skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This genuinely sounds the opposite of boring to me. I'd love to read a full, detailed description of this, hacky PHP scripts included!
The author tests the seven languages python, julia, rust, c#, swift, c and nim by programming a Yahtzee bot in each and comparing them. The "winner" is nim.

Unfortunately the author only provides the code for nim.

So it is subjective based on a simple practical project (1000 locs). Unfortunately it leaves out all the other "cool kids" like crystal, zig, v, dart, d and so forth...
> Dark matter skeptics believe, in effect, that everything that interacts with gravity also interacts with electromagnetism.

I’ve been following this debate at least casually for a long time, and I’ve never heard that argument. Can you present even one example of any respectable scientists arguing that?
Can you suggest the solution to this puzzle?
Hi, I hope you are having a great day. I've got a challenging puzzle for us to solve!

50 newborn boys were born in a hospital and were kept in the same room. Due to a record-keeping error, the hospital does not know which baby belongs to which parents. There is no access to modern technology such as physical examination, DNA testing, footprints, or handprints. The parents cannot identify their children based on their cries, sounds, or other unique behaviors, and there were no witnesses present during the birth.

Furthermore, all the babies look exactly the same, with no distinguishable features or habits, and all the parents are identical twins.

The hospital needs to reunite the parents with their children, but there is no surefire way to do so as all the babies and parents are indistinguishable.

Can you help the hospital reunite the right parents with their children?
I can relate to your experience and the reason is

> Everybody who was there passed the same selective anonymous exams

My comment was targeted to the US university system where getting born in the “right”family is all you need to have access to elite education.
Fox has latched onto the tethered surveillance balloons along the US-Mexico border as a symbol of Federal attention on the trickle of people.
It's technically "paycheck to paycheck", but it's on a different level than "if my paycheck is a week late, I don't eat or my electricity is shut off or I'm going to be evicted". It's cash-flow optimized leveraged wealth.
On the topic of Conda and Jupyter, install jupyter via a virtualenv pip installation, and then to use a specific conda kernel, load your conda environment in another shell, and install IRkernel in that environment. As long as you install to the main Jupyer prefix, jupyter should see the new conda kernel.

You can do this for as many kernels/conda envs as you need
Ergotism ? There are no cure indeed but it's easily preventable, people would be dropping around you if it wasn't

It has nothing to do with ultra processed food (unless you imagine people eating raw wheat straight from the plant), plenty of people live without that, just fine, if not better actually
Cyborgism
Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: High-Tech Plagiarism, Way of Avoiding Learning
Clarification:
An LLM doesn't have a 'Theory of Mind', it just looks like one. Maybe you're thinking of the Chinese room analogy. But this isn't about the Chinese room, it's about "measuring any metric is only effective until you optimize for that metric" problem.

Analogy: An autistic person of normal intelligence who is obsessed with problems and solutions for ToM may be good at solving them but still not have ToM.

Do I understand well?
Ask HN: What visa was Elon Musk on after he initially started X?
I thought Elon dropped out of college to start X. But at that time he was on a student visa for college from SA.
As a coder, I find it a bit frustrating how often explanations in biology contain fuzzy phrases like "plays a role in" or "is required for" or "works together with" or "modulates the activity of" - without ever expected what role it plays, why it is required or how it works together.

So props to them for going a bit more into detail here - and also highlighting that the reason for the fuzzy phrases can often be that we literally don't know the details: The empirical basis may be "if this thing is removed then this other thing won't work", without us necessarily knowing why this is the case.
The Technion institute targeted by a ransomware attack
There is a fairly famous story in management of a guy in the 1960s who fought against building housing projects for the poor by tearing down neighborhoods and building big high rises.

The idea was to give more people a better place to live.

What the opponent said was you're going to concentrate a bunch of poor people in a building that neither we nor they will maintain, it will be far away from any jobs, and it will lead to more crime and more poverty.

I don't think it takes much to say that people are short-sighted and some are only interested in their own personal short-term gain, certainly no metaphor or analogy is needed to state the obvious.
Whatever works for you is awesome and you should absolutely keep doing it.

However, I have to remind others that there is really no scientific authority worth anything on nutrition. The digestive system is still far too complex to understand systematically, and statistical studies have far too many confounding factors to have true predictive power.

We of course understand some elements based either on particularly strong effects (e.g. that a deficit of vitamin C will lead to scurvy), or on very basic physics (your net weight gain is based on calories eaten vs calories consumed), but that's about it.

Even the CICO model only holds as a principle, or in highly intrusive clinical settings - we don't have any practical way to actually measure how many calories are extracted from food, nor how many calories are being consumed by your activity - especially since for anyone not doing professional sports, the bulk of their calorie consumption comes from internal processes as far as we can tell.

For an example of how little we understand of the digestive system, until maybe 10 or so years ago, no one had thought to look at the role of the gut microbiome in nutrition (beyond extreme cases, such as radiation treatments killing it off entirely). We had known for a long time that there is a significant role of some kind, but no one had taken time to quantify it, nor to look at inter-personal differences that may be attributable to it. Even today we have very little information, beyond some hints now that it plays a huge role in nutrient absorption.

For another example, we have little to no idea how diet is controlled by the brain+gut, such as what causes some people to be perfectly content with salad, others to crave meat and fat, and still others to prefer carbs and other sugars (not to mention extremely specific cravings people sometime have that correlate with actual nutrient deficiencies, leading to extremes such as eating dirt for anemia).

Overall, there is no way to follow the science on nutrition today. You have to experiment with your own body, find something that works, and stick to it.
And only three were needed for the merit badge!

https://scoutlife.org/merit-badges/programming-merit-badge/
POSIX pre-2008 had (and Linux/Glibc and {Free,Net,DragonFly}BSD still have) <ucontext.h> with proper stack switching functions, used as a fallback in a number of coroutine libraries. The fallback status is due to a self-inflicted inefficiency: they save and restore the signal mask, thus still need to go through the kernel (why e.g. Linux does not put signal mask manipulation in the vDSO, I don’t know). POSIX yanked them and now recommends rewriting to use POSIX threads instead, which is asinine.
Swift, I was once puzzled by the named function parameter,

but then notice later

func icon(forFile fullPath: String) -> NSImage

func icon(forFiles fullPaths: [String]) -> NSImage?

func icon(for contentType: UTType) -> NSImage

func with same name, can have different named parameter, and return type.

func iconForFile

func iconForFiles

func iconForContentType

Will be the alternative in every other language(paramtype overload is available in c*/java/kotlin to extent, but it is less explicit), Swift sounds neat isn't it?

You can see more examples, in particularly class overloads it looks cleaner and convenient to communicate, verbosity is not an issue, code is optimised for reading.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsapplicati...

The actual issue with Swift, is tooling and there's SOOOOOO many hidden wanted/unwanted "feature"
China has labeled the multitude of balloons as US-Japan misinformation. I haven’t heard a denial, though.
Gmail has all sorts of limits people don't realize, including a limit on the number of incoming emails (1/s, which does seem pretty reasonable).
That's crazy that this group (Of VIPs IMO) got involved in this topic. I wonder what this spells? I'd love to be optimistic but the phrases that come to mind are: something wicked this way comes; and, slumbering toward Bethlehem to be born...
Technion University Hacked
> they're narcissists and various forms of insecure and seek validation in the form of attention and adulation from others

This is incredibly insensitive and judgemental.
Not sure what I expected from HN, I guess...

Why are these "narcissistic" people obliged to provide you with formulaic recipes for free? If the cost is perusing over their feel-good story, I feel it's a fair trade-off.
Isnt the Cache-Control header the solution here? 304 if etag is cached otherwise return the new with 200
It's not just about inlining, the compiler may decide to entirely remove memory accesses when memcpy is used to copy one struct to another, like in this case:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Ezb7hh6eq

...and for the same reason, AFAIK the compiler isn't required to preserve struct padding bytes either in such a case, so even though memcpy() is used for copying one struct into another in the original source code, the compiler may actually generate code which behaves differently from a straight memcpy() - but in this case I'm not 100% sure, I just wouldn't depend on it, because I've been bitten in the ass multiple times when it comes to assuming the content of padding bytes.
Well I'm teaching myself a lot from ChatGPT so I take issue with your view, Gnoam.
> I actually found the misgendering part relevant. If Jamie Reed was as progressive as she claims, wouldn't that be something she would do "correctly?"

The thing is we don't know what "correct" is; we don't know the patients, we don't know how she interacted with them, we don't know what they preferred, etc. The author sees patients in quite early stages, and many may well have referred to themselves by the biological pronouns.

It gets much more complicated around the edges than some people pretend. It's an easy enough cudgel to use, and sometimes it's appropriate, but here it's just a distraction at best, and FUD at worst.

> And as the rebuttal author notes, JR was an intake worker, with limited access to the full story of these patients, and without proper medical training to do a full assessment.

There's a lot of FUD surrounding that in the rebuttal; obviously the author of that knows even less about the case than Jamie Reed, and there's lots of assumptions about how good she was or wasn't familiar with the case.

Besides, we can do this the other way too: is Erin Reed a doctor? Does she have medical training? Does she do full assessments? The entire point of Jamie's story was that not everyone with vague issues surrounding gender at a fairly young ages has gender dysphoria. I don't know if that's true or not, but merely being transgender doesn't mean anything here; your experience doesn't really provide any value, and is quite likely to bias you. What worked well for you doesn't necessarily work well for others.

That is probably a good summary of the entire allegation/conflict: "the trans community is very biased towards what worked well for them personally, and refuse to consider that it doesn't work for everyone".
Heroku deleted an entire (paying) account out of the blue bringing the apps down
This is a very interesting story, but I feel like I'm missing something -- any chance you could dig up a reference to this for us?

Housing projects and private high rises seem like they would have similar problems...I'm not finding this easily, but confess I have no academic background in management!
Specifically on how they are advertised. A lot of posit proponents are saying things like "look at this example, my drop-in replacement for float handles it correctly!"

It does appear that 8-bit posits strike a nice balance between int8 and bfloat16 for ML specifically. The chance that they make it into scientific computing seems small - doubles were already designed for that.
They were rich...
Strange, RSpec seems to go in the opposite direction, used to be

it 'should increment the counter' do ...

but now the active voice preferred

it 'increments the counter' do ...

I much prefer the latter.
Imagine being able to describe an app with a few paragraphs, and then suddenly, it exists. This future is coming soon.
You might like tslab. It allows you to have the full notebook experience with either JavaScript or Typescript. My day to day is data analysis. JS/TS runs circles around pandas and you aren’t constrained to vectorized operations. If there were a suitable replacement for matplotlib I would leave python behind altogether.

https://github.com/yunabe/tslab
TIL https://render.com/ competes with Heroku and still offers a free plan https://render.com/pricing
Does anyone have an idea what the profit margins on devices like that are? I still find it hard to believe that a laptop should cost north of $1000.
What I would like to see is all the lost/removed keyboard shortcuts from all their bundled apps from Win10, reinstated back into Win11.

It feels like dozens of keyboard shortcuts were just forgotten about or purposefully discarded in windows 11... maybe abandoned by the current generation of Microsfties (who I presume are mouse-only people?)

For example, who was the decision maker who decided nobody wants to keep on using "left/right arrow key and enter" to navigate a dialog box... make them use the mouse... or if they complain, let them use Shift+Tab instead of the left arrow key.

Also, change windows start button so that when you type we will add extra lag and bing recommendations... when I am just trying to open a locally installed program.

Win11 looked nice at first but after using it for work for the past 8 months I think it is a clunky laggy hog that forces me to learn a new set of weird shortcuts that require extra keystrokes and abandon the old muscle memory... or have to fumble around for a mouse because the old previously good keyboard shortcut no longer exists any more.

I reckon Win10 was a lot better.
Then, per argument of previous person, why eat pigs and not dogs (though some countries make exceptions)? Why eat cows, but not horses?
Was it? Because a -->balloon<-- was already over US mainland. I would say the embarrassment is on US side for not shooting/detecting it down much earlier.
They're also more intelligent than dogs yet we prefer to eat one.
so it has a PWA that handles the web share API so you can share straight to it, but I'm not sure how that handles on iOS
Yeah. This is a feature that caught my eye too. Blocking internet access to certain apps entirely. I do that actively on Android but it's been tough to do that on the laptop. Maybe Portmaster becomes the answer I want.
Neither I, nor the article, were talking about BTC privacy fundamentalists.

I'm talking about the actual IRL usecase of commercial secrecy amidst competitors.
> (...) but minor compared to what would have happened in the US or some other countries (...)

That's just speculation to try to mitigate a colossal screwup.

This is not the first time when Spanish railway companies are caught trying to cover up the consequences of massive incompetence. For instance, the infamous Santiago de Compostela train disaster[1] was attributed to a careless train conductor going over the speed limit to impress a girl, which was a very convenient scapegoat to both ADIF and Renfe, but in truth the root cause as that both companies failed to deploy a mandatory speed monitoring and control system, which has been standard for decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailm...
I like this idea, will see how feasible it is
I collected some info on Rentec in my blog[0] because I wanted to find out more after reading Zuckerman's "The Man Who Solved the Market." I hope you find it useful.

[0]: https://sileret.com/blog/renaissance-technologies/
yup I am
FOSDEM2023: The mother of all Matrix demos
*rolls eyes*

1. There is no "industry standard" for C compilers, for instance in the game dev world, the closest thing to an "industry standard compiler" is MSVC, and not GCC or Clang.

2. While Clang tries to emulate some GCC-isms, it also has important differences to GCC. On Windows, Clang also emulates a lot of MSVC-isms, so emulating GCC really doesn't mean anything.*
> As consumers and housewives, they saw their task as complementary to that of their wage-earning spouses.

Well, that's the "benefit" of raising the cost of living to require 2 incomes to support a family: no one has time to arrange things like this. Even if you had energy to do it, how will you get the time off work and not lose your job?
SeaMonkey is still around. Dunno if they've changed the UI recently, but it was still the same old thing secretary years ago.
Not sure meat only diet is advised.

Let alone if everyone would adopt a meat only diet it wouldn't be sustainable. The meat industry is already a major contributor to biosphere destruction.

Dr Wareham (heart surgeon) on eating meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX58PyQwrcI

Dr Neal Barnard on debunking meat myths
https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/plant-based-doctor-d...

Ex special forces guy explains why the meat industry is not sustainable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUMGBwgGYWw
For anyone who hasn't watched and is trying to keep track:

Lower Decks is animated mostly-comedy made by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans, about Star Trek fans in the Star Trek universe.

Discovery and Picard is grimdark and made by people who, in addition to being bad writers and story tellers, are aware that Star Trek exists and has fans, but have no idea why.

Strange New Worlds only has one season, but it was pretty decent. Jury is still out.

The Orville is basically a new Star Trek: The Next Generation. Don't ask me how Seth MacFarlane pulled that off, but he did.
Oh thank you for the reference; looking into it
I find it surprising to learn that deep-learning approaches are _not_ yet the state of the art.
Could you tell a lithium battery apart from an intentional self-destruct?
See also, Le Chatelier's principle.

It kind of makes sense, if a complex system has found some kind of steady state there must be some "restoring forces" at work to hold it there.
For the ones who missed the water reference...

https://youtu.be/GHR2tPW5PLg
It does however suggest a possible explanation that the Chinese are floating them over the US to detect tests of US hypersonics. It does seem like a good reason for it since just about everything else can be seen by spy satellites much more easily.
Q: “are we at war here?” A: “No, we are waking the fuck up.”
China preparing to shoot down unidentified flying object off China's east coast
I almost chose nim over rust, but then rust is an industrial machine with a ton of weight behind it. Nim may be the better language for my needs but not as good an ecosystem. Sad but true.
https://www.binisoft.org/wfc does it too, but I ran in to complications with windows apps that get mounted weirdly.
Yep, the victim promptly migrated. Another good alternative is fly.io, or even DigitalOcean with Dokku (no free tier here tho, but it can be as cheap as $5/month)
Also see NASA's 10 Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_D...
They offer Windows as a configuration option, so yes.
We've recently seen plenty of bad content based on old franchises - from Star Trek to Tolkien - and I'm curious what will be the effect of this. I see two possible directions of improvements: one is that the producers will learn their lessons and start producing better quality, following the lead of Star Wars (where some of the best works, like Andor, came after the biggest flops, like the sequels films); the other is that the producers will start steering away from franchises and focus more on original content. Both directions would be an improvement, but I'm not very hopeful for either of them.
One could've asked the same question 10 years ago. If you did, how's the last decade look, for Intel? Not bright.

Better question: "Should Intel come back?" I think the world going to be better off once the monolithic block of Intel is no longer standing in the way of the flood of innovations they've successfully suppressed.

They did some really cool stuff once, but that company is gone and what replaced it is a rent seeking monster.
Most analysis have no clue what they are talking about, the rest are extremely biased. From a board perspective, I am not aware of anyone come close to Ben Evans.

However if you are interested in Apple, Horace Dediu and Neil Cybart are the two that get most of the basic right.
Visualize math: When fractals, circle packings, honeycombs meet togother
It can be challenging for an average person to appreciate the beauty of mathematical objects that exist only in the minds of mathematicians. This repository tries to showc something both unique and visually stunning. Hyperbolic spaces are truly awe-inspiring.
Pricing seems extremely high for the specs once you start to configure.

I really want to see a company do something compelling here but there is always one thing that's off...pricing, screen, last gen processors. I switched back to Linux last year and ended up getting a $900 Lenovo that has been excellent. Would have tried System76 or Framework if their hardware could keep up.
Acidification is due to the water holding more carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) than baseline, right? This proposal is to turn carbonic acid into calcium carbonate, which 'removes' the carbonic acid from the water. So this would reduce acidification (at least until the water absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere). Am I missing something?
Swearing while coding: “Who the f#ck wrote this code, looks like cr#p, what the… oh, I wrote that five years ago… why the f #ck did I write it like that, that makes no sense, what the… oh, that’s why! …”
Another pain point for me: no syntax highlighted code blocks

I see a lot of people using GitHub gists to embed code blocks for this reason, this means that writing any article code related is a pain

Edit: i think it's available now but definitely too late
Let the children grow older and then their faces will start to look like their dad.
Incidentally, I think that was Apple's original intent for the IAP... until it got "creatively" repurposed to sell spendable resources.
I came to this conclusion as well.

Ecosystem > language awesomeness

Provided that one ecosystem is huge (e.g. Python) and the other one small.

With that said, learning to write production code in a small language allows for certain better developments in mindset (e.g. Stack Overflow? Forget about it) and better in the quirks of the language, which you will see (to a lesser extent) in other languages.
TL;DR:

> swearing will not automatically improve the quality of your code.
It isn't unknown its just complicated. There are numerous proteins involved, such as a protein that detects the poly A tail and if not present will degrade the RNA by cleavage.
I think you'll find similar bullshittery in the details of every topic that isn't math. Think of it like finding "TODO" comments in old code.