skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Supposedly the health benefits of cycling outweigh the dangers of the road

> They don't.

Single sided bicycle accidents are pretty common.
I read the suggestion as being about a new syntax for the existing language C++. For that you'd need 'only' a transpiler (and syntax high-lighter in your favorite support tools), quite possibly written in a readily available language, perhaps even C++. That should address your concerns regarding availability on various platforms and optimization. Your other concerns of course stand.

I, for one, find different languages with similar appearance needlessly confusing. I what the experience with different syntaxes for the same language would be.
You keep missing the point entirely. Go was created to solve a very specific Google scenario: offer a valid alternative to C++ and Java for whatever they do in Google. It's not a language created to make college students or language hippies happy..if you are looking for that look somewhere else. Go can be picked up by any dev with minimal experience in C/C++/Java in 1-2 weeks and that was one the main design targets. Another one was fast compile times, adding all those nice features you'd like would also make the language more complex to parse and compile. I think you can talk about how much you like Haskell all day long, but if you keep using Go as a comparison you simply show you have no clue of what you are talking about. It's literally apples to oranges.
Great professionals (cooks, photographers) will definitely benefit from high-end tools because you get higher control (over craftsmanship), improved productivity etc.

For a keyboard, the signal delivered to the computer (the thing that really matters) is the same. It's the same freaking 'A' that gets delivered whether you type in a $1 keyboard or the $2000 keyboard. Most prolific writers or software programmers (for whom the keyboard really matters) produce amazing and impactful artifacts with regular keyboards.
Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)
No. Type annotations are pointless because they are not enforced in any way – if you're coming from another language it might be really misleading.
It's good the author omitted this information. Also most code in the wild doesn't use it anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Muuss

When I as messing with this program around 1999/2000 I found the tarball was missing some of the example models shown on the website. I emailed asking about them and he wrote me back with the models attached. This must have been shortly before he died :(
Definitely going to be ereader-specific, my Kobo has a physical on/off button for its light.
Oh, I didn't mean it was a stretch for a UK reader to read "AG Barr" that way—as I now know, that's obviously what it means there.

By 'stretch' I just mean that there's quite a distance between an attorney general and a soft drink. Usually the things that get conflated are not so incongruous.
Writing Concurrent Each, Map and Select Methods in Go
We hacked RRO recursively for a political campaign:

A wine company was importing wine from apartheid South Africa - under NZ law at the time any 100 shareholders could call a SGM every 6 weeks, we had 100 small shareholders ... we started with the AGM where the accounts had to be accepted by the shareholders for the company to continue to trade.

Simply the script went like this:

1) Someone moves a motion of no-confidence in the chair (under the "aged and infirm incompetence act 1897" which does not exist, he turns bright red in anger but is required to step down while the motion is dealt with)

2) a vote must be taken, someone demands a written ballot which is their right

3) the chair proposes scrutineers

4) someone challenges the scrutineers and proposes their own up their own

5) so we have to vote .... at this point you recurse back to step 2, if they ever agree to your scrutineers you have someone in the wings ready to challenge with their own slate of scrutineers ....

(it's important to keep track of how deep you are in recursion because the chair is bound to forget ....)

Of course in practice eventually someone breaks and declares the whole thing silly, restores the real chair and continues the meeting, adopts the accounts etc .... then you go to court because the chair wasn't valid and therefore the accounts weren't really adopted and the company can't trade ... (we never got that far, after one round of this ALL the other wine companies capitulated)
Totally agree on FB :), might not find out for another 10 to 20 years.

I think AirBNB does big time, huge amount of income for a lot of low to medium income earners. Enough to build wealth, put a kid through college, or pay the morgage. And, on the flip side it has enabled millions of people to travel and exp other cultures/places in a new and more intimate way. I've personally live out of AirBNBs in other countries for multiple years.

I think this bar to world changing is way too high, little changes can make big impacts over long periods. Especially on cultural values.
> Also scary to me is the ability to use a self driving car as a slow moving cruise missle.

To what, hit a person?
Today I learned about the Vickrey Auction (and related auction strategies such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80%9... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_second-price_aucti... (which is used by Google AdWords!)
I would love to pay less than $1000 for the new iphone, but the alternative is a platform that will sell me out to Google's highest bidder (Android) and has so many security and privacy issues that it is just downright scary. What's a nerd to do then if he wants the latest tech?

Librem/PureOS is an option but it's a bit of a nonstarter socially as there are a lot of interactions that take place over proprietary apps where alternatives are either way worse usability-wise or simply nonexistent. I'd love to switch to this platform but... most of my chats are on FB messenger/WhatsApp, my friend and I play scrabble via the scrabble app, and so on. What's the Librem option for that? Leaving open browser tabs and enabling those sites to send notifications?
Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
You can probably assume it’s whatever Russia and Putin would want it to be.
> Nuclear waste is not as dangerous as you think.

That'll be great news for all the governments who haven't come up with a plain "solution" that'll definitely work for all the time it needs to work, because only God could really make sure of that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...

> It is widely accepted that spent nuclear fuel and high-level reprocessing and plutonium wastes require well-designed storage for periods ranging from tens of thousands to a million years, to minimize releases of the contained radioactivity into the environment.

Compared to tens of thousands, 500 years sounds great. Though you do have a point in that dams are not great, either, because 500 years are a long time, too.

But a risk being "probabilistic" also applies to dam accidents, since not every single last person in the wider area of it dies. I know it sucks either way, but having cared for cancer patients, I would rather drown in 5 minutes than over the course of months like one might with lung cancer.
Why hasn't anyone re-written Robert's Rules in a manner that minimizes the rule exploitation/manipulation, but builds-in consensus-seeking activities?

Now that we've had 100+ years of game film on Robert's rules, you'd think we could find ways to rework the incentive structures, rules, and game theoretical elements so they're less likely to result in gridlock and procedural exploits.
No, that's not true. Take the simple case, you're not belted in (therefore disobeying laws, let's choose California, for example) and the light turns green but it turned for both you and the other side because of a malfunction. You would be marked down as no one at fault.
Where do you get internet for £30 a month, if I may ask?

Given I have to have a BT line installed, I can't get internet for less than £45 a month unless I untether and go Mobile only (which I'm sorely tempted to, because F— BT).
Noticeably absent from this discussion: Anti-mask laws as a method to combat terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan. Presumably no one is talking about it because it complicates the simple protestors-good/government-bad story.

> Many anti-mask laws date back to the mid-20th century when states and municipalities, passed them to stop the violent activities of the Ku Klux Klan, whose members typically wore hoods of white linen to conceal their identities....

> A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a New York law on the ground that wearing a Ku Klux Klan mask did not convey a protected message beyond that conveyed by wearing a hood and robe.[2] Other courts have struck down anti-mask laws. For example, Tennessee and Florida state laws have been invalidated on the grounds that they were unconstitutionally broad.[10] An ordinance in Goshen, Indiana, was struck down based on First Amendment doctrine that specifically protects anonymous speech and anonymous association, especially for unpopular groups like the KKK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law

> In 1845 New York made it illegal to appear “disguised and armed.” Most anti-mask laws [in the US] were passed, however, in response to the Ku Klux Klan, whose members used masks to hide their identities as they terrorized their victims.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1169/anti-mask-...

> In the United States, anti-mask laws were first passed in the 19th century to combat various threats of violence—among them, the killing of Hudson Valley landlords by tenant farmers who dressed up as American Indians, and also the growing violence of the Ku Klux Klan.

http://jtl.columbia.edu/the-inexorable-anti-mask-movement/

Here's a serious analysis of how one might tailor an anti-mask law while avoiding the most serious free-speech issues, at least in the narrow sense of passing constitutional muster in the US.

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=30...
Wake me up when it’s the hundred of thousands that are on there.
That's an interesting example, as if I trusted oncoming cars to stay on their side of the road I'd be dead many times over. It's very common for cars to pull a few feet over the center line to go around an obstacle (such as a bike going their direction...) without adequately checking if the space they're pulling into is unoccupied. This is one of the reasons you want to stay toward the center of your lane rather than drifting towards the middle of the road, even when a bend in the road would make that the natural thing to do.
If I were a car company I'd lobby to improve infrastructure. Like you said, the technology does not exist to package everything on every vehicle without beefing up cars (the last thing we need in congested cities).

Make jaywalking a huge fuck you ticket and put sensors and cameras over every crosswalk to detect everyone from the 7 foot basketball player to their chihuahua the minute they set foot on asphalt, and send that data to the car to make it physically impossible to go forward while the crosswalk is in use. Put up a gate on the sidewalk like a train crossing if you need to really manage people, maybe a short little fence along non crossable parts of the curb too to make it even more difficult to jaywalk (ideally doubling as bike lane protection).
the narwhal is very well known for its liberal bias, even to the point of dishonesty, so this presentation is not surprising.
"The best thing to do when you see science you don't like, is pretend it reinforces your already existing biases"

What?
but then how am i going to keep my ssh server safe? i get break-in attempts every second. if ssh gets a backdoor, then i guarantee you it will be exploited.

intruders may not care about my communication, but they do care about being able to access my servers, so you can not force me to use encryption with a backdoor without putting me and my company at risk.

if encryption without a backdoor gets outlawed entirely i'll go out of business because i will no longer be able to run any servers.
"But if these people who make poor choices and then look for handouts, from your tax dollars, then you have right to complain about their lifestyle."

But my tax dollars go to handouts for things I think are bad choices all the time to the wealthy! My tax dollars are used to subsidize industries I don't agree with to continue in their wasteful useage of resources. If we are to protest bad decisions begging for handouts, we should first complain about the lifestyles of board members of companies.

Johnson and Johnson knowingly created abestos-laden baby powder[1] and they recieved 8 million in federal subidies, 80 million in state/local ones. With an additional 10 million in federal loans. [0]

0. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/johnson-and-...
1. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...
I would not even be surprised to learn that billionaires buy newspapers to push their views.
It reminds me of a saying about democracy which is something like "democracy is a terrible system except all other systems are worse".
You can search for "Chinese Wall" in the context of banks for more context on this.
Simple API to manage Azure hdi clusters
> I have secret knowledge, why don't you spend T amount of your time on some big project to maybe come to the same secret insights I mean

Alternate interpretation, I learned something valuable from doing this thing, perhaps you'd be interested in doing so as well since the book that took months or years to write will do a better job teaching it than I will in a five minute break while typing on HN.

It's always impressive when freely sharing knowledge and tips is somehow taken as being insular and exclusive.

> If you have an opinion on why pattern matching is so complex and undesirable

Where did I say pattern matching is undesirable? It sounds more like you just want a fight here.

Remember the HN guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Which puts the neighborhood under glass. If you are going to rebuild that means your payout needs to pay for the current value of the building, tear down fees, and new construction fees. If the neighborhood is in decline no problem - land is cheap and the buildings are not being maintained, but there is no demand to build anything there so nothing gets built. If the area is in demand land values are high, the people living there maintain their property (to ensure it keeps the value), and so the costs of building one more floor are always greater than the costs of keeping the building.
JavaScript Party 96: Performant Node Desktop Apps with NodeGUI
Microsoft's DNA is Enterprise with a capital E. Google has always had the startup pretense (or rather, the pretense of still being a startup, even when they're not by any stretch of the imagination), meanwhile in almost every Fortune 500 company you'll see offices full of Windows desktops running Office. The sales networks are there, and they can reuse them for Office 365 and Azure too.
Increasing bid auctions, reverse auctions, and Vickrey auctions all have their pros and cons.

Estate auctions and multi-seller auctions at auction warehouses give liquidity to the assets that would take a lot of time and energy to list and sell individually. Contrary to the scenes of Christie's and Sotheby's in TV and film, many auctions don't come extensively catalogued. It's often just "Here's another batch of knickknacks. Bidding starts at $3" or "Here's four more boxes of books, mostly nonfiction. Will anyone bid $5?"
It's still on-demand, just with a slight delay. And 99.99% predictable. Both of Which mean any theoretical storage needed would be on a much smaller scale and more predictable size. And centralized. So no massive collection grid sitting underused/idled.

But this assumes 100% nuclear. Even a couple of fast reacting natural gas plants (or hydrogen or biodiesel or anything fast reacting) solves this.
Nuclear power requires that we have safe nuclear storage facilities for the next 10,000 years or so. That's a huge investment. Considering most Western governments change hands every 4 years or so, then the vote to keep the nuclear storage facilities maintained must succeed at least 2500 times in a row.

Also, do not forget that Fukashima is still an ongoing disaster that's only just recently begun to stabilize.
Hadn't heard about that one, thanks!
On top of decision fatigue and needing to know the market, losing auctions gets expensive fast if you value your time.
Wrong. It's a substantiated theory, because there's lots of evidence suggesting this theory is correct. But it is not a fact, you're right there's stil la possibility it was an actual suicide, but I'm right in calling it a substantiated theory that Epstein was "suicided"
Where is this "folded map" icon? I don't see it anywhere.
I totally meant Butter Tea. My bad. My first foray into buttered drinks was via Bulletproof Coffee, which was inspired by Butter Tea[1]. My typo was the result of confusing the two.

>As it turns out, the idea of mixing something fatty into a hot beverage to start off a hard day’s work is not so new. In fact, the inspiration for Bulletproof Coffee came to Asprey during a 2005 trip to the Himalayas. In Tibet, yak butter tea is often called the national drink, with some individuals consuming up to 60 cups per day.

[1] http://contemporaryfoodlab.com/hungry-world/2015/08/before-t...
On an aside, Paul Graham clearly saw influencer marketing coming in his final paragraph.
Point c could be used to include what's talked about in the article. The subsidy doesn't require to be received by oil industry to be deemed oil subsidy, like in the case of Ocean Protection Program.
When are higher-kinded types roadmapped for Java?
Steve Jobs apparently tried a homepathic diet in lieu of surgery for quite a while. He did have the less aggressive type of pancreatic cancer (islet cell carcinoma vs adenocarcinoma).
It is useful, though, to compare results of projects with different budgets. There are papers tackling the same problem with 4 orders of magnitude difference in computing. Including an objective metric in the results would be worthwhile.

In this case, the metric I want is either TFLOPs (for a commercially available architecture) or kWh (for some in-house machine) rather than tons of CO2, which depends on their power source.
I don't concern myself with what such people do up until they start voting for politicians that want to raise taxes on everyone else to subsidize their lifestyle.
Some people care about them. Personally I resent all this signaling because I just want to use my nice phone but everyone else is always "oooo you're so rich, look at your nice phone"

Or, alternatively, since I'm currently on an iphone SE, "oooo, what is wrong with you, why don't you upgrade to a new phone?!"

Another comment mentions functional utility. Put me in the camp that resents the desire for functional utility being misconstrued as social signaling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack

86 people were killed, 458 hurt.
Nice! Gotta love hacker news!
Telling others what to do and how to live makes no sense. Talking about how to live better makes a lot of sense.

Blame and shame really aren't productive.

Given the strong role luck has in our lives, improving on society such that people can figure out how to live better a little more comfortably makes a lot of sense as well.
maybe find a new profession - your job shouldn’t give you chronic anxiety
Well, if your HDD shuts down mid write all sorts of shit will go wrong too. Few developers test their apps for this case.
With that line of edge case reasoning you should avoid running the majority of desktop software. :]

I run Calibre with a network share that sits on my home NAS since years w/o issues.

A corrupted database in Calibre is a non issue if all you use it for is to move books between your e-reader devices and the library. You just recreate it.

P.S.: Just for example -- the other day my MacBook's SSD filled up as Adobe InDesign was mid write on a huge document. It crashed and the file was corrupted and not recoverable.
While (mid write) 'not enough space' is not the same as 'network mount went missing' or 'SSD kicked the bucket' it's close enough. And this is commercial software that has been around for 25 years.
Why shouldn't you sell something at a greater premium, if the demand is there? This is basic capitalist economics. It also means that a competitor can come in and offer an equivalent or superior product for less money and still make money.
It seems like every week research finds a new carcinogen or anti-carcinogen.
I haven't read the Consensus Building Handbook, but it seems like a handbook for building consensus, and not a handbook for maintaining order in a parliamentary setting. They don't seem like substitutes for one another - maybe complements.
That's true, although with nuclear power, utility-scale resistors are a likely cheaper alternative to utility-scale storage. Naval reactors are dispatchable, as I understand it, so maybe that's an option too.
Why are you proud of this?
I only heard of it because I had the idea of Tether after Tether, so I found it while Googling.

But it seems it wasn't that good of an idea, so no FOMO.
There is a whole market opening up for nursing homes in this regard. I'm honestly surprised Facebook hasn't pushed that more because it's such a huge untapped segment and you're talking about a demographic that is perhaps one of the loneliest - we're talking about the generation that would never sit alone at a restaurant, if you walked in and found someone else to be alone you would sit with them and have dinner and talk just because it was a polite thing to do.
I have a brilliant idea,
Just let Iranian and Russian hackers fight against each other and see who can win
There's a kobo driver for calibre that modifies epubs as they're transferred, for better support. I don't remember all it does, though.
the chatbot fad comes to mind
Courgette – Like Cucumber, but Waay Better
Putting definitely in italics dosent make it true. I would be curious about A/B/C test for different prices such as 600/300/100
Not with eye in the sky tech.
Many drivers use their phones while driving. Few, if any, cyclists do. That seems fairly strong evidence for the relative difficulties.
Yeah and you said "all" of them have ads. Netflix doesn't, so clearly they don't all have ads.
Well FYI, cyl is generally converted into minus cyl, the axis flips 180. So your first two measurements of cyl are close together.

Also cyl/sphere differential is also hard to determine but often follows a pattern in that you can overcompensate in sphere for cyl and vice versa.

Not even going to begin to go into the effects of possible tolerance differential, prism imbalance, and that is just with Single Vision Lenses.

Also you generally have 90 days as industry standard to go back and retest your RX.
I found it fascinating, after moving to Finland and having an MRI scan done, that it was possible to order a copy of the results on CD-ROM posted to my house.

Having worked in the medical field in the past exploring a DICOM dataset was no challenge, and the end result is I have a rotating 3D-view of my own brain! (Well just blood vessels, but still ..)
Its not like US and Israeli hackers are doing anything different to other countries