skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: Beards, color of:

Mine started turning grey in my mid 20s.

Could be related to me doing the electricians equivalent of deleting production DBs. I've drilled through the comms cable to payment terminals during opening hours. I've run over a copper gas line with a scissor lift. And yes, I've cut live 230V cables with hand tools.

That sinking feeling in your stomach you get immediately after doing something bad - it's universal across professions.

Thankfully, I've never fucked anything major up, and I've had my hands in hospitals, power plants, ISP fiber backbones, police stations and whatnot.
I accidentally deployed my personal site on deno 1.3 when testing it on Architect Serverless (I use TypeScript in the front end and wanted to have a go at using TS on the backend via Architect's deno support - https://arc.codes/reference/arc-config/runtime, then forgot to change the runtime back to node before deploying).

Deno works really well. There's not much to think about if you know node.

This new release has top level await too:

> Top level await support: you can now just await promises in the REPL without having to wrap your call in an async IIFE.
To be clear, I'm not opposed at all to remote work - but it feels weird to me to ignore cost of living where your people are when setting their compensation if you aren't deliberately trying to incentivize people from (or relocating to) low-COL areas.
And people wonder how it's possible that a "shy Trump vote" could exist. A map like this treats them like they're pedophiles or something.

As much as every indicator shows a Biden victory - I'm half expecting there's an even larger unseen effect this year and every Nate Silver type will be eating crow.
Pyxel: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
If you are game oriented, then you'll probably want to check out GOOL and GOOL2 from Crash Bandicoot.
Re a new version of inkscape: Ninja does not force fully-correct builds, so it's on the author of the build.ninja file to either model this or not. (This is part of Ninja's objective of not mandating policy.)

To get this fully correct, note that you would need to model all inputs that Inkscape might read, which includes not only binaries but also configuration files or dynamically-loaded plugins. Some systems (I think tup?) track this by tracing executed binaries to see which file system operations they do.

Even with tracing it can be really subtle: for example if a C file has an #include "foo.h", creating a new file named foo.h earlier in the include search path is a meaningful change, which means a file-access-tracing build system also needs to track file-not-found results from previous executions.

(For C programs, also note that getting header dependencies correct includes similarly tracking all the headers in /usr/include that your program transitively includes. See the -MD vs -MMD flags to gcc.)
Blueprints for Data Infrastructure
I'm assuming you meant "carbon tax"? Why? Because it's the most elegant way of putting a price on emissions.

Why UBI? It redistributes the tax collected from high emitters (likely to be higher income) to low-emitters (likely to be lower income) so progressives like it. It keeps the tax revenue neutral and doesn't allow the government to expand so conservatives like it.

> Why do these same activists also campaign against nuclear power?

Because of the long history of cost overruns, waste disposal and management issues, and the fear of a minuscule chance of catastrophic failure (not saying this last one is a rational fear).

Why fixate on nuclear power whenever climate change comes up? Why not institute a carbon tax and leave the rest to the market? Some countries (France, India, the UK) love nuclear power, and others (US, Japan, Germany) are not so hot on it. If they all have carbon taxes, each country can figure out for itself what it wants to do, and collectively embargo/tariff countries that don't have a carbon tax.

It's weird that a lot of people's default position is "I won't do anything for climate change unless we get nuclear power." Almost like they know there's very little chance of the national opinion about nuclear power changing very soon, so that gives them an "out" on taking any other action.
14. I used Turbo C++ and wrote little command line apps that solved polynomial equations and drew ASCII shapes :)
Let me add to this. My viewpoint is similar to yours, and I have some anecdotal info to support this devil's advocate.

My wife was able to setup a WordPress site that sold fundraiser raffle tickets for her Rotary Club. The event was on local TV and handled a spike in traffic – thousands of ticket sales in a few hours – with no problem. This whole thing cost her less than $300, which would only get a few hours if she had to hire a dev.

I kept on telling her I was on standby and could help out, but she didn't need it once. She built the entire thing with WYSIWYG and WordPress plugins.

No-one is saying you build your tech startup with no-code WYSIWYG. But imagine if my wife's no-code skills (in her place, WordPress) became as common place as knowing Microsoft Office.
PayPal's app has a Pay in Store QR code but I don't think I've seen anywhere that actually uses it.
This is precisely the effect of having a two party system. Negative campaign ads help you as much as they hurt the other guy - Negative campaign ads are also a more effective way to spend your money. Thus we've seen extreme polarization in politics as parties have stopped needing to say what they'll do - and started fear mongering about what the other guys will do.

It's one reason I've been quite happy to see the green new deal (or Biden's totally not the green new deal but most of it) talked about in debates - it's actually a policy position.
Solar2d https://solar2d.com/
> they do not resemble utilities at all, not even a little bit.

I think that these large communication platforms absolutely resemble other large communication platforms that are currently covered by common carrier laws.

Specifically, a lot of the functionality that these platforms provides, fulfills a usecase that is similar to the phone network.

And the phone network is both a large communication platform, and is all covered by common carrier laws.

The laws need to be updated to recognize that many of the online communication platforms are now as important as the phone system, and therefore should be covered by our existing common carrier laws.
Seconded, but it might be worth learning a language with algebraic data types first (such as Haskell or OCaml).
Normal people could use it! The UI was pretty simple. IRC at some level had all of the features, but a learning cliff.

My company at the time had E2E encryption with client certificates on AIM.
Yann is starting to sound like his good buddy Gary Marcus
This is really great! Thanks for posting. Watched the first video on youtube and just grabbed the rest on Udemy. Your style works perfectly for me.
HTML and JavaScript aren’t going anywhere fast
The salaries are already not comfortable in high-COL areas, at least for a lot of developers. That's why HN has had these discussions about remote work compensation.

Realize with areas like SV you're also competing because of desirability not related to job market. If you want to live in certain parts of CA it's going to cost more.

If what you are worried about does happen I suspect it would take on the order of a decade to show up. But regardless of timespan, I must say I don't care. Your post is just crocodile tears.
1) The issue of what perceptions "actually" are will be impossible to answer because qualia are ireductible.

Let me explain: you feel pain in your foot.

As a scientist I cut your foot and you no longer feel pain in your foot.

Or I cut the pain nerves, or the spinal cord, or give you pain medicine.

Or I find a brain receptor and a chemical responsible for pain.

Or in the future, we find a couple of brain networks that when hacked turn of or exacerbate this and that sensation. We find the exact neuron microstructure that is actually a quantum computer and a certain process/instruction set can precisely manipulate sensations. We find the exact process that is responsible for the "self" sensation.

I know that would still not satisfy my question of "what are sensations?".

"Yeah, this and that neural network, but WHO is actually feeling that sensation?".

It would be a little bit like trying to "see" in 4D space -- impossible actually.

2) Why are sensations really needed?

If we get to that advanced level as to technically answer the first question, even without a gut feeling understanding, I think we could actually understand the answer to this question.

The answer might be -- "because AI can happily process numbers, but the biological quantum neural nets cannot, and they need this "sensation" representation to actually work in the most efficient way possible.

By "quantum" I mean some missing stuff we don't know yet, I'm not saying the brain is a "quantum computer".
I fully agree, it's both a fantastic software and community. I would also recommend it to everybody who is interested in contributing to open source software.
I take internal representation to be an aspect of "embodiment", which you could also call the experience of being in the first person. If some idea is being represented internally, then it is being experienced, and the sum total of all these different experiences happening together (seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling etc..) are what you could call "embodiment".

I think philosophy is a difficult subject partially because people use different terms, or sometimes their own unique terms, to describe subtle and complex ideas.

When I mentioned embodiment, I was referring to the experience of being in the first person while feeling hot or cold, seeing colors and objects, hearing the sound your keyboard makes when you press keys, feeling the keys with the tips of your fingers, etc. All of that together at once.
If only we had known sooner.
Video games used to call their pseudo-3d display 2.5D, or if they were feeling fancy, isomorphic.

There is a little freedom in the Z axis, but not very much. But if speed of light matters to performance, then a chip design that increases the z axis decreases the euclidean distance between any two gates, which should (or at least could) matter to performance, right?
> the same amount of energy can be expended into building new ways of curing cancer or whatever important problem

That's the catch. We don't know what problems are important. We think we do, and sometimes we're right, but we've gone down dead ends too. And sometimes something that feels like a dead end turns out to be pivotal.

I'd bet there's many scientists and researchers out there who had their eureka moment while their brain was disengaged during leisure time. Disconnecting and play are essential parts of discovering the important things.
Bevy is an up and comer code-only engine (in Rust) that's still very young but has a decent collection of examples: https://bevyengine.org
That's a flawed analogy. Mathematicians do use 'higher level languages', that's precisely why most of them don't care about HoTT vs set theory. Just like a web dev usually does not care about the instruction set of the processor.
There has to be an internal representation for the organism to function properly. E.g. if light with a 450nm wavelength hits your retina, certain neurons fire. You get a pattern of electrical impulses. There's your internal representation.

But why does that representation also carry with it an experience of the color blue? Why isn't it just the electrical impulses and that's it? The organism would still work. We could be like robots, behaving exactly the same as our nerve impulses move us around, with no inner experience at all.

And what about electrical impulses in things other than brains? Are there qualia associated with them? Is there something it's like to be a computer, light bulb, thermostat, lightning bolt, or rock? If not, why not?

If you and I both see that 450nm light, how do you know that I'm not having an experience of color that you have in response to 700nm, i.e. red? Maybe the rainbow of colors is upside-down in my experience compared to yours. Maybe my qualia are different entirely. We have no way to prove anything different, because all we can measure is the electrical impulses. And because we haven't the faintest hint of a theory that connects the physical stuff to the particulars of the conscious experience.
If you learn new things, you should expect to not produce much in result. If you want to produce something cool, you should consider using technologies you already know well.

If you want to do web stuff, you could try Elm or Rust in WebAssembly perhaps.
> None of the services they provide are essential.

I use online messaging and online communication more than I use the telephone network.

To me, and many others, these online platforms are as or more essential than the phone system, which is already covered by common carrier laws.
"Eat more vegetables → Eat an apple" I lol'd
Some of us want to create our own blog platform instead of using Ghost or Medium in order to make it fully-customizable.

Cotter enables developers to create a members-only blog with some no-code website builders like Webflow and Bubble. This will enable websites to restrict blog readers to signed-in users only.

https://blog.cotter.app/how-to-start-a-members-only-blog-wit...

https://blog.cotter.app/build-a-no-code-medium-clone-with-ma...

Any feedback would be appreciated!
The cheapest iPhone 11 was $699; the iPhone 12 mini is more expensive at $729, and the regular iPhone 12 is $829.
50 years ago was 1970.

In 1980 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage came out. A companion book came out the next year. In it, Carl Sagan warns about the dangers of global warming.

We knew. Climate science 50 years ago was good enough to identify this as a problem.

Al Gore decided to be Clinton's running mate in part due to how HW Bush was handling environmental issues. Issues he was bringing up in Congress since 1976 when he was first elected.

Once again, we knew.

We also knew that the best time to get a handle on the problem was then.
Yes web is where it's at!! And tons of nice gaming libraries
OK, but I hope you realize that the Gulf stream is a water current whereas I,m talking about an air current.
I think this is the right thing to post here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
> my device cost went down

This seems to be a common narrative, that the savings have been passed onto the consumer. Is it really true? It's difficult to be sure, as there's no iPhone 12 that comes with the plug + earbuds bundled. However, there is one data point that most people don't bother to consider.

The iPhone SE (2020) base model launched at $399 in April. It still retails for $399 today.

In April, the iPhone SE shipped with headphones and a plug.[0] It doesn't anymore today.[1]

In the case of the iPhone SE, the price absolutely did not go down. All that happened was that Apple increased their profit margins.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200427193132/https://www.apple...

[1] As part of our efforts to reach our environmental goals, iPhone SE does not include a power adapter or EarPods. Included in the box is a USB‑C to Lightning cable that supports fast charging and is compatible with USB‑C power adapters and computer ports. https://web.archive.org/web/20201023201007/https://www.apple...
It's an impressive animation, and I hope you make some money on it. I personally would just steal your style tag and the book div/img tag and call it a day if I wanted to use it, so I hope your customer base doesn't have front-end web experience. You should try reaching out to book publishers with eCommerce sites. That would be great on some product detail pages.
I read the last part of the sentence (rightfully so) in the best case to refer to the argument that courts aren't as accessible as they could be, rather than the current state being right. Ambiguous but probably well meant.
Yes that is entirely true, but the world of Go is very small and unambiguous in terms of goals, rules and so on. A little less than chess, but it's still a game with a well structured world and simple rules. AlphaGo understands as little about Go as Stockfish does about Chess or your TI-83 understands about maths. That they're good at it has almost nothing to do with (generalised) intelligence, and it's no coincidence that the performance of RL say, in games is insanely better than it is when applied to real-world, open-ended problems.

Deep Mind made a 'superhuman' Breakout bot, but if you messed with the panel at the bottom it sucked. It hadn't learned what the panel is or what the game is about, it had just learned to rearrange pixels. You can get away with this in one version of Breakout, but in the real world it's brittle and useless
An Easier Way to Write CSS Variables
Does anyone really believe that Rust can replace a Rails/Django application? Note: I'm not saying it can't, I'm just curious
Not just RAM, I noticed on Android 11 that with the broken Twitter service worker installed, Firefox was gobbling up battery as well.

I ignored Twitter being broken for a bit since I didn't mind not using it. Then I realized my Firefox battery usage had essentially doubled and was draining my battery faster than normal. Once I cleared all Twitter site data including the service worker, back to normal.
> "Few economists doubt that Marx flunked economics"

So you do not refute this statement?

I using this source to reference the opinions of economists.

This is what economists believe.

The rest of the blog post makes no other references to what economists actually believe.

I am merely using the source to explain to you, what the general opinion of economists is. (even though the author disagrees with the opinion of economists)

The person in the blog post (Samuel Bowles) is literally a Marxian. So yes, I do know that a Marxian believes in Marxian economics.

But I am using this source, because even a Marxian is willing to admit that basically all economists think that Marx was bunk.

Even a supporter of Marxian economics is aware that his opinions are fringe, and that the rest of academia disagrees with him.

Which is why I am using him as a source. Because even though he gives arguments in favor of Marx being relevant, he is willing to admit that all of his fellows in academia, disagree with him.

> it looks like the best source you can muster for your claims is making substantively exactly the same argument I'm making

The source that I am showing, is by a Marxian economist who admits that he is in the extreme minority position, and that everyone disagrees with him.

This absolutely supports my point. Even a strong supporters of Marxian economics is saying that everyone disagrees with him, and that he is fringe.
Some of us are attracted to JS dev because of the rapid evolution and change. React is well-tested and mature, I'm simply stating that for me personally going back to it would be frustrating after developing in Svelte.
>"Hello, I'd like to buy one of the new iPhones, please!"

>"Sure thing, here's the new iPhone 12. It's fast, beautiful, and is generally awesome."

>"Sweet, I'll take it..."

I guess this is a different topic, but it wouldn't play out like this. You have to decide if you want the iPhone 12, the 12 Pro, the 12 Pro Max, the 12 mini, the SE, the 11, or the XR and then you decide do you want the white, black, blue, green, gold, yellow, purple, coral, or red, and then you decide 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB, or 512 GB, then you decide if you want AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, or Sprint.

I have lost count of how many dozen of different SKUs of iPhone Apple is currently selling.
I don't think it's strange at all to claim a less-powerful system can be more fun that a more-powerful one. There's something to be said for systems that are simple enough that you can, with some effort, hold the whole machine in your head, so to speak. That was the feeling I got with my C=128. Anything much past that, and you have to resort to simplifications. Which is fine, but may be less satisfying, depending on what you were getting out of it in the first place. Getting really in to the edges of JavaScript on its own is a very different feeling than getting in to the edges of the system-as-a-whole, right? Barry Schwartz' The Paradox of Choice gets in to this to some degree, and is an interesting read.
Looking at the horrible website redesign, they are trying to innovate
13 or 14? Basic on my TI83+
Spent algebra class making dumb games, very fun

Never took programming classes either, eventually dropped out of high school altogether, but I do web application development now
The fact that your post got upvotes and therefore views but no one suggested an example of good c++ code speaks for itself.
It's hard to imagine, but there was a time before this issue was politicized, and when political parties were capable of compromise and working with the other side. Our current political environment is an aberration historically.
There are good alternatives to React that are as actively developed. There don't seem to be good alternatives to Bootstrap that are nearly as actively developed (excluding CSS utility class libraries like Tailwind).

My team recently evaluated 30-40 CSS frameworks to use with a custom component library, and we were surprised when Bootstrap was the clear winner. Other CSS frameworks have gotten buzz over the years, and we assumed something new and shiny would come out on top, but when we evaluated all of them, we saw sporadic commits, many unresolved issues (e.g., see Bulma issue 3074), small bus factors, inadequate support for keyboard navigation, and other issues.

So using Bootstrap with a newer alternative to React is valid. (Though, we're using Bootstrap with Next.js.)
This is good advice! I'll check out the book.
I do that exact some thing, and I haven't smoked in 3 years. The downside is that if I'm supposed to remember to bring something, in addition to those 3 things, I'm extremely likely to forget it. If it's super duper important, I tie it to the door handle.
I was wondering if ghost can also be extended like if you need a little of extra functionality besides just blogging. Like integrating payment with credit card, creating forms etc. or it's just about pages and posts ?
> “No one should have that power.”

I mean, he doesn't. Cloudflare isn't the Internet. HN itself is an example.
Ok, fine. It doesn't "know" any trivia. It'll still crush me in a trivia contest:

"Q: Who was president of the United States in 1801?
A: Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States in 1801.

Q: What city is in the northwest corner of Ohio?
A: Toledo is in the northwest corner of Ohio.

Q: What highway do you take to get to North Lake Tahoe from Oakland?
A: Highway 80 is the highway you take to get to North Lake Tahoe from Oakland.

Q: What are Darius's abilities in League of Legends?
A: Darius's abilities in League of Legends are: Apprehend, Decimate, Noxian Guillotine, Crippling Strike, Apprehend [sic], and Hemorrhage.

Q: Who did Capablanca defeat to become world chess champion?
A: Capablanca defeated Lasker to become world chess champion."

Of those 5 questions, I could answer #1 after deploying a mnemonic and some math, and #2 if you gave me multiple choice of the top 5 cities in Ohio, and I would miss the rest.
Once I had to deal with some software-RAID in Linux (mdadm it is), around 2007. There was some -force option that would just print information explaining what it would do and, to perform the real action, you needed to type another flag (that should never be revealed).

Edit: added name of software
It's the media reporting tenative studies as sound science.
Or you can go to my previous generator and generate the HTML and CSS, or even find there the tutorial to create the animation yourself: https://3d-book-css.netlify.app ;)

My view is the animation itself is not what I sell, it is more the ease of use, with the image hosting. The pricing model probably still needs a lot of thinking :)