skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who enjoys cooking, gardening, and yes even washing up, I should be a Zen master right? But I'm not, so there must be something else going on here.

I guess it's a combination of both work and play being more consumptive/prescriptive. There's no space to put your own stamp on things.

The obvious counter to this is all the what would have been factory workers (in the west) that now seem to have more freedom. To which I would guess that essays complaining about lack of creativity tend to be written by the well off, where as the less well of have other concerns.
Its "or" harassment. The approach is to generally ask benign seeming questions that are very complex to answer. In the gp if of my comment there is already context and is a reply to something else. Bypassing all of that to ask how the entire thing works is likely a disingenuous attempt at using an asymmetrically simple question asking for a huge answer.
The South Bay is basically SGV lite though. obviously there are no racial overtones in an area where asians are a plurality
The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
Doesn't mean we have to let spam campaigns on the frontpage.
This isn't a problem if versions are pinned.
Individual decisions might make sense for individuals, although it's obvious that the level of tracking is now so deep that most people do not understand what is going on and they would be shocked if they knew how they could be taken advantage of.

Collectively it's untenable for a single for-profit entity to hold highly personal information on billions of people from all over the world and have a direct, immediate communication channel open to them. These companies have immense power and they need to be brought under control.
Sounds like the CLI tools, GNU and otherwise, could benefit from some kind of "--format" switch to define the output in detail. I mean something like ls --format "{ \"filename\": \"%{filename}\", \"size\": %{size} }" for a JSON-style output (or whatever the user wanted).

Or even something like --format-rfc4627 filename,size,permissions-numeric to get only those fields out in a valid JSON format.

This wouldn't remove the "every program has to know how to parse the output of every other program", but I am not convinced it is needed. For instance, how would e.g. grep know what field you want to process? And does e.g. "size" carry universally the same meaning and semantics in all programs there is and can ever be? Ditto for "permissions". And what about "blacklist".

As a completely fictious toy example:

(ls --format-rfc4627 filename,size,permissions-numeric | json-shunt -p "filename" --cmd grep "MegaCorp") | json-print -p filename,size

The fictious "json-shunt" (for lack of better name) would pass only that input-parameter to its --cmd as an input, in this case grep command, the | part would be done for things for which the grep matched, but with all the other parameters intact. So it'd print the filenames and sizes of filenames with case-sensitive "MegaCorp", and output it in JSON.

Yes, I know there are more concise and elegant ways to express the same thing of printing out file sizes and filenames of matching filenames... Also, when scripting pipelines the verbosity doesn't matter, IMO it'd actually be a benefit to be able to read the script.

Edit: fix pre-caffeine wonky redirection and brain fart
Get the government to finance public projects?
Turns out he was...
It definitely can, but it's not guaranteed. Japan has been effectively printing money for ages, but it hasn't really led to inflation because demand is so weak - nothing gets bid up.
Maybe in a very strict sense that the data points observed from a properly setup scientific experiment are not political per se. But even what experiments scientists decide to perform and what to observe can be political, and this is definitely also a part of "science".
I just don't like spam on the frontpage.
It's an investment bubble, not a market share bubble. Bloomberg is making the simple point that there are an awful lot of EV companies currently and that there are a lot of investments locked up in these companies. The consequence of this market consolidating to a few successful players means that a lot of these investments will be wiped out.

However, I disagree that this is a huge problem though because I assume the likely survivors of this would be comparatively well funded meaning that the size of the investments that will be wiped out is much less than the full 18B. Also, 18B is not actually a lot in a market that is probably going to be worth hundreds of billions. Arguably it's not actually enough for China to dominate here. E.g. VW is easily matching this with their own 50B worth of investments that they announced in the last years.Finally, companies with decent in house technology or some other edge are not worthless and might end up being acquired; meaning investors get some kind of return on investment. It's the weaker players without interesting technology or enough funding that are going to be wiped out first. If you invested in those, yes you will lose your money.

I'd be more worried about the ICE bubble of manufacturers that are failing to adapt to EVs. E.g. BMW seems to have a problem here and Toyota has been dragging its heels rolling out decent EVs as well and instead continue to invest in dead ends (in my view) like hydrogen or hybrid. There's a lot of captial locked up in companies like that as well as their suppliers. That's a much bigger bubble and I think countries like Germany where I currently live are going to have a very rough decade where lot of traditional companies are either going to scale down or disappear entirely. EVs seems to have been growing more rapidly than some of these companies hoped and this is already hurting them. In Germany there are thousands of companies employing hundreds of thousands of people that are going to be affected by that.
What if Google is so entrenched in this position because they see a ton of evidence? What if Google is “right”?

I tried out Google’s non-personalized ads for a while, and wow the ads were bad, especially on YouTube. Not like irrelevant but downright obnoxious. But wait, we’ve seen this before!

A couple years ago, Google noticed that ads were starting to get downright atrocious and started fighting them. One relevant blog post:
https://blog.google/technology/ads/building-better-web-every...

Why Google oh why are ads so bad? Because advertisers got more evil? Yes and no. Google got more evil advertisers as all the good ad money went to Facebook’s properties.

2012 https://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/google-edges-cl...

2019 https://www.emarketer.com/chart/217028/facebook-vs-google-sh...

Google’s recent blogpost is frustratingly “right”: given the opportunity cost of bad ads, an average user is better off opting in to higher-quality tracking-targeted ads. BUT! That is only because Google the ad company lost the good content. And sadly, Google the software company owns the browser, so they have to make do in a Google world.

This isn’t even an issue about privacy. It’s about a company overtly misrepresenting the interests of its users in bad faith. No different than Uber tacking on the $1 “safe rides” fee as a pure margin generator rather than as protection for riders.
Chinese teens shying away from WeChat
Please don't deep link to PDFs when there is a sensible contents page that has more information and other links.

https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/
Parent is talking about all the vulnerabilities and slowness that can come with it. Fair enough, it runs, but it can also open the door to fingerprinting and other weird nasties. Particularly anything reliant on the `npm install` way of managing dependencies is a potential risk from both server and client point of view.
I'm moaning because someone wants to sell me their entire apple tree in order to get the free apple pie while I would be happy to get a few apple to make my own. The service is deeply connected to SirCmpwns paid service and an obvious spam bait.
Even that sounds like a lot, so it's important to compare to other causes of death in the same time period.

Just a random comparison:

200 per year for mass shootings.

3,536 per year for drowning not related to boats.

332 additional per year for drowning related to boats.

70,000+ per year from drugs (largely opioids).

https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/w...

A lot of people have real trouble contextualizing statistics and videos because they can't really conceive of how many people there are. This makes it really easy for motivated media activists to manipulate opinion by heavy reporting of particular incidents, while ignoring trends that are killing literally hundreds of times more people.
And 484 when installing with rawkey and clipboard.
One model could be sticking to what they are doing now (payment/dispatch platform), but allowing the independent "investors" in rolling stock who also personally drive their investments to get slowly replaced by independent fleet operators who can be any scale, because the cars drive themselves.

But that certainly does not explain why Uber would try their hands at developing self-driving tech themselves (or why the company should be excessively valuable)
I'm not a vape guy, but as far as I'm aware no combustion reaction is occurring, essentially it's boiling the substance at a far lower temperature than it would burn.

Now, whether glycol and such are good things to inhale is another question but I haven't seen any studies pointing to significant issues with these directly, so I'm hesitant to jump the the conclusion suggested here.
> Some science is clearly political and other science is clearly not

So the politicalness of something is based on the intention? I’d like to challenge that idea. Imagine you are a nuclear scientist in the brink of cold war. Your interests are purely scientific and you don’t care about all that political talk. You got a nice life. If you decide to work on nuclear fission you aid the government and are thus political if you don’t want to aid the government you are political as well. In that situation every choice is political because your actions have a huge impact on society.

Other example: you work on image recognition algorithms used in CCTV cameras, which are used in different ways around the world and nudge societies they are used in into certain directions. Even if you don’t know where these societies are nudged into and your single goal is truth — is what you do apolitical? The person I write about here would say “Yes” without hessitation, but is that really so?

As long as you science/art/etc impacts society in a meaningful way, you will have that question. Confirming the status quo is just as political as questioning it.
Eh I get where you're coming from but it comes down to the bouncer or whoever. You get people who say an expired license is not a valid ID and they require a valid ID to get in.
Will reach them out. Thanks
Considering awsm still doesn't have a gc last I heard, I don't see what you have to gain from compiling JavaScript to it.
> How is this an easy fix? Now developers need to develop and maintain O(N) instead of O(1) software projects.

At some point, developers need to take responsibility for the security of their projects. If your project is larger, you will need to maintain more code, whether directly or indirectly. You can't simply import a dependency but never audit it. And if you're taking the trouble to audit a third-party dependency, at some point it becomes worth maintaining directly.

> sensitive dependencies, like crypto or network / http libraries.

I am not suggesting that developers reimplement TCP.
It's much more subtle than that. Tiny bits of elastomer in the right place can do more than a centimeter of rubber around the whole thing. Finite element analysis may be required to figure out how to absorb energy in minimal space. Internally, some parts may need a slight separation. Some connections may have to be flexible, but not all of them. This is hard design.
https://technitium.com/dns/

You block domains at the dns, you can download a variety of block lists and you can also create your own. You can log the dns lookups to find out what domains are being used which can be used to further create a block list.
The advertising code and tracking code never gets downloaded. Runs on the window pc so you don't have to worry about making changes to anything else upstream, great for laptops and road warriors who use a variety of internet connections.
It may be that they intended the statement more like "Rust's collection of capabilities uniquely inspired us" rather than "Rust is more turing complete than all the others."

For example, the error reporting style in nushell appears to be a direct decendent of Rust's visual error message style.
And the other thing is that the company may itself be actively involved in politics that some of its employees may object to. Google actively tries to control the political debate through youtube. Its positive discrimination policies may be considered by some of its employees as objectably discriminatory.

I can understand that the company will not tolerate anyone publicly disagreeing with its political stance but it is a natural thing for their employees to discuss the politics of their employer between them.

Though given the little tolerance of large companies for disagreeing their politics (not just in the Silicon Valley), the said employees would be well advised to not do so in writing.
> "Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one."

Conway's theorem : "Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."

> we'll be starting companies that solve political problems.

That already exists : lobbying companies, "CivicTech" and "GovTech" companies. I understood CivicTech and GovTech are startups that take the current political processes, and try to digitalise them. But they don't revolutionize the rules nor change the balance of power, since they must be reviewed and approved by the current government. In the short term, they follow Conway's law.
Smoking and vaping, unlike other vices like drinking or hard drugs, have the property of dragging in all of your entourage should they want it or not.
Ask HN: What is a reasonable response to “Why should I care if I can’t help it?”
When I discuss news about problems elsewhere in the world (amazing being burned, poverty in other nations, climate change, etc), an argument that I often hear (and which can be seen in some of the downvoted comments in [1]) is "Why should I care? There's nothing that I can do about it."

What is an appropriate response to this? I can say that if affects all of us, but again, they always say "I can do nothing about it, so why do I need to even know about it?"

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/cumrqz/ysk_the_amazon_rain_forest_isnt_burning_its_being/
Thanks for the link. I don't remember we've tried this
pwsh 7 is adding it
Makes sense - are you aware of the https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/ (99 USD) project? They have units that are shipping and are open source friendly/more hackable and can run chromeOS as well.
Historical Badass: Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton
>There don’t seem to be many appropriate dating spaces for the LGBTQ+ community in the physical world...

>I wish there were spaces that didn’t necessitate drinking, where you could meet people in this arena.

Not sure to understand clearly.

Honestly you can go a to a bar and order a Dr.Pepper there is nothing that's going to stop you from doing that... I'm not sure to understand entirely there are many gay bars / nightclubs everywhere I'm sure most of them are appropriate spaces to flirt or engage with other people...
You might be in the "late majority" phase of tech adoption, and that's ok. Some of us early adopters bang our heads on new stuff and pass the results of our tests on to slightly less foolhardy souls :) Eventually, established tools arise out of the mess.

https://ondigitalmarketing.com/learn/odm/foundations/5-custo...
I used to hang out in predominantly Californian tech circles, and the atmosphere there was... not at all respectful of places that aren't California.

It would have been a good career move for me to suck up to them. Some of them were serial founders who hired their friends, and others could've given useful referrals.

But that'd come at the cost of being constantly insulted, hearing my family constantly insulted, and so on, and not being able to say anything in defense. I'm not interested in being around people who think everyone who isn't exactly like them is subhuman - even if cutting contact with them is a bad career move.

Then again, that might be why they do that.
The head of the flight attendant’s union was fired by Cathay Dragon, and according to her press conference regarding the termination [1], the case was based on her friends-only stories on Facebook ([1], 48:10 in Cantonese) which showed some post-it notes saying Happy Birthday to her colleagues ([1], 48:45 in English)—post-it notes are common in Hong Kong’s Lennon Wall—but it remains to be seen if there is enough grounds for termination.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/standnewshk/videos/646850612491620/
Heresy.
Your comment needs a little more nuance. Funding is part of the overall practice of science, and research cannot happen in a vacuum. Facts are not political. Science involves people coming up with research plans, getting funding, conducting the research, and reporting results. Even though facts are not political, many important scientific findings can be debated. Very little of our body of knowledge is verifiable by the general population. You can verify gravitational acceleration and atmospheric drag by self experimentation, but have you ever tried to verify how many electrons are in the outer shell of a particular element? We teach the periodic table of elements to high schoolers as fact, but if a student claims that titanium has eight electrons in its outer shell most chemistry teachers are going to have a hard time proving otherwise. This lack of verifiability leaves a bunch of room for political maneuvering.

Add in the fact that scientists are still human, and are just as morally corrupt as other humans. Being a scientist doesn't come with a magic aura of justice and credibility. Falsification of data in the hopes of getting published tarnishes the reputation of scientists worldwide- who is to say that others aren't also falsifying their data to favor their funding source? If a scientist can be doubted then their findings can be debated, which politicians will certainly do when it suits them.

You have to get your results published, or else you won't get funded for future research, and a group of editors controls the access to the important journals in each field. Those editors usually have a common political bias, as did most researcher's professors, because once a bias is established in a field it tends to reinforce itself.

So I'll reword your comment to be "the practice of science is political, but facts are not." Unfortunately so little of our life falls to the realm of verifiable facts.
>Understanding webpack, and why it’s important

Not sure how Webpack is being attributed as being a part of Javascript here. It's a bundler, with Javascript support being one small piece in a much larger puzzle. It's not even the only bundler out there, JSPM is currently in beta which goes in a different direction than Webpack, then you have Parcel and other options as well.

>Understanding babel, and why it’s important

Eh. I haven't used Babel in years since switching to TypeScript.

This doesn't seem very focused on Javascript, seems like a lot of emphasis being placed on tooling more than the language itself.
Although the studies show that people are more willing to give to a certain person (the story behind her/him) rather than a group. But yes, might be still worth testing. Thanks
I stuck with it for 5 years because I was paranoid about relapse to cigarettes. Spent a couple of weeks in countries where vaping is illegal as a dry run, earlier this year, and then just waited for the juice to run out.

The addictive effect of nicotine seems much enhanced by the addition of a monoamine oxidase compound (ie related to the early antidepressant drugs) - which is present in burning tobacco - which seems to take nicotine from approximately as addictive as caffeine to more addictive than heroin (citation available).
Learning to Drive by Differentiating Through Scenes
Differentiable Programming has been shown to perform quite well in simple control problem tasks like cartpole, inverted pendulum, etc. Moreover, it has been used in some more challenging areas where the controller is an ODE solver like in case of Trebuchet. All these examples portray the advantages of using a smaller model in DP as compared to the heavily parameterized models in Reinforcement Learning (RL). This work is in a way a step in the same direction. Only now we combine all those things together and make the "differentiable" program even more complicated than a few ODE equations.
Link to blog post - https://avik-pal.github.io/blog/learning_to_drive.html
That isn’t specific to MacOS though, you can see it happening in the Windows world as well.
I'm two years in on a greenfield project, looking back at the old tickets does happen, but rarely.

I guess you could treat as a poor man's documentation, though our tasks are not written in that perspective.
I like to think it's less about patterns of consumption, and more about what we consume.

One of my favourite quotes:

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

To me, that suggests a number of things. For one, consuming information is undervalued by the author of the blog. It's fundamental to us.

Secondly, while you like broccoli and drink milk, I might well be allergic to milk and hate broccoli (I don't, just musing)... So one should be slow to judge. That said, I've never used Netflix. I could be missing out.

And finally, you wouldn't eat a 4 course meal on you commute, and you would definitely have some trouble making one on a bus or train ride too.
No, haven't heard about them until now. Will get in touch. Thanks
My 2 big problems:

a) It . is . so . incredible . very . slow, it . takes . 7 . seconds . to . load . a . page . when . hosted . on . atlassian.

b) Search is bad. It might be possible to find issues I have commented on 1-2 years ago and I have commented on and which contains some text, but the interface and results are no where near as good as a simple text search in Mail.app. This makes Jira a black hole where everything disappears into and is never heard from again.
I agree but what if the employer takes a position on Tibet? Or more likely on any hot potato topic (gender equality, Trump, pushing the political debate either side if the company has the ability to do so, etc).
There are also “coils” that vibrate to create vapour which happens at room temperature.
So what are the downsides for Switzerland using the Euro?

How much of Switzerland is tied up in it having its own currency?
Casio a few years ago did use to sell the G'zOne, a literal G-Shock phone with the same rugged aesthetic: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=g%27zone&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=ima...
Depends on the specifics of your needs. Web-assembly is still slower than the V8 JIT compiler for use cases where you want to interact with the DOM. Interaction with the DOM, of course, is one of the main reasons to deliver code to a browser. But if you need to, say, create a cryptominer in the browser, then a TypeScript variant of JavaScript can target WebAssembly. You are trading out a superb JIT compiler with look-ahead and runtime optimizations for a relatively immature compiler, however.

If you want your process to run on the server, and merely pass the result to the client, you can compile JavaScript to C, and then to a binary, with QuickJs. Most folks will just use Nodejs, however (which also uses V8)