skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024687/
I would imagine if someone sat down to create a dashboard for the browser, it would take as much if not more work, and building interaction with each element would be a whole new thing altogether.

I think the purpose of a dashboard is not to give you detailed interactions, but to let you know the status and you can take actions outside the dashboard as you like.

Moreover, not so sure about this application but you can always have key shortcuts to take you to run a default task for one of the sections of the dashboard. Hence, imo, there is no real loss of functionality here.
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I've always wanted to use an application like Thunderbird, but haven't gotten around to it.

Reading the changelog, it seems like some of those features (like linking an attacent instead of re-uploading it) should have been features a long time ago. Am I misunderstanding something about it?

How is the development and status of the project overall? Is someone here knowledgeable enough about it to give a synopsis?
I grew up near Chernobyl and my parents still work there. A lot of what people see in the media about nuclear is fear mongering lies. The recent “documentaries” on this topic further delays any progress on fighting global warming.
Ask HN: Startup Ideas You'd Like to Fund in 2019-2020
I has been a while not heard any new ideas. Here are the ones previously listed:

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16431037

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704
That's like saying "government is solving a problem it created" when government builds a water treatment plant so that a small community who can't afford one, can reach water quality levels mandated by the government. Yes, but...
Where do you stow those barrels safely? Permanent storage of nuclear waste is a tricky situation. You essentially need a very geologically inactive area away from people but can also be properly secured against thieves.
Experiments in Social Media
Well, Smashing Magazine runs on NetlifyCMS - it can be actually pretty powerful when extended with "integrations".
Of course, I used that figure because it’s what the poster used. I looked up what it is for the product I work on and it’s actually only 4% — still an order of magnitude larger than it would need to be to consider not supporting it.

The desired set of supported browsers will always come down to metrics.
Any opportunities that come to mind?
That's a different discussion.

I'm not the one telling you that the $3 doesn't cover overhead. Uber is. Taxis that cost more are.
That's quite subjective.

You can get a list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

Android 8, in particular, was a massive upgrade. Plus all the optimizations to save battery, to make apps faster, etc.
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Ah but even the extremely unlikely is likely to happen many times in a universe with such a mind bogglingly large number of glasses and stars. Such as primitive life evolving into conscious intelligence capable of measuring the minute disturbances from distant black hole mergers. I would have been on the nature finds a way side of the wager.
Alternative perspective worth entertaining: how do I personally become strong enough to overpower work stress.
Once I get the Librem 5, I hope to be able to do just that!
Does NC truly care about the children, or do they have another interest they are trying to protect?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/192022/top-10-tobacco-pr...

I'm guessing this has more to do with the tobacco lobby trying to stifle competition. There may be those who want to pass this to help protect minors which is also very well and good, however there would be better regulation than outright banning it.

How about making it so producers of e-juice need to have neutral packaging. I think the flavors personally are nice and do not smell as bad as a cigarettes so to claim that just because it tastes good it is aimed at minors is not very correct.

You could say the same for all the new flavored alcoholic water drinks coming out if that is what they are going for.
Meat is remarkably easy to cook: apply heat to meat, done. Vegetables take preparation, require more-complex treatment, need to be managed well (I have no problem eating a quick meal of just a steak or chicken breast; I really would hate eating a quick meal of only carrots or just onions).

Meat's convenient in a way that vegetables aren't.
Be wary - my boss is quite upset that this latest version seems to have broken a number of his plugins.
Comparing four sites that help you find out if a website is down
Would you agree that money laundering is an issue when politicians have to conceal bribery?
"The question really comes down to whether or not you consider the opportunity to experience life, even a particularly difficult life, as a blessing."

A life born of slavery, torture, and slaughter is not a life worth living. An animal doesn't really have the idea of a bloodline or legacy (just the primal urge to reproduce). The rationalization that a life of suffering is somehow doing the animal a favor is just asinine.
> Solar and wind are fairly predictable, you can find graphs of predicted versus actual production at various times ahead.
Usage is not flat, it has peaks and troughs on daily and seasonal cycles.

I didn't want to say that, and should have used 'controllable' instead of predictable. Because when you have a week without wind or sun in the middle of winter you are not going to tell people to shut down their heather. There are advance in storage but nowhere the order of magnitude needed for dense cities.

Have a look at how nuclear power can be rapidly adjusted to compensate for changing production in renewables (in french sorry): https://twitter.com/tristankamin/status/1102620969808658432. There is no way we'll achieve that kind of adjustment with renewables alone in the short term, whereas nuclear + renewables is proved and working at the moment for very low C02 emission electricity production in France[1]. There are interesting things going on like pumping water up into dams with excess peak power from renewables, but that'll cover a few days, not a full winter.

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org
Didn't UK and US have similar policies?
In that case, the "language below" Nim or Kotlin would itself be Nim or Kotlin, but you'd still need that additional layer.

It's not a crazy idea. Go actually works that way already; the runtime of Go is implemented in Go. For example, here's the sweeping component of the gc: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/mgcswee... But that doesn't mean you can get a Go without a runtime; the final executable's GC may have come from compiled Go rather than something else, but it still irreducibly has GC in it. The whole thing is bootstrapped, so at any given time when some bit of Go code is running, it is supported by GC and the rest of the non-optional runtime, even when compiling code that itself is going to be the runtime of some other executable in the future.
It's worth acknowledging that it was a different world when Ray was 64.
Surprised Rust was getting in the way (at least among the languages on that list), but it's awesome to hear how well Julia is doing.
>Unfortunately this is nothing new.

An example of it being done in ancient Rome even.

>In what might be the world’s oldest recorded awkward situation, the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero spent much of his term as Cilicia’s governor trying to ignore a very specific request from his former legal client Marcus Caelius Rufus. In several letters sent over the better part of a year, Caelius repeatedly begged Cicero to capture and send him a group of local leopards. He needed the animals, he explained, because he was trying to launch his political career—and nothing won over voters’ hearts better than live exotic animal hunts in the arena.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/exotic-a...
This sounds kind of like an absolutely miserable experience. Can someone point out why a company would choose lisp over some other language which is just as fast performance wise?
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I think the biggest problem crev has is adoption. But if it solves that, then I disagree that it doesn't help with the dependency bloat problem. It would serve as pressure against adding dependencies, because with crev, adding dependencies becomes a lot more work because of the code review system. That in and of itself may be enough pressure to reduce the dependency bloat problem.

It's a big if---especially adoption---but it makes sense to me.
What? The value of the stock isn’t based on the dividend yield. Dividends are just some of the money of the company being paid out, the value of the company decreases by that amount. The company can declare literally any amount they want to pay out at any time, and it will be the same company either way, with the same underlying value.
I had the pleasure of working with Mark for ~3.5 years at Heroku just prior to him joining Stripe. Since leaving Stripe, he’s been working on research projects at Ink & Switch, one of which they recently chose to focus on as a stand-alone business: https://museapp.com/
Someone mentioned the concentration was >1ppm. In other words, measurable, but negligible.

Vaping being bad for you is more directly comparable to smoking. You are inhaling hot water vapor and a bundle of chemicals into sensitive lung tissue. We've known that smoking is bad for you for decades. We don't really need new science to explain vaping.
>You essentially need a very geologically inactive area away from people but can also be properly secured against thieves.

Not to mention the need for extremely long-term solutions on the scale of 10,000 years. You can't rely on any current civilization or language still existing. So you have to properly communicate "Don't go in here or mess with anything, this is dangerous" without words.

And that's after figuring out the above problem of the actual storage facility.
There are Rust crates for implementing Python modules in Rust, and for embedding a Python interpreter.
If the number is positive you can substitute floor(x - 0.5) + 1

Or just explicitly check for 0.5 - 1ulp as a special corner case.
Because:

Money from illegal activities (drug trade, human trafficking, etc.) is used to buy gold mined illegally which entails a few questionable practices and effects (difficult and hazardous conditions, enviro concerns, cartel involvement, etc.). The gold is then refined and made to look like legit mined gold and thus “launders” the dirty money.
Article seems long on fearmongering and short on objectively measured facts.

> "But radium has a half-life of 1,600 years, and there are traces of a uranium isotope at the Curie annex with a half-life of 4.5 billion years."

This is the extent of the numeric data. Probably from Wikipedia. There are traces of uranium isotope in the asphalt of your parking lot.

> "A 1997 study concluded that pedestrians and ­residents of apartments just a few feet from the perimeter wall aren’t at risk of radiation poisoning, but officials say the place remains a hazard."

In other words, the site is completely safe, as long as no one goes inside, kicks up dust, and breathes it in.
Opposition to carbon tax is the real blocker to rapid progress, more nuclear power ranks in the "nice to have" list.
Did you not also mention problems with portability and UNIX conventions?
Personally, I would accept any form of life before I chose not to exist at all, because I view life itself as a blessing.

I understand that this isn't a philosophy that I share with everybody but you should still be respectful of it.

Just how shitty of a life do you need to have to not be worth living? People who spend their lives in prison don't usually kill themselves. You can read stories about people captured as prisoners of war who have no hope that they will ever escape, but they don't attempt to kill themselves. Are they being "asinine"?
Fling them into space I guess... ;)
Julia has a ton of applications. At the most narrow, just think of areas Matlab shined: academic implementations, engineering code, etc.
It's not that hard, it just brings very unfamiliar ideas to the table. If you've used a bunch of different languages, most other languages can be picked up pretty quickly by combining different aspects you're familiar with from the ones you know.

That's not the case for Rust. It takes a few solid weeks of feeling stupid until you really start to grasp borrowing, and that experience may feel offensive to people who are used to knowing what they're doing, but a few weeks really isn't that much time in the grand scheme of things.
I upvoted you for the first six lines, while feeling compelled to chime in that cargo is great, an example of Rust doing things right imho.

I'd rather have a thriving and single (looking at you Python) ecosystem of third-party packages, than a standards-driven pile-on of standard libraries, with all the footguns and deprecation that tends to come with it.
Apple apologizes for listening to Siri recordings, promises changes
Doesn't this happen anyway?
>So you have to properly communicate "Don't go in here or mess with anything, this is dangerous" without words.

That's a solved problem already. Skull and crossbones, etc.
Right, I acknowledged that, but thanks for the apt illustration.
As a thought experiment - by delaying the adoption of nuclear power, the creators of recent HBO series are probably going to be implicitly responsible for more deaths and habitat destruction than CHNPP explosion was.

EDIT: their work isn’t simply journalism. They intentionally dramatized and lied about things - radiation being contagious, radiation bringing down helicopter, etc.
I wish I knew! I had a few minor medical procedures done (wisdom teeth, under anesthesia) and then later on in the year I started getting stomach aches all the time. I don't know if that is just correlation though. I went to a GI doctor later in the year and did the lactose test to confirm it, but I wish I figured it out sooner!

The doctor told me that everyone gets more lactose intolerant to an extent as they get older, but I unfortunately have it pretty extreme in my 30's. It does force me to eat healthy whole foods though, as most processed junk foods now make me sick! So overall not so bad.

As some other commented, lactose tolerance is more of a spectrum and not a black/white thing. You may be OK with a baked product like cake but not be able to handle a milkshake for example.
As I understand it, development for Thunderbird was recently ramped up again[1]. Some of the more "obvious" features might have been on the backlog for some time.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/01/thunderbird-in-...
I believe it's the being ludicrously wealthy part.
If you don't buy a lot of ready-made meals you notice that supermarkets have always had plenty of vegetarian and vegan options.
Thought to be impossible*

Title is fine -- this is great story. The media are notorious for often make a hames of scientific reporting but this isn't too bad.
Meanwhile, coal-burning plants are still pumping toxic heavy metals into the atmosphere (to say nothing of the CO2), which will be a health threat for eternity. But for some reason nobody mentions how long chemical waste lasts for.
I don't mean for this question to sound inflammatory but I can't help but think: why does this matter? You can already use exFAT on Linux via FUSE, and as pointed out by VentureBeat:

> To be clear, Microsoft isn’t open-sourcing exFAT — but it is making sure anyone building with Linux can use it. 'It’s important to us that the Linux community can make use of exFAT included in the Linux kernel with confidence.'

exFAT is still not open source, and still can't be distributed with the kernel. So what changed? It will now be easier to integrate it into a custom kernel instead of using FUSE? Why is this better than the current situation, where you'd install exfat-utils for example? Are there benefits of using a kernel module that I'm missing which makes this important news?
That’s the problem. You have 30,000 statutes to deal with a street dealer, but a billionaire family selling drugs is “hard” to prosecute. Justice never comes for the rich in the US.

Settlements for criminal conduct should be illegal full stop. Money shouldn’t be a get out of jail free card.
Most people, if they’re honest with themselves, don’t have the stomach for a 100% equity portfolio. That includes the intestinal fortitude not to panic and sell when the market drops 50% or more.
There aren’t many dynamic languages with that level of performance and maturity.

Their problem wasn’t choosing Lisp, but not paying for ACL :)
Well I was thinking similar to Cython which is just python that gets compiled(to over simplify I'm sure)

>Rust is the wave of the future, but ultimately the language will not be a long-term survivor, entirely because of the ASCII-salad syntax.

I can agree with that. Hence Rython.

Rust is certainly the future when compared to C or C++.
There has been a little bit of an update on views of chernobyl. Despite being considered the worst nuclear accident of all time, the actual death and damage toll from chernobyl is minimal compared to more boring things like coal dust and air pollution.

This is a self-professed anti-nuclear hippy giving a talk about how rationally looking at chernobyl and fukushima made him a nuclear power advocate.

https://youtu.be/ciStnd9Y2ak
I think that page moved to "Requests for Startups" https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ last updated 2018
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I'll use Rust eventually, but Rust is super nitpicky. Julia is less nitpicky. I think that Rust is the perfect language for shipping things, Julia is the perfect language for prototyping. Rust is better for systems, like asynchronous, must-be-correct systems. Julia is forgiving but I'm not sure I can ship SDKs/APIs in it.
For a while the President was tweeting from a consumer-grade Android (!) phone, likely made by China, in the Oval Office. It makes me wonder how many groups pwned that phone and have access to critical national security information.
Remitly has been a great resource for sending money abroad, I'd love to see that included but it looks like they don't have an API
Fine with me, they can compensate me for my time or contact my attorney. In reality, knowing how scummy the local criminal "justice" system is, I would never have reported or handed over the video anyway knowing they'd try to pull some nonsense like making me miss a month of work unpaid. When my mother was robbed she waited an hour in the rain and the police (Seattle PD) didn't even send a unit out to make a report. I'm not going out of my way to help when they won't do the same. I'm sure all the HN statists will downvote and tell me what an awful person I am for not supporting law enforcement, and what if it was my family member that was murdered, etc. but maybe if the police want help from their community they should actually support their community rather than just harassing homeless people, arresting non-violent drug offenders, and fining poor people
That colossus is a replica, the original machines were all destroyed
Nothing stops them, it's just that it will be harder to convert into cash than if the gold was stamped.

For example, if I take a couple of Canadian Maple Leaf coins to any local "We Buy Gold" shop, I'll get very close to spot price in cash with no questions asked. The fact that they clearly came from the Canadian mint tells the dealer that they can trust they are indeed made of 99.99 pure gold.

If I come to the same dealer with a bar of gold I melted and poured myself, they may need to send it out to a lab for analysis to determine the purity, actual weight, if I'm ripping them off, etc.
That's definitely the most critical property of Rust. Not long before 1.0, they decided to drop the runtime and green-threads support entirely. If they'd kept them, I think Rust would have been just one more runtime-based language in a sea of such languages. But by ditching them, Rust became a language with no manual memory management and no garbage collection, exactly what systems programming needs.
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> Even if it's inefficient we have, globally, enough capacity for wind, solar, waves, hydro, etc., to power our current needs multiple times without having to deal with construction of nuclear power plants that are always delayed and overrun forecasted costs, be it because of regulations (which I think are REALLY important for safety, very few complain that aviation is too regulated, I'd put nuclear reactors a step above that) or just because it is difficult to build an efficient and safe design.

See other comment, the problem is not production capacity alone, it's also adjusting production to demand.

> I'm saying this as someone who always supported nuclear, I just believe that we might be on an inflection point where it might not be so relevant if our renewables technology continue to accelerate its progress as it's been during the past decade.

Good, I come from the opposite and changed my opinions after seing the numbers, from quantity of material needed for renewables to grid constraints.
That is a fair enough goal - especially if done at a whole city level. A complicated balancing act but well so are a lot of things.
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Let me links to a previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892731

Are you talking about knowledge storage for you personally or within a work context?
Same, I switched for environmental reasons and only then stopped poo-poohing the animal suffering. There's arguably motivated reasoning on both sides - when I was a meat eater, I was motivated not to care, and now that I'm not, I am motivated to justify my lifestyle.
How to deal with failure in Redux connect?
At Amazon I’ve seen Clojure used successfully as a DSL in a larger service. The scaffolding is Java and the DSL parts are Clojure.
This is perhaps the worst idea I've ever heard.
> first known crime

Congratulations, you missed the joke.
Add a const here, delete a const there (2017)
Guess again!
It is a productivity thing. CLI tools have consistent interfaces and once you are familiar with the common tools and workflow, it is considerably faster to do what you are looking to do. One particular trait that has personally made my workflow a lot faster is being able to repeat a command from history (by pressing Ctrl-R) and then writing only part of the command to run it. It saves a lot of time and makes it less cumbersome to type in very long commands.

Now to contrast this with GUIs, even the simplest things would require me to jump through menus, type some stuff, etc. Everything in the command line is precise and repetitive steps are easy to replicate.

Piping is another aspect that the command line enables, which basically feeds to output of one command into another. One common example of this is to look at lines of a log file that contain a certain set of words: `cat log.txt | grep "[ERROR]"`.

But perhaps the strongest selling point of working in the command line is consistency among tools. If you want to be productive as a developer, use of various tools for doing various tasks is common. Using the CLI for all these tools keep everything a few commands away, even interoperability is enabled seamlessly due to piping and consistency.

So yes, there is a fairly steep learning curve, but in my opinion learning how to use CLI tools over GUI is well-worth the hassle.
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