skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I accept that the word 'raid' isn't ideal, but I don't think it's 'incredibly misleading' when accompanied by photos that make it quite clear there are no armed men storming the building. What word would you suggest? 'Search'?

I don't think it's fair to characterise the reporting as 'spreading conspiracy theories' either, just for quoting a media spokesperson who 'described the raids as "disturbing" considering they have taken place so soon after a federal election.' This attributed comment was followed by quotes from the AFP and the relevant minister asserting their independence.
0.5x with metaprogramming vs 0.7x without in Scala, isn't "far less". This also matches my experience - Scala is pretty on par with Python in terms of code length. It gets a tiny hit from being statically typed, but then makes up for it by having richer stdlib and powerful type-level abstractions.
I was convinced this was an official NASA exhibit made for the 50-year anniversary. Fantastic work and much appreciated. My dad will be psyched; he was 17 at the time of the launches, and this fits in great in the recent tradition of "slow entertainment" that happens in real time over multiple days :)
Whichever open source system best fits the usecase. There are a number of FOSS systems specifically for embedded real time systems, for general purpose stuff I'd probably go with OpenBSD. The key is not being tied to the vendor of the software. You want to be able to hire a bunch of random programmers in forty years who can just look at the code and port it to whatever hardware is cheap at that time. Ideally you'll want to continuously have a small number of people working on keeping the system running on recent hardware and updating the dependencies.
Thank you for doing this; I hope you are able to take a couple of weeks of serious beach time and recharge yourself properly for the next one!
Not directly, but he did point out the improvement.
> Australia has a very mono-cultural society.

I have to disagree with you here... Sydney & Melbourne have the world's 3rd and 4th largest foreign born populations.

45% of people living in Sydney weren't born in Australia... Melbourne 41%.

Agree that outside Syd & Melb though, it's very mono cultural.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_born#Metropolitan_and_...
> I like Rust a lot, but haskell minus it's more advanced type system is just Rust plus GC.

Complete baloney. Haskell does not allow any imperative programming. Haskell is functional and disallows imperative, Rust supports functional but is largely imperative. Rust is vastly superior to Haskell and I say this as someone who has put many hours in both languages at this point.

Also, its*.
Not sure if OP or anyone else who thought along similar lines will see this follow up, but I was mulling the original comment over some more and I know why I reacted so strongly to it.

When I think of the word terrorism, and I'm sure many others think like me, I think of 9/11. Or the Las Vegas shooting. Or one of the many horrible bombings in various parts of Middle East, etc.

Those are acts that have no pre-warning, and are designed to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible, and to cause as much fear and, dare I say it, terror as possible.

What XR are intending on doing is abusing an obvious outcome of notifying civil aviation authorities that a dangerous object will be active in airspace where civilian commercial airflight is taking place. The outcome being flights are grounded and redirected, causing a lot of inconvenience to people and costing the economy potentially millions of dollars.

I think XR believes it's a 100% obvious thing that by notifying the appropriate authorities well ahead of time, all planes will be safely rerouted or grounded. If there was even the slightest chance that their actions could cause a plane crash, then I firmly believe XR would not even consider such an action.

So yes, I understand we have actual legislation that could very reasonably be used to charge the people responsible for the plan at Heathrow airport. The problem is I think that the legislation in question was designed to target something very different. If activists from XR are convicted of charges stemming from the "Terrorism Act", it becomes perfectly reasonable to label those activists as terrorists.

But then what we've actually done here is placed activists who never had the slightest intention of causing grievous harm to other people (loss of life, massive economic damage, etc) into the same category we reserve for extremists who have perpetrated genuine atrocities. That just seems completely wrong to me.

If we want to bring about legislation that criminalizes certain forms of activism that go "too far", then fine. I think even that could be a perilous path, but I can make my peace with it being necessary. I would just hope we stop and ensure everyone is on the same page that we're categorizing these people as something like "activists who went too far" in order to distinguish them from "extremists who carried out attacks that we as a society consider utterly unthinkable and terrifying".
Lenses are more than reified record labels though. There is a hierarchy of concepts that can be freely composed based on which features your data structure actually supports. In particular, lenses can be composed with traversals ("lenses" pointing at multiple fields) yielding "LINQ" like features without introducing new syntax or concepts.

The main problem with lenses is that common lens libraries look extremely complicated at first glance and seem to be solving a very simple problem. That rightfully puts most people off of learning what all the fuss is about.
The article doesn't say anything about battery life. Does anyone know about how long these robots can operate without recharging and how long it takes to recharge?
Not constant, map tiles are downloded and cached. This one could be done manually, the others less so.
Be interested in technical reasons for this. Presumably those closest to it having a hard time getting on the net!
It’s strange seeing bots showing up already. Our local grocery chain has robots - tall, lanky and uncoordinated - rolling around the stores with their two glowing eyes looking for spills to alert a human to come clean.

The last time I saw one, it was relentlessly circling a scuff mark near the entrance to the back stockroom. Twenty minutes later as I’m getting ready to leave, the bot was still there seemingly totally confounded by this dark and utterly harmless streak on the floor. A nearby employee stocking the shelves rolled his eyes as he told a fellow shopper of the many tens-of-thousands of dollars this machine cost.
>you have a guarantee that your dog will have a happy life free from pain and suffering.

What? There is absolutely no such guarantee involved. Registered pedigree dogs frequently have horrifying genetic problems in fact.

https://vimeo.com/17558275

>There is a public, transparent register showing absence or presence of main congenital diseases in the family of your pet.

Where? There is an optional registry showing you did the "required testing" for a puppy you are selling, but the required testing is rarely useful. Having a random vet do a "Hip Evaluation" does nothing to guarantee your dog is not going to have hip dysplasia. Having an "Ophthalmologist Evaluation" does nothing to guarantee your dog won't develop glaucoma.
That's exactly why we need to fix email - not replace it with another app with more notifications. I agree with Dvir - email's asynchronous nature is what makes the exact solution for business comms. It's instant, but not invasive, and doesn't expect an instant reply. Culturally, we need to also respect people's time. I'm sticking with email.
It's not a manuscript authoring tool, but I thought we were talking about alternatives for 'perfect typesetting.' I don't think there's any tool that is ideal for both authoring and typesetting, but since we do have this special word 'manuscript' to describe a work that hasn't been typeset yet, maybe it is useful to continue thinking of authoring as a separate task (at least if you aspire to perfection), rather than something that needs to be done at the same time, using the same tools, as typesetting.
It's not just small-town newspapers. Think of society pages of all the big newspapers (some still have them). And for example the wedding pages of the NY Times.
HyperRogue (roguelike in a non-Euclidean world) version 11.0 is released
It's a common sentiment on Hackers News. It presupposes that the purpose of writing and reading is to extract the maximum amount of information in the shortest amount of time. Presumably, if we all lived in this manner we would also:

* Blend all our food so that we could extract the maximum nutrients with the minimum amount of chewing

* Only watch movie trailers to get the main plot points without wasting 90 minutes

* Request friends to get to the punch-line of a joke without all the boring wandering around of the story

There are many reasons to read, as there are many reasons to travel. Sometimes it's only about getting to the destination as quickly as possible, and sometimes the journey is part of the experience. The question is whether you as the reader and the writer are on the same journey together, or you're looking for business travel while they are on a slow train enjoying the countryside.
I'm reading that the distribution sector is composed of two distribution companies (Edenor and Edesur).

Both websites are currently down:

www.edenor.com.ar
www.edesur.com.ar
Some C++ has horrific messages, new compilers do a much better job at complaining about most errors - some even suggest fixes. I don't remember seeing Haskell doing that.
Are you suggesting that having your video taken down from YouTube and going to jail are equally problematic?
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
You make a great point. We have a lot of sci-fi that's been conditioning us to the idea of a world shared with a large cast of robotic members. I'm a geek who loves those kinds of fantasies. Yet, when I saw that fancy robotic espresso-maker in SF [1], I still reverted to childlike wonder state :) The way the robotic arm gives you a cheeky little wave when it's finished making your coffee is the perfect touch.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/30/cafe-x-opens-in-san-franci...
This should be a Jekyll plugin as well. Maybe when I get time.
> What, you've never taped over a VHS before?

Well, actually…

I think I have only one or two VHS tapes, being the equivalent of /tmp. yes "have"; I still have all the tapes I recorded neatly organized and mothballed in boxes, and except for that two particular tapes I can not recall of overwriting any other.
So your defense for Haskell's error messages is that they're slightly better than what you get from a massively entrenched language with famously user hostile error messages?

Good luck with that :)
> How do you know which situation will apply to plastics if we manage to engineer bacteria that metabolise them?

Life needs to obey physics and thus chemistry. Many plastics are already consumed by various bacteria in specific environments yet function perfectly well as TV remotes etc.

Further, plastics have a rather wide range of chemistry. Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) for example includes a lot of chlorine making it much harder for organic chemistry to deal with. Thus making it suitable for wet environments.

PS: Indoor wooden tables are coated in varnish largely to aid in cleaning and protection from ware. Kitchen cutting boards last for years demonstrating the difference between intermittently damp vs long term wet conditions.
Luckily, they don't bring with them a lot of cognitive overhead for the developer, so their presence masks the expressiveness of OCaml in LOC stats IMHO. I use interface files to make public signatures explicit, abstract away some types and write thorough doc-comments. I'd be tempted to exclude them from such a comparison to better relate code size with programmer efficiency, especially when comparing to a language like Python.

On the other hand, in languages like C we couldn't exclude header files because they include macros. (Although I suppose a fancier comparison could count macros and exclude function signatures.)
Handing over a territory and it's citizens without a referendum seems like a mistake.

The whole Hong Kong scenario always seemed weird, utterly reminiscent of backroom negotiations and colonialism.
Is it robots or humans controlling robots? Does this robot differ from gun? Who pulls the trigger?
Our other ex-colonies, I presume
Well the entire article is based on a straw poll at a cookout. There was no need to frame this as oppositional or a “battle of the sexes” type deal.
> I might give it a try, however I didn't see any mentions of how it integrates with Git :/

Like this: [https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/projects/]
From the iOS security whitepaper:

> To protect the device from vulnerabilities in network processor firmware, network interfaces including Wi-Fi and baseband have limited access to application processor memory. When USB or SDIO is used to interface with the network processor, the network processor can’t initiate Direct Memory Access (DMA) transactions to the application processor. When PCIe is used, each network processor is on its own isolated PCIe bus. An IOMMU on each PCIe bus limits the network processor’s DMA access to pages of memory containing its network packets or control structures.

Of course there's always the chance that there's a bug in one of these interfaces

And on Android: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Even for the Google Pixel I can't find a security whitepaper, just a blog post with a couple of vague bullet points.
You can do similar things with tdcs devices bought off amazon. There’s a lot of evidence that electric stimulation can affect many different parts of your brain depending on the electrode placement: working memory, long-term memory, depression, etc.
I agree (with the caveat that, as I wrote in another comment, I think being correct is an important aspect of quality), but this observation also argues against claims that attribute the outcome to the qualities of Python.
As a result top 5 counties by median household income are around DC.
https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed/

I really like the simplicity and minimalism of Sfeed. I setup a nightly cronjob that generates an ordinary HTML page, from all the RSS feeds that I like to follow.
Actually all those things do sound like the kind of life min-maxing many seem to ascribe to here.
the controller looks like an off the shelf chinese gaming console. anybody has an idea?
Carbon neutral, not carbon zero.
I appreciate the comment, but I'm not sold at all. It's a stretch to say you can't have two cultures in a lawful society unless they have different laws or one of them is breaking them.

This is the first time I've really seen this argument, and it still feels like it depends on a particularly hard-line definition of culture if it asserts that a community has no culture if they aren't attempting to disrupt the equilibrium and establish their own nation-state.

While I can definitely see how political and legal structures can be informed by culture, necessarily including them as essential requirements is definitely not how culture or multicultural societies have been defined in any other interaction I've ever had.
here's the correct link....

https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/imec-presents-a-manufac...
> Health effects of ingestion of microplastics via food, water and breathing still unknown

Whether there are health effects or not, this is one of many areas where we are waking up to the effects of previous callousness towards nature, or a view of it as an infinite dumping ground for pure waste or other side effects of our ever expanding civilization.

There are more or less feeble attempts at limiting the accumulation of hazardous waste, case in point the vast difference between the rhetoric regarding CO2 emissions vs actual practice. But CO2 is but one such ingredient, anyone following this area will be aware of the massive number of chemical substances that we are naively still allowing into the environment, hoping that the health effects will be negligible, or if not, we will be able to discover such effects before it is too late.

It has got to stop. The precautionary principle needs to be introduced, the need for business as such devalued, and zero-emission to be the ideal. Of course there are multiple borderline cases and definition issues, but it does not detract from the need to change course, radically.
And the RSPCA report mentioned at the end of the article: https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/staticImages/Downloads/P...
> Andy Byford was manager of several Tube lines

As a Torontonian, I felt that he did a reasonable job of running the TTC for the years that he was here.
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>Editing LaTeX documents is actually far more accessible, since they're all plain text.

The conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.

Who said "editing plain text" is more accessible (in the accessibility for people with impairments sense) than a dedicated editor that can help them with assistive technologies?

>with the emphasis being on "see" -- you must be able to see to be aware of the markup

Not anymore than you must be able to see to edit a text document. The markup can be read back to the user (and is , e.g. "bold emphasized words end bold".
Forced opium trade, war, forcibly seizing foreign territory do seem like mistakes.

HK's retrocession to China was the right thing to do.

Unfortunately it seems that it is very hard for Britain to get over its lost Empire. They should really move on.
Fb's cryptocurrency called Globalcoin will pay interest to users
What drives Yellowstone's elk migrations?
In addition to celestial navigation, there was very precise radio based ranging between tracking stations and the spacecraft. You could call it a precursor to GPS, where a pseudo-random noise was transmitted in the microwave signal to the spacecraft. The spacecraft sent back that PRN stream on its microwave downlink to Earth.

I have forgotten how precise and accurate the tracking data was, but it was more than enough for the missions.

NASA would take measurements and then uplink nav data to the guidance computers as necessary. With that and periodic celestial position fixes, there was no getting lost on the journey.

"Just don't screw up a procedure or have a burn go bad and everything will be okay."
What is there to understand? We sold GPL licensed extensions to a GPL application, and made money. All perfectly valid under the license: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
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If you search on google books, you'll find more relevant results, including the official congressional directory where Arlington Hotel is listed as the residence of multiple persons along other names such as National Hotel, Metropolitan Hotel, and Washington House.

https://www.loc.gov/item/96503316/ mentions The Arlington as a location in Washington D.C., published between 1882 and 1900.
They could have done a lot worse.

OS/2 was very stable compared to the NT of the same era.

I'm not sure why we laugh at old systems that are still doing their job thirty years later. If anything we should celebrate the resilience and longevity.

Would it be immediately better if we replaced it with a bunch of docker containers connecting to mongodb or something?

I think we'd be better off as a society if we became tech luddites a bit more. Maybe we could start by replacing all of the facial recognition advertising panels with OS/2.
Investigating the impact removing password masking has on consumer trust (2014)
you can add training load in lots of ways. most evidence suggests a mix of mostly low intensity with some very high intensity is optimum no matter how much total running you do. but the first order thing is just to get as much load as you can handle.
Hence, the real threat for Slack and other Silo apps is Conversational Email, like Spike and others...

We use Spike (spikenow.com) in our org and our productivity is much higher and we are not getting non-context regulars emails anymore...its all chat like and works amazingly
Sales of the modules, optional support contracts, and SaaS hosting of the GPL application and our GPL modules for people who prefer it to self-hosting.
How about cat door that gives cat an electric shock when cat has prey in their mouth
Good for him to keep disciplined.
Too bad the electrical grid is so centralized.
Genode OS: Spark as an Extremum: Components in Pure Spark
GHC does not use lens and it is, it seems, ok.
clarify: you don’t have to switch things up, but you do need to continually increase training load. switching things up may help psychologically for some but not all.
> Is it worth learning for a c++ programmer?

I was a former C++ full-time programmer (4 different jobs in high performance teams, high maintenance etc) and now I'm a D full-time programmer for 4 years.

It's easy to underestimate the difference, but to me _as a user_ those languages are night and day as an experience.

D is learnable, in the sense that your learning will have some sort of ending at one point. D is surprisingly stable too, the front-end doesn't change too much and all 3 compiler share the front-end. And it's somehow forgiving. So the whole experience is tilted towards what you do with it: you feel like "programming", not "programming in C++".

C++ has a few things going for it: it has some sort of mathematical completeness, you can find jobs maintaining C++ codebases for your retirement, and it has an aura of legitimacy. But overall I fear you would live in a much more complicated world, for reduced productivity.
For some reason my dad can't get in. The cursor is just a (/) when you mouse over the join now button. Is the site overloaded? Is something wrong on his end?
Show HN: Visual chatbot builder with the help of AI
None of these apps/extensions to eliminate distractions are effective as long as you have the capability to disable them.
>I highly doubt that anyone read this and actually thought that there was some sort of global law requiring this.

I did! or at least US wide law.
>Shelters are full of dogs that breeders surrender

Where? The shelter dog problem is highly regional, almost entirely in the Southern US, and does not involve breeder surrender. It is mainly un-fixed roaming dogs creating a huge population of at large dogs, and pit bulls that well meaning but harmful people insist on trying to foist onto unsuspecting families.

>They are trading other creatures' pain for their own gain and profit

No they are not. In areas where shelters are full, it is not because of breeders. Giving the people causing the problem a free pass while blaming breeders who have nothing to do with the problem is absurd.
In Polish the situation is similar. 'X' does not appear in the Polish alphabet, but is understood as 'ks' (or 'ee-ks' when spelling). For example, 'xero' is pronounced 'kseh-roh' and sometimes written as 'ksero'. I guess it's true for many languages with Latin origns/influences (but I'm not an expert). So 'Xerox' would sound like 'kseroks'. And Windows XP sounds exactly backwards: instead of 'eks pee' you have 'ee-ks peh'.

The letter 'X' was widely used in Polish language 100-200 years ago in loanwords. Nowadays, you can't really see it anywhere, because the language adapted, and the ortography of those words changed. So now you can even see the pronunciation in the writing. A couple of English-Polish pairs of words in writing as an example:
- maximum - maksimum
- xylophone - ksylofon
- text - tekst
Overleaf's documentation is quite good.
“I don’t respect moderation”

What a great quote.