skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this a facinating topic, especially as someone who studied film and storytelling. This paper, while I dont fully agree with all of it, is wonderfully provocative and goes much deeper than this article in exploring this topic https://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf
He also says:

> Your best bet is to yry 7z to uncompress the zip file with AES encrypted entries.

So why not just do that and call it a day?
Just today I had to reset my Dropbox password b/c it had a "`" character, and I was trying to use a self-service printer at FedEx. Their weird touch keyboard didn't have backticks.
how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site
There are mitigations though. Assuming you have sensors in every segment, you could detect the vacuum ahead deteriorating and brake.

Equally, if the train stopped in an emergency, the valves around it could fail safe to open and let the atmosphere back in. The train has to be pressurised anyway so a small delay there isn’t unreasonable
This is an apt description of how things are, sadly. And it all starts at the crib when parents teach their children blind obedience.
How profound /s
That’s just the start of it. There is approximately no significant manufacturing enterprise anywhere in the developed world which does not use at least some foreign imports or equipment. Prices for domestically produced goods would also rise, significantly.

The US would also face retaliatory tariffs.
>So, we are acknowledging that there exist parallel non-overlaping equally valid notions and definitions of science.

False. I said I acknowledge linguistic issues that can cause confusion. There is overlap but there is NO contradiction. There isn't a case where there are two conflicting definitions for a single term.

>Menawhile, you seem pretty hung up on the "In Science, nothing can be proven" part of a whole long argument as to why CS shouldn't be referred to as a science. Perhaps that distinction is not useful or relevant in context?

Meanwhile you seem hung up on me setting up clear and categorical distinctions as not useful or relevant.

Let me make it clear why your hang up doesn't make sense. The entire topic of this thread is an argument for "why CS isn't math." I am staying on topic and saying that CS IS a MATH and NOT a SCIENCE. Thus because I am on topic the distinction is ON context and HIGHLY relevant. You can disagree and state your points but saying my point isn't relevant is false.

It's not a valid argument. I literally stated the premise is false and stated the reason why, and you stated the reason is off topic as if I changed the topic .
I make music and would be the main contact for several artists, but I'm not a label per se. Would I join separately for each, or will there be a way for each artist to be added under my account or on separate accounts? Thanks!
Thanks, I'll check it out - I'm surprised more browsers don't have vertical tabs - when I used Edge for a bit they were fantastic. Though I hear they're coming to stock Firefox soon
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I don't see why the miraculous hypothesis gets to get away with not explaining why and how the miracle was done. Why should we reject it being a fraud just because we don't know how it was done, while accepting a miracle which we also don't know how was done?
I don't know if Amazon or Microsoft are trustworthy or not.

But I agree with your point. And it gets very ugly when these big institutions suddenly lose trust. They almost always deserve it, but it can upend daily life.
That's right, which is why basic healthcare (including production of normal, well-characterized, non-experimental drugs) should be taken out of the price system altogether and run directly by the government.
I remember the activist campaigns and the movie Cry Freedom about Steve Biko, another SA activist, had a significant impact on my worldview growing up. As revolutions and coups go it was clearly a success. I'd wonder how much of a role their electronic opsec played in it.

I think it was the ANC and its activists organizing the coalition of other countries to sanction and isolate the government that ultimately caused it to yield power, which is the necessary condition for any revolution- it requires allies to be in place to support it for when it succeeds. On the ground, you only really need a few dozen people to seize some buildings and bank accounts, it's coordinating the external trade links to keep everyone paid and in their jobs while the top of the regime changes to new hands that's difficult. The opsec for that ground force just has to get most of them to their X day, where they're going to take casulties anyway.

In the case of SA, it seemed like a matter of convincing other countries to do nothing, by persuading the world the govt were just racist villains, and convincing the National Party in government that nobody would intervene to save them if there were a civil revolt. That part was organized in plain view. Opsec is interesting and mysterious, but often less important than the stories we tell about it afterwards.
Well yeah there seems to be a corrolation to CO2 and temperature in many studies, and I do certainly believe it is related in some way. But at the same time there are many conflicting study results and I don't think the science on this is set at all.

I do think a lot of measurements (as in "actions") being taken are very positive, I just think it's for the wrong reasons. The thing about CO2 is that you can easily measure it and tax it. But I think the real issue is our use of exhaustible and polluting resources. We should move to renewable and inexhaustible resources for the reason that we don't pollute our environment any further so we can keep living. If taxing CO2 does the trick that's fine with me, but to be honest I think there's a lot of weird political games going on. I also think there have been many scientific discoveries that have been held back by the ones who are profiting from the current setup, and don't want new innovations to revolutionize our industry. But I also believe that with the global interconnected world it won't be possible to hold these things back and we will soon get new revelations about energy solutions.

Let's say we'll see what happens. Thanks for willing to discuss these issues with me :)
>In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

Telco, cable companies, Nestle, and plenty of others laugh while swimming in their sector leading pit of money and influence.
> A byte with 8-bits is called an octet

The networking RFC's since inception have always used octet as well.
Maybe this is reference to the tongue of a shoe? IDK, still odd
The etymological origin of “credit” comes from Latin for believe or trust. Credibility is everything in business, and you can put a dollar cost on it.

While banditry can work out in the short term; it pretty much always ends up the same way. There aren’t a lot of old gangsters walking around.
Ya, I got the same ad. I wonder if (1) they believe that the ad will reduce the bad-pr generated by the article, or if (2) it’s just triggering because it matches some keywords (e.g. “John Deere”). The linked page looks like it’s intended to generate good will, so I think it’s case 1. But it really comes off as tone deaf to me
More so when you realize that capitalism drove everyone’s attention capacity into the ground, so activities like a full-fledged board game or reading a book are things of the past.
And Zuckerberg has vowed to pump billions more into developing and releasing more Llama. I believe "Altman declaring AGI is almost here" was peak OpenAI and now I will just have some popcorn ready.
> If you use i32, it looks like you care.

In Rust, that's not really the case. `i32` is the go-to integer type.

`isize` on the other hand would look really weird in code — it's an almost unused integer type. I also prefer having integers that don't depend on the machine I'm running them on.
I agree it doesn't make sense - especially since scammers will get around it easy anyways so really does not benefit anyone..
> Then I'm really not sure what exactly you are arguing for or against.

If it helps, neither do they. Given that they are already suggesting Postmodernism provides a valuable philosophical and analytic view to understand the world, it's pretty clear that they've given up on any concept of defining a pathway, outcome, or objective.
In which case it’s definitely a 16 bit computer; it was just a cheap 8086 (the cheapness achieved through the memory bus), and it was part of the start of the 16 bit era. From the _user’s_ point of view it was basically a 16 bit computer.
Not sure why you want a fake email / zip code in your database but okay
I don't want to be the wet blanket... but this is just another "crypto bro" peddling yet another scam, err... "ICO". Only this time the elite's behind the project will have everyone's biometric data too.

> with the working class taking power for themselves

This is exactly the opposite of that. Sam has a rocky history with conflicts-of-interest and self-promotion. I don't see any reason we should trust him or his organization with this attempted consolidation of economic and identity powers.

FTA:

> Last year, Kenya suspended World while it investigated its practices surrounding data collection (it has since dropped its investigation). Hong Kong asked World to stop all operations in the country over privacy risks, while both Portugal and Spain have also taken action against the project.
Pretty much every major language/framework now supports free-form test names/descriptions, including JUnit, which is referenced in the article ^ (again, highlighting the author's ignorance). Just because something doesn't bother you personally doesn't mean it's a good thing to follow, especially when its clearly inferior to other options.

> It doesn't bother me all that much to have test functions with names like `test_transaction_fails_if_insufficient_funds_are_available()

I mean, that's one example where you have one outcome based on one parameter/state. Expand this to a 2-field outcome based on 3 state conditions/parameters and now you have a 100-character long function name.
It's more like feelings that are not visual but much more tactile, itching, irritation, smoothness, grittiness, bad code like tasting dirty sand.
No, I do not. My father was a diabetic who did not take good care of himself. He died quite young, so I have a negative model that I'm trying to avoid.
“ as they are right now in a similar context”
You can be more direct about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians! All it takes for evil to succeed ….
So if I understand this right, this is a physical thing you stand in front of to prove that you are a unique human before making some transaction with another possibly unique human...
> More to the point, it's not really acceptable to accuse people of being stupid based on how they vote.

"I've been voting XXX all of my life, and my state has been ruled by XXX over the last 20 years, and the life is still shitty. It's totally a failure of YYY, they want to destroy America"
As an AI model I can't comment on this claim.
I think I’ve found the remedy to my experience of burnout.

I burnt out hard last year and earlier this year (frontend dev). Mental exhaustion, dissatisfaction with work and colleagues, and especially the boss at the time.

I made several major changes to fix this.

- Dropped to 32 hours in my contract (with pay cut)

- Requested to move teams (request fulfilled)

- Deep dived into my weak areas that were causing work stress

- A short holiday

Now I’m happy as can be. Sure I earn 20% less now, but it’s just money. I now have a 50% longer weekend (2 days -> 3 days) AND a 20% shorter work week (5 days -> 4 days)

This is the best move I have ever made.

Working 5 days a week is a grind, no matter which way you slice the pie. It’s a marathon that never ends. I think it’s okay for most jobs, but in dev jobs you can’t be on autopilot. So often I’m solving bugs that haven’t been seen before.

A 4 day week doesn’t seem much different on the surface, but it’s a major change. It no longer feels like a marathon. I actually get more work done comparatively, as I’m more focused and less stressed.

Furthermore, I’ve stopped doing projects that relate to my normal stack in my spare time.

In my ample spare time, I deep dive C programming and graphics.
The entire world economy is based on trust. You worked for 8 hours today because you trust you'll get money in a week that you trust can be used to buy toilet paper at Costco.

There are actually fascinating theories that the origin of money is not as a means of replacing a barter system, but rather as a way of keeping track who owed favors to each other. IOUs, so to speak.
This fits the way I like to use LLMs: I always ask them for options, then I decide myself which of those options makes the most sense.

Essentially I'm using them as weird magical documentation that can spit out (incomplete but still useful) available options to guide my decision making at any turn.
Here's a hard one. In political science Lisp would be like...?
The file is groups.c from the Linux Kernel, circa sometime before 2015: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/8f6c5ffc8987f4f5b5a3e...
The conclusion from the article, which I find sensible:

- Use SQLite

- Describe the actions of your service with HTTP verbs and methods as much as possible

- Write plain HTML (with templates); enhance it sparsely; use isolated scripts.
A `Select` to a tuple or anonymous class which you have to carry around all the way.

If you look at how a LINQ query gets translated to a method chain (e.g. via SharpLab or let Rider/ReSharper rewrite them) you'll notice that multiple `from`s or `let`s can become quite ugly.
I'm glad you came around, yes the correct solution is to eat Sam Altman and not to let him invent his own private currency.
Names, descriptions for tests are useful for many purposes, I'll leave it at that.

The point I'm making (and I think you are agreeing with me) is that trying to stuff a test description into a test function name is cumbersome and pointless. There are far better ways of adding descriptions/documentation for unit tests and pretty much every major language/testing framework supports these, nowadays.
>Meta, Google, and others crush OpenAI on a variety of other model types, but they also aren't hyping their products up to the same degree.

They aren't letting anyone external have access to their top end products either. Google invented transformers and kept the field stagnant for 5 years because they were afraid it would eat into their search monopoly.
> the sociological definition definitely does.

It definitely does not.

> If we looked at various communities calling themselves atheists, they certainly have beliefs in common.

The lack of belief in gods. There are types of Hinduism that have always been atheistic.

Believing in god is like having blue eyes. There's nothing necessarily shared amongst people who don't have blue eyes other than a lack of blue eyes.
They say you should not judge a book by its cover, but I found it very hard not to [1]. After I found out the book was from 2013 I felt a slight sense of relief.

[1] https://xmlpress.net/publications/eppo/
Might just be my preconceptions showing then. If you care to address cranky old folks like me, a few before/after images (or even those fancy JS sliders) would do wonders to clear up how you see your tool being used. For example, you mention it works with sketches, and I'm super curious to see how that works. It also acts as a basic example for those of us too lazy (or paranoid) to create an account.
Apple only uses OSM for areas for which they have limited data. Just an FYI. The article implies that all these different map apps are using the same underlying data when they aren’t.
Who are you betting on then? Anthropic? Google? Someone else? I mean Microsoft was not the friendliest company. But they were good enough at serving their customers needs to survive and prosper.
Who gets the third copy?
Has some one made an FPGA or ASIC implementation yet? It feels like it should be easy (and people would snap up for inference).
Now you're moving the goal posts. First, it was "a hypothesis is a statement that can be true or false. That's it." Now it's "a hypothesis is defined by statistics". Get back to me when you've decided what your position actually is. I'm not going to waste time debunking every half-baked idea you can come up with.
What's even more ironic is that it's the most profound book about technical writing that I have yet found in my 12-year career.

It also inspired me to deep-dive into how the pages of my docs site relate to each other, which yielded some useful insights: https://technicalwriting.dev/data/intertwingularity.html

(Baker's book led me to Too Big To Know, which in turn led me to the concept of intertwingularity)
All the Olmsted aficionados might be interested in our PBS film about FLO. I originated this project and served as chief content provider and consulting producer. Our website does not always show up at the top of searches. Here, you can watch the entire PBS film as broadcast, stream additional bonus videos, and select from a menu of essays about the Olmsted design legacy. (Though our film does indeed focus on Olmsted, Senior, here you will find an essay I penned about the legacy of John Charles Olmsted in the Pacific Northwest. I do recommend that beyond the appreciation of the life and works of Olmsted, Senior, you should also explore the legacies of John C. Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., both of whom followed in their famous father's garden paths, so to speak. Cheers.

https://www.wned.org/television/wned-productions/wned-histor...
Thank you.
I live in Israel.
My kids are in the process of becoming US citizens.
Is the problem the tenets of communism? or is the problem the dictators and strongmen who inevitably rise to the top?
or the corruption that grows from unchecked power?
The last time a programming task called for the use of my spacial visualization capability (not that long ago, a couple of weeks perhaps), it went like this. I was working on a system with two priority queues, and three stacks, which were all working together to affect a stream. The goal was to try and come up with counterexamples where the code I needed to work out would fail.

Ended up pulling out an iPad, and using Procreate to draw a bunch of overlapping boxes, and determined that strict stacks weren't going to work here and I was going to have to look for the actual value in the stack and remove it. But that most of the time it would be the top element, so this would be fine.

I don't mostly visualize when coding, and when I need to, most of my capacity is already taken up by something complex. So I have a growing collection of these sort of squiggly impressionistic diagrams, which I sketch out so I can fix the visual component of what I'm working on, to free up some capacity for the real work, which is just, thinking.

Pen and paper are not nearly so good for this as Procreate, I've found, because I can undo marks, and rather frequently do so, in a way which is much more fluid than erasing pencil marks. I can even try several approaches, by making new layers, and cacheing them by setting them invisible, trying again, juxtaposing, and so on.

I agree with the sibling comment that the intellectual work of programming is primarily verbal in character, although it can certainly draw on spacial reasoning at times. This, along with arguments from density, leaves me broadly pessimistic that "visual coding" will ever prove itself as a useful tool, and very skeptical indeed that it could ever be a durable replacement for syntax-based programming.

It also calls for a fair amount of arithmetic, for which I keep a Julia REPL open at all times, and a smaller but significant amount of higher maths, for which said REPL is also a treasured resource. But surprise surprise, it's mostly logic, and while the validity of logic is amenable to mathematics, its soundness cannot be resolved that way, but only through reasoning in an irreducibly verbal fashion. Or experiment, which is of value in programming, but the logic of programs is not nearly so empirical as that of real life.
Some HN users have a really skewed sense of how software development works in most of the industry. Only a small minority of jobs involve full-stack web development with JS / TS frameworks. If you want a slower pace of change then go get a job writing embedded missile avionics software for Raytheon or something. This is a serious suggestion, I'm not being sarcastic. Jobs like that are a good option for a lot of developers.

The grass always looks greener on the other side.
Plot twist, my wife is an RN and she dropped out of nursing a bit before COVID because of similar shenanigans from the boardrooms: too many patients per nurse, not enough CNAs per nurse. Add to that patient families being jerks.
Eugenics and HN. Name a more classic combination.
Show HN: I made a Sonic runner game in JavaScript
This is a well written guide, thanks!
> as a way of keeping track who owed favors to each other

I do not see how that is possible considering I have no clue who the second last owner of a cash was before me, most of the time.
You are trying to relate two different legal systems that are don't necessarily have equivalence. The members, although not magistrates, are independent and factually irremovable. When they are in "court" formation as is the case here, they are judges by law, and it is a court. That's where you appeal the decisions of lower judges. Their decisions ("arrêt") are case laws and precedents that affect the entire justice system (in the relations between a citizen and the State).

> That was specifically addressing the contempt of court issue.

There is no such thing as contempt in the US sense, in French courts. The closest would be outrages, which does not apply to the issue in question (delay tactics). Many US legal concepts, even the most basic ones, are simply not transposable to the French system.
> It soon stopped being about that

I submit that it could never have actually been about that. It may have been out of the states control but it was far to technocratic and dependent on first movers so it was always going to leave behind the class of people you hoped it would most benefit.

> the original spirit of Bitcoin

Is effectively "you don't need permission." That's _it_. People projected quite a bit onto that.
> > Folks like Trump or DeSantis are not pro-small-government

> Alternative data points

Presenting that list as a counter suggests that "leave it to the states" necessarily means "more freedom for individuals", which is very questionable. Look what just happened to abortion rights.

The ur-example in American history would be literal slavery.

> The Department of Justice (DOJ) would lose its independence and be under control of the President

Hold up, is this "big government" as measured by employee count, or is this "big government" as measured by oppressive power?

A dictatorship can get away with far fewer public-employees than a democracy, yet it's not the kind of "small government" anybody should want.
This is very much not part of the canon of technical writing dogma, so yes it is profound to me. Professional technical writers are trained from day one to assume that the job revolves around task completion.
Depends on where the worker is in the supply chain. For example:

https://www.cato.org/blog/how-american-steel-protectionism-h...

"Numerous economic analyses have shown that these measures raise domestic steel prices and harm steel-consuming U.S. manufacturers, including by disadvantaging them against foreign competitors with access to lower-cost (less-tariffed) steel inputs."

I suppose there's something to the argument that steel is a security priority and protecting it is worth some cost, but there is definitely a cost.
PS The WNED production was directed by Lawrence Hott of Florentine Films/Hott Productions.