skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do like it when someone else saves me a lot of typing. Very much agree with all this.

(Obviously the real problems are political, but ignoring that...)

Seems to me that after it's in source control and a dev/staging system exists, the next step is to add in a data access layer - move all the raw SQL etc out of the main codebase into either new PHP code or a web service. Then add a bunch of logging so it's possible to discover what parts of the system actually get used. The data layer can then get useful test coverage, allowing the DB to be safely rearranged. The next step is to treat the rest of the PHP app as a black box and write tests around it with something like Selenium, and the work of replacing it with some other boring but more modern technology bit by bit can begin.
That’s a good point. Perhaps I’m just opining that I wish for a deadly serious game in modern times. Not post apocalypse. Not historical.
I'm assuming the author just made the one level. Iirc Conrad Barski is a medical doctor that made the famous Land of Lisp book for teaching Lisp programming. A pretty creative person. I assume the fun for them was in creating this and getting feedback and not necessarily coming up with 50 levels.
I think the push back is really just based around the feeling that by not spending a few hours a week for part of a school year, kids will never be able to read something. So I think in general it’s just a weird feeling like if they decided learning any math after basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division wasn’t necessary and removed it for more relevant topics. It’s easy to argue that long division will never be useful for most people, but it also feels weird deciding what future generations can be ignorant about it
I'm aware (even if the one I'm using isn't a simple letter substitution, it's inspired by quenya and sanskrit).

I created it for a tabletop rpg I'm running, my friends (a few programmers and a math major) couldn't decode it after a few weeks of trying without several hints and a few-pages-long sample, which is good enough for me. I've prepared a lot of puzzles for them, and this was significantly harder than a simple cipher with letter substitution, because even separating it into letters to feed it into frequency analysis isn't obvious.

Of course if I used it for journals or sth like that it would be easy to crack, but I'm mostly using it to write very short notes.

Have a crack if you want :) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52366236038_9b3a642015_b...
maybe they can add a corporate Memphis style transfer stage to the pipeline and make everyone purple and blue.
> The problem with GTA is that it's a fairly shallow game, which limits what kind of immersion you can experience.

What?
The confusion arises from “married” not necessarily meaning “married to each other”, in this context, especially since the number of professors is unknown. I did not even think about it as a possibility until I read your comment.
Java was like that for so many years, it was fundamentally unchanged for decades really. And now (for the last 5 years or so) it's changing rapidly, new code just doesn't look like old code ("var" type inference, lambdas rather than inner classes in many cases, multi-line strings with """, new switch statement syntax etc.) I mean I like it so far but it's kind of weird to be honest!
Organic Maps is better for an average user to simply explore new places, OsmAnd is better if you want a customizable map for a specific use case (especially hiking or cycling).
I read it more as ”you obviously understand the spirit of the law, and so will judges and jury members, even if the letter of it can be twisted if you argue in bad faith”. Not that the law would be intentionally ignored in favor of anyone’s personal agenda. A lot of people seem to love to try to poke hole in laws through nitpicking and technicalities in the written word, whereas in reality rulings are made by humans who are still allowed a modicum of common sense and discretion.

NB, I haven’t read the law and I wouldn’t be qualified to comment anyway, this is my interpretation of the comment you responded to.
When you are sitting at home, with perhaps a friend on your couch, do they constantly say "What?"

Or, if standing with a few people you know outside, is every sentence you speak replied to with a request to repeat yourself?

I bet not. Maybe it happens sometimes, but my point is, being able to understand what someone says, regardless of how they say it, is the key part here.

Yet it sounds as if you believe most people are barely understandable? Including yourself?

And for example, listening to much of the dialog out there, the Picard reference. The guy is in command of the flagship of a fleet, in the military, and would not be in command, in that position, if there was any inability to clearly issue orders, and to communicate fluently.

Beyond that, many of the characters we watch in media, are top tier of their professions, even if that profession is 'thief'.

A CEO? An ex-world class military retiree? Someone working in upper management of the NSA? These people will be heard.

There are indeed roles featuring the "regular person", but if you mumble, if you define your speach style as mumbling, that means you employ the word "mumble" to differentiate you, from how most people speak.

Otherwise you wouldn't be mumbling, you'd just be speakkng.

So that all said, I think your assertion is unfair.
It wouldn't surprise me if the constant threat of genocide has a lot to do with it; Israel's technological advantage is why it continues to exist. More directly, there's a fascinating Darknet Diaries episode about Unit 8200, which is basically Israel's version of the NSA. 8200 seems to be pivotal to Israel's tech industry, mainly because it attracts some extremely smart, capable people and gives them the training and connections to succeed after they leave the military:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296...
They will add that stuff, i.e. more than they did with RDR2 - it's inevitable.

Unisoft have done it a fair bit with Watch Dogs, don't think anyone cares that much about it really.

The thing that rockstar are really good at is the world-building - Los Santos just feels so authentic, even if an obvious parody: Even the radio voice actors are so well casted that the voice of non stop pop (Cara Delevingne) is allegedly a cokehead in real life too!
Yes, agreed. The report itself is not unreasonable. The article sets up a lot of straw men and demolishes them.
A timer would only be fun for me in order to compete with friends. Not a distracting one that you can see while playing, but a time at the end with the number of the puzzle (assuming more get made) would be helpful for sharing.
If we wanted backup would learning another language not be much more beneficial?
"e" is three times shorter than "l". "B" and "E" have nothing in common. "Z" goes far under the base line. "b" goes back up and has a flat connecting high while "l" connects low. Same for "a" and "o" but I could see them being somewhat similar. "a" has a vertical line and connect at the bottom while "o" has a crossed loop and connects high.

These letters are not supposed to look like each others. It goes further than details.
My handwriting has turned into a mix of block letters and cursive over the years, and has become increasingly less legible since it is so rare that I actually write anything that isn't typed. I don't really have a consistent signature anymore.
I kind of agree, but I feel like the retrofitting of gradual types onto existing languages is often awkward even though the idea of gradual typing itself is very good.
Absolutely not!
Google forbids copying map data, you could make OpenStreetMap liable.
Once detected all such additions to OpenStreetMap will be reverted.
That's good. I've been worried with all the GTA Online ads I've been seeing lately that they were gonna go all in on it.
Why is a for profit corporation the right instrument here? It seems to me that wanting to join together for political speech doesn't need a profit motive, since there is another motive. Does America not recognize provide any manners for organization that are not for profit without needing to be charitable?

A 'foundation' in the Netherlands (where I am from) would serve perfectly. And it seems to make sense to me to bar for-profit organizations from influencing elections because of the inherent conflict.
Fortnite basically already is a metaverse (i.e. kids meet at the weekend in Fortnite)
This is already happening basically and twitter aren't banning anyway. (Try mentioning any drug or being 'hacked' or needing an 'essay' written, you'll get a flood of replies in a few minutes.)
> (Cara Delevingne) is allegedly a cokehead

can't believe she doesn't like pepsi. smh
Cyberpunk source got leaked IIRC
The ballpark style is complete shit. Nobody likes it except the guy selling it to you.

$8.50 for the worst quality chips available, yellow cheese like spread, and industrial canned jalapeños.
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> "visual coding/scripting" outside of video game development

One common application of node-graph editing is shader construction for rendering engines. For Octane, see e.g. [0]

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=octane+render+engine+node+graph+ed...
Chinese bus, for Covid zero-out, crashes off highway midnight with 27 dead
Prior HN discussion on the 'soap opera effect' I'm referring to >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613575
> Even as an elementary school student, I didn't understand why two scripts were taught.

If you need to write by hand a lot, cursive is vastly more efficient and fast, as you don't need to lift the pen/pencil from the paper as often. You mostly glide over the paper.
>To answer it you'll need to examine your own reactions to the idea of eating insects

..which is perfectly normal for many people? When I lived in China I visited Nanning frequently and they have a night market that is famous and popular for serving deep fried insects. Most of it is pretty good. You find insect based street-food in plenty of places across LatAm, Africa or Asia.
This is the point: I don’t TDD, but i am a big fan of tests. I’m this case the incorrect spec can be flagged, but all the other incorrect specs will also be there. If your Fix doesn’t break a spec, great, but if it does you can check if that spec was correct. It’s a back and forth between code and business requirements
Choosing multi-beneficial actions
I'd play that game too. It'd be dark, controversial, and a political minefield, but I think a story-driven FPS set in a civil warring 2030 America would be awesome. The usual stories in CoD or Battlefield of USA military vs insurgents who are vaguely slavic or vaguely middle eastern have gotten stale for me - I'd love to see what game designers think all-American militia battles in NYC or Miami could feel like.

Again, it'd be super controversial and will probably never get made, but I'd play a game like that.
You may create a new system from scratch and write the new features there, while temporarily leaving the mess where it is.

The team will be able to try out how good programming can be and perhaps support you more. From there you should gradually move the old features in the new system. Even if you were to never fully complete the refactoring the situation would be much better.
Ask HN: What's your hosting solution for projects and what does it costs you?
What hosting solutions are you using for your projects?
What's your monthly infrastructure cost for that?

I host a few side-projects on a DigitalOcean 10$ droplet + 2$ for backups with docker containers.

It works but I'm looking for something more scalable and future-proof, as I'm planning to jump into SaaS for real and have large traffic :)

For a few users daily DO Droplet is fine, but the DevOps workload isn't worth that for me...
Given the parent comments point of view:

What would you say of the case where you do all your grocery shopping and they close the full service checkouts right as you wrap up and force self checkout? You’ve agreed to shop with the intention of having a cashier and they unilaterally change the terms after you’ve invested your time… I’d say unilaterally changing goods received is just as much theft as unilaterally changing payment.
Don’t know what I’m looking at but i love the idea of graphing software systems to explain to a layman the pure hell some of them can become.
A Microfluidic D-subminiature Connector (2013)
Apparently in Germany they use something like this to allow small solar panels to provide power to an apartment.
I'm Aussie, but feel free to reach out via email in bio.

We ended up renting a commercial property nearby. Has done wonders for productivity, work-life balance and our ability to hire staff.
I am of the opinion that insects and roombas only diverge in their ability (or lack thereof) to make more of themselves. When someone creates a roomba that can make more roombas would you object to turning said roombas off? If you don't agree with this comparison, what makes an insect and self-reproducing roomba different that we should not consider the roomba just as alive as the insect?
GTA V at launch did have stock exchanges you could trade on, and I'd gotten the impression these were going to be a bigger game mechanic in future updates to the game, but then I never heard more. https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Liberty_City_National_Exchange#C...

The GTA San Andreas gang turfs, with the aggro rival gang members who'd start trouble when you were minding your own business, were one of my favorite parts of the game.
I thought that censoring speech in privately owned public spaces was fine. It's only when a government censors speech that the first amendment kicks in.

I do, as it happens, believe it is a problem that Twitter censors so much speech without 'legitimacy'. Not because they censor the wrong things, but because their censorship without legitimacy fuels a persecution complex.

This is mostly a problem because Twitter is so big. And I don't think starting alternative Twitters (like truth social) is a good solution, mostly because it partitions the conversation even more.
PyTorch might be the exception, except not quite, as proven by the bindings selection on the website, where C++ and Java are also an option.
What's the problem? THis is the best work imaginable.
That's a surprising point of view. In the schools of the 80/90ies, note-taking had to be done with pen and paper, and you were doing it for hours. Printed documents were rare (in the eighties Xerox machines were a luxury, so they used some sort of waterless printing [1] that left a strong smell of alcohol on the paper).

Cursive was extremely practical or fast note-taking, so why cursive was a thing was pretty obvious. It was also normal to write in cursive for homework, tests, exams. I am still using it at work today. And if I were to go back to school, I would definitely use it again, although my touch-typing is decent enough that I could keep pace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterless_printing
Bold? Here’s a video of someone actually falling off their roof, but you can find plenty of videos where people are walking around their roof looking at their panels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4HrMy9djk

Here’s an article actually recommending it for flat roofs.

Using a Shovel Method

Shoveling is the riskiest of the snow removal procedures from your roof. The reason for this is that it requires you to climb to the roof to remove the snow.

There’s risk in climbing the ladder, the shoveling itself, and the risk of damaging the roof if you step in a weak spot or hit the shovel on a delicate part of the roof.

However, it is the best especially on a flat surface/roof
https://roofscour.com/how-to-remove-snow-off-roof/
I also differs by country / region. Went to a German school but not in physically in Germany. And nobody bothered to explain to me that the cursive we were taught was the German one (Kurrent) and isn't in use in the country. Same with mathematical notion.

Chaos ensued when I hit uni
As far as I know, in the US, a bachelor of science major does require a variety of science courses. I had to take at least 2 biology courses with accompanying labs, 2 chemistry with accompanying labs, multiple physics, thermodynamics, plus a certain number of humanities (equaling at least 1 per semester I believe, so 8 courses).

Math was probably the most numerous universal course requirement, between multiple calculus and probability, statistics, discrete, and analysis courses. But that kind of makes sense given the foundational nature of it being the fundamental tool one needs to verify information in all the other sciences.

https://xkcd.com/435/
But it's out of context. If you and I are arguing the pros and cons of 2 possible laws, and I counter your arguments with "juries will do whatever they want", and you counter my arguments with "juries will do whatever they want", we both have this free counter-argument that we can use without any thought at any time. That's not an argument anyone can win, so why are we here? Although, fair enough, maybe we should both take a step back and stop arguing because it really doesn't matter?
Can you explain at a high level what you think a valid LC-in-LC interpreter looks like then? Because it's very hard to understand what your objection is to the examples in this thread.
I think this is not so good advice even in 2022.

A lot of disagreements are arbitrary, emotional, lacking context, moreover, in any organization of human beings, public disagreements can amount to populism, narratives which doesn't help team cohesion. Depending on the issue of course.

To the extent that people are there to do their jobs and manage others, there's legitimacy in that authority, which comes with generally a wider and at least different purview.

Being a good player means respecting that reality.

The advice in the article is decent in helping people untie a bit of common issues from gripes, lack of perspective etc. and I would add strongly that one should probably take the disagreement in 'private' and not make it a public ordeal.

Most managers, when approached reasonably, will be good with at least the point of contention, if not resolving to the best outcome.

I wish everyone had the opportunity to manage others, and do so at least 2 layers up - it's an alternative universe up there and it's really, really hard. I think 'Director' is probably the hardest job in the company in many ways.

The calculus for most things is just different. Optimization in every corner is usually not the objective, and strategic issues start to enter in the decision making in a material way.

With that experience, people would be able to put things in context a lot better, which is a big challenge actually for front line people who often over or under appreciate the magnitude of the issue they're dealing with.

Then, approaching the 'disagreement' comes from a different perspective.

For most of my career, I would have said I wouldn't want to have my manager's job, it's just way too much fuss. Not only that, my experience in management has fundamentally changed how I hire people - 'getting along' in grey situations, where nobody is ever really going to always get their way, people are smart and passionate etc. is hard (for most) and a valuable skill. And personalities are different as well, some people are 'disagreeable' but that doesn't even mean they are 'disagreeing' with you even when it seems like they are! Figuring out how to do it while getting along is 1/2 the job.
Or maybe you were better at structuring your thoughts and getting to the point. More is not necessarily better.
> colors, what happened to them?

Did movies and TV copy video games' Real Is Brown trope?
FPS games: Serious Sam and Left 2 Death.
My understanding is that cursive learned in school is supposed to be a launching point for your own style of script. I.e. you learn the fundamentals and then you learn the shortcuts.

I worked in a paper-heavy environment where quick and dirty writing was important to adopt in order to get stuff done.
Tesla's Production Cost per Vehicle Is $36K, Down from $84K in 2017
Screw that kid.

Not even grey hat activity.
Deeper processing isn't necessarily better. I would bet it also takes "deeper processing" to learn all the characters in written Chinese. There's been movements to simplify Chinese, but never movements to complicate English.

Language is best when it uses as little processing as possible. Its meant to be a medium, not a mental task in its own right.

So taking your research claims at face value, that's not actually evidence that cursive is good. In fact, its the opposite.
Cursive is to writing as slide rules are to calculating.
Haha, not Italian but I have a basic understanding (buying stuff and simple interactions) but I can hear the difference, it does sound very weird! At least it’s not as fast as some Italian I’ve heard, the amount of times I had to ask a native speaker to slow down is high indeed.
Thank you for explanation! I wasn't aware of this feature.
«team is 3 people, quite junior» - run, buddy, run..
Yep, when Facebook first started moderating messages and/or selecting what users view with an algorithm more complicated than "what has been posted last", it was predicted that they were opening themselves to the "publishers are responsible for what they publish" legal attack.

And here we are. These corporations want to have their cake and eat it too...

At the time a lot of people have considered the very concept of platform as evil for this reason ("protocols not platforms"), but this was also related to issues coming from their use of closed source software, and more importantly : antitrust - the mere size of these corporation makes them at the very least "friendly elephant in a china shop" kind of evil, but the USA didn't want to shut down the GAFAMs considering the immense not so soft power their monopolies give them in the world.

A less radical proposal was to have some allowed middle ground between common carrier and publisher : "displayer", but this would still need to come with severe restrictions to what these companies are currently enjoying in the current "lawless" void : again, restrictions on size, kind (think Wikipedia or archival), running as a for-profit, forced usage of interoperable protocols, use of open source software, have been suggested and even somewhat put into practice in recent EUropean laws (though it is suspected that due to the heavy lobbying that the GAFAMs have done, the end result is more that the current laws are helping them by making it harder for new competitors to emerge, while they are so big they can bear the regulatory brunt).

(P.S.: It's kind of amusing to see Texas Republicans to be a shining beacon of liberalism...)
Use prompt editing to fine tune Stable Diffusion
Nonsense. I'm neither female nor remotely attractive and I have constructed an entire condominium from stolen shopping carts. Recheck your facts.