skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It gained momentum because it has good libraries for data science and ML

That's pretty far from a root cause though. I'd say it has these because - get this - it's actually a quite nice language to work with, so some people prefer it, and other people can handle it, unlike more difficult languages. In particular, Python is fairly small / minimalist (though the cruft is accumulating...), straightforward and powerful.

That is somehow barely mentioned among all the performance complaints.

Me, usually writing C++, I like it for writing various little helper tools. No deep notebook tensors are involved in that work. It's mostly file and string processing, in one case also a GUI and Excel (unfortunately) tables.
Reddit is now a cesspool. I tried to post something criticalof Uber to the Uberdriver forum and it was auto-blockef four times. Each attempt was milder and less critical than the previous, and the fourth attempt was almost pablum. Each was blocked within a second or so of posting, so they must have some sort of auto block or sentiment analysis going on.
Canadians have a deep attitude problem. There is a sense of smugness at not being the USA. What they don't realize is the good times happened due to geopolitical good fortune and having a ton of natural resources. But eventually the time comes when you would have to make sure that entrepreneurship is respected and encouraged and is the main way of creating societal wealth. Right now old crusted people sitting on real estate as the main source of wealth won't cut it anymore. Also immigration from India for low impact, low wage jobs is a huge problem. I have been saying it for a while now: Canada is the most overrated country out of the developed countries.
The biggest bang for your buck will be with Contabo. I've tried OVH and Cloudfanatic as well, but recently settled on Contabo just because it's cheaper
>public sector growth has outpaced private sector during that whole time

Interesting, do you have a source for this? Would love to read more about it
Yeah but then it’s just lipstick on a pig. I can already create a regular table and update it myself.

If my RBDMS adds materialized views, I want it to help me with it lol
If that's the case, then why are they making it more convenient to pay?

Where I am (in Europe) all the major petrol stations have mobile apps you can pay with. One even launched a system where you can register your license plate, and whatever you fill up is automatically charged to your account.

If foot traffic is all that makes money, it seems they should want you to go into the store, not pay from your phone.
There seems to be an arms race happening between YouTube and uBlock. Every few days the nag shows back up and I have to update my unlock lists again. But it does work usually
Seconded. Great idea.
I don't see anything on /r/modnews

I know a bunch of mods are close with the admins so maybe there was a private discussion somewhere.
A bottom up approach to tech this way obviously does not work long term. Startups will eat your lunch.
It's definitely no code. I built some dynamic pages of my service to manage data with it that are all HTML markup and JSON. I would have used it for all pages if I had created the components earlier.

HTML is markup, not code. JSON is object notation, not code. I used very little code to build my service. I think this type of highly flexible low-code is the right path to no-code.

I know from experience that people with zero tech knowledge can be taught HTML and CSS in a few weeks.
Yup, and it's coming from a few specific places.

I actually blocked reddit on my router the other day after encountering way too many 'if you see somebody stealing, no you didn't' comments in a thread. It really was the tipping point and something I should have done a long time ago.
> This has been debunked again and again[1].

The blog post you've linked is titled "Why immigration doesn't reduce wages", which I think is an absurd claim to make. The author seems more interested in owning "anti-immigration people" than actually proving that thesis. Citing a handful of studies does not conclusively prove that immigration is never and can never have negative effects.

The article also does not seem relevant to Canada whatsoever. You don't think that the massive lines for a handful of minimum wage job postings are in any way impacting local job markets? Does Tim Hortons abusing the TFW program help or harm the local job market?

The Canadian economy is a ponzi-scheme dependant on bringing in an accelerating number of immigrants every year and saddling them with debt.
Well of course a drug that is difficult to get legally is going to be sold next to drugs that are difficult to get legally
The opportunity cost of starting a business in Canada is too high. People who have the capital to start their own business are more likely to see better returns by investing in real estate which has much lower risk and requires less effort. The federal and provincial governments would need to stop artificially propping up the real estate sector to make entrepreneurship competitive which is unlikely to happen willingly.
You cant send ad emails just because you have a sign-up list, it is illegal (in some jurisdictions)
Is there a viable VHDL frontend for Yosys yet?
I’m not even getting into the accuracy or lack of accuracy of the statement.

Due to the numbers of viewers, if even a fraction of people start posting whatever gripe about left/right that comes to their mind after each comment like here, then this place will be unbearable. Hence the guideline admonishing against that.
Not that surprising really when you consider where the companies come from and what their other major successes are.
Philosophy is often called the "Great Conversation" because, as you say, a lot of it is just people "saying things". Some of these things are incredibly insightful others are just babbling, the ones that make it into books generally have a higher ratio of insight to babble. You need to read philosophy, especially continental philosophy, with a critical eye. If you aren't chewing on and contemplating (and calling "bullshit") on philosophy as you read it, you aren't getting out of it what you should.
What transmission is still active when the phone is off?
It's not about who owns the code. It's about writing code. Your star performers, those "people who put out 2x the amount of solid, testable, well documented code as anyone else", are likely this effective because they like the coding part. Unless they also love reviewing someone else's code, making them spend 50% time on reviews means taking away most of the nice parts of their work. Assuming they're not robots, expect motivation to suffer - and with it, the quality their future output.
Arithmetic mod the word size is quite useful, but it's useful to specialized code-- hashes, checksums, periodic counters, fast division by constants, implementations of fast algebraic codes for things like combinatorial number (en/de)coding.

For the counters, since you questioned it-- say you want your program to perform a calibration cycle every once in a while, the exact interval isn't critical. Just free run an unsigned iteration counter and then test that some masked version of it equals a constant.

All that said, when you want wrapping behavior you know it. It's critical that it's available, first class supported, and fast-- but it wouldn't hurt if you had to ask for it.

But the alternatives to wrapping aren't themselves magic bullets: Say you use saturating arithmetic, now lots of code that might have worked more or less fine with wrapping (or only been a little glitchy) goes into a hard lockup, esp since saturation breaks the property that var+1 != var, or fails in some more serious way, when e.g. because var+pos-pos != var.

And the wrapping behavior at least has the property that its fast on extant hardware, while implementing saturating or trapping operations is inherently slower.

Wrapping also manages to produce correct results by accident pretty often, like in my above point about var+pos-pos=var. Sometimes machine generated code does some nonsense that takes a variable out of range then pulls it back. Switching to saturating would just switch the cases that are magically correct, switching to trapping would turn any otherwise magically correct cases into failures. In some cases you might prefer a clean crash to potentially glitchy behavior, but in other cases there is no such thing as a "clean crash" and crashing on overflow is the worst failure possible (so whatever else might happen if it kept running could be no worse).

There is, unfortunately, no replacement for thoroughly understanding the behavior of a piece of code nor any replacement for formal analysis.

We shouldn't cry too much. Software is absurdly cheap to make compared to e.g. engineering and machining a part out of metal. But part of that ease is an illusion because it's only that easy if you don't care if the software is correct, and only need it to be somewhat correct or only correct some of the time.

Few of the drivers for improved software quality are actually backed by research either. Would doing X or Y instead be better? We don't know. Alternatives start with at least a minor headwind that there is a lot of experience out there dealing with the way things have historically been done. Unfortunately researching the interaction between programming languages and programmers is itself really hard.
You genuinely believe that most of what these papers publish is false?

Here’s the first 6 headlines from the NYT “Today’s Paper” page:

> Promised Aid to Gaza Is Stalled by Wrangling, as Conditions Worsen

> Biden Requests $105 Billion Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine and Other Crises

> Passion for Palestinian Cause Had Faded, but Violence in Gaza Reignited It

> Republicans Vote Out Jordan as Speaker Nominee, Continuing Chaos in House

> U.S. Deficit, Pegged at $1.7 Trillion, Effectively Doubled in 2023

> Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump-Aligned Lawyer, Pleads Guilty in Georgia

How many of these headlines are you willing to bet are factually incorrect?
I think it looks cool. The pricing is way too steep, though.
Code Verify: An open source extension for verifying code authenticity on the web
"Hey wife, I've banked our future into something called a Moon. Yes, a Moon. It's crypto, you wouldn't understand"
Postlight Reader, Clear the clutter from your articles
Oh, that reminds me of the Epic Citadel UE3 demo for Android/iOS, ported to asm.js and WebGL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAcKgr6mZU)... funny how that turned out, mobile gaming turned into a cesspool of pay-to-win, and WebGL gaming never replaced desktop apps, and the demo doesn't even load anymore (if you try archive.org, it fails to fetch resources over JS XHR). Books last centuries, but digital history can die in merely a decade.
Parent here. I don't think I said we would be better off with no awareness of the broader world. I said we would be better off without Google News and the kind of megacorp news networks it features. I also said that our awareness of issues we can actually affect should outweigh our awareness of things we can't.

If you know ten of your neighbors by name, you're in a vanishingly small minority in much of the Western world today. I would happily take a bet saying no one in this thread can name ten of their neighbors, what they do for work, and two things those people care about, without counting more than two from the same household.

That is "some crazy dark world shit" to me. People don't know the people who spend half their lives within a mile of them, and yet they can spout of random information about dozens celebrities or conflicts or politicians thousands of miles away.

Humanity is weaker because of this. Only when we can do this better can we afford to try to extend our awareness.
> which can't be good

Your body deals with free floating DNA in intercellular fluids every time a cell ruptures. To first approximation, the right assumption to make is that free floating vaccine DNA would trigger more immune response as the body reacts to unencapsulated DNA fragments by cleaning them up and their presence triggers the immune system as if cells were damaged.

The wrong assumption to make is " that DNA gets consumed by cells and processed." There are multiple layers of protection against that. If it were that easy to introduce novel DNA into a cell's machinery, the biosphere in which we live would be taking us apart continuously.
Are you aware that there are dishes which don’t involve dicing everything?
>The vehicle’s designers eschewed the usual steel body panels, and opted instead for a lighter material that is a sandwich of two sheets of high-strength fiberglass, with a foam layer in between. These panels are similar in concept to the design of a surfboard.

Of course Americans aren't interested in it. These would obliterate upon impact with an American SUV.
The syntax definitions on github are 1. not on the site, and 2. not very good, so here's some better ones:

F (fill/forward): draw a pixel and move forward

C (color): change the color

R (rotate): rotate the direction of F by 45 degrees

[ ... ] (loop): anything inside this is executed twice
There's a free plan! Feel free to shoot me a DM and we can work something out if you are turned off by the pricing / unable to pay.
What's fascinating is that it's apparent from these stories that Aboriginal Australians never figured how seeds work, or the link between pregnancy and sex.
> You are going to find very few if any brand name VCs participating in their dog and pony show.

Maybe some grifters. Case in point, Jason Calacanis: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAllinPodcasts/comments/17bkk8a/j...
I haven't done ketamine, but I have experimented with dextromethorphan in the past. Both are classified as dissociatives, but ketamine is much stronger.

On DXM, I tended to "feel the love energy of the universe" which was a very positive experience when I was depressed and unmedicated. It did have some effect the days after, but nothing terribly long lasting because I was still chronically depressed.

Something that did help reduce my depression for a noticeable amount of time was doing a mix of psilocybin mushrooms and LSD (aka hippy flipping). In the weeks afterward, I seemed to still have a slight separation between what I was doing and what I was thinking/feeling. I would act impulsively (usually tending toward anger) and in the middle of it, instead of being strapped to the anger like a roller coaster, I realized my reaction was not justified in any way and realized I was triggered by something and I started thinking about what was actually bothering me.

It's a skill I still have to this day, and it's a lot easier to do while on Zoloft lol
Is that a confounder? I think that's an essential difference between the online and in-person experience.
Apple doesn't care about on or off phone, its only goal is to make trendy devices that sell because of the badge.
You eventually not only reach the limits of your language, but approach the limit of having plaintext code as your single source of truth and the thing you directly work on. At this point, it's like GP says - you can keep refactoring stuff infinitely. You won't be improving anything - you'll only be moving along the surface of limits of plaintext code, only ever making some aspects of code more readable at the expense of others.
You might find the paper Out of the Tar Pit interesting if you haven't already read it: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/main/d...

The ideas and approaches you talk about evoked some of the concepts from that paper for me. It talks a lot about separating accidental complexity and infrastructure so you can focus only on what is essential to define your solutions.
> I have never seen such a product before that is so popular, and yet many of its users are also rooting against it.

Perhaps that's because the new owner continually makes impulsive changes to the platform that most of the user base hates. And most of it seems to revolve around wanting to give a voice to hate speech that provides nothing of value to the average twitter user.

>But the media overlooks that in order to have purchased Twitter, Musk had to pay some sort of premium above the closing price; this was unavoidable

Literally nobody has overlooked that which is why he doesn't bother to cite what should be a pretty easy citation if "the media" collectively overlooked it. We all know how acquisitions of public company's work.

>But it’s not all bad. Despite losing some advertisers, some of this is negated by running more ads, and also Twitter Blue and Gold subscriptions.

So even though Elon has publicly stated the loss of advertisers is making their finances untenable, he thinks that "more ads" and "twitter gold" somehow made up for it? In other words, this entire article is based on some random guy using 0 empirical evidence and just guessing that this is fine, everything is fine.

News flash: it's EXTREMELY unlikely that companies with existing contracts with Twitter are willing to double or triple their spend because Elon is putting their ads on repeat. What's more likely is that you're seeing the same thing again and again because there aren't enough advertisers in rotation, and Twitter isn't going to just not show you ads.

The blue and gold subscriptions are recouping a tiny fraction of the lost revenue from advertisers which is exactly why Elon has now floated charging every user $1/year.

The ship is sinking.
Is it fun to drive?
Well. I’ve had a lot of ideas in my adult life that I felt passionate about, but doing business here is remarkably unrewarding. I can do what I enjoy and I’m good at with an American company for 2-3x what I’d realistically earn here working at least as hard on my own business.

I’ve consulted for several Canadian tech companies and their finances often seemed remarkably poor. I know some are doing well; I’m more so speaking about “regular people” businesses. Small private companies with staff around 10-20 people.

They work really, really hard for their incomes and the rewards really aren’t what you’d expect. This seems true outside of tech as well.

My wife works for the federal government on the other hand. She earns much less than I do, yet still dramatically higher than the average for our city and the rest of the country. She also has generous time off, training, an excellent union, interesting work, etc. Why in the world would she start a business? She actually could, too. She’s an awesome hydrographer with cutting-edge skills and knowledge. But she’d have to work herself to the bone if she went private and she’d have to work in wildly different and less comfortable contexts. And for what? 1.5x the income? 2x? After that’s chewed up by taxes, she has traded her family life for a career that barely pays more when you do the quantitative and qualitative maths.

Yet I think this is a huge problem. It isn’t really wise to work hard and innovate here, and I think it’s actually harming our workforce and economy quite seriously. Look to many countries and you can quickly point at many past and recent innovations and core competencies. But what do you see when you look at Canada? There’s certainly less, and seemingly less all the time. Our small population is a huge disadvantage here, but we have such immense opportunity for innovation.

I do think we innovate in extractive industries. We do a lot of environmental research around our primary industries, and that’s very valuable. Economically though, I don’t know… We aren’t much of a land of opportunity these days, and it doesn’t seem like much is happening to reverse this trend.
This example is for the prior decade, but the difference is so stark over 2003-2013 (22% public sector growth vs. 10% private) that even if the comment was conjecture, it would be a pretty good one. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/times-have-changed-p...

I'd suggest a more constructive comment might be to find an example source and ask whether it is consistent with the reasoning. These "source?" comments are low effort and degrade the quality of conversation.
Read the fucking thread. I’m responding to banks trying to hide being robbed from their customers.

In no way do I condone robbery.
How would this be different/worse than going to say Las Vegas and losing all the money? How is this crypto’s fault?
"Look, you said you wanted me to get a job, now I work 12 hours a day powertripping on an online forum for imaginary money. What more do you want?"
Analogue make cool stuff, it's just a shame that their business model seems so strangely focused on enriching scalpers (extremely limited supply and numerous 'limited edition' releases even when the standard model is unobtanium - and most of them end up straight on eBay for silly prices)
All I know is it's pretty old. I'm from GenX and I remember hearing it when I was a kid.
> So the immune system isn't going to find it easy to mop this up

The immune system is extremely good at cleaning up unencapsulated DNA and the pseudouridine is not intended to prevent that.
It’s not, it’s the only reason a huge chunk of the population that lived through the financial crisis trusts banks at all.
> The syntax definitions on github are ...

Are you referring to the short list at the top of the README on GitHub? That list does not provide "syntax definitions". That's just a quick introduction about what is about to come.

The commands are explained in detail in the section "Commands" later here: https://github.com/susam/cfr#commands

> F (fill/forward): draw a pixel and move forward

The command "F" does not draw a pixel and move forward. Instead "F" moves forward first and then draws a cell.

> [ ... ] (loop): anything inside this is executed twice

The control flow command "[" can be written without a corresponding "]". For example "[", "[F", "[[F", etc. are valid CFR[] inputs. Again, the section of the README I have linked to above defines what "[" and what "]" are.
Well, from the article a good start would be a Ford Cougar.
There’s a fun phrase in “A philosophy of software design” describing such engineers, they’re called Tactical Torpedos.
We should care. Banks shouldn’t hide robberies.
Well Cosmic is written in Rust, no? I'm used to seeing plenty of Rust coverage, but this is the first time I've noticed Cosmic on HN. Honestly, I'm less interested in Cosmic itself and more interested* in seeing if Cosmic can give the toolkit it uses (Iced) a boost.

* That's an obvious personal bias as I just started dabbling in Iced (to try my hand at an ATC sim) and while it's very cool (Elm inspired) the documentation is pretty much the opposite.
I remember a concern during Y2K prep that an extended power outage would cause problems pumping gas (and Diesel, which would be the real hurdle for rebooting logistics).
> More like every device from all your devices.

no, you could have multiple sessions per device, e.g. desktop client and browser tab

> That comes from the Signal protocol.

no, Signal doesn't require this
Except the parent post explicitly only cares about the type of key, which you don't need to parse the ASN.1 to know.

> a key use tag? Then each algorithm standard specifies it's own format for a blob of bytes that developers not doing serialization don't have to worry about?

As a developer passing blobs around, you already don't need to care that they're ASN.1, but you can care that you see a private key sitting around.

PS: and more than just X.509 uses those style of headers, too...
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141002...

Sept 2023 -
Public sector employees: 4,291.7;
Private sector employees: 13,293.4;
Self-employed: 2,685.1

Sept 2003 -
Public sector employees: 2,945.8;
Private sector employees: 10,298.9;
Self-employed: 2,430.0

Difference -
Public sector employees: 1,345.9;
Private sector employees: 2994.5;
Self-employed: 255.1

% growth -
Public sector employees: 45.7%;
Private sector employees: 29.1%;
Self-employed: 10.5%
Rodney Brooks: My early experience with self-driving cars
... and there will be wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

I found my nearest Googler and told them "good job" :-)