skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying abstractions are bad. They make writing code easier for developers. It is easier for developers to write a web-app served by Node.js rather than a standalone C program.

I'm taking the perspective of the end-user. From that side, whether the application is written in C or Java or C# or JavaScript makes no difference because the end-user never knows or cares what the underlying language their app is written in anyway. The platforms are game changers; platforms like the PC, like the internet, like the web, like the smartphone, like the browser. Those enable different use-cases. They are the ones that drive broad societal changes.

By the way, I do think the virtual DOM is either a fad or simply an overstatement. What I mean by overstatement is that batching updates is one of the most normal things developers have been doing, from that perspective there's nothing new here.

From a fad perspective, there is no reason why the regular DOM cannot be fast and schedule batch updates to optimize framerate (and with one less level of indirection). The virtual DOM may actually be a problem in and of itself because it makes an assumption that it knows about how to schedule updates better than the actual DOM - even if that is true today, why would it necessarily be true tomorrow?
Wish there were incremental clock-face emojis for every minute of the day. Would be cool to have a more granular version of this exact idea. Nice implementation though!
This is simply untrue. We are able to build ALMR reactors that not only can work using nuclear waste as a fuel but also are "impossible" to blow up or cause disaster because of coolant properties.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

Ps. China heavly invests in this technology now and its not even new.
Largest earthquake in decades hits Southern California, measuring 6.4 magnitude
Lol, amazon retail still hardly uses AWS. They use mostly their custom nosql database sable and a ton of Oracle SQL databases (albeit, a decent amount of those are getting migrated to rds postgresql)
I think we're just reinforcement learning agents. It's not such a chasm between current RL and human level. On the other hand we're also self replicators and have been shaped by evolution. Robots (physically embodied AI) are still far from that.
I remember there being a bald eagle's nest off of a fairway at a golf course in Colorado. I always wondered what would happen if someone shanked it and killed one by accident since they are protected. Now I know what would happen to the bird!
The cleverest part is repeatedly staging false flag terror events against one's own people, blaming it on a patsy or simply an idea ("terror"), pounding fear-based jingoism into the public psyche, and using this to justify any authoritarian constitution-crushing measures out of government's putative concern for citizens' safety. It's clever because nobody could be that evil. Or at least, not our boys.
This looks very useful.
I do not debate whenever it was the record in the last 100 years, I just try to understand what is the scientific implication.

If you look at the bigger picture it means nothing:

Last 65M years:

http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/65_Myr_Climate_C...

Lat 10K years:

https://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/gisp-last-10000...

Now please explain to me that how looking at only the last 100 years is relevant or it prooves anything.
This seems to be the opposite of what the article is saying, or implying. I read it as saying that there is no need for an interpretation, because there is no wave function collapse; the particle can be described in precise terms.
The problem here is that "hacking techniques" to a black hat are also, equal-and-oppositely, legitimate security research and prevention -- to a white hat / security researcher / ethical hacker...

In other words, they're aspects of the same thing...

The idea that you're going to ban something because one aspect of it has a negative social purpose is philosophically unsound... We don't ban videos on electricity or electrical engineering because people can be electrocuted... We don't ban videos on chainsaws because they could be used to cut a person in half... We don't ban videos on cars because they could be used to run people over... Everything in the universe can be used for a positive or negative purpose, when you start banning things because some people use these things for negative purposes, you misunderstand that those effects are caused by the actor, not the information and/or the tool that's being used...
What do you mean that it's impossible to turn off the long-home-button press behavior? I've always hated long-pressing home by mistake, so I always prevent it from doing anything at all. Maybe it's because I use a different home app though.
Solutions that work for a while but destroy everything in the process aren't solutions.

This isn't some cost/benefit stuff. Single use plastics and building concrete urban blight isn't worth a mass Extinction and global dieoff event. Especially with things like carbon negative concrete available. Not the same thing

It's bad solutions, when good ones are available, at massive scale, to address things that either aren't problems or could be addressed in other ways.
Perfection is a bugaboo. Give me 95%, minor inconveniences, and declare vict'ry, say I.
As a cat owner (Maine Coon - a "doglike cat") I've been noticing an increase in the inclusion of peas & other legumes in the market over the last couple of years. I believe that boutique pet food makers have been using it because it's a cheaper source of protein than even chicken by-products.

One cat food I saw listed tapioca as the 2nd ingredient[1]. WTF - that's a starch, what is it doing in food for a carnivore? But it came in really good looking packaging, though.

So far she has done well on the bulk packs of canned Friskies and Fancy Feast (both Purina products) from Costco.

[1] Packaging laws say ingredients have to be listed in decreasing proportion.

[2] Ob. cat tax: https://imgur.com/a/JHBue4Y
The general concept you're looking for here, I think, is a monoid homomorphism, which also underlies xi-rope. If you can define your own value types, then it seems likely you can do this kind of thing.
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In Lieu of Federal Income Taxes, Amazon Funds CS at 30 Seattle Title I Schools
"Well, the internet is still there. It's just that the majority mistook private spaces for public ones."

Exactly. Using Twitter or Facebook in place of Email/IRC/Usenet/WWW is wrong so many ways, but good luck telling that around without getting laughed at.
What changes now is that people will be growing hemp in mass for CBD and be left with all of the pulp as byproduct to be sold on the cheap. Which in turn may spur more hemp products. Whereas before your help business model was considerably different and likely not as profitable.
What they intended to use it for isn't relevant. It's still dangerously bad design. Steering, breaking, accelerating and shifting gears in a car should require deliberate and unambiguous action from the driver.

Some of the UX for these differs in ICE vehicles, but I don't know of a single example in an ICE vehicle where just e.g. dropping your phone on the center console could shift into reverse.

This is the case in the Hyundai Ioniq, and seems to be a trend as EV designers dangerously reinvent standardized control surfaces to optimize for some combination of trendy design and cost cutting.

In my case I was fumbling around the center console for the cup holder while keeping my eyes on the road. In no sane car UX should doing that unintentionally shift the car into reverse.

In pretty much any other car doing the same and accidentally bumping into some button between the seats will at worst turn on the seat heating, or screw with the radio.
Why aren't we outraged by outtages?
> I consider bragging or evangelizing them to be vain and even a bit egoistic... How do we organize such global action for effect?

Well. One suggestion would be to stop feeling bad about evangelising and start talking about lifestyle choices with friends, family, and co-workers.
In India, I'm experiencing issues with online payment from last few days. Majorly with UPI payments.
Not sure if these are related but hard to ignore it.
If you're mathematically oriented, you could look at it this way: Global population is one of four terms in the [Kaya identity][0]. A lower population equals less emissions, especially in countries with high GDP and energy intensity. It seems logical enough to me that choosing not to have children is an indirect but sane way to limit one's emissions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaya_identity
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We do choose a hash function not designed for speed by default, but that doesn’t mean that the implementation of the table can’t be improved. This is effectively the third re-write of it.
Mostly in Canada and Australia.

Cotton is a commodity crop and Big Ag. GMO cotton is powerful and Monsanto had its fingers deep in that pie. Cotton market is pretty gnarly and ruthless. Different market. Very aggressive.

Having said that..smaller countries need to focus on local food production than fiber. USA dominates because we have large acreages for commodity crops and can import cheap food from other countries.
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I stopped at Klamath Falls once on the way to crater lake, even went to a dollar store there for some reason.
Apple runs their own bare-metal services - only some of which are hosted on Google Cloud. You could see which ones went down when Google did the other week.
Last I checked WhatsApp worked fine without Google Play Services.
In the case of WW II the undamaged US was able to deploy its industrial capacity to "restart" the other industrial countries, first in Europe with the Marshall Plan and later subsidizing Japan as the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" to oppose the USSR during the Korean War. Eastern Europe and the USSR took longer to restart using their surviving industrial capacity.

In the event of a global conflict it is likely to go beyond the point where it is impossible to restart the current industrial system quickly enough to support existing levels of population. The population is now much more reliant on sophisticated technical systems for support and those technical systems are much more complex and fragile than in the 1940s. Consider how few major fabs costing 10s of billions are producing the lions share of semiconductors. Even fewer plants produce the capital equipment and critical reagents needed to reconstruct them and resume processing. The same is true for other supply chains.
Thank you (both you and GP)!
It's not though. Establishing Brand X as a cause doesn't tell you what ingredient, or what missing nutrient, or what other feature of that brand's food is causing the problem. What value is there in that? You can switch brands, but you have no way to know the new food isn't worse than the old food. And if you're the producer, you have no knowledge of how to improve your food - might as well just close up shop because ... the brand is the cause?
Wouldn't it be easy to find location correlates if this was the case? Strong EMF/RF radiation is rather spatially confined. If it was affecting insects, we should expect negative results in sparsely populated areas.
There is no support for recursion and the usual workarounds don't apply, so the language is not Turing complete: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/wiki/Safety-guarant...
It was buried way deep in the article, but:

> But what exactly is this trajectory? One thing is clear: It’s not like a classical trajectory, meaning a path taken in space. It’s more like the path taken through the abstract space of possible states the system might have, which is called Hilbert space.

QTT is not a definite prediction of classical physical trajectory.
The one thing we can say with some certainty (Except for the first cloudflare outage about a week ago[1]), it's not BGP/routing table fuckery/IP space hijacks/people who don't know MANRs. There's lots of routing table monitoring services and big ISPs that run their own alerting/alarming systems.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...
I can second the suggestion for actix-web, it is a joy to use and I believe it is the only HTTP framework that has reached version 1.0 :)

Have a look at the sort of things you can do with it https://github.com/actix/examples
hahaha, tin foil hat time
So who is the tool now?
Rust is not a pleasant language to read tbh: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/blob/v0.4/core/http/...

Clean C++ 14/17 is less cluttered.
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Wool is animal product. Terrestrial land mass shrinking due to higher human population.

Hemp is a good rotational crop between corn and alfafa. It restores marginal and tired soils. It will fit in beautifully in American Ag.
> "Extremely dangerous challenges"

I think you're misinterpreting this part of the ToS. I don't think it's meant to apply to videos of dangerous conduct in general. Instead, it's meant to apply to videos which are explicitly presented as a "challenge" for other users to complete -- along the lines of the ALS "Ice Bucket Challenge", but explicitly harmful (think "Drink a Gallon of Bleach Challenge").
I get that there should be logs.. for debugging and feature tracking etc... I don't think its reasonable for the "voice" to be stored and available to 3rd parties. The system beyond speech to text doesn't respond to voice, it responds to text. So couldn't they just have the logs of the commands put into the system in text? And once the voice is converted + is processed to make the system better, automatically deleted? The voice should only be accessible by the amazon core service responsible for speech to text, the voice shouldn't leave that system, and again, once in text, the text, or commands, can be logged / shared with relevant "skills" providers, since they'd have logs of your interactions with their systems anyways.
A Network for Lost Pet Birds
I would also like to see hemp mulch products for Ag. And edge out petroleum based plastics.
Many years back, a coworker and I were talking about how we wished pomodoro apps had a "snooze" button. One of the limitations of using the pomodoro technique with programming is that it can break you out of flow.

I wonder if there would be a way to pair this with an app like Cold Turkey...
4k60hz is also possible over displayport, on my Late 2013 mbp I need to use switchresx to get it going (but I've found that pretty set-and-forget), but on the newer ones than that it works without any hacks AFAIK
Seems like you're criticizing it just because it's different from what you're used to.
> All I did was add another layer of complexity

If that was in fact all you had done, it would not be worth it. But it might remove a ton of boilerplate from your YAML.
When plastic wrapping conquered the planet, everyone thought it was great since plastic is recyclable. Today we know it's mostly a lie so we could send that trash to 3rd world countries who'd just dump it in the sea or handle it in other bad ways.

It's great that this packaging solves the problem of plastic staying around forever or turning into microplastics when floating around in the ocean and exposed to the UV light from the sun.

But the first thing I'm wondering is whether that new packaging really solves that problem too or just speeds the process up a lot, or maybe just has different bad effects. Towards the end it mentions "carefully wrapped in paper", so hopefully it's not actually a more hazardous variant of plastic that happens to degrade faster.
Better Syntax for Lists, Records (and Unions) #66

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/issues/66
But the cable they provide to charge those is USB-A not USB-C.
> readers of the code have to learn the semantics of the macro before they can understand what's happening.

They always have the alternative of reading the expanded code, which is very similar to what the author of the macro could have written by hand instead of the macro.
Is it that much of an internet conspiracy theory when mainstream media reports on it?

https://futurism.com/russian-sub-fire-internet-cables

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/02/russian_sub_disaste...

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-submarine-losharik-un...

Etc.

What I find interesting is that before big news networks covered it some HN users were linking to the story in the previous outage threads. Way before anyone knew that the submarine had cable cutting capabilities

At the time, everyone downvoted them because of how unrelated it seemed.

I'm not saying that I subscribe to the theory. But it is interesting nonetheless.
I use Lineage OS with microG on my OnePlus 3. It works just as well as Oxygen OS (which shipped with the phone).

Minor and major upgrades both happen in place so no need to ever reinstall. However, major version upgrades do require you to flash an image from the Lineage website.
> commas at the start of lines

are not a requirement.
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Not sure why this comment is being downvoted.

First, none of the software in question was outsourced to the company.

Second, the Bloomberg article does not describe the problems Boeing had with the software engineers from HCL, beyond a cryptic, "it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly." Was it a genuine misunderstanding of ambiguous language? Was it because the programmers did not have a background in the aerospace problem domain? Or was it because the engineers had a poor grasp of the vocabulary? It seems improper to assume the third situation in the absence of any additional evidence.

Finally, I am not sure what part of "software being outsourced" is considered outrageous. Is there evidence that a software engineer employed by Boeing, rather than by company XYZ, is less likely to produce faulty code? Or is more likely to understand the complex downstream effects of their actions and the equally complex upstream design decisions which informed them? Also, countries don't write code. Companies don't write code. People do. That "India doesn't have a deep background in aerospace" doesn't mean much at the level of individual engineers. I am skeptical that the most highly skilled American programmer has a deep background in aerospace either.

Sorry about the rant: something about the Blookmberg article came across as xenophobic innuendo.
I’d rather just lose economically than destroy our entire society, wouldn’t you?
Nice, the site looks great. Good job jet.com devs, sounds like a fun project.
So which VPNs and which parent corps?

I wonder if Private Internet Access is still the top offering.
Dhall does not disallow trailing commas, nor require leading ones.
Do you really think there's any principle here?

Besides, well, the strong do as they will and the weak endure as they must?
Nuclear waste doesn’t seem like a big issue compared to climate change. Let’s recall the man-made global climate change is supposed to be a continuous worldwide disaster leading to starvation, wars, and so on.

Meanwhile, nuclear waste can be buried in a mountain with today’s technology, taking up only a very small portion of our planet to house it. Nuclear disaster zones like Chernobyl have, after only a few decades, been considered to have turned into nature reserves where animals and plants are flourishing, while global climate change caused by the carbon dioxide released by coal plants is expected to have all sorts of bad effects on nature. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160421-the-chernobyl-exclus...
OpenWRT is awesome.
Though I have my own story of woe: they switched a very specific WiFi driver implementation to another one which completely broke my 5GHz wifi, it leaked kernel-memory until the AP became unresponsive (fast). Though OpenWRT is so awesome that even someone like me who has no experience with embedded hardware can compile a new firmware with the old WiFi driver and it worked! :)
I read somewhere that the result is confirmed in applied physics where it somehow relates to the casimir force, but I'm not a physicist.
Amazon's early operating losses by year:

1996: -$6.4m on $15.7m sales || 1997: -$32m on $147m sales || 1998: -$109m on $609m sales || 1999: -$605m on $1.63b sales || 2000: -$863m on $2.76b sales || 2001: -$412m on $3.12b sales

In 2002, as a forced result of the dotcom crash and stock market plunge (their ability to continue to fund such red ink was in question), they had to expedite getting to operating break-even and turned off the spending spree they were using to get big artificially fast. They turned a $64m operating profit in 2002 on $3.9b in sales. Positive operating income climbed to $440m by 2004.
Google's Chaffeur would be the only car I would let self drive in the near future, for two reasons:

1. It would only drive at speeds where a head on would not hurt passengers.

2. In case of any certainty loss it would pull over.

Unfortunately, it got the axe (in favour of partnerships). Fully self driving sports car, without a bazillion miles of proper learning data (where the ai was continuously in charge at speeds similar to the discussed ones) sounds way outside my comfort limits.
> They make us feel good, like we're "doing something" - and perhaps that's by design while the real perpetrators of our own extinction go unpunished and even unrecognized.

Arguably encouraging others to do these things is even harmful, because they then think they're "doing something" and consider their job done, instead of working on influencing society to change its rules.
White labelled: these same calipers are also avaliable at most auto parts stores. Unfortunately they are all absolute garbage in my experience, simply due to poor battery life. Removing the battery when storing is almost required, as I have found they tend to drain the button cell in ~2 weeks even in standby. On the plus side, they are actually relatively accurate; all 3 pairs I have tested meet their specs when measuring guage blocks.
This seems reckless to release names without a causal relationship defined.

One potential upside: It can foster additional research to try to pinpoint the critical information. Keeping the list secret impedes potential new research.

Certainly it's reasonable for people to put out disclaimers and warnings that this isn't really sufficient information to base decisions upon etc. But that's different from saying we shouldn't have the info at all and it's reckless to put it out there.
Indeed, that’s what I meant. The perils of turning off autocorrect.
YouTube should just ban EVERYTHING, I mean, absolutely every video -- except for highly edited, highly censored, Barney The Purple Dinosaur(tm) children's videos, where the political party that is in power in the region of the world where the video is shown -- gets to do ALL of the editing... <g>
Rust bindings tracking issue

https://github.com/Nadrieril/dhall-rust/issues/77
> In reference to Kanye's password choices: "Password" and all zeros are the most secure passwords these days. Not even brute force decryption engines use them. The reasoning: no-one could be that stupid, so why waste processing power looking for them. Kanye is on the leading edge. - John McAfee

https://mobile.twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/10508093668...
> But later also client ID 444 will ask about keys in the slot 2, so the table will be like:

I think you mean slot 5 in this sentence.
I remembered it incorrectly, sorry about that, there are several improvements regarding type safety, but not for lifetimes, C++ use-after-move, std::string vs char*, and a couple of others.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/409/

However here is the clang talk I was referring to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynWyOIb6Bk
Awesome, as I was just trying. to recompile the image for my (small) device, which failed after 9 hours(!) of building.

OpenWRT itself is amazing.