skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I turned 50 this year, and I'm finally done with college for good. I will never earn a degree.

I tried at least 5 times to finish college. I honestly gave it "the old college try" over, and over, and over again. I really wanted to please my father with that piece of paper in my hand. But that path just wasn't for me.

Elementary school and high school were marvelous, formative experiences for me. The schools were truly safe, secure environments where the Catholic faculty and staff respected me and upheld my human dignity, no matter what. I was never hurt or mistreated by the Irish sisters, nor by the priests and religious, or lay teachers. Now contrast that with my home life where I was subjected to endless shame, emotional trauma, and humiliation. I basically wanted to escape to school and stay there forever.

Unfortunately this came apart at the seams in college, because guess what? My parents had always been the ones pushing and cajoling me through homework and projects and tests and perfect attendance. Without my dual-helicopter parents doing all the work for me, I was doomed to failure, over and over in college. So I dropped out again and again. It wasn't for lack of trying.

Years ago, I did have "school flashback" dreams. I was naked in class. I forgot to study for a final exam. I was being teased or bullied by classmates. Yeah, it was all on replay for years, but I worked past that.

I took a final swing at earning a degree and I got halfway to an Associate's. But truthfully, I did finish what I started, because I earned three professional certifications and landed a fantastic steady job. So in the end, my college days weren't wasted, despite all the credits I'll leave on the table.

I'm grateful for the faculty, staff, and admins who always treated me with utmost respect, kindness, and reminded me of my innate human dignity, and through them I was able to discern a vocation as an educator in my own right.
You just re-invented COM-HPC / COM-Express... kinda.
Ah, I understand clearly. For higher quality search results, can Google offer a specialized, undiluted, version of their search technology, or would they need humans to curate and refine the results, like librarians or research assistants?
Yep! There are a lot of other internal concerns at least among Punjabi Canadians back in BC. One interesting thing I saw though was that Jats tended to lean Liberal or NDP, but Chamars tended to lean Conservative. We have our own internal politics from the insurgency in the 1980s-90s that never got resolved and continue to fester.
You’re welcome - Glad it helped!
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OK honestly, did you just happen to know this or is this actually documented somewhere?
It would be pretty funny, in a terrible way, if the First Amendment was gutted in the name of free speech.

I'm somewhat amazed at how poorly the people in favor of this understand what appeal these social networks was to let them grow large in the first place.

Isn't it obvious that it wasn't by letting everyone post anything? We've had that all along. No need to force social networks to do what has already always been an option (go ahead and start that personal blog and post all your thoughts on it).

But of course, that's not what the politicians mean. They use the words "common carrier" to make it sound like they aren't doing what they are actually doing: attempting to force social media companies to be megaphones for the political messages of the politicians.

De facto state media. The very opposite of free speech and the first amendment.

It would be laughable if the Supreme Court was principled.
Part of my work involves the braid HTTP spec. Braid uses a custom server-sent events like protocol sent over long lived HTTP connections. I spent about a week trying to get this working using rust & actix. My code became mired in complex lifetimes, crazy iterators, Pin, async and Futures. Hundreds of lines of code later, I gave up and rewrote the whole thing in an hour or two, in about 30 lines of javascript.

The whole experience was so bad I've sworn off using async rust entirely until a few more features land. Thankfully, apparently there GAT lands next release - although its not clear to me if it'll work for futures yet, or if thats a later goal.

I love rust. But, wow.
As companies continually erode employee benefits and aggressively seek out ever cheaper labor, we have to continually be reminded how innovative and great this "massive shift enabled in large part by new technology" is going to be. Now you're going to get paid in unregulated tokens, isn't that amazing!

And guess what? Not using actual money also let's them access "millions of talented freelancers live in countries where it’s hard, if not impossible, to open a local bank account". That's great because those workers also tend to live in countries with lax or non existent labor laws. These new inroads in exploitation is just another great win for innovation! How bright our future gets every day!
When I was way way younger, I mucked about in our school's computer library and the network security (or rather, how the permissions were set up) until I figured out a way to run and share Halo and Soldier of Fortune 2 off of a networked USB stick (or maybe I just copied it to my computer and then shared it off of the HDD, the memory is pretty vague). This is back in the XP days.

It worked pretty well and we had many a play session with 10-16 kids, alt-tabs were pressed, until somehow they discovered we were playing games, and then a bit later they found some residual files that had my account as the initial creator set on them.

I got a 30 minute dressing down talk from the IT head, then again from my mentor, and then again from the 'dean' (our school system is a little different). Then I had detention after school for months.

No one ever asked me how I actually bypassed their network permissions. When I found another exploit weeks later, I never used it, but I also never told them.
gpa in nationally ranked engineering schools is usually quite a bit lower than other departments, and a 4.0 is often unheard of. Varies with school.
Shorter time scale but - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
> Not only is their argument for two introductions not a standard molecular clock approach, but it's not a molecular clock approach at all, since "Inferring" provides no support

Okay, lets revisit this now that some of the terminology confusion is recognized.

"Inferring the MRCA of SARS-CoV-2" introduces their phylogenies. It was produced with BEAST as described in their methods. I believe this is the model you were referring to as "Inferring." Yes?

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. If you don't understand how their phylogeny helps support their theory of multiple introductions, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe just another clarification of what you're trying to say would help.

> I'd note that you yourself referred me to "Separate", back in ... So why did you switch to "Inferring"

Because we're discussing multiple things in the same paper?
Better suited in what way? Humans are pretty well adapted to Earth specifically.
Never heard of 'em before.

I think I'd rather just put money into an index fund.
No. Just go attend a school board meeting, and even run for school board. If you think only half your local citizens are kooks, consider yourself lucky. When standards are left up to them you get things the Lost Cause myth taught in school for 75 years. County school boards have the ability to strip history books from content they simply don't want taught, because it's politically inconvenient knowledge. How else are people worshipping Robert E Lee rather than referring to him as a traitor who waged war on his country to preserve and expand slavery in perpetuity, and got more Americans murdered than any other bad guy in American history?
That's what local school boards gets you.

It's a nation, and students are nationals. There needs to be some national standards.
If you're calling out the claim in the article, I'd just provide some counter-evidence.

But no, they specifically said most of them are not orbiting red dwarfs:

> Most super-Earths orbit cool dwarf stars, which are lower in mass and live much longer than the sun.
It's literally impossible to implement with this system of government. The current two party system is the most efficient form of your idea that can be implemented in America.
I'm the opposite. When I see people doing things better than me I get a surge of energy and motivation. And if I'm around people that are lazier I'll start being lazier. Not sure why that is. If you learn what motivates you you can use it to your advantage.
Being already semi-intelligent, and trapped here, also due to gravitational forces, I think I can sort of imagine it.
Every time I see the sizes of GPUs increase, I'm reminded of this from over 2 decades ago:

https://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/gallery/bitching-fast/bitchi...
You mean the same government where Montana has just as many Senators as California and the person who won the popular vote in 2016 lost the Presidential election?
That's a total no-go unfortunately since WCAG-AA accessibility is a non-optional requirement in edtech.

The solution in general is in improving the quality of the content, using a more sophisticated format of questions that requires work rather than mere knowledge (which is also far better for formative assessment, but most platforms are focused on summative, particularly in the US)... independent multi-choice is always easily gameable in some way - if there is no better format of question available, the best that can be done for multi-choice is to have a massive pool from which you randomly draw a different subset of questions for each student, and limit the number of attempts to make it impossible to fully scrape... even then, a smart group of students may pool and share their feedback as they progress.

The tricky thing is that you want to encourage such behaviour, helping each other learn, and although in some people's eyes this is purely cheating, it's not dissimilar in spirit.
Yes, some of these comments are talking like it's all in the rear-view mirror now. The consequences are still unfolding, and it's still a strong possiblility that they could lead to something very unpleasant.
Rust is rather lean - you'd have to give up something to simply. e.g. most simpler languages are GC languages. That said, GC shouldn't be a problem for 90% of apps.

Now, it's not unlikely that eventually Rust will accrete enough baggage to need replacement too - I'm guessing we have 20 years minimum until that happens?
I love factorio but it’s also an important lesson on the traps of premature optimization and automation.

This is my favorite factorio video and it shows a lot about how you can prevent a lot of unnecessary optimization in the early game.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyrbPsnNGo

And you can indeed never bother with circuits on refining for example. In fact you don’t need to touch a lot of the features in the late game if you stay focused.
If you can find someone that plays like this then you have a real winner.

Very much how Craig’s list found success in their business.
> ...lose those 10 pounds which ..

* 20 pounds
View it as training and not exercise.

You start minimally and slow, far below exertion capacity, rest a few days, and do similar stuff with slightly more intensity (resistance) or volume (number of reps). There's an art/science to it, and barring health handicaps it's essentially a universal system the body evolved to do.
It already is the next C++. It's a powerful language full of incredible abstractions but sadly that attracts incredibly smart developers who worship at the altar of complexity.

I enjoy rust for what it is, and I've had fun writing programs in it. You couldn't pay me to work with it in a professional capacity involving peers. I'll stick to Go, where my code reads and writes like everyone else's.
It's really not that hard. You just need to practice a bit and get over some concepts. Highly recommend buying a rust book to supplement the online rust book, or getting involving the a forum/chatroom and asking questions. The community realizes it's a bit of a brain shock, but once you get over it, it's actually pretty easy to do 99% of the things you need to do. Even, easier than in other languages in a lot of cases. A few areas are tricky/hard, but if you walk before you run (which most people SHOULD do in other languages) it's entirely doable.

The problem with an easier rust is... These are the rules for using your computer safely. Like, this is what you should be doing when reading/writing C code. Or C++. So learning rust is hard, but it makes you a better programmer faster IMO. Also... once you write rust code it's usually good, no weird surprises Saturday at 2:00am in production, it's just done and works.

Anyway wishing you the best, but be careful asking for "an easier rust". An easier "Rust" probably isn't safe and you might as well just be writing any other language.
FTC Transcript from Public Forum on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security [pdf]
Unsafe Rust is, in the Rust Language book's own words, a "second hidden language" within Safe Rust[1]. You're absolutely right that it's a superset; that's what makes it distinct and therefore a unique language with unique semantics (even if the syntax is nearly identical).

Procedural macros can be used to define new languages within Rust, which means that grokking them requires the developer to understand their expressive capacity. For example, the paste[2] crate introduces a little bit of novel syntax for combining identifiers.

Attributes are the counterpart to Unsafe Rust: their syntax is described separately from the rest of Rust[3]. Understanding how to use them involves components of Rust that aren't tied to the syntax of programs (e.g. doc and feature attributes, which connect to Rust's standard tooling instead).

I agree that async Rust isn't its own distinct thing. I threw that one in as a possible interpretation, to make the count work.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html

[2]: https://docs.rs/paste/latest/paste/

[3]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes.html
"through proxies" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The alternative being suggested here seems to be to allow the regime to compel media outlet to publish their propaganda, because some don't like media outlets being able to choose the views they promote.
If this is the case, why hasn’t math been replaced?
On a completely side note how does an Indian apply for asylum, feels like it would be very hard to prove hardship in India.
What happens if an Invoice has more than one Line? Looks like it will count the Invoice total for each line inatead of each likne's amount.

If each invoice has 1 line, why does a line table exist?
Because 20% of your taxes goes to funding roads and 50% of your city is pavement.

Some people would prefer it to be different.
2600 Magazine – The Hacker Quarterly
The main advantage of rust is that you can “do anything” with it. It’s fast, it has deterministic performance, you can embed it, you can write low level code, you can write fancy high level code.

Cpp devs never moved because there were always large projects chugging along in cpp and they always had the feeling that they knew what they were doing.
AI Generated Chatbots of All Colors
I can't think of any left wing social networks. Have any ever existed?
> I'm curious why you think it's too big to master.

Many of us do find Rust very hard to get to grips with, however much we're informed by Rust advocates that it isn't! I don't know if there's any readily available way to be objective about this? I think all we have is attestation. Here's Chris Keathley (of some Elixir fame):

> I've written a non-trivial amount of Rust code (50-100k lines) .. and I feel like I barely understand Rust as a language

I don't think that's an uncommon perspective.
An Introduction to Smart NICs [pdf]
Didn’t know that. Glad there’s a good reason. Thank you.
HN seems like the archetype of an interest-specific club as compared to Facebook’s generic content platform.
It really says something about western education that these PTSD like dreams are so widespread.
> GCC-Rust may put Rust on track to have a decent STL since (presumably) GCC will not import a package manager.

I think you may be misunderstanding something here? GCC-Rust would have no reason to import Cargo. Cargo is a tool for resolving and managing dependencies and generating compiler invocations. GCC-Rust is a compiler that would be invoked by Cargo.

> the Rust STL itself is full of bit-rotting functions that have been stable for years but are still somehow only in the nightly release and haven't made it out of "experimental" status.

Rust stabilizes several new library functions with every release. Which ones are you trying to use? Rust is driven by volunteers, and many functions only get stabilized when people ask for them and present concrete use cases.
No Bullshit Guide to Math and Physics
It seems like a section of those enthused already left quite publically, maybe a couple years ago, once async was added with that syntax.
The fact that even the “not to be sold in china” bit is so on point even today is kind of scary
It's a good placebo though.
Ah, relief! Thanks
Mechanical Principles Combined in a Useless Lego Machine
Parts of math have been replaced. The original Maxwell's equations were replaced since the new ones were much simpler.
Really? The thing it does in the video is almost identical to something I’ve spent days doing manually. Even if it's a small part of the task, it does it in about a second. Why do you think it doesn’t do what I think it does?
I suppose you are not mysoginistic enough for the joke. I'd say that is a positive.
See my response to 'kibwen. We can nitpick all day about whether it's really a separate language; I think it satisfies at least one important definition of "language" by having its own separate syntax and semantics that aren't accessible to Safe Rust.
Sorry, I don't normally work outside of the kernel. To me vm is a common abbreviation with a well understood meaning.
Yes they can as long as it's age appropriate. "A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students."....next
We extract way, way more aluminum than we ever will — or could — lithium. Annual aluminum production is about 64 million tons. Total lithium resources — the sum of all known economically viable deposits — are 86 million tons.

>its not obvious they're even a net good.

It is extremely obvious. Even if the relevant region of the Andes is completely desertified (which I would prefer not happen) the scale of impact is a pittance next to global warming.
I went to the site. (They misspelled the DNS name "adssettings.google.com)

I opted out.

I pressed the trash can button in Firefox Focus.

I reopened the site. It said I was opted in.

Their "disable tracking" button simply does not work.

I'm not enabling cookies so I can opt out and they can just buy my tracking information from some other ad network. There is a reason I disable persistent cookies and want DNT headers to be legally binding.
Well no. Valuations are based at least in part off discounted future cashflows at a very basic level. If projected cashflows drop enough due to bad economic conditions the value of everything will drop. If you think at a basic level there is less capital to return to shareholders via buybacks or dividends.

Also the fed finally stopped propping up valuations with QE, money is leaving the economy (about damn time).

FWIW VC/PE/some other private stuff isn't actually down yet at least not on paper. But this is bc they are not marked to market very often at all. The reason activity is still good is bc valuations are way down, like half in a lot of cases.
Ironically this page loaded for me in about 500ms on my 1GB fiber connection.
More info

Read the comments from the public submitted so far:^1

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2022-0053-0001/comm...

Submit a comment (deadline is 21 October 2022):

https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2022-0053-0001

Read the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR):

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2022-0053-0001

Read the ANPR as published in the Federal Register:

https://downloads.regulations.gov/FTC-2022-0053-0001/content...

Watch a video recording of the public forum (public comments begin at 2:28:40):

https://player.vimeo.com/video/749169216

1. Individual comments have a predictable URL structure for easy downloading:

seq -f "https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2022-0053-%04g" 1 100
I don't think that's a good metric. Most of the most successful programming languages of all time have had at least one macro or attribute language attached to them.
Code can have ambiguous scope too, except the compiler has a decision making process that you might not fully understand. (Closures are famous for this problem).

In the English you can recognize the ambiguous parse and reject it.
Superstition is exactly how I would describe some of these people driving around with masks on in their car with their windows rolled up... (and at this point pretty much anywhere really). I guess this is how superstitions start.
> to temporarily give the government additional power to deal with emergencies.

I just want to point out that, according to the U.S. federal government, we are still in a "temporary" state of emergency, and have been for 30 months now.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/health/covid-public-health-em...
https://techzinglive.com/page/1290/226-tz-interview-ivan-sav...

I found this podcast about the author and the motivations for the book quite interesting, tl;dw , UGRAD textbooks are a huge mess forced by a committee of profs trying to get the most broad one that will cover the needs of most classes among other things.
ok fair answers but if you "believe they deserve humane treatment" how do you square that with pest control? is laser burning less humane than poisoning (status quo)? also it is definitely more humane for the humans (like no worries about small children licking a poisoned floorboard).
Assume it's per invocation, and each invocation generates a few dozen line function. How many such functions do you write when you get in the groove? If you multiply it out, you'll probably end up expecting a few bugs a day at 95%, similar to most humans might write.

Except you're pretty used to the sorts of bugs you write, and the AI isn't you. So these bugs will be harder to find.

So why is this better than writing by hand? Most of the hard work of programming is figuring out specs and debugging, not banging out well understood and specced implementations.