skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believing climate change is happening isn’t pessimism though, neither are almost any of the other things you mentioned. Thinking a particular solution won’t work isn’t pessimism. Thinking all solutions won’t work or humans just aren’t capable of coming up with a solution therefore we shouldn’t bother trying is. What you seem to describing is what the author is railing against that is blind optimism.
let's say mexico joins the shangai corporation. let's see how many days their president stays in power.
This and computer networks were my two favorite courses from university. My first language was Python, so the connection between programming languages and the machine had always felt like magic. This was the one course that helped dispel some of that thinking for me.

Each module builds on top of the next and has you add increasingly complex features to a toy language. The course I remember was flipped classroom, so it's also entirely possible to do online. On top of that, Jose's video lectures are very well-made and engaging. I would recommend anyone with some free time and even a bit of interest to throw it at this. It's a fun and eye-opening experience if you were like me and knew nothing about compilers before.
I’m on the spectrum and it sounds like you might be too. Often people find me blunt or abrasive. I used to worry about it and tried to meter myself for years but the only thing it got me was stress and I wasn’t being my authentic self. My best advice, be your authentic self. If that is abrasive to some, we’ll then so be it. I’d rather be abrasive than fake and waste time. If someone takes something astute as hurtful or demeaning then maybe you’re trying to run with the wrong crowd.
This. I'd love to live in a world where all energy is renewable and non-polluting, but I'd rather get there more slowly without thousands of people freezing to death [1]. And those figures are just for the UK - I'd imagine the figures are worse in less wealthy, colder countries in Eastern Europe.

[1] https://www.nea.org.uk/news/271120-01/
Try:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

https://www.sitecore.com/knowledge-center/digital-marketing-...
You can do that (glue together two tiny molecules of arbitrary size) but the connector that you get that joins the two pieces in the resulting molecule is not arbitrary.
I wonder what _showHtmlPage_ does? Did he just write something, something that allows 3rd party (corporate firewalls) inject HTML under his domain within TLS protected connection?

Cannot judge by not knowing how he displays errors. But a question to HN public: Is opening unknown HTML under my domain within another window safe? Or is there any possibility to strip down any "permissions" to cookies, requests, resources etc for that dedicated page?
This nonsense was posted on Reddit already. I'm surprised anyone here would fall for it. And yes it is nonsense:

> Essentially the plant is the brain of the robot controlling the machete determining how it swings, jabs, slices and interacts in space.

Dial back the "plant brain is controlling a knife" description and then maybe it would fall back into the realm of sense.
Apple comes out tomorrow and announces the new iPhone 15. "We do not know when it will be ready. It might be tomorrow, or just as likely it will be in a hundred years."

Who will hold their breath? Who would invest in this? Software needs to be used by people. Software deliveries that cannot be estimated cannot be relied upon for planning. It may as well never be announced!
Didn't Trump prevent other providers by killing the Iran deal?

One could have so nicely pitted Russia against Iran. But Trump wanted to sell US oil
The issue is management rarely is looking 1-2 months out. They are looking 1-2 years out. On those scales it is impossible to estimate anything.

"Oh, yeah, the rewrite will be done in 1yr, no worries"

One year passes, and you haven't started!
See that's a "feature" though. Now you need to buy another device.

There's not as large of an incentive for product durability and repairability today as there was or should be.
> I can quote tax laws as counterexample. A rule like "you pay 2% of your revenue as a tax" is simple and pretty hard to abuse.

Well, for one such a policy would bankrupt many people and companies and be bad long term. Eg, anybody living month to month with effectively nothing to spare would end up slowly losing everything.

And of course companies would work around that by making things not be revenue. Eg, instead a company just paying you $X, now you get a whole bunch of "free benefits". You live in company-provided housing and eat company-provided food, which doesn't count as revenue.

So rather than earning $1000 and paying $200 rent, you now earn $800 and pay no rent. Government now can't tax that $200 because it's not revenue. You just live in a house provided as a free perk by your job.

Next step is that the government notices and doesn't like it, so now there's an extra tax if you live in company-provided housing until you end up paying roughly the same amount of tax as before.

It doesn't matter how you cut it, anything "simple" will be worked around, the government will try to counteract it, and we've come full circle again.
It sort of is? bg / fg / jobs, anyway
Lots of excellent advice...here is something I like to do.

1) Listen w/out interrupting...look for that natural pause. Also take note that if there is no natural pause, that in itself is a clue to: 1) how the person comprehends information 2) treats other ppl as they may not respect other points of view otherwise they would stop with a pause.

2) Ask if you can repeat what you heard...this forces you to become an active listener as you try to retain salient points of the conversation; lets the other person know that you are listening, which has an interesting psychological effect; and finally validates both what you heard and what they said.

Some tips that might be useful
Someone is always whining, usually whiners are louder than ... the non-whiners. And I didn't say everyone supports the sanctions. 10, 20 or 30% of people of a large group can whine so loud you'd think they are speaking for the whole world.
I believe that at one point it was entirely in one room.
My passport has the wrong color. Banks often ask me for bullshit documents.

People are guilty by default on AML world and the burden of proof ALWAYS fall to the accused. This type of perversion of democratic values is loved and applauded by "well mannered and civilized" tech types whom are totes ok with de-risking strategies that are pretty much based on xenophobia. I'm yet to debate one of those oh-so-enlightened persons that didn't resorted to the "its your fault to have been born in the wrong place!" argument.

You know those people who love and pray to the altar of the almighty GDPR? They don't bat an eye to the fact that it doesn't apply to financial records.
Is the demo site still supposed to be up? I see

> TypeError: path must be absolute or specify root to res.sendFile

when I try to visit it.
I'm sure it's still true that you can ask! Whether it works I expect will depend on the professor.
> Money supply increases don’t necessarily lead to inflation[...] Money instead went into an asset price bubble.

In the short term, yes, but this is a precursor to inflation; eventually the inflated asset prices propagate to consumer prices. Some paths are: increased demand (the "wealth effect"), reduced productivity (eg. people retiring with their stock portfolios or quitting jobs to speculate on crypto/real estate), as well as rising rents.

Engineering trains us to analyze full cycles. There are a lot of perpetual motion machines that look promising on the expansion stroke.

Reduced borrowing costs can mask this pressure, as eg. rents remain low when mortgages are cheap, despite high housing prices. But when borrowing costs rise the floodgates are opened. Either the bubble pops and the paper asset "wealth" gets vacuumed away, or else it dumps that growth into consumer prices.
I don’t think backlogs are bad. The notion they’ll ever be fully groomed or in control is the pernicious fiction that makes people do weeks of useless busy work to get themselves back to the same place: a massive unwieldy backlog.
Most good software that I can think of has the luxury of being delivered whenever it’s ready. It’s not estimation that improves the quality of the product but good cost/benefit analysis, although you can get one from the other.
I wonder if people are going to be this 'clever' about 'made in china' when shit will hit the fan. But I know that Europe is easier target in Anglo-sphere.
Isn't that exactly what's happening?

But maybe the EU is facing doom, in which case it wont matter that it turns into a desolate, deindustrialized waste land because I will freeze to death in the dark of a blacked out winter anyway. Or not, only time will tell.
Maybe? Weeder courses in CS based on SICP have similar dropout rates, and the push towards making the curriculum easier causes endless hand-wringing. We could argue that organic chemistry is less central to medicine than recursion and functional programming are to software development, but there is a similar "click" that is a reasonable signal of whether you are likely to parse more complicated concepts.
It's like planting a tree - the best time is ten years ago, the second best time is now.
It would be hard to explain but there's somewhat of an ironic tendency among techies to dismiss certain types of knowledge (such as the show-don't-tell aspect of good literature) on account of pursuing rationality and optimization.
I always dreamt of a GUI library where every widget would be a separate actor sending and receiving messages.
> This is dumb. That's not an insult -- I'm not calling you dumb, but just your argument.

No worries, I'm here to discuss and learn things, so happy about your reply!

> 1) Banks are FDIC-insured, so unless the federal government goes under, my money can't be lost. If the US disappears, so does the dollar.

Yes, but there is still the chance of a "haircut" or similar. At this scale, rules can be bend. But my response was a bit more independent of the country, so maybe it doesn't apply well to the US, point taken.

> 2) If people lose part of their money due to a policy like the one you propose, they won't "learn." You're asking ordinary people to be aware of things which are accessible to a fraction of a percent of the population. They'll assume banks are safe, and lose trust in "the system" if they're not.

Maybe for the first time. But if you think about it, maybe the system is how it is _because_ people trust in it (too) much.

There are a couple of options. For instance, the state can give a guarantee for only a limited amount of money (think $20k or something like that) per person and/or institute.

Second, it might very well be that banks will come up with two different kinds of accounts: 1) an account where the money is not safe and can be used by the bank for investments - but you get interest. 2) an account where the money is safe, but you don't get interest but have to pay a fee for the bank's services. The money then stays your property and the bank just keeps it for you, so even if it goes bankcrupt, no one can take the money since it's still yours.

I don't think that would be a bad idea.

> 3) Even so, I have no way of knowing what's going on at my bank. For all I know, the executives might be crooks embezzling money for the Italian mafia. We have organizations like the FBI, SEC, etc. since individuals can't investigate these things. I'd like to focus on my family and my job. That's why we've specialized.

I believe that for your health, your relationships (friends, familiy, ...) and your finances, you cannot delegate that, you must keep control yourselve. You can get people to help you, but in the end both control and responsibility are yours. That's what I think works best.
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OK, I take it your answer for visibility is management reporting, I am not sure about predictability, you didn't really answer it. SW development is as predictable as much you're willing to invest into research/planning, and that very much overlaps (as observed in Kanban) with doing the actual work.

When I started SW development in 2005, we had one meeting a week (Friday) with our boss, where we summarized what progress we made during the week. It was exactly what he and his superiors needed to know, not anything more.
And every rebuttal is about how well it goes in the (seemingly rare) case that everything goes as its supposed to. Both are overfits of a sort.
The problem is that this class is frequently on the pre-med track, and a single F will tank your chances of getting into medical school, even if you retake the course and get an A.

The primary objective of students wanting to get into medical school is to get a high GPA, what specific courses they take and what they learned don't end up mattering at all. Very little of what they learn during the 4 years of undergrad will end up applying during medical school, residency, and their careers.
There is enough energy but the price is calculated per Merit-Order.

So if only 1 kW has a high price, all have.
They didn't google after they had this idea? 2-letter TLDs are reserved for countries, whether the alpha-2 code is currently used or not. And creating a country is harder than you might think, more dedicated people have tried and failed (e.g. Sealand).

Title is misleading by the way.
i am not sure how its not playbook US policies. remove a pro-russian president. put a pro europe leader that you select and do whatever you want in the country including setting up bases. just look at any past leader/alliances in middle east with USA. they always did that. you a russian strategist you'd take that into account...
It’s horse before the cart though. It’s definitionally organizing work so it’s easy to understand and measure, rather than easy to actually work on.

That’s not an optimal way to get work done. It’s metrics.
I decided on Sunday to switch my Arch kernel to latest from LTS, I guess its just dumb luck it also brought Grub down and I had to roll back to using the LTS kernel.
Always blame the EU when your favorite party is in power for years and did shit. I don't remember EU forcing Germany to buy gas from Russia or close their nuclear power. Russian gas was cheap so capitalism dictated to use it, closing nuclear plants scored some national politics points so sure close that too.

But the most simple excuse for a bad government is to blame the opposition, when you were in power for a long time and you can't blame the opposition hen you blame the EU and US.
Look at the difficulty of creating a quantum computer if you really think that it's plausible shared quantum state would survive for a few billion years and interactions with a whole galaxy.

Also, not sure what particular quantum number you think would have to be conserved and would influence Alice's decision of which way to configure her measurement apparatus - this would definitely require some new quantum property.
> The government agents involved are all felons

Pretty ironic this appears just a couple words after "innocent until proven guilty."

This is borderline sovereign citizen nonsense. The prosecutors and government agents did nothing wrong here.
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Who's that "we" ? For anyone I've worked with, real-time also implied "reaction time is faster than human perception"
> Why do we need predictable deliveries?

Because your organisation answers to shareholders on a quarterly basis.
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Wait,

Are you demanding that independent implementations of an idea you explicitly dedicated to the public domain must then describe the various ways your version is “superior”?

Who hurt you?
> What options would there be against Russia without the possibility of economic sanctions?

Not fueling their imperial fanfiction to begin with. The original mistake was offering them aid after the fall of the USSR without requiring steps towards liberal democracy in exchange.
The tale of the project launch that wasn’t missed because the client was onboard with iterative delivery?
Well it is what it is. Russia has doomed Europe to a long period of economic decline. The economic opportunity for the US is vast. This could be a period of economic power gains not seen since the end of WWII. To not recognize this would be foolish. It's not even accurate to paint it as "stealing" or "capitalizing" on Europe's weakness. They simply won't be able to produce things, and someone needs to, so it might as well be the US. Europe cannot be helped even if we wanted to.
> I really don’t see the connection with programming

It may just be the stupid way my brain is wired. When I think about calculus I can’t help but also consider programming, and vice versa. Okay, Calculus is not a precursor to learning to code. But the DNA of calculus is definitely there.

First, how building blocks of programming and calculus are similar.

1) We can probably throw out the control flow concepts, although they vaguely map to the notion of intervals on evaluated integrals.

2) I said for loops are a generalization of Leibniz notation. I also said it’s a rough relation. You said you don’t see the parallel because you claim pure maths calculus deals with reals and computers are discrete. Yep. Real numbers are discrete at the infinitesimal limit (grab your torch and pitchforks). I hope this is enough explanation on that front. Loops roughly = integrals. It’s purely theoretical. I get that you can’t actually represent an infinite precision real using bytes.

Next, algorithms.

1) I think there’s another very loose but valuable perspective in which calculus and efficient algorithm implementation at least shop at the same grocery store, if not fool around on the down low. I can imagine every possible implementation for solving the knapsack problem as being distributed in a higher dimensional space. There are a ton of bad ones out there with dogshit runtimes. But somewhere near the middle is one that goes zoooooom. That’s an optimization problem—that’s calculus.

2) And then within solving a problem itself. The *good* solutions make use of derivative-like notions. Properties about the problem which you use to solve it efficiently are effective pseudo-derivatives. The way that you can use a derivative plus a point to approximate some next point forward, you can use problem topology plus current state to improve state a bit further until you converge upon an “answer”.

The list goes on.

Calculus is in programming and programming is in calculus. They are cross-pollenated dialects of the mother tongue of the universe.
The state will eventually just require that exchanges check the history of any bitcoins they touch against a list of seized coins. There's not much you can do with a big pile of illicit cash if everyone you'd want to transact with is checking the serial numbers.
I run linux on 2010 hardware, and it's fine; perfectly snappy.
amateur radio service means a radiocommunication service in which radio apparatus are used for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication or technical investigation by individuals who are interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and *without pecuniary interest;* (service de radioamateur)

- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-96-484/F...

So … you just wouldn’t be able to talk about the tools you build and charge money for… on the hobby you built them for?

Seems kind of ironic. And, imho - missing the point of the hobby.
>authenticity, privacy, reliability, and (non)repudiation.

These fall under integrity, confidentiality, availability, and integrity respectively! The CIA triad is pretty comprehensive!
Before becoming a PM I had no idea engineers were managed in sprints. Horrible.
A low-yield display like this will test several things:

- Wind at altitude curls toward Moscow. Its possible Russian land and water will be more exposed than European. Note that rivers in eastern Ukraine flow into Russia. We’ll see a lasting levels of contamination in things like Russian grain and fertilizers containing sulfur.

- Russia will spin the fallout as if it amounts to the same concern as chemical weapons 100 years ago. They’ll claim remediations are so routine that NATO and Ukraine inadequately prepared their populations.

- If the wind is westbound, Romania will be the worst-affected NATO member because potassium iodide is not proactively distributed. NATO will debate if it considers this an attack.

- Another risk is the water supply to Crimea. An open channel running from central Ukraine supplies nearly all their fresh water.
I've worked at 3 different companies now where the system worked well and teams moved quickly and created great software.

Unfortunately, that story is incredibly boring and goes against the tech blog hivemind.
ffs the difference is the entity exists for the shares, the penalty for the breach impacted the shareholders -- what makes you think that when a merger judgment is filed that a penalty for the misacting buyer would simply be left on the balance sheet for that buyer to reabsorb? It would be split among shareholders and payable along with the judgment's merger price.

Do shareholders generally have liability or claims to the entity (beyond things like duty and other shareholder legal protections), no. Are their mechanisms to disperse to shareholders? ffs yes.

And if twitter was the loser here, and had to pay 1 billion (which I actually believe is not in the contract from what I read the 1 billion was a directed clause for a misacting buyer) then no the shareholders would not have to pay out of pocket. However, the 1 billion dollar loss would impact the books and probably hit the shareholders with stock pricing outcomes.
I didn't say anything about US policies, I have no idea what you're replying to.
Isn't this the logic of affirmative action extended to encompass a greater number of categories and cases?

If the premise is that we require doctors to meet certain criteria (putting to one side the soundness of the criteria or the means by which students are assessed in relation to those criteria), then it doesn't matter why someone fails to meet those criteria, only that they do. This would be because we prioritize the good of the patient over professional ambitions. However, to soften standards would mean prioritizing professional ambitions (or actually, the desire for social status) over the good of the patient.

That seems to correspond with the culture of radical individualism (emphasis on radical; respect for the individuality of others wanes with increasing egocentrism) and obsession with status that we are often accused of having today.
This argument comes up a lot but this is a very narrow case. Neither you nor I are building software for the super bowl, and if we were building something with such high stakes we should start way, way early and concentrate on core functionality first. There's no real deadline for the feature we decided we needed last week.
You realize these decisions don’t come without cost, right? Your desire to ensure every doctor is an expert on organic chemistry means there are fewer doctors and those that make it through the gauntlet are paid more due to this scarcity despite the fact that they may be a general practitioner that almost never need organic chemistry skills in their practice.

Everything is a trade off. If organic chemistry keeps your family doctor from diagnosing you with confidence, they can pass you to a specialist whose practice needs organic chemistry more regularly.