skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree, but you need an iron-fisted formatter to make that work. Because otherwise you get an ever-changing quilt of every dev's style du jour, and while I don't think the specific formatting you use matters, I think sloppiness and inconsistency are actually harmful.
> Oregon voters also legalized psilocybin

Wow. I was not expecting this to happen anywhere, anytime soon.
From the link in the comment you replied to:

“It funnels millions in marijuana tax revenue toward what it calls Addiction Recovery Centers, where people can be screened and directed to treatment options. Those tax dollars will also go to a Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund overseen by the state that could be used to pay for treatment, housing or other programs designed to address addiction.”
That would be a bizarre argument to make given that Nextstep first became MacOS X, and then iOS, the most commercially successful operating system in history.
How to Disable Shutdown and Reboot Commands in Linux
Rapid warming may end up extincting most current lifeforms. There are certain one-way thresholds it'll take millions of years to repair. Civilization is living in unprecedented stable temperatures, which we should strive to keep. See David's new documentary on Netflix.
I watched the video and did not understand the product. Is this supposed to be some way to make me watch a video that also documents how the code was written and how it is meant to work?

The video would be distracting from the mental model I have built of how the calls stack and can get stale pretty quickly.
IIRC initial LTE (UE category 3) only supports max 100Mbps (on spec) by 15MHz bandwidth. So I had measured max 50Mbps on 75Mbps (on spec, 10MHz) network.
I'm pretty sure flashing a non-OEM ROM on my Note 9 would blow an eFuse that permanently marks the thing as having been modified.

Certainly, when I unlocked a Sony Xperia XA2 it did something similar where it won't ever get OEM updates ever again.
Scala 3 is a huge change. As someone who used Scala for years, but always wondered whether they can retain their users with competition from Kotlin, I'm extremely curious what this will mean for Scala in the long run.

I'm skeptical, because the cost to migrate is big. But I'm hopeful, because Scala is a language I like to write code in.

Edit: why am I skeptical? I know scala 3 is largely meant to be backwards compatible. But scala has always been a language of many styles ("java without semicolon" vs "haskell compiled with scalac"). All this new syntax in scala three adds a whole new dimension to this issue.
So? If we put some effort into it we might maintain cultural continuity, which is imo what matters more than how our bodies look like (if we still have any).

The better rebuttal is that currently it looks like we'll crash the planet's ecosystems and with them technological civilization within the next century or two, long before we've reached the point of curing all disease.
Many municipalities expressly made contracts with cable TV networks to wire their towns / neighborhoods in exchange for a monopoly in cable access. Else the cable company did not have enough incentive (or pretended to) to lay the cable at all.

So the cable company owned the only copper capable of broadband internet, and also the underground channels to lay fiber in. They naturally upgraded their hub spots to allow Internet traffic, and laying the last mile all over again is prohibitively expensive, or even administratively prohibited, in a lot of places.

There is, of course, phone infrastructure! But Bell was a textbook monopoly, and pieces if it retained the infrastructure after its split. So in some places they can profitably reuse the copper they have to also provide Internet service, and sometimes you can even get fiber from them in newer houses which were wired with fiber backbone for the phone service anyway. In some areas the fixed-line copper is not good enough, and running fiber is too expensive because of low housing density.

In large proper cities, of course, the situation is much better, because infrastructure cost per reached customer is much lower.
Making an error, and then correcting that error 4 hours later, is certainly many things. "Unfathomably rapid" comes to mind as my first response.
There’s not enough money. Millions doesn’t go very far in this arena.
It's hard to believe it will harm them more than imprisonment.
Retro Games Ltd announces a C64 and VIC-20 game development competition
Facebook Allows Victory Declarations in States Before Votes Are Counted
I thought the criticisms and praise, and the article's Good/Neutral/Bad structure, were fair and thoughtful on balance. It didn't read as arrogant to me.
Unless you're printing novels, best bet imo is to buy a canon wifi multifunction with a duplex scanner for ~$100, and get 3rd party ink cartridges on ebay for $1 each.
I recently bought a random cheap Canon PIXMA inkjet, and with proper photo paper, the photos it prints are indistinguishable from what you'd get from a regular photo printing service. No smudging, no bleeding, nada. It also uses big refillable ink tanks that are way cheaper and longer-lasting than overpriced HP-style disposable cartridges.

Now I'll admit that from a strict dollars-and-cents perspective, it's probably still more expensive per picture than using a photo service, but it's way more convenient. And it does a fine job with B&W printing too.
I used to chaff my brother with file transfers when playing Marathon.
Gotta walk before you can run. Still a long way to go in America towards treating addiction as a health issue, not something to be locked up in prison for. Prove effectiveness and then make your case for more funding.
Yeah there are certainly some Python 2/3 fears for Scala 3, but the plan and upgrade path seem much more thought out
Not sure if you've seen this,

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...

Edit,

There's also, https://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/
> They should get the same scrutiny. One proposed system getting this scrutiny isn't an argument that neither should get the same scrutiny.

It is a statement about the bias of the linked piece though, which is quite clearly right-wing.

> One thing I would love to see adopted in the US is a public transportation tolling system like they have in Japan where you pay for distance traveled and the cost of your commute in general.

Roads also work like this in Japan. But I wouldn't call the Japanese system much better; Japan allows companies to subsidize 1000USD per month for each employee, in a manner similar to how American employers subsidize healthcare. This has the effect of making travel relatively pricey in general (because people with subsidy can afford to pay more), and also the effect of concentrating employment in major urban areas, because if you live in a small city with low transportation costs you are essentially leaving most of that 1000USD off the table.

In the West we treat travel as a public good, but it's really only an American thing that we tilt so much funding in favor of just the car.

> the only public transportation which will ever serve my home and my neighborhood is likely to be a bus (this is not too dissimilar to the reason why Beacon Hill will also not benefit).

There's nothing wrong with buses. The major problem is that Seattle has relied too much on buses; pre-COVID, public transit funds were being unspent because the ability to allocate money to transit has exceeded the capability to actually spend it for such a purpose. They literally could not find enough drivers to run the service already being funded because of how tight the employment market was.

One major reason why light rail is being pushed so heavily is because it is both more labor efficient in general (a driver can either operate a 40/60 foot bus or a 380 foot train), and because the major speed and reliability increases of the rail system will allow less vehicles to serve the same frequency. The long-term plan (at least before COVID took a sledgehammer to public finances) was to redirect bus resources from long, infrequent commuter routes to short, frequent feeder routes to Link.

Also your comment about Beacon Hill is strange, because Beacon Hill does have a light rail stop, today. Even if you're not next to it, the 36 bus runs straight through Beacon Ave every ten minutes throughout the day.
Horror story here our servers are in a basement datacenter under another datacenter. An intervention on the upper datacenter caused water to flow on our servers on 23th of december.

Needless to say that was a pretty rough week.
Every person, their dog, and their printer has provided a recommendation thus far, so here are mine:

I have a Brother colour duplex printer for bulk printing (was useful for printing weekly school plans before schools went back a few months ago: https://support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=... . As noted by others, it only supports 2.4GHz WiFi.

I use this Canon for scanning and photo printing: https://www.canon.co.uk/printers/pixma-ts9150-series/

It seems to be the best of both worlds for the price point and physical space.
This - in addition to all the other results tonight, no matter which candidate ultimately wins - should give pause to many people on HN. Polls are incorrect, you probably live in a bubble, and people of all races and demographics don’t fit in neat stereotypical categories. I hope some serious post-mortems occur that do more than blame foreign interference.
There's a really big gap between the $0.01/gb you are talking about being charged on droplets and the $0.10/gb that DigitalOcean is using on newer offerings like this and "App Platform".

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/container-registry/ - "In the future, each plan will have a bandwidth allowance and additional outbound data transfer (from the registry to the internet) will be $0.10/GiB."

The fact that somebody could put a caching proxy in front of the container registry -- on a droplet also hosted at DigitalOcean -- and have their bandwidth costs fall 10x for doing that does indeed provide further illustration of the absurdity of DigitalOcean's new approach to bandwidth pricing.
How to seriously read a scientific paper
Brother printers. +1 here

A credit must be given when it's due. They're reliable, reasonably priced and have Linux drivers.
This link doesn't deserve a post, as it contains only rumors, not any actual news. The specific line in question that clearly states this is:

"according to projections from NBC News"
Exactly. It'd only make sense when 2 counties, each with area S and N votes would have same color as a county with area 2 * S and 2 * N votes.
Also - projectors still suck. When I did my grad school presentations in 2004, I was asked to print 50 copies for 40 slide decks just in case the projector failed. Even in 2020 at work, we run into significant issues that completely derail meetings. And it seems like the most expensive setups (in our executive conference room for example) are the worst.
Awesome to see that this project has achieved first plasma on their MAST Upgrade tokamak, see a video of this at the end the article.
I can’t wait to hear why this is different from China enforcing their new national security law against people who haven’t set foot in their country.
We just learned that it takes only $200m to buy a law in the state of California. The state legislature said these workers are employees. The state judicial system said these workers are employees. These companies wouldn't accept that as an answer so they turned to funding the most expensive proposition battle in history with 90% coming down on the one side. This is also in addition to all sorts of free marketing they did through their apps. And to make matters worse, this proposition is near impossible to amend, reform, or repeal by the state legislature.
My Blub language has been PHP. While the language has been getting better over the years, especially with the introduction of types, I still felt at one point that I wasn't growing. I had a try at Haskell, and failed miserably. I tried OCaml, but still something felt unnatural to me, although what really intrigued me was the sound type system and the guarantee that if it compiles, then it's probably going to run well. I then tried Elixir, and I love it. I think Elixir is a wonderful transition language, but something that I wouldn't mind keeping close in my toolstack. The Actor model, immutability, pattern matching, meta programming, these are all concepts that uppended my way of thinking. PHP/JavaScript array sort functions feel so weird to me now for doing the sorting directly on the variable. But to be honest, I wish Elixir had types. I don't trust myself writing functions that can return different things.
You just summarized Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk book “Holy Fire”
Spaceships? I can imagine these things in Alaska:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska

> Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage.[6] The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved.[7] At the 2010 census the population was 220, up from 182 in 2000. The 2018 estimate was 205 people, almost all of whom live in a single building, the Begich Towers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begich_Towers

> The Begich Towers Condominium is a building in the small city of Whittier, Alaska. The structure is notable for operating like a small-scale arcology, being the residence for nearly the entire population of the city, as well as containing many of its public facilities. This has earned Whittier the nickname of a "town under one roof".
From discussions with Woz (writer of the post), I'm seeing better systems for concept networks as being a prerequesite for higher levels of thinking.

There's generally a tradeoff in communication between convenience and value over time. Talking is highly convenient but value doesn't extend over time because of forgetting. Messaging is better because of history but is hard to reference because of sheer volume. Emails and threaded conversations are better and easier to reference (alongside being parallelizable) but don't hold up over decades.

To extend problem solving processes over decades, systems like Andy Matushak's evergren notes [1] or supermemo.guru (site article is from) are essential. Having ideas in a place where they can be reused and built on is import for building up higher and higher level ideas.

Take this statement for example:
"In a society structured around the idea of a concept network [2], a new layer of conceptual organization can be formed in which humans, computers, intelligent agents, databases, executive agents, organizations, corporations, etc. can form an equivalent of advanced concepts."

Sharing a statement like this, and being at least sort of believed, requires that people can follow path of derivation. Shared, collective (or even individual) concept networks make this possible so that an idea I come up with today can be reused by me and others in the far future.

This is just for knowledge. In terms of networks of people that self-organize more effectively, some of the links at the bottom of the page are interesting. Haven't gotten around to all of them yet but I quite look forward to reading about teal organizations [3].

[1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

[2] https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Concept_network

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation
Without going into the pdf report, the multiemitter doesn't look better than the blended phosphor.
Social Media analytics website Social Blade announces public API
Man, this is messed up. I mean, if it works, it works...but I wonder if this is a symptom that traditional relationships are becoming harder because of our changing lifestyle. Or maybe they were always hard, but now it's just easier to see how hard because of the internet.

I don't know, but it just doesn't feel right to me.
I don't understand the use of the word Platonic in the title. The couple described doesn't seem to match either the ancient or the contemporary definition of Platonic love.
Sure, sure. So how was garbage dealt with here before we had trucks? I suspect horse-drawn wagons wouldn't be the worst idea in the world....
Passwords of 2M Marijuana Growers Leaked Online
Even if most of the money comes from the general budget, that still would be a huge saving compared to trying and incarcerating them. Whether it's paid for is the big question.
Because the system that builds printer company's has inherent flaws. Taking software as a model, how would a society/ economy have to look like for a tech peak to remain permanent. Socialism does not count as answer
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> The preschool measure is a 1.5% tax on incomes of more than $125,000 per year and joint filings topping $250,000.

More like taxing the professional class
For software projects I like markdown architectural decision records:

https://adr.github.io/madr/
That’s only Multnomah county, and it’s an income tax not a wealth tax. The actual rich will continue to not contribute a damn thing.
Sure; I don’t like things that suck and cost too much. Nice work.
I guess it depends how on what you mean by intrinsically
Antitrust with 13% market share. Good luck explaining that one to the judge.
I remember doing that with RS-232 connections and Doom 1.
Quite the contrary, it shifts the problem from being a criminal problem into a medical one.
The professional class will barely even notice.
The article says the majority of them don’t live together.

My parents had a terrible divorce, but I remember shuttling between two homes, two beds, two sets of clothes being the worst part.
Love the aesthetic on those machines, very cool.
Curious, would you apply the same logic to the other propositions that received massively disproportionate funding on one side (e.g. Prop 16) but still are failing? Perhaps the voters of California don't 100% share the views of the people elected to represent them. That is the disadvantage of first-past-the-post democracy.
Same applies to winged aircraft.

I'm fine with having dedicated landing pads, much like we have dedicated parking lots.
California passes Proposition 22, backed by Uber and Lyft
Claudius Parmensis is in Colleen McCullough's series of fictionalised histories of the time.
It's perfectly ethical to write open source code that will crash a passenger jet

Really?

We’re not talking about bugs here, we’re talking about the deliberate inclusion of dangerous logic traps based on assumptions that could be wrong.

In engineering terms, this is trying to solve the problem at the wrong level of abstraction. Maybe you don’t like the thought of your code being used in weapons; that’s perfectly reasonable. Maybe you want to rid the world of such weapons; also reasonable. My advice would be that open source is not the right model in those circumstances, and that to really solve the problem you’ll have to be politically engaged.

Littering code with booby traps and publishing it is an absolutely awful idea, one that should not be acceptable to us as a professional community.
The rest of earth has a much different population density.
The article describes “Platonic” co-parenting in which the parents have sex with each other repeatedly on an ongoing basis, conceive a child, bear it to term, and parent together.

I don’t know what’s “platonic” here. Sounds like regular ass family formation to me. I must have missed the point.
Well the ones I saw at that age definitely were the xray type. However they weren't being used when I tried to get measured.
So $1,875 per annum on a $250k income.

That’s some mighty good value pre-school. Who wouldn’t take that deal?
But computers are cooler than ever. I can roll my own object detection algorithm to tell me if my dog is eating my shoes while I'm out. You can do so much cool stuff with them.

On the other hand, if you remove enough limits from art or computation, nearly everything becomes a feasible possibility and that's boring! The best stuff always happens when you're constrained, and the end product from that just barely yet still magically works - maybe with a few hickups but well enough nevertheless.
'Buy a law'? Do you think everyone who voted for it is isn't capable of independent decision-making?
LLwN is super helpful, nice product.
"extracting the excess heat" is nice. Unless there is some other path to conversion of the fusion energy to "useful" energy, this heat is the primary mechanism: you drive a heat exchanger, to drive a turbine, to make electricity. This is what we want: excess heat, to drive a turbine.

Clearly, this tokomak isn't going to make net positive contribution to energy delivery. Some future (30 years?) tokomak is meant to do it.

I do get that for an experiment, "extracting" the heat is what its all about.

(Happy to be put right by wiser heads, if there is some other path to useful energy out from fusion)
Circle it back around. There are no last wishes here.

It is not reasonable to assume that this person's family does not want to be informed of his passing.
I've always loved Scala and Scala 3 is shaping up to be extremely exciting. Love the new ADTs and braceless syntax: really gives the language a cleaner and more ML inspired feel.

No other conventional language (including OCaml, F#, etc) seem to have the effortless kind of power Scala does.

The combination of the extremely powerful type system with the "OOFP" paradigm is a great combination. OOFP is such a great paradigm and it's unfortunate that no other language has embraced it.

It's ironic that I love Scala so much because I don't particularly enjoy dealing with the JVM and all its complexities and problem. But Scala is so good that it mostly makes up for it.

Scala does get a lot of hate (especially around here), but I've never really understood why. There's only one language I like more (kdb+/q), but that's a hard sell, especially because of the cost.

Too bad there's not really a ML/AI ecosystem around (besides Spark, which seems to be losing favor partially because of its embarrassing performance), because using Python is such a drag. However, I do understand why non-CS/type theory people might find the language intimidating.

But to that I'd say, I've seen new junior (though very smart) developers with no Scala or FP experience get onboarded and write idiomatic Scala code within a couple weeks to a month. The short term cost is more than worth it considering the absurd productivity compared to Java/Kotlin/Python/blublang.

Compared to OCaml/F#/Haskell, the improvement is a little less stark, though still clear imo (especially when considering editor tooling and available packages).
agreed. on it =)
That is a fairly large amount. At least $2000 dollars for a childless single person. Or at least $4000 for a childless couple trying to in-vitro.

Is pre-school valuable or is it a babysitter?
Yes, it is. “Their junkie problem” is a reasonably well understood addiction problem. Criminalizing addiction harms users and promotes addicts’ cycle of addiction. Even when legal, shaming addiction promotes relapse. Learn what you’re talking about. People’s lives depend on it.
Around 50% in the US.

The real issue is that Apple has control over its devices after sale. That it decides what they can and cannot run based on its own arbitrary rules that no one can challenge. That it can literally put other companies out of business by denying them the privilege of having an iOS app.
What about people who don't have children, why should they pay?
He didn't list Clojure(Script) in programing languages in his CV (both significant experience and others) https://paulbiggar.com/paulbiggar.pdf
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