skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I see with #5 is that parking your bike outside in an unsecured area is a recipe for getting it stolen (in the US). Bike theft is rampant in America and thieves will steal anything that isn't locked to something immovable, and even then they'll steal parts off of it. Civilized countries don't have this problem, and people happily park their bikes outside, at transit stations, etc. all the time without worrying about this.

Here in DC, we have "bike lockers" at the Metro transit stations so you can park your bike there and take the train into the city. However, these lockers aren't cheap, and there aren't many of them, and they're completely enclosed so they take up a fair amount of space. By contrast, in Germany you'll find many hundreds of bikes just lined up and parked outside the S-bahn station, without people having to pay a hefty rental fee.
Yes, exactly my confusion. From what little they were able to tell me about the role, it was treated 100% as an engineering role and supposedly followed their engineering interview process (though one of the team members told me the role actually required very little programming), but was technically part of the sales team.
I do experience hypnagogia sometimes. I dream very rarely though (a couple times a year, maybe).

If I really stretch the definition of "imagery" I can sort of invoke the feeling that I'm seeing something, but your description of visualization is way too vivid to match that. I literally can't imagine it :P
I can't really hear things either unless it's a very recent experience, and even then it's more like the "feeling" of hearing something rather than anything really auditory.

The note about prayer is interesting, but I've been non-religious my entire life and I've never uttered a prayer with any sincerity.

If you asked me to describe my family to you, I probably couldn't do so with any sort of accuracy. I could probably tell you their most recent hair colour and maybe some very generic features, but I can't recall for example anyone's eye colour besides my own.

I gave a shot at trying to learn to draw at some point, and made some progress towards being able to replicate what I see, but drawing always seemed to be a process of trial and error, since I'd have no idea what my marks would end up looking like before I put them on paper. I did enjoy it when I really got into the drawing process, but the good parts weren't really good enough to outweigh the massive stress and frustration it usually caused.
Coal generates appreciable amounts of radioactive waste as well:

In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy... (As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

I'm not a huge proponent of nuclear power generation—I'd much rather we focus on renewables (especially solar) and storage technology—but if we're going to have radioactive pollution from power generation, I'd much rather it also be carbon neutral. That's ignoring coal's many other environmental deficiencies (mountaintop removal comes immediately to mind).
Boeing’s Minuteman III ICBM’s near 50 years in service
The sun is a more logical source if you talk long term, the sun is likely to destroy the earth before it stops being a viable source of energy.

Meanwhile nuclear uses up finite stores of fuel and exotic materials for the containment and control systems.
Like many philosophical problems, regular people solve the problem of causality by plugging up their ears and saying "lalala, I'm not listening." And then we get crap like analytics marketing teams.
There is a chance that it will fly back to earth. Not to mention there is also the risk of explosion during the launch. And also it’s not scaleable and super expensive.
I switched back to Thunderbird sometime in late 2017, in part because I was working from abroad with spotty Internet at the time. Since coming home, it's stuck. The experience is so much better than waiting for a Gmail tab to "boot up".

I still nip into Gmail quite regularly, especially when I'm already in the browser or a tab is already open, but if I'm sitting at the desktop and need to compose an e-mail, at some point the default returned to alt-tabbing to Thunderbird.

No waiting around, no messing, blank e-mail window up on the screen as fast as I can hit CTRL+N.

Back when everyone switched to Gmail circa 2005ish, hitting CTRL+N quite probably meant a firestorm of random IO hitting a magnetic disk, on a machine with barely any RAM for cache. The equation has long since changed, and your reason to use Gmail might now be your reason to use a desktop client. Highly recommend giving it a shot
This is where people let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Even temporary storage suitable for 200 years or so would be vastly preferable to how most waste is stored now. There may actually be some organizational advantages to having to regularly revisit and reshuffle stuff intended to be stored long term.
Why can't we have both security as well as court ordered access. What would be the problems if we had 5 HSM that are airgapped and located at secure facilities. Encrypted applications (such as WhatsApp, Apple Messenger, etc) are required to submit/transmit escrow keys that are encrypted with the public keys of those 5 HSM's. After a valid court order, a law enforcement official has to physically go to one of the secure locations with those encrypted escrow keys which will then be decrypted by the HSM. This way, everyone can have secure communication, but still allow legitimate law enforcement searches when ordered by a judge.
Interestingly the situation is somewhat similar to Javascript: a very lean standard library, paired with a great package manager that makes sharing code simple.

I agree that the dependency problem is getting continuously worse though.
An important factor is people splitting up crates into multiple sub-crates, proc macro crates (which have to live in a separate crate), and generally having a much too cavalier attitude about adding dependencies.

The last year has been particularly bad, but on the flip side there is also increased awareness and motivation to counter this.

Rust will never have a stdlib like Go, with http server/client, compression and crypto algorithms, ...

But I do think that it needs to be conservatively extended with some core primitives that are missing. A problem is the still heavily evolving language. A few upcoming features could change idiomatic API design, so putting anything in std now could be a big mistake in the long term.
No, I didn't because.. <shame>I'm too lazy and the site was ugly on Android</shame>
They fixed the site.
I guess you mean actual real engineering, like civil and mechanical, not JavaScript engineering and the likes
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>When she approached Byrnes with this discovery, her adviser told her that “it was fine to publish this data, because if they had done the experiment, this data reflected the result they would have gotten,” the lawsuit claims.

This seems pretty alarming.
Genetic diversity is a main factor for survival of any species, as long as your children are functional to reproduce is fine.

Is unhealthy to have blue eyes, 100% round erythrocites and white skin in Africa. You have a much higher risk of develop skin cancer or Malaria. Is also unhealthy to have black eyes, curly hair and black skin in Norway. You lose more heat and have problems with vitamin D absortion... but both traits suppose an advantage in different areas.
I had an engineer leave my team (regrettable attrition, one of the best engineers I worked with) and accept a position at Stripe. I'm reading your description and impression of the interview process and it 100% matches what he told me about his experience. He managed to convince me to consider Stripe as my next career move.
What bs. The US has had decent self defense law for generations without the need for mass surveillance.

The more I see of China the more I think no effing way I want a 'one-size-fits-all' global world based on their standards. I might as well die in a world war because I would rather poke them in the eye versus live like that.
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I personally think that the split-octonions[1] hold promise for physics. The subset of the split-octonions where the i, j, k, and l components are 0 have a metric that is similar to that of Minkowski space[2].

(t + xli + ylj + zlk) * (t - xli - ylj - zlk)
= t^2 - x^2 - y^2 - z^2

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-octonion
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space
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'atomization' describes a social phenomenon of mass strategic isolation, though one which requires additional reading rather than being easily definable here.

Anyway, why shouldn't a business of any size continue to pay people? Just treat employee absences as a minor insurable risk, or press for adequate compensation for witnesses and jurors by restructuring the tax system.

Passively accepting bad things guarantees you will get more of them.
Will, you're right; "solved problem" was too strong a term for a complicated issue. What I meant to get across is that a lot of thought has gone into this already.
Really? Personally, if I died and there was a deity that gave me a choice to either be reincarnated into a slave that would be tortured from birth to death only to be eaten by my slavers at the end or the deity would go back in time to make it so my parents never met, I'd wholeheartedly choose the latter.
Wild-ass guess: Some enterprise user determined that quietly funding it would cost less than rebuilding some bit of internal tooling that depended on it.

(cunningham, cunningham, cunningham, come forth and correct me!)
Thus far, they don't. It's all in temporary storage awaiting a permanent solution.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26425674

> Despite advanced schemes in Finland, not a single country worldwide has an operational underground repository.
The main advantage of Rust is that once the app compiles, it's likely to run quite smoothly.

The syntax is strict, but this avoids some bugs that would have taken time to spot at runtime.

For some use cases, this is a time saver. For everything else, you may spend more time fighting the compiler than you would have done debugging these issues afterwards.

But yeah, it's a language that constantly makes you feel stupid. The compiler is barfing errors that are hard to understand, for code that looks trivial.
I really believe as long as you put in a good effort - not even necessarily your best effort all the time - then that should be good enough

Do cats "put in a good effort"? Rabbits? Gazelles? Grasses? Fish?
> Triplett broadly defines systems programming as “anything that isn’t an app.” It includes things like BIOS, firmware, boot loaders, operating systems kernels, embedded and similar types of low-level code, virtual machine implementations. Triplett also counts a web browser as a system software as it is more than “just an app,” they are actually “platforms for websites and web apps,” he says.

Even though I love golang and use it daily for my job, I'd suggest that golang is not a good fit for Triplett's definition for systems programming.
And without lying / perjuring yourself either. Telling the selective truth is enough :)
> Potential disadvantage of ADF is that it is not appropriate for individuals who are required to eat meals at regular intervals such as type 1 diabetes, pregnant and breastfeeding women, elderly, individuals with eating disorders and those in need of regular food intake to take medications. Weight loss generally plateau in six months, thus focus on weight maintenance after the initial period of weight loss is important by adherence to low-calorie diet and regular physical activity for a longer period of time

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128599/

This is really important for people to recognize. As we're all looking for a magic pill, or that one simple rule to follow that will make you healthy, lean and strong, it is easy to forget life is complex, and you need to be aware of those complexities if you want true results.
This is FUD. Almost all of those dependencies exist only to support Redox, an OS you likely don't use. If you actually compiled it for Linux or Windows, it would have 3 dependencies. One of the people replying to that tweet actually attached a screenshot of this.

Since you commented "I don't actually care about Rust, I'm only farming karma to downvote posts on this trash news aggregator", I hope your bad faith attempt to spread FUD fails.
> But good managers lead, so they prefer the word lead over manage, even though the meaning in context is quite similar.

I would actually argue that good managers _support_ their teams, they don't lead them.

A tech lead or architect should be leading the engineering team, and the manager should be supporting the team's efforts and clearing the path for them.
Your Tahoe may as well be a Prius for the purposes of major component cost. Its major components are about the cheapest there are since it's basically a GM truck. It doesn't get any cheaper than that. The Prius is a valid comparison.

When a proper cheap mass market EV comes along it will likely have similar maintenance costs as a comparable ICE vehicles.
I'm currently working at a place started by a husband/wife team with three kids, two of which were born before they started the company.
Pretty sure Japan received enough punishment for its actions back then. It was a brutal war.

Interesting historical note: Just after Japan surrendered, the British re-armed their Japanese prisoners in French Indochina (today's Viet Nam, etc) to fight the Viet Mihn. So the baby-bayonetters fought alongside British troops they had recently fought against in Burma. The Japanese troops gave a good account of themselves, too.
> They mine data at the browser level and sell it to advertisers

Go you have any actual proof of this?
It's not tricky. There are already disposal sites that have enough capacity to accommodate nuclear waste for centuries.

Spent nuclear fuel is given time to cool off under a pool of water. After that, it is encased in a concrete cylinder. These cylinders are then buried. The main concern for the burial site is that it isn't close to an aquifer, in case the cylinders degrade and leak fuel.

Geologic activity is not a concern for the waste itself (but it could damage entrance tunnels for the digs), in fact some groups are experimenting with using subduction zones to make waste get sucked out of the earth's crust.

Thieves are not a concern either. The waste caskets are huge concrete cylinders buried underground. One might as well mine uranium. Or just buy it commercially. Reprocessing the waste into weapons requires large centrifuges which are much harder to obtain than uranium itself.

The hypothetical scenarios in which humans could be contaminated by buried nuclear waste are well into the realm of hyperbole. Sure, if someone dug hundreds of meters underground in a waste disposal site with no natural resources in the vicinity and broke open the storage caskets then yes, they will be exposed to radiation. There's no way that this would happen accidentally, at least short of even more outlandish scenarios that involve societal collapse, subsequent loss of all records describing nuclear waste disposal sites.

Edit (HN won't let me respond):
Let me phrase it better: the Yucca mountain dig has enough capacity at the moment to accommodate the waste that would be generated by nuclear power over the course of centuries. The waste itself will be stored for millennia (though much of it will likely be reprocessed if nuclear power becomes more popular).

The point remains: nuclear waste disposal is a solved problem
I can but I won't.
There are a lot of backend data science applications using Julia. I was involved in a 3D printing startup and we developed a path planner beginning with Julia 0.3. You generally have to precompile your dependencies into the base library, but once this is all containerized things run great (pretty much as fast as C++ in our case with a little bit of JIT overhead in the cornercases), and you just have to create some sort of API for the service. For backend, long-running, services it is a great language now. The client-side application/static compilation story is massively improving and is fortunately mostly possible outside of the core languages development. E.g. the infrastructure is there in the core language for static compilation, but the interfaces are still developing.
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> But perhaps the strongest selling point of working in the command line is consistency among tools

Isn't this.... not true? A lot of the *nix commands have strong consistency, yes, but there are many commands that are just designed poorly and you can't easily pipe them. And what about widely used tools like Google Docs? How could that have a consistent interface in a terminal?
Will those be able to differentiate between 99.99% and 99.90%? Because that's the difference in purity for these fakes.
> I'm guessing this has more to do with the tobacco lobby trying to stifle competition.

My understanding was that all these vaping companies are owned (or at least heavily invested in) by the tobacco companies anyway?
legality and implementation straight on linux kernel would be the first thing I'd say.
Vantablack absorbs ultraviolet through far-infrared, so radar is probably not affected.

Infrared laser speed measurement devices would have difficulty if aimed at the body of the car, which is why they often aim at license plates (which you may be stopped and ticketed for if you cover with an infrared-blocking plastic, as many do).
The Mariana Trench is better: 10 km of water then it's a subduction area so it'll end in the Earth mantle.
> There’s no lasting solution for the most dangerous refuse from the country’s 906 nuclear waste sites

That is simply untrue.

If you combine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor you can burn up all the dangerous isotopes and safely use their energy.

You only need to store it for around 100 years, after which the radioactivity is very low.

It's an economics problem, not a physics one.
Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec
+1 for Zig, tho it has a long way to go.

I've seen ppl say that something seems amiss with the V project.
"Enter amount, e.g. 2500" <- What currency is this?
Link to spec: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-...
So by extension, don't you have an ethical obligation to have as many children as possible regardless of the quality of life you can provide them?

At least they'll have a life that they wouldn't have had otherwise.
ExFAT in the Linux Kernel? Yes
1. If it is really common, then yes. Why not? It does not necessarily stagnate or slow down anything. People working on current official crates can do that were it in the standard library.

2. I am not so sure about that. There are many crates that are just a few lines of code. They are not that difficult to get right, but the mentality dictates that you import a crate instead of writing those "easy" one to ten lines.

I am not sure it is the right way of doing it because it suffers from the same problems npm does. Making (and maintaining) more tools to patch up these issues is not exactly a great solution to me. What if these tools have issues, too? Do we create tools to patch up the issues of these other tools, ad infinitum?

Few lines of code you write yourself, or: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDCMkVMXkAIwdI1.png
The login screen is ultimately just a regular process. I haven't tried it but there is nothing against starting cool retro term and hollywood inside of it. The most difficult part is probably to make it display on the framebuffer. For the login itself you could then just reuse the decades old login binary that provides the login prompt you see in text mode terminals, if you like. Shouldn't be too hard.
That's so incredibly frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this exact exchange when all it would take to prevent it is the slightest indicator that the previous title got memory-holed. The other issue is when you're looking for an article you saw earlier and can't find it. It's only a minorly bewildering inconvenience but as a user it feels a slap in the face to usability since it just isn't necessary.

I just saw in another thread that the links themselves are mutable, i.e. you could discuss one article and future readers of your comments saw a completely different version of the story.
Personally I think this makes many of the things that Tim Cook claimed differentiated Apple from Facebook and Google much less convincing.
> The compiler is complex and slow.

It doesn't mean that the language is complex.

> The borrower semantics is anything but simple.

The borrow checker doesn't change the meaning of the program in any way. You can perfectly understand Rust code without any knowledge of the borrow checker (there is a working Rust compiler that doesn't even have a borrow checker), so it cannot make the semantics of the language more complicated.

> It isn't uncommon for the syntax to look arcane.

Again, I did call out the syntax has being moderately complicated. The great thing about syntax is that it's superficial. Syntax has to be pretty bad to continue being an issue beyond the initial stages of learning a language, and I don't think Rust's syntax is close to being that bad, it just has some unfamiliar elements to a lot of people.

> The standard library is shallow often making developers have to resort to third party libraries for trivial things.

This sits on the "Rust is simple" side.

> Rust improved upon languages like Cyclone but it's a far cry from being the next C/C++ when it comes to potential market adoption.

In terms of actual market adoption I'd agree. But you said potential market adoption, so I don't.
It has been said that HN itself runs on Arc, based on Racket, a scheme/lisp. Paul Graham is a big lisp head.
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We're experimenting with this in combination with deepfake videos. https://wiserstate.com

Spooky to think that one day we might be able to digitally "clone" ourselves this way.
Cloud storage provides de facto answers to most of those questions as far as the property owner is concerned.
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If you read the article, you'd find out that the supermassive black holes like those at the center of our galaxy were formed very early in the Universe's life, when the laws of physics were different.
Have we already forgotten what happened in 2015? Guys out there were making 250k a year without a degree, and it turns out there were spending a lot of their income in Vegas to cope with the demands of their jobs.

Then the world consumers of oil said "hmm actually we have enough oil for now, we're not interested in paying such high prices."

And then the oil rigs, who needed prices at $100+ per barrel so that they could pay their loans...

...fired everyone.
Here you are. This is the standard config file with Euro time removed and fewer US timezones represented. I've blocked out my IP info.

The terminal size in cool-retro-term is around 30x140-ish.

https://imgur.com/yb0G39m
All the guy did was be honest, and its not like he revealed anything people didnt know already. Seems like an emperors new clothes kind of situation.