skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My younger ones use Messenger Kids and it gives me some confidence that Meta has thought about the problem and have solutions that actually work for all parties.
I was an uncool outcast in school. It has affected me negatively to this day, 20+ years later.

At least a handful of the "cool kids" from my school are wildly successful millionaires.
More magic (thus less required explicitness) and less involvement with memory management are typically considered as friendly traits in programming languages.
Virtually impossible as Anne Wojcicki holds 20% of the outstanding shares and 49% of the voting power of total outstanding shares. That's essentially dictator-level power over the company. I believe the next largest shareholder is Richard Branson. Source: https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

Despite the promising drug development news, the CEO signaled last month that she was willing to let public investors get hosed, with a low ball take-private offer of $0.40/share. I believe this pissed both public investors and the board members off. I'm not sure if the positive phase 2 results were icing on the cake.

Quite honestly this company is a ripe target for acquisition by a biopharma company like GSK or Roche.
Is anyone even chomping at the bit to hear a pedant explain how "chatting with a text document" isn't the most precise way to phrase this concept that we all understand?
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That maybe very well be true, but it still doesn't indicate any problem with the McCaffrey sentence.

Also note that it's the start of the second chapter, so some of those nouns may have been introduced already.
TIL bats migrate. https://www.batcon.org/flight-of-the-night/
Thank you for the valuable feedback! I applied your suggestions, in particular sticking with pacman and explaning my encryption and PCRs values.
Forget doing any of that until the OmegaStar finally ships, though.
you realize they exploded, right? potentially as someone's child was nearby. or playing with it. or in the middle of a grocery story.
It's fine to believe this. But you should be aware it's a partisan political opinion, and it's inflammatory to present it as an objective fact. Is this site really the place for partisan political opinions?
> And what's more, you haven't actually produced a formally solvable problem definition, that we could analyze for complexity and computability, because you rely on two completely unspecified functions. Where is the formal defintion of a button?

Well your statement was underspecified. You said "I want this button bigger". There are procedures to translate informal statements to formal ones, but one basic step is underspecified referents are delegated to abstractions that encapsulate those details, so "this button" designates some kind of model of a button, and "I" refers to a subject outside the system thereby implying some kind of interactive process to query the subject whether the model is satisfactory, eg. a dialog prompt asking "Is this button big enough now?"

You call these skills "inherent", but humans are not magical. We employ bug riddled poorly specified procedures for doing this kind of interpretive work, and LLMs have already started to do this too, and they'll only get better. Is asking a deterministic LLM to generate a formal specification or program to achieve some result a formal process? I don't think these lines are as clear as many think, not anymore.
Not at all, that's why we have moderators. Hacker news is interesting because they stay focused on the right topics. If you let people just talk about whatever they want, you're just gonna get an inferior Reddit. Topic != "Whatever we want to talk about", the topic is very often the technical and technological aspects of a story or article. Talking about politics on HN is definitely "off topic".
Don't get me wrong, I love the JVM.

The unfortunately common irrational aversion to JVM aside, there's also the fear of "using it wrong".
Which, to me, looks very subpar rather than companies paying taxes in the country where they actually make profit
It uses a real transcript.
There's no way it's close to Python. Where are the benchmarks?

https://github.com/sh3244/swift-vs-python

Shows a huge difference, as expected for a typed memory-safe compiled language using LLVM versus an interpreted language with a global interpreter lock.
My original comment doesn't claim these parties are exactly fascist or nazi, but that it's reasonable to call them fascist and nazi. Given we have the hindsight of WWII, flirting with fascism or nazism is bad enough. One doesn't need to tick every box and grow a Chaplin mustache.

If a bunch of fools join a party with roots in, and affection for, fascism, then decent people ought just to call them 'fascists'. There are only so many hours in a day. If an Italian, post '45, still has any doubt that fascism was a disaster, then he or she is a dangerous idiot: not worth splitting hairs over.

If others want to wade in a metaphorical lake of vomit and entertain excuses like 'only some of them are nazis' or 'the roman salute might have been ironic' or 'they just said that to trigger the woke leftists' then fine, that's their business.

I'm too old to bother. I'm not going to weep myself remorsefully to sleep over calling cretins 'fascists' or 'nazis'

One might as well argue over whether it's acceptable to call a lady who occasionally kills kittens, a 'cat killer'; with the opposing view being "but she's not a career cat killer"
It's a good one to add as a custom font on Kindle/ebook devices
Which is reference counting, not garbage collection. Ref counts free when count = 0. Garbage collection scans all object pointers and looks for loops / no missing pointers.
There is kotlin native, which generates native code, using the same llvm that c++, rust and swift use. It doesn't have to use virtual machine, it is just one of targets.
We recently had a developer join our team and he got stuck setting up his dev environment.

We use a .dev domain as a localhost alias, and turns out his ISP’s DNS wouldn’t resolve 127.0.0.1 (or whatever it is) for the .dev domain. Changing his resolver at the network level to 1.1.1.1 fixed it.

I imagine there are lots of difficult support tickets for app devs, and at a certain point they just hardcode the DNS to remove one variable from the equation when debugging bug reports.
I some point hoped that IBM and Red Hat would evolve into a ‘reverse takeover,’ where Red Hat’s culture would eventually take precedence over IBM’s. According to many friends, that outcome is still far from happening
like I don't know, someone's spouse or child? Someone standing next to the thing when it's sitting on a night stand?
Is it possible to write code in Xcode, press compile and have the debugger show me where an error is when compiling for linux.

If yes, please show me the way because I've failed and I've given it an earnest try.
My 10 year old kid is smart enough to bypass the ignition key on a car therefore licensure requirements and car keys are stupid.

In reality, your smart 10 year old isn’t powering the toxic social dynamics of social media. It’s the armies of average intelligence kids seeking engineered dopamine hits.

Network effects work for network dissolution just the same as they work for network growth, which is of course why Meta would never voluntarily do anything that could kick off the popular kids, even if your prodigy could bypass it with no problem.

Note: “All those kids are already addicted and so they’ll be highly motivated too!” is a call to action, not to inaction.
Faulty QLED film is a better outcome than my initial thought that they were redefining LED as QLED.
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html
Good luck! If you are anything like me, it may take six months just to feel human again.

There is very little I miss about working, and that is mainly getting to talk to really smart people. There is also a sense of loss for the person that you used to be --a high achiever--, and a growing acceptance of the person you are now --a retiree--.
I think the complaint is the global runtime namespace, not source modules. Statics live forever, and extensions in any library on a type apply to all uses in the runtime (with no guarantees about conflicts).

Mostly that's minimizable with good practice, but can be annoying to those used to hierarchical namespacing and static memory reclaimed after the class becomes unreachable.
My first thought was "I wonder if the C programming language would be on that list" and sure enough... Worth noting that, although the book is 45+ years old, it's aged incredibly well (I know, there have been multiple "patches" applied since the first edition). But considering how books that came out 5 years ago are wildly outdated today, while this one is just as relevant as it was when it first came out is a huge achievement. Major props to Ritchie and Kernighan.
I can't find any viable alternative. Keyboard is much faster than those click and release interfaces. Keyboards also have repeat keys, when you press a character for a long time you can actually press and depress the shift key and see the change in the line of characters input. This is extremely useful feature in games, graphic design software and other applications.

Generation of keystroke based on the up event, beside been incompatible with repeating keys for long strokes, will slow down typing significantly, as it requires tracking timing pressing keys for longer duration. I'm pretty sure that this isn't only effect of me being used to track keypress timing on the way down, but an unavoidable result of the duration of the action.

Waiting for up event on contemporary GUI, when the contempt UI is a sluggish fit-to-nothing dirty touchscreen in a public kiosk is sensible. When you know an interface will yield more errors than intended input it is only sensible to assume that any input is a mistake unless the user is making an effort to validate it.
Tax avoidance is a legal problem instead of a tech problem, but it has many parallels wherever there are bad incentives. These are fundamentally not pro-social activities, but trying to get an unfair advantage through loopholes.

More computer programmers might moonlight as SEO gurus, if search engines didn't put up at least a token amount of resistance against scummy low-effort SEO tactics.

Fewer tax avoidance accountants would still be tax avoidance accountants, if we made a bigger effort to prevent it. (And that doesn't mean accountants would have to be programmers instead, there are many other kinds of talent)
I have one browser setup to do DNS differently than another. I don't want to have to set it at a system level and then need multiple systems just to run 2 browsers with different DNS lookup
I did find it easy to read. But the font size on this website is also larger than average (at least on my mobile phone), so that is a variable that would have to be controlled first.
That's what I call a "let them eat cake" response.
High finance and crypto are two places where a high concentration of technical skills intersect with using those same skills to game our financial and legal systems.
That take feels kinda... Detached from the average person to me? I don't know how to take it, just like when you hear gates saying a banana cost 10$. Common Joe would benefit much more from taxes being actually paid than profits being accumulated by companies just so they can crush the competition more and earn more and (...)
If this is superior public transit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Xg7ui5mLA

than I would say no thank you.
It is slower, like probably ~3x but lets not exaggerate that it ranks around python

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
@knodi123, what is partisan about fleabagmange's statement? They don't mention any politician, political party, or even political ideology.
it does, I thought ARC is more performant than GC and has no stop-the-world issue,thus not a GC
Clicking on a kebab and getting a clearly-labeled “scan document” option seems like an eminently followable clue. It’s not like it’s a minuscule inscrutable icon three levels down.
I seriously doubt there is any way at all for software to trigger a dead short, and even if you did, the path would burn out quickly and the hardware only BMS part would cut power due to the massive voltage drop.
Single core performance is why people have bought Intel over AMD historically
There are procedures for translating informal statements to formal ones. If I submit such informal statements to an LLM and ask it to generate a spec or program to achieve some result, that can be made repeatable. There are various arrangements to make this more robust, like having another LLM generate test cases to check the work of the other. Does this qualify?
No. Maybe in a decade or three.
Here is a screenshot of some sample text in VS Code on Windows: https://imgur.com/7BZS3Pp

And here's an action shot: https://imgur.com/sudNqWM
AT&T fined $13M for data breach after giving customer bill info to vendor
You're right that the hilbert curve only visits certain points in the unit square, and never a (non-rational,non-rational) point. While the Wikipedia article doesn't seem to mention it, other sources like [1] mention that the definition of a space-filling curve is one that comes arbitrarily close to any point within its space. I think you would be able to see that the iteration of the hilbert curve does get arbitrarily close to (say) the point (sqrt(2)/2, sqrt(2)/2).

[1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Geometry/PSFC
True, but "stout Cortez" sounds better than "stout Balboa" ;)
I have one biff against otel, it's not possible to stream a trace. You have to build a big object in memory that is not suitable for a long-running process. And because of that it's not possible to start it somewhere and finish it somewhere else
> but god forbid one or two people dying pursuing true exploration as volunteers.

Given what happened to first dog sent to the space - they might not know what they’re signing up for.
I keep seeing this line of "reasoning". You realize that me being at home makes your life marginally _better_, don't you? There's one less car on the road creating traffic and pollution. There's one less guy in the line at starbucks. There's more real estate opening up for purposes besides mindlessly filling offices. But you'd rather make your own life marginally worse as long as it makes mine significantly worse.
So are you telling us when you prepared your recent tax return, you spent zero time ensuring you paid only the required amount?

Avoiding paying taxes you are not legally required to pay is not tax evasion.
More like how many people with degrees in Business go into Management Consulting, would like to join a startup as a Product Manager, or accountants that want to be Associates at a VC firm rather than work a big 4.

But even for programmers, plenty of people make the decision to go into programming or medicine or law because they are well paid and respected careers. And interests in secondary school and university are influenced by parents, teachers and the culture promoting certain directions. Kids these days are bombarded by STEM everything.
Regrettable. I suppose the alternative path is to let them go bankrupt and to get bought out of bankruptcy. That should wipe out all equity holders. If you’re a potential bidder, get your financing or cash lined up.
it is apparently on Mac and arguably with good reason. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41572770
Galeon[1] used to truncate tab titles in a similar way to this.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeon
That sounds very unpleasant. I'm sorry. With all respect, though, I think we can agree that that's an issue with the reader, not the writer? If I read a novel with a lot of Vietnamese characters and locations, say, I might well have some difficulty telling them apart, but that doesn't mean that Vietnamese names are bad writing.
What am I missing here? Reading the article, it appears that Firefox is the browser that seems to be bypassing.
Hezbollah was founded in 1982. With benefit of hindsight we can see that while Israel's Lebanon Invasion in 1980s was successful in curbing the PLO who perpetrated the massacre, they created a more formidable adversary in form of Hezbollah.
What if time travel is only possible once?
Imagine the multiverse. All possible histories. In a possible universe where time travel is invented it is used, using time travel alters the past. The past conditions are necessary for the invention of time travel.
Time travel when used immediately facilitates all the possible uses of itself and changes the past so much that it deletes itself.

You can use it, but in doing so you remove the conditions for creating time travel. You can use it once and then you and your entire timeline cease to exist.
In such conditions I might reserve the use of time travel for things like preventing an unlivable hellscape and not waste it on attending a party with balloons.
> Students need to know that this feeling is the norm when it comes to learning math.

Cedric Villani, Field medalist, was saying the same thing. The problem is that not everyone is equally stupid, and if you're too stupid, you won't get the job or be a low performer in your field/team.
Brexit is 'stifling' exports and imports, report finds
Improving IRS tax collection enforcement could generate significant funds

In fiscal year 2021 the IRS managed more than $4.1 trillion in tax revenue. The annual tax gap was estimated at $688 billion in 2021, with $625 billion remaining uncollected even after enforcement efforts.

16.7 percent.
If you do need the lower-level control, Apple does still recommend `getaddrinfo`. It handles NAT64 translation for IPv6-only carrier networks:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...
> IMHO PC gaming and Nintendo have relatively little overlap (e.g. compared to PS and Xbox at least).

That was true back in the Wii era, because there was nothing remarkable about the Wii apart from its input method. It was "just another home console" to most developers, so why bother going through the effort to port their games from more powerful consoles down to the Wii, where they will just look bad, run poorly, and have weird controls?

With the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo found huge success in third party titles because everyone who made a game was enthusiastic about being able to play their game portably, and the Switch made that possible with hardware that was architecturally similar to other consoles and PCs (at least by comparison to previous handheld gaming consoles), which made porting feasible without a complete rewrite.

In my opinion, basically the only console games that aren't available on Switch at this point are the very most recent crop of high-end games, which the Switch is too old to run, as well as certain exclusives. If the Switch were still able to handle all the third party ports, then I don't even know if Nintendo would be interested in a Switch 2, but they do seem to care about the decent chunk of money they're making from third party games.

The overlap with PC is the same as the overlap between PC and other consoles... which is quite a lot, but doesn't include certain genres like RTSes. They've tried bringing Starcraft to console before, and that wasn't very well received for obvious reasons, haha

> It's not obvious that they were the first time and still did fine, why would they change their approach this time

I'm not sure I was saying they would change their approach... the Switch 1 is over 7 years old at this point. I was just saying they're preparing the next generation to last the same amount of time, which means finding sufficiently powerful hardware. The Switch 1 was sufficiently powerful, even for running lots of "impossible" ports throughout its lifetime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENECyFQPe-4

All of that to say, I am a big fan of the Switch OLED. I'm honestly ready to sell my ROG Ally, just because I never use it. But, being a bit of a contradiction, I am also extremely interested in the PS5 Pro. My PS5 has been a great experience, but I wish it had graphical fidelity that was a bit closer to my PC... without the inconvenience of Windows. For a handheld, I care a lot about portability (small size), battery life, and low hassle (not Windows, and not requiring tons of tweaking of graphics settings to get a good experience), and the Switch OLED does a great job of those things, while having access to a surprisingly complete catalog of both first-party and third-party games.
In NEXTSTEP, yes, but not macOS.
Needs more KIM-1.

The KIM-1 (and MOS Programming and Hardware) manuals are out there — as is "The First Book of KIM."
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Also if I can make a late addition: vouch for comments which you believe may have been unfairly flagged or killed. That also happens on Highly Contentious Discussions.

AFAIU mods see flags and vouches and will occasionally step in. Their bandwidth is limited however.

(I've emailed dang over this moderation issue, and in the case of this specific story. The mods do what they can.)
And most important questions: why is the government so expensive, do we really need all of this, is it efficient? How is the efficiency evaluated?
> Is that fair to say given that it's been found illegal?

Those activities were not illegal at the time. If the laws have changed, then as a tax paying entity, these people/businesses will have to comply with the new laws and/or remove themselves from the jurisdiction where these laws preside.
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I think SIL's Andika font [1] is designed with similar goals, although I think informed more by teaching reading. I didn't see any large samples, but the font seems a little subtler. Presumably, given the name, the Braille Institute's readers are more visually impaired than SIL's, so for those us with less impairment, maybe SIL's would be more readable?

OpenDyslexic [2] is another interesting font. I've heard that asymmetry helps dyslexic readers, and (given a cursory glance) they seem to have done a good job having asymmetry and style. I've also heard that SIL's font is helpful for dyslexics, but that was a while back and now they have multiple font styles, so I'm not sure if the one above is the one or not.

I didn't realize this until I worked on some software for dyslexic readers, but the normal computer font makes bdpq look pretty much identical except for rotation. It has a minimalist elegance, but for new/foreign readers, it's pretty subtle. I remember learning Chinese and had to spend quite some time with two characters, which differed only with one have a dot and one a short vertical line at top (a dot looks pretty similar to a vertical line at a cursory glance, as it is more inverted teardrop shape than a circle). After that the western alphabet looked a lot more uniform than I'd originally thought.

[1] https://software.sil.org/andika/andika-and-the-visually-impa...

[2] https://opendyslexic.org/
If I've misunderstood your argument here, please feel free to explain how. I certainly don't intend to straw-man anything. But if you'd rather do something else with your brief precious time on earth besides arguing with a stranger on the internet, I respect that decision!
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