skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ask yourself is it more likely a young girl is going to the city or to the countryside?

At this point that is quite unlikely but still >0. But I also think the argument is quite myopic. There's a definite mental health crisis among young people and especially women, which could possibly be attributed to the lack of purpose that is a consequence of modern life, so a countermovement in at least part of a population is not unthinkable. And that's just one possible thing that could trigger such a shift.
And for a short spell I don't have to feel strangely guilty over not checking up on work during my vacation. Sigh...
Perhaps the screenshot of the yes/no dialog?

https://devclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2...

There don't seem to be any restrictions mentioned in that.
I've bookmarked this for when I add a Diff transform into Easy Data Transform. ;0)
I find that condescending but I'm sure you didn't mean it that way and had good intentions asking that.

The problems I experienced that can be fixed in Firefox itself probably already got fixed.

My (personal) problem with Firefox is that functionally it's not Chrome and doesn't look/feel like it. The claimed non-functional improvements (privacy, freedom, ...) DON'T make up for the difference for me personally.

If Firefox looked and felt more or less exactly like Chrome for the functional parts then I would not have any problem switching for good. It's not at the moment, so this is what stops me from adoption.

I don't propose to change anything (you did). I was merely stating why I'm not on Firefox yet as a data point.
What will improve SO is if you had an AI that could downvote bad answers and questions and especially find duplicates and point the new question to the old question.

This would save a lot of experienced users time

This would make it easier to find the good answers.
My recommendation - Before The Collapse: A Guide To The Other Side Of Growth
Having children is easy. Being a good parent is the hard part. Unfortunately, those two don't necessarily overlap.
I wasn’t aware of this, I thought most of the funding was from government/corporations and ads? Which news orgs are charities?
Elon is turning in to Dr. Evil, the man is concerned
MobileIrony backdoor allows complete takeover of endpoints
I would say:

1) painless debugging with Emacs/Slime vs Rider/VS/VSCode

2) performance & consistency of it; SBCL is fast and remains that way, I can leave emacs/slime running for months and it doesn't degrade; vs/rider... they really burn a hole through my laptop and isn't even that good at most things compared, even on really old computers

3) Re-eval; you can re-eval a region, function, file, last expression etc, during running and/or debugging, which is very flexible ; something wrong, change (or write the same function next to it with a fix; very handy), re-eval and when happy , clean up and save

4) data formats... We have had, since 'forever' had 'proxy' tooling that converts any incoming and outgoing JSON to and from Lisp lists. While in code, we only work with s-expressions and it makes life so easy.
You don't need this is stop innovations in CPUs, any new CPU will be for non-computers or for servers - for the same reason that Linux is not yet king of the desktops, which is that people need their computers to run old software.
Why is this so common with tech companies? I'm not an economist by any means, but I never hear of McDonald's, Honda, Home Depot, etc. etc. pulling these kinds of stunts. They're perfectly happy being large companies that pull a constant year-over-year profit. Meanwhile tech companies seem to deliberately have a lifespan of years, not decades, with rugpulls like this being accepted as the norm.
Besides mocks hiding subtle bugs, the adapter approach can very easily hide costs. This is how you end up with O(n) SQL queries.
Good argument against buying an electric car?
Watch this video on Lisp interactive development approach. I've recorded it especially to answer the question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JklkKkqSg4c
That's not really an exclusive American thing. In the Netherlands everyone is legally required to carry a valid ID.
My post was specifically addressing the comments around cost.
Reproducibility and build determinism are slightly different. Nix is not really about bit-for-bit reproducibility, that is a side-goal, and one that is being worked towards. It is far more pragmatic than that. If you use `--rebuild` like `nix build nixpkgs#hello --rebuild` it *will* warn you if the output is not deterministic FWIW.

Instead, Nix ensures the inputs are fetched deterministically via Fixed Output Derivations (FODs) that guarantee the output of building/compiling against that input can only vary so much, and in ways often insignificant to code flow in the output program, (timestamps/byte layout, etc). In the Nix thesis this is referred to as "the extensional model" in Section 5 (Page 87), otherwise known as input-addressing rather than the intensional model which is in reference to content-addressing.

Of course we'd all like build outputs to be deterministic, but that's not very pragmatic, or achievable. Many compilers and toolchains don't produce the same results twice, but this often does not effect the behavior of the program. There's some tracking of that goal on r13y.com, and it's probably a goal that will always be limited to a small subset of deterministic outputs, as it's unlikely that all toolchains used in the dependency graph will exhibit deterministic behavior.

Sometimes things that do effect code flow leak in, but are squashed by the Nix stdenv where possible, and also by the culture of fixing/patching those problems in Nixpkgs. The result is a pragmatic set of 100,000+ packages that work properly and can be reproduced anywhere.
Out of curiosity, which features do you lack? I use Rider professionally and I can't get myself to use vscode or terminal because of how good git integration is in IntelliJ.
> obligatory adoption from all Banks

Kinda spoils the whole effect of a headline like "$FOO surpasses credit card institutions". It'd be news if it didn't.

That being said, this is probably the best way to move forward with digital payments - if it's under control of the government then:

1. The middlemen are cut out.

2. It only needs to make enough money to sustain itself, not provide profits to shareholders.

3. You can't simply silence people you don't agree with. You can't simply say "we're not allowing parties who don't follow our ideology to perform transactions". Any party who is now not allowed to do transactions by the government were also previously not allowed to do transactions.

That being said, I cannot see the major Western governments adopting this approach. Firstly, there's just too many benefits to citizens at the expense of the politicians "lobbying" income, and secondly, governments like being able to shut down certain parties. With Visa/Mastercard they can simply ask Visa/Mastercard to stop transacting with that party and there's no recourse for that party.

When the government itself wants to silence that party, their are many more hoops to jump through, and there is still legal recourse.
> Even with the "classic" skin there's pretty massive changes in the behavior and usability of most of the UI.

The windows themselves, the taskbar and the desktop all worked the same in 7 as they did in 95. Many of the changes made over that time came with settings to revert them — like that new thicc taskbar with icon-only buttons and window grouping.

> Imagine a user who has only used an iPad gets dropped in front of a Windows 95 machine

I'm sick of perfectly good desktop UIs getting redesigns which are compromised by the existence of iPads and other touchscreen devices. This just should not happen, period. Windows 95 UI is straightforward enough once you get the basic principles, which takes all of one hour of poking around. Microsoft didn't conduct all that research for nothing, after all.

What frustrated people about Windows 95 (and 98, and ME) when it was current wasn't the UI. The UI was nice. It was the inherent instability of the system itself due to its architecture. Same for classic Mac OS, it doesn't matter how nice your UI is if the system itself can be trivially crashed or locked up by a single misbehaving app because of cooperative multitasking and lack of memory protection.

> One could make the same argument of a bed or a couch or hell even a whole house.

All beds and couches work the same and look largely the same. You know a bed when you see one.

All buttons and text fields and window titles used to also look largely the same and everyone was fine with that. But then the plague of flat design happened.

Imagine being exhausted after a long flight, walking into your hotel room only to see white, textureless walls, floor, and ceiling, and multiple white textureless blocks of different sizes inside. You get to figure out which one is a bed, which one is a chair, which one is a toilet, and which one is a sink! How exciting! This is what modern affordance-less UIs feel like. A good tool shows how it's meant to be used by its form.

> And yet people are pretty dang picky about their furniture choices and paint comes in thousands of colors.

That same classic Windows theme was extremely customizable for that very reason. You could change all colors and fonts to your liking, and some people did! You could make yourself a dark theme way before dark themes became mainstream.

> Say there's two pieces of software with identical feature sets.

You mean the control skins are the only thing different between them, otherwise all UI/UX being identical down to the layouts?
Insect memories may not survive metamorphosis
That data set is heavily influenced by military spending (which is a large fraction of federal spending and has historically correlated with right leaning states).

I don't think that data supports the argument 'require massive amounts of monetary support from the more population dense' especially given the majority of population of those states strongly desire lower federal taxes and lower spending, even if it means less transfer of wealth to their states. 'require' is a high bar of evidence. I think 'adapt to changes' would be a better argument if we decided to allow states and private citizens to have more control of how their wealth is deployed (by not taxing and spending as much at the federal level). Those states would not go bankrupt or worse if federal spending decreased, but yes they would have to adapt. Maybe poor people in those states would have to move to areas where they had higher productivity and/or better welfare, which is not exactly a bad thing compared to paying them to stay in a state with low productivity?
I wonder if it will be able to decipher doctors’ handwriting though
> For example, the passages you quote above use “race” and “ethnicity” as synonyms, but they’re different both in theory and practice.

The idea that there is a clear distinction between race and ethnicity is very American. In much (most?) of the rest of the world, there isn’t. The Australian government officially refuses to take a position on what the distinction is - it prefers to just talk about ethnicity; when it acknowledges the concept of race at all, it treats it as roughly equivalent to ethnicity. I think most countries worldwide are closer to Australia on this issue than to the US
You combine qemu with docker. You can then run arm containers and compile your code locally for deployment to an arm board.
€6000 to look inside of your walls for bats?!

Quitting my job today to move to the Netherlands to start a bat inspection business.
wow that is super interesting (although not very surprising). Do you have any sources for this?
Yes, I was thinking it's not available in my region.
I’m sorry, but in my experience, dependency injection in Java was a total nightmare for reasoning and maintainability on anything but trivial projects.

We just keep inventing special ways to make things more complex and magic, when what we really need is to accept that simplicity is a virtue.
I've been doing this for 20, which is enough to say: rattling off years of experience isn't going to win me over on this point.

> it is the only game for developers that couldn't care

Yeah, dude. Most devs literally do not care, they just want to write and ship stuff. The native stack(s) are not cohesive enough and the numbers do not lie; devs do not want to rewrite the UI n times.

Signed, someone who also does native and web UI dev. ;P
Git Repo: Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
Classic Star Trek (TOS) exchange [0]...

Anan 7: I'm glad you approve.

Spock: I do *not* approve. I understand.

[0]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon_(...
I see disposable as having several meanings here.

If it means crappy quality and unreparable, something that will last for a couple of years tops, I agree that is terrible.

It could also mean decent quality that will last, but is cheap enough that you won't worry too much about it being damaged or lost or stolen.

I love my Macbook, and my previous one is still going strong after 8 years, in the hands of a family member with lower need for computational power, but I hate carrying around a device so expensive. I don't dare eat near it, and I wince whenever my backpack bumps on something.

I miss the careless freedom of carrying around a cheap, crappy linux laptop.
Algebraic versus differential if that wasn't clear
i386 below arm64 is an interesting surprise. Seen some Debian developers mention struggles keeping 32-bit x86 going but didn't think it would have dropped that much.
The fixation with N, the size of the human system is absurd, when for all practical purposes the two attributes that really matter are

i) the impact of each individual on the biosphere (human - external interactions, or h-e) and its long term biophysical stability and

ii) the internal relations of individuals (human - human interactions, h-h, also known as economics, politics etc.) and its long term socioeconomic stability

Alarmism regarding either over or under population usually has hidden agendas and unspoken assumptions as to what is desired state of the human system and the stability or continuation of certain past and current arrangements, the dominance of certain tribes over others etc.

What complicates the discussion is the enormous unevenness in the distribution of both important factors mentioned above and the resulting wealth and quality-of-life gradients across the planet. In turn this results from the (relatively) slow timescale of technological diffusion which involves complex cultural phenomena and conflicts.

A cursory discussion of the intricate web of social dynamics, dependencies and inequalities and how they affect "N". When people complain about how "expensive" it is to raise kids we need to recognize the changing meaning of "raising kids": from the pool of cheap labor that this was historically, to the growing amount of individual attention lavished on kids in the developed world today. Yet that attention requires societal resources. Between parents, various providers and (potentially) a subsidy from the commons some economic equilibrium must be found. On the other hand why would economically active parents not be able to "afford" raising kids to the available and desired standard? One factor (among many) might be that their own economic output is devalued as a result of others doing the same work while aspiring to a lower standard of living.

Back to the question of optimal N. In a sustainable global economy (conditioning on meeting the h-e, h-h challenges to an adequate degree) I suspect that N is actually irrelevant within a very broad range. In a sense the attention we pay to population numbers is a measure of how primitive our societies.
NASA picks Lockheed Martin to develop nuclear rocket
And now the GOP is fearmongering about transgender "groomers" and satanic sex-slave cabals within "the left."

Makes you wonder what they're trying to deflect attention from.
People who generally oppose multiculturalism often assume their ideological opponent is an ardent adherent to cultural relativism, with their definition of cultural relativism being a very uncharitable one: i.e., “no culture is better than another, and it’s not okay to say something another culture does is bad.”

Cultural relativism is more useful in understanding why some people from different cultures behave the way they do, and examining if wither rejection of that behavior is based on a logical, beneficial value, or whether it’s based on the natural impulse to reject something foreign. Mistaken beliefs prevent cultural progress. Beliefs should be open to challenge.
Yes, but those records live with the state and not the Federal government. This matters a lot, particularly for people who may need to undergo Federal background checks.
The question is the source. Anyone could have put that in the air.
No. It's just fun.
I agree with this; a copilot steps in to assist you, while an autopilot assumes your duties entirely.
I’ve spent a sizeable chunk of my time playing this back in 2000s. It was my first MUD and it will always be a fond memory.
It is MacOS only. So, no, this is not the new Hackintosh.
For certain use cases, teams works reall well.
Unfortunately it doesn't have threads, so discussing indivual issues in a non-blocking way is pretty difficult.
I thought it was not just about ice skating but the question of why is ice very slippery is the hard part to explain.
I haven't seen that movie, but yeah, cringe violin aside, that's both a very realistic example of a simple Olympiad-style problem and an actually valid math proof!
> Thank god Wikimedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow.

I wonder why didn't Wikimedia have a stackoverflow-like site before stackoverflow.
It will never work. It'll all come down to a single ID. No one is going to do an ipta more eork than necessary
Dissuade yourself of this illusion. Besides which, any type of "nerfed" system that avoids abusive patterns by design will just get

A) used as political chaff for jockeying by power hungry politicians as distraction fodder or FUD material

B) centralized by the intelligence community of your country, or an allied country with an agreement that they'll do the work for your government that your government can't.

There are things that simply should not, nay, must not be made.

The Single Identification Number is one. We have all the tools to do it today. The only thing keeping it from happening is refusal to implement at the grassroots level.
Not sure how many problems you have with slack, but the dreaded netsplit was a pretty common occurrence.
In my field (genetic epidemiology), there are annoyingly un-standardised toolsets. There are libraries in R, python, and C/C++ binaries. Being able to string these together in one notebook is helpful.

That being said, I usually just stick to one notebook per thing.
I wish to live in your beautiful country filled with loving doctors doting on you with motherly care, because I definitely would prefer asking a bot for meds.
I have started JavaScript/TypeScript development over the past year or so. Coming from the Ruby, Python, and Java community its really interesting to me to see how many of the same problems that say, Rails for example, solved about development are being re-hashed over and over again.

I'm not a JS hater by any means, I find using something like Remix to be a really nice way to build web applications. Its mainly the whole ecosystem/community surrounding it that feels like its starting from scratch all the time that I find to be sort of infuriating. Sometimes I wanna shout THESE THINGS ARE ALREADY SOLVED. But maybe I'm becoming an old dude and just yelling at the servers.
Where do you check water quality. I live in Israel and have a hard time finding water quality reports.
it's just that mostly, nobody takes a Greyhound bus if they have another option, you'd rent a car or fly.

there are intercity bus routes in New York/New England that have a mix of all kinds of people. but I think this is sustained both by having students travel home, and by the buses being the only non-car route to some vacation spots.
> meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management

A bimbo is a woman who makes up for a lack of intelligence or competence by having sex appeal.

Don't take my word for it: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bimbo

Did you mean to use a different word?
"""Pang Cong asked the King of Wei whether he would hypothetically believe in one civilian's report that a tiger was roaming the markets in the capital city, to which the King replied no. Pang Cong asked what the King thought if two people reported the same thing, and the King said he would begin to wonder. Pang Cong then asked, "what if three people all claimed to have seen a tiger?" The King replied that he would believe in it. Pang Cong reminded the King that the notion of a live tiger in a crowded market was absurd, yet when repeated by numerous people, it seemed real."""

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger
Indeed, but they order online.

And pay heavy import duties, or maybe their items seized by customs.

Also I bet that there are similar offers on their continent.

Based on what evidence?
The digital economy is agricultural revolution 2.0 (probably more like 20.0).

Claim a small corner of (digital) land so you can grow some revenue. Now you can produce content. But now you need to sustain your content production infrastructure for the benefits of revenue. We've now justified our initial claim. Then claim more land, tilling over organic content for an optimized, manufactured experience! Now that you have more land, you can grow more revenue! Now that you have revenue, expand your business! Oops, now your business needs more revenue or else it will starve. Claim more land! Rinse and repeat.
The Chinese government said it is Chinese. Considering the country is encircled by US bases, what incentive would they have to help the US government?
Parents are using AirTags to track kids and give them freedom
It still boggles my mind that they closed this down. To date, it was the best job board for software engineers, and had filters you just don't see anywhere else - like filtering by companies that sponsor visas.

Finding work there was a dream, and while there weren't many roles available, they were usually great quality roles. Finding candidates was also great, and all of them were solid candidates that met the basic bar of "can you write some basic code in a language of your choosing".

To be honest, it felt like SO went downhill when Jeff Atwood left.
I haven’t lived in Brazil for 10 years, so maybe it’s different from what I remember.

You might get the difference back when you filed taxes? I’m pretty sure my payslips discounted 27.5% though.

And yeah, I also miss 27.5% tax. Ireland’s 52% marginal tax rate makes me sad every time.
Yep. All the toxic stuff moved on to the Netherlands...
It’s obligatory only for major banks. For smaller ones it’s optional, and yet a thousand banks was participating on day one.
5 Reasons We Use Open Source FreeBSD as Our Enterprise OS
Washing
LangChain – Working with Large Language Models, Made Easy
Same. The moment my tests need to care about implementation details, is the moment I stop trying to mock/fake/stub/etc stuff and just test against the real thing if possible.

I don't want to worry about whether a library is correctly implementing the real behavior of the real thing.

I can understand wanting to mock/fake/stub/whatever stuff that is outside of your control, like a third-party HTTP API where you can't just send real requests just for testing.

But for the situation in the article, those tests just seem too fragile to me. And a lot of effort for the comparatively little confidence added by the test results.
Objections to more context are never in good faith.