skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a strong factor.

Someone has tried to sue Oxford university for failig to attain a first-class degree.

Luckily the courts disagreed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42974641
This may be true for checked exceptions, but certainly not for unchecked exceptions.
> the latest round of systems programming languages which all use error unions instead of exceptions have demonstrated quite clearly that exceptions are actually quite pointless.

What they have actually shown is that error unions are not a panacea and a pain to handle manually. And that hardcore killing your app in the presence of even the tiniest of unhandled errors isn't suitable for any programming, especially systems programming.

That's why Rust ended up introducing try!, ? and catching panics. Go also added panic recovery.
The Mac and the iPhone are like a 100ft yacht and a cruise ship tied together.

If the cruise ship sinks, the yacht might be a great help - or it might get pulled down with it.

Luckily, the cruise ship doesn't show any signs of sinking at the moment.
From the project's readme:

>Please do not use the public swarm to process sensitive data. We ask for that because it is an open network, and it is technically possible for peers serving model layers to recover input data and model outputs or modify them in a malicious way. Instead, you can set up a private Petals swarm hosted by people and organization you trust, who are authorized to process your data.

This is what blockchain and staking tokens is for. (Part of the reason, at least)

You act maliciously, the network slashes your stake. "pinky promise not to do bad stuff" only goes so far... and it's really not far at all. You can trust "trusted" organizations or private individuals, but they have no incentives to ensure that the service works as intended, regardless of intent.
Warning: only 499,999,999 years.
Not to mention enable a lot of industrial processes to run +- like on Earth, until we have microgravity equivalents, where available.
Grade inflation is never the fault of students as they don't set the conditions of the course. They merely participate
You seem to be confused about a couple things, so...

> That's a much better reason to throw out a case compared to "he should have been tried in Brasília".

I agree.

That said, the matter of jurisdiction comes first. The justice acted correctly and fixed the overarching vice in the process by sending it to Brasília. It should never have been tried in Curitiba, and if you think he's guilty of all those crimes, you should have joined the chorus of the crowd who just wanted justice to run its course in the right way and pushed for his case to be sent to Brasília in the first place.

He was politically tried in Curitiba against due process, on top of all the other vices.

Brasília should have been where they would then review everything else, but alas now it's too late.

Ironically, Lula, his lawyers and his supporters have been all along the ones pushing for him to actually face justice.

> It's hilarious to watch a supreme court judge (...) say that actual judges aren't "competent" to try Lula's case.

You also seem to be confused about what _competence_ means in this context.

What they said is not that Moro is an incompetent judge. This has nothing to do with his ability to do his job.

_Competence_, in this case, means that his court was not the correct jurisdiction for the trial. Nothing more, nothing less.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609137698404700161.html
I agree that unfortunately a lot of crypto projects are way too tokenomics centered, instead of utility centered.

BitTorrent style projects are far more restrictive for a lot of applications though. If something is without cost, then it becomes open to abuse.

Take domain names for instance. I would love to have a decentralized name registry, so that no country have censorship power on the _whole_ internet, as we've seen with recent US intervention at the tld level.

DNS is a good example because it's quite trivial to implement with a plain old DHT. The problem though is how do you prevent scammers and squatters in this model?

There needs to be a cost on a distributed database, otherwise after 1 year it will be fully squatted, used as free hosting, store illegal content, DDoS'd for fun, etc.

How to set this cost though, while keeping the distributed nature of this database ? the simplest solution is to let the users decide, over the price of a token, sold by people running nodes, bought by people using the service.

Honestly I love this idea. The problem with crypto currently is that a whole bunch of parasites jump on these tokens to speculate on their price without giving a.. about the underlying utility. This completely screws the price optimum and creates a inflated price bubble, in turn preventing adoption.
So if you're the stereotypical rich foreigner who wants to invest in real estate here, what's the stop them from incorporating a company locally, and then having that own the house(s)? And that's just one workaround I can think of in the first 30 seconds. As with all well-intentioned simplistic schemes, this will hurt normal folks - immigrants who don't have their paperwork sorted out yet - and do absolutely nothing to the big $$ driving home prices up.
A former coworker mentioned a prior job at a major food manufacturer. Apparently somebody realized they could mail the checks from across the country and still adhere to their payment terms. The extra day or two in the mail was worth pretty big money for the minimal effort required.

I understand the rationale behind cash flow management, but I've always been a bit annoyed at the games around payment terms. It just feels like a chain of all companies lagging payment to suppliers while expecting (or hoping) for prompt payment from their customers. I'm curious what the world would look like if everyone was expected/required to pay within 2 weeks of services rendered?

You might have payment terms agreed upon, but a megacorp has no issue delaying payment an extra 60 days and will cut a check for the original amount without agreed upon late fees included. Then a smaller company is left trying to manage the relationship after their margins are arbitrarily slashed.
Why would you possibly want to eat raw chicken? It has an abysmal smell when raw and goodness me, the Spanish (and everyone else) have it right. I'd refuse raw chicken and I try pretty much everything.
I left California near the end of last year.

I’d say crime was my # 1 concern, the high cost of living was #2, and the general dirtiness of public places like mass transit, sidewalks, etc was #3.

Breaking down the cost of living, the biggest single issue was high taxes (not just on income but leading other things like food, gas, and other goods to cost an additional 50% or more than the same items in Colorado, where much of my family lives. Housing is also a significant additional financial burden.

And what do you get for that cost? A place where restaurants put passkey locks on their restrooms and entire aisles of goods at CVS are locked behind glass barriers.

The proximity to both the ocean and the mountains is great, but the cost/quality of life tradeoff isn’t very competitive, except possibly for the wealthy.
That "ongoing discussion" is largely a small group of extremely loud people in the defensive tooling space who keep getting clowned on that their expensive products don't work.

While the offensive side keeps innovating and improving, defense seems to have stopped bothering and instead is resorting to twitter trolling, pissing, and moaning.
Really large (GPT-3-sized) language models have much more parameters than diffusion models, so it's difficult to load them locally unless you have a server with 8x 3090/3x A100 GPUs. Petals is the only way to fine-tune and inference 100B+ parameter models from Colab, as far as I know.
What makes anime music sound like anime music?
I think what you’re describing is just a natural part of growing up. It’s well documented that folks tend to be more radical in their political leanings when they’re younger.
Not if you want peer acceptance and not be dismissed as a mere CS student.

It's acceptable to download your brilliance into something such as, say, CAYLEY/MAGMA [1], [2] but, obviously, once you start grinding the organ [3] and using it algorithmically for computation you're just another monkey . . .

[1] http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/conferences/london93.html

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15582-6_...

[3] http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/
“Functional Programming—When and Where”
One could make an argument by comparing the effect on productivity by either replacing the worker or the machine. When workers are readily available (and machines are designed to make workers replaceable), it doesn't matter what a time-transplanted peasant would do.

The required skill level when using older tools and processes (welding and other building processes) is typically higher than with modern tools. This makes workers more replaceable today.

Modern tools make productivity less dependent on the skills of workers. It's not a moral argument, just a fact that explains the observed phenomenon.
Apple doesn't want you to know this but they do their mechanical and electrical design on Windows PCs (using Siemens NX and OrCAD respectively)
> Not sure why you keep conflating the two.

I didn't. I merely said that _common sense_ doesn't say that Lula should be in prison, and it never should - as you rightfully said, the bar for putting someone in prison is higher than popular vote.

I then proceeded to say that common sense does say he should be in office. He was, after all, voted in.
Exactly! This is why it eventually would need to become produced locally.

It's not entirely unlike an overseas colony in an inhospitable but not empty place. Start small and dependent, develop the land around you and become autonomous.
Look what I got - Develop an intense relationship with a single food and become its biggest fan.
There's new units on sale every week. Alternatively, buy a second-hand one.
My preferred mode of work is to spread information asynchronously but to discuss it synchronously.

Remote work has finally made it possible for me to be better at synchronous collaboration with others (edit: changed from "pair program"). Rather than being forced to work in a distracting open office, I finally have a private office.

In the past, conversations about code tended to only happen asynchronously during code review, but now we are having them while work is in progress and for code review and it is a lot more productive for us than asynchronous. When you do a synchronous code review, you still need to put in review comments so that others can understand what is going on asynchronously. These comments won't be the full conversation- instead they will be a summary- sometimes you will end up omitting useful details, but it reduces the text overload of asynchronous.

In the past being in an open office environment meant that collaborating with someone always risked being rude- disrupting others with our conversation. This would sometimes be handled by using a meeting room, but this still isn’t as good as just both of us communicating from our offices.

For synchronous remote work It’s crucial to still work with people in similar time zones.
Snow Plowing by Bicycle
Was born and grew up in Colombia so can answer a few Qs about culture if you'd like.
The size of the bicycle tires are also important, and the air pressure. I changed to a fatbike without metal studs this year and now I can bike with very low pressure. Normally around 0.5 bar when bumpy and slippery, it works like a charm as long as it's not smooth ice covered with snow. The tires shape themselves around all the cracks and bumps and gives tracktion almost everywhere. The old bike with thinner wheels didn't have as good comfort in winter even with new studded tires because I could not ride it at that low pressure without getting damages to the rubber.

I live in an area of Sweden that has ice and snow at least 4 months per year. Still thinking of buying studded tires for the fatbike but want to see how I'm doing with these, the rubber is nice and soft even at -20 degrees so I think I might be good enough with this solution.
I think this is based on AI classification, so I'm not sure how reliable the answers are.

I got a full OnePiece episode, in Japanese, that was classified as "Danish". Doesn't inspire confidence into more similar-sounding languages
Isn't this very US-centric? or is it true in europe as well?

We French have the worse schools in europe according to PISA, where we score around the same as the US. According to data, too much emphasis on grade, too much pressure, school is mostly good for children who already do well (we would rank in the top if only the top 5% was ranked), but bad for the rest. Interestingly, we also have on of the higher teen suicide rate of europe.

But we do not have as much bullying issues as it seems US have if i read the comments right. Or at least did not when i was there, nor when i was a youth camp counselor, or "speaker" in school (i brought science experiments, gears and stuff for 6-11yo and did cool stuff with an association). I don't remember any isolated kid when i was in middle school, and i guess in highschool "I" was the most bullied kid at the start of the year (playing violin in the school boarding facilities when the school was 70% technical/trade and 30% generalist do not help), but i mean, people overall were great and the education team helped me past the first few months until my natural charm and bad jokes did the work and offset the out-of-tune sounds (joking, but not entirely).

Are those hn comments representative of the overall bullying in public school in the US?

We do have bullying in France though, i don't mean to say we are good on this point, and from what i managed to understand in my few years around the education system, those who have the greatest impact are the directors (school or youth camp). A good director will have meeting with this team where he talks about children with special needs, or children who are especially needy ("attention whore" is the special term internet came with, which says a lot about how charitable and nice we are with each other naturally), and help professors or counselors manage those needs. With permanent emphasis on this, the "bad elements" are peer-pressured into doing better (in my experience as a counselor, but its probably the same for teachers). Those with the second greatest impact are people at the departement of education who allocate budgets and basically decide how many children per teacher. Teachers themselves are a most third, at least 5th behind parents and the community.
I don't know. I feel a good conversation should be more equal: are the views of your conversation partner 1.5 times more important than your own?
> Shouldn't such students be expelled from school immediately?

Very strong "get off my lawn" energy here.

Yes, students (and people as a whole) should be respectful to those around them who're working to help them progress in life, but expelling a student for expelling student from school for giving the middle finger or being rude is extremely disproportionate to their action and doesn't address the issue at all.

This very post sets up the premise that adolescents have been missing out on valuable social interactions due to the pandemic - Do you really believe that ostracising them further will help that in any way?
> enables the enforcement of strong invariants

My experience has been the opposite. Ensuring exception safety in a type that has nontrivial move/copy operators (that is, a type that for whatever reason can’t follow the “rule of zero”) is often a research-level problem. Not having to worry about that in Rust is such a breath of fresh air.
Nice straw-man argument. Eventually, you will understand that bitcoin is not crypto. There's bitcoin and there's everything else. Everything else is a scam. Bitcoin is the hardest money ever.
Yep we talked to FE and they were great, but most selling processes require doco, finances, code review, walkthroughs, hand holding, explanations etc. “write down all the shit you’ve just known or learnt in the last 8 years” to make some multiple of revenue (not necessarily >1), with no guarantee of the sale closing and having to repeat.

Too. Hard. That plus the complexity of other things in our lives to deal with means that some $ just to see through a sale isn’t worth it.

The software is the thing we built and a testbed which we cut our teeth on, and learnt so much, took that knowledge and folded into other newer projects an incredible platform for learning and iteration, but we’ve moved on to bigger and better already so don’t too feel bad about turning it off (it was our first baby tho..).
> "Tortoise produces quality results with limited training data, but is an extremely slow model that is not suitable for real time use cases"

What would run if you had large set of training data (and time and money) but your focus is on quality? Still Tortoise?
Eye-opening essay. I think this should be essential reading for any investor or business owner.
I'm sure you're doing great IRL! Capitalist cultures select for sociopathy.
Add to this that professors seeking tenure benefit from high enrollment in their classes, and nothing spurs enrollment like the reputation of an easy A.

The only solution I can think of to all of this is to maintain a second number along with GPA, which is a weighted average of averages in every class the student took.

Earning an A- in a course where the average is a 2.5 becomes more valuable than getting handed an A in a course where the average is a 3.9.
Why was this comment flagged? C++ haters... really?
Yes, and as I've learned the hard way, even a bootstrapped one-man-SaaS can use cashflow tricks to run a much more successful business.
By unlimited power you mean space solar farms built from local resources, right ? ;-)
I think of it more as an outdated distinction. First of all with motors on each wheel and no communication between front/rear in many cases, the distinction becomes blurry.

Further many manufacturers have names like “AWD” (volvo and others) or “4matic” (MB) or “4motion” (VW) to label their take on more-than-2wd, whether or not their variant is awd or 4WD (or both) in the traditional sense. Some "AWD" models will be electric with 1 motor per axle, or 3 motors (1 front 2 rear) etc. Some others are ICE with traditional drive shaft to the rear wheel axle, which in some cases will drive 50/50 and in some cases variable. Others still are hybrids wth no prop shaft but instead a rear electric motor etc.
When you really look into what's available, there's a fair bit of variation in the market for different customers, but there's incredibly few 5k+ displays at 27 or ~30 inches. Like zero if you discount the LG. Everything else is kind of ok, but not always a good replacement.
> is probably the greatest humiliation ever imposed on the people of Brazil

I find having a science denier with fascist overtones to be worse, but alas I'm not trying to say how I feel is how all the people of Brazil feel.

> I barely have words to describe how it felt to watch this guy be sworn into power yesterday.

Me neither, but probably for the opposite reason.

I do have Bolsonaro and Mourão to thank for the beautiful ceremony where populars representing all background passed the Presidential sash to Lula though. Had they not been so cowardly and vindicative, one of them might have been there in place of all those beautiful people. That was a ceremony which is going to appear in history books for decades or centuries to come!
This is example how outdated UI looks like, which is not pleasant to use for me.
> wow, Musk Derangement Syndrome is real.

The underlying serious point of these light-hearted jokes is that Musk's demonstrated approach to technological questions will not solve the challenges of keeping people alive without access to the resources of our biosphere for years at a time. This challenge is arguably more difficult even than building rockets.

You inadvertently proved a point of the article: now we are arguing about Musk and not about the technological challenges of getting to Mars.
> fractions of whole numbers. The horror!

I mean you have to either handle numerical error or rational numbers. In any case fron a numerical analysis pov, it's a pain
How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
Except there’s no intention to deprecate Earth and replace it with Mars. Not a rewrite, just new parallel development. Should we never start new software projects at all? All the code ever written should be in one repo (probably in FORTRAN)?
I find that pair programming requires a high degree of psychological safety for people to try it and an even higher level for people to actually enjoy it.

I'm pretty sure that by default remote work with a low level of face time leads to lower levels of psychological safety.
I loved Alpha Centauri when it came out. The terrain height system and being able to terraform the planet made it so much more interesting than Civilization (you could raise mountains to create more fertile land on one side and dryer land on the other, leading to some interesting strategic approaches, for example)

It's sad that id didn't receive more favorable reviews and maybe a successor or two
Now, get trash collectors to put bins back on the cars. Maybe it is easier where he is.

Going out to do that yourself is a pretty small chore.
> Of course you can pretend that the curves were built in order to focus light and blame people for it.

No one said anything of the sort and I cannot conceive how anyone could possible think that they did.
Zig is usually seen as a 'better C', not as a 'better C++'. Whether this is actually the case is debatable though (some of Zig's features are 'leaking' into the territory of higher level languages such as C++ or Rust).
Your case might be outstanding, surely there will be a situation where this is perfectly applicable, say you need such an app where utility prevails over the design, or maybe your html5 game works perfectly in the web view. For sure, you can take one of the custom browser solutions, and release a new browser just for your page, but it is not RN use-case, just use Flutter in this case
>> Due to varying protocols and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death, the number of confirmed deaths may not
accurately represent the true number of deaths caused by COVID-19.

How can this then be "confirmed deaths" if they themselves state it's not possible to accurately determine them.
Every car is no wheel drive when there is enough slip

> So called "all season" tires are not snow tires.

Fun fact: US "all season" tyres are sold in EU as summer tyres.

You want to look into "all weather" tyres. The good one are rough equivalent to cheap winter tyre and decent summer tyre. It's still not worth it IMO if you're driving a lot but after COVID I drive little enough that I wouldn't get thru 2 sets of tyres before they rot away.
Honestly, this devices just misses a speaker and a microphone. It would make for the best phone ever.
To have your own AWS TTS, which you can run offline and for free.
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Not being able to stop it entirely doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Increasing the hurdles that need to be jumped through will be off-putting to some who would have otherwise went down this road, and provides the state with more avenues to actually have control over foreign buying. Immigrants who don't have their paperwork sorted out yet shouldn't be buying homes imo. Get your ducks in a row.
> But it was this week renamed the Walkie Scorchie

Laughed out loud at this one
> a bored billionaire who ran out of ideas to impress the news.

Uh no, this has been one of his passions for a very long time. It’s the reason SpaceX exists:

“Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, first presented his goal of enabling Mars colonization in 2001 as a member of the Mars Society's board of directors.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program