skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might try the keyword "expressiveness" and see how well that maps to what you are talking about.

Definitely see Paul Graham's essay "Beating the Averages"
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

People have tried to define and measure this and related ideas in different ways, and I'm not sold on any of them in particular. I can however suggest some languages that stand out in some of these explorations that you might consider.

+ Lisp dialects. In particular, take a look at Clojure, Shen, and Racket.

+ Smalltalk. Try Pharo. Check out some YouTube videos with Alan Kay.

This is also worth a read
https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-pow...

If you're interested in math and data science stuff, also check out Julia.
There are plenty of places to pirate e-books, audiobooks, textbooks, any book you want. This won’t put a dent into it; thankfully.
A charitable viewing of his actions is that he's a guy with some noble visions in his head, but also a guy who's impulsive, chaotic, and make decisions without thinking things through or listening to outside advice (e.g. from lawyers).

I think he's insufferable, and I wish I could be a fly in the wall watching him in panic trying to fix things but fucking them up further instead.
I would highly recommend buying a Samsung S10E second hand off of ebay or something for $100 and using that. Once you've used Dex and Nebula with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard it will all click. It's incredible.
The first part was sampled in Rob Dougan's Clubbed to Death.
https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1583231719943327744
If you're using it with a supported Android phone it is incredible The Nreal Air is easily the best/most fun thing I've bought all year.
Bashing new myths about digital nomads
Ugh, the famous NASA study that everyone loves to quotes and nobody ever reads :)

It’s freely available from the NASA website, and it looks like that Wikipedia page includes a link in the footnotes.

At the very least, skim through it: they chose the plants to test based on what they could find at a random garden shop in Mississippi. They didn’t use pots filled with dirt - they built their own pots that had electrically powered fans and ducts. There’s a drawing in the report, you can make your own!

It’s definitely good to have houseplants; the more the better! But this report isn’t really of much value to the average homeowner.
You know what else is prone to ignition? Gasoline.

The article conspicuously ignores gas car fires.

I think the only actual point is that BEVs are more likely to kind of spontaneously combust after corroding? Abs that bev fires are hard to put out.
No, they got absolute copyright on the API signatures.

The court did not even question any copyright, it just assumed the APIs are copyrighted by Oracle. Than it looked for reasons why copying the APIs could possibly be fair use…

By the skin of their teeth they found some very involved and case specific reasons why Google's use of the copyrighted APIs was, after all, fair use.

https://www.bhfs.com/insights/alerts-articles/2021/supreme-c...
Why should it be copyrightable. It's just a way to calculte inverse square root. This falls under the public, in my non lawyer opinion. Such small snippets do not qualify, usually, for copyright.
'Dream Factory' by Greg Egan, 2022
Yeah, I agree I'm not justifying the coup in any way. However I fear that democracy in the region sometimes tends to produce somewhat undemocratic governments. Egypt was a pretty recent example (in some ways extremely similar to want happened in Iran ~60 years ago) they got rid of a somewhat secular dictator and immediately voted in an islamist wannabe-dictator into power. Was a western backed military coup the right answer to that? I don't think so, but I can't really think of any better (realistic) outcome.

The Mullahs in Iran didn't even fairly win the election in 1980 or 1984 making their regime less legitimate than that of Morsi's. But it's pretty clear that they were the most popular politic force in the country. They possibly still are. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if the majority of Iranians still believe that all women should wear hijabs, criminal should be publicly hanged from construction cranes and blasphemous/secular journalists should be jailed. If that's what's the point of having a "democracy" in such a country? Wouldn't a secular/progressive dictatorship be preferable (assuming it's even possibly for it to exist)?
As far as I understand, what is forbidden is not to propagate but to then sell the propagated plants or fruits, I.e. propagating plants from IKEA to give to a number of friends should be OK. This would be like saying you cannot make copies of a book you bought for personal use.
I like to call this "net negative development"! Valuable contributions to an established codebase can involve a tiny amount of code but a massive amount of understanding, so it's easy for a developer to clean up more in old code than they add in new code.

There must be a point where this doesn't hold as well - new feature projects or, especially, newer projects themselves - where adding code is more correlated with value.
Anybody with a blog claiming to be a journalist could get verified, I saw plenty of verified accounts that were nobody scammers.
ya. i use them when I need to delete duplicates and there is no pk.
The algorithms do seem wrong. I get this for a DFS on an empty map [0]. And the A star doesn't appear to follow any heuristic during the search.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/AvUMxLQ

edit: Just wanted to add in case this is more of a frontend demo than a pathfinder demo, it does look beautiful and the search animation is more intuitive than similar demos I've seen. And runs fine on my phone.
https://simulavr.com
ive come to think that if you open source your code, u should only use MIT. ie. make it a gift. because once your code is just out there in the open, you cant pretend you still control it. suddenly you're dependent upon lawyers. thats icky. i mean anyone could be using this guy's code to do something against the license, and dude would never know. well, if you give a shit, maybe don't leave your code sitting in the open on a microsoft server? either set it free, or don't.
Federation is fine for groups of like minded people who want to discuss topics in echo chambers. That might be most of the discussion that happens online. It's absolutely fine.

However we also need a public square online. One where anyone may speak and anyone may respond and challenge the ideas. A place where anyone can put their claims on the record. It's not a place for sharing holiday photos. It is a place for public figures, journalists and politicians. Twitter has already been moving out of this space with it's various 'snowflake protection' policies and I hope Mr. Musk can restore this public square and strengthen it.
They're suing for breach of license, because CoPilot copies code and omits any mention of the source license, which they claim is not within Fair Use.

You can read the complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23264658-github-comp...

It's a bit .. odd. Seems to be partially a complaint, and partially a code review of the couple of examples they cite. Not quite sure what the point is there. Other parts are clearly copy-n-pasted with minor changes from Wikipedia without attribution, which is funny to see in a document basically claiming that's what the other side is doing.
I read the article. And, unlike the blatantly biased article, I used my brain cells too.

"India has chosen to increase imports of Russian oil ten-fold,..."

These numbers mean nothing if we don't know the absolute numbers. So, for example, if India was buying <0.1% of oil from Russia earlier, it would now by buying < 1%...

In any case: India has slowed down purchases from Russia now: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-India-Is-Suddenly-...

They have always maintained that they have a large population to support, and will go for the cheapest option out there.

BTW: there is nothing stopping countries like Germany and USA from opening their checkbooks and subsidizing Indian oil purchases to help them buy more Saudi or African oil. Nothing. Don't expect a country with 1/10 the GDP of the US to harm its economy to fight someone else's war.
It's hilarious how overly specific that case of the imagination is. Would it make any difference if it were a GAP instead of a Macy's? Maybe Macy's burns better.
The blue squares show the nodes it checked, and with A star the entire map shouldn't be blue on an empty maze.
BigCode project is coming and it gonna be opensourced the same way stable diffusion is.
It’s a very complex setup, mechanically and electrically, and yes does expose you to both battery and flammable liquid issues.

It’s amazing it isn’t more of a problem, frankly.
Absolutely. Please, enough suffering. I can’t imagine what the families of prisoners must be going through right now. It’s a nightmare. I really hope Jadi is freed soon.
Funny how it's "Microsoft GitHub" when something bad is being said about it. But it's just "GitHub" for positive things.
That one seems a bit cumbersome. Drawing schematics and drawing layouts have much different hurdles in terms of performance, it would definitely be a fun challenge. :)
Twitter is a huge source for retail data science when it comes to sentiment analysis about products and brands.

That ecosystem is quite fragile and pretty much the one reason that brands to advertise or are active on Twitter despite it’s having by far the lowest conversion rates and by a long margin is that it’s a platform where advertisement and brand engagement sparks conversation the most and the Twitter commercial API makes is easy to get access to all the tweets and analyze the data.

And this is really their entire value proposition they are pretty much the only platform where you can show an ad or actively engage with customers or potential customers and get immediate feedback that isn’t just a binary yes/no on the conversion.

So not only does this hurts them on two fronts as reduced advertisement and brand engagement reduces the value of their data considerably it’s also going to quickly snowball once only a handful or major brands drop it since the value proposition would completely collapse.
There's still a lot of confusion about what exactly this service entails. The Reuters article itself says, "It was not immediately clear how or if Twitter planned to verify the identity of the user beyond charging a fee." From the little I read of Musk's tweets, he isn't making clear if existing ticks will need payment to remain; whether ID verification will be the same as before; whether ticks received in his system are only active as long as you pay the monthly fee; etc.

I think the key product direction here is that he wants to prioritize responses for paid customers, so he's going for some kind of "pay to play" model. It's not about the blue check really as much as seeing if enough people believe in getting "prominence" on the system.

Ofc, it's BS that he talks of the old system as "lords vs peasants," when "pay to play" is pretty much exactly "lords (with money) over peasants." :) He just means, "power to money" when he says "power to people," which ofc runs 100% parallel with his libertarian ideologies so it's not a surprise that this coming from him.

It won't change the Twitter that people use to connect with their specialized circles - like, if I follow a bunch of bicycling enthusiasts, or DnD players, or economics professors, etc. But if you are following some trending topic, like #Free<name of country> or whatever, you'll now see more tweets from paid accounts.

Is that worse/better? I have no idea!
care to name any in particular?
Breadth-first search with a binary tree maze resembles how a lightning finds its way to the ground.
Possible dupe of previous discussion two days ago, 501 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460970
WestJet says system-wide outage impacting operations
Do virtual particles, such as those said to surround an electron, exist?
I’d be curious to see a couple examples.
I can personally vouch for Renoise, having put more than 800 hours into the program. Stable, FAST and very, very versatile. Together with the tracker view you get a mixing panel per channel and you can attach multiple effects, sends and whatnot, just like you would in any other modern DAW's mixing console.
Out of curiosity: Which change in Rails broke a part of your system? I am also interested since I use also Rails.
Mastodon is an interesting case because it was a splinter of Twitter but it basically had the same moderation policies so it was the same thing and imo had no appeal of its own. Now with Musk it's possible that things will change in Twitter's policies so Mastodon may become useful, but we'll see.
Very well done. Looks so nice with elevations, trees, shadows and even infrastructure details.

Hooked the lat/lon fields up to my encyclopedia project. Example:
https://conze.pt/explore/Bern?l=en&t=link&i=Q70&u=https%3A%2...
>I don't know what this means? You seem to be suggesting that code in a statically typed language cannot be debugged?

You don't know what it means probably because you don't have experience with C++. These types of errors are littered throughout C++. What you think I'm suggesting here was invented by your own imagination. I am suggesting no such thing.

You talk about strawmen? Literally what you said can be viewed as an aspect of deception at it's finest. I literally in no way suggested what you accused me of suggesting. Accusatory language is offensive. Just attack the argument... don't use words like "strawman" to accuse people of being deliberately manipulative here. We both believe what we're saying, no need to accuse someone of an ulterior agenda when ZERO motive for one exists.

What I am suggesting here is that there is an EXAMPLE of a statically typed language that is FAR less safe and FAR harder to debug then a dynamically typed language (C++ and python). This EXAMPLE can function as evidence for the fact that static type checking is not a key differentiator for safety or ease of use or ease of debugging.

>Debugging is in fact usually easier because you can rule out the type errors that can't happen.

You don't get it. Type errors that happen at runtime or compile time contain the same error message. You get the same information. Therefore you rule out the same thing. Type checking is only doing extra checking in the sense that it checks code that doesn't execute while runtime checks code that does execute.

Python was programmed with sane error messages and runtime checks that immediately fail the program and gives you relevant logic about where the error occurred. This is the key differentiator that allows it to beat out a language like C++ which has none of this. C++ does have static type checking but it does little to make it better then python in terms of safety and ease of use.
U.S. speeds up plans to store upgraded nukes in Europe
If it does matter to the conversation then it's evidence supporting my point. I'm saying type checking isn't a key differentiator between something like JS/ruby/python vs. C++. You're implying the GC is the key differentiator.

If you're saying that you CAN'T compare the python to C++ because of the GC then I disagree. GC only stops memory leaks. That is not the most frequent error that happens with C++. Clearly if you just subtract memory leak issues from C++ there's still a usability issue with just C++.
If you are about to write a DM you will see this warning:

Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon.
Just use Brave (and don’t press any crypto related buttons if they offend you for some contrived reason)
Although a lot of people have made fun of your post, and it sounds a bit funny in a macabre way, I actually think it has more than a ring of truth to it. Programmers are essentially doing this, except that I would say that the people on top are the CEOs that know how to put a team of programmers together. But regardless, I think your description is actually eerily accurate because people are so dependent on technology, that they basically work like crazy to afford it and be immersed in it.
I think even with integration tests they should still be treated similarly - at the end of the day you are setting expectations on an output given a certain input, there’s just a lot more going on in between.

There’s no avoiding it though when you want something end-to-end, or a synthetic test. You’re piling up a whole succession of stateful actions and if you tested them in isolation you would fail to capture bugs that depend on state. In that sense, better to run a ‘signup, authenticate and onboard’ flow in one test instead of breaking it down.
The Hacksmith visited these guys as part of their Aliens Power loader project, which is pretty awesome in it's own right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3xtVxPWf6M&t=30s

Power loader project playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbncXbXlaNQdAcrYvZGGP...
This post fails to acknowledge cost of living. If you work in SV, you're going to be paid well just because of COL. I've seen programmer jobs only paying 50k (in the US, at large companies, in 2022), all because of low COL.

Why is it that there's all this griping about salaries when PMs, EMs, data scientists, etc make similar pay in a similar COL situation?

COL aside, imo SWEs could make twice as much and it still wouldn't be adequate. Apple's revenue per employee is over 2 million, their median SWE comp is probably only 1/8th of that

We should unionize
Yeah, I want that to be a mistake because even after watching Musk be so impulsive over the years I
have trouble believing he’d do that so rashly.
Like the AIM -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement
is this new Oracle vs. Google?
The Not All Scotsman Fallacy
Is it repelling or camouflage?
> The only access patterns where the linked list should be expected to have an advantage are...

Exactly my point: such access patterns exist.
APL is both dense and succinct, which both reduce code size. 'Regular' languages would be shorter with APL's semantics.
In other words, "Free speech doesn't always help so free speech can never help."

Look, we're not gonna find common ground on this. We'll just have to build a new, decentralized internet, and then you can keep Facebook.
A cursory search on Google yields four results pertaining to the "confediverse". Being such a niche I wonder whether it's wise to label technology with such contrieved descriptions.

I think it would be useful if you could explain the anatomy of such a term?

My reading [1] on the matter indicates that it can't be defined as a fediverse because the content is not owned by individual posters, indeed if I were to post something on a mastodon instance, I do not retain sole ownership of the data - a moderator could delete it, and thus "censor" my opinions. But I question, is this a true critisism? And does federation require each client connected to a distributed node to in it's own right retain absolute sovereignty over the content posted on that federated instance?

1: https://evbogue.com/howtosavetwitter
It's a poor article. Their top reference is a Fox Business screenshot.
DIY Van Building with 8020 Extruded Aluminum
The Ruby `minitest` API used to have a way to disable non-deterministic test ordering, but it was intentionally named in a condescending way: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/minitest/Minitest%2FTest.i_suc...!

I sometimes run into issues not so much due to order dependencies specifically, but due to tests running in parallel sometimes causing failures due to races. It's almost always been way more work to convert a fully serial test suite into a parallel one than it is to just write it that way from the start, so I think there's some merit in having test frameworks default to non-deterministic ordering (or parallel execution if that's feasible) with the ability to disable that and run things serially. I'm not dogmatic enough to think that fully parallel/random order tests are the right choice for every possible use case, but I think there's value in having people first run into the ordering/race issues they're introducing before deciding to run things fully serially so that they hopefully will consider the potential future work needed if they ever decide to reverse that decision.
Artwork Representation for Cultural Analysis via Information Theoretic Measures
Yeah _0ffh's point makes sense on the path found. But even if it finds a path that is basically one horizontal one vertical line, it should still check the immediate neighbors only.
I just have such a hard time trying to understand why DeSo hasn't caught on. Seems to solve every single one of these problems in a more elegant way. What am I missing here?
Crowdsourcing bridge dynamic monitoring with smartphone vehicle trips
The only information there resembling 'formal permission' is this quote -

>On June 10, 2012, Lakota elders ritually blessed two new South Dakota Army National Guard UH-72A Lakotas at a traditional ceremony on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Ceremonies like these happened often over the past several decades.
Operation Musk Ox
This comparison of Twitter to some fantasy public square will never stop bewildering me. What was the global public square before Twitter? When did we have a place where every person on the planet could freely express themselves?

This is just a purely imaginary space which for some reason even very smart people keep bringing up.
People kinda forget that before Starlink we had... Iridium. Which cost an arm and a leg for Internet speeds that my kids would call "Dad, why isn't Internet working?" It was just about enough to get in touch with the rest of the world when in some silly places far away from civilisation. When you need one you need one.

People never stop to be amazed even for a second for the amazing things we have nowadays and how cheap.
Layman’s summary: http://espresso.economist.com/be4643feaaae118029d54ad7d18803...
Yeah if it's really shared code. But if you're just trying to factor out small redundancies that are only implemented a few times and could diverge in the future - then no.

I'm a big fan of WET - write everything twice. Then maybe the 3rd of 4th time worry about creating some new abstraction to share code. It's so much easier to add an abstraction later when it becomes obviously needed - than to remove one when you find out your three things actually need different variations on the lib code.
It’s all internal, unfortunately. It essentially cobbles together markdown documents into a processing pipeline that ultimately makes a PDF. Pandoc does a lot of the heavy lifting getting it all into Latex before PDFing. We have lots of quality of life features around figures, findings, and all the things you expect in a professional report. We use Python doit, and other things to sequence out markdown fragment assembly. We have plugins for processing tool output into markdown and it will run Python and R files that generate markdown as a part of the processing pipeline so you can programmatically generate any content your heart desires. Just to give an idea of tooling :)
If you want to bring a suit, you have to register the copyright. You can have someone infringe upon your unregistered copyrighted work and all you have to do to sue them for that is to then register the copyright after the infringement.