skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true, the OS will contain less and less functionality. Which is funny because on one hand we want to have less dependencies, and on the other hand we have microservices for everything.

Developers going the sysop direction of services
Sysops going the developer way of statically linking
That was weird to me as well. Usually I don't care about or point out that sort of stuff, but maybe it's the wording of it "the coo was a woman" that's so strangely forward. Like that characteristic is more important than her changing her mind, or that the description is that let coo = "woman who changes mind."
It's a very good program- we use it for teaching in the US Power Squadron.
Users will not give their files proper names or put them into folders or tidy their desks or do the laundry either.

That is some users won't do that, but by adapting everything to these users we are making everything worse for everyone including them.
Unfortunately, many people put out bird feeders that support the House Sparrow which is an invasive species in the U.S. that crowds out (and actively kills) local species.

https://nestwatch.org/learn/all-about-birdhouses/managing-ho...

https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/what-do-about-house-...

I am all for feeding birds as long as people research the bird feeders and food that they are providing.
Also, why a complete http stack? Before we know it we need to send JSON packets to the cpu to do some multiplication
Grafting may well increase crop yield just because it increases vigour, and reduces disease & stress vectors, for the plant. I didn't intend to suggest grafting is bad -- it's clearly a great thing to do. All ~25 of my heirloom apple, peach, and pear varieties are grafted. And yes, I doubt you can find fruit trees in a nursery that aren't grafted.

I was suggesting that multi-grafted trees are more bother than multiple single-grafted trees.
Robocalls aren't a problem in the UK either. There's only a small amount of telemarketing ("have you been involved in an accident", "PPI", "free insulation"). Occasionally we get the PC scams too. But fully automated calls are vanishingly rare.
Communism—which is otherwise an intolerably terrible system—led to manned space stations and safer, more reliable manned launch vehicles (namely Soyuz and Shenzhou). It’s a national embarrassment that the US sacrificed billions of dollars and a dozen human lives on the shuttle boondoggle and ended up with no human launch capacity for over a decade and counting.

Doing things that are “incredibly hard and inherently complex” and also unnecessary and dangerous is idiotic. Things like building and flying a space shuttle rather than a normal space capsule. Especially when human lives are at stake.
Scalability Arrogance (What if I scale faster than Uber?) [audio]
For anything the police do, having a 1 in 5 success rate of finding a suspect is pretty good.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_solar_cell

I think you're being a bit performative with your greivance! Took a few seconds of Googling :-)
This quote jumped out at me.

"In a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications, Plummer found that people are seeing a more diverse array of bird species in backyards now than they did in the 1970s. And this change has coincided with the evolution of the birdfeeder market."

I wonder what effect this has had on insect populations. My immediate thought was better bird feeders and bird seed => more birds => fewer insects.
Indeed- the Pacific can be a pretty good filter for that.
In these contexts people usually mean "GNU/Linux desktop" when they say "Linux". It is not as if we have any meaningful choice of desktop environment on Android-land anyway.
A singlet splits into two opposite spin triplets. You need a higher spin exciton to split to get more than two.
Anyone see the irony that its for gitlab, but posted on github?

So what does it do that git doesn't? Without answering that, it feels awkward to put forward a CLI frontend to a CLI tool.
Its a mini Trophy Truck, similar dimensions and weight, but half the power.
Uhm... Why not just use git for that?
Maybe among Mac-to-Linux converts or simply because it’s easier to get your package into than multiple Linux distros. There’s more control for the packager that way.
One of my favorite books, and had a major impact on my life. It taught me a lot about resilience and ingenuity, and gave me a love for learning how to do things on my own--in case I ever find myself stranded on a remote island, of course.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_solar_cell

This does seem to be the case. It's embedded in a laminate.
"Foraging in the wild" there is practically no wild left in Germany. Some wolves came back and our politicians decided to issure hunting licenses for them...
Not many points left for not feeding except for the transmission of deseases.
That said, I've got a mealworm farm, and some bugs infiltrated it, so I'm putting those larvae out for the bird, but only one bird comes.
Nobody's support strictly matches a specific ECMAScript version.
I really hope RaptorJIT or one of the other luajit forks gains some traction, because luajit is such an impressive feat of engineering and so massively superior to more mainstream dynamic language implementations (ffi, startup time, execution speed, code size...) that it would be tragic if it just slowly fades into obsolescence.

I also think your focus on making performance more predictable and reducing the mental burden on devolopers who want to write reliably fast code is exactly the right one; even a version of luajit that's half as fast on average but more predictable could be more useful in practice to most people.

Having said that, to keep some already precarious and fringe technology alive by adding as core part of the toolchain an app written in an even more fringe and decidedly more fiddly[*]/unstable language like Pharo, and one which has basically zero community overlap with luajit users seems... bold.

As does moving forward by adding R/codegen targetting pharo to the mix.
yep, thought that as well
Heirloom preservation is indeed highly laudable.

Brogdale [1] in the UK has ~2400 apple, ~500 pear, ~300 cherry, and a huge range of other edibles -- a fascinating place to walk around if you're ever in the area. But none of them are multi-grafted. Each apple variety has two physical specimens -- adjacent to each other, on semi-dwarfing stock, and they re-graft and relocate every ten years or so, IIRC.

One of the researchers there told me that in the UK there used to be a known range of close to 10,000 unique apple varieties, but many are now simply lost in time.

In Australia we've got a much smaller range available -- in the order of a few hundred I think -- but I don't believe anyone trying to maintain a collection is using (let alone relying on) multiple grafts on the same plant.

[1] https://www.brogdalecollections.org/
Firmware for embedded devices that don't have a patch mechanism. Has to be right the first time or it's game over.

Device drivers, since the consequences are a kernel panic/BSOD.
Rfbtd: RFB Text Detector
We should wait the peer reviews.
Well first of all, I'm not the enterprise :) They are fiiiiiiiine with building from scratch. They love building rocket ships when they really just needed a wheelbarrow. It's kind of a problem.

My point is more like, a lot of the time we don't need a PaaS, we just need to do less "integrating", if cloud providers all implemented the equivalent of Terraform providers. But going further, that we shouldn't need to use K8s if the operating system came with similar functionality and exposed it as an ABI.

All these things would let you "build from scratch" distributed parallelized network services, with a lot less layers of technology, in a more standard way. Rather than building a spaceship just to run errands, we could be cruising around on city rental bikes, or golf carts, or something. This comparison might have gone off the rails.
Why Lisp Failed (2010)
What are your reasons for publishing on Udemy? It appears to me like the down sides vastly outweigh the advantages.
You definitely should let others tell you about the world we are living in

oh sure, but every individual still needs to judge for themselves what they learn.

science doesn't help us solve our social problems. and as far as i can tell, neither does atheism. none of the mainstream religions are capable of that either, but the answer is out there.

i'll leave it at that because i don't want to promote a particular belief here. that's a topic for another time and place.
I posted this and like you didn't read the review because just after I posted it I ordered it from Amazon so I can start reading it tomorrow. Great minds (u + me: Stephenson's in another dimension) think alike.
Do you still feel touch the way you used to?
I actually fell yesterday while trying to unclip my bike peddles, as a case in point.
That's not really pertinent to GP's question because giving away that money does not really "undermine [your] position in society". In fact, it could elevate your status because you can boast about all your philanthropy, just like Bill Gates' public image has improved since he stepped down as Microsoft CEO.

Let's assume (without loss of generality) that your $400k income is from a salaried job at some company. Suppose that there is an NGO fighting to abolish said company on moral grounds. Would you be willing to donate your money to that organization?
Again, the problem is that it's often easier to simply have different varieties on different trees, given those trees can be on highly-dwarfing rootstocks, so that they take up a similar space as a 'cocktail tree' with multiple grafts.

Multiple trees also turn out to be a lot easier to manage -- you can prune them all the same size & shape, for starters, rather than having to track which branches belong to which variety and try to coax the slower growing specimens along, while being extra savage with the more vigorous varieties.
As a person that knows nothing about this subject, that's the impression I got as well. The tectonic plates are constantly moving, so of course earthquakes in one place will often cause stress in another place. Understanding this process is certainly important, though.
Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets (2006)
.NET Core was/is touted as a cross-platform solution, but it seems only command-line apps are cross platform? I don't see the point in this...

I think they should put more energy into developing a cross-platform GUI system. There's [1] Avalonia, which is a 3rd party system, but nothing developed by Microsoft...

[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
I don't necessarily disagree with that assessment, just wanted to correct your definition of populism by a more adequate one that is based on indicators of tendencies. There is no problem identifying right wing and left wing positions or discerning different brands of fascism, populism, socialism, etc. The people who claim that these positions cannot really be distinguished any longer are usually trying to push some sort of extremist agenda. A typical example are the recent "alt right" (= run off the mill Fascism, nothing special about it) attempts to promote the absurd and historically false claim that the German Nazis were left wing, because they choose the phrasing "national socialism". Of course, there are also similar attempts by populists to re-appropriate terms like "populism", that's not very surprising.

Anyway, I'm glad the thread has been flagged.
I never fall when unclipping! Can't happen. But I ride a recumbent trike.
I’m an old Perl 5 dev. I haven’t touched it in years apart from the occasional mega-one-liner (that I find strangely satisfying).

I’d lost touch with Perl 6’s progress way back when. This was an interesting read for me just finding out how far it’s gotten.

I don’t know if I’ll end up using it, but I’ll definitely take another look.
The reference to log and trig tables is significant. At the time these tables were compiled by hand, and accurate tables were considered as necessary as accurate charts. Babbage's work on the Differential Engine was initially prompted by the need to compile better tables.
The Art and Science of Remembering. Key Techniques for Creating a Lasting Memory
Resurrecting a Corrosion Damaged Dead MacBook Pro
Show HN: Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning
I’ve seen this happen as well.

There’s purchases I’ve deleted emails (and emptied the trash for) only for it to still be in the purchase list. Clicking on the purchase does not lead to the email.

Similarly, I believe the gmail search cache also has some lingering cache issues. There are emails referenced in the drop down in search that I’ve long deleted.

It is frustrating
Admittedly a Mac-to-Linux convert here, but what I like about linux/homebrew is the ability to build the very latest version of the requested package on the day of the release. Distro package managers make living on the bleeding edge more difficult.
Ask HN: How do we fight the existential threat of climate change?
With the recent news on carbon dioxide and methane levels, various feedback loops, and record setting temperatures, it seems clear that climate change is accelerating and represents an existential risk to humanity. The HN community is well resourced, well educated, and well connected. What can we do to fight the existential risk of climate change?
CSS Houdini and the Future of Styling by Una Kravets, JSConf EU 2019
Sharing with big competitors smells like building a compliance platform.
Note that Wayland doesn't have a full driver abstraction layer in userland like X does. Every Wayland compositior is expected to call into the Linux kernel drivers for the graphics card directly. GBM is just a thin wrapper that hides the fact that Linux never standardised the buffer creation interface across different hardware - it assumes that all those driver-specific interfaces wrap essentially the same shared Linux buffer management code, and it doesn't abstract stuff like modesetting at all. NVidia managed to reimplement enough of the Linux modesetting interface that existing code mostly works, but their own buffer management infrastructure is apparently different enough that they couldn't make it look like the one existing Wayland compositors are expecting to use. So they ended up creating their own slightly higher-level API instead.
What? There is no such thing as 'non-free' Debian. The Debian repositories do contain the 'non-free' section which is used to deliver non-free firmware among other things.
Are you not using a landline? Because I and everyone I know get a dozen "your BT line is being disconnected press one for more information" calls a week. The "your computer is infected" calls seem to be going out of fashion mind. Are these not robocalls? The UK callers selling a free boiler or double glazing are only once a month mind so thats something. Perhaps it's because we are on the phone book? Anyway our experience is very different from yours.
Ask HS: Does DoH Legitimates So Funcionalities Hijacking
> The premise of the article is that fertility is heritable (...)

Actually, that was the conclusion, and is exactly the thing that is being disputed.
Most development aid is also philanthropy of that kind. Supporting countries in ways that keeps them from getting up and standing on their own legs, distorting the economy in the disfavor of local merchants and industries.
Probably, but it is probably not that cost motivated. Also, you quickly learn how to avoid that particular problem.
With e-voting can keep mostly the same system we have now, but augment that with two small changes. 1) you can change your representative at any time, which changes the weight of his vote, 2) you can overrule your representatives vote on issues you care about.

In this way there won't be a situation like Brexit because after initial open ended vote people can participate in subsequent votes too, and can eventually decide that they don't want Brexit or want it even without any trade agreements.

Fake news, (or rather people not smart enough to distinguish fake news), will remain a problem, but democracy uses assumption that most people are smart enough, if this assumption is not true then oligarchs buying politicians is actually useful to the society, but i don't think this is very likely.
To use it? To find out how it works? To begin contributing to it? Different approaches to all these.
'to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion' which is certainly now a widespread phenomenon cheered on by a seeming majority. In the UK these days, having the 'wrong opinions' albeit politely expressed can now land you with a criminal conviction or at the least, apprehension in the cells.
With regard to 2CB and 2CE - This might be somewhat true in some local markets, but it seems very unlikely to be widespread, at least with experienced drug users, because the dose of LSD vs the 2Cs (except for the brominated ampetamine 2C derivatives) are very different. The dose of LSD is usually around 100 micrograms while a dose of 2CB is somewhere around 10-30 milligrams - so around 100 times as much. The amount of LSD in a dose is so small that it can fit on a blotter paper. This is not the case with most other drugs. There are some 2C derivatives which have very low doses and can be put on to blotter, but they tend to have much longer durations of action than LSD so would also be discernable by an experienced user (or even a new user who had done some reading before hand).

There are other increasingly common substances like NBOMe which are substitutable for LSD in potency and are also very dangerous. These have been reported sold as LSD on blotting paper and also show up in 'ecstacy' pills.

Going back to the original topic, it does seem unlikely the drug in question was LSD. It is more common for people to experience violent psychosis on drugs like PCP or potentially some ampthetamines. I hope the guy recovers.
Any sources for sparrows crowding out or killing local species? Last I heard they were mostly benign in the Americas.
pf is shipped on macOS and iOS as well.
I think it’s closer to being a constant chain of reactions than otherwise - because the earth has so much heat and magma below its crust.
That's not the sort of "stable" that is meant by "debian stable". It's "stable" as in "doesn't change". Things shouldn't break randomly every couple of months. You shouldn't wake up one morning and realize that one of your applications needs to be ported to a new API to keep working. If something works today, it should still work in 6 months, while still receiving security fixes. You should be able to reliably narrow down weird bugs without it becoming a heisenbug due to the shifting sands of your underlying software distribution.
Yeah, you will see cases where this happens for specialist components like CPUs that are EOL. The five hundred I have left in the warehouse can be let go for hardly anything, mostly I want that warehouse space back. If you're a hobbyist making one of something for a personal project you don't care. But if you were actually prototyping for a large SKU project and later you want to make a real order - I will have very bad news to break to you. This is why serious players get volume quotes up front and execute on hardware quickly.

The Amigans ran into this when they had the idea that their next generation desktop computer should have the PPC chip people thought Apple was going to put in laptops right before it went x86-only - the PWRficient PA6T-1682M. Getting a few of them for prototyping was easy but there was never going to be a long term supply at a reasonable price. Nobody had a plant manufacturing this CPU since 2008, but the Amigans started needing them in 2010 - so they were soon resorting to playing scavenger hunt "Hey, did you have a box of these anywhere? Can you check? Yes we'll pay the original per-unit price".

Internally they were reassuring each other that hey, these devices are inside US military hardware, Apple assured the US DoD that it would be able to supply replacements. But the ability to send the DoD a few spare CPUs out of a crate you've kept in one corner of a warehouse is not the same thing as continued commercial availability.
Probably fine. We often have blisters where there is an intact surface protecting the new skin. The big difference is that an intact blister is sterile by nature while most other wounds will always have some contamination.
> If you don’t know Perl 6, it will fly right over your head. It is so dense with information that skipping a single symbol might drastically change your interpretation of the entire bit of code

How that isn't a problem for the author is beyond me. Different target audiences I guess (but another point in the article is that there isn't a target audience, other than existing Perl 5 users, which is pretty vague).

I like to think I'm pretty open-minded to language's choices and I sure have my own preferences but this article didn't do much to change my image that Perl 6 isn't going to be even mildly adopted.

I liked that it explained the Rakudo Star, zef and other things about the Perl 6 infrastructure though.
AI's dirty mind: tricking deep learning and humans alike
I noticed the same about false dichotomies, particularly on the question of open borders.

> We should open our borders to immigration.

This would be a definite "No" to me, but I still answered with "Weakly agree", because otherwise it puts me in the strong-borders faction, which I definitely don't belong into. I don't want open borders right now, but I want the world to evolve into a state where we can have open borders 50 years from now.

(If you consider that outlook crazy, remember that it took Europe 50 years to get from WW2 to open borders under the Schengen treaty.)
I think there are several reasons:

- If your publication starts feeding on anger and outrage you become a tabloid by definition.

- There is plenty of negativity going on in there but it’s more subtle. Remember the whole completely false cycle of “Apple Watch is a failure” news or the Big Hack story? New York Times published a bollocks article about the Chinese hospital system with fake translations of witness accounts.

Now I still have more trust in major publications than other outlets but even those are not that good at or eager to fact check if it makes for a better story.
Agree. With go mod we workspace can be outside of GOPATH. The post does not cover go mod.
This is nice but if he's communicating this to the public he needs to use something much simpler, like a probability tree.
I think this article gives Donald Trump a bit too much credit for his abilities.
Paraphrasing: Myth 1 “Perl is not finished”. Why is it a myth? Because a language spec is complete, there just aren’t any compilers for the full spec. “

Come on....

A few myths down it becomes even more confusing when it talks about subsets of Perl and compilers for those subsets.

I thought for a moment maybe this is satirical but I think the defenses were honestly given.

Anyway I am not involved in Perl and not attacking it. If it works for you, then great.
Or on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792 . It also looks like the first author wrote up a local article which seems to have substantially, umm, inspired the linked write up: https://transferencia.tec.mx/en/2019/02/21/eureka-they-find-... .
Oh man. I don't know what to say. In the process of trying to bust myths, this confirmed every practical concern that the "myths" actually express.

Perhaps the worst was: "Myth: Perl 6 will never be finished"

The author of this actually tried to argue against that "myth" by saying, "Perl 6 is defined as a set of test cases." and goes on to say that since the tests were written long ago Perl 6 is done, and has been since like, forever.

If that's the level of "Well, actually..." that this community uses, you can see why they've become irrelevant.

I LOVED Perl.
Yup. This is not how you bust "myths".
Except Mazda actually sold millions of cars that ran down the road with the Wankel engine.
"verifiable space-time coordinates"

no easy task in a world of GPS spoofing and NTP attacks...