skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. In my limited experience, the Tarot ”reading” is more avout drawing into the subconsiousness of the subject. The person doing the reading is more like a guide.

This works, as we repeat patterns in our life, like getting romantically involved with partners who have same kind of traumas. We must know these patterns subconsciously, otherwise we could not repeat them.

The reading then can, at best, bring into consciousness these subconscious patterns. When we become conscious about them, we can stop repeating them.

So if Tarot reading is succesful, actually the ”reading” becomes false althought it would otherwise have been true.
I’m super conflicted on Musk. His stated aims are admirable, and I used to think very highly of him. He’s clearly a smart guy who’s executing on big things most people aren’t (or at least weren’t) even considering.

Sadly the way he goes about that is less than ideal. Tesla keep selling vapourware features and releasing things that are actively dangerous. Boring company was mostly a ploy to distract from high speed rail (which would reduce the need for cars). The Twitter takeover has been a debacle so far. SpaceX are about the only untainted venture here, and my understanding is they’re not run day to day by Musk, with staff spending inordinate amounts of effort to keep him happy and out of the way of the real work.
Seems like this is only applicable in China.
That reads better than regex, but at that point, why not just use parser combinators? At least for me, whenever I want something more complex than a basic regex, I go for a parser combinator library. Maybe that's what's happening under the hood anyways? I don't know Julia well enough to know.
Capablanca Chess
NiFe batteries last for decades, I agree that would be the best choice for the battery type.
Obsidian app on my phone.
Yeah, but (on mobile at least) that's just Falcon 9 ride-shares to [SSO, LEO, polar], not dedicated Starship to the moon.

Starship is supposed to be cheaper, the moon is definitely more expensive.
I have been thinking of getting a FT subscription to complement my subscription to The Economist, but 69 USD per month?!?! Holy shit, I don't think so...
C++ for starters, would already be an improvment, provided string, array and vector classes with bounds checking, get used instead of raw C pointers.

Alongside RAII for resource management.
Infant gene therapy is a breakthrough for Artemis-SCID patients
> the time when forth was a solution has long since past.

It depends on the problem.

If it's education, I'd argue Forth still has a place. Writing a Forth compiler is a manageable project for a single developer.

Restricted resource creative projects, in code and other mediums, may help with teaching and creativity. I don't have research on that, and it isn't my idea, that credit should go to multiple others.
Rtgs are quite common already indeed and will likely be a part of the solution. But it's a stretch to call nuclear the only contender. Cables are a perfectly valid way to move power around from areas that do get solar exposure. And there are plenty of ways to create batteries or store energy. It might even be possible to use resources on the moon to build those (e.g. a heat battery would be doable).

The key limitation is going to be transporting stuff from earth. Solar panels have a key advantage here: they are pretty light and easy to deploy. There's no wind or weather that will dust them over. And per launch, you can move some significant amount of power generation.
The topic is briefly touched on in the book: "In search of stupidity". Basically the NetWare kernel wasn't actually developed by Novell, at least not initially, but by a team from a company called Superset. As described you could suggest things to the Superset team, but they wasn't actually someone your could order around, partly because they weren't even employees for many years. This team completely ignore customer demands, and focuses solely on technical improvement that have little real-world tie-in.

The book is "In Search of stupidity" by Merrill R. Chapman, this particular topic is covered on page 173-174.
It's Not Easy Yet
Indian rupee ends 2022 as worst-performing Asian currency
My question is more geared towards the "who" is actually calling the shots? Is it just HR, or does it escalate up?
We dropped an entire feature from our product because of this crap. We had a sidecar java process that handled certain PDF conversion tasks, but the lack of in-house java wizardry meant that we couldn't trust that small binary with regard to a spiraling vulnerability situation. Our customers were very nervous at the time.

Making something work in Java is easy. Proving it is secure is not.

It is almost certain that we over-reacted and shot ourselves in the foot with this, but our customers were happy with the way in which we responded. Better safe than sorry was the theme throughout.
I think that the difference between fact and opinion is the strength of your defense.
> Actually, no, this wasn't a Kuhnian change of paradigm. Why? Because a Kuhnian paradigm shift requires that the two paradigms are incommensurable. And that's not true for relativity vs. Newtonian mechanics. Relativity contains Newtonian mechanics as a particular approximation (low speeds and weak gravitational fields). So Newtonian mechanics is not incommensurable with relativity.

I don't think that's an adequate analysis. Newtonian mechanics to General Relativity was indeed a Kuhnian paradigm shift because it required giving up simultaneity, messed with causality, and did away with the notion that space and time were simply an immutable Euclidean background on which particle interactions took place. Instead, spacetime was itself malleable by the entities that inhabited it, and was described by hyperbolic geometry. All of these were tough pills to swallow and required significant revisions to how people thought about reality.

That Newtonian mechanics is embedded within GR is one data point to consider when deciding whether something is a paradigm shift, but it's not the only point that matters.

By your argument, quantum mechanics was also not a paradigm shift because it reduces to classical mechanics in some limit due to decoherence. I think any interpretation of Kuhnian paradigm shifts that excludes arguably the two biggest revolutions in science, ever, cannot be correct.
It’s mostly semantically very poor to be honest. C really is a nicer assembly in a lot of way. It’s extremely limited. You have branching logic, functions call, pointer arithmetic, a way to define data structures which are really memory layouts and that’s pretty much it. I guess you can appreciate that as an aesthetic statement but what you wrote would apply equally to any language with more complex semantics.
Another fun resource for browsing the built-in colors: https://enes.in/sorted-colors/

And discussion from when it was posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26503572
alright you've sold me on testing this idea out
Need to know more about Intel Management Engine and ability to disable it before I could vote.

Most importantly, the two bits showing whether or not one can have:

* Intel ME Region Write Access as enable-able

* Intel ME Region Read Access is enabled

Both are useful for MEBx/IME to be cleaned out or disabled.

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/Internal-flashing-w...

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/Internal-flashing-w...
I use Obsidian[0] - but find the mobile app a bit clunky for quick thoughts. So I have Craft[1] which is lovely and I was using as a temporary home for "just thought of thing" type ideas.

But - someone recently pointed me to Quick Capture [2] (AFAIK iOS only) so I'm trying that. It's mega quick and a good way of getting something down with zero friction. I'll then copy stuff into Obsidian later when I've got more time to structure.

[0] https://obsidian.md/
[1] https://www.craft.do/
[2] https://quickcapture.xyz/
C has enough UB of its own, no need to bring C++ into the picture.
What is your heuristics based on?

Quite often though, you know a little about some thing. How do you adjust your heuristics then?
What about the job that I started two months ago, should I expect to work there by December 2023? If the US was founded in 1776, how long will it still exist?
Is this the answer you received?

Q: do human races exist?

ChatGPT: The concept of race is a social and cultural construct that has been used to categorize and distinguish people based on physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair type, and facial features. However, the idea of race is not supported by scientific evidence.

The human species, Homo sapiens, is a single biological species with a common ancestry and a shared genetic history. While there are physical differences between people, these differences do not align with traditional racial categories and do not reflect fundamental biological distinctions. In fact, the genetic variation within a racial group is often greater than the variation between racial groups, meaning that people who are considered to be part of the same race can be more genetically diverse than people who are considered to be part of different races.

In other words, while people may be physically distinct in various ways, there is no scientific basis for dividing humans into distinct racial categories. Rather than reflecting biological realities, race is a social construct that has been used throughout history to justify discrimination, segregation, and other forms of inequality.
What do routine dependency updates look like with this? Can I `bundle outdated` and `bundle update`?
> Sure, SQL is only educational or not programming.

> There seems to be a lot of programming going on in the world generating a lot of value which you wouldn't recognize as such. Excel uses a terminating (and therefore not computationally complete) dataflow-based evaluation model but it's in no case programming. Are you sure?

I think this is not the most charitable reading of your parent. You're taking it as if they definitively rejected SQL and Excel as programming languages and arguing from that, rather than that maybe they didn't think of them. I think it would have been easy to make the case for SQL, Excel, and even (ir)regexes as programming languages without taking a sarcastic tone. For example:

> I'd think, telling a computer "if you recognize a pattern described as such, replace it with so and so", just regex with replacement, sounds very much like programming to me. Very weird where you draw the line.

could easily have asked instead, where do you draw the line?—which would surely be a more interesting discussion.
The name dates back to the 1800s, when most countries were still on customary measurements (the meter existed at this point, and indeed the "international foot" has been defined in terms of the meter since 1893, but SI was still 70 years away).
This shouldn't be downvoted. C++ is a superset of C; it must be capable of being at least as "brutal and honest" and "abstract and deceiving" as C.

I would argue that C++ can be dramatically more deceiving than C --- see inheritance and operator overloading, just to name two.
yeah he got called transphobic because he says "they" for singular is ambiguous and a new word instead would be clearer.
What is on your reading list?
You visit regularly, like blogs, articles, newsletters, etc.
684k worth of eth sent to mixers and non-kyc exchanges. Presumably the next step is USDT to cash somewhere.
It might have been the prevailing sentiment... of all the Microsoft-subsidized trade rags. I just keep thinking how differently "computing" might have evolved in the mid-to-late 90's if other companies had gotten into a spending war with Microsoft for favorable coverage in the press. It's a tradition that Gates continues to this day with his foundation, and which others seem still yet to learn.
I keep count! If I know I had 4 ideas on a run, I can usually bring them back to mind if I focus. Even holding my fingers in the four position with one down helps. Sounds a little odd but I’ve found I do my best work while walking the dog/going for a run and can’t usually make notes until I get home.
Makes it just less readable in my opinion, learning sql isn't all that hard.
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Looking for feedback on this...
I like how they gently say "this is a step in the right direction".
He says something like

>"if you want to write new program in C now think long and hard and pick something else"

I would not use plain C to write enterprise backend servers. I happily use modern C++ for that.

For some very low power microcontrollers however I absolutely would. Amount of high quality free tooling and libraries beats everything else.

From a practical point of view: I've written enough firmware for very lowly microcontrollers like AT90USB1286. Runs like a charm (oldest for 10 years already), did not not require even single bug related update and zero complaints from customers. Changing the language in this particular case would bring no benefits but extra expense.
The server / client access license side, other than Remote Desktop / Terminal Services (which I assume is because of licensing with third-party developed code) has trended “softer” over the years.
This is what gpt3 gives me about Stallman-Minsky controversy:

> In September 2019, Stallman resigned from his position as president of the FSF and from his position as a visiting scientist at MIT after controversial comments he made about the allegations of sexual assault against Jeffrey Epstein resurfaced online. Stallman had previously written that the allegations against Epstein were a "gossip campaign" and that some of the women who accused Epstein of assault were "entirely willing" participants. Stallman's comments were widely criticized, and his resignation from MIT and the FSF was seen as a response to the backlash.

The same twisted representation that most media gave. While in fact, Stallman, in fact, never said the victims were intirelt willing.
State management library tailored for REACT-NATIVE
Personally, for my close friends I just keep an informal page on iOS notes (or what have you) that I update with ideas I have throughout the year. Mostly, these ideas come from conversations with them, where they mention off hand something they’re really dying to get or speak about a passion they have. I try not to delete these notes and let them grow over the years I know a friend, so I have a long list of ideas to pull from whenever I want to get them something.

As a band aid solution, if you have someone or some people you want to get gifts for in the immediate future, I used ChatGPT to help generate some ideas for gifts for a friend of mine this Christmas. I just described the friend, their passions, etc and asked the AI to give me some ideas for gifts. From there, I had a good base to work off of. Taking the human element out of the act of giving something to a loved one is very 2022, anyways.

If you’re not into having a robot help you figure it out, my go-to categories for generic gifts are: cozy / comfort (eg lounge clothes, blankets, space heater), booze /wine, home decor (paintings, framed pictures, whatever).

On the topic of framed pictures, my girlfriend has this disposable camera, an old school Kodak. It’s small enough to fit in her purse so she tends to bring it out with her whenever her and I are on a date or going out with friends, whatever. She took a bunch of the photos she took over the past year and had them developed, then put together a little photo book album spanning all the stuff we did in the last year, which I found very sweet and very thoughtful. Kind of like Spotify wrapped, but less music and more pictures.
Conceptually I love this idea. I love the idea of them being able to build AWS/GCP/VM images of the same thing even more. The place it falls down for me is that for it to be truly valuable everyone on the team needs to be bought in, and Nix is in my experience not the friendliest of tools. I have nasty images of the build breaking and everyone just being baffled by it, which is certainly an issue with Docker as well, but at least Docker is just running some shell commands during build.
In such cases I'd normally apply Hanlon's razor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor ) but this security gap is really huge and rather obvious if you have an informed look at the code.

So this is one of the cases where I'd personally would not be surprised if in the far future someone admits on their death bed that malice was involved.
There's people that claim they are impacted for days by vaccinations. I generally notice a little tiredness. I don't care to argue with them about whether they are actually impacted for days, but if they are it certainly changes the comparison vs being a little tired for part of a day.

And clearly people don't care to avoid the flu, vaccination rates are pretty low!
If you can’t do that stuff right now with today’s CPUs, in sub-realtime, then throwing more/faster CPU at it won’t make it possible.
You might be interested in the essay by William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness", about the : https://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wildernes...
DM myself on Signal, further writeup when I get home.
What would be the benefit of porting IPX/SPX to Unix? Netware already ran on TCP/IP.
>There's nothing elite about being a programmer at any of the big tech companies. It's software engineering and design. It's the same everywhere

I just can't agree with this. I have worked with tons of companies and generally, the "sweet-spot" is new mid-sized firms. There is a considerable difference in quality, on almost every metric when working with a bad firm. I've worked with a Fortune 10 company and it was one of the worst applications of "software and design" I've ever seen.

1000 layers of bureaucracy and relatively bad salaries. I'm not looking to speak ill of anyone but we shouldn't pretend you can hire an army of top notch SDEs for bottom of the barrel pay.

The result is a mess.

>I've worked with some of the highest ranking people in multiple large tech companies. The truth is there is no "elite". CTOs of the biggest companies in the world are just like you and me.

I can certainly agree with this in a sense. Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody is "genius" like you see in movies. However, there is a difference in skill and experience (save nepotism or pure luck). If you want to say we all have the same potential, I 100% agree. As it stands though, if you took the "average" developer and I mean truly the _average_, not skewed by personal experience, the average FAANG dev is going to be "better."

I mean, look at how many programmers can't fizzbuzz.
In party conversation parlance, I think the sentiment was common. Microsoft was actually subject to a monopoly decree, they invested in Apple to prop up a competitor, they were eating the lunch of workstations, and we were years away from the "Year of the Linux Desktop". Probably many HNers were part of the other side -- running the workstations, installing Linux, excited about Netscape, but Microsoft felt like a Goliath. That they were eventually humbled, now we live with many Goliaths.
I think T-shaped people are usually specialists-turned-generalists, for example good software developers who later on became managers. As a manager you have to be a generalist, and you usually have hundreds of small tasks, so no deep dive in one topic, but surface level in many.

In my experience these people are definitely better managers (unless they suffer of old physics prof disease), but I don't see the large benefits for more specialised roles. The more I switch to being a generalist, the less I can actually deep-focus, and talking to friends and colleagues, it doesn't seem like I'm the only one.

That said, interest and curiosity about other fields, especially the ones you actively work with or neighbour is probably always a great quality to have.
But then why not cover the adjacent area with crops and sod the vertical farm, solar panels, grow lamps, wiring, and all the costs, construction time, maintenance work, etc. and just have a farm?
I will never understand why a regex in Java still reqires metacharacters to be escaped despite the recent addition of raw string literals. Talk about stuck in the Stone Age.
Unfortunately, this will make things even more confusing due to the amount of existing data in various state plane projections (almost all of which use us feet).

Then again, feet vs US feet is something you get very aware of very quickly as soon as you're working with geographic data. It's just that sometimes folks garble metadata and you're left with something that claims to be one, but is therefore offset from it's real location by large distances, and if you don't have things to compare it too, it can be very hard to detect incorrect metadata.

Either way, us feet are going to be with us for a long time. E.g. we still have (rare) things like "German meters" too. (Edit: I was thinking of vertical datums and Swiss maps, not German.)

The core issue is that when you are working with coordinates with absolute values in the millions, tiny differences in basically identical standards really accumulate.
Local aluminum will be cheaper, and stonkin' high voltage will be needed to combat the ohmic losses. The 'atmosphere' on the moon is rather extremely dry, so corona losses shouldn't be an issue, you could probably run north of a megavolt w/o too much trouble.

Now, you could lay both conductors in parallel and only need to build the power line half-way around the moon, probably save some dough on prospecting for and constructing pylon sites that way. Alternatively, you could run a single conductor all the way around. Doing that, you could establish a lunar scale magnetic field, though it'd probably be pretty wimpy unless you ran serious kA (MA?) of current, which would mean much bigger conductors etc, but it's fun to think about. Heck, with a loop that big, you'd probably get significant induction from the solar magnetic field .. which might be something to harness, or might just be a headache for your line operators.
nose breathing is a must in tai chi
>SQL was meant to be like readable english

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS and CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS are counterexamples to that statement. Notice that suffix operator IS NULL is present in expression part, but these statements do not use that kind of grammar.
Using YouTube is legally not an option here due to Privacy Act of 1974.
Yes, this topic is peak HN.
> See also the indent/dedent region commands on the Format menu.

So not even you are reading the documentation?

And if IDLE is not good enough for students, Komodo IDE exists for 20 years, VS and VSCode also do a quite good job, PyCharm, as do Emacs and vim.

It isn't as if the alternative JavaScript and Go code is being written without adequate tooling.
> If mere internet traffic will "rip your life apart" - that is a police state in my book.

Exactly. Anyone who thinks the US is not a police state has not been paying close enough attention, because the standard for getting a warrant is much lower than this. Moreover, cops will exaggerate the circumstances to get questionable warrants, and being served will absolutely ruin your day if not your life.
Definitely on topics of sexual nature and sexuality, ChatGPT gives very biased “liberal” responses about it being ok for someone to explore their sexuality and eroticism and such. These are incredibly controversial and biased responses even from a US standpoint. I don’t think it’s ready to be a therapist yet; at least it needs sensitivity training to adjust to different users’ values and expectations.
Poor oral hygiene is linked to heart disease too
A coastline 100M years ago influences modern election results in Alabama
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Algunos personas de HN se reunirán hoy a Falling Piano Brewing Co desde 4p-6p. Esperemos que puedas unirnos!
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