skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transpilation platforms. There's a lot of new programming languages being written, but few people want to use a programming language without many libraries. One solution to this is to host the new language on an existing platform/library ecosystem, e.g. JVM, BEAM, Lua, C, but this requires choosing a platform and tying the language to that platform (and accepting the design choices of that platform's major implementations, e.g. in some cases, the platform implementation may have slow startup time, which makes it hard to use your new language for quick scripting from the commandline).

Instead, one could imagine a programming language platform designed to transpile the new language to multiple underlying platforms. Like LLVM IR, this transpilation platform could be a nexus that supports many different frontends and many different backends. Such a transpilation platform would make it easier for new languages to be useful sooner.
People in general aren't particularly credible, for a variety of reasons.

As I've gotten older I like to think that I've gotten better at questioning/doubting anything anyone (with the exception of several close and long term friends and relatives) tells me, especially if it is second hand information.

A lot of this was learned through various 'inconvenient' experiences over the years. Most people don't double check their sources and just parrot out things they've heard. Confidence is not correlated with accuracy.
Clinical criteria for diagnosing autism inadequate with genetic conditions
The Imperial report on the new UK B117 strain is out
Code signing makes that pretty tricky. System DLLs will have integrity checks against msft certs.
2600 Online
Prior to moving to PDP-11's and paper-tape, the special-effects company I worked for many years ago used analogue computers stuffed with op-amps to control the motion of camera rigs - i.e. analogue motion control. I never saw one in operation, but apparently a cardinal sin was opening the door when the system was in operation (the temperature change would cause enough error to ruin the shot).
Of Cash and Captcha
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life
Great, largely because it is short, synopsis of last year. Author nailed down what have been my random thoughts on the new economy and ways to do business. I started work at a medical AI company in September that will never reopen its offices again.

I also liked the acknowledgment that so many people are hurting badly financially now, the problem just keeps getting worse.
>>> wasted on commuting and how much more productive we have all become without it.

Woah there. As a father to young children I have become massively less productive and realise both the uncaptured value of parent provided childcare in the GDP stats plus the role that education plays in releasing workers for the rest of the economy.

Teachers unions - the time to push for raises is now!
Remember: forgetting is useful.
People have the right to be wary of inventions like GMO and 5G. Burk & Braun used to produce Radium Schokolade, Hippman-Blach bakery - Radium Bread. Dr. Alfred Curie (not related) used to sell toothpaste with radium+thorium. Impotence treatments for men contained the element (inventor died of bladder cancer). Ancient Romans loved lead, not just for water pipes but for cups and vats they used to boil defrutum, a very popular syrup added to wine. Westerners love chairs and shoes. I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel now, but Americans use feet and inches ;-).
Plaintext project management systems. For individuals, we have todo.txt and orgmode. But what if you have a small group, and you want some or all tasks to be assigned to various members of the group?
>Prevent fires from cigarettes using asbestos upholstery.

The past is an interesting place.
You may also find the following interesting:

List of such words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_autological_...

The antonym, heterological, produces a nice Russell-type paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling%E2%80%93Nelson_para...
If you have three clients, each gets a third of the ring's space. If you have 200 clients each gets a 200th of the ring's space.
Given that this was the 50s and they the majority were over 20 I'd guess pretty much all of them.
I didn't realize eternit contained asbestos. This stuff is all over village roofs and garden sheds.
Verbing weirds.
> - Issues with graphics when using Nvidia on linux

Stop buying nvidia graphics cards.
My predictions:

- Pandemic won't go away or show any signs of going away at the end of the next year. Multiple new strains will be around at the end of next year, some of which will not be protected by the vaccines. Many more countries, specially those under the Chinese influence (which there will be more of), will not shut down or have travel bans or vaccines or have any measures against the virus.

- The vaccines will kill people at a higher rate than the pandemic, mostly by other diseases than COVID (because the immune system is a very efficient adaptive model, if you bias it to be effective against one thing, it will be at a cost of losing effectiveness against most of everything else), and vaccines will be considered very successful.

- Bitcoin will have lowest value in the year around Christmas time next year, but it will still be around the lowest value this year. It may reach much higher before it drops.

- Most American big tech companies will lose significant value. At the same time, a few like Microsoft and Tesla will be completely unaffected.
How about Coca Cola, named after cocaine and kola nuts?
As the UK didn't use the euro anyway, I don't think it will change how much the country would be impacted by a Eurozone collapse (ie: still seriously impacted)
How convenient nowadays every JS environment supports a platform-independent way to run native code (WASM). I think it could solve the issue nicely, if anyone tried to put in the effort to adapt Electron and tooling around it.
I think you’d need to make a much more detailed analysis to come to that conclusion.

You’re right that implementation of regulation is funded domestically. But it would be incorrect to attribute all of the spending to “the EU”, given that much of it takes the place of whatever alternative domestic regulation and implementation would be required in the same area.
IBM claims step towards workable homomorphic cryptography service
Pi Zero with audio book support
Maker built a working Batman grappling gun in only a year
Choosing the one European country that has vast amounts of oil and a very solid public investment strategy for it feels like a bad faith argument to me.
PKM & BASB approaches
https://fortelabs.co/start-here/
The Creator Economy: Is patronage the future of online content monetization?
It's a good question. There's two parts to it, whether the law allows for that, and whether or not the law should allow for it?

There are certainly some classes of items/products/services that allow X to legally bar Y from selling it to Z: airline tickets, sub-leasing apartments, software etc.
How the humble slime mold helped physicists map the cosmic web
I don’t understand the quote. What’s the context?
I can understand that perspective.

On the other hand, most of the people who I know who voted 'Leave' had poorly disguised (and sometimes completely insane) xenophobic rationale for doing so.

Also - and significantly - racially motivated aggression and hostility toward my (mixed race) family suddenly increased to intolerable levels in the weeks and months following the Brexit vote.

The whole affair has been an undeniable victory for the nastiest sort of hatred, and has demolished the pride I felt in my country as a bastion of reasonableness and tolerance.
Uber Eats or Uber Taxi? Uber Eats doesn't engage in the practices this law is trying to curb since they already have agreements in place with the restaurants (AFAIK), so you won't have to phone up anyone if you use Uber Eats.

If you're taking about Uber the Taxi app, or some courier service, then this law doesn't apply to them since they're not "food delivery platforms", and you can just ask them to order on your behalf without phoning anyone.

EDIT: Btw I'm not making any argument in favour or against the law, I'm just doing my best and trying to interpret it.
> The company was named 任天堂骨牌 (Nintendō Karuta) when it was founded in 1898 to sell a traditional Japanese card game called Hanafuda (meaning "flower cards").

Well, calling Hanfuda a traditional card game is bit like calling cocaine a traditional stimulant -- before pivoting into family entertainment, Nintendo got its start in life selling cards for illegal gambling to the Yakuza. Earlier, unsuccessful, diversification attempts included love hotels. Apparently the reason Nintendo branched into toys was a lucky accident: company president Yamauchi noticed one of his factory employees, Gunpei Yokoi (who later invented the d-pad and went on to design the game boy) fooled around with an extensible claw he'd built himself during lunch break. Yamauchi ordered him to productionize it, and it became a big hit (that may have saved the company from bankruptcy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Hand
Thanks, came here to underline the very same, with quote FTA:

> Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is.

The post is about 'how unusual their behavior is' not about 'their (in)sanity'. In hindsight a questionable use of terms, given the author's profession, but I appreciate the edit.
> you still need to initialize the optional itself.

Isn't initalising an optional basically a trivial operation? The default constructor is fundamentally the equivalent of setting a boolean flag to 0.
Unless there’s another site also called HN, this has been an year of echo chambers, every side on every divisive topic trying to downvote all opposing opinions into gray obscurity.

Watch:
Nonetheless, Brexit was undeniably evil, and evil must be fought.
I live in the mountains of Central Arizona and in twenty years of living here I have encountered about 20 rattlesnakes. If I am hiking alone, it is often in a form of walking meditation so I wear Kevlar rattlesnake guards on my legs so that it is safe not paying careful attention looking out for rattlesnakes.

I feel like I have strange snake karma. Once in India, I was not looking where I was going and turned around and almost bumped into a snake charmer with a cobra, that guy was understandably pissed off at me. Another time I was snorkeling on the big island in Hawaii, disturbed a sea snake that closely followed me for a hundred feet, really it seemed to be chasing me out of its territory.
If cloud-provider X is providing a managed-service A , which is otherwise available as an open-source project Y. Does X need an agreement from Y to run the managed service ?
If X does a bad job of providing value from Y, isn't X showcasing Y in a bad-light as well?
Antitrust cases are a good example of this type of thinking working well in practice.
Safe Links feature:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/advanced-outlook-...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/offi...
No. No it was not.
IBM (marketing/sales) spiel on its HE offerings:

https://www.ibm.com/security/services/homomorphic-encryption
I'm working on a different kind of patronage platform for creators to monetize their work. For more details, visit this link: https://pencircle.com/posts/367/patronage-explained. I haven't launched it yet. Would love to hear your thoughts.
> I would suggest Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy

Agree - I really enjoyed this. I particularly liked that many of the characters who would traditionally be the bad guys are treated sympathetically, and their 'badness' is motivated by their personal circumstance and experience. This is in contrast to the somewhat cliched representation in many stories (fantasy or otherwise) of the bad guys who are evil just because the plot demands it.
Are Sci-Hub and LibGen Pirates or Robin Hood? Delhi High Court to Decide
So Boris Johnson just got the trade deal he was hoping for and the UK is leading in a vaccination programme, so I'm not sure he'll want to resign unless the last year has been too stressful for him and he has some kind of breakdown?

Although aliens might invade or some other crazy s*t.
Because even a reasonable set of first steps towards creating artificial mechanical life forms made out of arbitrary atoms do not exist and probably never will. Drexler wrote a stupid science fiction book. Good marketing for chemists for a while I guess. Remember the congressional hearings back in 2005 on how nanotech was going to be 15% of US GDP by 2015? I do!

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg21950/html/C...
This is where I miss to be able to name each group-of-tabs (the window) with a name so I can manage (eg when alt-tab’ing) quickly.

So window ‘topic-1’ have 10 tabs relating to ‘topic-1’ and the property ‘topic-1’ is visible in my WM.

Is this possible (I have not -yet - searched ‘enough’ for this functionality...)?
Show HN: Simple, shareable clock and calendar for multiple timezones
software licenses allow for this, so in this scenario there is generally already an agreement between the creators and the consumers / distributors over what uses of the product are considered fair.
I also 'had a Game Genie', but I didn't have a NES. I didn't even know it was a product for the NES. I had a Game Genie for the (orig.) Nintendo Game Boy. I don't remember much about it, except that it didn't fit with the rubber protector.

I do remember my favorite games for the Game Boy: Mystic Quest and Speedball 2.
I can relate to some of what your trying to communicate.

Much of my questions about
the quality & persuites of my habits where answered when I read Carl Jung's "Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche".

I also found an online community[0] that studies philosophy & focuses on how to apply it to daily habits.

Much of what philosophers like Carl Jung & the Academy Of Ideas articulated might not be scientific fact, but what I can confirm is that almost everyone will find them very therapeutic and helpful in a sense.
It has become sort of my "church"

[0]: https://academyofideas.com/
> every currency transaction creates this risk.

This is a disingenuous straw man and a desperate attempt to brush away Bitcoin's failure as currency. The OP explicitly referred to cryptocurrencies' inherent high volatility, and volatility is not a mere transaction risk. Seeing your debt explode, because you either borrowed or deferred payments, due to cryotocurrency volatility is not a transaction risk. It's simply the fact that cryptocurrency fails as being money.
Lightweight standards organizations to track, discuss, publicize, and coalesce support for new formats and protocols recently proposed by individuals or small groups. Think Markdown, trackbacks/pingbacks, RSS/Atom, TOML, SemVer, but in their early days, before many people had heard of them.
Sorry you do not understand how the system works. You can't buy 50% because the price would be worth more than all world gdp since each order is incrementally how gher and the supply of coins is not unlimited. Good to dig into things before you mindlessly dismiss them. Did you actually believe that people are designing and talking about Pos as a breakthrough when the main idea is "nobody rich enough will want to buy 50%"?
What protocol guarantees that there is an atomic transaction, in the presence of faults, in such a system?
In isolation this would be a fair point.

However, in the context of Brexit, Farage proudly stood before “breaking point” posters that showed the same scenes as a literal Nazi propaganda film picturing large streams of Jewish refugees as a threat:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-the-poster...
My wife is having really bad sleep problems which she attributes to dreaming too much too intensely. She just doesn't seem to get rested doing this.

This article sadly does not give a clue what could be her problem.
Turkey's new digital content platform
> well-managed environment (ie one that has non-rudimentary window management and a browser/extension that handles idle tabs with negligible ongoing resource use).

Can you elaborate on this? Which extensions are you talking about?

I also rack up hundreds of tabs and my browser is often the main resource hog for me. I’ll often have to kill -9 it to force it to start with “oops we crashed, here are your previous tabs in an unloaded state”, but it sounds like you have a better way of doing this
The world will move ever more closer to the cyberpunk predictions from the 80s.
> React competitor that compiles to WASM

Those who are better informed than me, who are the main movers here?
If you're interested, I can drop you a mail when we launch. Join the mailing list here: https://pencircle.com.
There is a Vice documentary from 2016 about asbestos - Why the Deadly Asbestos Industry is Still Alive and Well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3piCUPIkc).
Ask HN: What Skills/Skill Upgrades You're Getting in 2021?
Preferably something that can be measured with milestones (e.g.: foreign language exam, either you pass or you don't), "stretches your brain" in a different way (so if you already know Java, picking C# may not be that much of a stretch), and reasonably useful for your life (but not necessarily work).

Mine so far:
1. Aiming to pass B2 exam for French (meets all 3 criteria above)
2. TLA+, hard to measure progress, stretches my brain in a different way, but practical utility is dubious
3. Category Theory, similar to TLA+, but even harder to find pragmatic applications.

Am keen to hear from others.
> Nintendo does many things I personally find counterintuitive and even counterproductive.

I'm amazed at the number of times I heard about Nintendo basically shooting themselves in the foot just to retain more control. Like banning Psycrow from Mario maker. Using content identification to silence audio from streamers. Taking down fan-made Mario-related content. Every one of those bringing them free advertisement and more customers.

I'm surprised that smm rom-hacks still exist given the restrictions.
Show HN: Generative Geometric Art #1 – Abstract Covid
Show HN: Dockerized Webfsd – The smallest HTTP server on the planet
I often wonder this as well, is it a matter of unfamiliarity with control-theory stuff? Surely not as it’s fairly well known, or at least seems like you’d encounter it fairly quickly upon research.

It seems to me that control theory would be fantastic for setting and automatically adjusting some of these parameters. Distributing the same PID params and model to each client would ensure consistent/predictable behaviour as well.
Date and time in various cities, share your set of clocks or meeting time using shareable links. Has timer stopwatch and alarm functions.
Planning to update few things, but works ok now. Please try and provide any feedback. Thanks.
In some cases that's entirely appropriate, though not always, also an anecdote from the UK:

A policeman in a car pulled up alongside my friend on his bike, said do you know you clocked 45mph though that 30 zone.

"Er I'm sorry officer..."

"Don't worry, legally that limit only applies to motor vehicles. I wanted to say well done."
> * A React competitor that compiles to WASM with promises of perf and space gains will emerge

Or from react itself that compiles into WASM, similar with react native.
Why Predict? Most of the predictions will be wrong.
A grandma saving a html page and sending it via email without having to edit the html.
How do you get compliance/IT to sign off on the inherently risky pip install mysterypackage though?
Nah, it has been confirmed that he is a CIA operative. Since nowadays, everyone is talking about their feelings publicly.
And Danmønt in Denmark, 1991-2005.

I think Sweden had one called Kash or something like that.
For those who are interested in the nuts and bolts of translating, and how they evolve over time, here are some fascinating articles giving glimpses of same:

Machiavelli's The Prince:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/12/18/no-nonsense-machiav...

Camus's L'Estranger/The Outsider etc.:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translat...
I think the core issue here is that some platforms were creating websites and phone numbers to impersonate the companies. In practice it's a man-in-the-middle attack. This is what the law seems to intend to stop.

I'm pretty sure that if I falsified a website to resell services or products on behalf of a larger company I would get slapped by a lawsuit, trademark or otherwise, but it seems that for small restaurants the government felt it needed to step up.
> Uber Eats doesn't engage in the practices...

Doesn't change the fact that the law is silly. Every time I leave the house I wear closed in shoes. A law forbidding me from leaving the house unless I'm wearing closed in shoes would be silly.

This is a law that is arbitrarily preventing people from doing something that is perfectly reasonable - acting on behalf of a third party to order food. If legislators want to ban something objectionable they should ban it directly, not indirectly through making it illegal to do something reasonable.
It can still be a case of searching for novelty. I think my mother did this while I was growing up - she would try out new replacement products (primarily food) and start buying them for a while, until the household got fed up with them and we went back to the old product. Repeat purchases for sure, but the only draw was novelty. Trying out a new type of milk instead of the old one, etc.

Gadgets too - We got a bread baking machine, and used it quite a lot for a year or two, then people got tired of it being somewhat impractical, it ended up in the back of the cupboard and finally thrown away.

Wouldn't be surprised if there is a group of people for whom it is very rewarding trying out new products, and many products you can't just buy once and then consider it "tried out".
I don't understand how couriers are extracting any margin from restaurants.
This is going to sound a bit curmudgeonly, but why should hospitality bend over to some tech middlemen? Not every industry needs to "innovate" their way into surviving the VC bubble's attempts to disrupt it. Hospitality is a fundamental service that's been provided for centuries, and is a cornerstone of the economy.

Second to that, the law doesn't prohibit it, it just makes the delivery service seek an arrangement first. I am not terribly saddened by the fact that the delivery platforms have to do some groundwork instead of just web scraping a bunch of menus and making money off splitting all the risk between restaurants and customers.
Hmm you are right I came to that conclusion largely from Apple's original messaging and the change in stance around the time jailbreaking was getting popular.

> As someone who developed a couple of the first round of web apps for the original iPhone, while waiting for the first SDK, I can tell you that this it not true.

Were you given early access to the SDK before release?
I think the issues is a problem of transparency. I deliver for Postmates and I really think that most of the customers don't really understand that they might be ordering from a restaurant that isn't partnered with Postmates. The knock on effect is that often the menu isn't really correct, so the customer gets their order "wrong" and calls the restaurant to complain.
This eventually becomes a microservices vs monolith discussion though.

Implementing both the message queue and the bank core integration service within 1 service makes for less communication/network overhead and is easier to debug, which is definitely valuable.

Seperating them out means you can use off the shelf products for the message queue and is easier to scale, which can also be valuable.
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