skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping for a list of existing turing-incomplete languages... O:)

I'd expect that OCL, SQL and GLSL are turing incomplete, is that correct?
McBelieve would have been a much better name.
Knew I was forgetting a big one. fd is so dang handy.

Some others: dust (like du), procs (like ps), zoxide (z), and sd (like sed)
I don't follow the blockchain world very well, but he makes an interesting point about it. Are there any projects, other than a few cryptocurrencies, that have impacted any industries significantly?

I feel like we are all still waiting for blockchain to be adopted by something that makes it really useful.
This scheme does not work for US citizens. He would have to pay a significant exit tax to give up his US citizenship.
Hypocrites. They had Peter Thiel (who lied to the NZ govt to get citizenship there) in the Trump admin.
As a canadian, I wouldn't take that bet.
See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436250 and https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSAirPrint — apparently the AirPrint universal-fallback file format "URF" is patent-encumbered, such that you can't really have a FOSS encoder for it without licensing the patent (just like the MP3 format, until recently.) So OSes that cost money can pay for licenses and so ship encoders, but FOSS OSes cannot.

(I'd nevertheless have expected AirPrint support to exist somewhere in Debian's multiverse repo — but it that doesn't seem to be there. Does nobody have that itch to scratch?)
Many plant-based meats are healthier than animal-based meats, just because they don't contain cholesterol and usually few saturated fats. Somewhat related, they also hae a lower chance of giving you foodborne dieases.

Sure, they're still burgers and not kale salads.
Humans already eradicated a disease (I think it was a virus). It was done with a vacine of an altered version of the virus. The vacine itself was a virus which could infect others and spread among the population.

So, you don't really have to find every animal. Most should be enough.
Lets you code like the coders you see in movies and TV. It's like the difference between touch-typing versus hunt-and-peck. For when you have to make a lot of mindless code movements.
https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack

I haven't tried it, but I believe part of the reason that AWS is recommended is due to the build time.
Over the last several years I've come to the realization that most "cryptocurrency is garbage" posts boil down to the author underestimating or ignoring the financial realities of those living in other countries or circumstances.

There are those that live in countries with hyperinflation or US sanctions that don't think that cryptocurrency is garbage.
It kind of depends on how well the sheriff dressed up their reasoning. We've seen recently from voting cases that if the state can come up with any reason that isn't directly discriminating on race super disproportionate impact suddenly can't be considered by the court because there's a non-racial fig leaf covering it.
The word "still" turns a honest question into a loaded, ugly question. There's thousands of people who are starting to use vim today. You can ask, why do they? That is a relevant question. The question of why old users of these editors keep using them is mostly uninteresting.
because Vim is beautiful.
Let's not forget that we can start with this vaccine, get life back to normal and then buy some time to develop better vaccines.
What I want from an editor:

1. no code completion -- rarely works well. To get it to work well, it requires set up, and when I start a project, I don't want to waste time setting anything up. Also, doesn't work for interesting things, like code generation. I realize most programmers rarely do anything like that, but I do.

2. Customizability -- emacs is super-customizable. Lisp is easy to understand and you can basically do anything.

3. No mouse -- I'm faster just using keyboard shortcuts

4. Runs in terminal or graphical -- When I ssh into a machine, I want to be able to use Emacs through the terminal

5. Orthogonal user-interface -- In Emacs, everything is a buffer. I can use the same interface to navigate through Emacs 'configuration' as I can through my code. I can use the same interface to navigate through the Emacs terminal emulator as my code as well. This is amazing. Contrast this to 'newer' editors like Sublime or Eclipse, where the configuration dialog, git interface, etc, are all custom UIs. To understand why this makes a difference compare and contrast the experience of using a Web-based App via a browser to the feeling of using a Native App. The native app may 'feel' nicer when you look at it, but nothing beats the consistency of the browser interface (back button, copy/paste integration, links, etc.). There's a reason HTML based interfaces are so popular

6. Universal support -- emacs runs on basically everything. So does VIM (Probably more than emacs)

7. Support for large numbers of libraries, languages, etc -- I've rarely found any new language, framework, etc, which doesn't have support in Emacs. With some changes to my init.el, the package is installed (thanks to use-package), and I'm done.

8. Easy dot files -- I have several computers. To set up emacs on a new computer, I just copy my .elisp directory.

In other words, the advantages of Emacs and VIM over other editors are:

1. Text-based interfaces
2. Universal support
3. Customizability
4. Adherence to the UNIX philosophy (everything represented as text)
If cryptocurrency had the "money" aspect removed, we wouldn't be having these arguments, as it's indefensibly bad from a technology standpoint. It doesn't scale, wastes energy, encourages fraud, has buggy/immutable "smart" contracts, is "anonymous" yet a public blockchain, etc etc.

It's been a "startup" for 10 years and the only product-market fit so far is for speculators, darknet sellers, tax evaders, betting/gambling sites, and straight-up Ponzi fraud. However, it's like catnip to a certain section of libertarians and get-rich-quick types - who want to replace the Fed with an early-adopter oligarchy.
> a vaccine-resistant polio virus has recently emerged

A perfect example of why we won’t be able to eradicate Coronavirus. Polio was an easier target with stronger reasons to wish it gone, and we have failed.
Personally, it's because I can't set up X11 forwarding on every machine I SSH into
> Aren't we at "rapid test and move on"?

Personally I wouldn't take a transatlantic flight at the moment simply because I don't want to be infected on the flight itself.

I haven't seen any figures for flight infection risk, so I'm left with intuition. And my intuition says it's a small metal box with recirculating air, filled densely with people for 8+ hours, almost all of whom have not met before and won't meet again.

I wouldn't mix with people like that on the ground at the moment even with the windows open, so I'm not enthused about doing it in the air.
As usual, this rumor was debunked by the actual election officials who had direct knowledge.

https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-1640_9150-544676--...
THis is interesting - is this an Trump opposition dump on Biden? Pretty good timing if so :)

And for all the folks going on about taxes.

1) Rich people can already avoid taxes by investing overseas and not generating realized gains so funds stay untaxed overseas. I don't think being a citizen of EU would change that much.

2) US citizens are taxed regardless of second citizenships as US citizens.

"If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, the rules for filing income, estate, and gift tax returns and paying estimated tax are generally the same whether you are in the United States or abroad. Your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you reside."

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/us-c...
Yes, I was thrilled to see that A&W had Beyond Burgers in Canada. It is the sole reason they got my business multiple times when I used to visit that country.
In light of this development, is Eric Schmidt someone we would trust with high-level access to the US Department of Defense?
One point of contention re: inflationary vs deflationary currencies:

When most Bitcoin proponents I've talked to say that Bitcoin is deflationary, they mean in the context of "bitcoin as exclusive currency". I.e. there are theoretically a finite number of coins, so in a world where they're actually used to buy milk and eggs they theoretically would increase in value over time, ergo deflationary.

Unfortunately I find most Bitcoin adherents have at best a partial understanding of monetary theory (not that I can claim total mastery of that subject) in particular when it comes to understanding deflation/inflation. Inflationary systems can survive for many years in relative stability (cf. our current system) whereas in a deflationary system there is a financial disincentive to participate in the economy writ large, because your coins will be worth more if you just let them sit in your bank account. It encourages hoarding behaviour where large piles of coins sit dormant/stagnant and the engine of economic activity shuts down with lack of activity.

I know people who bought 1000 bitcoins for pennies back in 2010 and they seem to be willingly blind to this, because of course bitcoin is not widely used. It's just something you buy for $X hoping to ride the next bubble of speculation and sell for $(10 * X) so you can cash it back into fiat currency and retire at age 35 to your oceanfront property you just bought.

A vanishingly small number of bitcoin enthusiasts seem to actually want btc to replace all fiat currencies.
I would love to be able to buy and sell citizenship. It would greatly incentivize governments to be responsible.
This is actually a good point. Kind of like how BK does it with the Impossible Whopper. It's still a Whopper, but with plant-based meat.
In general I would not recommend bolting on GraphQL to an existing model unless you're willing to invest in either time to build out the backend query optimization or tolerance of suboptimal querying.

The ruby graphql ecosystem is also lacking for decent loaders, but such a loader would likely not integrate with ActiveRecord.

Also, remember, GraphQL is a language, you're responsible for locating the data on the backend.
If you priced the externalities, plant-based food is an order of magnitude cheaper, at the very least.
Are we talking about $1,000 or $1,000,000?
Of course they chose to be Canadian. You can renounce citizenship, see: Conrad Black.
email sent! :)
No. Buying a car is not necessarily parasitic behavior. Bailing on your taxes is.
> That said, if you’re new to programming, a modern IDE could be helpful. With code completion, Git control, and even automatic deployment systems, modern IDEs are a Swiss Army Knife of features.

Just in case anyone reading here is as colossally ignorant as the writer, let me state for the record that emacs has those features. I don't use vim but I'm pretty sure it has them too. An accurate list of how newer IDEs benefit newbies follows:

1. Familiar key bindings
There are many sworn affidavits being filed in court right now, from poll watchers claiming that they were kept too far away to validate a single ballot, or turned away entirely. We’ll see, it will definitely go to court.
I make all my programmers learn both vim and emacs (with evil mode). They complain but it’s part of their on boarding.
Looking it up, it has the same rule as Germany: If your "center of life" is in Norway (roughly: spending more than 6 months out of a year there), then you have to pay your taxes.

That is not what the US does which is "We don’t care what you do and where you live, if you have citizenship you better file your taxes"
The US is a big place, more akin to the entire EU than any one European country. Certain regions and states in the US have handled Covid much better than certain regions and states in the EU, and vice versa.

But on aggregate, Europe and the US have both massively bungled their Covid responses.
Show HN: Configure your own 3D-printed microscope
Why, biologically speaking, does it need to be that cold? I'm guessing something breaks down at higher temperatures?

(That's -112 F, for anyone else wondering.)
Actually "won't let you do" or "makes you clearly mark where you did those things"? That is, are you referring to things it doesn't actually support doing that you want/need to do, or just that it's unsafe?
Because emacs is awesome. Every key press runs a program(!). Easily customized by writing code. Easy to pop up in a terminal and pop back out quickly. Can't imagine using something else, unless it's a modernized emacs.
> Source plz ?

The dominance of permissive licenses in the industry (compared to GPL) and the relative non-impact of AGPL software. I can't think of many AGPL (or similarly licensed) projects that have similar industry standard status as react or tensorflow have in their respective niches.

> It's free as freedom, not beer.

I'm sorry I should have made this point more explicit I guess. Of course I am well aware of the double meaning of free, and that it relates to freedom in this context. My point is that yes, that freedom allows you to do and read things, of course. But what? In an (exaggerated, and not entirely fair) analogy, it would be like claiming/securing the right to wear clown shoes during coffee breaks in the office. Yes, it's a right you may not have had otherwise, and it will brighten up your day, but ultimately it won't change the material relationship to your employer.

In the same way, being allowed to read, modify, and distribute software is not in itself a solution to this specific problem at hand here, i.e. the strategy of Fortune 500 companies, as a stand-in for capital to get free labor from OSS devs. (note the omission of the "F" in this case because again, for the most part, this will happen with open source work, but not so much with libre projects).

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As an aside, I'm unsure how to interpret the tone of your comment, so just to clarify: please don't mistake this as an attack from me on AGPL and similar. I think they're better than nothing and I personally prefer contributing to strongly copyleft projects. But they won't be a mechanism that can have a similar impact on the software industry as widespread unionization had on employer/employee relationship a hundred years ago. I lived in the Ruhr Area in Germany for a few years and the impact was really impressive, quite hard to imagine it happening like this today... The conclusion of the podcast I linked above is that IT work (and programming in particular) has developed from something where the individual holds significant negotiation power (and thus individual choices matter a lot) to a market in which workers are essentially interchangeable (since they all work with the same tools anyhow) and thus individual choices like Marak's are relatively less likely to be effective.

Of course I hope that Marak gets hired and paid accordingly asap, but following this argument, in the long run programmers (the non-glamorous term for anything to do with code) will have to organize and/or accept significant drops in their salaries.
it is a hotly debated topic in the EU and seems to be up for removal in the current years, especially in the current political climate.
I think McBelieve would have been a much better name for non-meat menu items.
See [1] for eggs. Relatively simple Google Scholar search if one is curious.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21673178/
Coinciding news from Japan: Eco-friendly, healthy plant-based meat in spotlight in Japan

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201108/p2g/00m/0fe/11...
This is most likely to account for the rumored 40% CGT that has been mentioned few times by Biden in Debates.
One point they made on NPR is that it's hard to imagine any sort of vaccine that would be as harmful as the virus itself, which is killing 1000 people per day.
Worth noting, McDonalds has dozens of different menus all across the world.
> hell Schmidt could even run for public office in any EU local governments municipal elections if he so wishes.

Here's an idea for a short story: Schmidt does indeed wish so; he becomes a politician in the EU and places himself in a position that allows him to make the EU a much more friendly place for the adtech industry and surveillance capitalism.
Yeah, people who are not directly affected by the virus yet got some changes on their routine (no long commutes, more time with family) positively seem to be quite welcoming the changes
FWIW, N=94 seems ridiculously small to me. I realize there's ethical concerns in increasing exposure etc but in my experience, that's in the ballpark of sample sizes where unacknowledged heterogeneity can be manipulated to distort findings.

I'm not suggesting Pfizer is up to something nefarious, just that the biomedical literature is littered with studies with N < 100 for the outcomes of interest and they don't replicate. The N > 40k in some ways is irrelevant if none of those participants have the processes in play. It's more like recruiting N >40k to get N=94 to study.

I'm also not suggesting with 90% effectiveness that there's probably no effect, just that my guess is a true value of 60% isn't outside the realm of possibility once you consider all the factors that could be in play besides the random sampling variation that's assumed by their tests.
Cars are the most sticky part of the petroleum economy. To remove that anchor would allow this industry to collapse/deflate like it should.
All good stuff but you can only reuse the spectrum marginally from LEO even with the sharpest directional pattern spot beams. With physical transmission line you get the entire spectrum for every single run.
Realistically, do current practices even work for game development? Obviously many games are wildly profitable, but the amount of human suffering and crunch time that goes into the release of an AAA title, and indeed into its day zero multi-gigabyte patch to make it actually playable, seems to imply that we should at least be open minded. But also I suspect many of the issues aren't just your choice of language.
The primary “thing GraphQL does” is provide a data shape contract between servers and clients, with type safety, introspection, and a fairly human-friendly query syntax.
It is not possible for Eric Schmidt to bail on his taxes by doing this.
All: don't miss that there are now multiple pages of comments in this thread. To get there, click 'More' at the bottom of the earlier pages. Or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033844&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033844&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033844&p=4

(Once we've rolled out some long-suffering performance improvements, all of this should blissfully disappear, including this sort of comment. Thanks for your patience.)
Eric Shmidt: "I seen sum things in the pentagon man "
> Slingbox servers will be permanently taken offline 24 months after the discontinued announcement date (November 9, 2020), at which point ALL Slingbox devices and services will become inoperable.

This needs to become illegal. We need a law that requires companies who want to turn off required servers for products they've sold to either offer a 100% refund to everyone who's ever bought them, or fully open-source them so the community can make them work without the server.
Why ought citizenship be earned? A nation may structure it’s politics however it wishes...
Well, that's what happens with ponzi-scheme-like devices.
They rely on new sales to sustain their business and I guess the funds are running out...

This and probably all the other aspects of Dish ownership etc.

I know there's a similar device made by Sony, but I recall that you had to be on the same network to actually use it (this may be solvable).

Maybe it's time to make an alternative device. I know there's a way to capture HDMI video on a raspberryPi, hopefully with decent frame rate.
I would add to your list of features: it runs from the comfort of the command line, and cleanly inside the terminal.
I think one of the reasons people won't wear masks is because they're mandated. Many are worried in the short-term about the spread of COVID-19, but after we come out of it the government has more power. I think it's important to understand and respect that other people have different priorities. In this case, the US was born out of fighting tyranny and that is a bigger concern to some because a tyrannical government could lead to more suffering and death than caused by COVID-19.

I liken it to the war on drugs, which used fear-mongering and propaganda to convince people that drugs are bad and that we need to lock up people that are making decisions regarding their own bodies and minds. Instead of educating people on the unbiased pros/cons of recreational and medical drug use, so that people are actually informed about the decisions they're making. Instead, we have a war on drugs that is fueled by corruption and labels non-violent offenders as criminals.

When it comes to the pandemic, there is a similar approach of fear-mongering and forced coercion. Those that refuse to wear a mask may just be people that have everyone's interest in mind because they believe they are rebelling against government trying to get more power, which they think is worse in the long-term.

I respect the mask requirements when, for example, entering the grocery story, but I also feel uncomfortable by the forced coercion, re-goalposting, and increase in government power. I believe the best approach forward is setting a good example and informing people on all aspects of the facts without bias.
Ahem... He "owned YouTube"? That's a "bit of an exaggeration".

As an anarchist - most people love the state and love giving it power, rich people just use the power that the masses so eagerly give away.

If you want to know where the power of the SV billionaires comes from, just look in the mirror. Nothing, other than our compliance, makes them that powerful and wealthy.
Can he even get a second citizenship? As far as I was aware (as a US citizen myself), the US doesn't allow you become a citizen of another country without renouncing your US citizenship except in the very specific dual-citizenship scenarios regarding birth or familial ties.

I know under the Obama administration the federal government had turned a blind eye to people not renouncing a prior citizenship when becoming a naturalized US citizen, but I'm curious about the reverse.

They were not too kind to Eduardo Saverin. (The Facebook cofounder who had to fight zuckerberg over diluted shares, when the case was resolved in his favor he took the money and ran to Singapore and renounced his US citizenship).
Some of the heightened anxiety is sympathetic nervous system stimulation related too. If you've got good body awareness noticing your pulse rate just went up by 10-20 BPM could make you worry all by itself.

Which shows that your point about drug titration is spot on. And in a way that's in the pro column for stimulants. It's really easy to tell when the dose is too high. Both the sympathetic nervous response and the euphoric feelings get obviously counterproductive. On the other hand doctors have learned to be wary of self-reporting there on account of drug abusers wanting that artificial euphoria. Just goes to show that both the physician and the patient have to be honest partners working together to get the best results for well-being.
If this was leaked nefariously, my money would be on the motivation being personal.

Yep, me too. If there is any truth to some of the gossip out there about his personal life, that would explain both the source and motivation for blowing this up for him.