skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever is behind that account is either american or a moron. Every other tweet brings in more critically stupid takes.

1/ It fixates on venture capital, which is widely proven to be about the most awful way of getting progress. Most VC backed enterprises are either failures, useless (woo yet another SaaS to send emails dynamically generated on your SPA website), or bleeding money. A few, extremely rare exceptions aside (read: where you already know the VCs that will give you the money), venture capital is about the worst option for research.

2/ Uses the Shangai ranking as gospel when it's a completely worthless and arbitrary ranking, that only rewards you for huge universities that do everything. Europe was dragged in this bullshit, and now instead of having hundreds of very specialized, very efficient universities, we have dozens of massive, inefficient mega universities.

3/ Splits the EU into individual countries when it's convenient to make it look bad (share of publications in Nature, where, if added up, the bars would be the same size as China, size of economies as if a country with 70 million inhabitants was expected to match 330m/1b/1.2b), and groups it when it's convenient too ("why can't Europe do X", conveniently forgetting that's it's 28 countries in a trenchcoat).

4/ Acknoledges that most top AI experts and researchers come from Europe, as a testament to the quality of the universities, only uses it to say hurr durr they work in the US.

5/ Actually, mostly only acknowledges AI as a scientific research subject, ignoring and insulting thousands of researchers.

6/ "Only one of the top 10 tech companies in the world is in Europe", conveniently forgetting that said company is the absolute foundation of every other tech company. Take ASML out, and the tech world doesn't exist.

7/ GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH. ONLY GROWTH MATTERS. Ignore the costs, both social and environmental.

8/ Cherry picks the international math olympiads to broadly say that everyone wants to go to the US. I guess high schoolers are "everyone" now. They're also obviously the best and most well informed people as to the life conditions in the US. I too did want to leave to the US when I was 18. Then I realized it's mostly a shithole I would rather avoid.

Yes, Europe is slow, conservative, risk averse. But my fucking god if that thread isn't a load of bullshit, followed by a few tweets of "but it's not only bad huh hehe healthcare".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YawagQ6lLrA - what it feels like in europe currently
> "Produce" is a term I've never seen used this way before, and I assume it is unique to Raku.

More commonly referred to in the functional languages as a `scan`, but yes, it seems that `produce` might be unique to Raku. I've not seen `accumulate` outside of Python, but there's a lot of langs so who knows.

code_report (Conor Hoekstra) has discussed the difference names of `scan` on a couple occasions, eg: https://twitter.com/code_report/status/1246494250537291776

Connor has declared a fondness of APL's where fold and scan show a clear visual relation: `/` & `\`. I suspect Raku was shooting for something similar with it's choices:

[f] list # or list.reduce(f)

[\f] list # or list.produce(f)
htop is a good task manager. At least for me.
No, you're wrong. The person's passport number is a primary key into the issuer's database of valid documents as the ultimate source of truth. The RFID is another means in case the paper version wasn't legible, but at the expense of over-communicating details.
Not if you use the Nix package manager: https://nixos.org/

Before that though I used to only install command line tools.

At some point though, I forgot the incantation for it and realized I could just use Nix for git as I was using it for other things already.
You can add metadata to ranges inside the text.
Giving advice to people starting out to try and master hand stands is not a good idea.

Other body weight exercises like push-ups are a great supplement though.

If there are no weights involved, I'd recommend people just do yoga instead, but leave hand stands out for a long time.
Similarly with the command line in general. Yet you'd think it was torture to some developers I know!
I browse on phone. I accidentally downvote and flag with some regularity (and hide, the most annoying because the other can be undone right away).

I clean them up almost immediately most times.
Easy to say when you aren’t homeless or at risk of being made homeless.

For some folks, unfortunately, lying at times is a necessary survival mechanism.
Long ago, I was an officer in the Coast Guard, stationed on the Mississippi; these types of kids would occasionally make it a down the river to us in Baton Rouge.

Usually they ended (or really, only got started, like this) up mostly drifting down, because gas costs money and diesel is the only thing available on the river, and then only at terminals that are physically and culturally intimidating to the driftboat crowd.

Most of the time, if they made it as far as BR, they were able to formulate and execute plans with a reasonable degree of linearity, as there was a lot of river upstream to weed out the reckless and feckless.

However, once they got to Baton Rouge they were in for changing conditions. The Huey Long Bridge is the farthest upstream that oceangoing vessels can navigate on the Mississippi, and from there down the river becomes very busy with large marine vessels, barges, towboats, and service boats that keep the bulk materials industries moving. Hundreds of industrial terminals, and daily passage of multi-hundred foot vessels.

Travel for a homemade vessel, especially overnight, could easily be fatal.

We'd hear reports from rivermen on the radio that one of these things had made it down, and we'd go out to try to meet them. We'd inspect the vessel to make sure it was legal; if it wasn't we'd show them off the river and give them a ride to town to await whoever might come for them. If it was in legal order, we'd warn them about river conditions.

Interestingly, of the handful of these folks that made it down to us each year, our warning would usually suffice to have them moor up and call it a trip - they had started to notice the changing character of the river and decided the next couple hundred miles of dodging 1000ft barge tows and currents that could swallow a small boat would not be fun.

Only a few were both legal and chose to carry on. I never heard anything from New Orleans about them; I hope they made it to the City and spent the rest of their pennies on celebrating in the Quarter and sharing stories. They certainly earned it.
P vs NP-like problem is solved for non-computer devices through advanced techniques
May differ in other countries. I've been told by people in the UK that the criteria is very strict yet I know it is not.
I never have the problem of everything hanging except on an old laptop with only 4gb memory, in OOM conditions. If a program hangs I can just use the KDE task manager or kill -9 to make it compliant
You can follow GiveDirectly, currently run by Rory Stewart to see unconditional cash payments in action:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveDirectly

> Most people who deal in processes understand treating the root cause it paramount

I think that over-simplifies this type of wicked problem where consequences become causes. For example, poverty and under-housing causes abusive childhoods, mental health and substance use issues.

The challenge is not to identify a leaky pipe to stop a flood but to intervene in a complex dynamical system and convert doom cycles into virtuous upward spirals of improvement.
greenscreen cartoons made in the basement
China plans renewables recycling push as ageing green kit threatens waste deluge
You sound like my mom when she swears she did nothing and it just stopped working. We both know she did something but we also know I will just reinstall windows for her because she really doesn't want to learn something new.
A co-worker reported the newest docker does not install on his LTSC.

Separately, may your luck have more to do with it being Enterprise LTSC?
Many times they inflate the compensation range, title, etc. to get attention.
I'd rather end with a polite "no, not interested in other opportunities", in the home that at least some of the time, they won't continue to spam me.

And, in fact, I just went through this. I was job hunting, and I put my resume on Monster and Indeed. I started getting garbage offers by email - offers that looked like they detected that I was "technical" and a job was "technical", but not much closer than that. But most of those emails also had a (not very obvious!) "unsubscribe" button. Surprisingly, that actually worked. (I mean, there were a number of such places, so I had to do it several times...)
I had to install Windows 11 for my parents computer and it's exactly as the article describes.

On top of that you also have to run tools like O&O ShutUp10++ to shut off all telemetry settings.

It's like Windows is working against me... I just wanted an OS for my parents laptop and instead I have all this bloatware.
Agreed. Internal recruiters are in for the long run. Their client is the only client. They won't be moving on from that. They have a better chance of caring about the company's future.
I'd suggest Bottom as a TUI alternative to the in-built task managers - https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

It works on Windows also and in my opinion is better than the default on there too.
If these are the sort of questions that are tripping you up, just use <foo>something</foo> for everything.
I assume they meant "all programs are provably halting or non-halting".

Which, by the way, isn't true if you take into account the fact that a computer may interface with an external, potentially infinite, memory device - such as a memory tape reader-writer, together with a human who responds to the "INSERT NEXT TAPE TO CONTINUE" messages by going out to the store and buying more tape.

The whole "acktshually computer is just a finite state machine" is the most annoying "gotcha!" I've ever heard from computer scientists. There's a reason we invented virtual memory and file systems - it's so we can treat real computers like Turing Machines, and increase the memory when needed without having to re-write our whole systems every time.
what is a 'super key'?
But "whisky" is just an Anglicisation of Gaelic "uisge".

Why is "güisqui" an abomination, but "whisky" not?
Too many. But I think I notice it and change it back quickly. Usually.
I don't blame farmers for taking money. Who wouldn't take extra money? However, I do think it's a slippery slope, and that dependency on government handouts is not the way to run an independent business.

What you have is governments using environmental reasons to justify taking this or that action. Ie, "the environment" as envisaged by academia and politics, is a political football.

Re the story, and how much money the farmer was getting, I don't know. I simply asked why he didn't have cows out, and he explained about the payments, orchids, etc.
Personally I find putting things in the setting screen with a red indicator to be much scarier to the average person. It doesn't say join iCloud in the heading it says "your iPad is not backed up" and uses that to scare people.

Personally I find the dislike of both to be reasonable and I don't think Microsoft's is much worse than apple.
It definitely sounds like you just need to learn a few more basic skills to use Linux.

Also good to note: there's tons of problems uniquely with windows that I'm sure are just "computer problems" and "computer slowness" to you, and you never blame windows.
Get this. Download many of the repositories for when the Internet goes down or you’re on a plane.

Highly recommend.
On the first round I thought it was an input, then I realized it must be a slider but I tried to use it wrong. I only persisted on my second guess and realized it was actually a slider, but it didn't work how I expected.

It was really confusing that it's called timeguessr but asks me to guess the location

Agree, this is bad UI
See also: ppss (parallel processing shell script) https://github.com/louwrentius/PPSS#
What are the outcomes for a person who was taught to sufficiently develop their "mathematical thinking", versus not?
Eh - at a minimum, if they reply, you are able to collect data points on salary. If I see I'm trending behind I'd consider applying directly to jobs.
You believe that companies shouldnt ad their other services in their products?

I disagree. Ecosystems enable better ux, look at Apple.

Also nobody prevents you from moving your files from OneDrive to e.g Google

Or using Google docs instead of MS Word
> I can't put nightmode in Windows too close to 100 percent (i put it between 50-65) because then the contrast is just too bad.

I hate windows night mode. As soon as you go above "slight" (can't remember the numbers, I'm not a frequent windows user and don't have one handy to check) it gets a sickly yellow taint. Last I checked (2-3 years ago) macos's wasn't great either, although somewhat serviceable.

You may want to check flux for windows, which works great IME: https://justgetflux.com/
No, it's for everything.
I think this splits hairs. Yes, fear means "perceived" threat. You could be acculturated to handling venomous snakes, but that doesn't male the average modern society dweller pathologically fearful of the same snakes. Anxiety is about the distorted anticipation of a threat. E.g., the snake handler has been doing this his whole life, but after seeing his brother accidentally step on one, get bitten, and die, he starts fearing that every one of his future interactions with snakes will be so likely to entail that outcome that he refuses to touch them anymore, and can't avoid a panic attack if he's in the room with one, despite all his past skill.
Sometimes you need a reboot for updating Safari, sometimes not. It depends on what components of it that are updated. Some of the stuff Safari uses are protected system resources that lie outside the application bundle itself, and I personally think the security scheme behind this is great.
Thank you. Will investigate!
Ask HN: Quick question for developers about low code/no code tools
Hey everyone!

I'm Aaikansh, part of the Growth team at DronaHQ, a low code app development platform.

Now, I totally get that coding is a developer's playground, and we're not here to change that. But we're curious – what are your thoughts on these tools? Do they excite you, or do you have some reservations?

I would seriously love to hear what you guys think!
Recruiters are a barrier between you and ground truth. If your resume is in demand and expected salary is high enough they can keep the pipeline full. If it is not and most likely you are reaching out to them, instead of the opposite, then you are simply running from the truth.
I think this is what the Phonetically Intuitive English (PIE) [0] tries to mitigate (not solve) by showing diacritics on normal English words to make their pronunciation more clear

https://sites.google.com/site/phoneticallyintuitiveenglish/w...
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pa...

"If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing."
Windows 11 Enterprise + activate it with MAS. It's a clean Windows 11 w/o anything.

Windows 10 LTSC is the same. (Windows 11 LTSC will come later next year)

I use these for years and don't have any problems.
I've never experienced that EVERYTHING freezes up.

If something hangs I just kill or pkill it via the terminal.
I'd love to hear more about the process. Did you write a blog post about this by any chance?
There is one difference. In macOS if you pay for Apple One all the annoyances go away. In windows, even if you pay for MS365, stuff is still really annoying.
I use an iPhone and other than that I hope to not use anything else that’s so cloud reliable. Maybe an AppleTV if I get one, but I only watch sports so a few cable channels are more than enough for me I think.
It depends. It's not automatic. That's the point.
Every distribution has its variation of a task manager, and there’s always (h)top and kill as baseline standards.

Having everything lock up I don’t think I’ve ever seen, only way I could see that happen is a runaway process eats all the memory of the machine, and somehow dodges the OOM killer. Especially if the machine is configured with no swap (don’t do that).

And I’m saying that as someone who doesn’t really like linux.

> forcing me to spend hours on google to fix some crap by copypasting random nonsense into terminal

Have you considered that “copy pasting random nonsense into terminal” could be the source of your issues?
Perhaps you'd be interested in the genre of Metroidvanias?

Hollow Knight, Ori, Celeste.

For multiplayer, Towerfall.
802.11 series standards are far from open though. There are better examples, I'm sure.
Everyone's linking me to the vector graphics data but I know- Gen X here- I know that actual vector hardware would draw the actual lines and not leave horizontal scan lines visible. This looks like a photo of an emulator. See?

https://imgur.com/a/PwWpRg7
Never knew about this, thanks! I'll definitely try it because `parallel` has bitten me before in a few more advanced cases. It has rough edges here and there.
> It’s safest to presume that users on desktop or laptop devices are not filling their entire screen with a browser.

Not on literally any laptop I've ever seen. I've never seen a screen where the browser _isn't_ filling all space available to them, sometimes even the entire screen (in fullscreen mode on MacOS).
Twitters just a website, It's not society.
Articles like this being posted and reposted are part of what make it such a loud little teacup.
This post, this OMG comment, and all the other musk Twitter 'news' we are forced to try and ignore all the life long day, are the cause of the whole problem.

Leave it alone and it will go away.
Keep picking at it and it will only get worse.
Anything to an extreme is unhealthy, and making your whole personal identity any single thing - being an athlete or a pilot or a parent or gay or disabled or a Christian or whatever - is a bad idea. But the statement "a lot of physical training isn't that healthy" is pretty objectively wrong.
Not exactly, UofM was accused of deliberately contributing security flaws to the Linux kernel. dtolnay proved a point, but it's not like his binary included a malicious payload.
In what way? I can determine no political alignment of the word after a brief search.
The year of the Linux Desktop is finally here. Not because Linux solved any of it's problems or added long-awaited features, no. Just because Windows gets shittier every day by adding more crapware, dark patterns, telemetry, and nudging dialogs.
Lovely contribution to the conversation. Thanks.
Nice web design but this jumped out at me:

(they have 120000 viewpoints):

"Wembley stadium has a capacity of 90,000, so our datapoints could fill Wembley once and still fill another third of the available capacity."

the way this is written adds to confusion rather than enlightens. "another third of the available capacity" makes it sound like there is space left over in wembley i.e. you haven't fully filled it.

I think people know how big 120.000 is, but if you must, just say its more than wembley
They key thing here is that what you’re describing can be interpreted several ways.

One could be maladaptive (long term) and is the easy approach (or may be necessary to survive short term) - ‘oh, I need to be nicer or give more’, or ‘oh, I need to manipulate them or make them be okay with this’ which is the codependent approach.

The other is to step back, realize perhaps you’re already giving too much, and it’s time to leave (safely) or deal with more blowback at the moment to set a boundary even at the risk of real problems.

That takes courage and a wider view, exactly what is hard to do when in these situations though.
windows to lisp machine/emacs/Unix keyboard decoder chart:

Control = control

Alt = meta

Windows flag key = super
> how do you deal with absence of working task manager?

I usually end up using something like htop for a quick overview, together with nvidia-smi when I do GPU-related stuff.

> any random hang-up is a forced restart, no way to kill offending process as EVERYTHING just freezes up.

I've not had this happen for as long as I've used Linux, besides GPU driver bugs/crashes that brought down the computer, but I've had this happen more frequently on Windows than Linux. Processes using up all CPU should make the computer a lot slower to use, but shouldn't bring it down. Processes using up all RAM should be killed by the OOM manager that you distribution should include (but anyways you should have swap setup to avoid the situation in the first place). Processes using up all disk space is a bit harder, but again shouldn't bring the computer down.

> a lot of things magically stop working or break, forcing me to spend hours on google to fix some crap by copypasting random nonsense into terminal.

I'm guessing the problem of having things stop working/breaking "magically" is a effect of random copypasting stuff into the terminal, not the other way around.

Linux does want you to learn about the system in order for you to not mangle it, which has it's good and bad sides. Think of it like a chef having sharp knives in order to do their job better, it's true that you could do more damage if you fuck up, but their job requires them to have professional knowledge about the tools they use, and the knowledge about how to use those tools in a good way.
I know what that is. The scan lines I see are horizontal. An actual vector monitor would NOT leave horizontal scan lines as it would ACTUALLY be drawing the ACTUAL image (and not a rasterized version of it)

I'm not sure why everyone's jumping to (unnecessarily) correct me instead of actually zooming in on, say, the 2nd photo to see what I'm referring to. Here, let me try to screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/PwWpRg7

Do you not see the horizontal scan lines here? A vector monitor has free reign over the beam's direction and would then not need to rasterize

EDIT: Ah, duh, in order to produce color it necessitates differently colored phosphors and a shadow mask, which might explain what I'm seeing. I was presuming single color vector display and no shadow mask, which is of course incongruous with the fact that Tempest is full-color.
I just realised I had seen the first version of this and thought there’s too much and would take a long time. 6 years passed, I guess enough to have read the majority of those but I haven’t. Hope in 6 years I won’t be thinking the same. Started with some Susskind tonight.
Amen. This is an issue at the company I work at. Common typos when looking up has keys will return nil - this has a tendency to silently keep working and blow up with a runtime error further down the chain. I am trying to insist on using .fetch to force an exception.

When the company switches to 3.2 I will insist on everyone using the new Data class for value objects rather than hashes.
Who was it that said that in the US everyone drinks coke, from the homeless guy on the corner to the President of the United States?

Everyone shops at Walmart, even the high class rich people who swear they never shop at Walmart (but always have stories of how bad it is to shop there).
The author apparently will think less of you, as made abundantly clear by the tone of the message and especially the comments around it in the code
Our industry does not really care about degrees. The places that do are crappy and you don't want to work there.

I've worked without a degree for 20 years. Recently got one for personal achievement purposes. Totally not worth it from an career investment perspective, IMHO.
It's 15 years since I last stayed in Ireland and even then it was crazy expensive.