skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response, I had not seen that post from pg and I didn't realize that comments can be manually deleted upon request.

I definitely appreciate the idea of there being a community interest in both the creation and archive of the work. The salient question in these times I think is whether it will continue to be possible to safely create public works of this type. This is a social issue beyond the scope of HN, but the drift of users away from public social networks and toward private messaging apps is evidence of a change that's already underway.
The technology sounds fantastic. The synergy with heat power plants is particularly cool (heh). The same goes for desalination: waste heat can be reduced by recycling heat between the processes, increasing the overall efficiency of the system.

Now for the rant: reputable news organizations need to stop enabling "creates x jobs" propaganda through repetition. It doesn't create 200 jobs, it briefly employs 200 to build the thing. Maybe 5-10 full-time jobs will be "created" to maintain a giant mechanical battery. This lie is particularly popular around pipeline projects. "You don't think we should spend billions of dollars on this pipeline? Do you want tens of thousands of imaginary people to lose their imaginary jobs?"

End rant.
For example, I might have instructed them to roll for three character attributes. And then they encounter an enemy which has hit points of some sort and maybe attack and defend numbers. And then I realise that something about their character attributes doesn't really gel with how I'm trying to get them to roll dice against that enemy. Or, wait, they need to jump across a pit but did one of their attributes apply (strength, dexterity) and how would it modify their rolling target.

My memory of childhood D&D stuff is very foggy which probably hinders more than it helps.

I think I need to know what the simplest set of character attributes and enemy values might be that can withstand some basic sketch-map-as-you-go exploration
and fighting. Is it strength, dexterity and wisdom, out of 20? Or two or five attributes?
I wrote about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623839. If there's something that remains unaddressed, let me know.
Staring into the COM Abyss
If it's like Python, but somehow better for beginners, I would strongly suggest an explanation of exactly how it differs from Python.

The audience for this is: "I want to teach person X programming, and I think Python is a good choice because I know Python. Why would I choose Dip instead?"
I literally just got everyone switched to RiotX.....
I love this and yet it brings up a conundrum for me: explorative learning seems to be more effective, and yet people seem to want prescriptive learning.

I see a lot of people, myself included, clicking on the "how to" links, even though they almost never help me. I've seen this struggle with self-help books even more so.

Any suggestions on how to make explorative learning more sexy in marketing? Oh no, I just asked for a prescription! Perhaps I should just explore and figure out what works for me lol.

Again, I find when I explore and play with different solutions, I learn MUCH faster and more appropriately.

Anyway, grateful to have read this tonight to remind myself to stop reading so much stuff. Reminds me of reading a book by David Deida, I think The Way of the Superior Man, and in one chapter he said that we have all the answers we need within ourselves and then I paused and asked myself, "So why am I reading this book again?"

Thank you for this spark tonight :-)
Yet ...
That looks vaguely like it could work, if there was a system to borrow from it. My kids responded really well to a very literal "exploring a cave" scenario so don't necessarily need the less-D&D style of those stories.

We also have a house full of toys so I'm trying to avoid buying more gear. We already have paper, pencils and dice.
"Elevator" and "JS" reminds me of Elevator Saga.
https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
The next era in workplace technology – Legofication
The operative point is not how many have died — it's how many could die. If we gave up altogether on mask-wearing and social distancing, the numbers would get to be much larger. This is partly because the ratio of deaths to infections would increase as the hospitals were overwhelmed. The relentless march of exponential growth would see to that.

The fact that the numbers don't seem that dramatic yet doesn't mean that measures to slow the progress of the virus aren't important.
And SideQuest is terrible experience for me.
Would things be any different in a different type of economy? I think that's ba political failure, not a market failure. I think at the very least, you're likely to run into corruption issues no matter what economic model you use.
Ok, if you want to narrow it to software, then it's even more ridiculous, since putting something on a physical store shelf has a lot more real cost than processing a payment or copying a piece of software that has no physical presence.
HN is not a scoped platform with a compliance control on PII.
I feel my eyes having to move around a lot more due to the increased layout width.
There’s over a hundred and twenty year of antitrust law that says that conduct is improper if it leads to higher prices for consumers. Why does Yale insist that antitrust can apply when prices are 0?
Sideloaded apps now give multiple scary warnings about the Terms of Service: See e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/4487.pn... .

"May put your account and device at risk" is not going to get you a viable third-party app ecosystem, especially when it's an open question what Facebook/Oculus might decide to clamp down on in the future.
Sorry, I wasn't clear.

Launchpad can absolutely still be ignored†, but the overall iOS-ization of macOS cannot be. It is ever-present, in every part of the system.

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† If it even still exists in macos 11.
Also things such as wireless charging, Apple Pay, etc. They were not the first by a long shot. They took their time to do it well and now it's everywhere.
PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching
Thanks for sharing I’ll definitely check this out
Honestly I’m trying to get rid of GUI and starting to lean more towards terminal
Most of my engineering degree felt like that. I especially remember control systems classes where we learned all kinds of details of how to run the math to place poles and zeros blah blah, sometimes even with some incredibly simplistic example of launching a rocket and controlling its trajectory or something, but... you just never felt like you had any idea how/when/why you would use this stuff in a real work environment. (And once I graduated I discovered that almost no one does; at best they're using basic PID controllers. I doubt even the professors could have given real life examples of the more complex stuff in use.)
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a visual UI development tool for ReactJS?
React seems incredibly well suited to visual application design.

The comparison that jumps to mind is the old Delphi IDE let you pull components onto your application and then customise the code.

The most painful and time consuming aspect of React development is pulling the UI together. That's not React's fault - there should be a really nice IDE that lets you fly around adding components and tying things together.

Does any have experience of such a thing? And I'm looking for something for the professional developer - not a toy that only gets a little bit of the way there before you give up and have to return to coding it all by hand.
VMware Spinoff: Dell Plots $50B More of Financial Finessing
I never felt like I needed one but recently I’ve found that when writing larger apps, React is really worth it
The code is not in the center, is not the main thing, they are pushing me to read the sidebar with actually no useful or inmediate information I need.
We do that by randomizing account names. We have other tricks too—for example, sometimes people are just concerned about their comments in one thread, and we can snap those off and reassign them to a random username, which lets them keep their primary account.

We wouldn't reassign every anonymized account the same username, though, because that would make discussions hard to follow when there is more than one such account in the thread. That's especially important because the number of these requests builds up over time, and users never ask for their accounts to be renamed back (though one did!), so such an approach would act as a slow erosion in the threads.
Yeah, no. Javascript manipulates the dom exactly as you are describing. In fact, javascript is directly responsible for much of the rendering on the modern web today. Hacker News goes in circles talking about it lately, in fact.

So any page with javascript is going to be slowed down precisely for the reason you are stating.

All you have done is compared a bunch of chrome extensions. Adguard is not an extension. Being faster than all the extensions is like being smartest boy who got held back a grade.
>By this logic, the 609 people who work for Oasis Petroleum and the hundreds of millions of dollars available on its credit line might be put to more productive use elsewhere in the economy.

I'm curious, where are these other non zombie companies that would replace the zombie companies?

Presumably some of the 609 people start them, and thus why they don't exist yet?
Or ActivityPub
And yet the Google Play Store is fine. Is there more malware on it than Apple's App Store? Sure. But people use it every day, and the world hasn't fallen apart. They could certainly do more to root out malware, but that doesn't mean full-on gatekeeper with draconian rules like Apple has done.
Kinda reminds me of this podcast / transcript about one person's ideas on the coming geopolitical reorganization

https://www.chartercitiesinstitute.org/post/charter-cities-p...
Less charitably it's self-preservation; reddit has a very low tolerance towards doxxing and has banned multiple subreddits (some sizeable) for it.

Many there would still support the article and his name being published, and would push for his cancellation.
Or you can run ssm agent on a fargate task for double the fun (just need to register as hybrid and remember to clean up (scheduled lambda works a treat for this)
When users delete their account, instead of deleting the content/comments they submitted, you could replace the deleted user's username with the value [deleted], replace the IP address, email address and any other PII collected about the user with the value [deleted]. That way the threads remain intact and the content is not associated with the users anymore.
I haven't delved into any specific papers about caffeine but I would assume they would control for at least some of those factors you mentioned.
One of the eyewitnesses to Bach's playing was Constantin Bellermann. (chronicled in the Bach Reader)

Bellermann wrote about a pedal solo that Bach played: he “ran over the pedals so quickly that his feet appeared winged, with a thundering fullness of sound, and penetrated the ears of the listeners like a bolt of lightning”, and that he “was admired in amazement” by Prince Frederick van Hessen. The prince removed a jewelled ring from his hand on the spot and gave it to Bach. If he had earned that just with the speed of his feet, wondered Bellermann, what would the prince have given him if Bach had used his hands as well?
I'm slightly perturbed that I picked up a Rift S instead of something else. I feel like Facebook^WOculus has it next on their list of abandonware, and the vendor lock-in feels heavier by the day. No OVR stuff, Can't run anything without the Oculus Store app open, etc.
I don't know about that. In the context of history's broad arc I think you can come up with some adjectives that describe the post-WW2 era in broad terms. Liberal, open, globalized, emancipatory, diverse, individualist, capitalist, etc. I think this set of adjectives seems to characterize the mainstream trends of thought in Western society from 1945-2020 compared to other periods in history, and most major media outlets embrace most of these values.
New York pulled what off? The highest cases per capita of anywhere in the US, bad policy allowing it to ravage their nursing homes.

Not surprising after COVID burned through their population (quarantine or not) the case numbers have subsided. If anything NYC demonstrates that quarantine was entirely ineffective, and that the biggest mistake was not focusing on protecting the people actually at risk.

The most interesting takeaway from COVID is that “both sides” were right. It is much more deadly than an average flu (for the elderly) and also much less deadly than the average flu (for those under 50).
That's fair, but doesn't invalidate all the other reasons why switching from iOS to Android is prohibitively difficult. It's laughable to suggest there's no lock-in at all. And some people just like iOS itself.
I can understand why that's upsetting and would be open to a better way. If you read my other posts in this thread, and have a better idea of how to achieve the balance I've written about, i.e. a way of achieving that balance that would lower the psychological barrier and not involve doing wrong, I'd like to know what it is.
maybe LLVM as well..
oh I thought this was going to say doctors are bad at prescribing drugs and so we should just 'tantum quantum' it

but author is actually saying that copying napoleon will not make you king of france

a claim that has not been proven
I am in no way a fan of the Failing New York Times (if I may quote a prominent contemporary statesman), but am I missing something by thinking that this is overblown? They haven't printed his name, only asked if they may do so. I also don't see where they threatened him with exposure, but the article claims they have.
out with the old, in with the New... Apple Extensions

“We wanted to redefine how developers approach and consider their extensions to the macOS Kernel. Introducing Apple Extensions: while beautiful, simple and light, they are extremely flexible, in ways that go far beyond traditional extensions. We knew we could keep it lighter than ever, while extending our state of the art extensions in new and more powerful ways. We reduced power consumption 62.3% based on our new stochastic power model, while increasing the number of supported colors to 16 quintillion (far greater than the range of a human eye). Our newest integration in the macOS Kernel, Quantum Core, perceives the subtle changes in mood in order to promote well-being and happiness, while deleting data that promotes unhappiness.”
Yes, apps like Spotify and Netflix (sorta; some of the rules around the "reader exception" seem arbitrary and selectively enforced), but not all apps. Not sure what the point is you're trying to make here.
You don't need to disassemble a modern laptop or a PC to upgrade RAM, battery or HDD. Only most Apple systems need such crude and difficult disassembling to do such simple tasks of replacing these parts because they are deliberately designed like that.
The notion of a "camerata" (organized serendipitous space of people working towards a similar idea) is especially relevant right now, when everyone is contemplating how to work effectively in an online environment.

I've always longed for that energized environment described in renaissance salons or, more recently in tech, Xerox Parc or Bell Labs (see, for instance, "The Idea Factory"). Even the old 80s-90s Usenet groups or forums seemed to have some of this enthusiasm for innovation and new creative worlds.

There are all sorts of problems with trying to deliberately create such a space (lag, lag, lag), and there have been any number of HN posts on people working on tools for digital serendipitous collaboration.

I'm not sure what the solution will look like, but I think it will have a very convenient and responsive UI, and consist of people really invested and passionate in what they're creating.
I agree. Many of their practices are predatory.
Everything in the 90s had 2000 in its name.
I think there's a lot more to discuss other than Derek Chauvin's culpability. HN is full of really bright people; I'd love to hear what they think about tech's role in enabling police brutality like this to exist, and what is in our capacity to do to help solve the problem.
Also this additional stress could elicit some kind of supercompensation by the body via hormesis.
100%. This was the first thing out of my fingers today. I want to fully use github actions. Status is huge and getting to a build is a must.
So can you teach a NN an equation of motion, and if so would it execute faster than numerically integrating said equation? Could have impacts in physics simulations although the accuracy might not be as good
Again, I just saw your reply from earlier, after I made this post. I am reading and thinking now. I've also promised to make no further comments, except maybe reasonable questions in a limited follow up, and then drop it.

That being said, if you didn't see my earlier reply to your earlier comment, no worries as I definitely made that oversight previously myself.

Look I think in technology today, we should take suspicion as a positive trait (which it most certainly isn't always). Asking questions of who controls what, who is in charge, what is that person like/what can we assume their motivations are, is to be applauded. That being said, I know this must stress you out only more on top of all the work you do. That is extremely fair and tbh I would be resentful.

I could be wrong about all this. But even if I am, I ask that you imagine the positive consequences. Perhaps others elsewhere will question suspicious things they have seen. Hopefully they will be respectful and seek a path of investigation that while willing to "blame and shame", which does sometimes happen, use those powers sparingly, and only with some level of consensus.

EDIT: Also just upvoted you as show of good faith :)
> Macs will not only become locked down consoles ... but will just become a system that nickel and dimes you with subscription services left and right

Maybe, I suppose.

But if you watch their other video from the first day of WWDC [1], at about the 20 minute mark they mention that they've already ported a bunch of open source tools to MacOS ARM64:

Bgfx
Blender
Boost
Skia
Zlib-Ng
Chromium
cmake
Electron
FFmpeg
Halide
Swift Shader
Homebrew
MacPorts
Mono
nginx
nmap
Node
OpenCV
OpenEXR
OpenJDK
SSE2Neon
Pixar USD
QT
Python 3
Redis
Cineform CFHD
NumPy
Go
V8

And they say they will start contributing those ports upstream now that they've done the announcement.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/102/
I never look at the Code page of projects I work on. I'm always going straight to the pull requests or issues.

I always thought the Code page's intended audience was new people checking out the repo for documentation or to peruse the code (usually after checking out the README).
We've helped many such users, and I don't believe that anyone who has contacted us in such a situation has ever been unhappy with the result. It is true that they have to contact us, which isn't great, but I don't know of a better way.
If you snitch you get stitched. You’re warned.
> he long-term goal in Iraq/Afghanistan was "peaceful muslim-majority western-values democracies in the middle east".

This has never been the goal of the United states
Thanks for taking this into consideration. You can move stuff around for years and it wouldn't bother me. Lowering that bit of information though is a big pain.
Made me laugh! Would be way more awesome if gates closed above the page like an old school elevator before it went back up
How many other people are quitting web development after seeing this? I think the work is done, there isn't anything else needed here.
Another issue with walking as a tourist is you need to balance walking comfort (say, sneakers) with shoes that don't feel too casual for visiting a restaurant or bar. I inevitably wear street shoes, which means you can feel the impact of a full day walking. Yes, I know there are often dorky shoes people wear that straddle the line.
You can! The agent can be installed on almost any linux flavor, and is open source on GitHub, so it can be compiled and installed on any EC2 machines (or on-prem machines) you want. (This might not be easy, I haven't done it myself)

If you can make a good case for it, open a ticket or make a stink on the forums and there's a chance an engineer can be tasked to add it to their list of Officially Supported Platforms. This is how eg raspbian got added, though I don't know if the program is still running for adding platforms as it's been a few years.
Yes ofcourse. After all the most serendipitous moments of human civilization like that of archimedis finding his principle or that of Newton being intrigued by an apple falling from a tree occured in isolation.

so this idea that serendipity is tied to physical spaces is definitely a case of looking for a very direct analogue. Serendipity is all around us all the time and it's definitely possible in any setting, it's underlying principle just needs to be rediscovered in the zoom world.
I was confused for a second as well, but I think "systemd.software" is actually the domain of the website.

If the systemctl is what you're objecting to, on the other hand, then you need to get a grip.
None of the languages that let you achieve certain top qualities (top performance, proven correctness, concurrency, compactness, etc) are trivial or "feel natural". Haskell, Rust, APL / K / Q, Erlang, hell, even C++ and Scala (though these two are unnecessarily bloated). You got to study and internalize concepts that underlie them, change your way of thinking.

This is because reality is not intuitive, too.

Take natural numbers. They are utterly intuitive. Three-year-olds can grasp them. But as you try to calculate more and more complex things in the real world, you discover the need in counter-intuitive concepts like zero, negative numbers, fractions, even the aptly named irrational numbers. If you try to calculate √3 using the intuitive natural numbers, your solution will be rather approximate.

Same thing with many "intuitive" languages, from Basic-80 to ES6. You can solve a number of problems with them, but many solutions end up inexact and full of holes. In a lot of cases, this is acceptable, or seen as acceptable.

But when you need tools for a precise solution, you have to study some "advanced concepts" (another word for math) and take a language like Haskell which support them. Sometimes you end up with something as unwieldy as your average three-story analytic formula, but this is often not a shortcoming of the language but the nature of your problem domain, described correctly.
It woke up my wife, as I tried it on my phone when the stupid elevator music played it out loud :/

In all seriousness, I hope this will not become another 250kb JS framework we use in our projects..
PlantUML [1] if you want to create diagrams with textual descriptions. I find that much easier to modify and maintain in the long run.

[1] https://plantuml.com/
I feel like they are setting up a design iteration pathway to making changes that will ultimately make it look more like vscode. Seems like a MSFT influenced-thing. Don't love it.
They were different species and any argument to the contrary rests on adherence to a rigid definition of species not even accepted by all biologists, let alone anthropologists.

>there's scant evidence humans from either denomination would even treat each other differently.

Are we supposed to believe it was a big egalitarian paradise?
Probably a huge chunk of it is $30+ never-on-sale Beat Sabre.
The origins of that wild fentanyl pharma rep rap video: 60 Minutes
I can think of a billion reasons why you're right in theory and wrong in practice.
I can see
Sorry, but your post has no information. I hope you have made some good dough. If push comes to shove, you may be able to move to Canada. FYI, I am in the exact same boat, but without kids.