skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It seems like the people who don't think illegal immigration is a problem in the first place are living very far from the border and don't see the impacts, or are unaware of the impending crisis of billions of extremely desperate climate refugees, or don't consider the risks or criminals and terrorists entering and leaving the country without any record to be a legitimate concern.
I really appreciate this comment! (I think that word just popped into my head given some professional experience recently rather than being sourced from the field.)
I think this is related to the concept of “aligned incentives” in a way.

The chain breaks when incentives aren’t aligned and there’s a cascade of crap that roles downhill that seem like bad decisions. When, in fact, as the article points out, the decision made didn’t take knock on effects into consideration.

I’ve learned that seemingly poor or even terrible decisions almost always make sense in the context of when and where the decision was made.
I have a wonderful memory of eating a snickers bar with my Dad as a kid, and deciding to call the comment line (1-800 number) on the wrapper. I was probably about 6 and just wanted to say that I liked their candy bars. The woman was very nice and took our address so they could mail us some coupons for free snickers bars.
I don't disagree. However, its cultural claims about the nature of music gives me the blues.
The first isn't necessarily related to OOP. My first CS class at university gave everyone a programming quiz, in the very first lecture. The goal was to identify self-taught students so they could be made to help others in group work.
Maybe a step further for privacy: a physical "config mode" toggle on top of the vacuum that enables the BlueTooth radio for a point-to-point connection with the phone app, then toggle it back when you're done. Wouldn't prevent the vacuum from caching data during its work and sending it when in config mode though, I suppose.
You'd think the government would make its propaganda free to watch.
Swebok is an attempt to look at the whole ox

Cook Ding was cutting up an ox for Lord Wenhui. As every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee — zip! zoop! He slithered the knife along with a zing, and all was in perfect rhythm, as though he were performing the dance of the Mulberry Grove or keeping time to the Jingshou music.

“Ah, this is marvelous!” said Lord Wenhui. “Imagine skill reaching such heights!”

Cook Ding laid down his knife and replied, “What I care about is the Way, which goes beyond skill. When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years I no longer saw the whole ox. And now — now I go at it by spirit and don’t look with my eyes. Perception and understanding have come to a stop and spirit moves where it wants. I go along with the natural makeup, strike in the big hollows, guide the knife through the big openings, and following things as they are. So I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon, much less a main joint.

“A good cook changes his knife once a year — because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month — because he hacks. I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come from the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there’s plenty of room — more than enough for the blade to play about it. That’s why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone.

“However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I’m doing, work very slowly, and move the knife with the greatest subtlety, until — flop! the whole thing comes apart like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground. I stand there holding the knife and look all around me, completely satisfied and reluctant to move on, and then I wipe off the knife and put it away.”

“Excellent!” said Lord Wenhui. “I have heard the words of Cook Ding and learned how to care for life!”
How do we trigger the highlighting function? I selected text but didn't see anything.
The people who you contacted don't understand any part of what the customer facing interface to their own job which is entirely usual. Its entirely possible that there was at one time instructions for return of the letter on an envelope that the party responding hasn't actually seen in years. They like a lot of people exist in a tiny silo with limited information outside of a tiny scope.

They kept asking you to essentially call a function on the actual public api and you kept on ignoring the error messages.

If you are tempted to feel smugly superior remember they were paid for their responses whereas you wasted your own time.
> Sorry for rambling

No, you're fine. I don't think you're alone and while I'm probably not going to sign up for your site, I do appreciate that you have created that space. I think there is a lot of value in doing things for the sake of doing them. It's an extremely "human" endeavor and I think there's lots of benefits, even if they are hidden.

And I think there is even value in just knowing that these are things people want. Even if it isn't everyone. Personally, I thought the cool thing with the internet -- in regards to markets and economics -- is that it meant you could make products (or whatever) for very small niches and still get wealthy. Because with 6 billion people on the internet, even a very narrow niche is gonna strike the interest of at least tens of thousands (if not hundreds or a few million). It's interesting that instead we chose to build things for everybody and nobody.
You don't, IMO, directly care how they produced the answer, you care about it only as a proxy for them learning the material well enough to solve the problem.

I don’t care about the answer. I care about the thought process that went into finding the answer. The answer is irrelevant.

And making people do them in person with no technology is unrealistic - not because it can't be done, but because at that point, it's not a reflection of how you'd use it outside of that classroom, and people are going to call it pointless, and IMO they'd be right.

There’s body of knowledge a person trained in a given area ought to know without use of computers or notes. There are things a person who calls themself “an engineer” or “a physicist” ought to know off the top of their head. A person going into mechanical engineering ought to have some familiarity with how to integrate without using a computer. Such is my belief.
Actually makes me think if its possible to embed prompts into story headlines and/or content to do nefarious things...
I hope that's not a sign of the general state of MD/PhD thinking in Korean society, considering how, you know, absurdly, obviously, stupidly mistaken the notion of fans suffocating people in closed rooms is.

I'd definitely not want a doctor with such a belief coming within a mile of treating me for anything.
I know, I'm mostly being tongue in cheek - the joke is so many companies go straight to complex cloud configurations more for the vibes than the actual practical need; a single box (two for availability) and a solid db will get most sites and businesses very far.
It’s amazing something so simple in such a common organism took so long to discover.
We all pay to receive propaganda, be it governmental or not. A private TV channel will spread the ideology of their owners, and it is usually an ideology that is useful to them.
I don’t see any problem here. They spend money, effort, time to develop their products. Why do they need to give that products for free to everyone, or even their competitors?

Others can choose to use or not use vscode. If they concern about the telemetry, build themselves or use other code editor then.
I worked for an old company that had a lot of old processes and paperwork. Many bits of paperwork had a "do not write below the line" type areas. I always wrote something ... nothing ever happened.

I once hand delivered some paperwork (I was running late) to HR rather than using the inter office mail service. I asked them about it, they told me "Oh you must be Mathew..." I was HR famous. They didn't actually mind, the company was so process driven that having to visually double check my paperwork was just how things were.

Later on they decided to repaint the entire office because we had slightly changed the colors of our logo.

Not long after painting I jokingly put up a piece of paper on a huge white wall that read "This space intentionally left blank." The movers who took down the art put up the art on that wall again, and spaced it evenly ... around my note.

It stayed there for at least 4 years before we left for a new building.

Process...
Drgyjgddbvhfb ftyd
Doubt many are excited about an AI feature from IBM.
I mean this is how a lot of exceptions are handled, even in C++. You can use noexcept and whatnot and you don't have to change types and propagate them out. In Rust, you do. Java has maybe the strongest system because not only do you have to declare what can throw but it checks it at compile-time. That's, to me, a full featured effect system.

But errors-as-values are all the rage today. But modifying types, especially every type in the chain, is annoying and overly manual IMO.
>Functional programs are easier to read, because the structure makes the state transitions and dependencies obvious - you see your dependencies in the arguments list. But it forces you to basically rewrite big parts of your program after even very simple changes.

Disagree. Readability is opinionated so I won't address that but this is an example of functional:

gg = (x) => x * x * x

y = 1
a = (x) => x + 1
b = (x) => x * 2
c = (x) => x * x
d = (x) => x - 4
f = a . b . c . d

result = f(y)

OOP example:

class Domain1
constructor(n: int)
this.x = n

def gg()
this.x *= this.x * this.x

def getX() -> int
return this.x

class Domain2:
constructor(n: int)
this.x = n

def a:
this.x += 1

def b:
this.x *= 2

def c:
this.x *= this.x

def d:
this.x -= 4

def f:
this.a()
this.b()
this.c()
this.d()

def getX() -> int
return this.x

state = Domain(1)
state.f()
result = state.getX()

What if realize d and a fits better in Domain1 and I want to compose d and a with gg in the OOP program? I have to refactor Domain2 and Domain1. Or I create a Domain3 that includes a Domain1 and a Domain2

How do I do it in functional programming?

domain3 = gg . d . a

#Note I use the fucntion composition operator which means: a . b = (x) => b(a(x)) or a . b . c = (x) => c(b(a(x)))

Functions by nature with the right types are composable without modification. A can compose with B without A knowing about B or vice versa. The same cannot be said for objects.

Try achieving the same goal with OOP.... It will be a mess of instantiating state and objects within objects and refactoring your classes. OOP is NOT modular.

It's pretty clear. One style is more modular than the other. Objects tie methods to state such that the methods are tied to each other and can't be composed without instantiating state or doing complex Object compositions and rewriting the Objects themselves.

In programming you want legos. You want legos to compose. You don't want legos that don't fit such that you have to break the legos or glue them together.

>Imperative (and OO) programming idiomatically let you do a bigger mess with side effects, and you know less about the data dependencies just from looking at the function specifications - but it also allows you to do exploratory programming much faster (no need to pass a new argument down 20 levels of your call stack when some code deep down suddenly requires a new argument). And it allows you to modify the behaviour locally without refactoring the whole thing constantly.

you shouldn't be programming with state ever if you're doing FP. You need to segregate state away from your program as much as possible. State by nature is hard to modularize. State should be very simple generic mutation operations like getValue and setValue, it should rarely ever contain operational logic.
It’s incredibly frustrating that at a certain size non-profits seemingly loose the ability to focus on the issues that built them. The EFF no business chiming in on immigration policies - sick to tech and information freedom.
Reasons To Be Cheerful offers a similar periodical: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/

(I have no idea why the web site calls it a "self help magazine"; it's just a collection of interesting positive news.)
With all respect, that sounds like a campaign speech, so I'm almost guaranteed to tune it out. Do you have links that quantify all that stuff to demonstrate why it's a problem?
And there are many other things it can do, throw your code into it and ask it to look for bugs/oversights/potential optimizations. Then use your reasoning ability to see if it is right on what it gives back.
Frankly if they shipped it with `enabledApiProposals` I'd even go further and assume that they actually _intend_ to release public APIs once they've baked.

Like, why go through the extra work of gating it under `enabledApiProposals` and using the public manifest flag when you could put code in VSCode itself that is like "oh if this extension is installed let me just run some secret code here in the binary".
While we're here, does anyone happen to recognize the camel's tune?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKpD-KkaBHc

We never worked it out.
Bunch of restaurants use those fancy Nest cams that remember faces. Is this illegal too? Feels like it should be controlled in some way.
nothing. There is no way to predict the stock market. Even the way you're probably thinking of. Even the ones in the replies to this comment. Even the really basic ones and the really advanced ones.
You can be sent to jail if you do not have a licence, although it is rare
If you look up some of these letters you'll see they have the quasi-official-looking things you'd otherwise see on scam letters, like a stamp that says "Enforcement Visit Approved" with a signature on it.

I think "do not write below this line" is just another one of those things, it makes the letter seem like its part of Official Serious Bureaucracy.
> Fundamentally, kids that are just trying to pass a class don't see the value in learning and it seems that the contributions towards the "pointless" school work are parts teacher attitudes, parts curriculum design, parts real-life applicability to the student's interests, parts framing.

It is 100% societal. It is because society is focused on "get degree, get job, get money". It is because Western societies have gotten so damn competitive that if you don't succeed at any of the above, there is a non-trivial chance you won't even be able to afford a house to live in.

In America, I'll admit that No child left behind made it a lot worse, with tests left and right, which gives students the wrong impression of what learning is about.

Every class should be about critical thinking. Every single class. Multiple choice tests are a societal cancer and should be limited to a tiny fraction of tests given.

The point of school is to learn how to learn. That is it. What facts are taught are almost irrelevant. The point is to learn HOW to learn. Be that researching the history of fabric dyes in Ancient Egypt or making a scale drawing of one's house.

The "WHAT" IS NOT IMPORTANT.

The HOW is important.

How to write an essay, the topic doesn't matter.

How to learn about the culture of a country.

How to learn a new field of mathematics.

How to learn a new type of art.

How to give a presentation.

How to learn a hard science.

Yes the basics of physics and chemistry and such need to be taught. But the things that are learned should be inline with teaching the all important skill of how to learn.
My understanding of exceptions implementation in C++ is that there's zero performance cost if an exception isn't thrown. Try... catch isn't implemented as a branch, I believe.
CA driver chooses "NULL" license plate, gets $18K in other motorists' tickets
Readability is a concern, but it is only one concern among a bag of conflicting concerns, and it is meaningless to make decsions based on it before deciding the priority of all concerns.

Sometimes the readability is the most important feature and all other concerns can be compromised or sacrificed to readability.

But for me, usually not. As far as I'm concerned that is limited to training materials and showing your work in math exams. The rest of the time it's merely a goal after all other goals, ie you don't want things to be actually obfuscated, all else being equal.
After doing some VS Code extension development, I don't really understand what this could enable that isn't already possible. You can run arbitrary code on the client side from a VS Code extension, you can run a full web application inside the VS Code UI, you can read and change developers' files in any way you want.

What is Cursor doing that they couldn't do as an extension?
Here is an example of the other end of the spectrum that I've used a couple of times: very simple fixpoints.

https://github.com/codr7/claes/blob/main/src/claes/f64.hpp
Interesting that some communities (apparently physics) use "arXiv" with the definite article ("the arXiv"), but in machine learning / CS we always say simply "arXiv". I went and checked, and the official site doesn't use an article (https://info.arxiv.org/about/index.html)
Some particularly harrowing quotes from the linked Wikipedia article which make clear the scale of the current situation:

> The contemporary rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate, the historically typical rate of extinction (in terms of the natural evolution of the planet); also, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth.

> A 2018 study published in PNAS found that since the dawn of human civilization, the biomass of wild mammals has decreased by 83%.

> The World Wide Fund for Nature's 2020 Living Planet Report says that wildlife populations have declined by 68% since 1970

> A 2023 study published in Biological Reviews found that, of 70,000 monitored species, some 48% are experiencing population declines from anthropogenic pressures, whereas only 3% have increasing populations.

And finally, with regards to rats:

> Bramble Cay melomys were declared extinct in June 2016.
He also collects and displays all the previous letters he's got from the BBC: http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

They get increasingly threatening and aggressive. I'd guess that the OCR code scanning is to confirm that he's read the letter and adjust the hostility in the next letter appropriately.
That is my understanding. They certainly had a demonstration device that could deduct a local oscillator, but it is suggested it was just PR.

There is some kind of 'detector' mentioned online that can apparently look at a window and see the light of a TV flickering on the glass! Judges buy this bs and issue warrants to search.
I had a great-grandfather that was sent along the Southern border to try to map it — he was a surveyor. A lot of times he'd be at the top of a canyon, and the next place to drop the pin would be at the bottom. He'd just chuck the pin into the canyon and mark the point as "passable by neither man nor mule".

People who've never visited the border — especially in the western bits of it — have very little idea how absolutely inhospitable it is.
I think the 60’s showed how much humans can achieve in terms of innovating with very little (in terms of tech). Now, we’re seeing how much can be achieved with a whole lot more. And, I agree, the space age really does feel like it’s only just heating up. Very exciting time!