skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your goal in learning new programming languages? Learning just a beginner level of several/many languages could help you gain a broad perspective on the industry by understanding how languages differ from each other, their common traits and patterns, and the overall landscape of programming languages. That alone seems like a valuable, useful, and fun goal to me.
If your goal is something else, then maybe you really do need to go deep on fewer things, but if you're just doing this for fun and you only enjoy the beginner phase, maybe it's ok to just do the fun part and then move on!
> And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge.

Why would they? If it's more profitable for a company to charge their users forever, have tighter control over their product and how it's used, and have the option to collect massive amounts of personal data nobody is going to give all that up for a somewhat larger percentage of interested users.

There are all kinds of products consumers want and would pay good money for that nobody has any interest in providing because they can get much richer by not giving consumers those things.
I still do this on my iPhone. As long as you keep the bit count the same i.e. changing 12 points to 99 the code signing passes and you don’t need to do anything but edit the hex.
There kind of is already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth

The premise is that humans turned the Earth into a planet-scale space vessel to escape the sun's expansion and rehome into a different solar system. Basically involved de-orbiting the Earth and coming up with a way to fling it out of the solar system whatnot.

The sci-fi parts are quite interesting, though I'd recommend the book instead of the movie (which is really a mediocre Chinese take on the Hollywood blockbuster...)
Bill Clinton was a sexual predator -- there's a reason why he is not the public statesman he could have been.

But for some reason his sexual proclivities were fair game when his predecessor's were not (it was an open secret he had a mistress for decades).

But it apparently didn't matter that the other president liked about paying of the porn star he screwed while his wife was in the hospital giving birth to his son.

You know, the case where he broke the law but his attorney went to jail for being the bag man?

It's crazy-making how selective the "morality" of the right is.
prettty neat
The one you linked looks like it only has three 5.25 bays at most?
Interesting. I find the clap derive stuff great and haven't had any trouble figuring out how to use it. Compared to anything I've done before in any other language, it's so much simpler and straightforward for me. Maybe it helps that I used structopt before clap incorporated it? I don't know. Different people can have very different experiences.
What were the stakes? What did failure look like? Did you get punished if you didn't indoctrinate enough people?
Amazing work, love Lexica! Thank you!
That’s kind of false.

The entire points of Dolby Vision is that it should give you the same image no matter what display you display it on, if the device is capable of displaying it. It’s an absolute format of light and color values, rather than a format based on RGB values.
If nobody has already mentioned it:

https://www.swissmicros.com/

...are all-new HP-compatible RPN calculators. Gorilla glass screens, stainless cases, but otherwise functionally identical to HP 41/42/etc.
tbh i had online math homework years ago now like back in 5th grade. my solution was a whole lot jankier but i spent more time writing a script to store and use answers (unlimited quiz retakes go brrrr) than it would have taken me to just do the quizzes and was still happy. i ended up with this unholy thing that used a flat text file like a very ghetto database bc i didn't know shit about coding... eventually got to this thing that stored question text alphabetized line-by-line and binary-searched through so that was at least less terrible.

anyway i spent probably 10x as long on this and was happier because grinding repetitive math problems is fucking boring. so if he didn't do his math homework honestly who cares.
I always remember that story and is the reason I’ve boycotted replit. This dude let the smallest amount of success go to his head and immediately started acting like a tyrant.
What is this STL you are referring to? It's not something familiar to me. Or do you mean the standard library (std)?
> computer users illiterate in basic computing concepts

What’s a “basic computing concept” anyway? My 4 year old granddaughter doesn’t know a bit from a byte or a file from a folder, but was able to pick up an iPad and intrinsically start using it to do far more powerful things than I would have been able to do at 4 years old on a IBM Model 370 back in the 70s
Yes, so temporary that it's still not lifted. I wonder why...
Amazing! Great to see more prompt APIs!
Some calorie measurements are done via bomb calorimeter- you measure before eating, and then, er, after eating, and subtract the difference. So the inefficiency of poop can be baked in.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-the-calorie-is-b...
I guess it's more accurate to say it's the "only say gay in the context of being happy" bill? You can say the word - but it can't be about sexual orientation.
This is misleading about SaaS advantages. Most SaaS don't sell data, their main advantage is making money monthly by providing a service, not selling data.
What exactly is a cool dwarf? Doesn’t seem to be a real category - there seems to be one called ultra cool dwarves which is a subtype of red dwarf stars including TRAPPIST-1. Doesn’t exclude the tidal locking problem, but can’t confirm if they are more immune to solar variability and storms.

Also apparently the planets will never be brighter than sunset in earth. The author could have at least mention some of the potential problems. I stand by calling this article disingenuous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1
Build an ecosystem, not an experiment.

Build an ecosystem, not a science project.

Build an ecosystem, not a microbiome.
Wet exits are the fallback and aren't hard. Just pull the strap on the spray skirt or, failing that, grab a double-fistful of skirt and pop it off the side.
I can see how it could be hard for someone used to high level languages and who doesn't care about how memory actually works "under the hood". The secret to learning Rust is really the same as C/C++: you have to learn to think of memory in a low level way -and- learn Rust's safety rules for dealing with that. I think it does take someone very dedicated to the task, more so than is required to learn say Python, for example. However, I find it much more rewarding.
A military engine is unlikely to be the answer for Boom. They just won't be cost effective.

The math for efficiency and maintenance is just different for sovereign governments, maybe a derivative could be made more efficient with less maintenance required.

Fighter jets require like 6 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight - sure, it's not just the engines, but it's a big part of it.

The real problem boom has is the number of viable flights is _very_ low - really just the ones Concorde flew (NY-LON, NY-PAR), and Concorde never made money.

A couple comments up someone claimed DXB-NYC being a route - more than half of the great circle route is over land, and it's more than 50% longer than the rosy projections Boom put out. Realistically, they'll be lucky if they're within 10% of their stated range. But of course, not without an engine.

This is what 4,250nm would get you from JFK:
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?R=4250nm%40JFK

We also didn't care about being green back during the Concorde - but Supersonic flights will likely be 5x-10x worse on a per passenger seat mile basis for emissions. Really hard to get around wind resistance being a square of velocity.
People like Tucker Carson?
What about "people" like the CNN saying that Joe Rogan was taking horse dewormer? Like, why? Why can't skepticism over ivermectin be expressed in a normal way?
California did the reverse.

Prop 209 then Prop 16.

At first you were racist by being racist.
Then you were racist for not wanting to repeal anti-racist laws.

Just like how not having blind auditions for orchestras was racist (not hiring enough minorities). And now having blind auditions is racist (not hiring enough minorities).
Hacking and Saab's just seem to go together!
Sure: you can clearly drive this to absurdity.

The list I gave was the ones I've heard people in the Rust community, including official Rust language documents, refer to as separate languages. Does that guarantee that we're carving the nature of "computer language" at its joints? No; it's merely a shorthand for expressing the range of syntaxes and semantics that you need to know to "fully" know Rust.
This is scary good
The counter-observation might be that Rust exposes, as a responsibility of the programmer, the completion of what would otherwise be compile-time analyses in sophisticated compilers. (Borrow and move look what SSA could comment on, for a simple example.)
Very cool. Of course the music is retrowave.
checks features of motherboard ... additional connectors, yep... PCIe backplane, yep...

Having bought both... it is definitely costs they don't want to pay, but not the cost of those features. It's more like industrial grade PSUs and redundancy that get mandated by various specifications and end up reducing the market size which further racks up costs.
Take a Dipso like You: Kingsley Amis’s advice on all matters alcoholic (2008)
Reading NextDoor completely disabused me of any notion that smaller government is better. It seems like everyone involved in local politics is an absolute crank. You can see this clearly in New Hampshire were the goofy libertarians who moved from other states gang up to defund public schools.

At least with the Feds they are under a constant microscope. The most heinous corrupt shit in America almost always happens at the local level because they can get away with it
What part of rust do you think can be made simpler?
Using programming to avoid homework has a long and storied history.

One of my very first programs I wrote was a QBASIC program to sort my spelling words in 2nd grade in 1991. I loved the idea of beating the system more than I actually disliked sorting my spelling words. I was quite proud of myself, and it seems to have worked out in the long run.
When I was in university, I scraped an internal job postings site for students to find internships. The site was terrible- each job description would load in a pop-up window controlled by Javascript, and loading a second description would override the first. It was also really slow and had limited filtering. My version could load job descriptions in new tabs, presented the table on a single page, and you could mark jobs that you weren't interested in or had already applied to.

The university didn't take kindly to that. They accused me of trying to take down the co-op system and threatened to sue me for copyright infringement. Since I linked into their system for job descriptions, I was able to show that the data I actually had (company, title, location) wasn't creative work and therefore not copyrightable. I also had some friends in the university faculty and staff who spoke up for me, since I had reported security vulnerabilities in the past, indicating that I wasn't acting with malicious intent. In the end, I just had to take a business ethics course, which I probably would have taken anyway.
Like I said - not the electric part but the mechanical part.
Yes they do. They love to talk about that and do all the time. It helps make exploiting poor people with limited protections seem moral.

Don't forget to mention how employing a person to work 16 hours a day making clothes or a phone helps feed their family.
I didn't find anything tricky about the ownership model. The last two languages I learned were Clojure then Elixir, both of which had far more concepts novel to me (with no experience in Lisps nor functional languages), yet neither gave me the trouble Rust has.

Frankly your response is typical of the smugness I find with Rust advocates. You 'know' Rust isn't complex (perhaps because of your own experience). When people say they find it so, you consider it your role to inform them about how they are mistaken about their own experience.
Boom hasn't solved the shockwave issue, have they? The Concorde didn't do overland routes over populated areas because of this. For example the NYC <-> Mexico City route overflew Florida for a time, and it would slow down to subsonic speeds over land. So even if Boom launches you likely wouldn't get cross-Europe routes.
The so-called "don't say gay" law doesn't actually restrict LGBTQ teachers from talking about their gay partners in informal contexts: it bans them from teaching kids in a formal context about gender and sexuality (of any kind - heterosexual or homosexual) before a certain age and restricting it based on curriculum standards above that age.

The idea that the law restricts a male teacher from having a family photo or talking to students about what he did with his husband over vacation is completely false. That would be as illegal as preventing a teacher from praying with students in their off-time (after football games), which recently got re-affirmed by the supreme court. It only binds teachers' speech when they are operating in their official capacity as agents of the state.

While you might not agree with this particular restriction, agents of the state generally do not have free speech when they are acting in their official capacity. Teachers, DMV employees, and police officers all have lots of restrictions on their official speech. The ability of the people to restrict the speech of their agents is very important for maintaining a democracy. It keeps religion out of school curricula and it is what makes cops read you your rights when you are arrested.
The For-Profit D.C. Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements
The most expensive part of GPU operation (power-wise) isn't computation, it's actually moving information around

I doubt that. Compare the GPU temperature (a good proxy for power consumption) when playing a game or doing GPGPU stuff vs playing a video (without GPU acceleration, so it's just acting as a framebuffer). The former involves far more computation, and gets the GPU much hotter.
It's also why they wouldn't have orbiting satellites which would be incredibly useful for both exploration and communication systems.
Imagine this tool could reverse engineer minified Javascript code. Depending on the result, it has potential to defeat minification as whole.
Yep that's it. I just didn't want it to look like I was shilling something in the comments :)

Locally, Binance P2P is used a lot for remittances, and plenty of establishments use it as a way to receive payments as well. I've seen the Binance QR code in a bunch of restaurants and autoparts stores, for example

I used it earlier this year to send money to my sister in Argentina. Super fast, no fuss.
Why are you omitting the entire sentence?
"Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in."
Yes, there are alternative schools out there. They are increasingly rare though. I was lucky enough to end up at one and it was fantastic.

As another commenter noted, it's the privileged kids who get opportunities like that. Which is a real shame because it's an environment that lifts those who need more flexibility and personal support.
That's fair, Clap is an 800 pound gorilla of library that is trying to be heavy-duty and production-grade. But if you're just learning Rust and want to crank out a CLI for fun or education then I'd say that Clap is overkill and a distraction from learning the language itself. There are dramatically simpler libraries out there for argument parsing, e.g. https://crates.io/crates/lexopt . Heck, if I was just starting out and writing a thing for fun I might just forego a library altogether and manually parse arguments from std::env::args.
Bosses think workers do less from home, says Microsoft
Which is the gigantic loophole - the bill isn't limited to primary grade levels. A parent suing U of F about their child being exposed to information about "sexual orientation" is perfectly allowed within the letter of that law. It says "primary grade levels" and then throws in a completely unlimited "age-appropriate" clause that allows it to apply to any person at any school receiving state funding.

Whenever these bills use squishy language like "age-appropriate" it's to provide an easy out for politicians at the time while causing a chilling effect over all discussion.
How hard is it to minimize inheritance, use containers in standard library, and use smart pointers though?

That's 90% of the difference between pre-c++11 and post-c++11 best practices.
And a couple other "dont do this" rules.
Honestly, ChromeOS has been the best solution for my grandparents. I don't receive any calls to help them out with computer issues, which means I can spend more time with them instead of fixing stuff.
Nice! That is cool!
> In practice, the "hot loops" of Python are in c/c++/fortran/cython/numba/

How would this be comparing apples to apples? The paper’s main objective is to compare programming languages in their own native calls. It is like properly translating the Bible or Shakespeare to other languages: some translations will be more textual than others, loosing all the nuances, specially if compared to the original transcript.

If you have python glue calls to other processes written in other languages, then you would be creating noisy in results. It is not the purpose of the paper at all, and it is outside of its scope.
Idk about fast, but a broken back button is kind of a problem.
These people are zombies! "hunter's laptop..... hunter's laptop....."

They're literally beyond reason - it's so sad and frustrating.
I think their point was more that, after having obtained the preprint, they still weren't able to produce anything specific to the article, which demonstrates that their dismissal was low effort and unfair (and I think it's fair to call on them to admit that). The amount of effort required to dig into the methodology is high (and it's understandable if one doesn't want to spend their leisure time that way), but that's exactly why we can't go around spreading bullshit; it's so simple to do and takes so much effort to remediate, and often the damage is already done.

As always, it's better to go to another thread if a topic doesn't interest you, rather than disrespect people's time & energy by attacking the validity of the topic itself.
This is exciting, but I think I'm most excited about learning to make self-sufficient and self-replicating colonies in space.

If we focus on settling planets, then each planet is its own set of problems.

But if we focus on learning to live in space, then although it may be harder initially, it's a single problem to solve. Then we just keep working and improving on that solution. And there's a lot more space out there than there are habitable planets. And there's a lot more matter and energy out there than are available on those planets.
Here's a pretty in-depth article about how things work in Argentina. I know nothing other than what's in the article, but apparently, many of the local black market exchanges ("cuevas") use cryptocurrency internally (instead of carrying stacks of US dollars around on motorcycles) and will exchange crypto for cash for their customers.

https://www.freethink.com/technology/crypto-argentina-black-...
How to access the SD dataset?
I agree but I'm afraid that we're moving in the opposite direction. VR and deep fakes will make for interesting times.

I've worked at home for nearly 20 years so I've had to learn to create a strong in-person social network. The pandemic and some medical issues have interfered, but I still much more enjoy having fun with my friends than doing things online.
> his opinion clearly just follows the market

Yes, but not slavishly. He was initially vocally opposed to Bitcoin and famously said he'd fire any JP Morgan trader who'd trade it [1]. That was in 2017, Bitcoin's best year (it went from a tad under $1000 to almost $15000). At that time he was clearly standing up against the Bitcoin tsunami.

Later on, he just stopped being so vocal. In the end JP Morgan (like all the major banks) say that they put their clients first. If their clients want to trade Bitcoin, then JP Morgan needs to build a platform to let them trade it.

Did JP Morgan experiment with blockchain. For sure. It also experimented (and continues to do so) with AI, robotics, quantum computation and, well, the cloud. Does Jamie Dimon even know what "the cloud" is? I don't know, but he feels that his company has a duty to experiment with various new technology, so as not to miss some technological train.

Now that Bitcoin is going down, he's speaking his mind again. He hates Bitcoin with a passion. But in the end, if his clients want to lose their shirt trading Bitcoin, and in the process pay JP Morgan some commission, he will gladly let them do just that.

[1] https://money.com/jp-morgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-id-fire-trader-i...
What syntax is different with unsafe?
No, we don't. Show me the articles where peoples' PCIe slots are ripping out.

What we could do is have AIO cooling like CPUs, more affordable than the current solutions or the "water block" designs from the brands.

Or, have more sandwich designs like Sliger which have a mini itx and a PCIe card parallel and connected via a ribbon. I don't think there is any claimed performance loss due to the cable.
NumPy has lots of C calls, and the functionality has to be implemented entirely with the language features. What you are suggesting is outside the scope of the paper.
DXB-JFK is over land almost 50% of the route, it will never make sense for Boom or anyone - you can fly subsonic to London and transfer to supersonic to shave a few hours off though - though shave off 45-60 minutes for transit buffer.

If they actually can get 4,250nm of usable range, you might be able to do something in Japan to SEA or maybe SFO, and that routing would make more sense probably.

But this is really really unlikely to ever fly - the physics and economics are so stacked against this until something really tectonic happens with how we store and use energy... but like not fossil fuels. It would need to be something that borders on "free", like if fusion existed, and was safe, easy and light.
if y'all want a little broscience: the soleus may be a good choice because advice is generally that it's best worked with sitting vs. standing calf raises. so kinda interesting that they came to this muscle in particular.
Indeed, I very much enjoy the genre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave
The problem with complex code is usually branches / conditionality.

Also complex indexing or expressions.

This stuff very rapidly stops being expressible in narrative form because the details can't be "compressed".

The explanation starts to look like legalese and you realise the code itself is the more compact and legible expression.

Ideally an autocommenter will be able to take a hand matmult and write "compute the surface normal" (this is an example where apparently high local detail can map to good conceptual compression) but actually that is the best possible case.

When it comes to important but somewhat arbitrary stuff like shipping or tax rules, english will not speed comprehension and is less good than a tageted dsl or well thought out tables.

The core problem is that "sometimes there is no simple explanation".
One interesting aspect of this article is a framing of diversity of people by where they were educated.
I saw Ronald Reagan's interview with Jimmy Carson. He seemed to be pretty sharp and funny.