skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with Khawaja and Daniela at AWS. They always were strong advocates of developer experience and it really shows with Momento. Congrats on the launch!
$2.50/mo is the lowest, but it's eBay exclusive iirc. Gives you something like 200mb of data. (Which coincidentally makes it one of the best deals for a small IoT project sim like a GPS tracker or remote weather station or whatnot)
Chime is laying off 12% of its workforce
It is quite common to use predicted models as an aid for phasing and molecular replacement; even Foldit models have been adopted for that purpose: https://www.nature.com/articles/nsmb.2119
China is now mandating reusable bottles and phasing out single-use plastic items.
> Rant about "Free market" until you lose the competition. Then its all out, hypocritical, double-standard protectionism, even economic warfare.

Not sure who you're talking about, the Biden administration has definitely not been "ranting about 'free market'".
Yes! Those forums really felt like places. Social media nowadays just feels like, well, TV.
That may end shortly. The Senator from Alabama pushing the SLS, Richard C. Shelby, is not running for re-election and will be gone soon.
Think the winter is here
Missing 2013 in the Title?
Instead of pushing a non-solution that trades one issue for another we should be educating people on password managers. Every major browser has built-in password management.
Yes you can but that's not how hardcore mastodon users describe things. Did you ever wonder what the local feed is about?
> waste less time making sure that the satellite is 'perfect' because you only have one shot at launching a JWST after 20 years of work.

Yes, this one shot mentality is extremely expensive and limiting.

Blast those probes out there in quantity, and iteratively fix them.
Look, I get it - it's not Twitter therefore it's a failure. And some people are ok with that, I really don't get why the need to campaign against Fediverse, it isn't killing anybody's dog.
Kakoune modal editor release 2022.10.31, with rare breaking changes
A notable new feature: inside diff buffers (as created by ":git diff" for example) you can press Enter to jump to the source file.
Not the person you asked, but for me (coming from C++20, with lambdas, async, etc), the big win is that the borrow checker automates away boring PR comments about "you used std::unique_ptr in a non-idiomatic way that is technically safe, and it bleeds memory unsafety into some random API, so write this level N+1 magic instead".

It also checks that all my threaded code is data race free.

On the downside, it's support for safe (in the sense that the compiler checks it) lock free programming is basically non-existent, which means that stuff that would be easy in C++ ends up being in Rust unsafe blocks that you need a PhD in type theory to reason about.
Why did the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability happen?
Herzog's famous take on nature, recorded on the set of Fitzcarrado in the Peruvian jungle, is just beautiful. I keep coming back to it.
https://youtu.be/3xQyQnXrLb0

"Kinski says [the jungle] is full of erotic elements. It’s not so much erotic, but full of obscenity. Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn’t see anything erotic here. I see fornication and asphyxiation and choking, fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course there’s a lot of misery, but it’s the same misery that’s all around us. The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing; they just screech in pain. Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony. It’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It’s not that I hate it. I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment.”
Soviet Union used to deploy R-9 - a rocket which was "always ready", launching within 20 minutes from the command, while using liquid oxygen and kerosene as propellants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-9_Desna

So, it might be considered, I guess. Even though Starship looks rather from another era...
A silver bullet may be able to elegantly kill the werewolf, but throw enough depleted uranium his way and the problem should go away soon enough.

I suppose that's an analogy for object oriented design or something.
Yeah, their responses to legitimate discourse make this project a non-starter for anyone serious about relying on open source software.
Amazing. I have noticed the loss in myself and should take steps to improve.
Has Visible worked out the signup problems they had? I remember hearing a lot of people complain about their experience trying to sign up for Visible. A lot of them just gave up and got service elsewhere.
The C++ of the 90s was a much simpler language, closer to "C with classes" (and often used as such) than modern C++. It was much easier to learn everything about C++ back then.
Yeah, it would probably create more manual work if you have too many false positives. I have maybe six base64 strings in the code I'm working on, so it might be worthwhile looking into provided my legitimate imports don't have any.
Is this for graduates coming directly from high school or are you seeing success with people that already hold degrees and are going for retraining or up-skilling?
>>Yes, but that does not at all preclude that said actions would be largely ones of self-interest.

Yes, it's entirely possible. Regardless, this strategy that the US has-pursued/pursues makes it preferrable to most other comparable historical states as a global hegemonic power.
This is what baffles me about the current space-travel fetish. We know what's up there - basically nothing at all. Even if you go to another planet and mine for raw materials, bringing material back isn't even remotely economically feasible and is unlikely to become so in any of our lifetimes.

Going to space in the 1960s made sense from the perspective of scientific advancement, and let's be honest, showing off. Now, we realize that the world has serious problems - but the people with influence are decidedly un-serious and so would rather continue to show off instead of fixing the mess they helped to create.
it’s not “advertised” as a twitter _clone_, it’s just being talked about as an alternative.

whether or not it fits what people are looking for, it’s being compared to twitter because it’s been pretty clear for a few years, even prior to the elon mess, twitter users really want to move somewhere else, they just haven’t settled yet on where.

this is all reminiscent of discussions around facebook a few years ago, it was clear at the time it was on its way out, people just hadn’t settled on where to go at the time. most just shifted their time to twitter or insta and the kids all just went to tiktok.

twitter will be the same way. if i had to guess it will be similar to facebooks boomerish crowd, twitter will have its user base who refuses to move on—they’ll be shaking their fists at the “cancel culture virtue signal woke woke” sky and the rest of the internet will just continue on somewhere else.
Not much to say here since this was foretold / expected.

All eyes on the 2:30pm press conference, where people will hope to divine the future from Powell's statements. I'm going to bet ~40 minutes of "Inflation isn't at 2% yet and we're committed to reducing inflation to that level".

I think what people really want to know is, where do these rate-increases end? In Sept. 22nd meeting, Powell thought 4.5% was roughly where things would end. Is the target rate higher now? Inflation is still strong, job numbers are also strong. Are we looking at additional hikes to 5% as we enter May 2023 or so??
I mean read the first line: "Incineration of plastic waste in an open field"

I am not advocating an "open field". Incinerate it for energy, in a properly designed incinerator (which is existing technology in wide use). That article is talking about waste disposal, I'm talking about using it as fuel.
Another reason is that imperative languages have a lot of business inertia around them. It's expensive to rewrite existing code or switch to a new language, and most businesses can't justify this cost.

I love functional programming, but I doubt most companies that sell CRUD apps care about it.
People get defensive when they feel like they’re being attacked. Many people really enjoy alcohol and don’t like to think about it as a dangerous drug (which, of course, it is).
Are the Chinese people at risk of rebelling and overthrowing their government or is this more weird anti-China xenophobia based on absolutely nothing?
They are in most European cities anyway. I'm in a - for the US small, for Europe mid sized city with a pop of roughly 400k. City center is banned to cars. You're supposed to park on the outskirts or take public transport into the center. (Or bicycle).

The result is that almost no one goes there anymore. All the inner city shops are closing down - while the mall style shopping centers on the outskirts are flourishing.

Walkable cities sound great in theory. Until you realize that shopping groceries _really_ sucks when you have to carry full bags for 3 kilometers or have to use over-filled public transport.
The rock that hit our planet 65 million years ago had a diameter of around 10 km. What do you think we may do about that?
That is actually quite a lot. Also, commenter was making point about people not driving.
I'm with you mostly, although as the mostly sole maintainer of an 22 years old and still evolving C++ codebase (among some other responsibilities) I do try to keep up with the language. But if I didn't feel this was necessary for my job I probably wouldn't do it or at least won't sink too much time into it.

I've also programmed in Haskell and I've had the same reaction as you, as to the things I can easily express there and not in C++. However I think the 2 cultures (Haskell and C++) are similar in that they both attract people who like to produce clever code which is unreadable to other people, even though the base language is not that complicated.

As for your questions:

1) shared_ptr / unique_ptr: Personally I liked this presentation. Watch it on x2 speed until it gets to parts that are difficult for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDLkt-jBJ4

2) lambdas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCOwajNch0

This is more dense than the previous one. As for your question "how do lambdas interact with C function pointers": rough explanation is they are not the same, since they can possibly allocate memory if they capture. But if they don't capture anything they are just like a (static) function, and can be converted to a function pointer.

As for concepts / traits, rough answer is that you don't need to know about them for everyday work, unless you write a library / API for consumption by other C++ developers. In that case, they help the compiler provide better/shorter error messages in case template functions/classes aren't used properly.
Thanks for the clarification. That is what I thought as well. I've heard of people being able to use Google Voice or other VoIP from 2FA even when it would normally be rejected by using a cellular number that they then port to Google Voice.

Based on what I've read, some video games are able to determine if you're using a prepaid plan or post paid. I suppose they might just look up the carrier to determine that since it doesn't seem like that level of granularity is available. And the port trick may work there as well.
I really hope Herzog is aware of this. He would absolutely love it.

Žižek maybe not so much.
Moon Pi Lighting Sigh
Do you have any links to these government grants that Space X is getting? The government paying for a product that Space X produces is not a grant.
Does PS5 have enough power to really do 4k120 with ray tracing?
Headline:
> One in Eight U.S. Adult Deaths Involved Too Much Alcohol

First line:
> One out of every eight deaths in Americans ages 20 to 64 resulted from drinking too much alcohol, according to a U.S. population-based study

This is _disgracefully_ misleading headlining; not sure I've ever seen one this bad.

People aged 20-64 don't die all that much, and generally die of different things than the population at large, who on average do their dying later, so, this is perhaps true, but not at all what the headline claims.
One of my favorite blog posts, probably ever. Funny, mind bending, but not completely impossible to follow.
I think it's a reasonable guess that they went with the vague "involved" qualifier in order to make the number as big as possible, to bolster the core message that alcohol is dangerous and bad for people.

I don't say this to detract from their message, and it's not some major deception, but I think it's noteworthy that this kind of sales and marketing treatment is given to an idea that's sufficiently well-accepted and consistent with observed reality to where it shouldn't really need the help.

Personally, when I sense someone is trying to bolster their argument by cherry picking or other deceptive practice, I immediately question their motives and their message. Maybe the overall effect is that still more people get the message when it's "spiced up"? Regardless, it's unnerving to me that the tactics employed in marketing seem to be applied by default to so much public communication. I wonder how accurate my perception of this as a growing trend is, and how it might relate to the general erosion of trust networks in modern society.
A sibling comment of mine references https://www.adrc.iastate.edu/files/2012/09/IAC-09.C1.3.1.pdf

Section 6.1 is on nuclear stand off explosions.

> The nuclear standoff explosions require an optimal standoff distance for a maximum velocity change of a target as- teroid. Therefore, we have to determine how close the nuclear explosion must be to effectively change the or- bital trajectories of asteroids of different types, sizes, and shapes. The precise outcome of a NEO deflection at- tempt using a nuclear standoff explosion is dependent on myriad variables. Shape and composition of the tar- get NEO are critical factors.

Section 6.2 is on kinetic impacters...

> A somewhat futuristic, solar sailing mission concept utilizing a 160-m solar sail to deliver a 150-kg kinetic impactor into a heliocentric retrograde orbit was studied in [25-28]. Such kinetic impactors will result in a head- on collision with a target asteroid at its perihelion (as illustrated in Fig. 1), thus increasing its impact velocity to at least 70 km/s. The NEAR Shoemaker study of as- teroid Mathilde and the Japanese Hayabusa mission for exploring the asteroid Itokawa suggest that many aster- oids are essentially “rubble piles.” Consequently, a practical concern of any impulsive approaches employing kinetic impactors or nuclear explosions is the risk that such high-energy deflection attempts could result in the frag- mentation of NEOs, which could substantially increase the damage upon Earth impact.

And then, section 6.3 is a fun one: Gravitational Binding Energy

> the disruption energy per unit asteroid mass is predicted to be 150 J/kg for strength-dominated asteroids. This indicates that a strength-dominated, 200-m asteroid would not be disrupted by a 150-kg impactor at a high impact velocity of 70 km/s. Also in Ref. 5 (pp. 135-136), the energy (per unit asteroid mass) required for both disruption and dispersion of a 1-km asteroid is predicted to be 5 kJ/kg. Thus, the feasibility of the most kinetic-impact approaches for either disrupting or deflecting an incoming NEO depends on its size and composition (e.g., solid body, porous rubble pile, etc.), as well as the time available to change its orbit.

These are from 2012, and we've had a decade more experience (and a mission to try it out) since then... but it's interesting to look at and the math in the paper doesn't change.
If you're one of the other 310M people then 22M does sound small.
>DSLRs aren’t good if you want “point and click,” and that’s okay.

I disagree, that's my point. I completely understand your point that most DSLR users are pros who have tools to make things pop. What I'm suggesting is that there is a market for people who want really high quality photos that are achievable through larger lenses and sensor sizes, with the simplicity and intelligence in realtime of a phone camera.

Would it be a billion dollar market? Maybe not. But with "computational photography" being far from science fiction these days and with mobile chips being so powerful, it would seem like a strong way to stay relevant in a mainstream market to market a DSLR with phone-like usability.
More productive software development using the HighFlux method
Agreed. My friend - a kernel dev - and I - a non-specialized SDE - have the same benefits and flexible hours.
As a side note, it really makes you wonder who the hell thought a freaking bank should build their own programming language..
Wait, what do you consider a 65 year old, if not an adult?
Sorry you're experiencing this. My advice would be:

1. Don't assume this will last forever.
2. Don't assume things are the same everywhere.

Hang in there. Try a new job, maybe a different field, maybe just a different company?
I'm a black American and I'm honestly sick of white people telling me when I can use the "n-word." I guess if they can't have it, no one can.
Not really unless they have some programming magic. Some of the stuff the console devs squeeze out is pretty magical sometimes.
> The international free market is still supposed to work even if a country doesn't have internal free markets.

That is self-proving as false and does not follow automatically what-so-ever. You're talking about mediocre economic theories that don't even make sense in theory.

> That the US is going back on the first

The US has never been the free market in practice or ideology that you're proposing. Not at any point in its history.

The US has very heavily utilized things like tariffs and restrictive trade agreements throughout its history, as have all large economies and without exception. The US has even utilized sanctions and blockades when it sees fit, going back 60+ years. If it was ever close to being a free market, that is well over a century in the past.

I find it astounding that anybody could be confused about the US being a particularly free market economy today. It's not even close to that. All you need is to have a primitive grasp of the scope of its vast economic regulations, its huge welfare state, and taxation to understand that. The US is a bureaucracy-heavy mixed economy at best.
I've only taken shrooms once and didn't change anything for me either psychologically. I feel like Salvia helped a little bit with enlightenment, but I had to take it semi-regularly. What did change was the onset of HPPD: https://eyewiki.aao.org/Hallucinogen_Persisting_Perception_D...

I haven't taken any hallucinogens in over a decade, but my HPPD symptoms still persist to this day. I have visual snow syndrome, warping, palinopsia/tracers, and phosphenes. They're not debilitating, but extremely annoying and for a lot of people it sends them into suicidal ideation or panic.

As with everything else, YMMV. You might be perfectly fine or you might be one of the rare ones like me that acquire unexpected side effects despite the fact that many people tout these drugs as having mild or temporary effects. Choose wisely.
> There is ZERO extra blocking in privacy mode.

Indeed? But there is extra privacy in privacy mode. I don't have to remember to log-out, I don't have to worry about cached items, I don't have to worry about a tab in Private Mode talking to a tab outside of Private Mode (and indeed, that is extra blocking).

> The only difference is in privacy mode some offline data storage API's do not work

That's a good thing. I do not want websites to store data on my machine. If the website cannot function without data stored locally then the website is not a valid website. It's now an app. I do not want to install apps in my browser.

And further: why is this a technical decision made by their privacy team instead of their engineers? Why don't they able to explicitly state what features are required instead of blanket banning the mode? T-Mobile is clearly in the wrong here.
> prefer simple built-in data structures (primarily hashes) over custom objects

I've found this is actually one of my biggest problems with functional code as currently written: people seem afraid to just declare a struct/record, in lots of cases where it's obviously the right thing.

If everything is a hash, you've just made all arguments optional and now you've invented a bad type system inside your good type system.

If everything is a tuple (more common in my experience, from reading Haskell), now you know (int, int) is actually a pair of ints, but you've thrown away variable names and nominal typing: is it a 2D vector, a pair of indices into an array, or something else entirely?

Defining custom types is the elegant solution to this: you have `struct range { start: int, end: int }` and now your functions can take a range and everything is great.
> This computational problem is so enormous that a company at the cutting edge of research D.E. Shaw built a specialized computer solely for simulating proteins.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)
Reminds me a bit of the old modest mouse song stars are projectors. That song had a related idea that our consciousness is in the cosmos and beamed down to us. Drugs could be interrupting that beam or something like you said. It’s an interesting thought.
"and a good system collects fares from their users"

I don't know where that fact was taken from, but it sure sounds like a baseless claim.

I would even say that transit users evading fares is a symptom of a growing section of the population that is unable to pay for their basic needs, like transportation to their jobs - from experience, people don't jump the metro to go drinking, they do so because they need to go somewhere and don't have the money.

Metro fares using long term passes also grows the issue : if most of the revenue in the metro came from monthly pass users, fare evasion wouldn't matter - thr cost is covered. The issue is that one time tickets are thousands of percent more expensive than long term passes, but are only available to people with large income. Users with less money can't afford the pass and pay a highly marked up price. The one time passes are basically paying for the service, while the mnthly passes users make the largest part of the userbase.

We are basically offering low transit prices to medium-high income people to the cost of financially strangling the poor that are required to use the transit service. Transit should be free!
A large and, to me, counterintuitive assumption is backing your argument there:

Burning plastic does not release pollutants, and the CO2 released just replaces CO2 released from burning other fuel (oil, natural gas, etc).

Humans have a remarkable capacity to use all that’s available to them if unconstrained. Why would we not burn the plastic _and_ the other fuel? Are you proposing we somehow regulate the ‘swap’ here?

I could easily make the opposite argument that “putting plastic in landfill sequesters carbon we’d otherwise burn”. That argument seems more intuitively correct to me.
A lot of C++ jobs are at FAANG companies. At least at the ones I’ve worked, nothing serious (ie in prod) is implemented in Python or Ruby. It’s Java for stuff that doesn’t need to be fast, C++ for stuff that needs to be fast, and Go for random stuff where people were able to shoehorn it in.

I think the problem is more that asking someone to accept low pay to work in C++ (one of the hardest languages to be productive in) doesn’t make any sense. If I’m good at software and know C++ I’ll work at a FAANG, AI company, self driving, or HFT/Hedge Fund for 3x-10x what a random C++ embedded role would pay.