skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to see a couple of tube amps among the kit listings.

I've enjoyed building many, many tube amplifiers in the past two decades or so. Initially they were kits, later I did rolled my own point-to-point amps and later still laid out my own PCB's for some PCB-based tube amps.

While the high voltages might seem intimidating (safety-wise) I hope that doesn't keep people from pursuing this class of amplifiers. If you're smart about it, you'll be okay. And there is nothing like the sweet music of non-quantum sound amplification.

(When consider that my other hobby involves a table saw I'm beginning to wonder what might be behind some of my life choices…)
The MDN is a pretty good reference complete with availability tables for browsers.

The problem with a reference is that a lot of times browsers do quirky things and things that are essentially browser-specific bugs aren’t documented in a reference.
One of the books given in the references is actually available in it's entirety [1] and appears to be quite good. Chapter 6 covers Seki, Chapter 7 is about his contemporaries and western influences (or lack there-of), and Chapter 8 is about the 'yenri', which is the Calculus system in question.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=J1YNAAAAYAAJ
Yes. Sync isn't so good. Now I am going to create a list of FF minuses
Yes, "cleek"

I was going to say I pronounce it as if it were a French word,

but realistically it's more like I pronounce it as if you were learning high school French as taught in England.
I feel this is less the case than it was a few years ago, but a lot of the same complaints can apply to the Rails ecosystem.
There Is No Legal Distinction Between a 'Platform' and a 'Publisher'
Compulsory attendance to political classes or high-school in general? Second one doesn't seem that bad.
> Why is it possible to "close" a file?

Because the program we're compiling needs to work on actual computers, running under actual (usually at least vaguely POSIX) operating systems. In that context, it's unavoidable that the set of open file descriptors sometimes matters. It can matter because of resource limits. It can also change whether another process gets an SIGPIPE versus blocking forever. It can affect locking.
It may depend on how you use the data — for instance, publicly sharing what you scraped is a clear copyright violation in many cases.

And in some cases scraping is a violation of ToS. (Though who knows whether that’s ever been litigated as enforceable.)
Balding and hair length are unrelated.
I didn't check them all, but none of them I saw said they weren't scientists.
I interviewed at Magic Leap a few years ago and it was never explained to me how they were differentiating themselves from competitors or what their valuation was based on.

I declined the position based on the fact that their options were already diluted without a product or revenue stream.

Maybe one day I will regret that decision when they get bought by Apple, but I just don't see it happening.
I think the biggest problem with Java is the reluctance for anyone to move beyond jdk 8.
I read that and wondered if it might really mean 'drop of venom on the tongue' instead of 'bite into the flesh of the tongue that injected venom'.
i will switch once firefox can pitch correct sped up html 5 videos properly.. it is a crucial skill for me to learn fast and firefox's pitch correction is garbage.
"earth would be better off were we all dead"

The right answer to this is "for who?" and "why would it matter then?"

We don't save the earth for the earth. We save it for ourselves.
Wow. Interesting thing. Going to try this CSS customization
Huawei Doubles Down on Africa
I agree the CO2 tax is a big part of the solution. The real cost of externalities has to be priced into consumer goods. One just has to hope everyone is on board and nobody becomes the Cayman Islands of CO2. Hopefully such a system will eventually be extended to other forms of externalities.

The price change will hopefully also accelerate R&D into alternatives which will also be a big part.
I also have a long history of .NET back to when it came out, although not currently using it. .NET was a solid enterprise answer to Java and was "safe" since it was from Microsoft. Only in the past say ~7 years has .NET really come to the point where running it outside of the Windows environment was even an reasonable option for anything other than prototypes or side projects. And not until the last few years has it been something I'd even contemplate to use outside of the Windows eco-system on a production product. Personally, while I don't use Java anymore as a primary language, Java won the "write once, run anywhere" paradigm even though we all know that there is not such thing as a complex app that is truly write once run anywhere. I think one of the key differences is that Java focused on nix as first class citizen (never really worked as cleanly on Windows IMO), and Linux not having any licensing costs then won the hearts and minds of startups (rightfully IMO). nix in general to me is more robust than Windows as well, and makes solving scaling issues much easier. When you are worrying about server licenses and the such deploying something like micro-services (or any distributed system) can quickly become a costly endeavor. Not to mention the extra time spent in IT managing the infrastructure and licensing etc. Also remember that enterprise licenses of SQL Server and Windows server were charged based on number of CPU's etc (not sure if this is still true been a while). But I remember at one company one of our SQL Server boxes was well into the 6 figures just on licenses for OS and SQL.

There are startups that use .NET though, one that comes to mind that has been very successful is fanatics out of Jacksonville, FL. They went with SQL Server and .NET for their startup early on because there was tons of enterprise talent around and Microsoft was giving great incentives for startups to use their tech. I am not sure what they are on today, but I know they still advertise for Microsoft and .NET people a lot.

C# is a pretty damn awesome language and you can be super productive in it but not lose feel like you are hand tied. I am sure there are also those people that just shit on .NET/C# etc cause it is Microsoft, but honestly I'd use it if the opportunity was there and it made sense for the startup.

* edit - clarified a sentence.
There are a few efforts to modernize the toolchain. Inaccel is making some great efforts like integration with Spark, K8s https://www.inaccel.com/fpgas-goes-serverless-on-kubernetes/

Disclaimer: I am investor in InAccel
Some companies have a Head of D&I specifically to promote it within the company. Yes, you are in the right direction.

Happy to share more details about your company?
I'll take faceid over a fingerprint scanner.
Lessons from a Life in a Chair
> With tagging.

Actually, tagging is one of the things OneNote should do better.

It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags.

One of the things that really annoys me about OneNote (I'm a big fan of it though.)
I contributed support for Google Glass nearly two years ago, went on a long hiatus, came back, and reflashed... it still works!

The people in the pmOS community are also amazing, big thanks to them for a wonderful project, hope there are many great years ahead.
Call, write, donate to those parties proposing carbon taxes, join advocacy groups for the same, form or join an interest group. Join an opinion polling group and give answers.
Should we really take a gamble that engineers will come up with enhanced technology ?

If the future is uncertain, we should rather do too much than too little. That is how insurance works.
I was just reading another excellent piece from Joel Spolsky on the subject: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...

Almost 20 years old, but still relevant.
You're absolutely correct however Haskell has a couple of function that let you circumvent it's normal evaluation rules which you can see in https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/Syste....

These are sometimes useful for optimization but in an unfortunate bit of history, some developers decided to use these to "simulate" Haskell's lazy semantics for side-effecting I/O operations, the so-called "lazy I/O".

Fortunately this is just a few functions in the standard library which you can simply avoid and serious Haskell codebases should use a linter to prevent people from calling them.
Where are you getting that 1.2% number? This is the only study I've found citing that number, but it is _not_ for the general population, but for atopic (read: hypersensitive) children. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070118/

I've yet to see any indication that gluten is healthy. I also don't see how "what celiacs want" is relevant to the health discussion.

EDIT: Just as anecdotal evidence, I've literally never met anyone with a soy allergy or intolerance, but know tens of people with celiac disease/intolerances, and at least 10 that are officially diagnosed (myself and mother included).
F# seems pretty sexy to me.
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> Useless for work

... yet?

It's an open source project and it is trying to achieve what multiple vendors building moats could not.

Maybe it is not production grade but maybe all it needs is time and contributions.
They have ammonia. And diesel. And pesticides. And explosives. You want to take them away?
But what do you call a new business that a founder is fully committed to (so, not a side business) but without an aim to grow to a huge valuation (just enough profit to live)? I think that's what the parent comment is suggesting, not a side business. I'd just call it a small business though, rather than a "startup".
How to Run Millions of Self-Driving Car Simulations on GCP (Cloud Next '19)
More ALUs reminds me of the GreenArrays chips: hundreds of really tiny cores arranged on grid, each one running a small program. Pretty weird stuff. And the canonical development tool is a very weird color forth environment.
You are referring to Bufotoxin / Bufotenin which is produced by some toads (of the Bufo family).

You can read more on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_toad
> pretty much none of them apply to AMP for email

It seems they do, though. Both amp4web and amp4mail are attempts at taking old, established, and perfectly good elements of the Internet, and turning them into something that serves the interests of the adtech industry, at the expense of users.

> it enables interactive emails without allowing arbitrary code

It also conveniently enables extra advertising and tracking, blends together e-mail with the web, and breaks one of the most fundamental aspects of e-mail: with AMP, your message is no longer self-contained and fixed in time - instead, it becomes ephemeral and under control of the sender. On this basis alone I already do not want it.

This view may sound luddite-ish, but the problem here is the same as with the Web at large: more and more capabilities are added, advertised with the vision of more useful future[0], but the vision doesn't materialize. Just like on the web, for all the advances browsers incorporate, you sporadically see them used for something nice (like e.g. NYT visualizations that help you comprehend information in the article), but 99.9% of the time it is used for user-hostile adtech bullshit.

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[0] - "For example, imagine you could complete tasks directly in email. With AMP for Email, you’ll be able to quickly take actions like submit an RSVP to an event, schedule an appointment, or fill out a questionnaire right from the email message." - https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-.... That sounds cool, but doesn't necessarily require AMP.
Path dependency. .net may be open source and interoperable with all kinds of non-MSFT technologies today, but 5-10+ years ago it was only usable in places that went all in on Microsoft technologies. Those Microsoft shops tended to be older, large enterprises outside of pure technology.

Now fast forward 5-10+ years back to the present, are people that choose to start their career in older, large enterprises outside of pure technology more or less likely to be a technical co-founder or first technical hire at a start up than people that choose to start their career in startups or pure technology companies? For consumer focused startups I'd probably say the latter.

I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that startups trying to sell to exactly those older, large enterprises outside of pure technology are where you are more likely to find technical co-founders/first technical hires with experience at those companies they are trying to sell to. So I'd look there for .net stacks.
You're correct. There's nothing about amp4email that requires a Gmail account.

I'm actually pretty sure that if you use an imap client it whatever, you could view amp email from some site without ever communicating with a third party.
Can you provide any kind of summary, for the people who don't have the time or wherewithal to read a full Supreme Court opinion?
I’ve worked in a .NET based startup before. While .NET itself is very nice, the ecosystem is not quite there so it’s a lot harder to get started and manage compared to other open source stacks. It’s harder to automate and script. A lot of tools you rely on aren’t made to run on Windows. Windows itself is hard to automate. For example, rebooting your EC2 instance might trigger a hour long Windows Update. You can’t really use tools like Chef, because installing .net and sql server might take 2 hrs. It’s better to have golden VMs with everything installed.

I don’t know how much the situation has improved with core running on Linux.
I feel like the community is slowly (edit: actually, not that slowly) changing their opinion. We were far to optimistic in our belief in the politicians.

All but the worst of the current IPCC scenarios require some sort of carbon capture even now, and the IPCC reports in general are very optimistic (what we know for sure is less bad than what we suspect might be true).

Carbon capture is classified as a climate engineering technique, and depending on how you do it it is feasible to accurately estimate the consequences. On the other hand, all techniques talked about so far need to be deployed on a massive scale, costing us a lot of resources, space and probably biospheres. The best cost estimates I've seen so far is ~200€/ton CO2 in monetary terms. The problem is that right now the research is not at the level it needs to be (another Manhattan project would be good), since there is no money in it.

Solar management techniques are indeed hard to consider, and would need to be kept up forever, which means that as soon as a war or just recession happens, we'd still be doomed, so this can only be used to buy some time and will probably have severe side-effects.
I love tube amps. Would like to start building my own. Could you please share your favorite resources if any? Thanks.
I think the mental test could have been framed better using the IMHO far more intuitive framing used by Don Dodge in his 2008 article about how to assess a fresh batch of YC startups.

Is your product a vitamin (nice to have) or a pain killer (a must have to improve quality of life)?

https://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2008/03/does...
Based on how the DNS system works, .amazon can be entered in the browser like http://amazon. or http://amazon/blah if they prefer. Nobody I've seen has done it yet it's only a matter of time though. I think Vint Cerf probably predicted this keyword dystopia.
The keyboard will be gone, this time, replaced with a oled touch-panel.
> That said I don't think it would bother with the Libra or similar.

I think that's the whole point. The author isn't saying the FED bailout was bad, in fact I understood the opposite: they're saying it was a good thing but that it would be hard to pull off in a Libra-based market.

> A run on Libra would require support on a much larger scale, as well as close coordination among all central banks affected by it.

The author doesn't think that this kind of coordination is realistic/feasible in Libra-land, and therefore no bailout would occur, and therefore Libra holders would be left with nothing.

At least that's what I interpreted.
> Capitalists, funny to say, go to extraordinary lengths to protect their very expensive capital. They want safe nuclear power more than anyone.

Are you serious? The price of the reactor is an insubstantial part of the potential cost of a nuclear accident.
Current 15.4” VS new 16”. Does is make a significant difference? Both being a 1.6 aspect ratio
> (although the less humans the better the climate statistics say)

Yeah, I've seen those, but that's like observing that the best way to kill cancer is to kill the patient. Kind of missing why we bother with the problem in the first place :).
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I don't disagree with this comment, except insofar as I think there's room for both. Even a partial success on the mitigation side buys us more time on the adaptation side.

On a personal note, what steps do you think an individual can do to prepare for what's coming as an individual/family?
Jim Allison winning the Nobel prize was predicted by Hans Clevers back in summer of 2015:

"We used to think that the development of cancer had nothing to do with our immune system since, after all, cancer is formed from the body's own cells. But now we know better. Tumours have found the switch to disable our immune system – that much is clear. So we need to protect that switch. One researcher, Jim Allison – who in my opinion is worthy of a Nobel Prize – has discovered that it is possible, in theory. A test involving melanoma patients revealed that 15 per cent of them were still cancer-free after six years. We are now investigating how various so-called 'checkpoint regulators' interfere with our immune response during the development of tumours and what we can do to counter this. When does our immune response fail? Is there more than one on/off switch?"

https://www.uu.nl/en/research/hans-clevers-erc-advanced-gran...
>What are you thoughts as to why .NET hasn't taken off at startups?

To echo what others said...

A lot of hot startups are founded by young college kids. They don't have money for expensive Visual Studio licenses to program in C# and .NET world. In contrast, the alternative dev tools like Java, Ruby, PHP were free. In college classes, they would have played around with free software instead of Microsoft.

Microsoft charged money in multiple areas of the stack: the compiler (VS) cost money, the database (MS SQL Server) cost money, and the operating system (Windows licenses) cost money. In contrast, PHP+MySql+Linux was $0.

Microsoft later tried to reverse the loss of mindshare with promotional programs such as DreamSpark and BizSpark[0]. That's where a small business could get Microsoft dev tools for free for a limited time. However, those enticements really didn't change a lot of minds because founders knew that once the startup had revenue a year later, they'd have to pay a "Microsoft tax".

Yes, MS later radically changed strategy by making their tools open source and more compatible on Linux. However, it was too late because the culture of startups avoiding MS technology was already deeply ingrained. The StackOverflow site would be one of the few high-profile startups that bought into the Microsoft tech stack.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+dreamspark+bizspar...
I'll take the logo being a fingerprint scanner, so I can use it when my laptop is closed and hooked to a big external monitor on my desk.
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Valve still need an effective hedge against Microsoft and Apple walling off their desktop/laptop platform in the same way virtually every platform is presently walled off.

Convincing someone else, like valve to do some or all of the work would have avoided the negative PR that Canonical ate.
I find c# a great language, much better (more argonomic, less verbose, less 'patchy') than Java.
I do believe that historically developing on .net didn't make sense for startups because of the huge licensing tax for the OS (servers and Dev stations) and developer tools.
Moreover the usual bodies that preferred paying licenses for stable vendor were large, slow enterprises. This made .net appear less sexy and fashionable.
We might see this turning around with the recent push for open source from Microsoft.
With the extra space maybe include the touchbar above a row of physical function keys?
Experience is knowing what to type into the search bar.

Wisdom is knowing which result to use.
What common workflow requires accessing usernames and passwords manually?
I'd rather they be searching in UpToDate.com, but one of the most important things in diagnosis is the ability to filter available information and determine relevance. If you have identifiable symptoms that don't fit with the "hoofbeats means a horse" common diagnosis then someone able to take that starting point and get other possibilities to evaluate is good to have.
Why does it make sense for Google to control this prefetch mechanism rather than just using a browser built in <link> with prefetch type setup
But forgetting the morals for a second, doesn't it dilute the message? Here's an amoral analogy:

We're running a marathon and I'm currently winning but you're catching up. I'm confident that I'm winning because I take 10000mg of vitamin C every day. But also I'm going to pour burning asphalt on the road behind me.

When you lose the race, are you going to reconsider not eating vitamin C every day, or will you blame me for pouring burning asphalt on the road?
> As I have argued above, knowing the FPGA vendors lower-level abstractions won't make the problem any better.

Where did you argue that? Why is it reasonable to expect that proprietary synthesis tools are going to be better than an open source one? That definitely was not the case, long term, with proprietary C compilers of yesteryears. LLVM is the future, and mostly because of LLVM-IR. So ASTs are well optimized in a general format, why shouldn't digital logic circuits be similar? Yes, actually mapping this to xlnx (etc.) primitives is going to be different for each vendor... In the same sense that mapping LLVM-IR to aarch64 and amd64 is going to be different. So what? That doesn't mean that all is lost.

> The hard work is mapping onto gates/LUTs.

I think it's reasonable to expect that things like FIRRTL have the potential to outperform the synthesis tools that exist currently. The closer the representation gets to a pure graph theory problem, the better chance we have at reasoning about it.

The author makes a good point about Verilog being the current interface. Look at how FIRRTL has to be transpiled back to Verilog to be piped into synthesis tools. That's madness, and it's very opaque, and there's a lot of information lost that we just have to trust the tools to recover. Verilog is a lossy format, and that's the takeaway from this article for me, and you haven't addressed that point at all.
I believe there are two factors contributing to the perceived rise:

1. The US has lagged behind Europe significantly in their knowledge and diagnosis of celiacs disease/intolerance, so more people are finally being diagnosed.
2. The wheat in the US today is significantly different from the majority of European wheat [1]

https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/is-american-wheat-differen...
Post-modernist? Really?

To me, this common sentiment reads as run-of-the-mill Modern Capitalism: more for me, even if you have to die.