reliable source of information as to what they are thinking, so like Freud he knows humans better than they know himself.

That seems to open up the possibity that he's in cuckoo land, it's not like someone can correct a false notion of his by saying "No, actually I don't want my wife to be a sorority girl" they would just be in denial, right? Or not in touch with their subconscious desires?

What system exists for a person who believes these notions to refine their views against the world around them? You can't correct them when they are wrong when they pronounce what you are thinking because they've already dismissed you as delusional about what is going on in your head.

And if everyone is delusional to take him seriously we also have to posit by chance the universe made this one guy miraculously delusion free about what he is thinking and what we are thinking? Why would we assume that?
Exceptions don't work well in systems languages. That's why, for instance, Google doesn't allow C++ exceptions[1]: "We do not use C++ exceptions." Full stop. Mozilla also follows this policy in Firefox[2]. The moment you start unwinding stacks over calls that are not aligned with your runtime's exception handling regime you're in crazy land and everything goes to pot. This includes all transitive calls however deep they go. Turns out that's unworkable.

Rust designers understood all of this. Exceptions in systems languages are a misfeature that beguile the naïve.

Is there some glorious future system where this is no longer the case? I don't know. Microsoft tried and made an inscrutable mess of it that C++ programmers bang their unhappy heads upon daily. Apple's objective-c had to adopt the C++ ABI for exception handling creating its own proprietary hairball.

No ones done it well yet! The wise find that informative.

[1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions
[2] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/code-quality/coding-...
This is the sort of language we’re talking about: pedestrians aren’t (and rightfully wouldn’t be) “crowding” anyone. Pedestrians have been crowded onto sidewalks, to the advantage of a relatively small (and substantially less dense) class of drivers.

Driving in NYC should be a matter of necessity, not pure expedience. If and when our policies match that fact, those drivers that need to drive will find that they’re stuck in less traffic as a result.
You are aware of microacquire.com?
One major difference too is that Stride uses a Entity-component model while Godot uses a Node system.
What age do you think I could start a gifted child with Scratch?
I mostly agree, but I think it's important to note that when we talk about simplicity and complexity we're talking about hiding information first and foremost. Keeping things small and straightforward comes naturally when all but the necessary information is out of consideration, because minimizing inputs requires factoring to the utmost degree, thus acheiving separation of concerns.
The BBC did not release the BBC Micro. Acorn designed, built, released and sold it.

You should have heard of them: Acorn is the original "A" in ARM.

The BBC wanted to promote computer literacy in the UK, so intended to run TV and radio series, magazines, etc. It wanted a high-end user-programmable home computer that would be very expandable, with the priorities being a good BASIC, fairly fast, and a wide range of ports... rather than affordable (cf. ZX Spectrum) or a videogames machine (cf. Commodore VIC20 & C64, Atari 8-bits).

It got it. For a while UK schools and universities ran almost entirely on BBC Micros. They weren't so common in the home as they were about 3-4x the price of a ZX Spectrum or C64.

Acorn evaluated various chips for its planned next-gen machine, and discarded all of them as being too expensive, not powerful enough, etc. This included the Motorola 680000, the Intel 80186, the WDC 65C816, the NatSemi 32016 and others.

So it designed its own: the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM for short.

It's now the best-selling CPU in the world by about 2 orders of magnitude, so I reckon you've probably heard of it.
What about Flutter?
>places security over privacy

This is wrong. The OP is wrong, and you provided a partial explanation with additional wrong information.

GrapheneOS has minimum device criteria, and currently only Pixel devices meet that. All the other commentary is nonsense.
A bunch of wild claims with zero references to back them up. Poster is making massive assumptions about how these organizations operate. They clearly are talking out of their ass if you research the established organizations working in this field https://www.internationaltreefoundation.org/our-work
Shameless plug: we're running a Scratch-like site, but for terminal programs (among other runtimes). A number guessing game is one of our example programs. It's about 20 statement blocks: https://app.code-it-studio.de/project/303
I believe that is because when you finance a house you're financing the land+house combination, with the land making up the majority of value in most urban areas - when you finance a mobile home you are only financing the home, which depreciates (unlike the land component) - hence its a higher risk loan and therefore more expensive to finance.
My issue with that is that in the summer, ventilation is ~impossible. It's 110 degrees out there, reasonable ventilation would mean either burning out my A/C or living with temps that are far too high.
I've seen Scratch described as "learning how to talk before learning how to spell".

For beginning programmers, memorizing syntax is a major source of cognitive load. As a result, it's harder for them to practice the computational thinking skills that coding is really about. Scratch removes this barrier.

I actually think Scratch is a good tool for beginners of any age, including adults.
In a hot climate where people overwhelmingly are using residential air conditioning, the power used by the data equipment is dwarfed by the air conditioning needed to keep the electronics from overheating.

Sometimes not even such hot climates.

In an indoor insulated environment all electrical equipment produces heat very efficiently when it runs and its Wattage rating can give you an idea of the maximum heat that might be seen.

Appropriate A/C will be rated to remove the nominal amount of heat, often not needing to handle the absolute maximum.

On the A/C the high amperage refrigerant compressor/condenser unit, which can only do its job outdoors, and the much more economically operated air circulation motor are drawing electricity and producing additional heat of their own, but ideally they are well separated from having their heat enter the indoor space, by proper location, piping, and ducting.

Anyway, the electrical cooling does not work as efficiently as the the electrical heating so you pay more to cool the gear than it costs to run it.
One time there was a dizzy-looking stray cat sleeping in a puddle near my house and the non-emergency line told me to call 911.
And most of that money (apart from the recently nationalised operators like Northern, ScotRail and LNER) goes back to the foreign-ran railways (Abellio/Netherlands, Amey/Keolis/France, Arriva/Germany).

It's ace!
2FA is not new for Terminal customers. Login requires biometric 2FA in the form of a fingerprint detector on the Bloomberg keyboard or a B-Unit (a hardware 2FA device with a fingerprint detector) [0]. This new iOS app is an alternative to the hardware B-Unit.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/b-unit/
Unions love card check instead of secret ballots. It's a great intimidation tool.
> using a parser generator and not counting its output in the line count does seem like cheating

Yeah maybe I should count OCaml's standard library lines of code too. Maybe also count expanded macros and inlined functions at each call site? At which point should I stop? Are assembly language pseudo-instructions cheating too?

Common, don't be ridiculous.
Interesting problem. Mind sharing roughly where that is?
no changelog until somebody complains?
Surprisingly, of any rom you could install, graphene is the simplest. You just open a website after installing android drivers for your pc. Its an impressive feat on its own beyond how impressive the software is.
Jaywalking has been exported to the rest of the world, but Tokyo is not a great example: they’ve successfully applied just about every urban design technique that allows cars and other traffic to coexist, to the uniform detriment of cars.[1]

In other words: the restrictions that Tokyo places on urban car traffic would make the average American driver scream bloody murder.

[1]: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/10/1/lessons-from-t...
The design documents are really thorough. I don't think I would be more than a day making a serializer in Python for example. Lack of libraries just means an interested developer needs to tend to the matter and solve the issue.
I feel like this is why unions are so important for lower wage jobs.

If my employer wanted to spy on me via Webcam I could simply refuse and tell them I'll walk because I'm confident that my specialization would keep me employed, or at worst have me onboarded elsewhere within a week or two.

People in these high turnover type jobs don't have the luxury to demand to be treated with basic human decency unless they band together. It's sickening.
And for a country that invented the railway too! (Although also meaning we have the world's oldest system, and a very expansive system at that - even after the Beeching cuts)
I think you meant microacquire.com , you forgot the 'c'. The domain you're linking to is hella scammy.
I don't mean to be ignorant, but isn't it dangerous to assume offense in rote?

I am certainly not the first to inform you that "Git" is a slur in Britain, but we all commonly use a software for which it is named.

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If I were to argue in defense of "Spanish Flu" in particular, it's because of two major factors:

1) Education is good enough that people do not associate it with spanish people, in fact "flu" is not a dirty disease either, other exonyms from the period were "the Russian Pest" (IE: pestis) which are of course inferring some level of uncleanliness.

2) Everyone knows the Spanish Flu killed millions, but they do not consider it the same as influenza. If you say "killed more than influenza" it does not invoke the desired idea in the reader.

Thus, controlling the speech limits our ability to effectively reason about such a pandemic. Influenza as it is known today is not the same as the Spanish Flu, there is some distinction that needs to be made.
> You're the one saying that they didn't manage properly the forests, I don't know if they did or not...

It's literally a quote from Ben Franklin? They cut down all the firewood for "near 100 Miles to some towns".

> when the population increase at some point forests cannot provide enough wood for everybody

Yes, of course, but not by 1744.
>> Better to get all of them and a few more than let a single one go free…?

> I'm genuinely asking...

Your questions are not serious. You are not genuinely asking. If you want interlocutors to engage with your questions with anything other than dismissiveness, try asking questions that are not prime facie dismissive.

> Please argue against the best possible interpretation of comments on this site.

I am.
Scratch was how I got started in programming back in elementary school. It was taught in our computer classes. Everything this article says is spot on, the social aspect is amazing. I made a few programs and got comments on it and stars which hooked me. Side note hearing griffpatch is still around amazes me, I remember playing his scratch programs and wishing I could eventually do that. What’s amazing is it’s all still around and runs![1]

1. https://scratch.mit.edu/users/miniman520/
> Also, we should also be clear that you are talking about toxic behavior. You isolating yourself when depressed probably isn't the best move.

"Well", said the rich person to the beggar, "being poor really isn't the best move."
It has been a long time since I last read any bio material on Schultz so that could certainly be the case! In which case Watterson's lack of licensing becomes more of a triumph of the artist's wishes that's similar to the way Eastman and Laird learnt from the way Marvel fucked over Jack Kirby, and made sure they retained ownership of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

(Which let them do things like "buy Heavy Metal and run it at a loss for a while" and "start a publishing company that became infamous for handing out huge advances to their comics buddies that let them spend a couple years on passion projects instead of turning the Superhero Crank for Marvel/DC", both of which I feel are perfectly delightful ways to deal with making the kind of money they made off the Turtles. The history of Tundra Press is a hell of a ride, if you can find it.)
Simplest solution is a high efficiency air to air heat exchanger to let you circulate a lot of outside air. They are less efficient when dealing with high humidity, but you can have this as part of your HVAC system and never really think about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation
Yes, a commit log isn't a changelog. However, a good commit log can make writing your change log much easier. While this isn't an automatic process, writing a changelog becomes a bit of filtering of the commit messages as well as rephrasing them for the intended audience.
I need one of those displays.
It's less about first-party software and more for third-party off-the-shelf stuff you might run. For first-party stuff SBOMs can definitely feel useless.
Scratch has succeeded in the way that counts most - building community.

However I tried to help my son to write some stuff with it and found it very hard and unintuitive to get stuff done.

There are other, similar systems that are MUCH better for programming, such as Construct3 https://www.construct.net/ and Snap https://snap.berkeley.edu/

In a way it's very disappointing that such a difficult to program system has become the default tool for teaching kids to program.

Also a shout out to CodeCombat - that's also a great way to teach kids very advanced underlying programming concepts whilst completely hiding all the complexity.

Also try https://www.microstudio.dev
As someone who got only his feet wet with OpenCV like 20 years ago, so basic shape recognition and no AI involved, what read/software, etc. would you suggest to catch up and play with current technology without being inundated by theory that I'm sure I couldn't grasp?
Yep, something like Git Cliff[1] is great for generating release notes from your commit messages.

And conventional commits are good thing to do regardless of whether you use them for release notes or not. Commit messages should be helpful and immediately obvious, too often its "fixed bug" or "finally figured out foo!", which really tell you nothing - might as well not have a message.

[1] https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff
You can't save someone if you're drowning yourself. I wasn't really thinking of partners here. I guess I was blessed in that my partners at the worst moments didn't really care that much about me. Getting a partner that has my back was part of getting better. Or put another way, even on the worst days I just couldn't do it now, because I know she'd be destroyed.

Anyway, I think friends and even just acquaintances can do more, even if that seems counterintuitive.
I'm not sure if you think that's what I'm proposing, my last sentence makes it clear I'm not.

I'm a fan of recycling and basically any other well intentioned goals. I'm not a fan of them when they're cynically abused by big corporations to make people feel as if they're "saving the world" so they can go on living a life that continues to push us over the edge.
>For example, Desktop Mode code is came from DeX IIRC

What Desktop Mode in Android are you referring to, and what parts of it came from Samsung DeX code? There's nothing really in AOSP that resembles DeX.

>WearOS is finally merged to Samsung's OS

Wear OS is closed source.
“A Woman impregnated 2 Women”

Amazing that we can see this in our lifetime. Science has truly exceeded all expectations
Ah, yeah, Phoenix summers. I believe parts of Texas and some other places are somewhat similar.

In the winter the situation is _much_ better, but probably 4 months out of the year, the outdoors are unlivable.
TIL recently: Skunks eat yellowjackets, digging up the entire nest.
Your landing page has pretty much zero information about the product. Why would I use this over Gmail/Thunderbird etc.?
In the Maker Shed: Gakken’s Ex-150 [video]
> Is there any kind of CO2 scrubbing that's at all practical for home?

Not scrubbing in the way that a power plant does, but you can improve ventilation, but you probably need to do more than crack a window.

Options from cheapest to most expensive (in upfront cost):

1. Run your stove extractor fan (assuming it is externally vented), and open the window that is furthest from it in the house.

2. Open 2 windows and put a fan in 1 facing out, and if it's winter, wear a sweater.

3. Install a whole house ventilation fan (i.e. Panasonic Whisper Green fan) and keep the furthest away window slightly cracked.

All of the above will cost less upfront but will result in a significant increase in your heating/cooling energy use during hot/cold seasons. If you want to minimize the increase to your heating/cooling energy use, then you need to spend more upfront and:

4. Install a whole house <heat|energy>-recovery-ventilation system. This system brings in fresh air 24/7 while transferring much of the heat/"cold" from the conditioned space to the fresh air from outdoors.

What all of these solutions share is that they don't rely on wind/convection to ventilate the house, they are all mechanical.
The logic is not warped. Goegle makes very secure hardware. Conceivably samsung tpm would work too, but too much work to support so many hardware.

Its the only smart phone that can guarantee the radio is off when you put it in airplane mode.
It is important to have a code base that an inexperienced programmer can work on.

Keeping track of memory is one of the hardest parts of programming in languages like C, a bit easier in C++ (thanks RAII) but still memory leaks are rampant.

Rust improves in some aspects, but I do not think it is a language for inexperienced programmers.

So where garbage collection pauses are tolerable, and real time performance not an issue, save the money and use garbage collection.

I too hate garbage collectors, I want to be in control. But the business case is clear: garbage collected languages are a better choice in a lot, f not most, cases.
Why in the world is this downvoted? I’d genuinely like to understand what’s disagreeable about this take.
I work for a really large organization that has received praise for what it is doing with zero trust but to us lowly users the implementation has really meant the total death of single sign on. We sign on constantly to everything now all the time.
The average US male life expectancy is 75, so: yes, actually.
It doesn’t happen everywhere. People in Italy don’t talk about the “working class” like they do in the UK and I’ve never heard anybody claiming they were a member of the “working class”, let alone people claiming that as if it was something to celebrate or to be proud of. There isn’t a “working class” accent in Italian, the closest thing is marginally educated people that can’t use half of the verb moods and tenses. Romans speak more or less homogeneously, likewise in other cities. Children are not segregated by class, so the child of a doctor may be in the same class of the child of the mayor, of a child that gets free meals and of another that lives in a squatted flat. They mix and they don’t develop different accents.

Instead in the UK people debate this class idiocy ad nauseam almost daily. They spend a significant amount of time and money to ensure their children don’t go to the same school as children from lower social classes (and as soon as you make a child, they’ll bombard you with their insanity). This is of course never stated explicitly and I suspect they are not conscious of that.

This is a country where even the supermarket where you buy groceries will be used to infer your class status. For instance, while I don’t know what my class is supposed to be, I’ve been told that I’m at least middle class because Waitrose is the cheapest place where I buy food. I’m posh and whatnot class because I occasionally go to the opera. Once I recognised the Thieving Magpie and told a colleague the name of its composer, that earned me the accusation of being megaclass. Once I was rented a flat, the landlady told me, because she could tell from my manners that I must come from a rich family (in fact I don’t). My girlfriend (that earns minimum wage and whose parents are cleaners) was suspected of being from the upper middle class because of how she holds cutlery (not as well as she should, if you asked me).
How do you know that your asterixed commit should go into the release notes? What if...

* fixed thing X so that user can do Y

broke things so that another commit is needed:

* fixed X again, so that user can finally do Y (for realz this time)

This would not make a great release note.
FreeBSD uses

Relnotes: yes, or text for the release notes

in commit messages to note that the commit has significant user-visible effects.
Hi Zhama, I’m not able to fully respond to your comments right now but I read and appreciate them even if I don’t fully agree. And thank you for what you do at CTL.

My post was general, not specific to CTL.
There are better and worse programs in every language, including Scratch. However, Scratch blocks physically take up more pixels on screen, so you can't see as much information at once.

Also, in most languages, you don't have to worry about the two-dimensional layout of your code.
>Does anyone know how much of that is Wear OS, i.e. Android, and how much is Tizen from Samsung?

Nobody really knows, as Wear OS remains closed source.
Interesting, I don't think I knew that was an option. I'll look into it, thanks.

I rent right now, which means I doubt I can, but hoping to buy soonish.
How exactly does this help document things? Is this not just a static-site generator?
Possibly because it implies that higher-demand jobs do not need unions. Which is a position some may disagree with.
ruby has some nice pattern matching too https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubyref/language/pattern-ma...

not sure if python has better matching though but the ruby stuff is pretty compelling.
We created central banks after the organically grown system crashed spectacularly a couple of times.

This is generally the way we react to that sort of things. And even if things still sometimes break (in slightly different ways than before) these systems have allowed us enormous amounts of economic growth.
Sort of. He got C&D'd for it, had his lawyers make a fair-use argument to the Calvin & Hobbes lawyers, and got his specific use cleared. He never talked to Watterson.
I honestly wonder whether or not they should have named Landis in this article, because he could easily end up the target of a lot of abuse due to this article (and how it demonstrates that he is a complete knuckle dragging moron).
Due to climate change, that's could be pretty much anywhere it's summer. E.g. check out the UK:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
Did you have a bad previous experience from their engineering?
That is not true

* IDEs that know the language and catch syntax errors.

* Deprecating NULL. (Early days yet, but I am a believer)

* IDEs (again) and syntax highlighting.

* RAII (is that "since high-level languages"? I think so)

* Abstract interfaces.