jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So I actually built something quite similar (same materials, different plans) about five years back. Great experience and a lot of fun to paddle around in the nearby marshlands.

All told I spent just over $100 and the project took about 2 long weekends. I used fiberglass to cover the exterior and the boat is still in great shape today (though sadly underused).
I agree that the number of potential users for this particular use of GHC is small. But as with everything, it are the small groups of people that produce the most interesting things ;)

I don't think an external format (serialized Core) is even necessary. Just a well-documented API would be nice. I'm hoping that somebody could write a set of examples, and put those in a test-suite so that it keeps getting updated whenever something breaks it.

I also agree that typing is extremely useful. But for small research projects, it can get in the way of the actual goal.
It's definitely a problem for us non-native speakers, but not really for native speakers. Argentinians probably have an easier time understanding someone from Brasil speaking Portuguese or an Italian speaking Italian than I do a Puertorriqueño or Spaniard speaking Spanish.

Though it does remind me of the time a friend and I wandered into a Billy Connolly (the Scottish comedian) stand-up performance in Dublin, and we both spent the first 45 minutes not being able to understand a single word the guy said. Which was doubly frustrating since the Irish audience around us was laughing their asses off.
For anyone interested, apparently the author went on to work at Facebook.

I'd be lying if that said that didn't put a bit of a damper on the article for me. Partly because I expect exactly the same behaviour but also because of recent events such as data being leaked and all that.
You could reproduce the whole microcontroller with just those things, if you wanted. So inherently the answer is yes. If you mean to ask if it can be done without software, the answer is still yes.
If by that you mean "languages that target the dis VM", yes. There was a Scheme interpreter written in Limbo, but that's about it.

I think that's the biggest hurdle regarding Inferno - I'd like to see other languages running atop dis.
Symbolics stuff not just worked, it worked remarkably well on the very modest hardware and solved real word problems.

Sadly, sadly, that's not enough. Oftentimes, that doesn't even matter.
> As terrible as the Columbia accident was, I think this approach (with so many checks skipped to get Atlantis up as quick as possible) would have ended in the loss of both crews & orbiters.

Agreed. The article touches on the fact that the Columbia disaster has its roots in decisions that were made far in advance of its final launch. Not that this excuses what happened, but I almost wonder if the reason the photographs of the damage were never taken ("miscommunication") was that the people involved knew there was no possibility of rescue, so better to not know and hope for the best.
Where do I find a computer which runs all these services, has a nice easy to use front end, and doesn't cost a fortune?
My impression was that they were equal parts overly optimistic and fatalistic.
Just to note: it's my first cocoa/objc project, lacks features, but is simple and convenient enough to be used right away.
I think more likely, at some point, you just have to accept the risk.

How far do you take it? 4 launch vehicles all on standby ready to rescue the one before it? Is 3 enough? Maybe 2? Up until then, they had obviously calculated and accepted the risk of having no standby.
package.json everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law – I can't tell if this is a serious suggestion or not...

In case it is, a HMAC (which a salted hash effectively is, except keys are secret) helps in the case of them losing the database, but not if they also lose the key, and the NSA will get access to the key as well as the database, so it won't help there.
Protectionism doesn't help overall wealth in the big picture, but it does help relative wealth in the local picture. Free-trade works super efficiently (note, Efficiency != Good for all), as long as the world economy operates as one cooperating system. It effectively acts like wealth diffusion while providing low cost goods and services in kind. In a perfectly competing system, with no tariffs, no non-tariff barriers to trade, no subsidies, no wage controls / limitations / support, no trade bans, and no exchange rate / currency manipulation.

Unfortunately, a) all those things not only exist, but are extremely common, b) the local effect of free trade often looks like a reduction in wealth / wages / living standards, if wealth is diffusing faster than the cost reductions and buying power are keeping up, c) humans as nationalistic / tribal groups often view the world in terms of Us and Them and want to WIN, (human psychology is defined in terms of deltas, my wealth means nothing if you're also wealthy) and d) it has the unfortunate side-effect of heavily rewarding entrenched players and accelerating wealth consolidation due to reduced negotiation ability for workers.
I do the same thing, except as of yet, I can find no way to search old site grabs in the wayback machine. AFAIK, the content is not indexed. You have to know it is there.
In America if you collect 100 coins you get an extra life.

In America if you get seriously hurt you get taken to hospital and lose some money

In America you can only carry 2 guns

In America if you try and run forward and sideways at once the two velocities are combined and you run twice as fast

I guess some of them work
It seems like he meant the central faces of the cubes...the glowing parts, to be the "edges". I thought the "edges" were the ridge lines.
They also take the place of a computer for many people. I know several people who no longer have a computer or laptop at home because their cell phone does everything they need.
This crisis will be very large and also very drawn out because of all the debt and other economic overhang. The thing to focus on the most, though, is that there will be recovery and with that great opportunities for buying stocks and lows and expanding into markets as they regrow.
Eggs aren't refrigerated in supermarkets, but even unwashed eggs keep better if refrigerated, so most people refrigerate them at home. Supermarkets have enough turnover that it's not worth the cost.

Eggs can also be frozen if you remove the shells.
The medical system in Italy sucks. The northern region sees a scandalously high number of elderly die every day in the winter. Upwards of 200 a day. The issue is political.

Covid is a convenient cover for the scandal. If you die in Lombardy -- for any reason -- you are listed as a covid patient. It's fraud.

Plain and simple.

(Incidentally, its not all of Italy... just the northern region.)

The number of tests is equally bullshit. As another poster in this thread alluded to -- and I think there is a link up there -- the number is an 'estimate'.
92.2% or so of men are taller than their heterosexual partners. This is usually attributed to women's preferences, although I'm sure there are some men who insist on their SOs being shorter than them. Avoiding people who think height is an extremely important factor may not be possible.

Source:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-common-is-it-for-a-...
I think a lot of your downvoters will be reconsidering their positions after a few months of horrific economic effects. In my experience, people are much less altruistic when that altruism has a real, personal cost associated with it.
>@inbounds it is just compiler option u can use it in any language with LLVM backend i would be suprised if Julia will be faster then Rust/Swift or Nim in this regard.

I agree it wouldn't necessarily be faster, but it also wouldn't be slower. Plus in Rust at least disabling bounds checks requires marking code as unsafe, which really gets the community's hackles up.
Well, there are a lot of things I don't want to do, but that doesn't mean others don't want to do them. As these things go, it's a fairly common operation.
clang, swift and julia are all based on llvm compiler toolchain. Ocaml has it's own compiler.
The FCC's purpose from its inception was to centralize power in the hands of a few powerful capitalists. In a free country, why would the national government have complete control over a radio station that broadcasts solely within a single state or city?

https://reason.com/2017/04/05/roosevelts-war-against-the-pre...
Do they use HDDs? If so, does that mean the older HDDs had less failures?
That's how United Artists was founded. By a group of actors/directors to break up the commercial studio monopoly.

Now it's a subsidiary of another studio. Go figure.
You only increase the energy consumption of a crypto if you put many transactions on it (via increasing demand on the coin, and hence the price), so it doesn't really matter whether you use an existing PoW coin or a new one.
Well then you better educate the judge and ADA because they believe intent doesn't matter and that the law makes it a per se violation.
endor.se looks very interesting. We may consider the ability to enter any site you want and we'll try to grab the fav icon for it, so we can show it nicely in the signature.
Any yet the individual claimed to be an engineer at Google
>"Furthermore, the best approximation to human behaviour I know is that human beings will do whatever it takes to maximise ... not their wealth, not their freedom, but... their status."

// Many people choose to take on a lower "status" though.

Chasing "the good life" or "down-sizing" for example.

This is, to my mind at least, a hankering for something more meaningful than financial acumen or societal position.
So far we’ve already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site
or nearly 30% of all videos into WebM

There really isn't much of a long tail on YouTube, it seems. It's sort of worrisome that google could throw away seventy percent of the videos with the vast majority of users not caring.
This is great news. I hope the player can pick the WebM format automatically based on the device capacity. Save a lot of headache for developers.
We definitely will add some copy to better help the user understand why we need the oauth and also the specifics of what we will do with your account (which is never spam).
I would be very, very upset if my ISP decided to throw me into a NAT.

Fingers crossed they don't lol.
Please don't repeat tired tropes here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

HN is for curiosity and curiosity wants diffs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Most tools should be prescriptive unless you have to go really deep and do your own.

Absolutely not. Compare most WiFi connection UIs to WPA_supplicant.

On windows: 'connection failed'

On wpa_supplicant: 'associating... atempting authentication... getting dhcpc lease... dhcp timed out'

One says "sorry computer doesn't work" and the other tells you what you need to deal with the problem. Stop infantilising users, it's disrespectful and counter productive.
Entertainment will be one differentiator. When cars are autonomous, and even now for passengers, people will want a car that has the best systems for watching movies, playing games, and passing time in general. Tesla's are leading in this segment right now. They already got many popular games ported to their system, and the new Model S/X will run games such as Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.
> Remember that time the pornographers tried to overthrow the US government?

Like mass blackmailing top politicians with sexual videos involving minors?, Yep, I remember the last week.
It's certainly positive because all the other countries could tariff the spoiler or whatever. It doesn't have to be race to the bottom.
hi thanks for the suggestion. I thought about this but decided against it as:
1. It's slower, I want to emulate the speed of running a shell in your local machine
2. I don't need all the nix shell features since it's a personal website. I can add features that only seem necessary for what I want to tell others about myself.
I have epilepsy and while this is a far cry from solving it, I love to see more products in the space.

A device that is closer to 'solving' (focal) epilepsy is Neuropace, which uses electrodes around the seizure focus to detect a developing seizure and promptly deliver electrical stimulation to counteract it and prevent its progression before it becomes noticeable. It's been quite successful so far, leading to substantial seizure reduction and boosts in cognition (which is often reduced by anti-epileptic drugs and/or regular seizures).

The research team behind Neuropace has also used data from the devices to build seizure risk forecasting models for individuals (https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/12/419376/seizure-risk-foreca...).

Given the device is so much less intrusive than Neuropace, it would be exciting to see Epilert successfully do the same (which seems to be one of their goals). With good forecasting, some patients could potentially prevent seizures through modulation of medication alone. Though I'm not really their 'target patient' (I have well controlled TLE), I'd happily wear the device when at home to contribute data to an effort to pull that off.
An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. I don't think I have used the term incorrectly.
It's like we're not even trying to avoid cliche comments any more.
None of that works if France or the UK (though doubtful with the domestic anti-EU sentiment) are in it, since both have capable nuclear weapons.
It's a Federal prosecutor who just happens to be located in New York.
Can you help me understand which part of that you think stertches the definition of immutability too far? The developer doesn't change the UI state, it is just a pure function applied to the domain state. Is it the fast path they implemented that does the diffing to speed up the function that bothers you?
But, according to Microsoft if Microsoft Office is not explicitly installed on the machine then it's "just a brick"! [1]

And when you use it, Microsoft will be able to track what you do, just like Google does! And we all know that those big bad corporations just can't be trusted. Except for Microsoft, of course.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57613803-71/microsofts-lat...
"They found the remedy killed up to 90% of MRSA bacteria"

I don't think that's strong enough to be useful. This might be interesting if they can figure out the mechanism and use it to create a stronger antibiotic, but for the stage this is actually at, they're really overselling it.
It is unsettling to read this kind of chip-on-my-shoulder opinion piece full of innuendo under the Firefox logo and the Mozilla name but on the author's personal domain.
Here's some solid advice which I used to make the transfer myself.

First of all, pick a niche industry and own it. Too many agencies I see are just out to make money by developing as many apps and sites as possible. This means a lot of cold calling into different industries and talking to a lot of different people with different needs. If you stick with one industry, pretty soon, you'll find areas where you can really start to focus. This in turn makes you valuable to not only business, but then your name starts to get passed around since you have specific ways you're helping other people in that industry. Less cold calling and more referrals is what follows then. I would also start locally, get as many customers in your local niche then broaden out, go regional, then national.

Secondly, the one thing that has made my agency successful is minimizing overhead. It's basically me and my partner. We work from our homes, but are in constant contact with each other (technology is great ain't it?). This means, no employees to pay, no office rent, no heating bills, no additional hardware or furniture. It allows us to keep our rates fairly low and still have a very nice profit margin since we have so little upfront costs. This also benefits our clients since it saves them money too.

Lastly, I use a progressive billing system. I start out working with my clients on an hourly rate - mainly doing consultation work. Then once we start having steady work, I go to them and say, "Hey, you're paying a lot for my hourly rate since and we're always doing work for you, why don't we just set up a monthly total (a 5-8% discount off my hourly rate) with a minimum of hours I need to work for your company each month and go from there?" 90% of our clients have switched over to a monthly or yearly billing subscription. This is a biggie since you don't have to worry so much about where your next project is coming from, you can really focus on your clients and know you have a steady stream of revenue coming in. This also allows you to continue to cold call and bring in new business - makes a huge difference compared to working project to project.

Hope this helps!
there's plenty of other good advice here, but unless you're turning down 3-4 offers for every job you do accept, you're not charging enough money. this is true even when you're not working.

wrapping your head around this and going without a paycheck is tough. most people aren't tough enough to deal with it, including you, until now. this is why agencies can charge 200% markup on your estimate AND screw you for 40% on the backend.
We're on the same page here, especially re #2. And I think it's high time I give JRuby a real shot.

As for #4, I'm all for those mentioned, low-level (and fascinating) projects. And for projects surrounding programming paradigms e.g. Celluloid, EM... I was really referring to libraries, but on second thought #4 isn't that a big of an issue in Ruby-land, it's mostly a JS world problem.

I suppose my particular fear is that instead of re-organizing code within Rails as an example, the community will opt to make another new framework instead, increasing fragmentation.
Would be nice to see the fonts rendered
We have a particularly stupid government, even with the caveat that governments are particularly stupid.

That said, it's somewhat interesting this is being linked from here now, it gives the impression that this is an attempt at damage control over cablegate on the part of our idiot politicians, but if you look at the release date of the linked article this is completely unrelated to the recently released cables.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ecw40/wikileaks_cu...
They're what we would consider a "free country" yet in regards to the Internet they act like a Totalitarian Government. Which puts the focus on those actions.
PDF of paper that isn't behind a paywall: http://www2.research.att.com/~yitzhak/publications/ddg-tr.pd...
Python packaging is indeed a mess. The scipy community in particular is acutely aware of the issue - distutils and all the cruft on the top (setuptools, pip, etc...) are not robust and extremely adverse to extensibility.

This is a complex issue, though, especially if you want to play well with native tools on each platform. It does not help that python packaging tools have been created by accretion instead of begin designed around simple, robust principles.
In this new scheme I'd be learning a new movement for each capitalization and special character. Seems like it will be a while before I'd become nearly as proficient as I am now (65wpm).

(Not so) Breaking news: New things take some getting used to.

If you really managed to memorize three separate keyboards (regular, numeric, symbols) and all of the tap/hold options they have, props to you. But, memorizing three keyboards isn't something I've managed to do -- even after using iOS pretty much since the original iPhone first came out. But, I'd personally rather just have it all right there on screen, without having to hunt a key down.
Do I hear John McCarthy chuckle?
> Looking at things objectively isn't "partisan stuff".

It's okay to dislike the U.S. government, be pro-Wikileaks, and think Wikileaks still did some stupid stuff here.

> For example: the next time the US decides it wants to invade another country they might find it harder to justify.

And the next time they try to negotiate nuclear disarmament with Pakistan, the Pakistani negotiator has to be worried about looking weak publicly. I can't believe I'm defending the U.S. government here, I'm quite a critic of it. But they actually do do lots of good stuff. Working to protect Google and internet infrastructure and working for nuclear disarmament are good things. Working to take out people who blow up buses of school children in Israel is a good thing.

You can be a critic of the U.S. government and think Wikileaks is being reckless here. The positions aren't incompatible.
I hope not. I don't know how many times a question I search for is closed as off topic, but was answered before it was closed
Sobriety was a big one for me.
>Teaching analytical skepticism needs to become a core curriculum for our schools.

Won't work. Half of the world has an IQ of under 100. To question scientific dogma you would at least need an IQ of 110 I would think.
Sure playing it at half speed works be closer to real life. But playing a week sped up to 90s isn't going to be much different.
| This would also require the CIA to have the foresight to know beforehand which leaders will turn out to be incompetent.

First, as I said before, when the CIA targets socialist leaders, only the strongmen survive. It's my belief that strongmen are not great leaders, they're just the best at not getting killed. This is why people associate "socialist" with "authoritarian", because the crunchy, hippy Bernie Sanders types get shot and their supporters get thrown from helicopters.

Second, killing socialist leaders isn't the only thing the CIA does. Look up any CIA counter-revolution manual and part of their cointel is to do as much as possible to destabilize the politics and economy of the country. Any socialist leader (or even just mildly social democratic leader) has to contend with this in a way that a capitalist leader doesn't. Even under these circumstances, we still have relative success stories like Cuba, which while not great from a first world perspective is a much better place to be an average citizen than Haiti or Dominican Republic. Or Bolivia, which got coup'd but popular support was able to oust Añez and whose economic reforms have increased GDP per Capita by 50%.

You can't state something as definitive as "socialism doesn't work" when history includes the greatest empire the world has ever known doing everything in its power to crush it.
"(we’re supportive of a rise in the corporate tax rate)"

Isn't advocating for higher taxes a breach of fiduciary duty to maximize profits to shareholders?
I wish they could let you donate to specific issues. I agree with much of what they do, but I disagree on specific issues.
If you can't get to the bevyengine.org web site, you can view the release announcement in the Bevy projects' web site Github repo:

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/blob/master/conte...
I've suffered a serious head injury when I was a teenager and my brain lost the feeling of time for two days. I knew, logically, that lunch happened before dinner, but I couldn't _perceive_ it as such. It's hard to explain. The brain is a complex machine.
GraalVM native is generally better than Kotlin native as it maintain Java-kotlin interop. Kotlin native is more for niche use cases like objective-C/Swift interop.