skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point being that computation is so cheap now, that it's more difficult to promote confusion and obscure facts.

It used to be expensive to compile massive data sets and reduce them to reliable statistical evidence, so it was easy to push concepts that had little supporting evidence. For example: "the particle passes through both slits", "the cat is alive and dead", "there are no hidden variables", "the source of an emission never ascribes state to its particles, and that state does not exist until inspected"

Now, such wild claims are in disagreement with rivers of data that are much more easily produced and reviewed computationally. Observations that were not previously possible now shed light on facts that were previously obscured. Without backing data ideas prone to confusion could take root. Particularly so, with voices of academic authority shouting down concepts that threaten the ivory tower.

But now, technology to conduct measurements is cheaper, and data shouts louder. So, something presented as fact in A Brief History of Time (the particle passes through both slits) can no longer be supported by fame alone, simply because the author is revered. It's easier produce and publish data (make high-fidelity video recordings of the behavior of silicone oil beads demonstrating pilot wave phenomena, and post on youtube).

On this example, pulling together raw data from sensor streams, and dumping into a high performance computing pipeline, reveals that diffraction itself is a state producing phenomenon, and that reliable variables are produced by the diffractor, but would be later hidden by subsequent polarizers that drive downstream state. If the hidden variables weren't reliable, there would be no possibility of composing an image from the statistical analysis of the diffraction. The diffraction would produce no reliable signal to reconstruct, because it would not exist, since local hidden variables are forbidden, behind no-go boundaries.
No. Closest I've come across, though I can't find the link now, is one set of figures that just looked at housing, and found by that metric, real income in the U.S. peaked in 1959. Which, I will claim, was the main cause of the opening up of society in the sixties, with the subsequent drop in real income being the main cause of the end of this phenomenon.
I _am_ an HN user, and the landing page absolutely does matter for an MVP. The issue here is that they went to all of the trouble to make a landing page, then hid it from their users. The parent of this thread was tipped off by noticing his scrollbar, but it was worse for me -- Chrome hides the scrollbar. I opened the link, saw a barren a paywall / loginwall, closed the tab, and started to write a post questioning the decision to post a barren paywall to HN. Then I thought "wait a minute, maybe I can scroll...", and opened up the tab again.

That's not the first impression they want.
BTW - CLI-matic uses your excellent Orchestra.
One thing I make sure to not buy organic is couscous. Every time I've gotten organic versions, there have been worms roaming around in it.

I'm not sure I agree with the article's conclusions as I generally favor organic in the US, but having reasonable debate is healthy. In Europe I don't bother about organic since the regulations are much stricter regarding crop treatment.

In my own vegetable garden I currently have tomatoes and many types of fruit berries, but I'm not doing the organic thing. The thing is, between organic and total overdose on pesticides, there's a wide gamut. I spead weedkiller under my blueberries so technically they aren't organic. Tomatoes will uptake many types of herbicides so I don't use any lingering ones on that part of the garden, however my fertilizer is not always organic.
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> that they should apply to past monies too

That's not reasonable
R, language-wise, is awful

Yes and no. Data frames are built-in to the standard library, which also happens to contain a lot of stats functions that are data-frame-aware. The formula API is really convenient. The language distinguishes between NA and NaN. Vectors and matrices are the core data structure. The language is almost fully homoiconic and can be hacked and introspected more or less arbitrarily. The standard plotting library gives direct, near-pixel-level control and a lot of high-level convenience tools (albeit with bad defaults).

There's a lot to be said for that. If you think of R as a statistics DSL, it's an excellent tool. If you think of it as a general-purpose programming language, a high-performance computing language, or just about anything else, you will come away disappointed. That's not what it's meant for.
my suspicion is "no", but I'd love to be proven wrong; backtest validity ensured by dependent time-aware types would be a heck of a tool!
Long JVM startup time is a big reason why I went with Elixir instead of Clojure when I decided to move off Ruby to do webdev. (Another reason was easily triggering nasty Java stacktraces.)

My Elixir test suites fire up instantly and finish in seconds (if that) and this fast-as-possible feedback loop is extremely important to stay productive, IMHO.
Indeed. My own example is garlic. In the EU today, most garlic sold is from China and presumably grown through standard modern industrial techniques.. It just isn't very good: almost no juice, a strange bitter tang.

But my local supermarket also offers a brand of organic garlic from Spain that is out of this world by comparison. I rave about it to friends. It may seem weird to be this enthusiastic about a minor ingredient, but I find the difference really so huge.

Now, the fact that this garlic was grown through organic farming techniques may be incidental to its quality; maybe it was some other factor that makes the difference. Nonetheless, I will continue buying this organic brand, because when the market only gives me these two options, I am going to prefer the better one.
You're probably right, but are you getting the tax deduction for donating, or is your employer?

400 * 15 * 12 = 72,000 / yr that your employer may be deducting from wages on the backs of their employees... voluntary or not.

Then they get to advertise their generosity and optional dress code.

I hate thinking pessimistically like this, but you get conned enough times... and it's not like they actually need a dress code, if they're comfortable with taking money for people not abiding by it.
> they don't have any capabilities SpaceX won't have

Correct. Falcon 9 is cheaper than Ariane 6 and the Falcon Heavy can launch more mass than Arian 5 or 6 for less. Given the piggyback market, where unused launch mass can be sold to third parties, the only reason to pay up for this platform is for political or scheduling reasons.
The company has an almost 40 year history. When you’ve built up and miss trust over decades, peoples attitudes are not going to change overnight.

Personally, while I was merely describing what I perceived other people’s viewpoints to be, I don’t know why it’s so hard for Microsoft to make a normal terminal app. People have the choice of a dozen adequate terminal apps on Linux. I guess this article explains any difficulty.

As far as MS modernizing, one could look at it as, what would you think if 25 or 30 years ago, IBM said that they were turning around and we’re now a modern, agile company instead of a slow-moving relic of the previous era, and they built an awesome new console app for OS/2?
The Steam platform should actually create a VM sandbox for a game when it's running to exactly prevent bad behavior.

That's a service I'd actually pay for.
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Interesting. CropLife Foundation is funded by the major companies that make pesticides. https://croplifefoundation.org/about/funders-corporate-suppo...
The poor ecosystem is very real, I agree. I'm a huge fan of Haskell in particular, but I don't use it as my everyday language precisely because of lack of support in so many ways. Which is a shame, because the language really has so much to offer.

If you're frustrated by the lack of IDE support in particular, I'd suggest checking out Racket. One of the language developers' primary accomplishments is a dedicated IDE called DrRacket which is designed to make using Racket easy. The books "How to Design Programs" [0] and "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" [1] use Racket and are available online for free, and you can find Matthew Flatt's course notes for his functional class here: [2] (he's one of the language's primary implementers).

[0] http://www.htdp.org

[1] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/

[2] https://pubweb.eng.utah.edu/~cs5510/
I guess we'll see, but integrating with the host garbage collector is pretty suggestive, to me.

Aside from that, an app/program/whatever delivered as webassembly will typically have strong dependencies on the target host environment, which means its not portable or cross-platform.

It's not useless, since you still get to choose your own language for any target that supports webassembly (assuming things work).

But code, whatever language its written in, is very strongly influenced by the frameworks & patterns provided/imposed by the host environment, by environmental constraints, not to mention the problem domain itself.

E.g., assume there are bindings for any language you want... if you write a To-Do app for iOS using native controls, it's going to look pretty similar whatever the language.

> ...and are always being careful to separate the JS/Web ifaces/impls
I'll just point out that this is quite important if your goal is to cleanly extend browsers. You specifically don't want to duplicate or impinge anything the browsers already provide.

I'm not trying to be a downer, but it seems like people are hoping/expecting webassembly to do more than it can or will (maybe I'm wrong, but that's the impression I'm getting).

Meanwhile, we have a very solid use case for it, which is a much better compile target than Javascript for whatever language you might want to use for web development.
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I keep trying all the fancy/expensive organic/free range eggs, I can't tell the difference at all. This is just a comment on taste. It's funny, they kind of look and feel different somehow, but I can't taste any difference. I assume they must be different nutritionally or in some way, and must be better for the chickens, I just hoped they would taste better somehow.
Of all the places in the world, Europe is probably the most ripe for implementing a UBI, which would solve a lot of these problems.
The Humvee is a 1970s design and uses an engine that was designed to prioritize fuel economy. Any modern power-train (and many not so modern ones) should vastly outperform a Humvee.
Increasing supply often increases demand. Cheaper rockets will mean more trips which means you will still be building rockets.

But I think your model is a bit of hyperbole. You’re downplaying the statistical model that goes with this. Launching a rocket is Russian roulette. The odds are quite different when you want to launch a rocket once versus a dozen times.

(1 - p)^n = the odds that I still have a rocket after n launches, where p is the odds of it blowing up on any given launch. The asymptote is at 0 and it gets there pretty fast.

The good news is that the cost benefit analysis has a similar problem.

Let’s say you want to reuse a $10M part once. Right now it costs you $20M for two flights. You create a $11M version that costs $1M to refurbish. That’s $12M for two flights or $6M per flight. You got a 40% cost improvement. So now you go for 3 flights. Now you have a $12M part that costs $1M to refurb. That’s $14M for three flights or $4.66M per flight.

From 1 to 2 you saved $4M per flight. From 2-3 you saved an additional $1.33M per flight. From 3 to 4 you’d save $0.66M per flight, by adding another $1M to your up front costs.

The bean counters are probably going to push back here. Opportunity costs you see. They’re going to demand you reduce costs, find revenue neutral ways to improve profits. For instance if you can cut 25% off the refurb costs that’s a better cost improvement than getting to 5 launches. While that makes getting to five more appealing, it also takes time. So you can imagine what the gap between five and six will be filled with. Cheaper rocket, lower refurb costs again.

If they have money to spend at this point they’ll give it to the lobbyists or marketing department. You aren’t the best investment they have anymore. Increased revenue is.
This sounds like it could be potentially useful, as an alternative to unopinionated productivity tools which force you to make far too many decisions upfront. On the other hand I've never heard of Kanban and I'm not the only one. I feel like the name alone is intended to communicate what this does to a core part of your target audience, but if you've never heard of Kanban explaining that it's a "Kanban board for your emails" in the tagline doesn't make it that much clearer either.

Either way, good luck with it! I'm a screen reader user so would be interested to see how accessible and usable it is from the keyboard alone. That's also why you should read what I've said above in the context of not being able to see your visual design, which might instantly make it clear what it does.
> As a customer, the main advantages of using indie products is that there aren't investors telling the founders that they need to shut down if they don't get millions of users in the next 18 months, or that they need to start selling customer data.

I get that, but companies exist to get paid. And therefore a successful product will attempt to grow, which often means a change in business processes or pricing. So if I make a product like this indispensable to my workflow or company, I could be faced with a change being forced upon me when they go to scale.

All that to say I'm not 100% it's effective marketing.
>The planned Ariane 6 is cost uncompetitive with the Falcon 9

This isn't really true. Ariane 6 is expected to cost €75 million for 5 tonnes to GTO and €90 million for 11.5 tonnes. Falcon 9 costs $50 million for 5.5 tonnes to GTO (reusable) and $62 million for 8.3 tonnes (expendable).

Because Ariane uses a "dual-berth" conops, it (generally) flies two payloads per launch, whereas Falcon 9's excess capacity is usually left unused. The two rockets are thus of comparable cost to a satellite customer, with pros and cons for each — Ariane is more reliable, but you have to work around the other customer's schedule.

The worry is that Ariane 6 won't be competitive with future rockets, like New Glenn or BFR.
> That's why it helps to know which foods have the worst residue issues (e.g. the dirty dozen)

And know the ones with the least residue as well, the 'clean fifteen.' [1]

[1] https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/news/2018-dirty-dozen-and...
So... I think the Windows model is superior in these respects:

- object handles >> file descriptors
- security descriptors >> {owner, group, mode, [acl]}
- access tokens >> [gs]et[e]?[ug]id(), [sg]etgroups(), initgroups()

But everything-is-a-file makes things generic, which means they can be remoted (as you put it), which means I/O redirection in shells is trivially transparent to the programs being run , etcetera. This is a very big deal.

Now, not everything is really a file on Unix. There are ioctls for some things -- lots even. And the limited and non-standardized representation of processes as files is obnoxious, but whatever, it works.

The Windows model of console as ioctl-/API-based is simply an utter disaster of calamitous proportions. It's the reason Unix users/devs hate the Windows experience, and it has held Windows back in some ways. The success of Windows as a whole has papered this over, and it's probably the reason that the console got no love from MSFT for thirty years, but the problems are real.

Another thing that is shockingly bad on Windows is the C run-time. The lack of a single C run-time DLL, the fact that the C run-time is statically linked into every DLL, and the total lack of love that MSFT has shown the C run-time, is atrocious. Doing portable code development, where by portable one means "runs on various Unix and Unix-like OSes _and_ Windows", is rather hard, and the hard part is always Windows. Invariably this involves writing C code with lots of #ifdef WIN32 spaghetti. The only good thing about this is that it has forced some memory management discipline on library APIs that might otherwise not have happened.

If there is any chance that you could get MSFT to fund a similar project for revamping the C run-time, that would be fantastic. Because there are so many discrete portions of the C run-time to fix up, such a project could probably scale to more than three developers -- perhaps three core developers, two developers to improve a variety of individual and peripheral functions, and two test engineers. Please mate.
DDT is mostly non-toxic to humans too. One of the DOW salesman used to drink a cup of it to prove how safe it was.
I want something that could easily be embedded into dynamic languages VMs like Ruby, Python, PHP, Lua, Node.js, etc. I like Rust a lot, but for better or worse, all the infrastructure around this is currently built around C/C++.
I really don't get why he doesn't just carry a reliable GPS tracker with him. Seems so much easier than arguing with people online.
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The culture is at least somewhat relevant if it gets in the way of efficiently performing the mission.
I was incontrovertibly born here, so they can throw at me what they like. But my mother, like many people born in South Asia, finds it hard to obtain official birth documentation. When she naturalized she had to have her mother swear in an affidavit as to her birthplace and birthdate.
Wish the article also mentioned:
- food supply: Generically Engineered crops are the only way we're going to feed the estimated 11 billion people at our estimated peak population. Heck, it's providing a significant part of the boost that allows us to have 8 billion. If the planet went "all organic" today, billions of people would starve to death. Another billion or so would be sentenced to deadly food supply uncertainty.

- nutritional value: GE crops are the best way we have to compensate for diet diversity issues in many poor areas of the world. Golden rice is a famous example, but not the only one. There are similar stories for cassava, bananas, and many other staple foods. Banning nutrient enriched crops sentences millions of children to malnutrition and its effects.

- land and resource use: "organic" farming requires much more land, water, and energy to produce per calorie. Can you say "deforestation"? How about "pollution"?

- food safety: GE foods undergo (required) enormous safety testing before they reach market. Testing that would fail and block many "frankenfoods" created by "organic" cross breeding, such as kiwi. What's more, "organic" blocks the possibility of creating hypoallergenic peanuts, wheat, shellfish, etc etc .

- organic foods require more, and more damaging, and more lasting, pesticides than their GE sisters.

- I don't like radiation in my food. The "organic" method of cross breeding involves radiospermatogenesis. That's where you bombard seeds with x-rays to promote mutation. That's genetic engineering, but randomized.
- "organic" cross breeding selects crops based on phenotype (how they look). This causes problems, like the famous extra large bananas in the 30s, which were extremely popular until it was discovered that they also produced an extra large dose of cyanide. They poisoned people who ate too many.

There are lots of reasons to reject the naturist fallacy vision of "organic" food as better. These are some of my favorites. I don't want my money to support mass starvation, illness, and food insecurity.
There is very low population density between the LA and SF metro areas, which are roughly 350 miles apart (400 miles from city center to city center). This is one of the reasons that a HSR has been such a hard sell.
> That is not the reason I've ever heard anybody say they purchase organic fruits and veggies.

I've had more than one person tell me that organic foods taste better & they have higher nutritional value.

Related but talking to those people about the all natural label is just a lost cause.
> To confirm, you're looking for an interpreter?

I'm interested in an interpreter that is available as a library.

I'm also interested in a small, standalone JIT-compiled implementation, but that seems less likely to actually exist.

Basically I'm looking for the Lua and LuaJIT of WebAssembly.
> I'm an easy prey for procrastination

Same.

(Currently at work, procrastinating.)
Obviously diplomatic immunity, national borders and such concepts predate Westphalia. But the Westphalian model is the model on which the modern world is built for better or for worse. That's not really a disputed fact.
Followup. The glibc developers came up with a solution that meets the standards without violating the principle of least surprise.

See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23393#c28 and https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-07/msg00620.ht...
I can't find the source for this but, as I recall, HN has a system where certain new or recent submissions are artificially promoted to a low position on the front page for a few minutes to see if they gain traction naturally. Also, I believe that some people (perhaps just dang and sctb, I don't know) can manually add to the pool of submissions that the algorithm will randomly draw from to temporarily promote. They don't have the power to push them directly to the front page, only to give them a chance to be selected for a few moments of spotlight.

Forgive me if I got some of that wrong, or if the system as a whole does not work like than anymore. Not exactly what was asked, but maybe helpful to someone.

EDIT: Closest source I can find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140

It references a long comment from dang three years ago regarding this as an "experiment": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134
Ouch. This sounds terrible. I can see how refactoring a bowl of spaghetti like that took a lot of time. I respect you for sticking with it and not throwing in the towel.
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“Help, there is this defective machine, it made a loud noise and a piece of metal emerged and lodged itself in my abdomen. It is unsafe, a very bad design!”

“Well, actually, it is a gun, and it is a very good design for its intended purpose. It’s just that the manufacturer does not have your interests in mind.”
I'm late to the party, but I heavily use a tool I wrote (after trying org-mode, collapsible outlines in other tools, etc). It uses postgres, and I hope that "sharing" data exchange features are coming (though it already does export to org-mode-like text, and to html). Best code is that in github, though a downloadable .jar is available. Currently keyboard and desktop-only (text-oriented). The most efficient/effective thing I have found for notes/lists/details of all kinds, and should be easy to learn to use, as all the essentials are on the screen. There is a tutorial.

By marking things done or "archived", it also provides a journal feature or personal log, of entries created or archived in any date range (defaulting to "yesterday and so far, today", to help with daily standup reporting).

http://onemodel.org (AGPL)
Waaay more interested in the American surveillance state, which is global, penetrating, the best funded, attached to a global propaganda system, and sits in the hands of the world's premiere superpower. I'm also a citizen there.

These Chinese surveillance state stories are all really tame compared to the abuses of the American program.
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