skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, we better abandon this kind of retroactive policing of language instead from people with nothing better to do.

Nobody who uses the term "cargo cult" in a technical settings does it out of spite or even refers to specific nations or peoples. Just refers to the core takeaway of a practice which might as we be all lore.

Care about politics and colonialism and injustice and what have you? There are 1000000 causes you could devote your time and make an active difference to people actually suffering this very moment, rather than language policing tech terms.
Not really sure how the fiscal impact was insignificant when it drastically increased the national debt which was significantly purchased by foreign interests.
"Practical python" is undoubtedly useful to a biologist, but I wouldnt understate the utility of an intro to algorithms for technical but non CS majors.

'Algorithmic thinking' more or less doesn't exist in a lot of the classical disciplines with any degree of rigor, so a CS class is the only place a biologist is going to be exposed.

Specifically for utility, there is a very tight mapping between 'how do I search these strings' and 'how do I [most efficiently] design a set of experiments [searching for a a result]'. Both in the literal algorithms as well as the logical framework necessary to extend past trivial examples.
I feel like I'm not the target audience for this. When I have large data, then I directly write SQL queries and run them against the database. It's impossible to improve performance when you have to go out to the DB anyway; might as well have it run the query too. Certainly the server ops and db admins have loads more money to spend on making the DB fast compared with my anti-virus laden corporate laptop.

When I have small data that fits on my laptop, Pandas is good enough.

Maybe 10% of the time I have stuff that's annoyingly slow to run with Pandas; then I might choose a different library, but needing this is rare. Even then, of that 10% you can solve 9% of that by dropping down to numpy and picking a better algorithm...
Are people really surprised that an intelligence agency's first duty isn't to the truth or accurately informing the public?

ed: sp
In my department (DevOps/Infrastructure/CloudOps or whatever you wanna call us folks who write terraform and helm) we have a couple of set standing weekly meetings that we all get together, and one of the frequent things that happens is PRs get brought for group review. So, the longest anyone has to wait is a couple of days.

We also have a dedicated thread for PR review requests in our private team chat channel, which helps bring visibility to our-team-specific PRs that can get lost in the churn of github notifications from all the repos we’re involved with.
Watch Jack Kruze on Robert Breedlove's podcast (near the end of Pt II will blow your mind blown right out of your skull.) A medical revolution? -- perhaps something much more.
every now and then I read a comment that sounds so familiar and I realize it's an ex-coworker
Understanding Why Climate Change Is Making Europe's Highest Peak More Dangerous
As far as I was aware, "mystery weapon" was the consensus, and this reaffirms it in the first two paragraphs. Looks like a clickbait title.
If you look up the definition of censorship, you'll find that it is not.

Censorship is suppression.

Insulting someone or discriminating against them is not supression, it's unlawful.

If that's not your cup of tea, I'd challenge you to forego any and all (!) ameneties of modern civilized society to enjoy your anarcho-freedom.

Don't pretend to be a tough one by sitting in a comfy chair and picking the raisins out of the dough.
It is. When I was in school we had a matlab class for grad students in other departments.

I don’t know why you’d try to throw CS majors and Biology majors looking to cobble together scripts into the same class.
I thought it was already confirmed to not be a hoax and be a true thing.

(kind of sensationalist but still seems to be informative youtube video about it from about 3 months back: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqE0ltifQ2M)
Interestingly, Wikipedia is run by dictators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution

But thanks for updating us on the latest forbidden term. I wonder how many words we will have left next year.
Way to display your pride of your own ignorance, bud.
> Dark matter in particular strikes me as… “yes, obviously”.

Why? Historically there have been two "dark matter" theories prior to this one (we speculated non-visible mass in a place to explain motion of celestial bodies). One turned out to be neptune. The other was vulcan, which turned out to be general relativity.

So historically, the inclination to invoke some form of "dark" matter is batting 50/50. im not sure i would put 50/50 into "obvious" territory
It took a month to prepare. The original plan was to invade in 2018 but Trump said no. Then covid happened and it got delayed again. Then the Chinese asked that Putin wait until the Beijing Olympics were over. This is how it became February 2022.

Further the Biden Afghan withdrawal convinced Putin that Biden wouldn't react.
I'd argue lack of security updates makes older yet capable systems untrustworthy. You just can't be sure they won't be infected at some point.

Linux can extend the life for a while, until that too is also unsupported and becomes unsupported.
Wasn't the 60 minutes from a year ago enough info to show this was some sort of targeted weapon?
> Also, the tale may be apocryphal, but apocryphal tales (such as fairy tales) still can contain interesting insights about how humans behave. Maybe that's why they propagate through time.

But do you make it clear to those you tell the cargo cult story that it is supposed to be apocryphal?

Otherwise I can spread all kinds of made-up stories about my work mates, and claim they illustrate truths about human nature, right?
“campaign by a U.S. adversary, probably Russia, that left them disabled, struggling with chronic pain, and drowning in medical bills.”

Yeah, that last bit’s not an adversary’s fault…

What kind of country lets diplomats and civil servants, or really anyone, drown in medal debt when they’re injured on the job???
How about a simple rule of thumb: you have to actually meet or talk with a "facebook friend" (every month or more) or else delete/unfriend them.

If after a few months you have zero "facebook friends" nuke the account.

Internet updates are no substitute for good old meat space.
Best to just forget
I’m wondering if neighboring competitor schools who offer python classes are the reason for the change since more students would actually consider attending a different school due to having a stronger post experience and skills gained.
Thanks for the article. So it looks like quarter sized embers are the most likely cause of many fires.
That heavily depends on the school. But I’ll add many years later, I appreciate the theoretical classes much more because the knowledge I gained there has aged much better.
It's far easier to say yes to something else than to say no to something that is working.

Give an example of a term we can use instead that is more accurate and useful, and you won't need a wall of words to try and fail to convince people to change.
Returning control to the caller only really needs to be explicit if you're doing it in an arbitrary spot in the middle of the function because if you're at the end there's nothing to do _other than_ return control. For instance in other languages you don't need to explicitly say "go to the next iteration" at the end of a for loop, and if you want to do it before the end of the loop body you can `continue`. If "flow control should always be explicit", then should we be writing `continue` at the end of our loop blocks?

I think the other part of it is that it is just part of a cohesive language design where everything is an expression, including things like if's, matches, etc that would be control flow statements in other languages.. It would be a little weird to say that functions are the only thing that have different semantics.
Plans to transform a San Francisco highway into a park ignite recall furor
How about you focus on the argument instead of making ad hominem attacks?

>Racket was chosen because it has “teaching languages” that can gradually introduce features as students are taught the relevant design principles.

So no, that complaint can't be made about any language.
Yes! I have tried the G2, Pilot Precise V5, Uni-ball Jetstream, Lamy Safari, Pilot Hi-Tec-C, Fisher Space Pen and others over the years and the Vision Elite is by far my favorite!
I got a tile on TinyTapeout9 (I think) and participated in a workshop for it at the Hackaday Supercon last November.

I had a lot of fun. I had a bit of knowledge from my university digital logic class, but really enjoyed learning how the layers are put down and how they make transistors. If you have an opportunity to do it, I strongly recommend it.

There are some very cool things you can do, but you’re limited by the tile size, the inputs provided and it’s worth noting that you get one chip on a module. It’s probably the 2nd step in getting started making a custom ASIC if you wanted to get into that. (The first being learning how to design with logic gates)

bitlui made a VGA Rickroll with it a while ago. [1]

My tile spells out “Aaron” (my first name) on the output to the seven segment display.

I think there is enough room to make a simple microprocessor. Fun if you’ve not ever done something like it.

So, to answer your question - yes it could be useful if you had a very specific thing you wanted to do that made sense in silicon. You could buy extra tiles and get space. That said, it’s mostly educational. But worth it if you have an interest.

[1] https://youtu.be/DdF_nzMW_i8
> There is a tension here that is being understated which is that people of every major now take the intro-level CS class because programming is integral to everything.

Why doesn’t the CS department have a different intro class for CS majors and non-CS majors.

That’s a common practice in the mathematics, physics, etc. departments.

(To have harder intro classes for the students majoring in your department vs those who don’t.)
not saying MOND is correct, but the list of predictions it made without fine-tuning are stunning:

- keplerian rotation curves ("no dark matter") in elliptical and lenticular galaxies

- EFE (a group tried to find evidence against EFE and found it instead)

- early galaxies in the universe

- renzo's rule

- keplerian descent in the milky way (due to the effects of the magellanic clouds)

There's also explaining the tully-fisher relation, which is a post-hoc rationalization, so not really a prediction, but the model wasn't fine tuned to obtain the exact numerical solution.
i think it is coming from industry
This reminds me of my first computer in 1994, a Compaq Presario 486 DX4 100MHz that came with TabWorks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks

https://archive.org/download/tabworks/Windows3.12018-12-30At...

Developed by XSoft, a division of Xerox PARC!

What a trip, I remember as a 10 yo kid I quickly uninstalled it when I learned to do so.

It felt like bloat and I wanted a clean Windows 95 interface.

I switched to Mac in 2006 with MacOS Tiger and never looked back.
Well I suppose the ideal state would be that people conclude war is expensive and brutal then we enter a sort of global pacifist state. But if you want me to get myself in to trouble I'm happy to oblige because someone has to keep saying it:

1) Ukraine shouldn't have been stationing CIA bases and taking military aid from the US before the war. It was stupid strategy and eventually got them invaded.

2) They should have surrendered on day 1. That would have gotten them a bad deal but not so many people dying.

3) They should still surrender on day 1,050. That'd get them a much worse deal and they've suffered who knows how many 100,000s of casualties for nothing. But it'd at least be over.

4) If we extrapolate from the poor quality of the Ukrainian leadership's decisions so far the worst case is the other side of the coin flip on things like:

> The U.S. intelligence pointed to a 50% chance that Putin would use tactical nukes...

~ https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-biden-nu...

and there are a lot of deaths. I mean, hopefully Bob Woodward is a known liar because that is not a can of worms to open over questions like whether Moscow controls Kyiv. Many of us have lived in a world where Moscow controled Kyiv, it isn't that wildly new. While terrible it just isn't that big an issue. We've coped with the US invading multiple random countries in the Middle East, and while it is icky and unpleasant it is not as bad as the tactical nuke taboo breaking or something like the million casualties we're seeing in the Ukraine war from the West's policy of escalation.
Linux too eventually drops support for older hardware, though with certain LTS distros it can be as much as ten more years
> Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election

What on earth are you talking about? 18-29 year olds were the most Democratic age group, as usual. 18-29 year old men might have slightly favored Trump, but to a significantly lower degree than older men.
World Depopulation: Prospects and Implications
> How can it teach us anything about human psychology if it never actually happened?

I am sympathetic to this argument as I despise Lord of the Flies and always believed it was unrealistic, and was gratified recently to find that a similar real-life situation did occur and it did not turn out like the book at all.

However, in this case it did happen and that fact is seemingly not in dispute, as the article here uncritically quotes several sources describing cargo cult behavior matching Feynman's story almost exactly (Time Magazine and National Geographic). The main argument of this article seems to be that while there have been a couple of cases like this, there is a larger category of cargo cults which generally have other features and more complexity, though they are no less deluded overall. This argument falls flat for me. I don't see why this should be fatal to the metaphor.
haha cant play games if people are in their safe space lol people talk about the oil lobby group but damn real estate is a beast
Marriage: An Economic Account
I think you may be onto something.
I don't expect busines to want to publish on a domain that they don't own, so I don0t like most of your use cases.

Anyway, it's popular here in Argentina that the menu of a restaurant is only online. (I don't like it neither! But it's very popular.) They publish a nice pdf in a random site, so something like https://example-lunch-menu.dockeen.app/ is probably fine. Can they download a QR? (There is a QR glued to the table to get the menu.) If they upload a new pdf, does it use the same URL or a new one? (The QR is glued to the table!)
The master branch has nothing to do with the master/slave relationship and everything to do with the concept of mastering [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_(audio)
Parent Shaming Is Natural
What would buying even mean in this sense? Even countries don't "own" their ccTLDs, but ICANN has made considerable efforts to outline policies that go "we really need to treat ccTLDs like the countries own them to avoid tensions over internet namespaces". That's why most gTLD rules don't apply to ccTLDs.

Countries "own" their ccTLD in the sense that they (or most) have the military prowess to defend their usage of their ccTLD if ICANN, or the servers at root-servers.net, were to stop resolving TLDs appropriately.
You know full well that Trump is a public figure. Where I live, different protections of personal rights exist for private people, such as typically engaged on social media and public figures.

Neither is or ever was charging anyone who writes an insult online a proposed or practiced option but simply deleting derogatory comments.
Microsoft never really left the dream of creating Bob behind. If you look at their Virtual Reality Portal it is basically a modern version of Bob where you start in a livingroom and need to go into into other rooms to perform certain task. To start apps you eg. need to pick them from a book shelf. Essential the same a Bob.

A few images for reference. Notice that you start MS Paint same way in the VR portal and Bob.

VR Portal:
https://onewindows.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/windows-mix...

Bob: https://static1.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/upl...
I'm not a fan of the uni Jetstream pens. Yes, they do a great job of transferring ink to a page, but they do it a bit too well. Personally, I need a bit more resistance between pen and page. Otherwise, my already terrible handwriting just looks even worse because I end up writing faster. Sometimes, friction is good.
I missed the passage in the article which reveals that many anthropologists don't agree that there's such a thing as a cargo cult. So indeed, maybe all we have is a popular notion, which is obviously inspired by the behavior of a small number of very specific peoples in a narrow window of history of that region.
I'm glad our anti-snark overlords are being attentive. Oh sh*t was that snarky too?
For no sugar added, You can find Fage all over the place at least on the west coast. Many greek yogurts also have no sugar added. I also personally really like redwood hill farms goatgurt.

You are correct, other yogurts are all deserts in the us. I was sorely dissapointed in chobani. When I'm eating yogurt I'm usually doing fage or goatgurt and frozen berry mix.
>Header files are one of the things I miss the most about languages that aren't C. Having a very clear distinction between public and private, and interface and implementation is one of my favourite things about C code (at least the way I write it).

You don't need header files for that.

A dead simple to write tool that parses the actual non-duplicating info, files, and prints you the interfaces and access qualifiers for each method as such, presenting you everything or just the public ones etc, should suffice.
I've had no interest in what it means until the GP made the claim that it "succinctly expresses" something. The fact that I or anyone else can look something up doesn't really impact the question of how succinct of an expression it is.
I don't really understand how there can be so much back and forth on this issue. We already know directed-energy weapons are possible [0], what are the challenges in exploring the space until you're able to build an approximate match for what people report having experienced?

The most scary thing about these kinds of systems seems to me to be the potential for urban terrorism. If it doesn't leave any trace and it can penetrate walls, it could be used to attack people working for rival organizations as well as general harassment. Imagine a tool that lets you disrupt someone's sleep, using that over months would be enough to drive them insane or at least seriously hamper their productivity and performance. For example: if a rival sports team is visiting and you're able to disrupt their sleep that might be enough to give your team an edge. How far are people really willing to go in order to win?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
JetPens does a great job in teaching you about different pens, and recommending them too.

They’re the real deal. Their social media and YouTube people should get raises haha. I have learned a lot from their videos.
eBPF based cloud-native load-balancer for Kubernetes|Edge|Telco|IoT|XaaS
Past discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34900839
> He called it the “timescape.” This is because, in Einstein’s theory, time runs at different speeds depending on the amount of matter that a region contains.

I wonder if he called it "timescape" as a reference to the star trek the next generation episode where small bubbles of space experience time moving at different speeds.
No, you should read the article. They cite the previous review by seven intelligence agencies. That had been publicly reported, so for folks who had been following it, the consensus was most recently that it wasn't a mystery weapon.
Because censorship isn't about censoring false information, its about silencing voices you disagree with. It's exactly why Trump got into power, because people feel like they are not being heard and the left is trampling all over them, despite the fact the left is the one spreading misinformation far more than the right.
Oh wow, I just realized that the following VR parody might have been inspired by Microsoft Bob :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4FGzE4endQ

(2015, so 4 years before Zuckerberg committed to the Metaverse enough to rename the whole company, and still 1 year before the first commercial new generation VR headset : Oculus Rift released.)
yup and master/slave is all about parallel audio duplication :) /s
Piketty is all about wealth inequality. I'm asking for numbers substantiating the contention about "obvious declination in [American] living standards" upthread, which isn't something Piketty speaks to.

I'm all for discussing other issues in their own space and with clarity, but if people come to a discussion about income and start citing things that are not about income, I'll be honest I don't tend to want to engage. It's vibes, like I said.
It did happen for one thing, and for another such stories, even when fictitious, are crafted to illuminate a human behavior that does happen, even if that particular story did not literally happen. See, for example, all of literature.
This Machine Creates Fractals [video]
General Magic and Magic Cap [1] are not mentioned in this article.

If you know anything about Microsoft, you know they don't innovate. That was true in the 90's when Bill Gates was running Microsoft, and it is true under Nadella. Anything they do is ALWAYS in response to a competitive threat. So what was the competitive threat that spurred Microsoft Bob? It was the "social interface" of General Magic's Magic Cap operating system. When that flopped Microsoft cancelled Bob.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap
A good book on this syndrome by Bob Baloh, which also reviews psychogenic illnesses.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-40746-9
lol insurance beverage rich people games are funny
At my university, they did, I don't think it's that uncommon.
"we have almost no evidence" / "we have seen no evidence that" / "there is no evidence that" phrasing, without reference to the extent of investigation incurred or not incurred to ascertain the evidence base, I treat by default as go-to institutional gaslighting until verified otherwise.
Well the human body cannot survive without outside consumption of vitamin C because our ancestors consumed so many berries and leafy greens that we probably would poison ourselves otherwise.

Your analysis is off, the human body is not infinitely adaptable. There are limits; running 5 miles a day is not going to completely offset heavy alcohol and tobacco consumption, but those with BMIs in the range of obesity who run 30 miles a week are far healthier than those who have a normal one but practice no physical exercise.

We are perhaps experiencing, currently, a broad shift in the evolutionary history of humanity; I'm not an AI nut but one could argue that one reason why health is such a concern is because there are a number of adaptations at odds with one another at the social and biological levels. One could imagine that the completion of this arc would result in a new stasis of living patterns in the same way that hunter-gatherers persisted for almost 2 million years, and our current moment is just a brief one of upheaval.
Surely you just use Docker for production, right?
OK, median income has "almost" doubled since the 70's and 80's. I don't see how you think that helps the case?
Not sure how any of this is relevant to what we were just discussing.

> US wants to live in a backwards world where massive debtors can sustain wars indefinitely but creditors will get exhausted

Weird side street to get lost in while discussing Russia getting financially bailed out by China.