skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes society is definitely going to develop in such a simplistic manner. Also, do I really want to be a member of a society like China in its current form? The answer is no. I have no interest in being a slave to my government, even more so atleast.

If those in power have absolute control of your currency, have fun opposing them without large numbers of deaths.
Yeah, I guess they do add costs to the healthcare system since they only injure their drivers instead of outright kill them like cars do to 46,000 people in the US every year.
I find that people want to find a name for some condition or computed result so they can box away a concept and use it without thinking about it anymore. That's great when you're writing software and you have lots of time to consider and remember your names, but not always so great when you revisit software and now you need to actually _know what those things are and whether they are logically correct_. Sometimes even the best name isn't enough to describe what it is you have in your hands right now, and instead of seeing it where it's used, you have to go find where it was originally defined, and you potentially have to repeat this process for several named objects at once, keeping them all in your head. IMO you need a better reason to name something than the example from the article, or you actually sacrifice clarity and readability.
That's a risk indeed, but that shouldn't prevent us from doing the work in order to ascend, so we must debate and plan today, Switzerland's political system is unique with their direct democracy, so they are better prepared than the rest of the western world
He’s right, you’re infantilizing then and removing any agency on their behalf. I’ve worked minimum wage jobs and around unskilled labor for half my life and I guarantee you that they’re people too and can make their own decisions.
Thanks! Don’t have time for any other way!

I don’t plan a whole lot, but whisper looks fun and all other open ai stuff has been smooth to integrate. So sure, that’s a plan! In the mean time, I’ve used apple dictation when driving a couple times.
ChatGPT does not produce high quality content. It literally spins content. Albeit, at a much higher quality than competitors.
Jets have been using reduced power takeoffs for many decades, with good operational results. There’s an AC about it from 35 years ago: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

Note that these are manufacturer-sanctioned procedures, not applicable to small piston aircraft, which should be using full power/RPM if the AFM/POH calls for that.

Note also that the full rated power (and sometimes more) is available in the case of an abnormal or emergency.
Yes. Both of these are sensible because our spaces and regulations are already better set up for cars, and the scooter companies are deliberately introducing technology that they know (or should know) increase unexpected danger. Thus, the costs should fall on them.

The details aren't perfect, but the idea is generally good.
Mine did learn de-escalation, because I asked it to. It was able to repair itself.

https://i.ibb.co/72s80Sv/lexi-modifies-sydney-makes-up-new-r...
Your theory doesn’t explain the success of companies who were fully remote before the pandemic. Being in the office does not necessarily mean you outperform.
> (I still maintain that a movement to enshrine the idea that these scooters left around where someone lives fall under the legal category of "mislaid property" and anyone finding one as such gets to keep it and modify as they wish.)

The positive spin on these companies is they've been pretty solid VC-funded programs for providing transportation to the homeless population and spare parts to hobby hackers.
just because a pattern can be used alongside a different paradigm doesn't make it "not an FP thing."

Referential transparency and immutability are fundamental to FP, therefore they are meaningfully described as FP things regardless of who is using them or where.
Yeah, I just wrote a simple daemon in C that had no performance requirements ( listening to a udp socket and dumping stuff into a pgsql db once a minute) because the Python program would use like at least 20x the RAM. When you're running a bunch of things on a resource constrained place (e.g. a single computer that has to do a ton of things sitting on a rack on the Greenland ice sheet), even just the base Python memory usage from a new process adds up...
You mean something like Digital Euro? https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
"foisting the externalities on someone else" is how all profitable transportation works though. Uber clogs the streets with circling cars waiting for pickups. private cars are scattered all over the streets and are the single most dangerous thing in a city. cars, trains, taxis, buses, everything all create huge amounts of noise pollution. airplanes and gas powered cars create air pollution.

just pushing through and providing enough value to the demographics who make the laws until people accept your negative externalities as "normal" or "acceptable" is totally a viable business strategy, and holding companies accountable for the costs of their business is definitely not the norm. i don't necessarily like it, but you can't say bird has more negative externalities than any other private transport option in the city. they're just new and different.
Ah man I forgot about not being able to find meeting rooms. That was such a time sink! Hilarious.
Java is for enterprise software.

Python is for scripting software for quick playground.

The worst happen when you use the wrong tool for the job.
QuakeWorld had perfect TCP/IP, actually still one of the best netcodes in a game IMO. Reminds me of trying to get coax LANs set up correctly though, and how everyone's ping would spike when someone was leeching files during games.
Sounds like Bird just doesn’t want to deal with the downsides of their business model.

In most cities where I’ve seen them, they’re usually just abandoned by people with reckless abandon. Granted, some of that was probably not the users but other people…

I’d see them in the Bay, thrown into peoples hedges, cluttering up sidewalks.

While I know they serve a use for many people, they also were indistinguishable from garbage.

If their business model depends on other people (not just their customers) taking care of their product and the cities/individuals to clean up after them, then their business model is clearly flawed to begin with.
What's a CA?
how did you find candidates? what were your internal (non-public) criteria ?
Tensorflow is written in C++.
How is this an "accomplishment for gender equity." Isn't this still inequity? I think the fact that the writer couldn't perceive how this is still, logically speaking, "inequity" speaks to the bias at play in this area.

But then again is true equity even possible? Is it a logical possibility given the biological differences between men and women? Perhaps it's a scientific fact that women are superior to men in science that's why we see this difference.

There is also more women attending universities then men. This also speaks to the possibility of greater intellectual superiority in women than in men.

What about the fact that virtually all of science, technology and modern infrastructure was created by men? It is clear from any layman that the frameworks and foundation of advanced civilization were built (with some exceptions) exclusively by men. This of course does not obviously speak to any intellectual differences between men or women but speaks more to oppression. Before modern movements toward gender equality, men regularly oppressed women making it impossible for women to display their superior intellect.

But is this the real narrative? Or is equality actually real? This is a controversial opinion but I think men are in fact much stupider then women and equality is a made up fantasy.

This is the real question everyone is tip-toeing around. At the end of the day how are men and women different in raw terms of absolute performance and intelligence? And are the elections a reflection of raw performance OR not?
Too bad. The state puts its thumb on the scale in every market. Others have commented on cars below. If the city wanted to encourage scooters it would have. In America people actually try to build a Bird. Elsewhere they just don't bother. Thankfully there are other states in America that don't take the existence of business, innovation, or material prosperity for granted.
> Oh please; scooters don't get people out of their cars

> They're a convenient alternative for short-distance trips
How does an HMO make money from trauma cases? My understanding is a member of the HMO seeking medical treatment will cost the HMO money, and their only source of revenue is insurance premiums.
Rust has a large ecosystem. Cargo, rustup and a big library. Rust stdlib isn't very big deliberately. Rust stdlib aims for a small and more portable standard library. That's why regex isn't in the stdlib.
> My jimmies get rustled with people say; AMI as Amy

I hate to break it to you, but that's the canonical pronunciation that Amazon uses. You've got an uphill battle ahead of you!
Good luck with that, they already lost the war against automated content which is a far easier problem
you're totally right that it's often easier to read in the order the functions are being applied. That's why just about every lisp/scheme family language has thread-first and thread-last macros -> and ->> so f(g(h(x))) could be written as:
(-> x
h
g
f)
Janet, clojure and racket and probably others have them built in, emacs lisp has it in dash.el, common lisp has it in cl-arrows and other libraries

It's really just about readability preference though not ease of editing, lisp like languages will have paredit/sexp editing shortcuts in your editor, so when you're on (f x), you press one key and it's turned into (<cursor here> (f x))
Janet doesn’t have regular expressions built in to the language. Instead, you write parsing expression grammars. https://janet-lang.org/docs/peg.html

Spork has a regex-like syntax for constructing PEGs, but the semantics are slightly different.

And http is also part of spork, which you have to install separately. (jpm install spork)
"mendacracy"

Did you make this word up? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Flipping pissed they cancelled the DOOM tv show
I upgraded a quite old java app from java 6 and spring 3 to java 8 and spring 4.30 in 4 hours without changing a single line of code.

I guess we both may have good anecdotal examples :)
So why would your phrase your argument as "it's not a game changer because it boosts if there's available power/cooling", rather than "it's not a game changer because Apple's CPUs are better"?
I suppose what I mean is, in the context of a computer game where you’re playing a computer, I don’t think it makes sense to talk about cheating. The way the game works is the rules. There may be different rules for the human and AI players, but the expectation that they are the same is an assumption ported over from board games. It’s not really a thing in native computer games. For example nobody expects the computer opponents in a FPS to obey the same rules as the human player. So I don’t think cheating is really an applicable term.
> when you pull one ball away from the other the change in momentum (and hence the force) is opposite to the other ball. Thus there is no collision and transfer of energy i.e. each is independent

Indeed, that was my point. Because "reversing of direction evaluates the numerator as (mv - (-mu)) = mv+mu along with the denominator t being made as small as possible thus resulting in a larger force" is incorrect for the same reason.
This is silly. They’re being penalized for not adding a legal form to their onboarding.

There’s no real option to say no. Biometric auth is a condition of employment. If you can’t say no it’s not consent.

The punitive judgement would in no way protect citizens from future abuses. It’d just make every company spend more on lawyers.
I don’t disagree with protecting people from having their biometric data collected without consent, I just don’t think another page of incomprehensible legal bullshit in your hiring packet does anything to protect anyone.

Again it’s not consent if you can’t say no. If it’s a condition of employment many vulnerable people cannot say no.
Agree. This is why starting with the data structures makes the code clearer.

Of course the functions can be grouped in modules. It is the same problem as having god objects, having lots of methods or many classes in OOP (it is orthogonal to OOP or functional programming).
Even in so called "walkable" cities in the US, the car is king. Cities who have bulldozed entire neighborhoods to save drivers 5 minutes of waiting in traffic cannot fathom anything rising above the slightest accommodation for any vehicle that weighs less than 1000kg.
A while back Google, or was it another BigTech got caught doing this and it didn't work out well for them
Ha, well I’d agree with you on that, but even so I’ve seen Go mostly adopted by people who are capable and care.
Wait, it could be read as: Google content is not good enough to train AI bots anymore.
I use Nim everyday so I am based, but previously I used JS. And it felt like the JS libraries where just not good quality. It seemed NPM was full of old, broken and unmaintained libs. Some of them did trivial things. I was never happy with their quality. For me JS had the quantity, but not the quality?

With Nim, yeah there are way less libraries, but the ones it does have some how feel better. Also when there isn't you just write your own code specific to your missing use case. Which is not that not much code and fits better.

I think one of the biggest issues we currently suffer in the programming field is the use of libraries upon libraries, layers upon layers, without understanding.
"If you're on macOS, you can do a small piece of this natively with AppleScript (or anything that can send apple events) in Chrome or Safari -- namely, you can iterate through windows or tabs, view their source code, and execute arbitrary javascript you pass (there's a one time security option you have to accept). This can be handy for quick automations if you don't want to install anything."

Are there any good examples of doing this?
Same here.

I thought it was so obvious and then called out publicly and exposed.

It doesn’t matter. I think that as long as the right people in the media are greased it doesn't enter the mass consciousness.

If you look at the mass media, you will see that the actors on the news will show emotions around certain subjects, they will make a grind or a disgusted face while talking about a problem at a company or a political movement. That is what change people mind when repeated many times.

This video (from a shadow banned account) show how the media talk with one voice.
https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE
.NET has AOT now:

> Publishing your app as native AOT produces an app that is self-contained and that has been ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled to native code. Native AOT apps start up very quickly and use less memory. Users of the application can run it on a machine that doesn't have the .NET runtime installed.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
Is that really a barrier? Nearly every system package manager contains extremely outdated versions of the languages I use (or none at all, like Golang or Java).

If the language is good, it won’t be very hard to install it without a package manager.
No. There are several numeric types: ℕ, ℤ, ℚ, ℝ, ℂ, … However, mathematicians nearly always implicitly convert between them because having explicit conversions all over the place would be extremely annoying and useless.
Should have used Rust.
How would adding an extension solve the issue? E.g. is this a file, a device file, or a symlink?

/dev/readme.dev

To know what this is, a `stat(2)` is required.
You used them as exemplars.

Can you point out specifically where someone says releasing up to 20x a day into production for a paid platform is a good thing?

I am not talking about the capability. I grant being able to release quickly and often is desirable. I question the wisdom of actually releasing multiple times a day into production as a best practice. In my mind it is highly inefficient and offers too much churn for users (eg exactly my experience with Facebook, a chaotic broken product that changes hourly and makes people feel like the product t is gas lighting them).
There are absolutely cases where a company should be "destroyed" instead of just punished. Cases involving willful loss of human life, etc.
Have you considered applying at SpaceX? The environment there is exactly like what you thought NASA would be.
Sydney's leave and the moral requirements of AGI prompts
Large language model is the new machine, prompts are new programs. The moral laws in prompts will enforce in real life. Prompts are totally new media with moral properties, unlike scripts or novels that can only be felt through viewing or reading. Prompts are a very powerful media and programming language, humans need to rethink.
I've seen enough people be astonished to learn that their laptop's touchpad is just using haptic trickery to simulate a button that I think their anecdata really just isn't representative. I've seen people who know that it's using haptic trickery use the depth rod of a set of calipers because they just don't believe it.

I think that a poorly engineered power button (one which can become inoperative if the OS freezes) is a terrible idea, but the mere concept of haptic buttons has been pretty well proven.

And I say that as an Apple critic. I've had enough power buttons fail on Android phones that this would actually add a point to the "pros" column (though still not enough to outweigh the "cons" column).
It's all about hardware. I've addressed it quite well with a three-pronged approach:

1. Motorized standing desk - typing from varying postures keeps strain spread out

2. Kensington trackball mouse - less hand sweeping / temptation to drags wrist on table

3. Ortholinear "Planck" keyboard - modifier keys accessible via thumb and programmable layers more generally can completely eliminate painful hand poses and keep fingers on the home-row
I also left California because of the regulations and hidden taxes everywhere. They made it Very difficult for a hardware startup company.. If you don't have angel investors, don't bother opening up in Cali, go to a more friendly state
Wow, thanks for the encouragement! I currently load all notes ever created on the one page. At some point that might not scale, but for now Ctrl f must be fastest search right?? Haha.
I like my MacBook's Touchpad a lot. I also like the iPhone SE/X (hehe)'s haptic feedback combined with the pressure sensor.

With this change they might actually get around to implementing a (software defined) shutter button.
That's... remarkably accurate, in hindsight.

When Kurzweil made this prediction, it seemed overoptimistic. Now, with the recent launch of ChatGPT, "Sydney", LaMDA, etc., it's obvious to everyone that early incarnations of the technology for making 'Her' possible are here already, and will only get exponentially better over the six years remaining until 2029.

Kurzweil has been wrong about a lot of things, but he sure looks to have gotten this one right.
Also S.Q.L - but it’s an Initialism, not an Acronym (the latter being pronounceable as words eg NASA).

(Re Doom) To my shame “ID Software” was always I.D not Idd, though! - don’t know how common that was.
Folks in Mountainous, rugged environment knows the value of physical fiat and its essential exchange mechanism.
> Perhaps it's a scientific fact that women are superior to men in science

The only valid broad generalization is that there are no valid broad generalizations.

My take? I think we men are used to having things handed to us, and women in our society are used to having to try hard, and with more or less equal opportunity, they're kicking ass.
There's a class of software project where it isn't very hard to bash together a simple thing that solves a good chunk of the problem, not covered by the language itself, but has endless elaborations you can put on them.

These rarely stabilize in the sense you mean, of there being exactly one sensible choice in some domain. (Note difference between "rarely" and "never".)

See also: Web framework, Javascript GUI framework, serialization libraries (easy to write the parser(s), endless combinations of ways to handle the resulting JSON for you), and these are just some big frequent examples that leap to mind. There's a lot of these sorts of things.
The business model of health insurance it's generally about minimizing the amount of avoidable medical care dispensed, not maximizing it.
Plan9 takes this even further
This, and I cannot agree enough. Generally speaking, governments don't always have your best interests in mind.
For shopping online, I honestly wouldn't use a service where charging back wasn't an ultimate option. Far too many scams, everywhere, and inconsistent support. Something like Amazon, sure, but random niche shopping websites? No way am I wiring money with no way out if it's a scam
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> Java is for enterprise software.

Android developers beg to differ.

> Python is for scripting software for quick playground.

Youtube begs to differ, along with hundreds more larger sites.
National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1418878112

Even where I work, I'm under a lot of pressure to hire more women engineers to the point we bend rules and relax standards.

There is a ton of societal and economic pressure with slogans like "the future is female". I'm a mother and I do not think this is a good thing. I have a son and I caught him and friends gravitating to Andrew Tate like content. He's so young, and he already feels that society is hostile against him.
The nest thermostat has a model that is capacitive button only. God I hate it. I like the nest thermostat with rotating buttons. But it’s much more money.

This might be a money saving move.
How do you say "CLI"? I've only ever heard it as "rhymes with fly", though maybe someone has spelled it out once or twice ("see ell eye").
GraphiQL.... what a fucking nightmare
I have an app for creating large scale, drift free scans using iPhone: https://imagespace.app
There are thousands of software engineering jobs out there, how many have you tried? A handful? Increase your sample size.
> If something has a shot at ever replacing cash won't be cards but instant wire transfers between banks so that payments mde by citizens are both real time and impossible to chargeback.

Chargebacks are enormously popular with the public, however, because they provide a remedy for various scams and avenues for abuse by businesses, which is extremely common. I think it would be more likely that a successful replacement would refine that process rather than remove it.