skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Amazon a monopoly? Does Amazon indulge in monopolistic practices? Rather than dance around an issue, state outright the real question that is being addressed or being glossed over.

Market share of what exactly? and is 5 or 35 even important as figures. For example the Walmart figure - does that include overseas assets. Walmart own Asda in the UK for example. Amazon act in mysterious ways in quite a few supply chains that say Walmart could not even dream of. I don't think the examples, figures etc are rigorous or useful.

So, what question is the blog really answering?
I think it's better than the alternative too.

You always have some concept of the API leak into the consumer. You either remember explicit names, or remember their positional pseudo-names 'first', 'second', 'third' etc. Unnamed arguments bring up more issues such as ordering consistency (see: PHP's many notorious cases), deprecation leaving 'holes' in argument lists, etc.

In Perl and many other languages we just provide a hash (aka dict) of key/value pairs. This lets the functions decide how to handle breaking changes which involves some annoying boilerplate but overall works fairly well. It's nicer with proper language support though.
Totally valid criticism but kind of dickish delivery. The guy built a game, for free, I think it's worth more than an "Uninstalled."!
Unintended consequences will be in play here and it seems prudent to have more oversight here as the ocean is a global resource.
Technically the big gamma emitter is Tl-208 which is in the decay chain of U-232.

Careful about downplaying the U-233 weapons potential. Phenomenal nuclear weapons can be derived from Thorium. Here's a good declassified hint from 1966: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/79078
True. Perhaps I overemphasized that because they're online collaboration tools. I haven't yet used them with multiple people in one "document" yet.
Personally, I don't want apps that I'm not using to send a disruptive notification that there's something new in the app. I'd prefer that the app let me know the next time I launch it, as being described by OP.
>First, it just shows that it is safe. It is expected, LSD is one of the safest drugs out there.

Yes, certainly. A drug that can trigger a psychosis after taking it only a single time and that can give its users persistent hallucinations[1] is one of the safest drugs out there. The drug propaganda gets completely out of control.

Edit: Not to forget that taking LSD can permanently change your personality.[2] In most cases these changes may appear positive, but there is probably a potential for permanent negative changes.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/11/lots-of-people-going-a...

[2]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-017-4733-3
Hopefully it won't release additional CO2 causing oceans to become acidic and less suited to sustaining marine life.
Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets
I just wish he would switch from promoting Thorium to promoting technology development in nuclear. But believe me when I say I'll take what I can get!

Heh. I've been whining that HBO hasn't made a miniseries about the 4 million outdoor air pollution deaths every year or the other 4 million indoor air pollution deaths per year.
Well unlike the rust circlejerk apparently people are using it to build operating systems instead of just talking about how one day they might.
Cool. I know it can get annoying that people post competing things on Show HN. Congrats on your project.
> It's older than Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Nim, or even OCaml, and doesn't really offer anything they don't.

Crystal is only five years old.

Nim is 11, Rust is 9, Kotlin is 8, OCaml is 23 and Swift is 5.

Basically, Crystal is tied with Swift as the youngest.

What it offers right now is a simple porting process for those with Ruby codebases.
You know, you're right. We could even connect it to the net via satellite for real time updates from a headless browser.
5 PRs a _day_ per engineer? What exactly are they cranking out? 1hr 30min per PR that's insane. Are these literally one-liners or extremely well defined tickets? Do your engineers work very late days?
I spent a decade working in American Malls prior to the turn of the century and think Amazon has done a brilliant job of flipping the playbook and the playground of retail the past 20 years.

Instead of competing with 800 lb gorillas, Amazon turned many of the prior juggernauts into 2-tons of turd by making them move. Seeing anchor stores shutter and go bankrupt was a good indication of how slow businesses move, even post dot-com era.

In the "monkey see, monkey do" modern world (of commerce [too]), they keep on implementing things the monkey can't do (<48 hr shipping, airline fleets, AWS, space, etc) and provide the new curve to aim ahead of in commerce (analog, digital and hybrid) for the foreseeable future.

Amazon has to thoroughly annihilate a larger piece of the market(s) before they can be called a monopoly (its slash and burn farming in a way). We'll see how much longer they can keep the champagne flowing.
A few points:

* Uranium-Plutonium fuel in a closed cycle can burn all the transuranics and have very low radiotoxicity waste as well.

* Molten salt fuels are 10x less dense than typical solid fuels, implying an increase in waste volume. They're also water soluble and frequently liquid. This complicates waste disposal and transport. Not terribly, but still.

A good summary reference on radiotoxicity vs. reprocessing is: https://www.iaea.org/publications/8359/assessment-of-partiti...
This is an amazing story. I don’t think it’s what the author of the article had in mind though. It sounds like the original argument for apprenticeships is supposed to be a large scale thing, for potentially all students. I can’t see that working for the vast majority of stem students, only the very rare gifted ones.
Partly. If they jit, or have shellcode injected, that code is not mappable with syscall privilege.
Actually, one would be fine with just Elon backing them.
C bindings, strongly-typed, a great concurrency model, very fast, and Ruby-like syntax. That makes it a very unique and appealing language to me (and others).

If you / most people don’t particularly like the Ruby-like syntax, then Crystal might not appeal to you. But I can assure you to those of us who like the syntax, the language is wonderful and super fun to work with.
Solar and wind beat out nuclear for generation without regard to intermittent production. If you counting the cost of actually replacing fossil fuels, that has to take into storage and retrieval costs which drastically increase cost well beyond nuclear. Well, to be more pedantic nobody really knows the cost because the technology to store energy effectively and at the required scale in a manner that is not geographically dependent does not yet exist.
and a story about a YouTube engineer who took LSD over the summer and freaked out and nearly killed/ran over a bunch of people https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/youtube-engin...
And it's important to remember that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has caused one confirmed death so far. I'm not saying that it wasn't a horrific disaster, but it's like comparing one dramatic aeroplane accident to the totality of road vehicle deaths worldwide—one plane is newsworthy; whereas the vehicle death toll is normalised and ignored.

Worldwide, around 50 to 500 people die in planes each year.

Worldwide, over 1 million people die in cars each year.
Not just employ one, the whole organization has to be more diverse to access their markets which are diverse
Yes, making the bombs themselves seems to be easy. The difficulty comes from U232-contamination which decays into strong gamma emitters, making handling difficult. However, there seem to be paths for the production of pure U233 from chemically separated Pa233, which one might be doing anyways in a thorium reactor. That would mean a significantly higher proliferation risk, because one would get pure bomb fuel form the normal operations of the reactor. However, I don't know enough about how easy or likely that would be to judge.

But in all, you are right, I think. And maybe even more than right.
Have you thought about porting this to Nintendo switch? Indie community is huge so many games do well on the platform.
I agree with you in principle, but let him focus on thorium during the election process. It's his way of letting us know he's on the correct side of the broader issue without freaking out the hippies.
Not every article is even posing a question, let alone answering it. You could argue that's what a good article does. But some articles are just a series of things the writer finds interesting.
Yep over the years I have met many people with the story about the person with latent schizophrenia who switches from functional to extremely ill after a single LSD trip. I knew someone like this in my youth, and have since heard about many other cases. One of the more famous examples is the musician Daniel Johnston.

LSD is powerful and not to be messed around with lightly. Yes, it's not heroin or meth. But it's a powerful chemical whose effects can vary wildly from person to person and setting to setting.
I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me.

My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are:

1. Real multi-threading (it’s now in alpha - but previously just had single-threaded concurrency - and sorry I might be getting that terminology wrong).

2. Windows support (I personally don’t care but I haven’t found a single thread talking about Crystal where someone doesn’t chime in and complain about this)

I have a feeling once it reaches 1.0 and those issues are addressed it’ll get a bit more attention. It deserves it!
The beta amyloid theory is pretty tired at this point since the correlation between plaques and Alzheimer's is only moderate.

Imo Alzheimer's is probably more related to the brain falling into dysdunctional, self reinforcing patterns of synaptic connectivity.

Neural plaques might exacerbate this problem by disrupting connectivity, but clearly the brains of many people with plaques learn to route around this damage to retain functionality.
Alcohol can't give you psychosis after taking it only one time (or it is at least far less likely. It also can't give you persistent hallucinations[1] or permanently change your personality[2]. (In most cases these changes may appear positive, but there is probably potential for negative personality changes, too.)

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/11/lots-of-people-going-a...

[2]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-017-4733-3
If you don't require at least 2 approvals from medior/senior developers for your junior's PRs you're doing it wrong.

TypeScript is not a "little bit" slower, I've seen it take over 3 times more time (and frustrations, even for an experienced TS guru) to get simple things done.

TypeScript is a colossal waste of time that many sheep gladly embrace because they feel they're expected to. Nobody dares to ask "but why?" when someone else comes up with the idea of adding TS to a project. They should.

I wish I had the money to setup 2 teams of 5 developers each for 12 months. One team: JS only. The other team: TS only. Give them the exact same project instructions, same sprint length of 2 weeks, and the same expectations per sprint.

Here is my guarantee:

- The JavaScript team will get much more done consistently over the entire duration of the project;
- The JavaScript team will have a higher quality of code that is more intuitive to read;
- The TypeScript team will be the only ones that regularly fail to make deadlines;
- The TypeScript team will have to be reminded time and again that they should focus on UI and UX details.

And at the end of the road the JS team will have a far superior project, simply because they didn't waste time typing all of their code.

I've seen it so many times already. Once you use TS the devs focus on the code and forego the idea of UX, a11y, i18n, progressive web, offline capabilities, etc.

They'll often pair-program and waste hours of time to figure out how the hell they're supposed to properly type that one complicated piece of code.

Meanwhile, the JS team using React will simply use JSDoc, code reviews, propTypes, and defaultProps and be done with it.
BYOND holds a special place in my heart. It introduced me to software engineering and the client-server model!
Neat project, though slightly undermined by the drawing of the half-naked underage girl in the readme
Correct. I should’ve said “larger” issues.
The reason I put air quotes around "designer" was to convey the fact that I believe _good_ designers would base their decisions on logic discovered via some form of the scientific method. Studying what makes user interfaces understandable, and why.

Data doesn't need to be "track everything the user does and do A/B testing", it can come from many sources: user behavior studies done in the past, cognitive psychology, experience gained from mentors, etc.

Would you make the same "they do it every day so they must be right" argument for engineers? Product managers? Stock brokers before data-driven trading? Doctors before the rise of modern medicine?
My disabled son's amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft
If spending a fortune on the B-21 program ensured no adversaries believed the US invented a fundamental breakthrough in aircraft design, that would be the best reason to do it.
The point I was trying to make is that any facial recognition - racial biased or not - is an issue.
If you think that's crazy check out this drug that caused almost 11,000 vehicle deaths last year:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

And it's still legal!!!
I’d love to see a different question answered: is there an inverse correlation to be drawn between optimism and stress levels. From my experience significant stress can be just as debilitating as physical ailments and I find that optimists seem to handle stressful situations with more apparent ease than others.
I agree. I just have low expectations as far as diversity in tech goes (so, one black person and/or one woman on the team would still be a milestone many of these companies have yet to reach), but you make a good point: hiring only one person of color or one woman would still be very problematic.
How do we really know this was a deliberate choice? There isn't enough information to discard the "Apple couldn't be bothered" hypothesis in this instance.
Enough of anything can be hazardous.

"I don’t know anybody that’s ever died from smoking pot. Had a friend of mine that said a bale fell on him and hurt him pretty bad, though." - Willie Nelson
> This wouldn’t be a problem if these companies offered an API to access their data.

Sorry, but you're talking about something you have no idea of.

The impact on that platform of someone using the API vs crawling the site is approximately the same.

Whether someone scraped us via the API or via the HTML made no difference in terms of impact on the platform.
I'm not smitten with the rust fandom either, but at least do your homework

https://www.redox-os.org/
I believe I purchased SiteSucker from the Mac App Store, too, unless I’m misremembering?
You might enjoy this podcast interview with Applebaum:

https://www.econtalk.org/binyamin-appelbaum-on-the-economist...
The fact that we are discussing thorium here and in many other places suddenly, proves the successful mission accomplished by Andrew Yang. Federal bureaucrats and their aides are forced to do their homework to seriously consider the option and answer intelligently.
It's obvious the author is a pedo guy.
Well, TS does point things out to me in the IDE that make me correct it right there. But, I would have caught that in my browser in under 2 seconds anyway. With proper .map files to debug things it's infinitely more clear what's wrong than with TS's sometimes very cryptic messages.

As for your junior dev, maybe that makes the case for TS. But honestly, I've experienced junior TS developers who were simply overwhelmed by TS. They couldn't be trusted to write proper TS since they already struggled with JS. It just required us to review more code in their PRs.

I'll take a project with naming conventions, proper unit tests & code reviews over TS any day.
A Look at the Engineering Behind the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E
I think it was this series of tweets:

https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201
Eyes are just better at distinguishing similar dark colors against each other compared to cameras. Only the most expensive, massive and heavy cameras (costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, generally) can compete with eyes in this respect.

Plus human facial recognition is massively overpowered for normal cases. I think if you tested it in challenge cases (through blurry video, or snow, or in the dark, or at a distance), you might see darker skin tones being recognized less easily. It'd be an interesting experiment.
As much as I'd be greatful for being paid to start a blog, I'm not sure what the point of it is. Aren't there like a bazillion blogs out there already that are absolutely desperate for traffic.

And on the other hand, as a consumer of such information, I find it harder and harder to find original indie blogs. I'm still looking for a good blog search engine that allows me to find blogs on Niche topics. does anyone else have this problem? or is it just me? the best i can usually find is something on quora.
And I can accidentally stab myself with a knife, or crash a car, or slip and crack my skull on a hard surface, or a million other things. Life is dangerous, and there are a nearly infinite number of things more dangerous than these drugs.

This moralism isn't about safety, it's about control, and because of that it's ironically immoral as fuck.
When a message pops up asking me if I want to undo my typing and I click yes, I do in fact expect the text I typed to disappear.
I think this trend is seen in many areas, e.g. architecture and landscape design that looks and sounds great in a magazine but is actively hostile to humans. Products vying for the attention of a society obsessed with the latest shiny thing. Is Apple catering for the market, or creating the market?
I think they meant younger.

But, yeah, besides the syntax familiarity for Ruby programmers it doesn't seem offer much that the others do.
I quite enjoyed this talk. I’ve seen Svelte with an eye of skepticism but this helped me understand some bits better. That hairstyle tho!
Is the dev a high school student? From their blog: https://fw.neocities.org/blog/5.html

If so, this is crazy impressive.
I didn't mean it's a management failure. The company was really put in a precarious position when it was spun off from government without change to employees' job-for-life statutory protections. With lots of debt piled on by previous management, management was not dealt a winning hand. Although the next set of execs managed to continue the turnaround.

But yes, otherwise there are many other options besides downsizing, such as retraining or entering new markets geographically or vertically, all of which (to their credit) the same set of folks pursued as well.

Similarly silicon valley companies are constantly threatened by obsolescence. I think today Facebook and Google would both be dead if they hadn't retrained a significant share of their workforce on mobile development a few years ago, and machine learning more recently.
you can still make decisions while under influence of alcohol. With LSD you lose “control” with a full dose, so bad trips can make people highly unpredictable in ways that isn’t true about alcohol. That’s my point.
You can die your first time driving a car if you're an idiot too but we don't outlaw cars for everyone because idiots exist.
Anyone can be direct. Fewer can be direct while having a lot of money. I'd bet the latter is on more people's minds.
That's not exactly what I'm saying. What I am saying is that it's impossible for it to be true and unprovable. If it is true, it means a proof exists.

Also, I am talking about this specific problem.
The smaller iPad Pro is my main driver, except for doing deep learning experiments (I use a System76 GPU laptop) and some writing on a MacBook.

On my iPad Pro: all web browsing, watching movies, research, notes, some writing (markdown using leanpub, and Word runs well). I use the Apple keyboard about 20% of the time.

In a pinch when traveling, multiple SSH shells to a server allow some dev work, but I don’t do that often.

In other words, if I am not coding, then I use my iPad.

EDIT: on our last long vacation (cruise) I found the iMovie on the iPad was fine for editing my vacation videos. I used to use Final Cut 7 on a MacBook Pro for video editing, but stopped years ago. I found the iPad to be fairly capable. Also, I have a large USB-C monitor for my MacBook, and that works very well with the iPad, and some applications do a good job using two screens.
Pollan, in the book, repeatedly stressed the importance of taking psychedelics in the presence of sober professionals. This is because a “bad trip” can not only be dangerous to the people around the user, but also very traumatic for the user.

If the LSD was taken in a medical environment the user would absolutely not have be allowed to drive. The user would not have be given an additional dose while delusional. When trying to leave the user would most likely have been calmed by a specialist. If this failed the treatment would be conducted in a secure facility and have effective procedures for physically restraining the individual.

There’s also a huge pharmaceutical difference between 4 doses of street acid and micro dosing pharmaceutical grade LSD.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781869 recently posted...
Hey, don't expect us to pay if you injure yourself doing anything voluntary and risky, like driving a car or eating rich foods.
Out of curiosity, what were some of your observations from working with these creative powerhouses?
Thanks for the explanation. It makes perfect sense. I did something very similar, except your system sounds better in that you only copy data that has been changed. I have a double buffer system where I'm copying almost all of the data each tick, and swapping the stacks when the next tick is due.
>There isn't any evidence from human psychology that dark-skinned people have harder-to-recognize faces

Citation?

Dark cars have more accidents- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7845366/Black-cars...

There clearly will be a difference.

Whole careers are around making things more or less recognizable depending on color.

What study makes you think it's insignificant for human faces?
Or, as Max Planck succinctly put it: “A new scientific truth does not generally triumph by persuading its opponents and getting them to admit their errors, but rather by its opponents gradually dying out and giving way to a new generation that is raised on it.”