skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uprooting a system in 7 years that's been in place for at least a 100 will have no downsides? Who actually believes this?

"Even some clean-power advocates acknowledge technology isn’t available yet to run power grids entirely on renewables without jeopardizing reliability"

This is exactly true. It's not really practical at this point to switch over to renewable energy because the technology just isn't there.

Not to mention the fact that the only way you are going to get China and India to switch away from fossil fuels completely is through a war. Together, they output the majority of the CO2 emissions and China for sure has been lying about the amount of coal plants they are building.

It really makes me wonder if the Liberals of the 60s-90s wouldn't have made it so difficult to build Nuclear power plants, if this all would be solved by now.
Ironically, we've got a lot better at calculating things since then.
Indeed. And the capital Monrovia after president Monroe.
I evaluated Monica a few years back but it lacked some features so I picked Highrise (from Basecamp). Then Highrise went maintenance mode and Monica still flourishes it looks. If there is a migration tool, I'll be happy to move.
We use git hooks to tie issues and commits together. I think Azure DevOps and some other PM software also does this without hooks.

Basically our team can't complete an issue without a commit, and a commit message won't be accepted without an issue tag.

(Issues can also be closed as "won't fix" without a commit of course.)
The VSCode issues tab is hilarious now. They should have ignored Christian-Schiffer's issue with an immediate closure, instead of entertaining it. This would be a more expected outcome of trying to contribute to an open-source project, unilateral invalidation!

Now they're stuck with a toxic non-neutral brand in a failed attempt at being inclusive. Hilarious.
A philosophy outsider’s point of view: when the main character started bringing ghosts - and their importance to his viewpoint - into the story is where it went off the rails.
Except they have all stuck with those languages, Scala was a disaster to maintain which is why you see companies fleeing from it.
Try tabula[0]

It is opensource and runs on Java.You can also extract the areas of interest in the pdf and run it via cmdline[1].You can get more details if required on my blog[2]

[0]https://tabula.technology/

[1]https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java/wiki/Using-the-comm...

[2]https://narayanansiyer.com/Tabula/tabula/
Show HN: View Instagram profile pictures in full HD and zoom in on them
I wish ... would have ... 20 years ago.
After some thought over the years, I've come to the conclusion that "Star Trek" isn't hard or soft or anything else. Individual episodes of Star Trek are hard or soft or whathaveyou. From that perspective, there are plenty of episodes where it's reasonably hard and plenty where it's as soft as a cooked noodle (see the many episodes set in places where thoughts become reality, just about the softest concept you could ask for). It should really be looked at more as a compilation than a single work.

I also can't think of a single episode where it was rock-hard. There has always been a lot of fuzz in how fast the Enterprise can actually travel, for instance, that a truly hard series would need to commit to, even in the context of an episode. Even when they try to set for a particular story that the Enterprise could get to this destination in X hours, it's still soft because if they just try harder there's always more that can be pulled out of the engines if necessary.
less work days probably also means less worker casualities
Or hire the best person for the job regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion or nationality.
If we’re talking about all areas of study, not only traditional trades, then what is an apprenticeship, really? Is it not merely an education with very low student-teacher ratio? If that is the case, then of course it would beat the classroom. It also won’t scale, hence classrooms.

This article does a pretty good job of supporting the advantages of apprenticeship. It does not, however, provide any support for the self-directed pseudo-apprenticeship that it advocates. I have little reason to believe that this model will work for anyone who wasn’t already a capable autodidact. Apprenticeship without the master are not apprenticeship at all.
> would you mind sharing how you do this?

Not GP and not my personal experience, but I have a friend whose company has a non-developer do this as part of their full-time responsibilities. They privately check in with every developer at the end of every day.
I feel like increased productivity from smoking tobacco wouldn't be impossible to calculate if you just compare performance of smoker vs non-smoker in aggregate.

I would be surprised if the stimulating effects outstripped the dying early effects.

edit: just did a brief search and apparently on aggregate former smokers who quit have increased productivity following quitting, so even while smoking there is decreased productivity effects
One thing that might surprise people is how little we know about human genetics and what individual mutations do. The main problem is that there are many different variations, with so many of them being quite rare, that it's very difficult to estimate the effects of individual mutations.

Luckily, there are a lot of good research projects that should help us identify more variants more effectively: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/ and https://allofus.nih.gov/ are the two most prominent ones. Hopefully those two projects should enable us to get a greater understanding and help us better risk profile patients.

For those who are interested: https://www.omim.org/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/ are the two main public databases for storing information about genetic diseases. If you ever get yourself sequenced, they can be quite handy.
Well, the first three words of the letter are "Dear President Trump"
I’m the same and have been using it mostly just to keep track of the names of everyone’s jobs, SO, and kids. The site on mobile is usable, an app might help but isn’t required. As for your data, it lets you export everything quite easily (as JSON IIRC). And since there’s a version you can host yourself, if their service goes away, you can export and self host.

It’s pretty easy to get going on a free Heroku instance too. Consider trying it out if you’re interested in a tool like this.
So, to expand a bit on the concept of paid features, my current strategy, I give two options:

1) The paid feature, if it is based on a fixed fee, includes a warranty period, where we will prioritize fixing breaking changes as other parts of the codebase change.

Once the warranty period is expired, it required additional payments to fix the feature.

2) No warranty, but the feature cost increases their monthly or yearly SaaS fees, and requires advanced notice if disabling the feature.

As long as the user is paying for the feature, development resources will be devoted to maintaining it.

This also helps steer customers toward option 2.

Honestly, I use both these strategies more-so to prevent wasted time with feature requests the customer has no interest in paying for.

It forces them to find value in what they are asking for, not just because it is a ‘great idea’.
I’m looking forward to reading new books on Dotty from underscore then :)
They basically want to hire foreigners that will be more vulnerable and work for less money, longer hours with no overtime, not unionised. Common practice in the UK and Australia as well
I'll speak for myself. I just jumped ship from a Scala team and took a pay hit to get out because it was so horrible. No one on the team had a strong command of the language, which made it worse. The application was a ball of mud. The week I left, proposals to rewrite everything in Java were heard. I took a position on a Go team and am much happier.
It’s a huge liability which would make this terribly dumb.

That’s also why it would be crazy of them to officially allow “archive accounts”.

That’s pathway to lawsuits 101 if illegal content is present or even content that some user will ultimately argue that what they published publicly was private, see the Gmane case (was a mailing list archive) where the owner consistently got cease and desist letters or even formal notices from foreign governments about content that was in the archive.

Guess what will happen with a large company such as yahoo where there’s a financial incentive to sue too?
Sometimes you need no proof, just to look around well enough.

Not everything is a science paper.
It certainly isn't HN. It's everywhere. Reddit was worse by an order of magnitude and poorly moderated. I don't even think WASM executes faster than JavaScript in any meaningful metric.

The strongest motivation, from developers that are not in any way involved in the WASM spec, is a shimmering hope that developers will be off the hook for writing JavaScript. In the context of "replacing JavaScript" type threads this results in the religious fascination that you and others have observed, but in other contexts comments are equally up-voted for their critical examination: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21723071
Perhaps a combination of LaTeX/PreTeXt and Open Monograph Press [1] will do :D

The idea is to allow authors using LaTeX/PreTeXt to pipeline the document+sources to a repository (think GitHub Pages for math textbooks), as well as preserving existing free content whose sources are lost (e.g., old out-of-print books).

[1] https://pkp.sfu.ca/omp
The follow up Lila goes deeper. If you loved Zen you should give it a shot.
“Tell me how you are going to fix this problem first, this corrupt system, first,”

That's an ill-conceived question for several reasons.

First of all, politicians have very limited ability to fix problems. The best they can usually do is poke a complex social system such that, hopefully, everyone acts in a way that the problem gets fixed without creating new, worse problems.

Second, problems don't usually get "fixed". For instance, violence will never be zero. So you have to look at the situation with more judgement. For instance, violence has reduced so dramatically and so consistently that people from the past would probably consider the current situation "solved". A lot of discussion around gun control is confusingly about rifles (e.g. AR15), which only account for 200-300 murders per year; much less than knives or bare hands[1]. There are still gun violence problems in the US of course, but they are generally concentrated and probably better solved locally rather than asking Congress for a comprehensive solution. Health care is also a question of improvement rather than perfection -- no, it won't have a cost of zero; and no, it won't have a success rate of 100%.

Third, the question almost demands a simplistic answer that applies to everyone in the U.S., as absolute questions tend to do. There's no nuance of locality or role. Trying to find one solution that works well across such a diverse country often makes the problem harder to solve not easier.

Fourth, it implicitly neglects solutions that might not involve the level of government the candidate is running for; or where the government might play only a minor role; or where the government plays no role at all (e.g. veganism helps the environment a lot, but it's driven more by individual choice and culture than policy for the foreseeable future).

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
And so I don't, and I encourage others not to.
where can you get those pieces of data?
s/pirate/share/

fixed 'at ferrr yah, matey.
I found it takes a weird turn after 2/3 or so that made me dislike it but maybe that is just me 30 years ago, and I only read it once. It reminded me in a way of Life of Pi. It starts as one type of book and starts morphing.
Kudos for the effort. Unfortunately, category error is littered throughout.

> The problem domain for Jesus teachings is ethical action and how to encourage it.

If it did have a problem domain it would be how to get into Heaven and not into Hell. Ethical action would be the way in which that is achieved. It does not, however, have a problem domain because without Christianity there is no problem to be solved. It is not a framework and is not expounded as a framework (this is an incredibly important point).

> It has been applied to each of the forms of Christianity

The different forms of Christianity are called sects because they share a doctrine. A doctrine that is supplied as dogma, I might add. Again, an important point.

Christianity has not been "applied" to the various forms of Christianity because they did not exist prior to being applied to. For example, you could not apply Google to Yahoo because Google is not a framework.

> as well as in many secular societies

Secular societies cannot, by definition, implement Christianity.

> You could apply it to a school or business if you wished, or a family or yourself.

You could not apply Weight Watchers to a school or business or a family or individual. You could apply its principles or methods. Weight Watchers is not a framework, neither is Christianity. Weight Watchers could produce a framework for losing weight but that would not make one thing the other, nor in the same category.

> The various Christianitys

Sect is the correct word.

> just like the Buddhisms

An implementation of Buddhism is not a sect. There are sects within religions that have applied Buddhism. Hence, your comparison is yet another category error and false equivalence.

> incorporate many of the beliefs and customs that existed before Christ and the Buddha’s teachings respectively were incorporated.

Rails incorporates many of the beliefs and customs of web developers and frameworks that existed before it was born, as does Twitter. That does not make Rails a company or a website or a micro-blogging service, and neither does it make Twitter a web framework nor a piece of software.

Distinguishing differences like these can be difficult, especially if you're not acquainted with the basic history of Asian religion, like Bon, or the many schools of Indian thought, Daoism etc (the History of Philosophy podcast[1] is an excellent resource for learning about them), or are not familiar with the many frameworks used by programmers and project managers and the like. Hacker News is a great place to get these kind of insights though so you're in the right place.

[1] https://historyofphilosophy.net/
I read widely without much regard for politics (as long as the story is not simply a disguised political polemic, which I've come to find boring even if I nominally agree with it), but I was just trying to answer the question as asked. Only perhaps a couple of his stories start to get into polemic territory, and even that, let me emphasize, "start"; none of them that I've read are outright political pamphlets. Mostly they're great sci-fi.
The best people are already available here. Companies just don't want to pay a fair salary or have someone that can leave at the drop of a hat.
The fundamental model that we forget today is that impressive things are built by oppressing millions of people.

From the pyramids, to Notre Dame, Neuschwanstein Castle, Great Wall of China, Panama Canal, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Cancun hotel zone, etc every single technologically unbelievable achievement was built by exploiting large masses of the population.

The reason we cannot build the same today is that the pool of people that can be exploited has been much reduced.

Perhaps that is a cause for celebration.
It was found in carts that had THC and nicotine combined. That makes it about as much as a nicotine additive as a THC additive, if we are using the incredibly low standards of "found in coexistence with substance sometimes" as the definition of additive.
I see a lot of people complaining about Scala. I looked into it 9 years ago but it didn’t seem to be gaining traction so I stopped playing with it:

https://github.com/melling/scala

Recently, however, I’ve noticed that Scala does to be be quite alive (3.0, ScalaDays, Cats, Shapeless, Scala.js) so I’m taking another crack at it.

I’ve done a lot in Swift and it’s my current favorite language, but it’s not widely supported.

When I look at Scala (especially 3.x), I feel like it’s like a Swift++. Go is a great language but I want to move up a level of abstraction.

By the way, Scala 3 is now feature complete:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/edcenz/dotty_s...
The women used the information they had, and what science knew at the time, to try and make an educated decision to protect their health. More information has since been learned stating that they may not have needed to be as extreme as they were, but ultimately they've still protected their health.
> and are entitled to do with it as they like.

Of course they are. But we are entitled to do the same with the copies of it.
The opposite. Modern infrastructure is shit compared to decades ago...
FWIW, if RaptorJIT had not ripped out arm64, I would have ended up recommending replacing Luajit with RaptorJIT in Fedora and not bothered with forking moonjit.
For anyone confused here is the original that this is referencing: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
Thanks for writing a classic.
KolibriOS has a ~5 second boot time https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=XnlA4ijrTBo
Wow, cool coincidence. I’m reading ZAMM right now. Inspired me to write a blog post about fixing my camp stove while living on the road.
https://blog.highvoltageclouds.com/index.php/2019/11/24/vans...
Despite my diligent stretching exercises, I've made scant progress towards my goal of having flying monkeys exit my anus, which I estimate having an equivalent likelihood as an "ice-free" arctic. The only way of successfully having an 'ice-free' arctic is redefining the terms, "ice-free" or "arctic" both of which are essentially marketing terms in the first place and relatively malleable. So, it's back to my exercises...
War and Peace will help you better understand and deal with the constant change in your requirements and why you are right that management has no fucking clue. Also, great value for your audible credit.
> All I am saying is that by the time you are flying the thing, you should have high confidence in it.

It seems like there is a balance between the level of confidence you achieve prior to a flight test, the costs of a failed test, and the speed at which you can implement and iterate designs.

> A failure at that point should lead to a serious reevaluation of that confidence,

If, as in this case, the failure is due to non-considered risk, you certainly want to make changes to the assumptions you make during the design process in the future (in additional to the changes you make in your current design.)

I don't think you need to generally question your confidence in your components that have not only passed all their operational tests, but have been used successfully to complete operational missions.
I definitely do get the impression that a lot of people expect Apple to take out a full page ad in the NYT or something.
> Maybe this is a dumb question (having had no religious instruction) but do all modern Christians (except, I guess, some fundamentalists) understand that the Old Testament doesn't apply to them?

I know of no modern Christian group that doesn't have a general understanding that the applicability of the OT law to Christians is, at a minimum, limited by the explicit terms of Acts 15. OTOH, there's obviously quite a bit of variation in what particular bits of the OT law modern Christian groups think actually still applies.

> If that's so, it seems like that stuff should be flagged somehow, to avoid misunderstandings

It's kind of (in general, not necessarily the specific passage in particular) the reason that the Catholic Church spent a very long time not being particularly happy with people without specific training reading the Bible themselves rather than going through tainted clergy as gatekeepers.

> Or do some modern gentile Christians perhaps go further, and believe that the old Jewish ritual law was a misunderstanding, and not an accurate statement of God's will? And if so, who are they?

Without getting into boundary disputes about where "Christian" ends, sure, there are probably groups that identify as Christian that believe that.

> Also, who are the modern non-gentile Christians?

One interpretation is that anyone who has ever been a Jew remains one and boundy the law even if they become Christian. (Of course, even the Jewish understanding of Jewish law seems to have h
evolved—and become quite diverse—considerably since Christianity split off, and I'm not sure how much that influences theology as to what precepts, precisely, apply to modern Jews who become Christians.)
To the company, there's also the value of selection. Picking the right college grad to hire is very hard. Even harder, I'd imagine, if they hadn't even gone beyond a high school education yet.
The neuroscience of isolation: A trip to Antarctica can shrink your brain
Here's a demo of programming Python with Plover (mentioned in thread) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRFKZGWrmrM
Wrong!

Since 1990 Japan has indeed only added $6tr of Money (M2), but as their GDP hasn't really grown that's an additionall 80% of GDP in terms of Money (the same meausure for the US is up 15%)

China on the other hand, money is up 150% of GDP, which clocks in at $26 Trillion dollars (a bit more than 100% of US GDP).

https://rose.ai/dashboard/someone.on.the.internet.is.wrong.a...
This is my read on the situation too. The GOP stands to make a killing if they can persuade the voting population of this after the left has put all their eggs in the immigration basket.
Cyber-Attack on India's Kudankulum Nuclear Power Plant
I appreciate you taking the courage to share your honest thoughts despite how they may conflict with the views of others here. My heart goes out to the people I overhear at work, the ones who are struggling the most, lamenting and complaining that tool X (In this case scala) is “so” embarrassingly awful and, with the implication that it’s to blame for their poor performance. That sentiment resembles some of the comments that I’ve written here and my heart really bleeds for them, because I know these people at work and I know that they’re struggling and I also know that they’re good, smart people, who have just fell into a trap of justification.

For what it’s worth, in my own journey learning Scala, I simply didn’t have the luxury to blame, and I just forced myself to try and figure out how other people, like the finagle team for example, could be so productive with such an obviously newfangled invention, until I realized… I was wrong.

Scala is actually a wonderful language! People move companies to continue working in Scala! In fact the ideas and lessons that I’ve learned from rethinking how I used to do things are so unfathomably valuable to me that I don’t think I will ever look at code the same way again.

And before you downvote me please don’t mistake my words for criticism. I truly empathize with how some of the people here may feel and I’m very happy to go into specifics if anyone requests that. I don’t write on HN a lot because a lot of times I think there is just this therapy - or a version of therapy - that amounts to people reinforcing their need to blame things in order to continue excusing the poor performance, and I don’t want to get caught up in it or be made to feel bad for encouraging others to reconsider their virtues.

And by the way we all, at times, have poor performance. (Anyway, I dictated this into my phone, so also excuse any weird words or punctuation. I love you all. Some typos were subsequently edited)
7 women in 1 family learn that option value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_option is a thing, and that simplified risk assessments should be evaluated with some care.