skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a first language, a lot of students face major stumbling blocks when they deal with pointers and manual memory management. It's hard enough learning how to program for the first time; I remember learning QBASIC as a ten year old from a textbook and online tutorials. Over twenty years later I had experience teaching introductory Python to absolute beginners, and they have to learn how to convert problem statements into code. They have to learn how simple constructs such as loops and functions work. The course would have been much more difficult for my students if I needed to teach them about pointers and manual memory management. I still remember when I first encountered C in high school, and I struggled with segmentation faults due to my inadequate understanding of how pointers worked. It wasn't until my sophomore year of college when I finally understood pointers. It was when I took a computer organization course that used assembly. It was then when I had a better understanding of how memory worked and how C's pointer syntax directly translated to assembly.

I admit that I still have a soft spot for C; once I finally understood pointers I did most of my projects in C; it helped that I had (and still have) a love for systems programming. To this day I can write C in my sleep even though it's been two years since I've last written a significant amount of C. But in grad school I got bit hard by the Lisp and Smalltalk bugs....I went from a big Bell Labs fan to a Xerox PARC fan, and in my professional career I've been largely coding in Python for the past five years since it's now the lingua franca of machine learning.

But I wouldn't recommend C as a first language; I feel it's too much for absolute beginners. I'm torn between Python and Scheme; my feelings right now is that Python is a good introductory language for helping people gain programming experience and allowing students to build interesting things using Python's extensive libraries, while Scheme is an excellent vehicle for teaching how programming languages work at a high level; I have a soft spot for The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (this was the introductory CS textbook at MIT from the 1980s to the late 2000s when MIT switched to Python) and I used it as part of an upper-division course on programming language principles and paradigms at a university where Java is the introductory language.
PNM formats are the best. Back in the day I wrote a lot of code to generate images thanks to its simple ASCII and binary output formats. That was back before graphics libraries were common, when generating an XBM was difficult and we were still worried about the GIF patent.
You are partly right, I made a mistake, I meant to say that contradiction is when we can derive both a statement and its negation, indicative of inconsistency. You are correct to point out that incompleteness is not a flaw, but a natural property of sufficiently complex systems and does not detract from their validity or usefulness. I must admit, I don't know enough about ZFC and the Continuum Hypothesis, but I did not mean to imply that all systems were incompatible.
What kind of tonnage, though? A huge containership is easier to build than a modern nuclear submarine, for example, and gives you a hell of a lot more tonnage.
I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some point. Still works brilliantly though!
This is a straw man. Saying that the burden is on parents to ensure a child's safety doesn't mean a child molester is free from blame. You've taken his point and pushed it to the extreme.
The Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World
Not super surprising that there are a bunch of negative comments here, but as a customer I appreciate the candor and especially the note that most competitors already have similar terms.
Jupiter's Io Gets a Close-Up
New Zealand's "she'll be right" attitude is, I believe, why so much just doesn't work here. People tolerate breakage on a small and large scale, to a bigger extent than I've seen anywhere else. Anything from permanent shop signs with spelling mistakes, to letting people rent out unsanitary housing, to "ghost buses" which show up in their IT systems as planned, then as running, and then, when they are about to show up, simply disappear off of their systems as if it was never planned in the first place. People grumble, but it seems like they always assume somehow things will just magically fix themselves.
this unfortunately requires management to fire themselves, which seems unlikely to happen. I guess maybe the government could step in somehow, or at some point.
How is it a feature?
That’s not true. Java has 2 types of exceptions checked and unchecked. Checked exceptions are what this thread has been calling errors, and unchecked exceptions are what this thread has been calling exceptions. Maybe it was a mistake to call them both exceptions, but Java also has 2 types of errors.
Yup. AND exporting your data is quite cumbersome (infinite scroll, no indication of how many projects you have, etc).

To ease the pain, I worked on a service to make parting with the platform easier (https://invisionbulkexport.com/). Disclaimer: I own this site and we are not affiliated with InVision in any way.
I've installed Solaris 11.4 on a spare ssd for fun this month. It worked right away.
The US has the Jones Act. Cabotage between the US ports is restricted to the US-built ships.
Related recent opinion piece- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/04/navy-hout...
Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for example.
I don’t know what the consistency requirements are but workers Kv or r2 + cache might be smarter choices in terms of improving resilience and also performance by a lot (same goes for suggestions of using DO - R2 is kind of a weird choice to manage stateful rendezvous). Queues and pubsub feel like incorrect choices unless I misunderstood what they’re using the storage for.
The calls to exit Carta are premature. Let’s see how they respond to the backlash first.
If it was anyone but Zeiss I'd call it a red flag too, but they're basically Old Gods of Glass.
> At this point "algorithm" in the context of social media doesn't mean anything sensible.

Generally it means "select the material and the ordering in the manner that maximizes revenue for the platform's owners". I'd call that a sensible (if morally questionable) strategy for the owners.
I think most people familiar with space stuff, even ardent Musk supporters, don't really see that panning out. Even putting aside the pollution, there are too many logistical issues when it comes to spreading out all those launch sites and resupplying them.

The rocket transport service they're working on with the DoD is the only thing that we might see demonstrated by then but not really used since there aren't many things so valuable as to need it. That too only because the DoD will probably be willing to pay for the Starship to be scrapped after landing, as unless they build up the infrastructure to fuel and launch the rocket, it's stuck there.
Most of my direct relatives work for Bath Iron Works. Many as fitters. I wont say much more. The article ain't wrong. Who is going to change it?
Link sharing would be useful. Here is a site similar to yours, albeit not as pretty.
https://podfeet.com/webapps/time-shifter-clock/
> no packaging material that wouldn't make any impact on its contents.

We solved this many decades ago with a cheap, safe, abundant, recyclable material: glass.

Centralized factories and the associated transport and breakage costs ruined it.
isn't supported anymore?
I just found out it would cost $100 to read the ASTM D2000 specification... a standard way to itemize purchasing requirements in the US. Straight to Anna's Archive... they didn't have 10.1520/D2000 though.
>Nope that’s “bath salts”

A-PVP is "bath salts"; essentially an Adderall analog that is closer to meth - from the infamous "Florida man eats man's face on bath salts" meme, which was completely false. The man just had THC in his system and a clear psychotic break.

>methadone

Mephradrone is a drug 3/4ths the potency of MDA, a drug similar to MDMA.

The first "Designer drug" was Methoxetamine (MXE), which is essentially a (bladder-safe) version of Ketamine.

> Sounds kinda dangerous to me.

Yes, ironically, it is safer to let the streets create the (common) name and leave no room for ambiguity with this formal/informal dual-nomenclature.

That way people who don't know better make misinformed comments.
Sure, why not, could be interesting
Book review: 'Bystander Society'
The best idea I heard of to solve this problem is the ancient Greek "liturgy" [0], whereby the richest citizens would be compelled to spend their money on public works such as ship construction. Scott Alexander recently made a good (though somewhat tongue in cheek) case for reviving this [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_%28ancient_Greece%29

[1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-presidential-platform
They have employment based green cards (not through marriage), it requires labor certifications with advertisement and checking local candidates: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/programs/perm...
because they're Zeiss. They made the lenses for the photos on the moon, they're not small potatoes.
Tonnage by itself is not a great comparison. E.g. one super-tanker (~250000) would have about twice the tonnage as an aircraft carrier (~150000).

There's no doubt that the US shipbuilding is stagnating, but it's not _that_ much stagnating.
In which one can additionally fit: a coffee shop, restaurants, light repair shops, tool libraries, and a bathroom for every person
In perusing your articulate musings on the comparison of Go to the 'new Basic,' I find myself immersed in a rich tapestry of language and analogy. Your skill in drawing parallels between Basic's pioneering simplicity and Go's focus on essentialism is indeed commendable. Just as Basic once stood as a beacon for accessible programming, Go emerges as its modern counterpart, eschewing the complexities epitomized by languages such as C++.

However, upon deeper reflection, it becomes evident that this elegant exposition, while a pleasure to read, treads familiar ground. The insights offered, mirroring those of the original post, rephrase rather than expand upon the discussion. It's a beautifully crafted piece, yet it stops short of contributing novel perspectives to the initial dialogue.
IIRC, switching EM noise from the microcontroller itself (at the MHz range) starts to affect the ADC/DAC. Your "16”-bit converter gives 12 useful bits and 4 bits of junk.

For an ADC, you can get back useful bits via Oversampling & Decimation, at the expense of bandwidth.
I feel like this changes absolutely nothing. Two tech giants.
As an engineer I also feel the "realness" or whatever of manufacturing a real product, but countries that don't shift into a service economy tend to struggle more: there's fewer profitable investments and not enough places to sell goods. Our liberalization policies from the 90s until recently would not let us maintain the industries, and places like Germany or China with industrial policies more favorable to manufacturing are criticized by a lot of our policy makers, economists, media, etc.
Apropos of nothing, my son and I toured the coast of Maine last summer and visited the maritime museum in Bath, including the boat tour that passes by Bath Iron Works. Very impressive facility and a highlight of our trip.
We don't really know what the future might find interesting so saving as much as possible seems like a good thing to do.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
I've had two past experiences with joining gyms. The first time, I canceled before even visiting, thanks to a state law allowing no-questions-asked cancellations within a certain period. The second time, I didn't proceed with signing up due to high-pressure sales tactics and an uncomfortable environment that included shaming and mocking. These experiences left a bitter taste.

However, since changing jobs, I've been working out at my workplace gym. It's a much better environment with friendly trainers, no pressure sales, no shaming, and no long-term contracts. I'm much happier and find myself working out more frequently than ever before.
Companies can (indirectly) ask the NLRB for a decertification vote. You're right, 'require' creates the wrong impression and was a poor choice of words on my part. Here's an article describing how firms who don't want to deal with a union approach this issue:

https://www.epi.org/publication/union-first-contract-fact-sh...
C gives you too many guns to shoot yourself in the foot. Beginners deserve a language with a helpful compiler, slightly more hand-holding, as well as more structure and convention to encourage a maintainable coding style.

You can read about how experts write their C code (like https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08/) but you aren't going to appreciate why they decide to do this. Indeed, beginners need to be able to blindly follow rules before they can critique them or invent their own coding styles.
This is a great tool. Thank you. As an international student in US with a lag of 10-12 hours with my home country, this will be very helpful in scheduling calls.
Immutable. Not immutable derived from genetics.
> with alcoholics, nicotine addicts, etc we tend to only blame the user.

I see alcohol, nicotine, guns etc regulated heavily where I live. So yes, society does take those things seriously too.

> Does your opinion hold, that we should also not "live and let live" with dysfunctional homeless alcoholics?

Of course, if they create public nuisance.
It's sine-ish. It's (1-x^2)^2 with x from -1 to 1.
I think a lot of it depends on what you mean by “large enough”.

In principle, a data set could be infinitely large in size, but not cover little edge cases here and there due to repetition. So you might be OK if you had infinite size and infinite diversity.

Even if you had very large finite data, let’s say all language ever conceived by mankind… The second you finish training, what your overfit model knows is locked in.

The world as we know it would continue to generate vast amounts of new data that you might not be able to generalize to.
Bait taken I see :)

Hands up anyone who hasn't considered a stay at the infinite hotel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...
thank your advise
The jump was due to them fixing a bug. There’s a footnote about it on the bottom of page 5.

In the Discord, they mentioned a TinyLLaMa v2, presumably that would have this bug (and another bug, footnote page 4) fixed.
The most accurate thing we can say is that no one knows what happens to consciousness after death. The evidence we have, like NDEs, doesn't support a continuation of consciousness beyond bodily disintegration.
That only works when you're doing something like Starlink or Starship's development, where losing some prototypes is fine. However, that's not how JWST was designed, so losing many prototypes of it would be very costly. If JWST were designed with the consideration that it'd be mass produced, it would not be the JWST we know today and instead would be a completely different design (a rough comparison can be between OneWeb's more standard delicate satellite design and deployment procedure vs SpaceX's heavily optimized stack of less delicate satellites just drifted into orbit).

Most space companies are still doing their prototyping in the JWST style, so losing those prototypes is costly.
Global HVDC transmission network, moving power around the globe on a dime.
Don't think of it like a transparent camera. Think of the window as a giant external periscope lens, connected to the rest of the camera with such thin fiber optics that you can't notice.
Our solar system has so many amazing things for us to explore. I hope we can get beyond greed and inequalities to become a spacefaring species.
this is pretty cool. ty for sharing.

>You can type 74 words per minute
I agree. I had this worrying idea (realisation..?) that one day, maybe triple digit years away, maybe sooner, that tiny cameras and mics the size of grains of salt will be everywhere. They will cost nothing to produce, be self-charging, interconnected to each other and created to ‘reduce crime’ or ‘make you safer’. And in the same way as forever chemicals, you can’t get rid of them. Trillions of them, in fields, the ground. Spreading around stuck to your shoes, on your car tires.

Just a crazy idea, but I think that if they could make that happen today then they would. And that part is the main point - There is no limit to surveillance anymore. I live in the UK, that realisation is in my face every day. Can’t even take a trip to Tesco without being run through facial recognition.

There is no care for the concept of privacy anymore. All the richest companies in the world don’t make their money from caring about our privacy.
I think you're misunderstanding why Mac products are more resellable than Windows ones, it has nothing to do with being "abused" or overclocked (that's such a niche thing even among gamers that it bears almost zero relation to reselling). It's because macOS itself has value to consumers, especially as only Apple hardware can run macOS (legally speaking at least, and practically, increasingly more so as Hackintoshes can't yet run on ARM hardware, so eventually they will be phased out as Apple removes features from its Intel builds over time, as they have already started doing).
Ha, I never thought of that. So true.

New Year's resolutions should be made on the first day of spring -- Mar 19 this year!
> Chemical weapons are incredibly useful

They're not. They're effective against an unprepared adversary. Any real military will have anti-chemical-weapons tactics and protection.

So this happens: you douse a building with a gas, and then walk inside and get shot by defenders in gas masks. And by the way, you also will have to wear a gas mask yourself.
What happens if Github doesn't like the content or gets leaned on by a government agency?
So the company that makes Doritos is a bunch of drug dealers?

You can hate them as much as you want but you don't solve problems as long as the incentive structure exists for it.
Care to elaborate on why you believe this
at one point Steve jobs would have been healthier if Steve jobs didn't make decisions about Steve jobs.
Providing credentials for a test account is mandatory, and as a company publishing multiple apps it’s not something they would miss.
Where are the actual content payloads stored?
It reminds me of this book:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602581/laserwriterii
I was just thinking to make ALL the glass the same tint, regardless of specialty.
>TL:DR

lol at least you are honest :)
We actually build with other countries to build up relationships and defense pacts.

It is a complicated dance, but it would be nicer to bring back some jobs here in this category.
Thank you for reporting. I am looking into it.
Objecting to someone's retrograde ethics is not resentiment. People in power ought to understand the world better than Musk does. His ethical and intellectual facility is inverse to his net worth. It's ridiculous and horrifying that people aren't shaming him until he crawls into a hole.
Huge capital requirements, exclusive contracts with the government (naval), overseas competition (merchant, recreation), and not a ton of room for growth.
Please don't troll on HN.

Theft is taking something away from someone. Copying by definition doesn't. Pretending it's equivalent to, or even similar to, "theft" is ridiculous.
It should be live today.
Yea, but your choice of neighborhood doesn't lock you in to only being allowed to shop in a single supermarket.
So what? I could C2 a botnet right now with base64'ed hacker news comments. You don't need a captcha to register an account.
Macs are notorious for thermal throttling, partly due to inadequate cooling and party a policy to only turn on the fan once it's already throttling. This hasn't changed with Apple Silicon.
Sure, but how do you build fiber optics like that? Especially so each "pixel" has to shoot out hundreds (?) of separate fibers to cover every possible angle to achieve the holographic effect?

For just a 1MP display, we're talking like hundreds of millions of fibers? That fit in some thin transparent layer? How?
Those costs would not be borne by Apple, though.
Actually when Wirth split from the Algol68 working group, he first created his own alternate successor to Algol60 - AlgolW (W=Wirth), which was still in use in 1979 when I took CS in college.

It seems odd for Wirth to be arguing so much for user needs and then come out with a language like Pascal which favored minimalism over practicality.
Well written, but man it leaves me kind of depressed. Maybe that speaks to the power of the writing.
There is a big difference between software being the safety net for humans, and humans being the safety net for software.
Considering

- the average processing time is 24h

- Apple advises you that things slow down between 22-27 Dec

would you say submitting on December 12th, with the goal of being ready by the second of January, is “submitting early”? Seems already extremely conservative.

In my years working with mobile, I never saw any review take longer than three days, ever. Nineteen days is an eternity and probably indicates some internal commotion going on. Who has ever sent their app for review a full month before release?
Since 2020, gyms in NY state are required to offer an easy means of cancellation
And who's to say investigations like this won't lead to some OTHER unexpected discovery. Wouldn't be the first time a researcher was looking for A but stumbled onto B.
It's a commonly cited source of head misalignment. I'm not sure if that claim is true or not though.
Seasons have gotten warmer or colder but I don't think they've shifted.

No matter how much colder or snowier it used to be in December, it was that much even worse at the start of February. December has never been "midwinter".
How so? I have iPhone and have a group text with 3 family members on android and it seems to work fine.
The methodology behind those charts seems... suspect
not all boeings are bad, in fact, most are fantastically reliable, except for the newer versions with incredibly cheap design, that places extraordinary demands on pilots and their knowledge. There is a welchian management culture that is cutting costs to the bone.
I can’t remember where I’ve seen it but there’s some interesting work done Michael Levin in this space. Something along the lines of how cells alone can have a goal but within a group exhibit different goals. This can go from cell to tissue to organ, all the way up to society. I’m not a biologist so I’m butchering his ideas, just writing this if anyone finds it interesting to look him up.
> If you want to buy Windows, you have to install Internet Explorer and agree not to install Netscape Navigator.

If you want to buy iMessage, you have to use iOS/macOS.

You might be confused because it actually works in both directions. iMessage achieves a large network by being bundled with iPhones, then the large network creates market power and iMessage is tied to Apple devices which pressures other people to buy those devices, even when they'd have preferred not to, in order to avoid the green bubble.

This is one of the reasons this kind of tying is prohibited. Leveraging a dominant position in market A increases your share of market B and leveraging a dominant position in market B increases your share of market A, repeat until the market is concentrated into an oligopoly of vertically integrated conglomerates or a monopoly.

> Walled gardens aren’t antitrust violations.

Why not? Anti-competitive practices don't become otherwise just because you say "it's for your own good" as you lock the door.