skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>non-religious perspective, as an atheist

This is a completely off-topic tangent, but as a fellow non-religious person I'm sorry: Being non-religious and being an atheist are mutually exclusive positions.

Being non-religious means you are apathetic to religion thereof. God(s)? Souls? Afterlife? Commandments? Nope, you don't care about anything concerning religion one way or another.

Being atheist means you believe in no god, no souls, no afterlife, no commandments, and so on. This is, ironically, a form of religion. You care about believing in no religion.
> Sure, this is true in a purely free-market world.

The world we live in, yes.

> But this is also why a purely free-market approach doesn't functionally work in many cases. This problem is solvable by government intervention.

Sure, or we might end up growing the wrong crops per government order and experience massive starvation all across the country. I hope you like potatoes!
My graduation thesis was porting a particle engine from Objective-C/OpenGL into C++ on Windows, because NeXT's future was uncertain and my thesis supervisor wanted to get rid of his Cube.
Without any links to references this comment has no weight.
anyone gonna use AI to "do something about" top-level management of the SEC being an accessory to various crimes, or about corruption, money laundering and all that jazz? haven't read about a single startup, now that I think about it ...
Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
Did Archimedes Do Calculus? [pdf]
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True, though I think the parent was discussing the dearth of male teachers, not students. E.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/02/the-ex...
I love how the response to the comment above was you posting random statistics without context, thus illustrating the maxim: if there is any statistical discrepancy between two demographic groups, it must be the fault of white people, who are victimizing the non-white people.

No explanation needed.
What, like with a cloth?
I feel like the implementation of floating point is a bit weird, but the concept really isn’t. You have a big string of numbers of more or less a fixed length, with a decimal point somewhere therein. Floating point lets you specify what the numbers are, and where the decimal point lies. Smaller numbers have the decimal point to the left, so more room for precision to the right. Larger numbers need to move the decimal point to the right, so there’s less room for precision. Oh, and everything is secretly in base two, so sometimes numbers don’t work out quite the way you think they should, which pretty much means don’t use it for money or anything else where precision really makes a difference.

Yeah, the actual implementation is fairly different, but that’s just computer gibberish. Most of us no longer need to think of strings as an offset into memory to an array of characters that happen to be interpretable as a group, but that’s really what it is despite any abstractions.

The real mystery is why most modern languages continue to use floats and integers as the default numeric types rather than some sort of BigDecimal representation, given that precision and programmer intuitiveness trumps raw performance in the vast majority of cases.
Akin's laws of spacecraft design apply to software engineering with only minimal adjustments:

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

For 39. replace "launch vehicle" with "technology".

In any case after over a decade of "web development" (as it was still called back when I started out) my position is that to an extent we need this sort of circus because it's the only way for businesses to invest into moving this field forward.

Take for example the titular XML: largely hot garbage in applications where we learned to use JSON now, pretty damn solid as a text representation of file formats, 5024 pages of OOXML's specification notwithstanding. The author points that out as well.

If you want less of that go work in a financial institution, where you'll find unironically rock-solid Java 8(or perhaps even 11 nowadays) and associated frameworks.
From January of 2020
it's also a bit of an red hearing argument

sure some systems under correct operation will never ever be fully in sync as long as they are used

but most systems also do not need to be ever fully in sync

it's good enough that for a specific context they will be in sync in not to much time if that context stops changing

and that is something they do provide

e.g. after updating a JSON blob stored under a specific id that update will be eventually available in the not too distant future and if no future changes to that document happen then in the context of that document the system will be fully in sync. But because you have very man documents there will always be a document which isn't yet in sync and in turn the system as a whole will never be fully in sync. But in the end that doesn't really matter.

Also: no computer system will live that long, and if they aren't put in sync before they stop working they will literally never be fully in sync.
Getting held in contempt of court is usually punished with a fine for individuals as well, so how is that different?
No, but if you point the new torrent at an old data directory it should skip downloading the existing data.

Although you will only download from people on the same version as you.

IPFS us probably a better fit here as content will be downloaded from anyone who has it even cross-version. IPNS could also be used for distributing updates.
To add to this: I could never understand how women calling themselves feminist could at the same time identify with a deeply patriarchal culture where "Gender inequality is rife"[1].

The article omits talking about what this culture stands for in that regard somehow completely. It talks about Rastafari men only.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/book/595/chapter-abstract/135316411
Are you planning to fill the empty subreddit? I see the URL was submitted 3 minutes after it was created and no story yet.
Doing any kind of development apart from web, is bliss.

It doesn’t even matter what other genre of software dev it is. Embedded, mobile apps, desktop, PLC, HPC, … just so long as you stay out of the whole front end/backend/cloud/browser nightmare, these cycles are much less noticeable.
Even using the same compiler, a different -march can give you substantially different results.
IANAL but in many countries the judge might draw adverse inference and effectively assume what was in that evidence.

That wouldn't be in the deleters interest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference
The neat thing about RHEL is that there's a single 'crypto-policies' package which configures available TLS versions and algorithms for everything in the system: TLS, SSH, IPSec, DNSSEC, Kerberos and so on.

Regarding SSH, the FUTURE policy removes AES128, HMAC-SHA1 and DH Group 14.
Yes, I use truenas to serve an apfs bundle over smb on a zfs pool. Works perfectly with no issues.
> I don't subscribe to any religious teachings and I don't do any kind of meditative or spiritual stuff.

It sounds like you're conflating meditation-the-exercise with spiritual and religious approaches.

Fundamentally they are unrelated. Taking it to the extreme one can consider the mind to be a process produced by the brain+, no soul involved. Taken that way, meditation is no different than weight lifting. The same way a muscle+ specialises itself depending on training (endurance vs strength vs explosive vs volume) the brain (and thus the mind) also specialises in whatever it gets most exposed to. The same way one can lay out a physical workout plan for a specific desired outcome (including rest), one can lay out a mental workout plan for a specific desired outcome (including rest). The latter is meditation.

Meditation may exist in religious contexts, e.g Buddhist or Zen, but even then many forms are in practice detached from any religious belief, with no koan or mantra. e.g Ānāpānasati (sit, and simply watch the breath) and Sōtō shikantaza (meditation with no objects, anchors, or content, striving to be aware of the stream of thoughts, allowing them to arise and pass away without interference). These are fantastic tools to unlearn bad (sometimes traumatic) mental habits, just like one learns to have smooth but effective muscle action instead of being tense and twitchy and forcing it through.

+ I'm using "brain" as a shortcut for a system that is vastly more complex, just as I use "muscle" for a system that is equally as complex.
I don't live in Britain and I don't know why too few houses are built there.

I know something about the place where I live, which I'll not name because I don't think it's that special. Specifically, that houses are built if that seems profitable, or at the very least if the bank thinks the builder can earn enough to pay back the loan.

The organisation that build/rebuilt/renovated the buildings across the street from me expected to earn that investment back in very roughly half a century. They considered it possible that they'd earn their investment back in 30 years, but unlikely. They managed to secure financing, though, and did the building. Not sure how they plan to pay the bank on time.

You'll not be surprised to hear that this place too suffers from a lack of newly built housing.
Also see the ICCL's statement on the same amendment (it's a lot more direct about the issue and the implications): https://www.iccl.ie/news/last-minute-government-amendment-se...

The ICCL is the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. They're fully independent of the government and are funded by memberships. If you're an Irish citizen they're well worth supporting (only €40 per annum). I'm a member.
References to what? I'm talking about the headline of the article, which is "Irish Gov Makes Critizising Big Tech and Irish DPC a Crime", and the article text which does not support that claim at all. Even based on the article text, you'd be able to criticize both as much as you want even if this law was passed.

Like, sure, I get it. Writing an honest headline would make it harder to rile up a mob. But if the law is as bad as they claim it is, surely it is possible to describe that honestly and still have it be effective.
What programming languages are typically used in such high risk scenarios
I live nearby and worried something bad had happened when I heard all the ambulance helicopters.

Was really sad to hear about the dead and injured afterwards :(
Easy, when and where there is no shortage of labour.

I bet Indian offshoring companies have no issues, given the competition to even have a job to start with.

It is on regions where workers have the upper hand, unions and good work laws, that management is fighting.
The answer probably lies in non-technical things, like marketing, community building and governance.

The language not having one clear thing it excels at, surely makes marketing it more difficult, so Nim would have needed more effort than normal to properly explain its philosophy to the market.

Community building and governance is also critical. Nim has a fork called Nimskull that was created because of disagreements in the core team. I don't have any insight on what happened there, but regardless having part of your core team splinter off into a separate hard fork is not good for the growth of the project. This is a HN thread from that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021299

Lastly, it's also a matter of luck. Sometimes you just happen to be working on something that becomes more relevant all of a sudden in a way that you couldn't predict, and some other times this doesn't happen. Zig for example became more relevant once M1 Macs came out because now all of a sudden arm64 is not a "theoretical" target anymore. Now the laptop that you want to use is arm, and so cross-compilation suddenly becomes a real thing to worry about.
The Pricing page which links to https://www.tryarvin.com/user/subscription actually redirects to https://www.tryarvin.com/user/login
Blaming a lack of food quality on capitalism is pretty rich. For a point of comparison, consider that even in socialist countries that didn't have famines, the availability and quality of food was orders of magnitude worse. The entire eastern block had basically no restrictions on pesticides, food poisoning was a regular occurence (due to broken refrigeration, lack of labs to test meat samples, fertilizing directly with fresh human and animal feces). That was if you were lucky enough to even get some of the items.

Hell, in the GDR there were persistent rumors that they kept using byproducts from coal refining to make margarine (a practice started by the Nazis) and I know for a fact that they used animal bile to replace hops in beer.

We don't even have to talk about pre-modern times where almost everyone had a diet severely lacking in variety and nutrients.
Oh, the irony of a subscription tracking app charging $10 A MONTH to track subscriptions...
Author here, 8 years on.

Although the advantages are real, I can't say I have had much opportunity to implement schemas like this. The extra complexity is usually what gets in the way, and it can add difficulty to migrations.

I think it would be useful in certain scenarios, for specific parts of an application. Usually where the history is relevant to the user. I think using it more generally could be helped by some theoretical tooling for common patterns and data migrations.
Julia’s style is charming and so easy to learn from. In my opinion the float number line is the one thing anyone needs to look at to understand the most important part about floats, and it visualizes the concept more intuitively than most sources I’ve found.
Name a positive masculine trait, something which men tend to have and women tend not to (should go without saying - it's not a "masculine" trait otherwise).

I look forward to your rendition of 4'33".
That’s just the example client code, not the sync code. It’s showing you how to demo that the sync works. You’re not expected to use that in production.

https://mycelial.com/docs/get-started/python#observing-synch...
>It's always worth a try to encourage someone to take that first step.

Sure, absolutely. While keeping in mind it may not even be possible today. If it is the obvious way may be counter-productive. And the road to hell being paved the way it is, accidentally kicking the crap out of someone who is well and truly down is probably worth at least trying to avoid.

I am very sorry that you went through that. Your experience may not translate universally to those afflicted with the wide variety of ailments that are all referred to as depression.
“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on tw
Also a Li-Ion with a good BMS lives far longer than 5 years
I honestly don't see an issue with having people vote directly on bills. Everyone's got a smartphone and Amber Alerts have a mechanism to disseminate information widely and quickly (something that cannot be ignored or at leasts documents receipt of the voting expectation). Winning an election should not entitle any political actor or party 4 years to run amok with zero accountabillity other than losing the next election.
> Are you planning to fill the empty subreddit? I see the URL was submitted 3 minutes after it was created and no story yet.

Not by myself , no. I want to read /r/programming, mostly. Hence why I made this submission - so tech readers can post relevant stuff there.
There's another pickup culture that you seem to not have heard about that centers around what you're talking about. Things like nagging.

If anyone reads this and decides to learn about it, go ahead. I'm never going to tell someone else not to educate themselves. But don't treat it as an instruction book, and don't treat anyone like shit.

And davidguetta, if you can figure out how to express the good traits but not the bad ones, you'll find a girl that is not only attracted to you but may actually grow to love you. And what's more, you'll learn to love and respect her and yourself.

What women are looking for is someone confident in their ability to defend themselves and others. You don't need to be toxic to show that.
Almost every company doesn't employ people in incredibly high price locations. They can't afford to. And some of the ones that can will sometimes move, but they'll do it for bottom up reasons, not for political, state-led ones.

Also, the big contributor is Zoom. If you can work from anywhere, as some jobs can because of Zoom, you can live anywhere.
In-place mutation in a functional language dates back as far as 1994, when it was introduced for Clean in the paper 'Guaranteeing safe destructive updates through a type system with uniqueness information for graphs'[1]. The FP2 paper references a subsequent 1995 paper from the same authors, 'Uniqueness Type Inference'[2].

More publications about Clean here: https://clean.cs.ru.nl/Publications

[1] http://www.mbsd.cs.ru.nl/publications/papers/1994/smes94-gua...

[2] http://www.mbsd.cs.ru.nl/publications/papers/1995/bare95-uni...
>>in the land where people write code for companies that sell code.

That is not always true, it also depends on who they are selling code do..

I know a few Orgs that by code from others, and pay $$$$ to ensure it never changes... or rather only changes in measured approved ways not drastic changes that would up in business workflows.

So I would amend your statement to where people write code for companies that sell code to startups or technology companies

if you are selling code to a 100 year old manufacturing company, or some other legacy space (healthcare, education, etc) then most likely they want stability not the new shiny
The impact is beneficial and running won't damage your knees, at least if you're at a healthy weight. But other sports such as weight training, rucking, or certain martial arts might be more beneficial than running from a bone mineral density standpoint.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama37/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/will-continuing-to...
Nut can mean head, although it's a bit dated - giving nutcase and, in British English, nutter. I'd guess that's the root of it and that substitution gets you to other botanicals.

Edit: I checked OED and it gives that derivation route.
> Everything else I would be able to do faster by flooding the board with paste flux and drag-soldering all the pads with a solder-wetted hoof tip

About this, could you recommend some brands for the tools, both for the iron, and also for the paste flux? Thanks!
Seconding Arq.

It's incredibly freeing to be able to dump your remote backups wherever you have space. Right now, the best for me is to send them to a virtual Linux box where I have enough space left.

It supports Amazon Drive, AWS, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, Filebase, Google Cloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, SFTP, SharePoint, Storj, Wasabi, network share or some other random S3-compatible server.

It's a native, let me repeat that, NATIVE Mac app and behaves exactly like one. Incredibly satisfying. Unlike Time Machine, it'll tell you what went right and what went wrong. I have a lifetime license.
The problem with dentists isn't the shortage of accomodation for clinics; it's the dentists trades union restricting entry to the profession.

All the talk of NHS treatment being "free at the point of delivery" is bollocks when you're talking about dentistry; NHS dentistry isn't free, unless you're a child or a pensioner. And if you need something like a crown, you probably can't get that on the NHS at all.
I don't necessarily agree. Different countries have different issues but in the case of the UK neo-liberal policy has clearly been the root cause.

Social housing stock was sold off, ostensibly to occupiers, at significantly less than market value. This comical scheme is still going on today, imagine the reaction of landlords if private renters were offered a 70% discount[0] on the purchase price of a property.

An interesting phenomenon occurred when the scheme was introduced as well, neighbourhoods were canvassed with offers to purchase the house they rented. Many of the people living in these houses wouldn't be approved for a mortgage, so on the same day many of these houses were sold at their insane discount, they would be sold on immediately to a private investor.

At the same time councils were prevented from reinvesting that capital in the construction of new housing stock. The result is that the UK has some of the highest rents in Europe and also some of the poorest housing quality. Privately rented flats are often full of mold, with tenants are unable to assert their rights due to fear of retaliation.

It has also contributed to the majority of the economy being centralised in London. Putting aside the intentional annihilation of the UK's productive industries for a moment. Private builders are incentivised to invest where demand is currently hottest leaving other regions to deteriorate. The result is that even more economic activity is now occurring in the region which encourages ever more economic concentration.

State provisioned housing is concerned with wider societal benefit. Short term profit matters much less, meaning they can invest in rural or currently unproductive areas in hope of nurturing economic growth there. This simply doesn't occur otherwise.

The power wielded by the kind of large enterprise encouraged by neo-liberal policy prevents the kind of organic growth that makes most communities a pleasant place to live. We can see that in the total dearth of parks, green space, local shops, doctors offices and schools in the UK's new build developments.

I won't go into much detail about the raft of other problems that neo-liberalism introduces but disposable income only recently recovered to 1960s levels, both members of the household are now working and yet they're often struggling to afford basic necessities. All of these contribute to the issue of housing affordability and provision.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/right-to-buy-buying-your-council-home/dis...
Read the amendment itself.

The proposal is that where the Irish DPC gives confidential information to somebody as part of an investigation, it can instruct that person not to leak the information it gave.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2023-06-2...

It's possible to oppose the amendment without putting a dishonest spin on it like "Irish Gov Makes critizising Big Tech and Irish DPC a Crime."
>Wait... isn't the point of paying cloudflare to prevent DoS attacks?

Hahahahahaha..

Cloudflare exists to get in the way of your users from accessing your site and you who are trying to run a site. They claim to be an anti-DoS service but I've never seen any evidence they actually do that. I still get Cloudflare messages a plenty that the website is down. And of course that moronic time waster where it wants me to perform a captcha constantly without actually serving the captcha.
Because they do not for integer. The vast majority of languages you use out there that do not care about speed use Bigint. Python. Haskell. Ruby. Perl. PHP. Erlang. Etc etc.

Floating point are used because quite simply they are the only way to do it that has wide support that can be reused.

A good fixed width or Decimal implementation that could be reused and implement all the maths you want for Reals are... Rare.

The exception is Java and JavaScript mostly. But JS has Bigint now. Just not as a default.
I'm fairly sure they are referring to a Freakonomics episode (or book). The researchers found "successful" parents, then found various statistics around them.

One of the conclusions was that they "type" of people that would go out of their way to buy a parenting book were already the type of people to do the "right thing" when parenting and the book itself offered no additional support.