skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fine with calling out the NYT for making a mistake or worse enabling substandard journalism. There has been a review of this content, a large organization that has a lot of reporters generating content. The NYT could have done a better job on this. Kudos for the NYT for admitting its mistake. It's not the first, it won't be the last.

I just have one problem with some of the commentary here - I'm willing to wager a sizable portion of the commenters on this board who are experiencing schadenfreude because they hate the NYT most likely get their news from a significantly less reputable news source that would never admit to making a mistake or perform a correction.

Maybe you hate the NYT because it's too liberal and you listen/watch/read the WSJ or Fox News or Breitbart. Maybe it's because you think the NYT isn't 'liberal' enough, and you read Jacobin or Common Dreams or watch MSNBC. This isn't about your concern over adherence to the truth. Many of these comments is about your joy when you point a finger and laugh like Nelson from the Simpsons when the news source that doesn't completely and consistently deliver the information that fits your exact and already hardened world view has anything that diminishes it's credibility.

This is like Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald accusing the media of covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story. Both want to destroy the same political contingent but for completely different reasons.

If you are holding the NYT to a standard that your own news source does not adhere to you are the problem.
Having first learnt about Shopify from HN in what seems like a decade+ ago, it's great to see that the founder of it appears to have managed to grow in a self-aware and almost deliberate way.

The interview is refreshing in that it is not focused on being a hustle/struggle-legend-building exercise but talks a lot about what his current job is, which is growing the company and managing his executive team.
Files are awesome. What if we made an OS where everything was a file?

Probably appeared first in ChiOS, circa 1968. "A bit is a file. An ordered collection of files is a a file..." UNIX did a lot of that, and variants on UNIX have taken it way too far. This idea keeps coming around.

Cons cells are awesome. What if we made a PL where everything was made of cons cells?

Lisp 1.5.

Mathematics is awesome. What if we made a PL where everything came from math?

APL, Mathematica.

Arrays are awesome. What if we made a PL where everything was an array?

Matlab.
This was what they said!

Do you not remember the March lockdowns?

Everyone was saying that except Trump and the people in the Administration whose mouths he taped shut, next thought he'd look bad if a pandemic existed so he said things like "there's a dozen cases now, they'll be none soon; this will be over by Easter". Then when he was briefly reined in, we had a belated national effort to lockdown with "30 days to stop the spread".
Spyder81 is partly right, 'readable' doesn't mean 'human-readable' per se, it means rather that the compiler tries very hard to produce output JS that looks like idiomatic, hand-written JS. This means things like:

- Uncurrying functions

- Compiling OCaml modules to idiomatic JavaScript objects

- Compiling OCaml record values to idiomatic JavaScript objects

- Compiling tail recursion to idiomatic while loops

- And so on.

> someone might start touching the compiled runtime objects with Javascript and then... god help you as you watch the guarantees of your fancy type system unravel before your very eyes.

That's exactly what genType is for--it produces JavaScript, TypeScript, and Flow interfaces for ReScript output code so that people in the JS world can consume it transparently.
>Driving feels sluggish, unresponsive, like I'm remote-controlling a buggie on the moon driving through molasses. I turn left and 250ms later I go left.

And I'd been thinking that my complete inability to drive in Cyberpunk 2077 was because of Stadia lag.
I cycled New York to San Fransisco 5 years ago. Fantastic way to see USA.
What's the issue with it. When I take the train to Portland from seattle they just roll the bike on and I grab it quite fast when I get off. Sure it's in the bag car but it's a 3-5 hour ride
Being helpful and kind to others also requires that you be kind to yourself. You can only give when it is healthy to do so.

Some people will be narcissists, self involved, and mean. Some people will try to take advantage of you. That's okay; You cut them out of your circles and move on. Being kind and pruning your social circles to those who are kind in return is like tending a garden. It isn't 'unkind' to weed the place a bit from time to time to make an environment that you enjoy being in.
The 1619 project has walked back the central claim of the lead essay: https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/down-the-1619-projects-memo...

The original version of the lead essay said: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-th...

> one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery

The current version adds two key words that totally change the meaning: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/blac...

> one of the primary reasons some of the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.

These two statements are totally different. “One of the primary things the Democrats want is to defund the police” is obviously not true. “One of the primary things some of the Democrats want is to defund the police” is obviously true, but means something totally different.

The 1619 Project’s hit piece on capitalism was so bad that Jacobin had to step in with a correction piece: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/how-slavery-shaped-american-c...

> Desmond begins his article by drawing on the Harvard historian Sven Beckert who argues that “it was on the back of cotton, and thus on the backs of slaves, that the U.S. economy ascended in the world.” Yet Desmond neglects to mention that this claim has been widely rejected by specialists in the economic history of slavery.

The Jacobin piece even discusses better arguments the NYT could have made, such as slavery being a reason for the US’s particularly strong protection of private property. That’s debatable, but at least it’s within the realm of the mainstream thought among historians.
Please get rid of all your cobalt-containing electronics.

You're part of a system of African child slave labor.
I guess socialists crave what conservatives fear. My prediction is that as Texas becomes more democratic (lower case and capital D), the conservative’s fear will be increasingly realized.
Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472970
Getting tested prior to gatherings isn't enough to stop the spread.

You need tests and periods of isolation, with the periods of isolation being the more important component (that many people don't have much ability to choose right now).

What happens a lot is that people get tested, think they are safe, then after becoming infectious spend a bunch of time with people.

So advertising expanded testing isn't really a viable public health message.
I saw a stream today where they were sponsored to play Cyberpunk. It reminded me to refund the game.
It's insane to hold the people who claim to be scientists to a higher standard than the people who don't?

With regards to our lovely two-party system, both sides (yes I know) typically only cite "science" when it suits them. In the defense of "the left" (sorry I hate talking about politics as if it's one-dimensional), it does seem like data supports their policies more often than it does the right, but again, a false dichotomy is the wrong way of looking at this.

Remove politics from the discussion and science is still facing a crisis: reproducibility crisis, proposing unfalsifiable theories, spending more time worrying about positive results than finding the truth, politics influencing science (not just the other way around as it should be), the profit-driven concerns of higher learning institutions, etc, etc.
You got fed some right-wing propaganda, and bought it without doing your own research since it matched your priors.
The publishing of the PageRank algorithm was the wrong milestone; my bad. The important milestone was a less well-defined point when search engine users and competitors realized that Google was disruptive.

PageRank was the way forward but the true schlep, in the Paul Graham sense [1], was the brute force continuous hardware scaling required to keep up with the growth of the Internet. DEC needed a technical pivot first and foremost. I've seen no evidence that the AltaVista team understood the technical challenge but I could be easily convinced that bean counters and/or management stifled a promising response; absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
>it means games cannot really have a release date anymore.

Well, if Cyberpunk 2077 is proving anything, it's that release dates matter. Especially if it's too soon.
I think the problem is that people don’t want to enforce it because 1 in 50 people you try this on are likely to go batshit insane almost instantly. No one wants to deal with that.

At the end of the day this whole thing is dependent on the weakest link and there are a lot of weak links in society.
Every time ive tried to book a trip w/ bikes for me and friends they never had enough availability. It was always limited to 3 bike spots
I am appalled that he lied and owned up to it later.

But from his perspective (and it may have been not just his choice) what were the alternatives if his goal was to preserve frontline medical workers? (Regardless if this policy actually saved anyone).

I can see why it was done and at the same time feel lied to and that that is wrong.
Nice! We should have a group of 5 or so riding it. Pretty sure most will opt for the Valley route, but it looks like I might be able to split off and do some of the original route (possibly past Harrisonburg). Just need to sit down and do the mileage math to see if it actually works out on meeting back up further south.
I don't see how anyone can read that web page with the popup distraction in the corner. Every couple seconds it jumps and says "Bookmarked by X" or "New member X" and pulls my eyes away from the text.

Direct PDF link: https://export.arxiv.org/pdf/1812.09674.pdf
Not familiar with the TFL acronym - Google says "Transport for London" (underground train). Is that right?
As with most articles on controversial topics, it's not just what it says but that it might not fairly or at all represent the counter argument. I won't get into this specific debate, both because I'm not an expert and don't want to encourage a tangent.

That said, removing an article for not encompassing the whole conversation isn't a good thing.
If I implement this with floating point numbers, will I get the correct integer value?
By the same tack, is there any such thing as 'passive' wealth, then? Some things like cars depreciate, and others (like gold and real estate) appreciate. Why should it be off limit to tax these things?
There was another country that has the same dumb policy of taxing their citizen's passport.

Libya I think. Nope, sorry, even worse: Eritrea [1]

[1] https://www.taxesforexpats.com/expat-tax-advice/Citizenship-...
The zebra mussels are what I always heard the clearing attributed to. I spent a lot of summers in the Grand Traverse Bay area in the 80s and 90s. The water got a lot clearer in the later 90s. It's spooky-clear now. (Beautiful area-- I wish there was work there to support my family. I'd move in a heartbeat...)
"impossible to detect" except for all the merge conflicts and build breaking changes, etc
You know, I think there's a number of separate issues in general. Assume the tracking and collecting of personal data from other sites is fine, that there's nothing wrong with it. They could still a) not try to buy up all their competition and b) not pollute the feed with things people don't want to see. Why should clicking 'interested' in an event broadcast it to all my friends? Why do I get pages in my feed my friends commented on? One action in particular may not tell you anything about the company but when you keep getting predatory behavior it maybe says something about how the company (or 'engagement engineers' or whatever) views the public
I've spent a good amount of time this last year playing around with WASM options in anticipation of it being a major runtime environment for cloud computing.

Rust has the most developed ecosystem but the best experience I've had otherwise was with Zig. It's reasonably easy to write and can produce excellent final wasm size. The only problem is that the compiler is currently exporting every public symbol in the standard library but when I hacked up the compiler to only export a hard coded list of symbols I got ~150 bytes for add (the WASM hello world) and easily sub 1k for the type of modules the post is discussing.
Dr. P produced the Algorithmic Beauty of Plants while at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan from '82 through '91.

It was published in 1990. I started as an undergrad at the U of R in '88 and eventually completed a MSc in Computer Science there. While I was never directly a student of Dr. P, he left behind a nice lab with a few Silicon Graphics Personal IRIS machines.

I'm 51 now and have had, what I feel, is a pretty successful career. I've worked on animated films, visual effects for films and video games in Los Angeles, New Zealand and in Bellevue, WA.

The allure of those SGI machines in the late '80s is what got me interested in computer graphics. I was never interested specifically in L-Systems, but I have to thank Dr. P as his work led me to where I am. I also must thank my advisor Dr. Xue Dong Yang.

It was a great place to be. A fellow student from that era at the U of R just did an AMA on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...
Here:
https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1-7-19b-Bala...

Or, the same data with a very hard to read circular bar graph visualization:

https://howmuch.net/articles/federal-budget-receipts-and-exp...

The numbers are actually pretty straightforward. "Expenditures is a broad category and covers a variety of things, including direct payments to people like Social Security, contracts for local governments, wages for federal workers and sub-contracting work."
> it's kind of sad to see FB going off on their own with ReScript

ReScript is not a Facebook project. The compiler is licensed by Bloomberg LLP: https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler/blob/60a1...

And the syntax is licensed by the ReScript team: https://github.com/rescript-lang/syntax/blob/72d9b7034fc28f3...

The ReScript team is comprised of both Facebook and folks outside Facebook.
Some time ago I built a battle simulation based on the Cyberpunk tabletop rpg rules and official weapon stats and whoo boy, was it broken. Pistols did almost no damage at all whereas assault rifles were pretty much destroying everything in one turn. I really hope CDPR did not lift the system straight from the rpg.
Until we actually hear evidence that it is, then it’s not. But we still have to sleep with one eye open.
When sound science meets imperfect grammar
This is the problem with representative democracy when the average IQ is below 80. Candidates do this because it sells, and they are running like business except they get paid in votes instead of dollars.

When they are in office, they try to string along as long as they can. Like this bill will probably not pass, but some damage could be done and the next time they have to give more ridiculous promises.
What is the chance this particular strain has been manually engineered?
I agree that they are buzzwords but I don't think "it's transparently marketing." necessarily. What would you call the process of trying to integrate security testing/scanning/auditing/other workflows into a devops-oriented CI/CD process in an automated way?

Our industry is loaded with buzzwords that are used liberally and often needlessly by "thought leaders," but that doesn't mean they are useless. It just means that those people latch on to ideas and trumpet them.
Sounds like many state leaders and their close company
If you use the term "Homeless industrial complex" then it is immediately obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Australia is an island with a population almost half California.

China welds people in their houses and forcibly enters homes and drags family to some location. I have no desire to emulate them.
I am one of those who was initially disappointed with the game and its numerous failings, but later enjoyed myself upon completion so I will try to convey why.

The product is incomplete, this is correct. But there is a degree of incompleteness or artifice I am comfortable with if there are other elements that work. Same goes with actual role playing games. When I play this game I have to wonder what is artifice? what is incomplete? and what is a concession for performance that has gone awry? In 2077 I feel all of these each session, which is unusual.

But with me: Immersion breaking issues such as cars on tracks, don't bother me. Following the narrative (though far from perfect) was a source of "fun" and being "acceptable" for me. I would be wishing all of these elements were strengthened, over the massive effort put into of an open world that doesn't really provide. I'm going to be won over by these arcs, and core gameplay and not point to point hijinks and antics. I don't feel 2077 ever lied in there, or at least the experience I wanted.

For a while in games they don't have to be real cars, but I want them to "feel" like real cars. So we get a complete games in a year where the AI to work beyond the paths, and now what is involved? It will be more immersive for sure, but how much longer till it is complete? For some playing the game, squinting at the 3D models now rendered as car sprites in the distance is enough.
Thanks for clarifying. I don't think that's the correct interpretation though. The government advice for tier 4 says:

> You must not leave or be outside of your home except for where you have a specific purpose, or a ‘reasonable excuse’

> If you live in a tier 4 area, you must stay at home. You must not leave your home to travel unless for work, education or other legally permitted reasons

So when Boris says "should" I believe he means "must unless you are in one of the excluded categories".

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tier-4-stay-at-home#stay-at-home
To confirm, existing TS modules won't work hence there is a tiny ecosystem for this language, right?
There's no recovery from BNS (bad neighbor situation) in my opinion. I see that as a point of no return. The only sane outcome is, one of the two parties bailing out.

BNS doesn't mean it only happens between neighbors, just that that's what it feels like even if it happens between two parties that are not necessarily neighbors, e.g., two coworkers, two classmates, two CEOs of rival corporations. The list is endless.

BNS is the bane of my existence. I'd do anything to have a life where I'm not in a BNS match with anyone.
What was half hearted about the apology?
I think that was supposed to be the case but then things like https://www.cloudlinux.com/extended-lifecycle must have upset someone at RH. Support past EOL has been traditionally a high-margin activity for vendors. And it must be so if https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25432183
Mobile homes are often the ones lost.

Source. Mine was lost i a wildfire.
> Do I still need to file a U.S. tax return? Yes, if you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien living outside the United States, your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you live.

This is taken from www.irs.gov

This kind of thing just looks american to me.
I am not following WASM closely, but it appears to be deployed in all modern browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. That counts as 'large scale production deployment', even if there aren't that many websites that take advantage of this capability (yet?). https://caniuse.com/wasm
>There’s nothing “forced” about the software update Facebook is talking about either, which, I think, is going to be iOS 14.4. It’s actually quite interesting that Apple does not force software updates, or perform them in a hard-to-disable-or-detect manner

This part is bogus, and Gruber knows it. The update might not be "forced" in its installation, but it's forced in many other ways (Apple stops signing old versions, quickly moves on, new phones can't install it, you can't revert back, etc).

Forced updates are neither good nor bad in themselves, for me. For one, they help move the platform forward faster, bring everyone to the same page, and serve to land new features which is good (as a counter-example, remember how long Windows XP or IE6 took to die, with tons of security and compatibility issues dragging the platform behind?).

On the other hand, they can potentially break features someone depends on, or introduce new bugs.

Same at OS X. Sure, you can stay 2-3 releases behind. But often those releases are not supported on new devices, they stop getting updates fast, and new third party programs assume you have the new version and even require it. It's not like Windows, where you can stick with a 10-15 year old version and still be fine. In MacOS after 2-3 years, you're stretching it!

In any case, the forced updates are a clear tradeoff, coming from two different ideas about how an OS (move fast, be opinionated and ocassionally break things vs always-be-compatible-and-flexible).

Gruber to say iOS updates aren't forced is misingenuous.
While that's true, the issue being addressed is if the current vaccines would help at all even if we could deploy them instantly. It honestly seems like an open question, although apparently people are hopeful it'll work out that way.
That would make more sense (for others) if that's the case, but I'm kind of skeptical because it would mean they've massively screwed up on that front against their own interests. I would think they would have the common sense to understand that a couple re-delivery attempts to an account that was recently closed is clearly not someone trying to spam.