skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they're different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they're called "javac" and "jvm." This wifty "no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you're running is Rakudo and Parrot" distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.

The reason the implementation is named (Rakudo), is because there's a spec, and originally there were a few people making implementations. There was good effort from individuals on C and C# versions that were more monolithic, and Rakudo was where most the community work went since it was designed in a way to be more cross platform (it's mostly implemented in the minimal NQP languages, which is "not-quite perl". It's a much easier thing to port to a VM, and then you get like 90% of the language features already designed and working).

The reason the VM is noted is because it changed a couple of times. Bringing the VM name into it lets people know that if it's different, maybe it will have fixed their main performance complaints. To my knowledge, they haven't used parrot in a decade or so, and there's actually some bad blood between the VM and Perl 6/Rakudo (which had different teams, another reason to brand with both.

So, Perl 6 is the standard. There have been multiple implementations to varying degrees of completeness, including but not limited to Rakudo, Pugs, and Niecza. Those implementations have generally targeted one or more VM targets, including Parrot, MoarVM, Java, .Net and custom VMs.

It may or may not have hurt adoption seeing this terminology, but it was there for a reason, because it denoted very large important aspects of what was going on behind the scenes, and in some cases doing otherwise could have worked against some relationships that were going on between projects.
Wonder what's going to happen to this blog post when Medium goes out of business?
Is Your “Good Content” Really Good? Here’s How to Tell
Are you sure the season that G gives you "better" results is not a consequence of them tracking you everywhere and know your preferences and habits?
That's kind of crappy. When I build a bookshelf from raw materials, I am not taxed on the value of the bookshelf. That would be tantamount to a wealth tax. I am only taxed when I convert said bookshelf to fiat currency, or make a trade that isn't like-kind (such as trading my bookshelf for a house).
If I am going to plaster extra asserts and predicates in my code, why not just use a logic programming language or something like SPARK/TLA+ anyway? Not looking for an argument, just asking a question.

I've tried replacing asserts with Mercury code in my C++ pet projects. Felt much easier to insert my thots into the source.

By the way, what do you guys think of predicate-based formal verification? I think overall, C++ Concepts are checked for object class compatibility via a logic engine, since Concepts are predicates.
Your view is pretty much exactly what they're trying to address with the name change. Check out the github issue https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81
There are impacts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDoi-5HTuwQ
It isn't hard to give an AI a goal but it is hard to do so safely. As a toy example we could design an AI who treated say, reducing carbon emissions as it's goal just as you treat eating and sleeping as yours. The issue is that the sub goals to accomplish that top-level goal might contain things we didn't account for, say destroying carbon-emitting technology and/or the people that use it.
Yeah but I have to go remember to do it and stuff. Meanwhile at ArsTechnica.com, it shows a big banner telling me to subscribe, and I do. More reminders that I can give money to Mozilla would remind me to do it. Eventually they'd hit me at the right time/place to put in the effort to set up a sub, and I would.
Or you know, just copy the entire drive while the machine is running....
Also I think that CS people's understand of neurons are horribly underestimated. The idea that there are bits 'in' neurons is a misconception. They each neuron is a multi-cellular entity with variate modes of interaction and activation.

So these napkin estimates comparing brainpower what server farms can do doesn't inform us at all about how that gets us closer to AGI.
Redundancy Management Technique for Space Shuttle Computers [pdf]
Safety razor was invented around WWII [0] and that is probably linked to the requirements of wearing a gas mask. Probably has something to do with the change in fashion.

Fun fact; often there is a general ban on beards in underground coal mines because the miners need to be able to wear gas masks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor#History
That's not quite an apples to apples comparison. CEO of the jewelry store was saying that his current products were crap. I'm assuming Dominos was saying "our old recipe was crap, new receipe is good."
I rarely see Perl in the wild today. Only companies that are too big too fail and too cheap to move on still clings on to Perl, the big "index" sites of the late 90'ies that somehow haven't been completely run into the ground by silicon valley giants like monster, facebook, linkedin etc.
Excited to see the final build.

The author provided a list of _obscure_ handhelds that you could try and get your hands on.

On that list there is the Pyra[0] which is very near completion. It has some interesting features such as a replaceable CPU board (nonstandard) for future upgrades.

[0]https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
Does Google Protect “Elite Men”?
For decades, developers distributed actual non-web software without having to deal with technical fiefdoms. Proposing the web is an alternative just masks a political/social problem as a technical one.
Doesn't mean they can't be logically grouped and presented using different tabs or even links, such as "Global settings", "User settings", etc. They may have different contexts, but they all fall under the purpose/concept of "customization". Discoverable doesn't have to imply unorganized.
> Other people have told you multiple times no-one believes apes evolved into humans

You're kidding me? That's what I see with most ape -> human believers, they are 100% sure about things they assume or cannot know. Typical example, thx for that.
Can we keep the discussion in good faith?
I have been a happy Emacs user for over 20 years. I love that I am still learning new things about it!
Seven reasons why companies are using Apache Pulsar
I have noticed the effect of the weather on my moods. Only a particular kind of weather: basically rain, or the heavy overcast clouds that precede a rainstorm. Not any cloudy day, only if there's a strong likelihood of heavy rain.

It is noticeable enough that I can tell if the weather is like that when I wake up in the morning, before opening the curtains to look outside.

The feeling I get from that weather is kind of depressive, a bit lazy.

Putting these things together, some years ago I came to the idea that perhaps it's evolution's way of persuading me to stay at home, keep warm and dry and not catch a cold. I call it a "cave day"... instinct says: stay in cave.

This is distinct from the exhilaration of a storm.

Possibly related is the nice cozy feeling of being warm and dry in the middle of a downpour. I particularly like it if you can hear the rain, such as when under and iron roof or in a tent.
Payout thresholds for Adsense are quite low. But it's right, in these cases they'd have to reimburse the advertisers. They could keep their share for investigation and running the ads but at least the amount that was due to be paid out should be reimbursed.
Bash didn't exist when Perl was invented in 1987. Bash was first released two years later in 1989. In 1987 there was the Bourne shell sh, and there was csh and derivatives like tcsh, and there was the Korn shell ksh and its derivatives, and they each had their own unique quirky menageries of subtly nuanced punctuation and syntax and variable names. And of course there was sed, and awk, and C, and even BASIC.
I had never read the Brave ad model before.

They want to display ads while respecting user privacy, which is nice from a user point of view, but do advertisers actually want that rather than being able to target 35-40 years old in Ohio that are using shaving products twice a week ?
Nobody was "triggered", which is a profoundly disrespectful co-opting of a term of art used with regard to mental illness. You should not use it as such.

I downvoted you because I think what you're saying is crank stuff. I flagged you because you were whining about all the haters--err, sorry, downvoters--in contravention of HN standards, and because you spammed about it.

Surely a "rationalist" can understand this, yes?
A reactive Spring application with R2DBC and a serverless database
In the past year, my mac has been repaired twice, one is for the keyboard problem, the other is for the touch bar problem. So the top case has been changed twice. Now, there are some problems with the monitor. WTF!!! Every time to repair it, I have to wait for a week. I have brought a monitor now. I will repair the monitor until I have some replacement for the mac.
Is this an onion article?
Video shows electronic voting machine changing ballot in Mississippi
For what it's worth: https://www.coinbase.com/price/basic-attention-token
For app developers, they certainly are.
Ask HN: Is web dev viable business today?
Yeah too bad it's slow. I write Perl 5 code at work on a daily basis and really wanted to like Perl6. Too late, too slow.
And the foregone conclusion in the article:

"The dramatic uses of the sign of Renaissance masculinity par excellence – the beard – reveal how precarious, provisional and potentially groundless the ideology of early modern masculinity was, the very ideology upon which the sign-system of the stage relied. As we look at today’s hipsters – beards, man-buns and tattoos aplenty – we may also wonder what lies beneath the surface of the identities that they construct."

Appears the writer confuses criticism with competence. It's the conceit of modern academia. Yawn.
When you leave, one has to be "left behind". It doesn't speak to an amicable outcome.
Like Elizabeth Holmes tried to leverage, I just thought.
> Especially on image results, which (...) give you direct image links.

Google removed that after pressure from the copyright lobby (they got sued by Getty). It'll happen to DDG too if they ever become big enough.
The problem isn't Google punishing actors they deem "bad".

Many of the banned probably did something most of us (and they) deem "shady".

The problem is Google's complete lack of transparency and super reliance on automation.

Google's defense is that they do not want to give out even one bit of information so theoretically some bad actors could assemble a composite model on how Google banning algorithm works.

Ok, but how about giving some sort of reasonable response and some sort of reasonable appeals process?

We are rapidly heading to "Computer's Don't Argue" society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
Is it not taxable, or just taxable at regular income tax rates (not capital gains)? The latter seems likely.
> Compare this tooltip to the one below, which is from LinkedIn’s SlideShare app. It’s a lot more attractive visually speaking, and the copy is simpler and punchier:

It also doesn't block the actual thing _I care about_. I'm incredibly likely to just slap that tooltip out of the way so I can get back to what I'm doing instinctively, and then wonder what it was trying to tell me.

Any sort of tooltip that obscures the thing I'm trying to accomplish that I didn't request, or that I can't bring back on demand, is a shitty user experience.
account has been suspended. link now broken. /shrug
>Wait, what? Branding is an important solution to the problem of validating product quality, as it attaches consequences to selling an inferior product, and thus saves on search costs.

For the products mentioned (soap, detergents, toothpaste, and tons of other stuff, etc) it was just an artificial way to differentiate the same thing, and make people pay for the brand name...
It’s well established that regulations increase transaction costs and stifle innovation.

Take FDA regulations for example. The cost of developing a drug for sale in the USA in orders of magnitude higher due to these regulations. In safety critical systems, we pay this cost because the alternative is that people die. However, even still, the regulatory system itself may also be responsible for many deaths, due to viable treatments being either unavailable or unaffordable.

A regulatory framework on software distribution platforms frankly sounds horrific on many levels, but to avoid hyperbole, the most obvious effect would be increased compliance cost to the platform provider, which would be passed on to developers or end users.

Making apps unreviewable, or prohibitively costly to review, or imposing significant liability into the app review process is a recipe for increased cost and decreased growth, simply put.
Single-use bioreactors: applications for cell-based meat
Sorry for the jargon. google3 is the name of their perforce repository that contains all of their backend code, everything that runs in their datacenters.
The universe itself is a symbol manipulator.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm hoping it gets some traction on HN. It seems like a great place to not only vet your idea but to also build a diverse goal-oriented team and I look forward to posting my side-projects on it.

I'd also recommend cross-posting it over on ProductHunt and BetaList.
People typically refer to 13-18 as teenage. 18 and over. College in general is referred to as young adult or even adult.
How to Act Like a Human When Working from a Coffee Shop
Show HN: Build Your IoT Application in a Day
As a PM, I've generally used JIRA because most of the people using the product are engineers, and that's what eng management pushes for. I have generally found that most PM-oriented products like this just require me to duplicate all the stuff that's already in JIRA to the point where the additional effort just isn't worth whatever benefit I get.

Given JIRA's ubiquity, I would strongly recommend that you build an integration that allows you to sync tickets from JIRA -> Zepel, so people can get the benefits of the Zepel interface without having to duplicate their work. (Unless this is already there, but I didn't see it on the website).
"Neural net that's really good at identifying objects, processing symbols and making decisions."

* Neural nets play Chess or Go better than us. They will soon play Mathematics better than us.

* They turn keywords in photo-realistic images in seconds, and will soon do the same for text. Literature and Arts down this path.

* They learn to play video games better than us, from Starcraft to Dota. Engineering down this path.

There is no hidden information. You just need to look at the width of the field. There is a credible challenge for all our intelligent capabilities.
Agreed, it takes on average 5 - 7 seconds per page load from our office with a good connection in central London.
The analogy does really work though. You are taxed when you sell the bookshelf for income.

In the Bitcoin case, if you were able to mine coins and not pay income taxes, theoretically you could pay for everything you need while never having paid income tax. The problem is Bitcoin is a cash equivalent, sort of.
API for time tracking and projects/tasks (our specific use case would be for time and billing of projects into an ERP system). GitLab integration could be interesting for the client portals. We have use cases where we are creating GitLab users for clients and somewhat using that as a "portal".

Outlook integration would be nice as well. We used a simple jira plugin that would copy contents of email and make a task for a specific project.

just read through your license and it looks like buyers will be allowed to hack it to their liking +1
I agree that there's some aspect of volition, desire, the creative process...whatever you want to call that aspect of human thought that seems to arise de novo.

But speaking of de novo, I'm not at all sure that a desire to think a thought it required in order to think. The opposite seems closer: the less one tries to think, the more one ends up thinking.

I'm pivoting from your point here, but I see that bit as the hurdle we're not close to overcoming. We are likely missing huge pieces of the puzzle when it comes to understanding human "intelligence" (and intelligence itself is not the full picture). With such a limited understanding, a replication or full superseding in the near future seems unlikely. Perhaps the blind spot of the experts, as /u/leftyted alluded to, is that their modest success so far has generated a reality-distorting hubris.
Measles: Four European nations lose eradication status
I'm curious about why you prefer Elm over TypeScript, as both are statically typed
In my company's version of OKRs, I count "number of meetings declined" among my most shining and useful quarterly metrics.
> Over and over again, the man touches a box on an electronic voting machine to cast his ballot for Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Bill Waller Jr. And over and over again, the machine instead checks off a vote for Waller’s opponent in Tuesday’s GOP runoff, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.

> “How would that happen?” a woman exclaims in the background.

> “It is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for,” the man says.
This ^^ And with regards to tooling, there is already a lot of work being done around distributed tracing tools
I'd love to see some discussion on this from people more knowledgable about ads tech than me
Comparably OT, but i bet this is the essence of biology and cancer being tough : signals sent via cytokines and hormones _are_ messages, IIRC.
I have a qr generator website that has been active for 10 years or more, during the last few years I have had random emails asking me to sell it. I've decline because I don't want to lose the domain, maybe some of these buyers are motivated by this, not plastering it with AdSense which I always thought.
Tesla Roadster (Technical) Gruber Motors [video]
Loneliness or solitude: the case for being alone
With deficit rising, worries grow the U.S. may be out of tools if recession hits
> nicely standardized thing called http and web browsers

hah, good joke.
That is effectively fixed by amending the statement

> Nations with ardent and sincere allies

And, clearly though certainly teetering toward "no true scotsman," an ally who is only superficially allied (Germany and the USSR during the first half of WWII, or the Allies and USSR after the war) should not be considered an "ally," for all intents and purposes.

And I think it's clear in that specific example you gave how well selling out their allies worked for U.K. and France. If "greed" is your only motivation, eventually your greedy allies will sell you out as well. See, Prisoner's Dilemma or pretty much the entire field of ethics.
What is the advantage of crowdsourced.io over Kickstarter?
As in I spend a long time on the computer too. Literally depend on it for my livelihood.

And so do millions of people so,how come my mass produced keyboard works just fine? Am I too insensitive or what? Something wrong with me?

I guess I can’t understand how anyone could be driven to distraction. If it’s that bad, it’s time for Aderall, not a blog post.
Assuming this is naivete and not a deliberate attempt to mislead... Firefox is an open source project, but here is no openness in the product management. The decisions regarding features to keep or discard are determined by politics internal to Mozilla.
This adsense behavior isn't even new- they did this to me in 2005! My website had a trickle of ads, just enough to pay for my college books each year. When I went to cash out Google decided it was click fraud and stole my money, with absolutely no recourse.

They're an awful company with horrible customer support. It's frustrating too, because my startup has investors who keep trying to get us to switch to GCP, but I don't think any responsible company would ever make themselves dependent on Google.
I have been able to read the ruling (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...).

If that is translated accurately, cryptocurrency is not considered a currency, so it's not subject to regular income tax. It's not a capital asset, so it's not subject to capital gains. The gain is derived from selling the crypto units themselves, so they don't generate capital income (i.e., "passive" income in the US).

Crypto trading is taxable as business income if the individual makes a business of trading crypto, meaning they regularly engage in crypto trades. However, if it's just incidental or occasional trading, then it's not taxable as personal income.

They do not provide a bright line rule from when you cross over into crypto trading as a business, but I would say more than 3x a year and you should be talking to a tax lawyer (not an accountant--accountants are good for well-settled areas of tax/accounting, but for unsettled or fast-changing areas like this they're extremely bad at making defendable tax/accounting positions that survive tax authority review).

The headline is for a blog post linking to a Portuguese business journal about a new ruling which is purely about whether crypto trading on crypto platforms is subject to VAT.
This is really impressive. I'm currently developing a web-based personal dashboard [1] and I'm sure WTF will provide me a lot of inspiration here and there :)

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard
I don’t want BATs and I don’t want ads. I want to be able to donate to content creators through Apple Pay instantly.
We have well and truly defined cake.

I mean, words have meaning don't they? Or, if not, then what's the fucking point?
AGPL doesn't fix the problem as it isn't a matter of these companies using the code, but the developers being taken advantage of unfairly. Amazon publishing their modified Linux wont be of much help to anyone who isn't Amazon and uses Amazon's hardware - the only one who might be helped is other entities like Amazon (namely, Google, Apple, etc). The problem isn't even companies not contributing back changes (Apple does, for example), it is merely developers essentially working for multibillion companies "for free".

Of course this is a problem that developers made for themselves and something that they were warned against but chose to ignore.
The 'article', if we are to be charitable here, is simply a press release. There is no substance to it, and we'll have to wait to see what parts they actually provide.

>And how do you “choose” a reputable shop without knowing where the parts come from?

You do it either based on brand, word-of-mouth, recommendations, online reviews, or a number of other ways people have been using to find reputable service centers for decades. People who came before us fought hard and we have established a precedent for repair in many many industries so that companies like Apple are not able to rip us off by denying right to repair, and denying legitimate repair shops the ability to purchase legitimate parts.