skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works in a single purpose function.

And consider this example:

[
h1 “items”

if List.isEmpty items then
p “No items”
else
ul
[
for item in items do
li [ item ]
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]
In the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script you can find references from 1971 and 1982. I find it hard to understand how this could be "an enormous discovery" in 2004. Nor do I understand the numerous mentions of European colonialism in the article.
Thanks a lot for your comment! This part in particular

> the only person they are obsessing about is the main character to them, themself

seems obvious in retrospect.
A couple of year ago I applied for a graduate position at a prominent Canadian university, and was accepted, based in numerous factors (like publication history, work experience, and academic program). But a few months later, I got a notification that I had been cut: my GPA was too low. My university in Australia didn't even have GPAs back then 1990s-2000s), and it was a very hard marked program (maybe 5% of the class would get over 90%). H3 was a solid pass. But I was competing with people who had just finished undergraduate and master's studies in North America, all of whom had almost perfect A+ GPAs.

The worst part is that it reveals that universities believe their own bullshit. In fact, believing the bs seems to be a strategy for career success.
Steve is gonna subtweet you so hard for this!
Other sources for everyone's enjoyment

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309136628_Avoiding_...
This myth was disproven by Andong on YouTube. He found a NYTimes article from 1975 about sushi in Japan that included salmon.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/1k4x9FrD5k4?t=668

Edit: Andong also specifically talks about the Nichirei deal.
> Imagine that I tell you I live in Vegas and that you don’t think that you would like living in Vegas.

I wonder why it would ever be necessary to “push back” against someone’s choice of place to live. The friend in this hypothetical isn’t trying to get you to move to Las Vegas; so why insert your values and preferences into the conversation out-of-the-gate? Would it not be better to simply ask questions about your friend’s experience there? Otherwise, even in the most benign option presented in the post, it comes across as a form of status assertion.
It's impossible to get people to agree on what OOP is exactly, but almost everyone agrees that hiding/isolating mutable state (inside objects) is an essential part of it. Just google "what are objects in programming".
"Big is cheap and small is expensive? What a country!"
It's not your corpse. It's a corpse, you've left it.
This is standard practice, but some vendors are inexperienced.
Please, stop doing that. You won't get anywhere by saying all other major projects that occupy the same space as Bitcoin are scams. You're not helping bitcoin by doing that. You're not convincing anyone that bitcoin isn't crypto; it's the first crypto, and frankly it's been superseded by other FOSS projects like Monero and Ethereum in various places. Either all of crypto is a scam, or we have to take things on a case-by-case basis. By using this Bitcoin-only logic, you're just turning more people over to the former position. Many of the best innovators in the scene have been working on anything but Bitcoin for a long time.
I’m fine with the current mini but need to be able to use three 4K displays. That either means using some kind of hack to do that or buying a Studio. Or waiting for maybe a Mini Pro.
Metro was wonderful on Windows Phone and tablets . Garbage on the desktop. All Microsoft had to do to suppress the outrage was give people back the start menu on desktops like Windows 7 and allow a setting to turn on tablet mode if auto detection didn't work.

Instead, probably because at that time they brought in people with no history in the Windows org to manage the Window org, we got a 10+ year decline of Windows that has accelerated in recent years.
My team builds frontends in Elm and backends in Haskell and we experience the opposite: FP made the code very easy to reason about and plugging things together is easy too.
All in one Stable Diffusion environnement dedicated to music animations[video]
Stay for Pay? Companies Offer Big Raises to Retain Workers
"solved problem" I don't think this word means what you think it means
I’m a full-time RVer, and I usually travel with my wife, two boys (4,6), and two German shepherds. Space is premium in our rig, and I could never go back to not having an RV slide out.
Knowing the basics is still far removed from demonstrating self-sufficient capability at civilizational time scales. How many successful, isolated biodome projects are there? My understanding is that every one so far has failed. Theory ain't practice.
Also non-sensor applications: https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/
The Moon is not a useful launch site for projects elsewhere unless a lot of the mass comes from there (ie, lots of fuel or the mission itself).

You lose a lot of dv by stopping mid-trip; this isn’t like pulling off at a rest-stop.
> For example, if you port numeric libraries are you sure you maintain the same guarantees for numerical stability?

But your test suite would catch any issues, wouldn't it?

You have an exhaustive test suite for your important numeric libraries, right?

> If you are porting containers, do your new backing-array growth strategies achieve the same efficiency as using realloc? Do your new threading primitives have equivalent efficiency on all of the target architectures?

The benchmarks suite, which is part of your exhaustive test suite, and is guarding against performance regressions would catch any issues for sure!

You have a benchmarks suite to protect against performance degradation, right?
What?

> I'm not sure where your 8e9 number is coming from. Population doubling every year but the parents leaving the planet after mating?

That's the current human population.

> In your calculation, after 1000 years, there would be 2^40 humans, each weighing 100kg - many orders of magnitude less than Mercury's mass.

You start with one human, I didn't. What are you even imagining that I'm describing, Adam-only parthenogenesis?

> Still, if we give it a few thousand more years of exponential growth, you will eventually reach such masses.

Even with Adam-only parthenogenesis, log2(8e9)*25 years is 822 years, less than one, definitely not plural, millennia.

Material science isn't my field, though it doesn't need to be given how many other places there are for whichever chemicals we want. Water? Oxides in the local rock, and four massive hydrogen gas giants (don't need much proportionally as H2O is 89% oxygen by mass).

> I very much doubt your energy calculation as well, but that's already beside the point.

Gravitational binding energy of Earth: 2.2e32 J; Mercury: 1.8e30 J; Mars: 4.9e30 J; Luna: 1.2e29 J

Luminosity Sol: 3.8e26 W

Time required to explosively disassemble (i.e. each part reaching escape velocity) each object: Earth: 6.6 days; Mercury: 1.3 hours; Mars: 3.6 hours; Luna: 313 seconds.

To preempt the obvious, yes I know that's the number for total luminosity and not the power available at any given moment given how many space habs have been built part way through the process, but that makes very little difference: Given the way the functions behave, you don't need most of the power of the sun until you can harness a significant percentage of it anyway.

I mean, this toy model also assumes that the only thing these humans do with their lives is reproduction, with the average individual adding only a little more than their own body mass to the VN swarm each generation, and not, e.g., building themselves a nice little space hab that's unlikely to mass less than 10,000 kg/person even if I make the grossly simplifying assumption of just adding life support to a tiny house or a camper van. It makes very little difference to exponential growth.
In my experience, many people wanted to be friends with me after a talk. I don't know why, but my guess was, most other people they talked to weren't good with conversations.
Is America Suffering from a “Social Recession?”
It's certainly no use in recruitment. I would look more at the curriculum content and project work, and use that as a basis to ask interview questions.
These quotes, at different times by different people, have been juxtaposed to make it seem like the developers are associating the elevation of the sun with climate change. Here's the quote in a more honest context, explaining why they expect the phenomenon to subside shortly

https://www.ft.com/content/82196b28-13ec-11e3-9289-00144feab...
Why are they so into XML? Move on to json or yaml please
Existence and prevalence are not the same thing. Perhaps the title should replace “not eaten” with “not commonly eaten” for maximum accuracy but that doesn’t make it a myth. I’m sure I could find an American restaurant serving squirrel, but I’d still say squirrel is not normally eaten in America.
>What exceptions do is enforcing that your working set does not have to encode any erroneous states, preventing the combinatorial explosion of states, which of course is a net win, there isn't really any valid argument that can be made against it.

A combinatorial explosion of states is not a bad thing. Integers in C++ for example have 4294967296 possible states. Programming is not descending into complete chaos just because one of the fundamental types has more possible states then the human brain is capable of handling.

You're describing using exceptions as a catch all fail-safe. It's isomorphic to the the "else" statement in your standard if-else structure which is one of the techniques people use to handle the 4294967296 possible states of int. See example code below on this amazing technique I use to deal with 4294967296 possible branching possibilities:

if(x == 0){
// do something
} else {
//handle all 4294967295 other states.
}

>Where people are debating is that sometimes you do want errors to be part of your working set, in which case you shouldn't use exceptions. But choice is difficult for some, especially those seeking absolute doctrines.

In every other engineering field you do want this as part of your design. You want to know about every possible state your system can be in and handle the states explicitly. Unknown states that are not explicitly encoded into an engineering design is typically a Bad thing.

That is not to say you should design your system and not acknowledge the possibility of an unknown state. You need fail-safes like exceptions to handle these unknown states. But make no mistake, it's not good to have fail-safes regularly executing to catch a bunch of states you failed to encode into your system.

A good example of this is corrected design of the MCAS on the boeing 737 max. The MCAS should not use a fail-safe handle the crash modes we are now well aware about. The MCAS should explicitly be encoded with our knowledge about the new possible error modes. I certainly don't want to sit in a plane where this hasn't been done.

I will also say that much of programming doesn't need the level of safety other engineering products need. Shipping products faster at the cost of quality is something unique to software as the quality can be improved AFTER shipping, so that is not to say your way of using exceptions to catch unknown states (or states not explicitly encoded into the system) is completely wrong; but is certainly not best practice or ideal.
This dynamic is also why it is worth continually pointing out the badness of bad people. It’s not good for our society if we allow people to build this idea that “negative feedback from everyone around you is a good thing, actually.”

It’s very often not! It’s very often evidence that you’re an asshole, liar, or cheat!
It's pretty obvious that someone threatening the profits of major car manufacturers, gasoline producers, aerospace contractors, and Russia is going to get dragged in the media. The article was sparse on actual details. I'm pro union but that doesn't make UAW awesome or a bunch of angels. I never see the same amount of outrage for the companies that fought EVs, better gas mileage, and every safety feature ever introduced. Hyundai had an Alabama subsidiary that was caught with foreign 13 and 14 year olds working there and we hardly hear a peep. Spare me the "Tesla is the great evil" BS. Any company of its size will have similar issues.
I'm in the same boat. I have no problem with the processing speed of the Mini but I want to be able to drive my 6ft of monitors on my desk. Right now I'm using a hackintosh, but I'd switch in a heartbeat if I could
Doesn’t the reduced gravity make a huge difference compared to launching from Earth? Is this not the biggest factor? (Zero expertise here, genuinely curious)
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210583.
It's not particularly a "bug", it's more like an antipattern.

Do you concatenate strings to generate SQL queries from user input? Of course you don't, that's just asking for a SQL injection attack, everyone knows that.

Similarly, if you make a concave shiny thing and face it south (at least in the northern hemisphere), it'll focus the sun's rays. I find it hard to believe that the architect didn't know about focusing light, given that they'd have to have at least passed high school and this is the sort of thing you do in 1st year Physics. Any 12-year-old *at the oldest* knows this.
These are already exciting, but the music really takes it to the next level.
Turning it off and then on again
I take your point. I was thinking only of steering without drive traction.
You're conflating recoverable errors (Result in Rust, status codes or std::expected in C++) with the non-recoverable errors (panic in Rust, exceptions in C++).

If we were to compare Rust panics vs C++ exceptions, then handling of Rust panics is much less flexible. From what I understand, it's essentially a std::abort and it can be hardly used otherwise, which is only a subset of how C++ exceptions can be commonly used too.

If we were to compare Rust Result vs C++ std::expected, they boil down to pretty much the same with the difference of Rust requiring the call-site to unconditionally check for the return value. That may or may not be preferable in every situation.

> they don't need to pay the runtime cost of not-thrown exceptions that C++ users have to pay

Had this been true, which in 99% of cases it isn't unless you can support your claim, do you mind sharing how Rust implemented their zero-cost panics?
There's a theory that these kinds of hard problem solving creates new technical solutions to similar, albeit easier problems, so sustainability of life on Mars may provide solutions for sustainability of life on Earth. As it happens I believe in this theory so I think developing for making a self-sustaining colony on Mars may be worth the extra effort.
RTEMS on Nintendo DS [pdf]
Here we go again, misinterpreting me uncharitably. I never said it was a fallacy. It's a weak basis for an argument.
The State of Play in Ukraine
Exactly, if we were to listen to such tales (or similar ones by penny pinchers), we would still be hitting rocks to make fire in our little caves. Venturing beyond is an amazing way to enrich our knowledge graph.
Coincidentally, I started doing this two weeks ago. Daily journaling helps me a lot with overthinking and anxiety. The thing with my daily writing is that I don't have any structure or things I force myself to write about. I just write about what's on my mind and feel the need to think about. So, at least for me personally, the Google form and a plethora of things you have to write about seems overkill. That'll just make it harder to stick to the habit and overthink it.

If you overdo the part of planning your next week you can fall into the trap of having a bad day and decide to do nothing for the rest of the week, because you think you've failed already so why even bother.
>> Ethnic homogeneity is a smoke signal

The Kenyan soccer team doesn't have any white players. Are they racist?
It’s not quibbling over definitions but over causes. Vaccine development has always been and will continue to be relatively slow compared to COVID due to lack of commercial incentives.

Insofar as there is any progress made on vaccines in the absence of strong market incentives, it’s due to government funding, not benevolent capitalists choosing to take on decades-long loss-leading blue sky research projects.

The approval happened quickly not because there was some crazy regulatory overhaul but because drug regulation is always a cost-benefit analysis. In this case, the vaccines themselves worked phenomenally well, their risk profile was extremely good, and the costs of doing nothing was extremely high.

It’s not strange for drugs to conclude trials early based on strong early data and strong patient need, just most drugs in most scenarios don’t meet that bar.
Prosciutto amico mio, grazie!
So does this mean the British Police will be screening financal industry executives who deal in derivatives and credit default swaps for signs that their gambling addiction is driving financial crime?
I think so too. It makes me wonder why they don't update all their apps to look like W7 or Windows 10 instead of changing their design language with every release.

I'm sure there are some technical reasons there, but I suspect it's also the result of poor judgement.
I don't think that would make a difference considering those cars replace the transportation of others
Cameras in classrooms might help.
Which is exactly why Buddhism is for losers. No one wants to be the Dalai Lama. If standing by helplessly as others dominate you is supposed to be the highest example of holiness, then it is quite simply rotten. It got closer than the Abrahamic religions because it teaches you to accept what you can't change, but it teaches this at the cost of giving up the will to change the things you want to change that DO bother you.

Of course the things I do are a choice. Everything is. I chose to restrain myself for a good 10-11 years and it was utterly miserable. Why would I desire relationships I do not need on the condition that I do what I do not want? Makes no sense.

I don't expect anything from anyone aside from treating me with the same respect I treat them. If I am not welcome somewhere, I have no problem leaving. Being myself alone is far preferable to being someone else with a bunch of people who will never be closer than acquaintances.
So then what is the significance of Mickey Mouse copyright expiring..?
I am aware of https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/
I had a similar experience at a mid-sized nonprofit. We would get generous pricing from vendors with reasonable terms, then the next time around I would find we were 5 months late paying them. The internal answer was "cash flow" and "well we wouldn't want to pay them too quickly", or worse "they shouldn't be complaining, they got their check much faster than X"
That's not quite true. The Event Viewer has always had filtering and search and it's mmc-based. They could easily iterate on the Services UI and add that too instead of just building something completely new that has no new functionality and doesn't improve the interface.

I'm tired of Microsoft actively making things worse instead of actually improving what they already have.
By lunar space elevator I assume you mean an elevator from the lunar surface to the point where lunar gravity is practically 0?
If your use case allows for a web API, I've had good experience running OpenTTS[0].

It packages several models, including Coqui AI's TTS which I tend to use the most. There's a handy Docker image, too.

[0] https://github.com/synesthesiam/opentts
Tools don't often help you understand maths, but obviously help you to solve problems.

There are plenty of areas where tooling is rudimentary or unfashionable, like programming, where the tools are like chisels and saws used by artisans.
The "they" when they say "they" created the modern world is not the membership of the organisation, but rather western civilisation/culture.
That's kind of what I mean. It's just a mechanical equation and that's how I understand it. They are all ratios, but is that all it is? what insight can I get from that and why do I care about its application in the workforce? when would I ever need such functions? etc...
> though I'm not sure they have precise definitions

Of course they don't. These "paradigms" like OOP or FP are just human made up terms _without any basis in theory_. Sometimes they can be practically useful when communicating with other humans, like we do now. But more and more people are starting to realize how meaningless/nonsensical these categorizations are (and always have been): FP vs OOP, compiled vs interpreted, static vs dynamic, etc. We might as well categorize languages based on the colour of their mascot.

See this for more https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/duplicates/6xt...

The closest thing to the definition of an FP language that I was able to come up with is "based on the Lambda calculus". Haskell is, Scheme is, F# is. But e.g. Scala isn't, it's fundamental building block isn't functions but objects. But many people do consider Scala to be an FP language.

So let's all be aware of the limitations of these (pseudo-)concepts.
Yes, Mett is more of a (north-) german thing, you wont really find that in Austria.
> everyone installs pick resistant locks instead of cheaper alternatives.

What geographic area? In the northeast US I've noticed that the cheap, easy to pick locks seem to dominate.
Doesn't help against a common attack possible for all reasonably modern luxury cars (which happen also to be the most interesting targets).

For these cars it's enough that the key is near and it is considered a feature that no user interaction (like pressing a button on the keyfob) is required. This can be exploited by relaying the signal from the original key to an attacker who is near the car. Cryptography alone cannot protect against this attack scenario (which is called a "relay attack", not to be confused with a "replay attack").
The northernmost part of Canada is Ellesmere Island. Which is almost as large as Great Britain. There is no "you may not settle here" international treaty.

Wikipedia gives the entire island's population as 144 - all of them at a military base. [Edit: Vs. a population of ~61 million for Great Britain.]

Actual daily life in the high arctic/antarctic is nowhere near so desirable as many people want to believe.
This reminds me of 750 7th ave in NY. A lot of Morgan Stanley IT was (is?) houses there. Rumor had it the building design was copied from a building in Texas.

The problem? The beautiful terraced glass surfaces had a tendency to pick up snow and ice in the winter, which as it melted would then tend to slide off the building and crash into the sidewalk below. After heavy snow storms they had to cordone off the sidewalks so pedestrians weren’t speared to by giant icicles falling from the sky.

Lesson: environmental context matters in building design. But even big time architects can goof in big ways (see also the Citibank building debacle).
Boy, that video is really another proof that youtube* is a great invention. Kudos to "System of levers" and all the creators out there showcasing their passion with talent and enthusiasm.

*or any user generated video platform.
I don't understand why that is a concern. Whether some microorganisms live or die because of us ultimately is of no importance. What we should concern ourselves however, is any risks posed by them to us.
I love this exchange.

It's about what you'd call "hard SF" and one side calls their argument a "solved problem" :-)))
OOP is successful despite of itself. My point is it’s just an inferior way of programming and there is no reason to use it other than legions of OOP programmers who take it as gospel. Obviously this is an opinion but it’s informed by lots of experience in new and legacy code bases.