skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it really depends on your statistical survival rate. If you're almost guaranteed to die, there's less of a concern in using yourself as a test subject.
If preserving the purity of JS is a goal it probably makes sense to not present examples in TypeScript. TS is awesome but if I know TS I know how to add types and if I don't know TS the examples become hard to follow (remembering from when I didn't know TS). I guess it comes down to your target audience but my assumption is Forgo is targeted more towards people who prefer "traditional" for lack of a better word JS concepts.

The biggest red flag I noticed was the use of the "rerender" function. It reminds me a bit of writing code in jQuery and manually having to keep track of when the DOM needs updating. Obviously not a huge burden for something small but would be very interested in how it effected larger apps. Seems like a big tradeoff to have to take on that responsibility again.

Saying that, the general API of the library is easy to understand and I could imagine being productive with it very quickly.
I take a daily dose of NMN to boost NAD+ levels. I was aware that NAD+ could accelerate cancer growth, but does anyone know if there's any evidence to suggest NAD+ could cause cancer or at least increase the likelihood of developing it?

From what I understand most experts seem to think it's probably safe and will extend health & life span, but the cancer risk is something that concerned me when I started. Surely if healthspan was as easy as just raising NAD+ levels the body would have already evolved this trait?
ICBMs are rockets... which means the heavier, the more fuel for a given range, even heavier with the extra fuel, etc. (aka the tyranny of the rocket equation).

SLBMs also need to withstand water pressure, increasing with depth. Withstanding pressure requires reinforcement, which means weight, which... see above.

So while there are no "official" numbers as to what constitutes launch depth, physics dictates there is a maximum practical number.

So what to do about it?

Well, nuclear attack submarines generally exist to try and follow nuclear ballistic missile submarines.

Any any given point in time, >0 and <all ballistic missile submarines are being shadowed, likely without knowing it.

Consequently, were a substantial launch order given... a lot of those missile subs would start a very synchronized and quick rise to shallower depths, as well as possibly creating mechanical noise related to launch preparations.

After that, well, that's what preset plans of action in different threat scenarios are for...
Ask your bosses why they're ok with forcing through changes that nobody wants and repeatedly lying to users
> I can’t remember the last time I saw a Democrat run with supporting labor as their headline issue.

Bernie Sanders and AOC would like a word. Most of their platform is based around supporting the working class.
I think its easy to lice in a shell you create for yourself 10-12 hours a day. Its harder to live that life with people you're around all the time. My Dad for instance was well liked at his job and in the community. As soon as he left work and those people behind the smiles and jokes stopped and he was just mean and quiet with a temper that was never far from reach. I think the person he was at work was the person he wanted to be, but the person he was with us was his true self.

Its either that or he truly hated my mother, my brother, and myself.
I would pay good money for it.
> spongey

That is exactly what I like about it. Typing Feedback!
The issue as I see it is that a kind of social contract has been broken. The government executing a real quarantine for two months would be totally reasonable: everyone would have been back to relative normality long ago. But few governments committed to that: moreover, the most vociferous opponents of real lockdowns weren't the young, but the relatively old.

And so we've pretty much burned a year of life for everyone. I know many, many people for whom 2020 has been the worst year of their life, in large part due to the lockdown. The people who have suffered least are the people who are basically at home anyway; professionals established enough in their careers to thrive during WFH; the already coupled; and those with kids. Although inconvenienced, they can still progress with their lives. But for many singles in their 20s or 30s, this has been a lost year. And that's very costly: particularly if you want to raise a family, losing a year or more of dating and socialization from your late 20s or 30s is incredibly damaging to those chances.
It's manually triggered - you've to call rerender() which re-renders the specific component.
One trick you can use if you are super lazy is to just use a config.json file that always resides next to your exe. JSON files are very easy to edit/share, and can be trivially serialized in and out of your models for convenience (1 liner with either Newtonsoft or built-in serializer). JSON is also a good interchange format between systems, so it can quickly integrate into a bigger system without much hassle.
The advertisers can tell from cookies etc that you are interested in a product and were looking. They cannot always tell that you clicked 'buy' at some point.
It's more just that they have a 16:1 ratio of volunteers to blind/low-vision people. Many others on this thread have reported the same. It's a great problem to have as a free service.
Glad you think so! I'm hoping that simple docs coupled with the recent leaps and bounds of the swift server team and package manager (as well as incoming async/await) will make Swift on the server a much more appealing choice for folks with a Swift background.
Someone that knows the internal of Wikipedia should add something about dang from https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

[I made only some minor changed in Wikimedia, mostly fixing typos.]
It's not a given that ads or datamining are the only options, they could do in app payments and paid business account. But its not very likely with facebook as parent company...
Yeah, it's sort of intentional. It's a personal page that has zero useful content (except maybe https://egorfine.com/en/articles/) and is mostly kept as a dumpster with misc stuff accumulated over the decades.
But that’s the point. The “treatment leading up to that” was a mid 6 figure income and nearly free reign to do research in her field of interest. Not relatable to most of the lower or middle class in the US.
>>wean off of Google

That sounds tough.

Too bad google can't just change back to how they were in the beginning. At least just actually hold their old motto above greed and money every now and then.
Ok, I'll say it.

A 4k hobby project is not a React alternative. It's a view rendering library.
Just wait till you try getting off amazon during a pandemic...
The graphics community remains one of the most intense optimization-based programmers I've ever seen.

GPU Gems, ShaderX, GPU Pro, GPU Zen... there's so much optimization to be learned from them.
Checking in on the Damn Linux Tablet One (2020)
Good luck doing so and let me know how you did it!
I called Amazon to cancel Prime. I wanted them to record my reason for cancelling. And I wanted them to spend some extra money answering my phone call and talking to me.
Nearly anyone is capable of voting, helping with voter turnout efforts, donating to campaigns and advocacy groups, and voicing their opinions in public or private regarding political situations and outcomes.
You can't conclude from "I don't have full control of the outcome" to "nothing I will do will matter".
For many upper-middle class technology professionals it may be true that the personal outcome is not evidently different (but you might be surprised), but for many people this is drastically not true.
I didn't see the banner in the Android app until I tried to send a message.
You know, I largely agree with the author, I do feel sympathetic. I kinda feel a, idk, lack of sympathy in this thread. Of course you have to learn the machine in front of you, but would you ever have to set $PATH on an iPad? If perhaps I could program Fortran on an iPad, would I really benefit from having the history, the context/history/knowledge of knowing what a $PATH is? Maybe. I doubt it. Knowing /bin from /usr/bin from /sbin from putting . first or last, do you know for fact which $PATH cron/crontab will use? &c &c. Knowing if .bash_profile runs, or .bashrc, or .profile, knowing exactly when they run.. I have not found it fun.

I think you have to admit, most people anyways, that you're ignorant of a lot of systems that came before you. If I gave you an IBM 704, would it be "easy" to program? I would not enjoy that, I think we'd all rather write Fortran on a MacBook. (ask yourself why?)

I have replaced an alternator, but I just learned older cars had "generators" and they're quite distinct (though very similar). I don't know much about "points" or distributors, but I've replaced ignition coils & spark plugs, I feel like I basically understand the gist of that. But I don't know what came before it. I wouldn't fault a mechanic for not knowing points, but an automotive engineer should.

To me, this is where perfectly good wrenching (programming, coding, per se) on its own might be unlikely to advance the state of the art (in software/automotive design). Maybe: To be a really good technician, you should focus narrowly on the hardware/software you service, and not necessarily what came before. But to be a really good engineer/developer/designer, you should focus broadly on everything, to as much depth as you can. Ideally, why not both?

I learned HTML in notepad, then looked for game makers, played with Winamp visualization language, anything that was easily programmable. Did y'all just go straight to writing Rust in Vim?
Not doing their own research is a feature, not a bug. Were they doing their own research, that would be simply one more source in the sea of other sources. Wikipedia can link to various sources and if a contradictory source exists, you can bet it will be brought up and debated.

In the end, I suppose it's going to come down to the bias of the moderators, but there is literally nothing that can be done beyond requiring sources and giving all viewpoints a chance to give their opinion.
Trump has a huge base that shares his beliefs. I am not convinced that Zuck has any other then those he pays at his company. Everyone that has ever worked with him in his early years and those he acquired (Instagram/ Whatsapp) have distance themselves the moment they vested their equity.
He also made Facebook hire a full-time pollster to run polls about his popularity.
Laughable indeed.

Banks, which are essential to our economy, have 0% reserve requirements but this niche company that can crash to 0 without doing much harm to the economy should be forced to have 100% reserves? Who cares, just don't accept Tether in exchange for anything and you're good.
He doesn't need to be likeable to win the elections. Biden is going to implement extremely inclusive policies that large swaths of americans, especially on the south, are allergic to. So in 4 years, Zuck will simply promise to undo all these policies and those americans will have no other choice but to vote for him.
They can't datamine conversations because of supposed E2E. It surely would be great to see them do it, although impossible.
I generally agree that public sector unions shouldn't exist, but on the other hand, it's undeniable that voters can be very fickle employers.
Lisps are cool, Clojure is cool but that's about it, just like Scheme is cool.

HN probably has the biggest crowd of devs that know (and like) Lisps, even if they don't use it for everyday things. Anything about Lisps gets upvoted quickly but if you look at Clojure posts here in HN, you'll see that all the comments don't really have any substance (also, look at the point to comments ratio of Clojure posts.).
Yeah, this is such a cool thing. The kind of thing I remember talking with people about before smartphones made it actually possible.

Lots of stuff like that is happening and it's exciting!
The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization
I think they're just saying that it doesn't matter if the end user converts based on the ad, but rather whether the company making the ad decides to put it on FB. FB wants to optimize for companies buying ad slots from them, not whether the end user is influenced.
Huh, that happened to my Galaxy S9 phone, but I haven't noticed issues with my MBP. Geez, something else to worry about...
That's a separate question. We need you to follow the rules here regardless of how much value an article adds. Perhaps you don't owe the article better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just spitballing, but if we're going to play with things like nuclear reactors, why not keep them and their waste relatively close to human settlements specifically in order to promote a culture of responsible management?

This is founded on the proposition that everyone trying to push ecological costs somewhere else, somewhere "over there", can be way more dangerous to human wellbeing than the occasional natural disaster or accident.
So how do we get european style unions here in america? How is it that they are able to avoid those issues and what lessons can we take that aren't "america just can't do unions right."
Exactly this.

I have my data on my NAS and I keep on Onedrive and GDrive only what I might need while around.
I think part of the stark difference in how unions operate is due to the societal pressures applied to them. All of those "good" unions that would help advocate for employee education and protect workers who were unjustly fired were easier to brand as socialist and ended up being broken up as they failed to devote all of their power towards politics and staying alive. This ends up contributing to that image that unions don't do anything since, in the US, they are constantly maligned by politicians and the press - and since anything even loosely connected to communism (like, here, collective bargaining) has to fight an unhill PR battle in the hearts and minds of Americans.

Unions should exist to serve their workers and the fact that most public unions gain the most power by constantly funneling money into political campaigns is a real problem that just leads back to election finance laws.
I mean, it's not really unheard-of for people to have a Macbook Air as their daily driver plus a gaming PC for enjoying stuff like Cyberpunk or Flight Simulator 2020.

If I had the money I would definitely have both.
I get what you’re saying but the sound is so completely different it’s not a simple evolution of style.

Listen to dnb from two decades ago you can still see where current stuff comes from. Compare early Digital Mystikz stuff with Skrillex and you wouldn’t call them the same thing.
> He had something like 150 people working just for his PR according to some sources.

I wonder what the cost-benefit line looks like for PR person versus life coach.

That's a lot of yes-men. Maybe we should bring back Court Jester as a profession.
Have you ever talked to a single Republican? You’re way off base, especially with the race baiting.
Thanks for the feedback! It's still under development so more specs will be released later on.

"Unfortunately" the entire design is based around ESP8266 to make it cheap and easy for people to modify so wifi is the current option but if there's interest for other alternatives, anything is possible.

Since the rotator uses simple HTTP GET queries for the azimuth and elevation, it should be possible to make it compatible with other ethernet enabled positioning software.
> For all the same reasons you should worry about cows being expensive (even if milk is still cheap), you should worry about real estate being expensive (even if rents are low).

I would argue that the only reason you should consider cows being an expensive an issue if milk is cheap is in regard to it making some other bovine product expensive; cows aren’t important in and of themselves, but as instrumentalities in the production of milk and other products.

> In the case of a household, those mean that you can’t take some of your production, and save it for the future in capital goods

No, asset inflation absolutely does not mean that. Increasing the minimum buy in for asset investments would do that, but we’ve got mature enough financial markets that a general increase in asset prices doesn’t increase the minimum needed to enter productive investments.

> In the case of a central bank, those mean that the injections of money aren’t (currently) effective for stimulating economic activity

No, it doesn’t; driving money into productive investments and out of cash (which, as an expected side effect, produces asset price inflation) is part of the mechanism by which loose monetary policy is expected to stimulate economic activity. Asset price inflation does not indicate that that is not working, it is what you expect if it is working.

What would indicate that it is not working is if output figures did not exceed what was expected without the policy.
Emirates ordered to pay $1.6M to passenger for losing his luggage
Paywall: https://archive.is/0MA0U
Activatr: An R Package for Parsing and Plotting Activities
What value does this article even add?

You started a 200+ comment value-subtracting subthread so the 'should have stuck to the guidelines' argument seems extra-solid here.
Neuron circuits in the retina – more than just pixels
Donations, or an interest free $100 million 50 year loan from the founder of WhatsApp.
Long but may be helpful: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/understanding-open-sour...

Not an expert but usually F/OSS licenses are mainly about:

- Patent grants (either grants patent-use or doesn't)

- Copyleft (should modifications be open sourced. ex: AGPL is the strongest FOSS copyleft, whilst SSPL builds on it to make it even more stronger)

- Copyright (owners who are licensing the code)

- Warranty and Liability

- Terms of use (ex: FOSS licenses don't enforce restrictions on commercial use like CommonsClause does)

Ref: https://choosealicense.com/
> If you have your own C/C++ program and you want an easy path for configuring and composing features that are written in C/C++, deciding between Lua and Python depends on your goals.

I would rather use Tcl for that purpose :)
So we agree that "nothing is perfect".

My question is why did this group unionize if nothing has changed for the better (in your words "its the same as before except now you owe union dues")?

Wouldn't it be more likely that the group makes some gains, some losses and is better for most of the people in the group overall? That tends to be what happens in real unionization efforts (I'm more than happy to provide case studies).
One thing that would really help is basically making the server installs a few clicks. Granted it has been about 6 months since I tried but I remember the instructions not being great and I know that'd be zero hope for less technical people.
They have some revenue, although I don't know how much, selling API access: https://www.whatsapp.com/business/api
This is exactly why I convinced my company to buy Airflow from Astronomer and Presto from Starburst and Spark from Databricks instead of getting all that from AWS.

I would rather give the money to the people who make the stuff than to people who (all but) steal the stuff and sell it to others.

And it usually comes out cheaper, too!
I don't really remember enough about that show to comment, but the usual failure mode of Newtonian flight models in visual media is that they're extremely reluctant to depict a ship doing a sustained thrust in the opposite direction to its velocity vector, which should logically be ~50% of its time under thrust. They just don't trust audiences to be able to grok it.

Frontier: Elite II (the 1993 game) was the same; it was pretty hardcore Newtonian, but the autopilot would only use the front-facing thrusters to decelerate, even though the main thrusters were much more powerful. If you were under time pressure and needed an efficient flight plan, you had to do turnover and deceleration manually and by eye.
Surely the lawyer would be for pursuing a lawsuit, not a restraining order.
> If you insist on framing testosterone as a toxin

I didn't intend my argument that way.

I was responding to the parent who was proposing that some environmental toxin had been introduced since the 1990s resulting in lower testosterone levels in men, seemingly from an underlying assumption that high testosterone is inherently good.

I was challenging that assumption directly. It seems at least equally plausible that some environmental toxin has been removed since the 1990s (to be specific, lead would be a good candidate) resulting in lower testosterone levels in men.
Exactly. Every time I see some new article about how ML is going to mind-control us through perfectly placed ads and Yuval Noah Harari writes a new book about the machines knowing us better than we do I just have to spent five minutes on Amazon or Youtube. I'm not afraid that the machines are too smart but too stupid to be honest.

I'm not convinced that if you went and did an actual scientific study on the efficacy of "big data" teams and ad-targeting and went through every business it would do any better than just regular boring contextual ads.
> The devs last year started to speak publicly about making the change, but they were aware of the privacy concerns among users for much, much longer.

You realise that this is something completely different than what you wanted to imply are you? Up until they introduced the PIN, they've been defending the phone number. Just because someone had a issue on github, doesn't mean they've been working on it...
The difference is that my salary doesn't force you to take on debt.
Hey cool! Here's essentially the same encoder in a few lines of JS, you can run this on https://wavtool.com by pressing cmd+;

(() => {
const message = 'asdf';
const messageBinary = message.split('').map(c => c.charCodeAt(0).toString(2)).join('').split('').map(Number);
const bitDurationSeconds = 0.1;
const shiftSize = 0.1;
return wavtool.mapSamplesCommand((sample, index, channelData, settings, context) => {
const bitIndex = Math.floor(index / (bitDurationSeconds * context.sampleRate));
const shift = bitIndex < messageBinary.length
? (2 * (messageBinary[bitIndex] - 0.5)) // [0,1] => [-1,1]
: 0;
return sample + shift * shiftSize;
});
})()
It’s not “anecdotes about isolated abuses.” Even parents I know who are solidly on the left are outraged by how completely inflexible teachers’ unions have been during the pandemic. Even people I know who are ardent Democrats in states like Illinois grumble quietly about the government having no money because they’re crushed under pension obligations.

The problem is that, in the US, most peoples’ experiences with unions is with public unions, which are the worst kind of unions: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/10/29/coolidge-and-...

> For decades, that was the mainstream Democratic view, too. “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt affirmed in 1937.
Brian action established the signal foundation with an initial $50mm grant.
Well, they will probably continue ramming this through in other countries where they have a lot more users without having to worry about any privacy implications.
> And that would be so good because I could be convinced to really uninstall whatsaap

Did you just provide the counterargument to your own argument?

If they backpaddled is likely because there was enough of a negative reaction to raise concern.

I believe it's more likely they are trying to figure out how to announce the next deadline more quietly without breaking too many laws.
I know this is going to get a lot of hate here, but sometimes I wonder whether these execs consider anything besides their fat bonuses or anything which is not related to their bonuses?