skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your hard work making my favorite programming language even better.

I completely agree with all your points on significant whitespace for programming languages. Where I think it makes a lot more sense though is for structured static data. My quality of live would be worsened without the likes of Haml, Sass and YAML.
Still not quite making the link between "feudal lord" and "pettiness" (both seem equally subjective/vague).

By "total control", do you mean well beyond the boundaries of labor law? In my mind, I'm admittedly inclined to interpret this color as a consequence of the music stopping at an unprofitable creative house with an internal culture of unabashed freedom on someone else's dime.

Maybe I just need to read the books mentioned by the parent sometime.
Can you expand on this? Prepending spaces (or tabs) to strings is one of the most basic operations there is, so that can't be where the difficulty is. Keeping track of what the current indentation level should be also seems like something that any tool which outputs source code already does.
A lot of late 20th century legislation has focused on eliminating corruption and taking all affected parties into consideration.

The practical effect has been the establishment of very complex supply chain management systems in all levels of government.

The outcome has been a dramatic increase in the cost(monetary and bureaucratic) of doing business for government.
The New Yorker and the Publicity Stunt
The tl;dr is that he takes a bunch of stereotypes about men and women and asserts they're biological/intrinsic, and spends most of the document using pseudoscience and weasley language in a preemptive attempt to couch any blowback. (Perhaps undermining the idea that this was a learning opportunity & that the author did not anticipate a strong response. He explicitly mentions in the beginning that he anticipated a strong response in public and support in private, go figure.)

If you're looking for a single "gotcha" quote you don't really find it because the document is a fortress of wordy CYA. I think the only thing to say is normative statements like "women like people and men like things because women are wired to raise children" is post-hoc justification of the roles society prescribe for men and women, not some kind of truth bomb that's too hot to handle. People use similar arguments to the ones in this document to justify differences in pay and representation between races as well. It's a well worn path in sophistry to justify the status quo.

In the interests of fairness, I'll highlight a part of the document I thought was fairly insightful.

> Feminism has made great progress in freeing women from the female gender role, but men are still very much tied to the male gender role. If we, as a society, allow men to be more “feminine,” then the gender gap will shrink[.]

I think framing this as "men becoming feminine" is patronizing and prefer instead "allowing people a greater range of self expression, with men and women able to take on roles and personality traits traditionally reserved for another gender if they choose to (eg, there's no reason to highlight men becoming more feminine and not women becoming more masculine), as well as being afforded the opportunity to adopt non-binary genders previously considered to be invalid." I think it's underappreciated how men's gender role can be stifling and how men and women should both support the cause of feminism to achieve better outcomes for everyone.
Too small and it's not worth the paperwork. Plus, you run into regulatory problems once you exceed 500 investors or so.
I'm reposting an old comment by myself, with some small introduction to make it more relevant:

In spite your idea is not impossible, it would be very improbable.

One trick is to look at the features that are common between eukaryotes and prokaryotes, and try to guess which one are inevitable and are common to any life form in the universe, and which ones are essentially random and each life form would get a different random election.

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Nobody is sure, but if you allow me to guess ...

Perhaps DNA and RNA are inevitable, or at least they are the easiest solution for they problem they solve. I guess even the same sugars and some nucleotides. The only variation on Earth is that some parts of the DNA are methylated, but it can be added and removed. There are some weird bases in the RNA for very special task, but my guess is that they will use the same main bases. I'd not be surprised if alien has DNA and RNA that is chemically identical to us (but in other order).

Even proteins are probably inevitable. Here there is more wiggling room. We use 20 amino acids, but there are like 5 more weird amino acids that are mostly modifications of usual amino acids and are made after the protein is formed. For example collagen uses a lot of proline that is a normal amino acid, and also hidroxyproline that is a modification of proline made during the creation of collagen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen#Synthesis I guess that the list of amino acids used by aliens will be slightly different. Perhaps between 15 and 25 instead of the 20 we use. Perhaps also some replacements. But perhaps the list has some special property we have not discovered yet. I don't expect a smoking gun here to determine if aliens are unrelated to us.

The most interesting part is the translation from DNA/mRNA to proteins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code It's a translation from the 64 combinations of 3 bases of DNA/RNA to amino acids. It's almost blocked, so there are 16 blocks with 4 options in each one. But some blocks have small changes. We know like 20 versions of the small changes. The 20 versions are very similar, they are not very different. So it's possible to make changes in this translation table. The most interesting part are the 16 blocks. As far as we know the elections it arbitrary, like a frozen random initial election that was inherited by all of living things on Earth.

So the first thing to check in an alien life is if they translate in the 16 blocks the same amino acid that we translate. I'd be very surprised if this is the case. My guess is that it's almost random, and any election is fine, and each independent alien life will have a very different initial random election.
ZeroSharp is done by the same person as bflat (me). These ZeroSharp samples get broken all the time because they bend the MSBuild targets that ship with .NET to an extreme. Bflat is a more supportable route and has a couple extra customizations to the compiler specifically for these scenarios.
I've worked with two blind programmers and a blind content producer for a kids TV website.

All were very capable at their jobs and all three were blind from birth.

I've also worked with a deaf programmer and with one who wasn't able to type for more than a short period a day and had to use voice recognition software (and this was about 12 years ago). They got in fine too.

Adjustments needed to be made, but they were all hired as they were capable. I can't tell you how or where they learnt to code, but they learnt and all gained meaningful employment.

Unless you have particular knowledge or experience in the area, it might be one to keep your opinions to yourself?
golang has a wonderful solution
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Also how the V30's 8080 emulation mode was implemented. I wonder if it's "just" some clever microcode or if it required substantial extra die area. It was a great way to run most CP/M software (the exception being software for the Z80 which used LDIR etc which the 8080 lacked and the V30 therefore didn't bother emulating).
1000 generations into the future? People to whose genome you contributed 2^-1000, i.e. almost nothing? Who know neither your name nor care about it? Like you don't really care about your ancestors 1000 generations ago? Or 100,000 generations?

I don't get it.

Basically: Let's face it, when we're dead then we're dead. That's it. You have your life. Trying to achieve some sort of immortality or higher purpose by creating offspring is just as futile as praying or paying some quack to help you with afterlife matters.
I agree with you both...

But saying that, I don't actually use it any more, and these days, I'm finding even Linux distros uncomfortably bloated, and I'm looking for lighter ones... and trying to work out if FreeBSD would be a usable desktop OS.
I also find that even though it is a language inside a language, it is much easier to keep track of, because it is uses the same C++ language features instead of a special set of macro operators and semantics.
In the 3.9 release notes it says "Aliases to Abstract Base Classes in the collections module, like collections.Mapping alias to collections.abc.Mapping, are kept for one last release for backward compatibility. They will be removed from Python 3.10" but the 3.10 release notes don't really mention it. Apparently it's been emitting a DeprecationWarning since Python 3.3 (2012), but still... I like to have things "just work" even if I return to them after 5 or 10 years.
This is using Microsoft's standard libraries and compiler parts. All of .NET is MIT licensed so this kind of remixing is super easy.
If you already know a programming language and prefer a more concise tutorial you might also like this site:

https://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

It's way less verbose and more to the point.
Pharma companies have profits that are around 13% mostly comparable to other companies of the same size doing lots of r&d.
This website gave me a strong start to my developer career!
You say that like it's a bad thing.

;-)

Part of my idea of happiness on a Windows box is to look at the list of optional features and see only unticked boxes.
Sure, but that's just a simple case of mistaken identity. Impersonation is deliberately pretending to be someone. The uniqueness of your name doesn't help at all then.
Why are we using databases? Why not the blockchain? /s
Tab grouping is one way to tame the madness. I’ve tried it with the default tab groups feature in Chrome but keep loosing the groupings whenever I restart chrome. Anyone know a better grouping extension?
I think non-participation has been the standard since primary elections were established. The 20% who do reliably vote in them tend to be home and business owners, whose concern over their housing investment has increased.
The Global Fertility Collapse
Help creating an open research dataset of music captions
As a part of an ongoing research collaboration between the Centre for Digital Music of the Queen Mary University of London and the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, we are happy to announce the launch of Song Describer, a crowdsourcing initiative to collect the first open research dataset of music captions.

Song Describer is an open-source annotation platform featuring CC-licensed music that anyone can annotate with natural language descriptions. Through this platform, we aim to create the first research dataset of music-caption pairs, which will give us insights into how people describe music and support the development of audio-text ML models.

There is an increasing need for music datasets that go beyond categorical labels and we hope that our data collection efforts will promote more research on the relationship between natural language and music audio, and its many potential applications. If you're interested in this field or are curious or willing to contribute, you can head to Song Describer to read more about it and start annotating right away!

For more information about the platform's design, see the late-breaking demo presented at the ISMIR 2022 conference: https://ismir2022program.ismir.net/lbd_405.html
You can "sip" on a vape regardless of produce potency. Set the temperature to 185°C and suck gently, turning it off as soon as you taste it. Then vibe for a moment and get a feel. Increase temp by +2 degrees and repeat. This precisely avoids getting fucked up from one puff, and allows you to enjoy the gradual intoxication.

CBD, the calming, antipsychotic compound vaporizes at a lower temperature than THC, the compound that gets you high. At 185°C you're getting mostly a bodily soothe, while 230°C has you hitting the deck and spaceing out.
Make Important Things Inevitable
Wait, if it didn't use any strings, then it didn't use the print statement either, right?
Ask HN: Django vs. Rails, strengths and weaknesses?
Would love to hear from people who have built something in both.
A bully? It's business. If he can get Google to not hire people just by being tough on the phone that's a win. Costs almost nothing.

My father once worked at an electronics contracting firm. One of his co-workers who was in charge of purchasing parts was masterful while on the phone with suppliers. He drove a very hard bargain and often shouted and swore at suppliers to extract the best prices. Bullying or business?
I've broken a bunch of stuff when I tried to replace python 2 with 3.
> our bylaws are based on the US Constitution

What does this actually mean? (Could you link the bylaws?)

I find co-ops fascinating and wish you every success. And that the idea might percolate wider.
> don't know about the US but flat monthly fees are common in Europe

It's definitely still percentages, not a flat fee, and it's not limited to 0.3 percent which is applicable to you, it's much, much higher even in a debit transaction. This is why some small shops only accepts cash.
> don't know about the US but flat monthly fees are common in Europe

That's what the consumer pays; but businesses also have to pay a certain percentage of each transaction (usually 1-2% iirc) made with a creditcard.
While some have to deal with disabilites since early on, many forget that anyone can get disabilities at any point during their life, and is nice of having options to still be able to continue working on what they love, instead of living from healthcare paychecks.
2to3 was always available to do that work, for free, yes.
Oh, I see. Nice!

I'm afraid we don't have anything like ST in any Scala library that I know of :(
Oh I heard it through the grape vine, oh and I'm just about to lose my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UShiwymsX0w

Raised in that California sunshine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDqMmIqA_Ak

Huh? Wow. Must have been something I ate...
> The one improvement modern Windows has over Windows from the 90s is the lack of those godawful cascading menus that would disappear off the screen the second you even slightly missed a hover target.

I don't understand
If she's signed in to Google Drive on a computer and that text file is synced locally, it can be read by any old process that has just user level privileges. No elevation or anything tricky required.
Yes they do care, about profit that is. Doing random stuff users want isn't usually profitable though which is why I like the configurability of Linux. But if users who pay up demand something they will listen unless it contradicts with a more profitable business strategy.

> Then surely the comparison is RHEL, where companies pay for compatibility and stability, not "we <3 bleeding edge" Fedora or "volunteers maintaining a coherent system" Debian.

Unfortunately, RHEL and SLED are both targeting enterprise users, very little of that is desktop as well.

You know who else succeeded in the Linux desktop that isn't really considered proper Linux? ChromeOS on the ChromeBook.

If only these new laptop makers like purism or system76 took a similar radical approach where they would indeed listen to paying users more directly better than existing bigcorps, that would give Linux on the desktop a chance at market share gains that are significant. Then I would be comfortable gifting a Linux laptop to a non-technical user who can call a support line when having issues or needing a feature.
Do you know about Electric SQL (https://electric-sql.com/docs/overview/technical-intro)? It sounds similar to what you describe.
I think that's part of the problem with non-commercial licenses. Its very confusing what it means.

It clearly means that you can't directly sell it. What about using non-commercial work on a page with ads? What about selling web hosting to someone using NC works?

The last one sounds rediculous, but what really is the difference from a strict logical perspective? You are making money off the non-comercial work after all as without it there would be no web hosting to sell.
"Peer reviewing ideas" is a bad formulation for me.

It's about whether the discussion is general (valid for anyone) or specific (these people, here, now). The latter gives some weight to subjective arguments and arguments from authority, the former does not, and this is a big qualitative difference.
Agreed. Unicode change alone would be sufficient do to Python 3.
It has worked due to the treaty being worked out in early cold war, when both East and West were already planning military operations and bases in Antarctica - that way, neither side could have it and they were fine with it, sparing a considerable expense.

It has held in place since then by both inertia & similar "if I can't have the resources, no one can" and other resource sources still being usually cheaper to mine.
I've been getting back into C++ after an extremely long hiatus and I've been impressed by how thoroughly modern it is. The worst crime you're likely to commit these days is accidentally invoking a copy constructor more often than you want to, and even then, not actually creating leaks.

In fact, the most striking thing coming from a language like Java or C# isn't memory management at all, is how utterly non-OO C++ actually is, especially the standard library. I understand how key the zero-cost tenet is in C++, but it's very alien to be picturing an interface and thinking you'd like an Iterable<char> or IEnumerable<char> there, but having to learn about iterators and traits and concepts etc. To be honest, there are equally many functional affordances in C++ as OO ones at this point, but the native core is generic programming, which is very idiosyncratic.
The government of France kind of forced his hand. They were buying up gold at the official price.
Doesn't comr up in Google search when I need it, so.
On Saturday: Noticed that outdoors was warmer than indoors and opened the windows to warm the house. In winter!
If you really want to embrace the horror:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH0Z2OvHAd8
I love fly.io! It has all the configurations you need without getting in your way.

Load balancing, geo-replication, canary deployments, and Postgres instances/replicas "just work" out of the box.

Highly recommended!
Before fly, each additional user was costing me a non-trivial amount (I built an uptime monitoring service entirely on AWS Lambda). I managed to build a proof of concept in an afternoon and slowly move most of my architecture across in a week.

I wrote about the experience here: https://onlineornot.com/on-moving-million-uptime-checks-onto...
Ask HN: Help creating an open research dataset of music captions
As a part of an ongoing research collaboration between the Centre for Digital Music of the Queen Mary University of London and the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, we are happy to announce the launch of Song Describer, a crowdsourcing initiative to collect the first open research dataset of music captions:

https://song-describer.streamlit.app/

Song Describer is an open-source annotation platform featuring CC-licensed music that anyone can annotate with natural language descriptions. Through this platform, we aim to create the first research dataset of music-caption pairs, which will give us insights into how people describe music and support the development of audio-text ML models.

There is an increasing need for music datasets that go beyond categorical labels and we hope that our data collection efforts will promote more research on the relationship between natural language and music audio, and its many potential applications. If you're interested in this field or are curious or willing to contribute, you can head to Song Describer to read more about it and start annotating right away!

For more information about the platform's design, see the late-breaking demo presented at the ISMIR 2022 conference: https://ismir2022program.ismir.net/lbd_405.html
What’s really crazy is Matt does this while also running the Hugh Kaul Center for Precision Medicine at UAB.

Some of their recent work: https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/13224-clinical-trial-fo...
Location: Mulhouse ( France )

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Only on good opportunities

Technologies: OpenSource, Cloud, Openstack, Containers,
Network, Linux, Telecommunications, Messaging

CV: https://cvdesignr.com/p/5c3c653540848

Email: pam@mifamofi.net
I have a background building 10x10 feet fabric cutting robots. This was a trip to the past I really enjoyed. I took many of the same steps 20 years ago, robotics is my little forgotten passion.

It's only lacking a little horn so the user can make a small train sound!
I would guess that all this focus on strains speaks to the extent to the extent to which pot is just never going to be like wine.

With wine and beer, the ingredient varieties do impact flavor, but, realistically, they have nothing to do with the price a product can command. There's $3/bottle Cab and there's $300/bottle Cab. The difference in price is ostensibly down to the amount of skill that goes into the production of the final product, not just the grape variety.

I have a hard time imagining that can happen to a significant extent with cannabis. I'm guessing there's not as much room for a discerning palate to pick up on and enjoy subtle terroir distinctions in a product that you consume by setting on fire and inhaling the smoke. Nor do I see as much room for artisanal skill to appear in the final product. Making wine involves careful balancing of a variety of factors in order to fine-tune how an active biological process alters the characteristics of the final product. Cannabis? I'm pretty sure the process ranges from drying it and packaging it up in plastic baggies, to tincturing it and mixing the result into candy. I just don't see as much room for fine craftsmanship in either option.

Not saying there's none at all. Just that I have a hard time seeing how there's enough of it to support much of a very high-end luxury niche to the industry the way you see with booze.

Nor do I see it working out like tobacco where you at least have a (small) minority of cigar and pipe smokers who are primarily interested in the flavor of the smoke. But it sounds like cannabis is now so strong that it's difficult to consume any amount of it without becoming intoxicated. Which I would assume makes the development of a proper connoisseur culture around it about as likely as a connoisseur culture around 90% grain alcohol would be.
I've been trying to think of some ideas for mobile applications to build. I want to break into the mobile space in some way, but all of my ideas seem to already exist and demotivates me from actually doing anything. Maybe someday I will get out of that headspace.
They can be made economical if you have a lot of salvaged parts for cheap / free.

(As a boy, I could not have built much of the stuff I've built from 74xx ICs if I had to buy all of them new; instead, I had a bunch of PCBs from a decommissioned computer.)
Circular references have never prevented garbage collection in any version of Java AFAIK.
https://archive.is/iFxys