skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WASM is way less popular than Webpack.

Almost every site with some kind of front-end framework like React will use a bundler of some kind.
If you opt out vaccination or wearing masks, you increase the risk of the entire population to get infected, since we are talking about viral diseases. This is a dishonest comparison, as situations where an organ is needed can have a myriad of reasons. It could be gene related ("predestined"), it could be self inflicted (e.g. smoking), it could be from an infection (including COVID-19), it could be from an accident (who's fault?).

The comparison is also moot because there is no opt-out of a law which forces you to wear a mask, or forces you to get vaccinated. There is an opt-out regarding organ donation. A comparison would be, that you'd be forced to wear masks everywhere, and that you'd by default get vaccinated, but you are free to decline (opt-out). Well, vaccinations in The Netherlands already work like this. Your kid gets asked to get a vaccination, and you are free to decline it. You don't have to ask the government for it though. That's opt-out as well.
That forgiving / lack of speed thing seems critical.

I read crash reports from time to time. Pilot without a lot of experience in faster planes trades up for a faster plane and can't keep up with the situation happens time and again.

It seems like there is a sort of multi level system of pilots out there and the slower and forgiving planes keep a lot of folks safe who otherwise might be in trouble in something faster.
I really hope this paves the way for a future where it's normal for old games eventually go open source.
Imagine all the Stackoverflow accepted answers funneled into your code just because the answers were repeatedly used multiple times in the training data.
I can agree — the Diamonds, especially the ones using Jet A are amazingly efficient and safe. They also work well (enough) in the mountains.
F#'s strengths are also some of its weaknesses.
Re: H-M type system (a) the lack of decls makes code nice to look at when writing, but coming back to it a year later or w/someone else's code, it can be hard to follow. (b) Sometimes the errors are still quite baroque! And the tooling (esp. 3rd party) isn't as prevalent.

Partial application can be one of those write-only code constructs unless used in very simple/canonical patterns. I'd also like to have a Scala like "hole" syntax with positional args -- this is also need to alleviate the need to write a (fun -> ...) when calling methods on object in a |> pipeline. And speaking of pipeline, they look nice, until you want to debug through them. (Need something like Ozcode's LINQ debugger for pipelines.)

F# also (last I checked) doesn't do the level of optimizations I'd like to see, such as removal of tuple creation between fn's when there never actually stored, etc.

Although I understand the rational for the Curried form for fn types, it seems a bit pedantic to present things this way by default -- seeing (int -> string) -> Foo -> (bar list -> baz -> qux) is IMHO harder to look at than the standard presentation. Although C# really needs seq and post-fix types -- "IEnumerable<Foo>" is an eye-sore compared to "Foo seq".

But it's hard to go back to any lang w/o DU's...
Any self-moderated online forum will eventually skew to the standards of those invest the most time in that forum. You can't expect otherwise really.

I also take issue with Sangers pointing out that scholars wouldn't phrase something in a certain way, or make a certain claim. There's no claim that Wikipedia has scholarly credentials, quite the opposite in fact.

If you're using Wikipedia for anything but a blurb or jumping-off point on a given topic, then the joke is on you to be honest. It's certainly nothing worth getting wound up about.
But it's more than just cool tech demos. You could add features to Windows itself, with first-class integrations that looked and felt as if it was shipped by Microsoft. You could automate things that didn't have an automation interface, and you could extend software that couldn't otherwise or didn't want to be extended. Your computer was truly yours.

Sure letting it be a free-for-all was a bad idea. I'm fine with granular permissions, but am wary because it means I'm relying on features that upstream could turn off because they felt like it, or it made them look bad, or it introduces a security hole they just don't want to fix.

It's giving away liberty for security.
Sadly I agree. I've seen this a few times in Silicon Valley. You take an open source project from here, take another one from there, take some code from someone's Github, forget about the licenses (because who is going to figure it out?), and you put it all together overlaid with some nice graphics and you've got the start of a business/startup. Take that, show it to investors, and go raise a bunch of money.
I use Spendee. It has a nice interface and doesn’t get in the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Why is the article so negative here?

They describe it as a "legendary creature". Uh-huh.

Meanwhile, on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse ...no mentions of horses possibly being other things. Why? What are they hiding?

> Sightings in northern Mexico and the southern United States have been verified as canids afflicted by mange.[2] According to biologists and wildlife management officials, the chupacabra is an urban legend.[3]

And then you go to the article for horses and...hmmm, no citations referencing articles written by those who argue horses aren't real. Oh, so nobody's ever seen something they thought was a horse but actually wasn't? Why won't Wikipedia present both sides? Why is the existence of horses taken for granted?

It's shameless censorship, and it won't stand.
In theory, yes, A/B testing sounds great. However, whenever I see it implemented it invariably becomes some sort of annealing process for a metric that doesn't actually make the site more pleasant for end users ("engagement", usually) and you have people shipping apps with seven different UIs in them and users who are accustomed to features moving around and disappearing completely unpredictably. As I was searching for a picture of "Courier" Google gave me a completely different "cards" UI that went back to how it was before when I searched "Menlo". My last couple weeks with Slack on iOS have been a nightmare as it constantly switches between its fairly decent UI and some new abomination depending on which workspace I'm in and the phase of the moon. It seems like nobody really knows how to do A/B testing properly. (Perhaps the companies that do are doing it in such a way that I cannot notice. But there is ample evidence of a lot of products where I can.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer's_Apprentice#Germ...

Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd' ich nun nicht los

Also: Genie out of the bottle, Pandora's Box
There's also a work in progress for a Nix FreeBSD port[1].

[1]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17766
Neat URL is a Chrome extension that automatically removes all that cruft from URLs. Not affiliated with the author, just sick of people like this author littering in my address bar.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neat-url/jchobbjgi...
> it is not scalable well for custom pattern, custom architecture, and Async, operation and functional programming paradigm

It is in fact useful for these things. For example, LabVIEW is wonderful for asynchronous code, is automatically multi-threaded, and supports the actor model. Dataflow languages are excellent for functional programming, and this area is relatively unexplored.
> Assuming it's the functions the brain performs that are conscious.

As far as I know, if you turn off someone's brain functions you also turn off their consciousness. Moreover, consciousness can be manipulated by manipulating the brain. It stands to reason that consciousness is a subset of brain function (and body, sure). But I concede that this is not a rigorous proof of anything. Perhaps the consciousness treats the brain like a comfortable chair, and when it is destroyed gets huffy and leaves to go somewhere else. Seems unlikely though.

> But it's part of the hard problem. Why and how is anything conscious in the physical world? What does that mean for other physical arrangements? How would we know?

Hard to state, perhaps. Hard to answer? I suppose we'll find out once stated whether the question is actually hard to answer.
> Fun fact: In the some countries (for example the US) you can fly solo passenger ultralight helicopters & airplanes with no training or legal requirements as long as it’s in unregulated airspace. Warning: Doing so likely end up resulting in serious bodily harm, if not death.

To use an IT analogy, those are MVPs - minimally-viable aircraft.

Most ultralights don't have closed wings, so there's no structure as the public would understand it. So spend $20,000 and get the best ultralight available if you go this route. I wouldn't take friends or family up in an ultralight since they can't evaluate the risks.

Beyond that, LSA aircraft only require a drivers licence, and look like real airplanes. But no night or IFR operations are allowed. These were supposed to be cheap, but are priced like real airplanes since buyers demand glass panels, etc.
America attracts top talent from all around the world. China has a lot of domestic talent but struggles to put it to good use, and does not really have a compelling proposition for anybody coming from the outside. This I think is the biggest differentiator and unlikely to change for the time being.

American tech dominance is also predicated upon having a huge domestic market that is relatively uniform in terms of the business environment and easy to navigate. Start here and you have access to 330M potential customers. This is something that the EU/EEA is only struggling to become: it's mostly still separate national markets there. China has the same advantage America had as well, and an even larger population to start with.

America has well-oiled financial markets that are good at allocating capital. In China it's the government doing the allocation, and the results have often been abysmal, e.g. technology investment funds being used to further inflate the property bubble in disguise. However, historically, many of the biggest technological breakthroughs in the US were associated with government-funded military projects. No reason why China could not replicate this in principle.

Not sure where the "American values" fit here, it depends what you mean by that. If you meant entrepreneurial spirit and individualism then the Chinese are entrepreneurial and individualist too. If you mean liberty/freedom then these aren't only American values but more broadly the values of the European Enlightenment, and this is indeed another differentiator between China and the cultural West. Would be interesting to know what values you had in mind.
People are losing it over being quarantined to an apartment for 2 months. These guys lived in a freakin’ Cessna for 2 months and had to constantly tend to the aircraft to stay afloat. Just kinda cool to put it in perspective how challenging that must have been.

Fun note. 64 days is roughly 1,500 hours which is more than 3/4 of the TBO on the Continental O-300 used on this 172. TBO is Time Before Overhaul. They flew over 3/4s of the life out of that engine in one flight. Incredible!
First determine whether Nosql is really the solution you want. Next once you think nosql is the solution you want, have your experienced old hands slap you a few times.

If that still doesn’t convince you, then you may actually may need nosql: go for Mongo.
Oh, `b64.asciiToBinary` tripped me off, I thought it was about base64, but it encodes any string using utf-8, which is fine for what you use it but a bit confusing to the reader.

About TextDecoder/TextEncoder not being the reverse of one another, I suspect you are not feeding it text but random bytes, which can cause that behaviour.
I don't think many other languages make that claim, and I think it's generally an anti-goal in diverse multiparadigm languages. I don't even understand why Python tries to have it: I can think of three fairly idiomatic ways to sum a list of numbers right off the top of my head; it's immediately clear that such a proposition is not feasible for the language. The only time I have heard it come up is when there is an unsaid accusation that the language is getting "to complex" and someone wants to block the addition of a feature…
Presumably he's been using Signal over Tor, defeating all such attacks as a side-effect.
The mean, median, and modal web “application” depends on several thousand packages comprising dozens of layers of dependencies deep. The mystery code that is downloaded and executed when a developer runs `npm install` is orders of magnitude larger than functional operating systems. There is absolutely no quality assurance: these packages are published by literally-no-one-knows with no oversight whatsoever. `npm` suffers unknown and unknowable build breakage on a regular basis: for no perceptible reason, builds fail; the common advice is to nuke `node_modules` and reinstall. The packages are updating constantly: breakage is probable after a small handful of months. The ecosystem itself was probably developed in response to domain-based adtech blockers.

There is absolutely nothing confidence-inspiring about these people, their intentions, or their competence.
Feeling the same here. It's elegant, and imo easier to read than most languages. There aren't many choices of libraries in C#, but they cover most use cases. Still I found myself happy to publish to NuGet my own package because I love exploring the language and its features.

Now developing in Python at work, I can find a multitude of packages for every need I have to meet, which is perfect for productivity, but I feel I can never understand the language enough because all I do is to import some packages and get work done.

I really hope C# gets more popular among devs. Where I live only large non-tech companies use it internally, which might explain why there are not many open source libraries in C# compared to other languages.

Though, with all the comments here saying C# is turning into F#, I'm tempted to try out F# as my first functional programming language now.
Up until recently it was standard to just blindly grant admin to whatever asked for it, because UAC's implementation was so damn naggy. With Windows XP or before there was no UAC and most everyone ran as admin unless you were computer savvy or on a corporate PC.
Plasma Jets May One Day Propel Aircraft
Yeah, I think this API is only available on macOS. On iOS this would require keeping the extension alive in the background, which Apple seems largely opposed to allowing.
>Some brains are neurologically misconfigured and prone to chemical depletion or lack receptors for it (ex: serotonin or dopamine).

Readers: please be aware at best the science on this statement is hypothetical, at worst it's a marketing slogan designed to sell someone drugs for the rest of their life.
You can't target Linux using that. I think you misunderstand what this is. It doesn't help nor hurt Vulkan or Linux development -- this only exists to "optimize" the Linux VM in Windows.
It's mostly a US centric thing though
Faster planes just require far more experience. Typically owner/operators simply do not fly enough to gain that critical mass of experience.

Additionally, the fastest of aircraft, jets, typically operate with 2 crew members so the odds of a critical mistake from both pilots falling behind at the same time is drastically reduced.
> I also doubt that the build-in 12V DC-DC converter is capable providing the current required to run the inverter.

that's not how it works; the current is provided by the 12v battery, not the charging inverter.

Now, obviously the charging inverter isn't going to keep up for long, but as far as high current is concerned as 12v car battery can usually provide around 400-700 amps if given the
proper leads, with a capacity of (typically) at least 45aH.

that's a lot of juice. even with the inverter inefficiency you should be able to get some fairly major work done if the inverter can supply the amperage -- especially if the EV systems are working alongside to maintain the battery.

>That would be very inefficient

absolutely.

>So, since it requires retrofitting anyway, it would make much more sense to have an inverter running directly of the high voltage battery.

that'd be nice, but I think EV groups would rather you wear out the cheaper replaceable battery with the erroneous usage. Sure, the loads still load the EV battery, but those charge/discharge rates can be more closely monitored or denied all together -- something that'd be harder to implement if the inverter had straight access to the ev primary battery.
I thought Visual Studio 2019 is already great. How does it compare to JVM tools though?
Society grows great when old men build space ships they’ll never get to ride.
Does that really happen often in Silicon Valley? Any offenders that you know of or just a hunch?
Making shaders with blenders visual scripting is satisfyingly easy to learn. Domain specific stuff seems to work quite well in that way.
There’s a big difference between self-assessed qualifications, and ability to admit fallibility. Good scientists know they know a lot. Great scientists know that they don’t know a lot, and admitting that you might be wrong is critical for the scientific method to work.

So DJB is brilliant, but if he admitted that he could make mistakes (or even that a compiled could mis-compile his flawless code), then he might have put in failsafes like unreachable code assertions that would have meant that we wouldn’t be discussing this today.

I don’t think he’s a jerk. I don’t know enough about him; maybe he’s the nicest, kindest guy around. I do think the evidence suggests that he’s arrogant, though, and that’s not a good look on anyone.
softlimit is not difficult to use, certainly no more difficult than patch. programs like tinydns-conf for example autmatically generate a run script containing softlimit with a recommended -m setting. maybe qmail needs something similar.
I also dont like how people put sunscreen on the kids almost every time they go out. I live in Australia, so you absolutely do want to protect your skin, but heading to the park for an hour doesn't need sunscreen every time.

2 generations ago it was common to literally lie in the sun for hours putting coconut oil on your skin to increase tanning. And yes they did have higher skin cancer rates but there is a fair gap between that and not doing it + a long sleeve shirt/hat.

Im trying to move to a screen free Sunday to encourage more outdoors/interaction but screens are so ingrained in our lives now its not popular.
To me, Google's result seems to more precisely answer the question you've asked, as I understand it.

The others mostly give a definition of lesbianism which is fine but may or may not tell you whether it's offensive in context. Whereas the Google top result is to a page about specifically avoiding offensive bias, and and the second is generally about homosexual terminology.

If you wanted the definition of lesbianism, why not search definition of lesbianism?

Also there's nothing offensive about lesbianism so why would you think Google is censoring it? It just means "being a lesbian".
That’s a quality test. Don’t you feel more comfortable?

Your browsing experience is in good hands.
that contradiction was my point. the US govt already covertly gave ISIS over a billion dollars--the splashiest way to provide Material Support of ISIS. meanwhile, giving ISIS $100,000 in ransom for a hostage is just too much.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/worl...

if you doubt my claim that CIA gave ISIS over a billion dollars, that link proves it--they admit it themselves.

honk honk is a meme that means "irony." as in the noise of a clown's nose being squeezed while someone tells you something that is clearly self-contradictory and requires you to ignore the evidence you see in front of you.

i don't know what these quick-to-politicize-speech downvoters mean when they unpack a rather innocuous meme. memes are the Lingua Franca of the Internet. it doesnt matter where they originated, or who may have used them because after they are recycled a billion times all over forums, they lose whatever original meaning they had and become common slang.

i don't care about being down voted and i don't care about pleasing tattletale censor Karen's.
I concede this point. May I modify my original statement? I wish DJB took motivation from non-ego sources, so that we could have the wonderful things he’s made, but even more wonderful because they were made by someone who knew they were fallible.
Yes, I really wish they didn't name it nix, it is so hard to search for things, because people also use *nix in place of Unix.
I think it's important to add notes about the "Hadoop eras" in which some of these were first developed and evolved.

Hadoop 1.x (i.e. "MapReduce" execution engine):

* Apache Pig

* Apache Hive

* Apache Drill

* Cloudera Impala

If I recall correctly, neither Drill nor Impala actually used Hadoop 1.x MapReduce as the execution engine, and were mostly bundled to read data commonly stored in the HDFS cluster.

Hadoop 2.x (i.e. the MR2 / "YARN" era):

* Apache Pig

* Apache Hive

* Apache Tez (technically a substitute execution engine for MR2), built to allow containers to persist, optimize coalesce operation/task stages, amongst other things to reduce overall job latency

* Apache Spark (technically a substitute execution engine for MR2)

Spark entered the Hadoop ecosystem, as many people were storing their data in HDFS, and the Hadoop 2 YARN resource model/containers provided the compute resources to run Spark as an execution engine, in lieu of MR2. You could and can also run a separate Spark-dedicated cluster, but many people were already running Hadoop and storing their data in HDFS clusters.

"Shark" became SparkSQL somewhere around Spark 1.3-1.4x? and Schema-ed RDDs evolved to DataFrames and better enabled people to reason and interface with their data in a table-like manner. Python/PySpark performance also rapidly improved from things like Project Tungsten and DataFrames.

https://databricks.com/blog/2015/02/17/introducing-dataframe...

Post-Hadoop / MR2:

* Hive

* Spark

* Presto

Tez was very much backed by Hortonworks, as part of their HDP Hadoop distribution, and motivated improve the performance of existing Apache Pig and Hive tools (major contributors from Yahoo, Microsoft, Hortonworks). Hortonworks later incorporated Spark as part of their distribution.

Spark was adopted by Cloudera as part of their CDH Hadoop distribution, and coexisted with Impala.

Tn the post-Hadoop / post-Spark world, both Hortonworks and Cloudera merged as well:

https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases...

Also since we're talking MPP withSQL/SQL-like dialects, we may as well mention that Greenplum, ParAccel/Redshift also coexisted with all of these.
I've done both React Native / Cordova apps, and native iOS apps. To be honest, in terms of development, they both felt the same to me (ignoring language), as in, I was able to build both apps roughly at the same speed. However with one, I also had an Android app with minimal efforts, with the other, I had to start from scratch again.

I agree with you on the tool set tho, I also felt quite uncomfortable not knowing how exactly React Native was doing all the things to make it work for Android / iOS, and sometimes it was extremely difficult to access native functionality.

At the end of the day, I don't know what the correct use case is, I see advantages to both.
https://youtu.be/xZ3RbDTc_fY?t=200

"This isn't even my real hair color!"

You don't say. Holy hell, this is scary.