skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Sensi website: "As existing features are enhanced and new features are released, your thermostat software is kept up-to-date automatically."

No thanks. Been there, done that. With a simple device like a thermostat, I don't want the thing changing all the time. Security updates are fine but every update needs to be under my control and the device should be designed with a mechanical switch that restores the previous version of the firmware.

And really even security updates should be unnecessary if the code is written in a type-safe language with good security practices.
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Why can't the CEO of Stack Overflow comment, engage, apologize and bring everyone together? Isn't that what a leader of a company supposed to do? Instead of sending out your PR minions with callous demeanor, no empathy and staying meek while your company goes into the toilet?

If I were running a company of this size, put everything aside and build trust from the users. They built the community in the first place.
If it was about that, they would have made a case for secession before Congress prior to attacking Fort Sumter. Surely the right of revolution should only be invoked after at least making an effort at a compromise before attacking.
Other than they cohabit the same environments, hence why evolution/adaption has favoured the one that produces more bacteria toxin.
calling into TV news shows also gets you unlimited direct advertising, which Trump showed is highly effective
People are working on transcribing it: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pdp7-unix/2019-October/000...

Incidentally, wkt confirmed that's one of the two artifacts[1] which he [teased a while ago[2].

[1] https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019106....

[2] https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2019-September/01868...
Interesting. The problem of cobol is that is verbose, like java. Type type and then type. Copy and find all the time. Good luck to understand any as it takes a lot of time to read it.

Do not like cobol or java.
What majority? In Catalonia less than 50% of people want independence. It just so happens that the minority is louder.
He doesn't explicitly say, but presumably what the doctors successfully treated him with was alternative medicine, just different alternative medicine. (Silbinin isn't FDA approved in the US.)
edit: weirdly the parent comment of my comment has disappeared and now my comment has been moved to a top level comment and appears to be apropos of nothing. Oh well.

I'm pretty sure this predated the programming language. I can't find a source on when Scala (the microtuning one) first appeared but it existed when I first got into this stuff around 2004, and I didn't have the impression it was new at the time.
>The majority of Scottish residents voted to remain in the EU, which sparked a movement to leave the UK.

Is that why there was an independence referendum the year before the Brexit vote?
I don’t think that you and I have the same idea of what “technical debt” is.

Technical debt is when you prioritize short-term gains and pay for it with additional maintenance burdens long-term. In my experience, Bazel adoption can be the opposite—replace your custom scripts with Bazel, make the investment now, and deal with less maintenance later.

I’ve dealt with some really painful in-house build systems, and migrated some of them to Bazel. That was paying off technical debt.
The surface similarities between haskell and F# are fairly clear - emphasis on pure functions, no parens and commas for function calls, etc.

Alexis King wrote an interesting comment on one reason haskell can be difficult to pick up, which might be one cause of the foreignness you've noticed: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ddsvbk/you_are_alr...
Soviet Union ...

I wonder whether you will have a game between china vs USA etc one day.
>As time went on though I started hating the flight more and more.

Same here, I wonder if anyone could explain this. I used to think it is cool and fun. Now I hated it so much it is almost depressing. The experience is pretty much the same, but for reason I cant understand flying is very tiring, even though I as just sitting on the flight most of the time.
I said: it's not _that_ useful. I did not say it's completely useless.

Every large (or even small) company has people writing stuff in Perl, Bash, Haskell, Ruby, Rust, VBA, Scala, Lua or what not. I've been that guy, too.

More often than not it is a distraction more than anything, and it ultimately ends up being rewritten in C++, Java or Python. I think there are some niches where it helps; OCaml has had some success with static analysis and proof assistants, or even with code generation projects like FFTW.
That'd be interesting!
Enjoy: https://pastebin.com/7HAUqK3h

1 week expiration.
How does cheap food cause obesity? You gain weight if you eat more calories than you burn, if you are gaining weight from cheap food it just means you are eating too much of it.

And regardless I'm pretty sure foods like rice and potatoes are much cheaper than fast food, and are healthy. They are more expensive in terms of the time it takes to prepare them though.
Heard there would be censorship from day one.

Netflix has it right so far. Watch one about Australia 5 eye tv show. Good balance. Not need to take side. Just no taboo.
Crystal is amazing and one of my favourite language, it's just a shame the community is so small.
having multiple start up jobs makes some sense, really. you as an employee are making an investment in terms of time in exchange for shares of the business.

the VCs aren't putting all their eggs in one basket with startups, so why should the workers?
Also see Sevish's scale workshop:

https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/

It has the most useful bits of functionality of Scala, with a simpler UI, and as a web rather than desktop application.
My policy is to not click on articles whose title are unclear. If I am intrigued I read the comments first and generally find out a comment (like yours) explaining this article was a waste of time
I can think of non-evil reasons to stop secession. If the US South wanted to secede to continue slavery is it evil to prevent that to protect people?
That's one of the biggest benefits I get out of using HN - pre-selection by taking a quick look at the comments before reading anything.
Can someone give me a quick explainer on why it’s appealing to pick & eat ANY mushrooms in the wild at all? I’m probably just a dumb “city kid”, but I don’t see the appeal whatsoever.

I’d love to get some perspective on why folks enjoy this.
To be clear, my comment below is about separatism in first world nations. If a region is attempting to separate from an oppressive regime, I 100% agree they should.

Generally I tend to support the idea of folks being in control of their own destiny, but I can see why a larger government would not want to allow it. The smaller local government only needs to worry about what is best for itself, while the larger government must think about the nation as a whole.

Looking at California, or New York. If the two decided to separate from the United States, what would be the economic impact to the remaining states in the nation? I’m no economist, but it doesn’t seem good. I imagine this is also true for regions or areas that have strong natural advantages as well. Such as ports which offer military and trade benefits.

I can see both sides. I can feel for folks that want to separate, but also can see why they would not be allowed.
This seems like typical minimalist design. Sure, it's not a bad concept at all, but there's nothing surprising here.

On the other hand, the excessive margins are making the page less functional as it should. The download section also lack emphasis, and given that using the same amount of space for all the distros/platforms that is not at all proportional to the amount of users using them, I would say that's a poor design.
Why ruin it for the majority because a few doesn't known what they are doing? I know the argument is that everyone has the disk space these days, but I still don't like to install the entire X window system, compilers etc. for a small embedded system. What's next, force install of Libreoffice and Firefox because a few desktop users can't use the package manager?
And control Nike ... sport
I've struggled to sympathize at times, on a case by case basis.

Interesting that the existence of these movements seems strongly tied to the historical granting of autonomy to the regions involved.

I.e, if some degree of autonomy was once granted (take the Basques), I imagine it solidified and now serves to justify the sense of uniqueness. Whereas if it isn't tolerated (i.e, the U.S), separatist movements are nonexistent despite similar cultural differences existing within a country.
Ok, the earliest instance of that URL I can see on Archive.org is 2007, so it's pretty old and close to age of Scala programming language or possibly older.
Most poisonous mushrooms also don't taste good and make you throw up quickly. (Our bodies have that vomiting mechanism for exactly that reason.)

Of course, most doesn't mean all.
That's exactly why "Java is the new Cobol" is an occasionally-heard slogan.
Airtable instead of AirTable.
Chancejs with a Truly Random Seed
It looks nice, but from a usability perspective it could make an educated guess about what platform the viewer is using and perhaps emphasize choices that are more likely to be relevant.
It is successful enough that it has spawned a few clones—Buck, Pants, Please.build, and the thing that Chromium uses now. From what I can tell, before Bazel was open-source, everyone who left Google wanted to use Blaze badly enough to write their own version.
> In Catalonia less than 50% of people want independence.

Citation needed. The main historical request by pro-independence people has always been for a vote to be held on the matter. Spain has always replied that there will never be such vote.
1. SEMRush and AHREFS - it sucks having both. They're both amazing but they do very similar things (neither 100% replaces the other).
2. Trello - I hate trello. It's bulky and irritating. I'm slowly migrating to AirTable, which is much better.
Configs: look into select() and modes.

Non-file steps: normally in bazel you would consider the server setup a part of the test. So `blaze build :my_test` creates an artifact, and blaze run or blaze test runs the artifact which does non-hermetic stuff like setting up a server.
Your claim:

> a bike plus adequate space around it is only a bit smaller than a car with adequate space around it.

Here is an example photo from a recent organized bike ride in my city:

https://images.app.goo.gl/S1Nh8d7zqfSEzqmH7

Here is another:

https://images.app.goo.gl/6hh7NAMtEFPZZyKA9

It's quite hard for me to square these images (not to mention my own experiences riding bikes) with your assertion.
Absolutely - like the perfect mushroom being super unique, and super tasty.
Yeah I checked that too. It's puzzling as I am 100% certain it's older than 2007.
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I believe they mean static methods as part of the interface signature, e.g. to define constructor/factory methods.

AFAIK there are issues with how Java handles dynamic dispatch that prevent this.
No - read the linked page, specifically question 12. Opt-out and objection are separate. You can only object if you do not opt-out.
Zdnet writer: “why is COBOL still around?”

Cobol vendor: “well let me tell you how widely it’s still used”

Zdnet writer: “k thx.” sends to editor

It would’ve been way more interesting to get even one customer perspective, say from a bank. Why do they still use COBOL? (Answer: it powers critical infrastructure, it’s risky as hell to migrate, and the benefit isn’t worth the cost right now vs investing elsewhere)
Ventilation/offgassing is a fairly minor concern, especially for small projects where you don't get much heat release from the reaction, and you are not baking it. Your kitchen extractor fan is probably enough. You can try it out with a small test, say total amount of epoxy equal to 2 tablespoons, and see how that goes.

I would actually expect more of a ventilation requirement from your 3D printer! Here is one set of safety recommendations for working with ABS/PLA: https://www.safety.rochester.edu/ih/3Dprinters.html

But if you are really worried, go get a 3M 7502 mask with a 6001 organic vapor cartridge. These are cheap. That's what the manufacturer (West System) MSDS says to use in case of no ventilation.

Skin contact is a bigger concern. 1 in 5 develop dermatitis upon skin contact, and some get more severe allergic reactions. So wear good gloves, blue nitrile ones that fit well with decent thickness, not the cheap latex stuff.
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang)
They are awfully tasty fried up with a little butter and it is fun to go for a hike and find perfectly edible, tasty food right there growing wild. As he mentions toward the end, practically no one gets sick from eating wild mushrooms. For instance in the SW United States there is really no way of mistaking anything poisonous for an edible puffball. Some people are more adventurous and will identify questionable mushrooms from a book, but then you’re really taking care not to eat something deadly and don’t proceed if you are not certain.
California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving
UK phone firms face disruption as Yahoo chat used to share numbers is shut down
Google says this Scala tuning software page dates from 2001[0]. The page's own copyright date says "2003-2015".

Scala the programming language had its first public release on 2004-01-20[1].

[0] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
As a city kid who likes doing this, there are two aspects for me.

One is simply the game of going through the forest and carefully scanning the ground, looking at bunches of leaves - is that just leaves? Or a young mushroom just coming out? Then, when you do find a mushroom, checking if it's firm and good to eat, enjoying the alien aspect of the thing etc.

The other aspect is the wonderful taste of these. In my country we have porcini and chanterelle mushrooms in the wild, and finding some makes for an absolutely delicious breakfast the next day. You usually can't get fresh forest mushrooms any other way here, and in the rare occasions that you do find them, they are extremely expensive.
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The exact same could be used to describe SQL/Bash/Lua etc, which sometimes used by accountant/admin/game designer. Those languages are at the sometimes at the edge of the systems, but obviously not non-starter.
I grew up in Russia, and like in many other Slavic cultures, mushroom foraging was a time-honored family affair. Some of my fondest memories are of picking mushrooms with my grandmother, who taught me all I know about identifying them. I still forage them all the time here in the States.

I'm sorry, but it continues to baffle me how someone can mistake an Amanita for a Coprinus (or Agaricus). To my eyes they're as different as a bottle of milk and a bottle of Drano. I suppose I can see how very young specimens of Amanita can resemble other varieties, but then you can follow a simple rule: if it looks remotely like a baby Amanita... don't take it! There are plenty of other mushrooms that are virtually unmistakable.

And then the idea of not double-checking what you foraged before cooking and eating it? That's... unconscionable. I've been foraging for 30+ years, and I still examine each individual specimen before putting it in the pot.

It's a shame because these kinds of stories create unnecessary fear in Americans about picking things from the wild, when there are so many great tastes and experiences right there at your fingertips.
> At least in the U.S. and Canada, there are no mushrooms where if a healthy adult nibbles on them to taste them and then spits them out, they will be anywhere close to the LD50

LD50 is the dose that kills 50% of a test population. I don't think I'd try something if the only assurance I had that it was safe is that it is not anywhere near LD50.
MRAM
It's true there are benefits to working with in one paradigm, but I find that often you can only do this for so long. This is why you have things like redux-thunk.
>I am not confident that moderators are seen as partners in community building; but rather volunteers to be tightly controlled.

This is really the core of the issue IMHO.
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>Moran moved on from the spy world. Moran heads communications at the Environmental Investigation Agency.

"EIA is a 501(c)(3) independent, international, non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.". 30 year old environmental non profit, totally not the perfect front organization for spy operations, right up there with jet chartering business (Aero Contractors, Pegasus Technologies, Tepper Aviation, etc).
I put quotes around the phrase ("have an obligation to their shareholders to be profitable") because even though it's not technically true, it has become a self-reinforcing platitude. Investors enforce that "rule", regardless of the actual law. If Blizzard-Activision said "we are willing to forgo the massive Chinese market and also we want Tencent to immediately divest from their 5% ownership stake", institutional investors would run, and the owners of capital would squeeze hard (as we have seen with Blizzard-Activision, which, to date, hasn't backed down).

That's the system we have.
It was about only allowing white labor in the west.

It was about the Lincoln winning without any representation from the south.
Why Blockchain Games?
Basically describes a best case scenario for the flight.
> I don't have the slightest idea what the first "do" does.

We know from the type signature that it returns a `ScottyM ()`, whatever that means. We don't know what that entails without having looked at the documentation. I don't think it's fair to criticize it on this basis, though, it seems basically the same as when you see an unfamiliar function in some python code and have to look up what it does.

However when we look at the docs:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scotty-0.11.5/docs/Web-Sc...

There's literally no documentation for this type. Imo this is emblematic of a pretty dysfunctional culture in haskell of not bothering to document things properly.

By ctrl-f-ing "ScottyM" and looking around the page we can see that it's returned by the `get` and `post` functions, and get a vague idea that it's the type used to progressively build up a scotty web application. Then we see that the `scotty` function takes a `ScottyM ()` and returns an IO () that we can run as the main function of our program.

It can definitely be figured out, but the docs sure don't help much.

> this is an incomprehensible control and data flow, wrapped in an ugly syntax.

Parts of it are pretty bad, but I don't think the control flow being quite implicit here is actually much of a problem. Scotty is based heavily on Sinatra, a minimal ruby framework, and it kind of reminds me of Flask as well. In all of these, it falls to the programmer to decide what to return on a given route, and the sending back of the data is all handled implicitly and invisibly by the framework. So, I don't see this as an issue, and, if it is one, it isn't Haskell specific.
The world's sixth largest economy is disrupted by the closing of Yahoo groups! I'm sure they will say that it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Excerpt:

"Since the capacitors used in DRAM lose their charge over time, memory assemblies that use DRAM must refresh all the cells in their chips 16 times a second, reading each one and re-writing its contents. As DRAM cells decrease in size it is necessary to refresh the cells more often, resulting in greater power consumption.

In contrast, MRAM never requires a refresh."
Firefox Quantum was started in fall 2016, more than two years after I left: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum.

Quantum (or part of it; much good work done in C++ code too) is based on Rust and Servo, projects for which I was sole executive sponsor from 2010 onward: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12224047.

It's fair to say Rust and Servo would not exist as such if I hadn't been at Mozilla.

I'm among the actual founders of mozilla.org, we started working on it in fall 1997. Earliest wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202152141/http://www.mozill...
Could be, might have been hosted elsewhere or not even crawled etc.
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Sounds like they almost went bankrupt. As if the probability was very high. If that's the case, I'm not sure running towards fear is good advice because if someone else follows that advice, they will most likely end up in jail or something... Kind of like what happened to Elizabeth Holmes; look where runnning towards her fear got her. That's the normal outcome. The outcome OP got was abnormal, not a rational outcome and not a reasonable decision.
I'm starting to hear these types of things so much that I'm becoming skeptical
The American Revolution was a merchant class uprising over taxes.
> Some people stopped worrying about not understanding compilers.

But no, it's not some people, it's not most people, it's 99%+ of all developers that stopped worrying about compilers. There will always be a use case for it, but when we're talking about < 1% of all developers we're really spending time talking about a niche.

There will always be niches in any industry, but we shouldn't design our industry/profession about niche cases.
I don't think it is always so clearcut. In many cases the separatist movement only gains traction when a particular region becomes richer than other parts of the country and complains about "supporting" the others.

It becomes a clear case of expecting others to support you when you are down but then keeping profits for yourself when things turn around.
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Provided you don't assume that knowledge that works in Sweden works anywhere else in the world.
What is the minimum unit of land where you accept that a grouped majority should be allowed to separate? If Girona wants to separate and Barcelona doesn't do you accept the deal?
India is trying to build the world's biggest facial recognition system
I find it is the other facets of flying which really get me down and stop me from doing it more. The whole 'security theatre' at the airport, dealing with the nickel and diming of low cost airlines, being treated like a criminal at passport control etc. that turns me off. I still love the magic of being in a tube miles above the earth, and being able to have breakfast on one continent and then lunch in another a magical thing.
You don't like this COBOL article? Try this COBOL article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21288415
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> Can I cite you on this?

No, you can't. Because like the other commenter noted: "This is utter rubbish." It only looks easy to understand on the surface, but quickly becomes a mess. "spaghetti code" and "lasagna code" are the terms invented in OOP realm.
Being said that - some advanced FP concepts can be pretty daunting to grasp as well.

Saying that human brains are OOP or FP oriented is equivalent to saying that human brains wired to recognize patterns in music but not color, or something like that.
Are you really arguing that Scotland is a "truer" country somehow than Catalonia?
In the earliest versions of Unix, the shell didn't fork to run programs. It would exec the program, and then the program would exec the shell instead of exiting. Makes sense, right? That's what you'd do if you didn't have an operating system at all, and it's how, for example, CP/M worked. So you could write "cd" as a non-built-in command.

But it sounds like the other commenters have figured out that it's "pack directory".
UI's have value, as does integration into a browser. Not everything is solved by a CLI for all