skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's burn some karma to point out the toxicity found in many individuals from the functional language crowd.

> I was not being rude.

Translation: the person asking needs to RTFM because they have a problem with something that is obvious or I don't understand and it doesn't matter which. This isn't being rude.

> It’d be immensely more helpful and productive if coming into a language meant one would spend the time to read, learn, and understand that language’s conventions and standard library and read the source code for it!

Translation: the person asking is wasting time, being unhelpful and unproductive asking questions

> I still have enough of it learned because that is my job. It’s what we get paid well to do.

Translation: the person asking must not be doing their job because they don't understand things the way I do (I'm a software perfectionist, ofc)

I believe The Erlang (and through extension, Elixir) community seems to engender and defend this kind of back-handed approach to "helping". It doesn't just come off as elitist, it is often little more than taunting. Suggesting that someone pours over documentation (and laughably source code) to explain patterns (or a lack thereof) in a highly abstracted language is counter-productive.

For the record, I'll just hide your posts from now on as you cannot seem to help yourself bob.
The main problem with them in Elixir is that you can't pattern match on keyword arguments without imposing an arbitrary order.
Oligarchy, yes maybe, but also a weird modern form of feudalism, where companies try to make you pay tribute after they sold you a thing. If you are worried about ownership, this is the top issue you should be thinking about.

But ownership is not the issue. The issue is that people conflate ownership and especially money with happiness and live in a society where a lack of money is indeed a source of unhappiness — all while forgetting there are things that make you happy which you as an individual cannot buy with money.

E.g. if I were rich in a poor society I am sure I would feel less happy than me being slightly above the median in a wealthy society. That is because a rich person in a poor society is not free and has to constantly worry about loosing their wealth, getting robbed, mugged, kidnapped or otherwise becoming a victim of crimes. And even if you manage that, you are still living with the fact to be part of a society that sucks for most people. Sure you got money, and have it nice in your gated community, seeing only people of your choosing, but that to me wouls not only be utterly dystopian, but an egocentric capitulation of a person who made their wealth from the fruits of a free society.

Maybe I am naive, or stupid, but for me it is like this: Either I live in a society and want to improve it, for the benefit of myself and all those around me, or you can become a total recluse and build your own hut, melt your own iron, live your own live in isolation.
Or maybe Bandcamp (bandcamp.com).
> But wait. What's "uncontrolled"? Who gets to decide on the definition? If we had a definition, do we actually have uncontrolled immigration, and if we do have it, what exactly is the problem with it, and why would we want to solve it?

That could be construed as disingenuous.

Freedom of movement means that migration within the EU is not controlled.

In 2015 Germany effectively let in everyone from the Middle East on the grounds of welcoming "Syrian refugees". Since then we're seeing throughout the EU an effectively uncontrolled flow of immigrants who are not prevented from entering and who have understood that the first thing to do on arrival is to claim asylum. So this is pretty much uncontrolled.

Controlled immigration (legal non-EU immigrants) is also high.

Today, I believe that 20% of the population in Germany is first generation immigrant.

A problem is that we've seen (like everywhere in Europe and on other issues as well) that the debate is being poisoned by reducing it between a correct, civilised, acceptable opinion ("Immigration is great and chance") and a fascist, Nazi, extremist, bigotted, uneducated opinion (pretty anyone who says there is too much immigration and that it is not controlled enough). I think this explains both the AfD's rise and the proposed approach against them.
Do you mind briefly expanding on your pipeline process?
Your point is rendered moot by the fact that `in` is allowed in guards. See my other response as well.
YouTube Premium doesn’t let you download the video file.

Even if you do it from a browser, it is only accessible from the YouTube website run offline as a SPA.

Even then, downloaded videos can only be played for 29 days before having to reconnect most of the time, with some regions restricting it to 48 hours.
yup and mainly for recruitment purposes.
> [0] As opposed to the random crackpot ideas that every damn stupid AOL VP came up with that started with "Why don't you just ...".

I hope you used https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt as your resignation letter.
Harvard psychologist: 9 phrases of the more emotionally resilient than most
The Driest Place on Earth
Ask HN: Should Go and Dart be combined into one language?
I know each was designed for different purposes and that they have different syntax.

However, what if, they were combined into a single, unified language?

Both languages are made by Google, have GC and are AOT compiled. C# has both classes and structs which are quite different and serve different purposes. Go-Dart combined language could mirror this and combine Go's structs and Dart's classes. Structs would focus on high-performance programing and classes would focus on more expressive and easier code.

I don't know, if it would be technically possible. Combined super language certainly wouldn't be backward compatible with neither Go or Dart.

But, this would give us:

- one big ecosystem instead of two smaller ones, and

- enable more code sharing between backend & frontend.

This is completely hypothetical. I just wanted to toss out an idea for some discussion. What are your thoughts on the matter?
no, I'm just a fan
The version 4 address is now a substantial cost when renting a server. It starts getting billed separately, so you can drop it if you don't need it.
Update: made the changes
I think reasonable follow up for banning a party would be to automatically ban any party that even a single member voted in favour of the ban. And also bar any current members from those parties from holding up any elected role for rest of their lives.

Checks and balances. To ban someone you must be ready to fully give up your own political care. It seems just fair. This would ensure that bans only happen when people think they are absolutely needed.
Eventually, but they could already use EME on the videos if they wanted.
If the white supremacists are advocating agreeable and common sense positions then well done to them. They've successfully made a good point. If they claim that the sky is blue or water is wet they will be on similarly safe ground.

Being a white supremacist doesn't mean they are automatically wrong about everything. In this case reality and slogan have, by happy chance, coincided.

> “The point of IOTBW,” explained one Twitter user, “is to bait shitlibs into showing their ass to normies. The beauty is in the simplicity.”

I think the Twitter user in the article has a more accurate position on this. If the black community were fooled by this into thinking that there is something wrong with the slogan, that is on them. I still don't believe they were, it is more likely that the poll was inaccurate.
No BS here.
The _average_ house price in Auckland is 1 million dollars. How long does it take to save a 20% deposit on 150k in a HCOL country?
And 150k is generally a senior level wage, no one in NZ is starting on 150k
Thanks, appreciate it.

Fastlink was the inspiration for Splink - the fundamental statistical model is very similar. The first version of Splink was essentially a port to make it work faster and at greater scale, but we've subsequently added quite a bit of additional functionality

Feel free to ask questions if you run into any issues - we're usually fairly good at responding: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/discussion...
Yeah, that was my take. The issue with end to end encryption is the ends. The ends are the weak link. I think though that simplex may be the best option in this regard though. The user has to know who they are speaking with, but here the user can choose not to tag the connection, and therefore take on the mental load of remembering which connection identifier referred to which person.

Having not used this chat I don't know how easy thing might be but I do remember, before mobile phones were a thing, being able to remember at least 8 phone numbers that I used to call regularly. Certainly if it called for it you could do this with simplex?
Imagine they decided to offer a stripped down and clean version of Windows 11. Just the minimal OS you got when you installed older versions of Windows 7 or previous iterations. Everyone would immediate migrate from Windows 10. But people expect that you need tools like this and that your new OS version sucks. And they would be correct.

Excuses about casual users wanting this crap will serve as an excuse for bad product management. But the truth is that casual users don't want this crap either.
I picked a Bangladeshi tech company over the Silicon Valley darling
That prize belongs to PL/I and Algol 68, predating C++ for almost two decades, followed by Ada which in 1983 was definitly more complex than C++ Cfront, and had an additional revision (Ada95), before C++98 came to be.

Ironically Ada 202X might be easier to implement than C++23.
Detection of L-Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction from Electrocardiographic Images
Nice OP. How would you say this compares to the inbuilt 'sqlite3' module in Python? Is it more or less portable? Different features?
How to control connect and wire addressable LED strip
What is addressable LED strip
Control, connect and wire WS2811 LED strip
Control, connect and wire WS2812 LED strip
Control, connect and wire WS2813 LED strip
Control, connect and wire WS2815 LED strip
Control, connect and wire WS2818 LED strip
Control, connect and wire SK6812 LED strip
Control, connect and wire DMX LED strip
Summary
This reminds me of about 10-12 years ago when a Republican staffer suggested that party's platform should include legalising file sharing, on the grounds that the RIAA and MPAA align Democrat so there's no point in the Republicans kowtowing to them.

At the time it was immediately shot down, but if someone made the same proposal now I suspect it might not be. It would certainly liven US elections up.
The first thing I would advise is to be as transparent as possible with the founder, you can't go on like this. Don't go in as the whole team, it'll probably be a hard time for him, you need to break the news but let him time to digest before going into the details. Keep in mind without him you probably won't be working together on this great product.

I see 3 probable outcomes:

- he does not see the situation as you do, but does not want to leave. this would make leaving the company easier for you if your disagreement is too profound.

- he understands the misalignment won't be solve and quit (either by choice or following investors pressure)

- he agrees to try to change things, this will be hard because it won't happen instantly. Your team will need to set checkpoints with dates, which if not met bring you back to the start.

Anyway for your own mental state (and your teammates) you cannot go on like this.
Samsung Bullish on Cloud Gaming on their Devices
A little clickbaity...

It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.
> Possibly, but it's pretty hard/impossible for Russians who might be good in geopolitics/public administration/etc. to rise to a position where anybody would be willing to listen to them.

The U.S. or any other behemoth corporation is no different, rendering this argument meaningless.

Why is it that, in a country of 300 million people, there are only a handful of individuals to choose from for the presidency, and they often come from the same families as before? (rhetorical)

> Good because Russia is the opposite of a 'sane' country.

There is nothing commendable about disrupting the lives of others for personal gain. There are some western countries with practices much more questionable than Russia; this became evident during the COVID-19 measures. Some countries seemingly simulated concentration camps for their citizens without delivering actual benefits, unlike Russia.

> U.S. government does allow people to openly criticize its policies

There is a considerable amount of open criticism in Russia, and individuals are not being incarcerated or silenced for it. However, when someone engages in double-dealing, harming their own people for personal gain, it is labeled as betrayal just like in U.S., or any other stable power structure.
>In other words, it's pretty common for Windows users to experience major driver breakage every time they upgrade to a new major version of Windows

This is really a high level arguing in bad faith here. Windows XP was released in 2001 and mainstream support ended in 2009 with the last security update in extended support being in 2014. Vista to 8.1 covers 2006 to 2023, that's 17 years of having compatible drivers. Windows 10 was released in 2015, 8 years ago, with 11 having a compatible driver model and will go for many years still.

What does "common" to experience breakage is supposed to mean here? you call this common? meanwhile you can't even get a Google Pixel, the official Google phone, to be supported more than 3 years of feature update, with 2 more years of security updates. This is all because supporting the linux kernel is a pain in the ass.
Not really. RN usually defaults to system components
I've played the original, that came on 5 CD-ROMs, the expansion, Baldur's Gate 2 on launch, the expansion and have played it over and over again for over 20 years at this point. I also played table top games and read the novels behind Toril, like Elminster and Drizzt. I was extremely skeptical of 3 but the developers are clearly dedicated fans of not only the original but also DnD and Faerûn, IT IS a worthy successor of the originals and an excellent adaptation of the 5E ruleset.

They had to start a new character at level 1 anything else would've made no sense at all and you clearly don't know what you are talking about if you think they could've continued the Bhaalspawn story (at level 31/40+) after Throne of Bhaal.

But it's funny because you basically sound like me before I actually gave it a shot, I didn't think they could've possibly pulled this off, but they did, as unlikely as that sounds in the gaming world today. In many aspects it is even closer to the table top experience, which to emulate, was the entire point of the original, but some things couldn't be done because of technical limitations at the time.

Just give it a fair shot, it's worth it.
I fully agree. And since you are talking about popularity of languages in Web backend dev, don’t forget about PHP, which is still the silent beast in this area.
Thanks for your detailed response and to read your perspective.

I can see why you would go for this and experience it, especially if you practiced for 20 years. It seems you thought about it well.

On b) I would entertain the idea that the mindstuff is always an illusion and what the mind is, is a pointer to Conciousness (Cit)

I studied for over 10 years now, but I did have superlative experiences that helped me inform my life choices and outlook in a positive way once you get beyond dogma and so on.
In professional cycling the earnings have fallen quite a lot since the 90s, but professionalism in training and the overall level has risen. So money can't be the only explanation.
Says that even when logged in. I think flags are supposed to be private, and shouldn't be publicly displayed.
Idk. Python is just as bad as C / C++, with the downside that you cannot do much of the interesting stuff one would need to if they wanted to learn how to make databases, if they use Python.

Both C and Python are very "approachable" if you ignore the bad language design, inconsistencies and other "gotchas" and only take the "easy" parts, disregarding edge cases. However, with C you could at least have a fighting chance to learn how to do things right, but with Python you'll never even know what the real thing is like.
Playable Quotes for Gameboy Games
This is a blog entry (plus related paper and software) that describes the authors‘ fascinating approach to create playable subsets of Gameboy games using a checkpointing and selective trace recording method.

Paper available at https://adamsmith.as/papers/fdg2023_tenmile.pdf
You've got the pattern for LLM's that I've come to as well - LLM's can decode natural language (into API calls) and can encode them (from state and prompts).

That's all folks!
Thanks this made it clear for me how it works, and with the confirmation of the founder I'm happy I can understand it.
It looks to me that their US10 is not like an AZ but an actual server with bunch of HBA and disks. So very much pets and not only in a single location but possibly in a single rack or even box.

You are (maybe) protected against a few disk failures but that's about it.

This FAQ entry seems to confirm this: https://docs.borgbase.com/faq/#which-storage-backend-are-you...
> I disagree. When laid against things like the end of mercantilism, I don't think that qualifies as transformative.

That may be your benchmark but it's not mine. I think permanently pulling 30m people out of poverty in the US would be a multi-trillion dollar multi-decade endeavor on the scale of combating climate change (you need housing reforms, education reforms, health care reforms, criminal justice reforms, etc). That may not qualify for you, but it definitely does for me.

> Do you have some examples? The areas I'm aware of that practice subsistence farming, don't have a long history of leaving the means of production alone in private hands for very long.

Besides being something of a no-true-scotsman, examples are India, Brazil, and Mexico.
Not a Toki Pona speaker (yet), but I'd guess some variation/inclusion of "liquid from leaf" vs. "liquid from bean".
The only real thing they could try to do is to try enforcing video/IP speed cap. They probably don't due to false positives - for example people jumping around a long video also make may "range" requests.

And the other approach is currently in progress - soon logged users won't be able to view videos without watching(or at least displaying/downloading) adds, so the logical next step is to nerf anonymous(as is without google account) viewing. No matter how I look YT has exact problems (and solutions) as all file locker sites. The only difference is that YT is not at mercy of Ad companies, it is the Ad company(at least Google is). So they might try some more aggressive measures, that normally would get a site banned from publishing ads.
Yes, they block nuclear even though it has minimal / no impact on the landscape compared to the alternatives. This is inconsistent with Smith's explanation.

Noah Smith publicly advertises himself as being on the left, so of course in these groups he sees the spectre of conservatism. They refuse to build solar farms because they just can't stop conserving things!

But there's an alternative hypothesis that also explains the nuclear problem: these are people whose personalities cannot abide tradeoffs of any kind. They are utopian progressives who believe that if a proposal has any downsides at all, then they should protest and block under the assumption that faced with resistance the smart set will come up with a better proposal. Claims that there are no alternatives are rejected on the grounds that capital-P Progress is automatic and easy, so if anyone is stating that you have to choose between birds/tortoises and climate, then they just need to try harder to find a solution that makes everyone happy.
Can we hear it? Usually when I purchase synthesizers I'm able to hear what they can do first. The "Buy" link was easy to find, but I didn't find a link that demoed the synth.
I see that as a benefit. I don’t want features, I want stability
How much hands-on experience do you have with Elixir and Phoenix?

At the end of the day, every programming language can be used to solve problems, but you need hands-on experience to be able to judge the ease of writing, reading and maintaining a codebase in that ecosystem.
Flutter apps on iOS feel way off
I couldn’t get past the nonsense about how awful firefox was (again I am quite happy with firefox)
There's nothing in there that wasn't obvious to the engineers who implemented the throttling.

1. Solve the challenge the same way the browser would. By actually running the JS code.

2. Segmented downloading. Pretty sure they allow that on purpose so starting or resuming a video feels snappy.
It uses similar hardware to the TSynth; I guess it would sound abut the same, which would be pretty good.
My only concern is the small display; a bigger one shouldn't add much to the cost while the better readability would help a lot when editing sounds.
Well, my Tesla is much more fun than a boxster to drive - just not as noisy.

Also the magic of drivechains is in the magic. Electrical connections and software are much much easier to deliver than gears and other precision manufactured physical components. Replication of software over 1000000's of instances is trivial. Replication of a precise physical component is hard.
Good call, I stand corrected.
Right ok, so the reason why you're taking issue doesn't come from a principled place, but because you just so happen to believe these people should be prosecuted.
Technically, all interesting.

Ethically, if you don't only think “fuck Google”, I feel like it's reasonable to stop after the first optimization (“pass the real browser test to get regular browser speeds”). There you're not “wasting” any more of YouTube's resources than a browser user with ad-block.

Getting full Gb/s without paying anything feels to me like you're pushing all the ad-blocked users' luck.

But then again, fuck Google I guess?
James Hansen, an actual climatologist, was predicting in the early 90s that New York would be partly underwater by 2010 and battered by gale-force winds so strong the windows would be boarded up.

When that didn't happen he claimed he'd never made any such prediction and the people who claimed he did were making it up. Then he pushed out the date that was meant to happen to 2030. New York isn't going to be underwater by 2030 either.

That's how it works with these people. They make bad predictions, pretend they never did, and then re-make them but this time it's another 20 years out. You only have to pull this stunt once to cover an entire career of prognostication and grants.
China hasn't had a famine since 1962, just after the great leap forward and not too long after the US dust bowl.
Of course they exist. They are a minority, though, and the trope of representing people in poverty as lazy is tired and old, in addition to inaccurate.
I'm confused by your comment; there's no such thing as a double 50.
For me it was Tangrams, which I've only seen one somewhat odd (in a "feels outsourced" kind of way) computer game (not that you can really improve on the physical version). I first thought you said pantomimes, which could also be interesting :).
Artists should create music for me to enjoy for free! It’s only fair use!
If a skilled surgeon leaves Nigeria and migrates to Europe or the USA - their hometown is now worse off, because they lost a good specialist and access to healthcare now became worse. And whatever remittances that person sends back home don't offset this.

Rich Western countries poaching skilled workers from poor countries make those countries even poorer.