skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regular expressions, as used in practice in programming are mathematically general for interacting with strings, but they are in no way fundamental. They are a DSL for generating NFAs and DFAs (depending on the underlying engine). There is nothing fundamental about them, they are just a shorthand (a DSL) for those abstractions. Indeed, the very article you posted notes that anything able to be implemented as a finite automaton is also a regular language due to Kleene's theorem.

> Regular expressions have a deep mathematical background. An ad-hoc DSL from a company that specifies infrustructure does not.

You very specifically went far beyond making any statement about ad-hoc DSLs from companies that make infrastructure. You said "DSLs are, universally, awful".

I'm also interested why you left out makefiles in your original rebuttal. I think makefiles are a good example a simple and useful DSL for accomplishing what it sets out to do. That's not to say it can't turn into a mess (what language, domain specific or not, is free from that concern?), not that it solves all needs to all people, but makefiles are simple, straightforward, solve a useful problem, are well known by many people (and easy to explain and teach), and I don't think most people would consider them a mathematical concept core to computer science. Are they awful? If so, why?
Wheat gluten (seitan) is protein isolated from wheat flour by rinsing it with water. Wheat gluten is more protein-dense than meat, even beef, while being much more efficient to grow per calorie. So, no, you actually would consume fewer calories of wheat gluten to get the same protein you would from beef.

Remember, it takes 25 calories of cow food (like wheat or soy) to grow one calorie of meat.

You can eat those calories (wheat or soy) directly at 25x more efficiency, and that's just calorie efficiency without looking at water or land use efficiency.

Finally, price doesn't tell you how much it costs to make something nor the financial viability at scale. Just like the price of beef doesn't show you subsidies, the price impact of basic demand, nor externalities.

In a hypothetical world where we switch 100% beef consumption to wheat gluten and tofu, why would it be more costly when we aren't losing 24 calories for every 25 calories we feed to cows anymore?

Even when you wash the starch from wheat flour to isolate wheat gluten, the starch is used as inputs into other foods. When we talk about the energy lost through tropic levels, it's lost as unrecoverable metabolic energy.
fabricated outrage. There is no reason why a "go for it" startup wouldn't be honest about the hours they want to get out of employees. You don't have to work here. It's not always a conspiracy.
In the context of a format that was originally proprietary and not widely available to everyone, and conceived in an era where encryption was strongly controlled by export law, that sort of security-by-obscurity was very common. Incidentally, a popular cracking tutorial back then was to de-DRM the official reader by patching the function that checks those permissions.
Looks like you need a PC copy of Portal:

https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64/releases

(There's some older releases below as a ready-to-go .z64 rom image, though, which should be ready to run on an Everdrive)
You can always use a knife to eat or to kill; everything can be "weaponized", including our own body.
Increasing the number of brains won't help if their mental pattern correlation also increases.

People are acting more and more in unison, that means no variability and no room for radically good ideas
Airbnb reshaped these Bed-Stuy blocks. What happens when it’s gone?
Why would language choice of compiler make any difference for efficiency of final output?
I believe this is the case too, at least for the US. Why, no profit to be made from people using these. We have Credit Cards and the Banks get a cut from the store and from people who do not pay their full balances off, and the stores hide these fees from their customers.

Now some stores are starting to add special fees for Credit Card use, which the Banks are trying to eliminate these fees via the US Congress. They know as well as I do, if stores start charging fees for Credit Card use, many people would jump right back to cash. This would decrease their profits.
You can use a commercial (paid-for) Linux distro if you really want the legal protections of being a customer, while staying with Free and Open Source software.

As Capricorn2481 points out though, suing isn't really on the cards for most individual.
>Powermods dominated wide swaths of the site prior to the protests and this sort of concern was never raised

I don't think most powermods really revolted. Many probably have financial motivations to keep running, so they can see inconvvinence as the cost of doing business.

I am very worried about the "hobbyist mods". And yea, they weren't talked about for the same reason you don't talk about stuff you expect is "the ideal". If a mod is kind, has clear rules, and is even a domain expert in some cases, what is there to talk about?

Reddit isn't like HackerNews where they will praise the Dangs of their site everynow and then. Mods are also pseudoanonymous and as such praise is minimized, or reduced to zero. You don't know what you have until it's gone.
Quantum mechanics, and the specific proof is the subject of a recent Nobel prize (practical demonstration of a violation of a Bell's inequality). Shame that Bell himself didn't live long enough to get the prize too.

In fact everything you observe is truly random, it's just that for most things the probabilities are very boring, at least as far as you can practically tell.
As someone who loved Knockout when the only alternative was jQuery, I can't wait for it to die. Same for jQuery and any other library that we've found better alternatives for.

I'm surprised by the number of people swearing by React as if it's some holy grail of UI technology that will never die. Popularity is meaningful, but only for a while.
I look forward to someone cloning this, driving down the cost, and putting it on crowsupply/sparkfun or somewhere. (I mean that as praise, not malice.)

I assume decent results can be achieved with a super-cheap camera module, if the optics are a good match to the silicone part.
The iPhone is also using a Sony camera sensor, consider boycotting it too
This. People aren't wealth-maximisers all the time..

Also, people aren't rational or well-informed all the time.
I’m remortgaging next year and with interest rates as they are and what they’re predicted to be, I’ll be paying off only interest. I’ll be back to paying rent essentially. It’s a scary thought.

I don’t know how people (not 4%) are surviving.

How would the housing market bubble bursting affect people in this same situation?
PCI compliance mandates virus/ malware protection, so many orgs that handle card data are forced to run it.
If the financial costs of holding an inmate are unjustified, the government is of course free to evict them.
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Java Class Initialization [video]
Isn’t the UK in the top 6 or 5 economies in the world? Are you saying that there are only 5 wealthy countries in existence? I mean the UK definitely has problems but it’s a bit hysterical to say they’re not wealthy.
>As anti-human as this makes me sound, this does make me personally understand why eyes and teeth are not covered on my health insurance.

This doesn't make any sense. You can rack up way more expensive charges/procedures on the rest of your body (eg. triple bypass or hip replacement) than your eye or teeth ever could.
I can see mortgage lenders moving towards a high-resistance model, e.g. only financing homes with tile-only roofs and defensive sprinkler systems in wildfire-risk zones, elevated foundations (or how about tethered houseboats?) in flood-risk zones, etc.

The issue is that if adaptation and resistance strategies end up being required due to climate-related risks, climate denialism ends and there'll be a lot more pressure to replace fossil fuels with renewables.
You can do this:

pdf2ps a.pdf # convert to postscript "a.ps"
vim a.ps # edit postscript by hand
ps2pdf a.ps # convert back to pdf

Some complex pdf (with embedded javascript, animations, etc) fail to work correctly after this back and forth. Yet for "plain" documents this works alright. You can easily remove watermarks, change some words and numbers, etc. Spacing is harder to modify. Of course you need to know some postscript.
Sorry to "uhm ackshually" you but software engineers, and many other professions to my knowledge, are exempt from overtime in the US regardless of what the job description is.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17e-overtime-co...
The trends are mostly encouraging but there are still 102 countries with a fertility rate above replacement rate, so we’re not out of the woods yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer...
CSAM is a great excuse for a lot of things, in particular to control free speech. It is a real problem, but this is clearly not working.
What do you mean US is the country with the most global power?
India and China are polluting more than the US
Annual CO₂ emissions by world
region shows that China and India are responsible for a majority of carbon emissions since the year 2000, while the US and European rates have dropped in the last 23 years.
India and China need to be hugely responsible as they are the ones building new coal plants
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-...
I'll wait for the Naya Create reviews (naya.tech). I need something more portable with a mouse integrated.
Nah, both public and private universities in the US are pushing this political and ideological agenda. I'm not aware of any systematic pay difference for academics in public vs private universities - for example, Stanford (private) pays similarly to Berkeley (public), and they have similar politics. Both pay much less than private sector for anyone who can get an academic job at one of those institutions.

Your comment is a little more applicable to museums and the arts, but the US government funds all universities, both public and private, pretty lavishly. Unfortunately the university administrators have a habit of accruing much of that funding to themselves and leaving the academics relatively little.
The real issue here is a DSL without intention of enforcing limitations permanently.

A Regex, SQL, TLA, CSS and so on are all better DSLs than allowing a general purpose language because they are meant to restrict inputs of lower priority than other goals, where priorities are largely fixed.

A corporate DSL is meant to expand to whatever grandiose plans the company has for accepting impractical input from platinum customers.
like how does it take it to think coherently around a basis of the skill of programming, 3d sculpting, or knowing enough of the guitar fundamentals to start generating ideas for a song while listening or constraining yourself with just 6 strings.
That raises a sticky question of how much is enough relative to the cost of their incarceration.

From a pure problem-solving standpoint, we could and probably should raise that rate by a few dollars to be put in a trust disbursed upon release to give inmates a better chance at landing some accommodation and runway to find a proper job, such that “sell drugs” doesn’t become an immediate obvious option.

Generously, the poor rate of pay seems almost the same situation as the lagging minimum wage rate. It may have once been enough (a long long time ago.) I recall reading Alcatraz inmate autobiographies as a child and recall them leaving a 10 year bank robbery sentence with enough money to find an apartment and a down payment on transportation.

Perhaps a better implementation would be $0.25 per hour goes into a canteen fund for goodies and another $4.25 per hour goes into your release trust fund? Still below minimum wage to appease any notion of inmates getting one over on hard work at the bottom rung but a rate that would possible give a chance for a successful restart.
Not a lot of info there. I don't use the clay. The traps they talk about are what I use.
>You should have moved to right.

If I did that then the ambulance would have been totally blocked, unless _all_ the cars in front of me also did that (they didn't) or if they pulled into the intersection on red. If I did that, then I would have to pull into the intersection on red after moving to the right lane.

I have no idea if you're supposed to run a red light if an ambulance is behind you and I didn't want to take my chances.

What are the rules for that in Virginia, doing a quick google search I can't find them?
All versions of C++, all existing versions and likely any potential future versions.

In C++ both these enum types have an "underlying type" which is just an integer. That's the type you're really getting for most purposes.

In terms of syntax specifically you can cast (in C++ specifically static cast) integers to an enumerated type. This makes mechanical sense to C++ because of the compatible "underlying type" but as a direct consequence you don't have the kind of type safety these exercises are relying on.

Notice that if I cast 1.234 to an integer, C++ says that's 1. It does know that cast doesn't mean "just change the type but keep the same bits" and yet, that's exactly what happens for enum.
I once read that this is why the MSVC compiler didn't support two-pass template instantiation until very recently: the original compiler implemented templates almost like a macro that re-emitted a stream of tokens with the template parameters replaced.
Or that because they will be unevenly distributed, the planet might tip over.
This lies squarely with Google. I bought a fully functional 11 inch acer intel touchscreen Chromebook for 25 on eBay which got its last update last year. I converted it to Ubuntu which was a pain
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Yeah, you don't have lights, sirens, and a large vehicle either. Really should be a non-issue in this instance.
I was super skeptical of this article, because I was trying to imagine how we'd have to arrange extractors in the oceans to pull any meaningful amount of energy out of the rotation of the earth based on tides, and only at the end of the article did I see that assumption of 2% compounding multiplied out as far as needed...ugh.

The implausibly is staggering, we'd run out of resources to build extractors way before causing any meaningful shift in the rotation: if the monstrous land barriers of the continents take millions of years to drain a small percentage of the energy, we have zero hope of achieving much more with the solid mass available to us on Earth, short of a Dyson sphere-level breakthrough in "moving mass around", oh, and by the way it has to happen deep underwater as well, and we need to channel all the energy somewhere useful! Way harder than just making a ginormous but thin solar array in space, which is almost certainly what we'd do instead from a "energy cost to arrange matter" optimization POV.
Security Engineering Lecture 1: Who is the opponent [video]
I have a perfectly good chromebook for a few years ago that is just sat in a box becuase it's running a super old version of chromeOS.

I could just install Linux but the battery is definitely worse when not on chromeOS
It's always amazing to me that people will write these long articles and then do things like compare real median income (adjusted to account for the price of housing) with nominal rent prices.

For context, here's nominal rent vs. nominal income, both indexed to 1985.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=18r0r

EDIT: Some criticisms of the charts the author uses:

1) The Case Schiller chart is in I guess "units"? The underlying data is an index to 2000, so saying it dropped '50' (going from 180% of 2000 to 130% of 2000) is for the most part meaningless. The farther you get from the year 2000, the bigger the numbers will look.

2) The investor purchases thing is just a noisy first derivative of the interest rate chart. (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=18r18)

3) Population doesn't occupy houses, households do and those have grown faster than housing units.
(https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=18r1T)

4) See above

5) There's a lot of complex policy debate about whether or not we are in secular demand crisis, but the MBS chart is all about lowering interest rates to increase demand. I agree that has unintended consequences, but the author seems to forget that builders pay interest rates too.
If you're against insurance company profiting, shouldn't you fix that through payout minimums? Even if they could somehow make money in california as a whole, it still a bad idea because the price limit implies of transfer from people with less risk to people with high risk, effectively subsidizing people to live in high risk areas. Regardless of how you feel about insurance profits, I think you can agree that's a bad idea for society as a whole.
Prefetching helped Terra increase ads click-through rate by 30% and speed up
Why discord is switching from go to rust (2020)
Your idea sounds similar to the Kardashev scale [1], and we seem to be at 0.733. The concept of the Dyson sphere emerged from that theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Here's a class at MIT that takes undergraduates who don't even know verilog and at then end of the class they have a mostly passable RV32I. Admittedly pushing that through VLSI CAD will not be push-button easy but many universities also have an undergraduate tape-out class, including MIT...

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-004-computation-structures-spr...

Via MPW and assembly service one can easily have that die manufactured, packaged and mounted on custom PCBs for under $50K, a.k.a. much less than you'll pay in salary to have it designed, fabricated and tested. Even at non-American labor rates.

In 2023 producing a computing core, albeit not a state-of-the-art one, is just not the moat it once was...
I think it's far more far to say the opposite: science is an ever evolving model of the world, but science is always just a model.

F = ma is a model.

And you may try to limit your argument to only "statistical models = not science" but then you would be dismissing essentially all social sciences but also ecology, geology, climate science, not to mention every single aspect of statistical mechanics.

Science is essentially hypothesis testing where hypothesis represent models of how the world works. Didn't you even take high school physics where you spend considerable time running experiments and writing up why they don't exactly match the formula's prediction in the book?

Would you mind explaining what model-free science looks like? Is it just cataloging observations?
interesting. Just how cheap are they, and how cut down can we make them, and are they easy to jailbreak? I'd love to play around with some for making into servers or even pi-like things for robotics
In that case isn’t it better to be seen doing something to counteract that possibility instead of hiding the effort?
what if the push to work 4 days instead of 5, and less hours in a day, and the wedge being driven between the founders and the proletariat is the result of a psi-ops from Russia and China to hobble the US from the inside. Convince the current generation that working hard and pursuing your craft is inherently a bad thing. I feel like this would work.
Yep. The other day when one ran into concrete, everyone was laughing saying "its so dumb how could it do such a thing" but that has happened TWICE in my town over the last few years.

It's not good though, not at all... its just blown out of proportion, imo.

They really need a way for someone to remotely move it like 5 feet or something lol
So you are basically saying my way or the highway without even offering a option at all. So your "diplomatic" is just another way of saying "I don't give a shit and please stfu". Why would you inject yourself in a discussion if you don't really want to participate? Yikes.
I have not accused anyone of sabotaging his work.
Adding searchable notes to bookmarks in Firefox
Just a short write-up I did while looking into this topic. The first place I looked for a solution to this was using Hacker News search, but I could only find options involving 3rd-party programs or browser extensions. Hopefully this is of interest and helpful to someone else.
Sure, but as our intelligence now decreases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37307064, we can try to find other ways to subsist
200 years is, what, a thousandth of the duration humans have been on this Earth? 44 billionths of the age of the Earth? It's a blip.
Very interesting. Thanks for replying!
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