skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised Wacom is still around with iPad and Apple Pencil being such a hit. I know I've migrated.
An Incident Impacting your Account Identity
I think GP means that you cannot try out Mint in existing toolchain/codebase without rewriting it from scratch with Mint, which is a deal-breaker. The main selling point of VueJS and Elm (if I remember correctly) is that you can try it out in your existing code (even though with non-trivial setup).

Another problem with a framework especially for UI, is that you need a network effect, that is really a good chunk of people who had tried it in production and could vouch for it, so that other folks can atleast give a thought about giving it a try. This is important given the rate of UI framework churn and JS fatigue that people have gone through in recent times.

Personally, as an UI engineer who has familiarity with almost all of the existing libraries/frameworks/toolchains this looks refreshing and would not mind trying it out.
Worse than the millions of tons of pollutants released per second every day all over the world from non-green energy?

Non-green energy releases more than 2 million tons/second of CO2 alone every day.

There probably haven' been 2 million tons of turbine blades produced in history.
> a shitload of waste

How does it compare to traditional energy sources in terms of volume and toxicity?
I'm getting these additional requests. They're being blocked, so result in a warning message in the console. Didn't see anything in network requests for them.

- https://static.hotjar.com/c/hotjar-1043047.js?sv=5

- https://cse.google.com/adsense/search/async-ads.js

- https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js

Also, the site is setting a cookie even though I've not consented.

EDIT: Also, one of the lambeth.gov js scripts was written by "rob" in 2015. Hi Rob!
> The definition of indemnity is protection from lawsuits filed by third parties. This is in fact why you have insurance. Person A sues person B (an investor in C) for something corporation C did. Person B produces the indemnity agreement between himself and C, and the court throws out the suit.

This sounds like it's missing something. Why wouldn't company B pay company D, a small LLC with 0 assets, to indemnify it against everything it does, period. There has to be a case where, in your scenario, C can't cover the issue and B is on the hook, rather than the case just being "thrown out".
The fact that we are discussing a published article seems to suggest somebody wants to talk about it. Also, non renewable sources of energy produce a ton of waste as well! Petroleum refining, for example, is notoriously wasteful.

More info: https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/web/html/index-63.ht...

In this case, it seems more like a logistics problem than an environmental one since the blades are made from inert materials and therefore good candidates for landfill. I'm assuming the cost does not justify crushing it for other uses but it could be done at some point if needed.
It's not easy to establish any single country as a preferred destination for skilled, working-age folks with pro-social, modern cultural values (as opposed to Third-World $#!+hole ones). It requires very high standards of good government, low corruption, strong economic growth etc. Canada can achieve this with relative ease, as can (potentially) other Anglosphere countries. Northern European countries as well, with their "socialism w/ Scandinavian characteristics". Other places, it's very much a crapshoot. But if you can just make more people, you're set even if your country has terrible policies.
> IMO the more simple explanation is they want this data to sell to data aggregators

Seems the obvious answer, yep.
> can you think of a destructuring method that operates with access by name, rather than by position?

Yeah, this in JS:

obj = {a: 1, b: 22, c: 333}
const {b, a} = obj

My original point was more that, even in languages that have both "proper" traditional tuple types and the parenthesised destructuring syntax, we're not obligated to use destructuring. i.e. writing the following is perfectly legitimate, if verbose:

a_tup = function_returning_tuple()
x = first(a_tup)
y = second(a_tup)
HSBC to axe senior managers in strategy shift – sources
Corporations are taxed like individuals. The individual tax is the tax borne by the entirety of shareholders of the corporation as individuals. Corporations are then taxed again. They are doubly taxed entities unlike a passthrough LLC or sole proprietorship
That's pretty compelling. If mint sticks around for a while I will definitely consider it for future projects.
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Can you comment on the differences/advantages compared to Elm in terms of type safety, helpful error messages, no runtime errors, and other features?
This feels like a repackaging of ideas that have been around for awhile. I'm not sure I see the value prop of this over stitching together more loosely coupled solutions that have more of a support base. This looks more cohesive overall, but that cohesion doesn't seem worth the headache of the (likely) possibility of this losing favor in a few years
Yeah, I got a Zinus from Amazon a few years ago. I thought it was just a generic brand that swooped in to capitalize on the craze, turns out they're a 40 year old Korean company that has specialized in bedding longer than Casper has existed. For some reason, it feels better to buy a mattress from a proven bedding company that adopted new technology than a new tech company that decided to disrupt bedding. Keep in mind Casper has existed less than the lifespan of a typical mattress. Their longevity is still a gamble.
There's a lot that can go wrong for a family that can at least be softened if the mother has a career that she can go back to if she ends up needing to support the family, and in our economy, that pretty much means going back to work at least part-time within a few years of giving birth.

The friend I worry about the most: mom of 4 who had her first child a year after getting married straight out of college, and has never lived on her own or worked a job that could support even a young single woman, much less a family. I trust that her husband, being a well-paid financial planner, has a big life insurance policy and very good disability insurance, but what if he gets a wild hair and runs off? She was our high school valedictorian and had good grades in college, but would be absolutely lost if she had to support her kids, even with the relatively meager child support she'd get.
In Italy, it used to be that you'd have to sink 10,000 euros, approximately, of capital into the equivalent of an LLC to create it.

Otherwise, you could create an unlimited liability type partnership or something similar.

Company formation was for the wealthy.
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This problem is in the human mind, there will always be multiple ways to interpret information. It's fundamental. The move to force two different interpretations into one is a cultural and political shift, not a technological move.

The fires of cognitive dissonance and a fixation on hate will be ended. Valid interpretations will be set by a handful of tech companies regardless of the value lost. This is the Thanos snap that has been coming, two halves of the populace into one. Hate is dead, long live the heartless.
Google, and anyone who has access / can gain access to the data, whether by technical means (NSA) or by law.
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Interesting thought, but some problems that come to mind are: 1) Is the density of fiberglass near or lower than that of water? If so, then they are very "sinky". 2) What toxins will leach out of the fiberglass resins after prolonged exposure to sea water? 3) Will the resin matrix decompose and release glass fibers into the sea water?

Buried in a landfill they are mostly inert. I would not be so sure that would be true after prolonged exposure to sea water.
Make billionaires pay for it.
It doesn't seem to be a vulnerability at all
There was a talk on it this year, which you can watch here: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/videobox/

TLDR: Current setup is some Frankenstein monster of various black boxes (scaler, encoder, splitter etc) that uses a Banana Pi with annoying restrictions. They are developing a bespoke solution that should be far smaller, cheaper and without the annoying restrictions.

I attended and spoke at FOSDEM for the first time this year (you can see my talk here https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/riscv_lowrisc/) and was very impressed at the video setup. I got a link the same day to edit the video. You get a simple interface (watch video, adjust end points, choose audio channel) and after confirming everything looks good it gets transcoded and uploaded in short order (I reviewed my talk around 8pm the day I gave it, think it was available from 8:30).
Certainly, although I would call it less bad, rather than better.
Ok the bugs might have been isolated to the configuration GUI and not the driver strictly speaking, but the point still stands.
True, although I also question the value of "performance" differences that are small enough to go unnoticed. Maybe it's due to filling in visual gaps by context (complete words, meaning of the sentence, etc.), but I think I would notice if the text I'm reading were regularly making it all the way up to higher mental processes with the wrong meaning.
It's easy to roll your eyes when you hear "disruption" because it's often used as a meaningless buzzword, but it describes a very real dynamic where "lightweight" products can disrupt outcompete heavyweight products in a large chunk of the market (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation). There are good business reasons that the products became heavyweight, but it leaves an opening where a smaller product can steal a chunk of the competitors.

JSON disrupted XML. There really are ways it's strictly less capable.
I second this. When I was young, these were obviously people from a different epoch, quite like from a far away continent. Now, this impression has vanished. Where it does hold up, are differences in gait (e.g., in the S.F. Market Street film).

Unrelated, I find it fascinating in this early films how people are not reacting to the camera. They may notice it or even look at the person operating this curious contraption, but they are not reacting to it (as being aware of the gaze). This is a quality totally lost, ever since.
Yes, Finland is small. Yes the cost of covering these benefits is smaller than it would be in America, but the people who pay taxes are also fewer.

If all of America paid the same %-taxes as Finnish people do the system would absolutely work. It isn't magic. It's just that your country has decided, over a number of years, that health-care should be covered by insurance, and employment, rather than taxes.

If your politicians want to make a change, and get the appropriate votes, you absolutely could do the same thing as is done here.
Can't wait for the bite if you don't hear the bark.
iPad doesn't run professional software that tablets are mostly used with.
Profits over People: How Fantastical Lost Loyal Users on Product Hunt
I read the headline and imagined that someone had built a device you can leave plugged into a serial port and access remotely.

I'm old.
The best thing to do is to hook into the system-level preference, which all major OSes have now. From there the user can usually opt to have the system-wide theme change based on time of day if that's what they want.
Seems like something that could eventually be used by wildlife, too. Drastically improved from extraction and emission.
AC Oddyssey and Origins had an educational mode complete with tour guides (or is that what you're referring to?)
There's this: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.1/
A new language might be fun to work on, but it's a massive negative in terms of anyone adopting a framework based on it, and in terms of the resources needed to maintain and improve the framework.

Likewise, it would be more efficient to embed one of the many existing "better CSS"s than do another one.

It's sad to say so, given how much work seems to have gone into this, but it looks DOA to me.
The correct answer here is "it depends".

SAP isn't (just) a giant pile of steaming data model mess because of the thousands of people involved building that software, but really because it can model every tax case in every country in the world. Thought you had a great model for your sales tax that covered US and the EU? Well, enter Brazil and think again, with four slightly different taxes, some of which are applied on the net and some on the gross amount.

Then again, if your plan does not include entering Brazil, you might actually be better off using smaller or your own software, as configuring SAP to do what you want it to do is often on par with writing your own system from scratch.

There's a slight shortcut to that, which is using industry templates, but these only fit established business models like Telcos or Ad Agencies.

As our business model in the movie marketing industry was sufficiently different to everything existing, it was clear we would have to bend the limits of any COTS ERP so much that building it ourselves seemed like the saner option.

So we've dared to build our own multinational and fully integrated CRM and ERP system specifically for our industry and business model and so far, we really love the results (biggest client just saw our tooling stack and told us we're 10 years ahead of the ad agencies working in the same space).

But make no mistake, if you don't know exactly what you're doing (I have a slight background in finance, accounting and two failed SAP integrations), you're probably screwed one way or the other. I would recommend almost anyone to not build this kind of system from scratch.
From TFA:

> from 1939 to 1950, hourly workers’ wages rose roughly three times faster than elite executives’ pay.

This seems like it would be a good place to get back to.
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Eh, I think moving to Linux is easier than many of those things, especially "start using Signal" since it has issues with the network effect. In fact, I'd put Signal at the end of the list. Sure, you can use it as an SMS frontend, but that doesn't really give you any privacy benefits.
Does anybody know why this story was flagged? :-S
I've been in the ISP, MSP, Fed'Gov, and Manufacturing sectors in one way or another, and dealt with SAP in most/all of them. Some were worse than others about this, but it was a universal problem.

"CYA is SOP", hence millions of layers of approvals, QA, and change controls. Feddy'Gov was actually the fastest moving, in my experience, but they also didn't have to worry about manufacturing defects or breaking BGP nationwide.
This is worrying. I presume they have some scrubbers at least?

Despite all the global warming alarms, the Earth is still a thermally open system. In terms of toxic materials, pollutants and interesting new molecules, Earth is a closed system - they stay here for us to deal with.

Personally, I am more worried by us poisoning ourselves long before we cook ourselves.
There's a third option - customize the ERP to conform to your existing processes. The last place I worked chose that option, they were a medical device company and didn't want to change their processes. Of course it made a huge amount of extra work, much of which was done by expensive contractors.
well, good thing there is https://www.flatcar-linux.org/
Just use an unmixing machine to make the entropy decrease
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrmK9kDc5SM
Fun story. DCOM was so cool back in the day.
I like programming languages, no justification needed for writing a new one!

I will try Mint our later today.
The lack of regulation and enforcement by government agencies and a disinterested or powerless consumer base seems to be the root cause of almost all her issues, not limited liability.

Because the repercussions of catastrophic events aren't enough to bankrupt companies like Exxon, Dow, and BP, limited liability is irrelevant in those cases.

In my opinion, a more coherent argument for her position (which I don't agree with at all to be clear) would be to find examples of companies that did go bankrupt after some negative event they caused and highlight how the limited liability of the corporation shielded bad actors from punishment they arguably deserved.
Damn, back to coal I guess.
No there isn't. The waste is very limited and quite benign compared to fossil fuel waste. Take these turbine blades. Ok, you have to put them into a landfill after 20 years of use, but as far as things you have to put into a landfill, it is the best you can ask for -- it does not pose a danger to the environment, it will not leak poisons into the groundwater. More or less it will just sit there forever.

In comparison, coal and oil produce air pollution that you cannot sequester, that you have to release in the air for people to breather. Oil further produces liquid waste that is very difficult to sequester and regularly destroys the environment, and poisons drinking water. Coal further produces massive amounts of coal ash, that is incredibly dangerous and hard to store and regularly gets released into the air or the drinking water when hit by extreme whether.

Nuclear produces waste that must be continuously cooled at great cost so that it does not set itself on fire and release massive amounts of radioactive gasses. Even then, the complex cooling systems regularly fail, and do occasionally release massive amounts of radioactive gasses.

All of the above not only produce much more waste but their waste is far more dangerous and damaging.
Reminds me of a recent HN post about the uncanny survival of MS Access https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21401198
Sunday there was a talk describing it in detail https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/videobox/
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The barriers include psychological refusal and debt on the building. But the main barrier, at least for residential property, is researching competing prices. This is solved by using a service. The same service all land lords use.

This is why there are no examples of any towns where rent is less than it was decade ago regardless of population decline. It is why there are rising numbers of working homeless in towns with rising vacancies.

It is the chief mechanism driving ever increasing rental profits which is probably why merely mentioning the existence of the service, its ubiquitous use and success draws such silent ire. Silent because of course anyone can just google for the service. It also does not match the standard narrative which no doubt annoys people in inarticulable ways.

Likelihood is a real measurable quantity with a real number attached. You can obtain it by counting the defection rate: the number who lower their rent. This number is observably zero.
1. Did you reply to the wrong comment? I was only remarking on the Linux driver not being buggy.

2. If you’re referring to a Windows open source Wacom driver, one already exists, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, though it has a pretty specific purpose in mind. https://github.com/hawku/TabletDriver
Another more basic example is gravity. We have a statistical intuition of gravity, we depend on it being there and acting in a consistent way for almost everything in physics. But we don't have an accurate understanding of how gravity works or why it's there. We have theories, but nothing proven.

But it's so easy to prove gravity's properties (on Earth) by consistent results with experimentation, that it's literally a science project in every elementary school.
>> I wish there were an "idiomatic code benchmarks game"

Help make one:

— contribute programs that you consider to be "idiomatic"

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

— use those measurement and web scripts to publish your own "common use cases" "idiomatic code" benchmarks game

----

>> compare language speed for common use cases vs trying to squeeze every last piece of performance

— please be clear about why you wish to compare the speed of programs written as if speed did not matter

----

??? What do you think is not "idiomatic" about programs such as:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It’s not the job of faculty to enforce political will.

The university can have policies promoting one thing over another, but to encumber faculty members with that responsibility is a bit beside the point of being an educator.
Brave's business model is fear mongering.
I mean "value types" https://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-t... & http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html

I don't know what you mean by "copy-only types." I'm not finding any reference to that terminology in the context of language design.
One important factor is that folks who use SAP (or other enterprise software) get really good and fast at using it. Any changes to the UI and you have a major revolt on your hands.

Not with SAP but having been a part of a project to modernize the UI an enterprise software solution, it usually isn't worth it. Users don't care about how it looks, they just want to get their jobs done as quickly and efficiently as possible. Any changes to what is displayed on what screen or location of buttons etc. causes a major disruption to the way they work.
This depends on the state. In CA, professionals (operating a business under a licensure) automatically carry personal liability.
I have to agree. No one really talks about EOL for alternate energy gear. I would call not knowing what do with the blades when they reach EOL is a serious oversight. "Can't be recycled" usually means "it is not economically feasible to recycle them and still turn a profit".
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I think you vastly overestimate the power of the r/childfree subreddit as a voting bloc
Coal in the United States is dying fast. I believe coal is down to 20% electricity generation. Natural gas is simply cheaper.

Fourth generation nuclear power plants look promising, for example:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/next-generation-n...

Perhaps we can use more hydrogen in our future:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2020/01/09/hydrogen...
Why did Vikings have 'Allah' embroidered into funeral clothes?