skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A social circle does not scale to begin with. Rather than introducing something very close to a buzzword and presenting an alternative which aims to (as you claim) solve a similar problem, perhaps you can tell the reader why you think scalability is important and what makes you think that you can solve loneliness at scale where every other large-scale online community has (I think pretty obviously) failed.

Improving on your original point in this way will take it from what it is now (an advertisement, IMO pretty undesirable) to what it could be: Informative and helpful to those suffering from what the news article purports this company addresses.
> But that doesn't diminish the importance of raw resources, rather the contrary.

It does diminish the importance of raw resources, so much so that simply having raw resources doesn't do anything for an economy.

Never did I say raw resources aren't required. But in the modern economy it takes a back seat to countries that are technologically mighty, because tech is what determines the power of a country not the availability of resources.

> It just adds the importance of a strong military and being ruthless.

If you think raw resources are taken by force think again. Most countries that have raw resources simply export their resources. Those raw resources move to other countries and are transformed into technological artifacts which are then exported back to the origin country in a form of lower entropy.

What this shows is that their is ZERO correlation with technological power and positional vicinity to resources. Power is in information more so than it is resources as all countries that are or were once considered super powers with High GDP had one thing in common: High Technology and not necessarily easy access to raw resources.

In fact, anthropological studies of human civilizations show the opposite. Low technology societies tend to appear around places where resources are plentiful and vice versa. The theory is, is that low resources necessitates ingenuity while high resource areas do not.

Think about the food resources located in Europe vs the amount of resources in tropical africa. The tropics are plentiful yet high functioning economies tend not to develop around these areas.

Please be more knowledgeable before voting me down. Thanks.
Law and order is not equivalent to government enforced conformity.
It really doesn't matter. The result is the same.
Robotics solutions targeting recycling https://zenrobotics.com/
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing David :)
I don't think that Greer is claiming that we should "welcome all invasive species" as much simply pointing out that Nature doesn't stand still. What we call an "invasive species" is, from a broader perspective, simply Nature adapting to changing circumstances, which includes opening up new habitat to previously unknown species. This only looks odd or threatening if we assume that Nature should be static and fixed, and that only humans can or should enact environmental change.
Netherlands National Airline Encourages People Not to Fly
Probably explains why in the latest season of Stranger Things, the characters got to the flix and watch that particular film.
I once was in a situation where I had to hammer in a nail with a screwdriver (grabbing it by the front, hitting with the grip). The feeling I had back then is one I all too often experience again in programming.

This example isn't so much different; MCM = screw driver, problem = nail and learning proper statistics = driving to the hardware store and buying a hammer.

The only aspect where the comparison is somewhat lacking, is that the costs of having a hammer (both aquisition and storage) are minimal compared to in-depth knowledge about statistics.
Basically they've warrantied their phones for chlorine or salt water immersion now here in Australia. They won't be refusing warranty claims for related damage.

Minor PSA: If you ever immerse your IP68 rated device in anything other than water, make sure to give it a rinse in water ASAP. Preferably not too high pressure water either.
I'd imagine it was far easier to be an unknown spy 250 years ago, and the passing of time is only likely to make it more difficult to establish her identity, bit like Jack the Ripper.
> GraphQL parsing and interpretation is considerably slower than RESTful JSON. I'm talking an order of magnitude difference in .NET Core.

Looks like an implementation problem. I couldn't measure a significant difference between both for comparable requests in Java. Also, parsing/interpretation is almost never the bottleneck of an application.

> It's more work to have to define what data you want than to just spit out the data that's available. Having to continually update your client side queries in order to fetch all the available data is tedious as hell. The whole over/underfetching argument is not worth the incurred performance hit nor the bandwidth improvements.

"all the available data" is almost always an anti-pattern, so yes, this gets tedious. Frontends should have specific requirements what data they need and if you only request those data it isn't tedious at all + you don't waste any bandwith. This is the "select * from" school of sql all over again combined with "what do you mean we have more than one client with different requirements?" - now you either always send the superset or start an ad-hoc implementation of what GraphQL provides you to only send the required data to each client.

> GraphQL promotes laziness about documentation because it's "self-documenting" -- turns out most API users still struggle to understand how it works and need better API guides anyway, so the reflection is largely useless (it's about as good as those auto-generated Java docs you find on Oracle's website.)

GraphQL self-documentation and exploration are sufficient if whoever uses the API understands the domain model underlying it. You will always have to teach people the domain model, but after they've understood this people can use self-exploration to find what they need in that model.

With REST APIs you have to document the domain model and then painstakingly each and every technical API endpoint, cause domain model and technical API always differ (usually even two endpoints of APIs cannot be called in the same fashion - what do you mean the parameter here is called maxResults now? It was called maxCount over there!)

> Users get RESTful. They know it, it's not a toy, and it just works. I'll repeat this again because Silicon Valley doesn't seem to get it: GraphQL is not user friendly.

No, they don't. They have learned to accept that companies only provide them REST and they have to live with it, even if it is bad. SOAP or GraphQL are both (in different ways) vastly superior, but one has fallen out of fashion and the other one is seen by some of the "REST is great" people as a toy, cause they think REST is some kind of holy grail.

Disclaimer: Does GraphQL solve all your problems? No. Nothing does, you will have to do it yourself, that's part of your job.
> I like the convenience of deploying a golang app, just one executable.

This is crazy. What about configuration, systemd unit file / initscript, documentation, manpage, shell completion. And the ability to tell what is installed, where, and at which version.

HN forgot how to do software distribution to the hype of statically compiled languages.
The fact that you see real-life interaction with other people in any meaningful way as a luxury or even possibly undesirable is so incredibly problematic (to an almost pathological degree) that I am genuinely worried for you.
Depends where you live I suppose but in the UK there are two taxes on fuel.

Fuel duty which has nearly always been on fuel, but left in place and manipulated as a tax on hydrocarbons - £0.5795 per litre

VAT is then added on top of this price, which has been around since 1973 - currently 20%

Currently there is no tax on electricity used for road vehicles, but we do pay VAT on our Electricity bills so it's fair to assume that the government isn't losing out a huge amount of money by people switching to electric vehicles.
A Restorative Approach to Agriculture
I agree that real face to face connection is the best for many cases, but is a luxury nowadays and doesn't work for all.
I’ve always thought the perceived rapidness is because you are now able put code in the front end which really should be existing in the back end and while at the beginning it’s faster development, you just delay the inevitable problems of spaghetti APIs.
Marketing and the Healthcare Industry: What You Should Know
What happens to a boat hull if you don't clear the mussels off? Do they actually damage it or does it just look unsightly?
Ask HN: MVP with little, to zero, code. Suggestions?
I'm a developer, with an idea for a side project I'd like to try. I'd like to try throwing together an MVP writing as little code as possible, mainly because:
1) I have little time available
2) It's an interesting challenge and I'd like to see what's out there to achieve this

If absolutely needed I'll write a serverless function or two to tie things together but I'd like to keep this to the absolute minimum.

The MVP will need:
- Some way of capturing form entries with results going to a DB
- Some way of taking payments (it's a very niche marketplace type idea, so will need to pay out as well, but fine to be manual)
- A method of authorising users and creating accounts
- A way of sending email notifications when something happens

I know this is all very vague but what services/apps/tools has anyone used to achieve similar? I'm looking for suggestions to start exploring.

I know I can achieve a lot of this with typeform + zapier + stripe + s3 but I'm curious what else is out there.
I guess a complication is that you need to know how to operate the kite. And there is the risk that kites get broken or go missing.
The UK Govt actually. There is a current call for Future Mobility plans - the Govt is putting a lot of money (£90M IIRC) into a tender process, to select 3 local authorities to develop future mobility plans over the next 10 years, integrating public transport, EV and EV charging, electric bikes, last mile solutions etc.
You forgot the devs are stakeholders too. Usually they want to be paid for the least amount of work. (Unless manipulated into thinking work is a goal. I know a bunch of these.)
Or at least be actually fulfilled by it.
In theory I completely agree that insects traps could lead to evolution through natural selection. There is no disagreement here about it being possible.

All I’m saying is that insect traps are too rare to have any influence.
Didn't the Cuyahoga catch fire a few times back then? …

I just checked, the Wikipedia article opens with a statement claiming it's caught fire thirteen times. To say that the Cuyahoga river was polluted is a pretty dramatic understatement.
It is. Cars are by far the biggest danger to all other participants in traffic, including bicycles. There's a reason pedestrians have their own space separated from cars. Bikes have the same requirement, then we get drastically less risk.
If this is true, then how do they explain population stabilization in, e.g., Europe, and other developed areas?

Why shouldn't what worked for Europe work for the rest of the world?
There are <20M address in the IPv4 private address space, vs. maybe ~100M smartphones in the USA. So, yes, you need to reuse addresses internally if you have more than 20% market share.

But until all web sites and services have migrated to IPv6, each smartphone still needs an IPv4 address, right? How does introducing IPv6 internally solve the problem you described, if a significant portion of traffic is still using IPv4?
A lot, especially in the US newspapers.

On the other hand the articles I linked to, contain serious science backed claims. Also I don't see much value for someone to increase fear of a mass extinction of insects.

If a newspaper tries to increase the fear of migrants coming to your country on the other hand it helps the weapons dealers (people get more guns) and others.
So why should they somehow use this fear instead of just telling what they do - that insects are going to go mass extinct?
Flexport Is Hiring Software Engineers in Chicago, Shenzhen and San Francisco
Yeah, I'm not sure that this data is completely relevant, especially given that the birth rate in the US has gone down something like 25% since 1970.
In this case it doesn't matter if fertility is genetic or environmental. Parents can pass on the trait either socially or genetically, or as almost is certainly the case as a combination of the two.
My point is that even when they are "optional" they are not. At least that's my experience riding in Spain, where they have built optional bike lanes but you get plenty of harassment from idiots who think you have to use. This happens in places where there was no prior harassment whatsoever.
I think this is something intrinsic to animals. Working dogs are the same way: After some x amount of time, the dog is done working for the day. It doesn't matter what you do, the dog is done working. It's just something about work which engages the brain that animals can only handle so much of. I have no evidence to back this up, but I like to think this is a distant cousin of the neurophysical phenomenon of "overstimulation" where saying a word over and over causes it to lose meaning. It's believed this is due to a kind of neuronal over-use of some particular piece of the brain related to the meaning of the word.
I had read that they aren't doing IPv6 on NBN connections though?

It seems that there has been a bit more adoption of it since I last checked which must have been a while ago, I'm surprised to see Telstra on the list!
Krageon, I've removed any mention of the service I am building and left more answers related to your message =>
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20360002#20360713
A free market is one in which, once uniform or standard rules or requirements are established, price and quantity are determined by market mechanisms, rather than by some central planning mechanism.

Even within a so-called free market, numerous market failures may exist: externalities, imperfect or asymmetric information, monopoly/monopsony, coercion, power imbalances, fraud and misrepresentation, rent-seeking and rents, public goods, principle-agent problems, capital concentration, systemic risk, capture and corruption, Gresham's Law dynamics, unpriced ecological inputs, and numerous parties unable to participate in wholly market-based transactions, among them.

Establishing a minimum wage, or employer of last resort, addresses a well-known conflict in the tendencies of the prices of wages and rents -- see Smith and Ricardo.

What you're describing is neither free market nor even remotely viable.
How can graphql reduce the number of reads? If you are reading stuff you don’t need why are you making those calls? And if there’s no API for for you to get the data how would Graphql know about it?
Do you also take offense on the word GNOME? which the dictionary defines as "a small ugly person".

How about DALCOP? Which means a particularly stupid person.

Apple
(North America) an American Indian (Native American) who is "red on the outside, white on the inside". Used primarily by other American Indians to indicate someone who has lost touch with their cultural identity. First used in the 1970s.
Historical hacks with a brief description and detailed Walkthrough
I also use fzf as git branch picker :)

In my fish_user_key_bindings.fish (but surely adaptable to other shells), I bind it to Alt+G:

function fish_user_key_bindings
bind \eg 'test -d .git; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint'
bind \eG 'test -d .git; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch --all | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint'
end

This goes neatly with fzf's default Alt+C binding to navigate to a directory: Alt+C -> go to a git repo, followed by Alt+G -> pick a branch
I get your point, but you don't need to run imports over the network (local imports are fine).

Also, if you were to import over the network, by running `dhall freeze` a semantic hash of the content is computed so you are 100% sure that what you are importing is not going to change. Moreover, files that have a hash value will be cached by dhall.

If you don't want to bother with copying over Prelude and you don't trust the cache, you can also normalize the code before pushing it to the network. This will flatten all your imports and reduce your file to normal form.

You might be interested in what they say about imports here: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/blob/master/standar...
I ran it against a dev site I have up at localhost:3000... it does seem to work great on HN's homepage, so perhaps the page has to be publically addressable?

Running Chrome 74 on Ubuntu

Can this do media queries? eg if I have 5 responsive ranges, do I have to snip 5 times or is it smart enough to grab all of it?
Question: does the Go compiler run meaningful optimization passes? I didn't really see it mentioned here, and given that I hear that the compiler is super fast I'm not sure if it does…
The autism spectrum is wide and diagnosis isn't an exact science. ~1-3% or 1:30 to 1:100 rates are at the right scale.

Autism is easy to point at to make one think the response to "assholes" should be thought through more carefully. There are many others, not always as easy.
Assuming it's hosted on something like GitHub, you can just as easily download a zip/tarball of the repository instead.
At what point will NAT no longer be required? Is IPv6 really seen as a successor or just a supplement to IPv4?
Then why do I always bump into at least on or two car drivers (certainly not all) that harass me when I do not ride on the bike lane but on the road adjacent to it? Why do the motorists care where I ride if it wasn't built to clear the road for them?
Flutter vs. React Native – Article by Flutter and RN Developers
We could get back to timber-frame buildings I suppose. If nothing else, woodworking is great fun.
I am learning Elixir and build small library with it.
Looking to integrate the Phoenix sometime near.
I have asked feedback for this project on elixirfourm or on its slack channel. And people have been nice and helpful.

https://github.com/navyad/moviematch
But what about humans posing as bots?
What I have learned is that what makes a language (or platform, or tool) "good" isn't how easy it is to write good code, but how hard it is to write bad code.
Does a beginner following the path of least resistence, on a tight schedule, end up with maintainable code or not?

I'd argue that this is the weakness with (the traditional) OO languages. An experienced developer with plenty of time can write good software with almost any tool. But that's not what's interesting. I want to see tools that not just lets but rather guides inexperienced developers into making maintainable software.

Things like "no nulls" or "immutable by default" in Rust and most functional languages are two examples of such designs. OO itself doesn't necessarily mean the developers get trapped in poor code, but the traditional 3 (C++, Java, C#) sure do give developers lots of guns to shoot at their feet. Perhaps not mainly because they are OO, but because they inherited some poor fundamental decisions about mutability and nulls (from C) and about inheritance as a default method of abstraction (from C++) etc.
If you do a google search for GIMP you literally get no references to the slur.
I'm sceptical of this result. Most previous research suggests that in countries where immigrants are able to assimilate, second-generation fertility levels converge with local social norms: https://paa2008.princeton.edu/papers/80042
This is certainly a nice paper, but it is also a bit puzzling that this was noteworthy enough to be published in Nature.
This worst-case web would still support all of the original use-cases of the web, where ordinary folks and organizations were posting ordinary documents that anyone anywhere in the world could view.

It's small-business webapps that have problems. But I would be very glad for those to stop doing so many terribly sketchy things that have become the norm on this consumer-unfriendly internet we're dealing with.

So like I'm super afraid of a "regulated internet", but I'm also super sad by what's happened while it's been unregulated. Businesses, governments, even ICANN have done terrible things to the internet. I'm not very optimistic for any outcome anymore.
Go compiler running entirely in the browser
Lennon or McCartney? Machine learning tries to crack disputed Beatles authorship
So far the consesus was that migrants from traditonally child rich societies, acclimated already a generation later at local lower levels if prosperitiy and education level was reached as well. So it's the economy and social stability through the state that replaces children as the only "pension and care" provider for retirement.

FRANCE: "We show a convergence towards French standards that differs across groups of origin. Women of Southeast Asian descent deviate from the fertility pattern of their parents, while those of Turkish descent preserve their parents’ cultural heritage. These different paths of adaptation between groups partly reflect cultural distance between parents’ country and host country. They also depend on family social capital, family structure, and family values. Access to a higher level of education is a crucial factor in erasing differences between groups"
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02081758/document
There is a big difference between what law-makers/legislators think is safe in the context of their desire to promote the economies of their commercial partners, and what scientists consider safe in the context of human health and safety.

The two cannot be conflated.

Scientists can call for something to be re-considered, safety-wise, long after legislators have put their deals to bed. There are countless examples of this throughout history, where researchers, engineers, scientists have had to struggle very hard to get politicians - who have their own interests - to address the issue.

Too many times, research which runs counter to economic narratives is ignored or, worse, suppressed in order that people can 'continue living their lives as consumers unhindered'.

Suggesting that people bow to the authority of legislators over that of human-health scientists serves only to perpetuate the conditions which endanger us all.

Remember, asbestos was once 'scientifically and legally proven to be safe' at one point. Too many times in history, what the collective thinks is safe is only so, because the collective ("everyone thinks the same") says so ..
I feel for you and I wish you the best. I am on the way back up after a burnout some time ago and this isn't my first burnout, stupidly. I should have known better after a couple decades in the industry, but I really thought I could handle the extra load because of how much I enjoyed the work and the team. There were some other factors that went into it (unhealthy non-work-related externalities), but at the end of the day, I burned out. I have no idea what the answer to this problem is, but it's a huge, huge problem, as you've surmised. Good luck.
It's closer to 129, though that is still a big number.
I've thought about working in Aus for a few months over a (northern) winter - what visa did you get?
Everything that makes your brain feel good, can be addictive.

Not the drugs are addictive, feeling good is.