skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal experience is that quite often "luck" is just someone winning via statistics.

After all, when you try something that has a 1% probability of success seventy times, it becomes a coin toss whether you succeed at least once.

I was "lucky" with the apartment I bought because I've become obsessed with checking listings and at one point was doing it several times a day.

Took eight months to find the right property and now when I talk with people looking for a place everyone swears that there's nothing for sale in my area.

The truth is that there is - 3-4 times a year and you have to call the same day, because it gets bought immediately.
Looks great! I'd like to try it but the play store link has this error:

> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.
Hey, that's fair! I'm not a big autocomplete user so I never thought of this, but it's a good argument.

> I now notice this in other places too, like I hate how in JavaScript you do `import { foo } from "moduleBar"`. I'd much rather do `from "moduleBar" import { foo }`.

Personally I prefer languages that don't make you import at all ;)
Yes - you can measure the mass and electrical effect of a positron just like you can measure the mass and electrical effects of an electron (a positron is perfectly equivalent to an electron in all known ways except that it has positive charge instead of negative charge, so it would be repelled away by an atomic nucleus, and it would be attracted by an electron).
Luck has been associated with "happiness" in many cultures across the last few thousand years. There is a concept of management accounting of "rewarding for b while hoping for a". I think the soft focus that allows for creativity helps "luck", but everyone who "knows better than you" wants to proud out good behavior by rewarding for b.
Santa Cruz del Islote, where more than 800 people live on a 2.4-acre island
I would say Rye does not have special forms; in LISP aiui, lists are evaluated by looking up the definition of first symbol, then evaluating the rest of the list, then apply the rest of the list to the definition. Except when the first symbol is one of a small number; then the list is evaluated fifferently.

Rye's evaluator seems more complicated, but the forms are regular. A block is always evaluated the same way doesn't change how it's evaluated based on what the first element is.

You can have lambdas without special forms in Rye because blocks aren't evaluated eagerly.

Of course I could be way off; I've been having fun this morning poking at Rye for the first time and my Lisp / Scheme exposure is limited to Uni classes eons ago and a resulting allergy to parentheses.

Seeing the meta-circular Rye would tell us for sure :)
Word of warning: the typescript compiler is not a particularly fast evaluator of recursive list manipulation programs, which is what these kinds of types are.

They’re great in small doses where you really need them, but overuse or widespread use of complex types will make your build slower. It’s much better to avoid generics or mapped types if you can. The typings for a tagged template literal (without digit format specifiers like %d4) don’t require any generics.

I love to write code like this, but I’m guilty of over using fancy types and I flinch when I see a typescript build profile showing 45s+ spent on generic types I wrote without realizing the cost.
But how exactly do you increase the diversity? Our diet tends to be mostly staple / regular. And probiotics and limited fermented foods are the only input "sources" I know of?
I had an Alienware (Dell) that would take forever to configure itself when plugged into a dock that my coworkers with Macbooks used with no problems and half the devices wouldn’t work.

Later I got a Latitude with a matching Dell dock and those have worked together just great for years.
The banksters are aware. Hence, doormen, gated communities, and commuting by helicopter.
So about three Apples, right? Ah, or one Apple, one Microsoft and one Nvidia.
Rather, with this, you can learn to speak English like a Frenchman.

For any English word that came from French, use the French cognate, and pronounce it in the French way. Or at least the latter.
Anglo-saxon names would make it more likely that English is their first language (and therefore more likely to be fluent), which is the language used in these articles.

A bit of a stretch though.
> the Windows/Arm64 build of Visual Studio

There is no such thing. "Visual Studio for Mac" is a re-spin of MonoDevelop, and doesn't compare to the actual VS in any way, shape or form.

The closest you can get to VS-on-ARM-Mac right now is using a JetBrains IDE, but, as useful as these are, it's really no competition...
This is a lost cause because of MMOs. Once the community is gone, it essentially ceases to exist, even if the servers are still running. Recorded gameplay and written accounts are more valuable.
Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android
I... well, I will be honest, this is the first time I've heard someone arguing that street facing CCTV was meant to catch _that_ kind of wrongdoing.

For the German context, and for the kind of CCTV I'm talking about, it makes no sense thou.
I love that season. The most boring season to me is the 5th season where they jumped the shark and the stupid journo. I really like the "Greek" and his crew, especially Vandos. His line about "why can't they just kick the ball with their feet" cracks me up with his confusion over basketball.

But why do you seem to have this thing that union members are above committing crimes like those depicted you've called out? We know that unions are heavily influenced by organized crime. Why do you think that even if the union isn't controlled by OC, why would you think individual members wouldn't be susceptible to working side hustles?
does it sound like, xcode certified developer, stackoverflow certified developer ?
Time dilation is not necessarily a problem, it can even be a boon - depending on exactly what you want to obtain. In particular, time dilation means that you can have a crew that actually lives for the duration of a journey that takes hundreds or even thousands of years from our point of view (e.g. in an accelerated space-ship).
Germany got rid of their nuke plants and bet billions on solar in a non-sunny country. They were already in a tough spot before losing Russian natural gas and are now having to heavily subsidize industry due to skyrocketing energy costs. A lot of groups in the US are trying to do the same and only a few regulators (e.g. NERC) see the danger. I'm guessing the Netherlands has similar groups that are not looking at the big picture and these groups are influential. Again... decarbonization needs to happen, but we need to think about how.
And I've never understood this line of reasoning. Nintendo made it and sold it to people. They didn't rent it. There was no lease with a defined expiration. None of that was ever presented to the user when they bought the game. It's tucked away in some TOS users are asked to click through post-sale where they essentially say "yeah you gave us money to access this but we can permanently revoke your access at any time for any reason git wrekt".

I don't care if the servers cost money. Boo hoo. Nintendo sold access to people. They should be held responsible for upholding their end of the deal. At the very least they should stop being able to use misleading terms like "buy", the terms of the deal should be much more strictly defined instead of this "we can do whatever" nonsense, and the relevant parts of that deal should be made clear and apparent to consumers prior to any exchange of money.

I don't think it's "censorship", but I do think the way it currently works is unethical and should be illegal.
Then can I shamelessly plug Tembo - Bilingual Stories (iOS/Android) to you. We offer audiobooks for some of our titles, so you can listen and learn simultaneously. It's a big undertaking to editing them all in-house, but we have audiobooks available for about 30 stories across our courses.

https://www.tembo.app
I think in this context 'state' means 'state which changes over time', not necessarily the shape of the state at rest.

Turning it off and on again will fix mutable state, not poorly-typed state.
The effect of A.I. will be that people quickly get to something they think is 90% ready but really just 10% done in terms of labor hours. Many projects will outright fail but the ones that can’t afford to fail will be desperate and over a barrel. If you have the right attitude and skills you may well be able to force them to pay a large premium.

The trouble w/ commercial AI certifications is that they’ll have a short shelf-life. Sure GPT-4 is pretty good now but as people get to understand how LLMs work you will be able to get equivalent or better performance at 10% or 1% of the inference cost and all Open AI can do is reengineer their product radically to be competitive. If it succeeds you have new stuff to learn, if it fails it is like getting a certification in using a film camera.

The real certification in A.I. is to get a MEng or PhD. The MEng will occupy you for a year and hopefully bring you right up to the present, the PhD takes so long the scene is going to be very different when you get out of school.
Author here - I do get this critique, and of course API design is subjective, but there was a rationale behind the design choices. Putting each policy in its own package allowed the API to be slightly more concise. And having the API use a generic to represent a function's result type allowed different parts of the API to be independent and composable while still ensuring that result types align. A bit more on that here:

https://failsafe-go.dev/type-safety/
This leads to a not found page, was the app taken down?
Dewar, actually. Originally Dewar flask, after Sir James Dewar.
You are justifying an illegal war of aggression here.

Claiming some nebulous security concerns does not justify invading a sovereign nation. Ukraine did express their desire to join NATO, that is their right as a sovereign nation. Russia does not have a right to control what their neighbours do. Your argument is denying Ukrainian Sovereignty.

Nuclear weapons are a special case, which is why we have treaties today that limit certain types of them. Cuba is not a comparable case here at all.
My current and last laptop was a Thinkpad T15G gen2 (circa 2021), and even with their triple display dock it could never do triple 4k/60 out of it using linux in any stable fashion, so I really don't know how StarTech is accomplishing this. There's simply not enough bandwidth for 3x displays at 4k/60 let alone 4x, not to mention all the other usb things attaching to the dock. Others do it using the horrible DisplayLink conversion chips that have only ever provided wonky drivers for any platform, worst off of all Linux, where I won't even consider these as a Linux user, but even Windows/Mac tend to be trash.

I don't see DisplayLink listed in their chips on this dock, but I have to wonder if they're using some other chip now, hoping for less suck than for DisplayLink, but would likely require drivers, and thus DOA for Linux (and thus not mentioned in OS support).

The biggest problem with this or most any dock is they can't support DP passive adapters (stated in StarTech docs), which kills most use-cases for using larger format displays as I do (3x 50" curved LCD's). They only have HDMI input, and end up having to use 3x powered adapters that were another ~$100 each, individual power bricks, extra cables, extra mess.

All these docks end up impractical for real world usage sadly. I wish someone might one day consider the possible use cases vs. creating some random crap-gadget that really doesn't work for anyone but the most rare and optimal use cases.
Also in the rest of Latin America. In Brazil jacaranda flowers tend to be red close to scarlet, mostly.

And there is also the wonderful blossom of ipê/handroanthus/poui, in yellows and purples.
We added it to Notion a few months before it showed up in GitHub
Classic state management must be taught and learned to understand the why of current state management solutions and why so many come and go.
Isn’t there a host SSH key involved?

The server itself may have been physically breached, and if so you can’t trust anything. But, if your host key matches, you should be confident that at least you’re logging into the correct machine (there was no IP takeover).
I write a lot of GO? Do you think I'm unaware of its warts? Do you think I'm not sick of typing err != nil? Do you think I dont sometimes cut corners and NOT deal with that error on the spot or just _ it cause it's a throw away chunk of code?

Pick a language, any one, and there's probably a post by someone complaining about a bad design decision or a wart on its fuzzy ass... Nothing is perfect.

Yes go has flaws... I find that first class, high speed, testing makes the fact that I screw these things up all the time moot. Test, fix move on to the next project.
An idea generally becomes new to the world when it is published.

If you claim that you privately had the idea 15 years ago, it's possible; you just need credible, and credibly dated evidence.
The Texas Monthly is not known for short concise prose. The pint of some effective communication is to be concise, some is to provide as much detail as possible. More and more I see comments like this that assume that everyone wants a bullet point list as the entire article like they can only handle tweet length content. Some people enjoy the longer prose providing the hows/whens/wheres/whys of how the points were arrived upon.
Libya and Afghanistan?
A few people have raised this. I'll take a look. Unfortunately the App isn't available in all locations.
Good to know.

Have they ever deployed anything they want to devices?
Cryptography Tier List
Yeah, Rust makes the handling of "None" values explicit, even if you want to ignore it with `unwrap()`
The drawing part is pretty straightforward. It’s the stack-based approach and reverse Polish notation thing that trips me off.

Very cool stuff, but not what I do day to day, so it’s a bit intimidating at first.
I actually built 'Tembo - Bilingual Stories' while learning German myself, so hate to plug it on this thread, but we've got lots of German content, maybe you'll find something that interests you?

https://www.tembo.app
Push-based is an interesting choice here. I've built a couple push based reactive libraries myself, and they have some downsides which the authors don't seem to address.

Push often leads to wasted computations via updated values that don't end up getting used downstream either due to later updates affecting the same downstream nodes or simply because a value isn't being actively observed. Batching changes to signals can avoid the first cause (and it seems their execution model is implicitly batched by default?), but it doesn't solve the second.

Push-Pull systems (which don't seem to be mentioned) solve this by pushing invalidation of signals down the graph, then on pull any signal that is invalid gets recomputed. Handling cycles in the reactive graph is also easier with this approach, rather than getting stuck in an infinite update loop, if something is invalidated it's consumers do not need to be invalidated again.

I think the effort of creating RP languages is definitely a worth-while endeavor, but I'm not sure that they should have no imperative code, as seen with the recursive example taking things to the imperative or functional code level can have benefits. It would be interesting to see a language that is by default reactive, but has an escape hatch for imperative/functional logic.
USD hasn't been a high interest rate environment since the 80's. And it's wrong to assert a direct causality from government spending money to interest rates going up. Rather what happened is the existence of actual price inflation (through whatever combination of supply shortages, legislative/executive government spending, and algorithmic collusion) caused the Federal Reserve to have to pull up from their ZIRP autopilot corporate handout of the past several decades.

For financial sustainability, we should all be pushing for the current moderate interest rates to be the new normal for the next several decades - enough time for 30 year mortgages and T-bills to mature, so asset prices correct. Since the Federal Reserve hasn't demonstrated any ability of self restraint, we should be supporting purposeful government spending on real investments which will prevent the Fed from dropping rates again. Furthermore it is much nicer for the economy at large when monetary creation (and thus price inflation) happens in deliberate areas needing strategic investment, instead of bubbles of whatever arbitrary asset class the bankers choose to run up each month.
It draws a straight line.
I recently read a comment by an icelander saying that they're basically just the same as the rest of the world, incapable of punishing bankers and rich people. Just that on this occasion, the banking sector being so small, something like 90% of it failed, so they really had no choice but to jail some people.

Definitely hearsay, but it really saddened me.
I planted some Jacarandas from seed last year, and forgot about them in my chaos garden. I then had to move, and realized I had four of them growing very close to each other and another tree, so I (without much research) transplanted them and brought them with me.

Sadly, all but one lost all of their branches and leaves, but they are slowly starting to grow new ones. Jacarandas are all over Southern California, and I hope my little trees grow large and contribute to the beautiful spring bloom in a few years once they fully recover from the transplant shock!

I am also going to experiment with Bonsai’ing one or two of them, they look very cool.

Planting trees from seed is truly special, I highly recommend it to anyone who has a little bit of space and an abundance of seeds to pick from nearby!
__modern__ reactors are build to be rarely opened and burn off as much plutonium as possible. But that's obviously not how the french nuclear program started.

Only doing nuclear research for military purposes is frowned upon by your neighbours and makes you look suspicous, and only having a civilian program is super complex and expensive and doesn't even make you untouchable.
Luckily building the infrastructure for a nuclear arsenal goes hand in hand with building the infrastructure for civilian uses, so you have a buy one, get one free situation.

>> The National Assembly approved the initial nuclear energy plan for a five-year term on July 24, 1952. The plan sought to build two experimental reactors at the Marcoule nuclear site, and construction began in 1955. Shortly thereafter, the construction of a third reactor commenced. In addition to generating electricity, these reactors would produce plutonium in sufficient quantities to support a civil advanced reactor program and potentially a military one, at a cost three times lower than highly enriched uranium.[69][70][71]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France%27s_civil_nu...

>> In 1957 Euratom was created, and under cover of the peaceful use of nuclear power the French signed deals with West Germany and Italy to work together on nuclear weapons development.[18] The Chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer told his cabinet that he "wanted to achieve, through EURATOM, as quickly as possible, the chance of producing our own nuclear weapons".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_and_weapons_of_mass_des...
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Walking for exercise, where there is not much/often stopping at intersections works amazingly well. Your heart rate builds up in a different way.

And all that continuous walking gets a little faster and faster after a few months and can turn into jogging/running on it's own, except you have learned how to maintain your heart rate a bit more.
Oh great timing! I was just starting to play with building a toy project (https://github.com/bpevs/multireader) for practicing Spanish while reading books with my e-reader, but frankly, I'm just building it because I haven't found an app that works for me, and I'd rather spend time actually actually learning language...

Just playing with your app for a bit, and it's pretty cool! had a few questions though:

1. Wondering about the decision of using English books and translating pieces into other languages vs starting with (for example) a Spanish book, and translating the other way? Also, would something like this be a future thought of plan? Because currently I'm trying to read more popular books in my target language, rather than English books (right now, my toy app is just highlight arbitrary text -> send to azure translate). I tried to upload my book into your app in Spanish, but I guess it only works rn if the source is in English? Basically, a mode for even more immersion would be killer (Ala either full-target-languge mode or upload target language books).

2. The practice mode is pretty cool! I like this format of "complete the sentence". It looks like it's not based on book content at all, right? Would be cool to practice based on what I'm reading.

3. I'm reading on an e-reader, so I'd reeeeally like a no-animation/no-scroll mode. On an e-reader, the paginated page refreshing can help to reduce ghosting. Even better if there could be an e-reader mode that can flash the screen to further reduce ghosting issues on those devices.
I did find it amusing that one of them, in this discussion of life changing trends, was most concerned they might be forced to use an electric or hybrid car.
That's clever trick but I think it is a mistake in the long run. It removes incentives from putting effort into compiling all libraries as native code, instead effectively fossilizing x86_64 as another weird vestigal part of Windows applications.
Wasn’t this idea an ACX post? I am absolutely sure Scott wrote that someone should create this.
I think they're both pretty reasonable questions!
Hardware has already been as optimized as it can be. (It's possible to do better than Intel, but it's not possible for Intel to do better than they are already doing.)
Why isn't preprint review being adopted?
> and also isn't anymore with wasm

I don't buy this, considering that wasm still doesn't actually have access to the Web APIs that JavaScript has access to (and relies on JS to even be loaded in the first place).

In my opinion, if that's what counts as being a supported language, then JS was never the only supported language to begin with since you could always compile other languages to run on the web through JavaScript (for example Emscripten with the asm.js target predates WebAssembly). The only thing that wasm currently offers over the previous status quo is that it's faster (for some workloads).