skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: Is the below a joke or legitimate?

How in the world did you get iMessage to work on Android and Windows?
This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.
> 25:34 But the field of computer science and AI research. All attracted bright people who contributed great things to the church

The Church of Skynet demands sacrifice
It's pretty handy!

Out of curiosity, are the people demonstrating friends of yours? It seems like compiling all of that footage would have taken quite some time.
I mean https://images.app.goo.gl/NHmXYwYPfN8MyiBL7
From reading the comments in the discussion here, I'm curious why the f-string syntax is so all-over-the-place?

- f"{foo}" uses the default format
- f"{foo!r}" uses repr to format
- f"{foo=}" uses a special-cased debugging introspection
- f"{foo:formatstr}" uses the default format with a custom format string
- f"{foo:{bar}}" uses a dynamic format string

It seems like `!r` and `=` should have been implemented with `:r` and `:=` instead?
ES6 spec for template literals, while not unique as far as I know, has really been the most intuitive method for templating strings that I’ve seen. It’s a bit implicit so it probably wouldn’t work for Python (in this case, % formatting wins).
Given the dozens of ships anchored in the bay, I'm not sure Oakland has spare capacity either.
My favorite, which I repeat a lot:

The reason God was able to finish the earth in only six days is that He didn't have to worry about backward-compatibility.
“Virtue signaling” is a much dumber and worse term. “Hypocrisy” is a more coherent and useful concept and we’ve been using it since a Jewish religious leader popularized it thousands of years ago. “Virtue signaling” is hypocrisy without the hidden vice. It just means “I don’t like the values you endorse” but in nerd speech.
Apparently:

How in the world did you get iMessage to work on Android and Windows?
This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.
Couldn't you basically argue this for any major religions' worship of said prophets/God(s)?
Lovely website! One thing I noticed is that https://musclewiki.com/Dumbbells/Male/Hamstrings/ returns nothing. Maybe add some dumbell romanian deadlifts? Great stuff tho :)
This site provides progressions based on the functional movement pattern, never seen anything like it...exerciseencyclopedia.com
It's literally the only reasonable [0] non-chromium browser left. Everything else builds upon Google's Chromium, including Brave and Edge. If Firefox dies, the Chromium implementation, which is controlled by Google, becomes the web standard, even more than it already is, with all the drawbacks. Of course, you could fork it, but given that all except one competitor have left the scene and the insane amount required to maintain a browser engine, this is not going to happen. We're lucky Mozilla has already sunk that cost.

[0] Yes, there's Lynx and some hobby browsers and yes, there are people who use them as dailys. But you can not reasonably expect anyone to work with them or get a non-technical person to live with those.
> In Python 3.2, the Formatter gained a style keyword parameter which, while defaulting to % for backward compatibility, allowed the specification of { or $ to support the formatting approaches supported by str.format() and string.Template. Note that this governs the formatting of logging messages for final output to logs, and is completely orthogonal to how an individual logging message is constructed.

The style option only applies to the outer format applied by the formatter (timestamp, level, file, line, etc), it does not apply to the logging calls.
This site provides progressions within each functional movement pattern. I built it recently and haven’t seen anything else like it...exerciseencyclopedia.com
Even if logging can't use f-strings, is there a reason it can't use `string.format`?

Limiting logging to `%`-formatting seems to be an inconsistency similar to supporting `%` but not `format` on `bytes` and `bytearray`.
Elephants Counted from Space for Conservation
Interesting. Now that I think about it, /səˈrinj/ sounds quite American to me, while /ˈsirinj/ is more English?

Also, you characterize the 2nd vowel in "orange" as a schwa, but to many people it's /i/:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange#Pronunciation
Not precisely jokes, but the Unix Koans are both fun and insightful: https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
Yes, bourgeois privilege is being worried about being forced to be completely alienated from your social group because you can't afford rent, and have the choice to either move to another city while being poor and having no social safety net, maybe even risking homelessness. Do words still mean anything?

There are rent controlled cities with low homeless populations. The fix is public housing.
Do what I did with my wife: work on the couch while you watch TV together. She eventually saw how important it was to me and it was easier to step away for some productive alone time more often. I will say that it’s much harder now that I have a daughter, and that’s one of the reasons I am now full-time on my business instead of staying part-time. :)
I got burned by Leap Mothion I won’t touch a thing they create.

I think my most fundamental complaint was when Leap Motion launched instead of being prescriptive about how it should work they deferred all drivers to app specific functionality when they could have at least had a reference generic driver that had consistent behavior across apps that could then be modified.

The device was a hog on system resources and worked only in super niche areas and I think I am mostly disappointed they didn’t go another route with a more generic input device. I’ve got no indication this device takes a different approach but tbh I don’t have the energy to do the work to check.
America’s disarray is its own woes, not other countries’ opportunity
The article covers this. Empirical studies suggest this effect does not occur.

More housing generally does entail a transformation, because you need denser housing to build more units. Cities don’t have mass vacant lots ready for units of the exact same type extant.

> 1) For example, Xiaodi Li has a 2016 paper that looks at what happens to rents when a new market-rate housing project is completed. She uses the random timing of project completion to make sure that she’s measuring causation instead of mere correlation. She finds:

>For every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1% and sales prices also decrease within 500 feet. In addition, I show that new high-rises attract new restaurants, which is consistent with the hypothesis about amenity effects. However, I find that the supply effect is larger, causing net reductions in the rents and sales prices of nearby residential properties.

>That’s a very localized effect! If induced demand were a big deal, you’d expect the opening of a new “luxury” building to at least raise rents on its particular block! But yet, she finds the opposite.

There were more studies discussed in the article.
Ah, logic jokes...

Three philosophers walk into a bar, and the bartender asks: "Do you all want a drink?"

The first one says "I don't know."

The second one says "I don't know."

The third one says "Yes!"
Sailing at Triple the Wind Speed
I think the quietist thread in Beckett is a strong part of his aesthetic, but let's not omit (as the author does) the reality that Beckett also worked with the French resistance against the Nazis. His art explored the suffering and futility inherent in the human condition, but his actions were not those of a person who simply surrendered.
The name "Sioux" that the Dakota were called for many years is also an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe people) term meaning "little snakes." Wisconsin and Minnesota are littered with little battlegrounds where there was mass slaughter between the two tribes well before European colonists arrived
It doesn't say that explicitly in the guidelines, but I could see the spirit of that violating the norms of this site. OTOH, if the content was quality maybe it would be ok say if you only auto post top stories of the day / week with > a min# comments. Then the other site could have slow nuanced discussion and this site could build off that. What do you think?
Smart move. I think this idea works for a small country with a good centralized healthcare system. Not sure if it's applicable to the U.S. or Canada.
The language mentioned there is not Tamil, but Proto-Dravidian, a reconstructed ancestor of it. Tamil is younger than Sanskrit (both Classical and Vedic), but Proto-Dravidian is a contemporary of Sanskrit.
Hey, this looks interesting, but I am getting an error trying to checkout.

VM465:1 POST https://api-vim-so-prod.onrender.com/api/v1/billing/create-c... net::ERR_CERT_INVALID
Evolution derives purpose from experimentation. It is not intent driven design, it is experiment driven design, but many aspects of persistence through evolution are nonetheless purposeful. If an adaptation is significantly successful, it becomes prominent in the created population and there is a reason for it - that is the noun, purpose. This would be different if you said "have purpose" instead of "the purpose".
Thank you for saving that, pirate niki! I think i saved a copy as well, right? Yep, here https://archive.is/jcURO

I've got lots of these archives of issues and comments lying around. It's good to see more!

Btw i knew you'd show up on a comment thread where i posted my stuff. You're like obsessed with my project, right? Why, haha? Maybe because you've got you own archive project, the archive box. "Competition". Hahaha. I hope you haven't got to the point of "search alerts" obsessed, hahaha, don't fret too much, niki pirate! Everyone check out pirate's the archive box, he made the trip here, do him a favor!

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Thanks for showing up niiki, it's good to see you again. See you next time!
> Instead of this, f-strings have a lot of hardcoded and often broken behavior which can't be fixed let alone customized

They are customizable on an object-to-be-formatted basis (__format__ special method).
The explanation doesn't have to be so exotic. Millions of people in the US lost their jobs this year and the stress and financial difficulties from that increase the rate of all violent crime.
I don't have the joke, only the lame punch-line:

"Compiler? I don't even know her!"

Badum bum.
Try to remain here. As a self appointed Em-Drive denier, I can ensure that the level of discussion in Physics and Math is sometimes not so high.

If the post has less than 20 or 30 comments, it is possible to reply to the interesting comments that are wrong or are asking for more information. Sometimes the article has big mistakes, and it is still possible to make a toplevel comment explaining the errors.

When the post already has 100 comment, usually the conversation derrailed and the main discussion is if it's possible to use an Em-Drive inside a Warp-Drive bubble to make a Start Treck teleporter, or something like that.

I'm not an specialist in Biology, so repliying in biologial threads is more difficult. Please ramian here and answer questions in your area of knowdledge.
Ahh, I think I was a little confused. I had noted that there were "forks" on Gitlab but they're actually just mirrors it looks like so fork is perhaps a misnomer in this case on the part of Gitlab?

Also curious to know what the schedule is like for people to sign up? I seemingly never received anything that states I'm on a waitlist or just that my sign up didn't generally go into a blackhole.
I'm not convinced of the relevance of your strawman.
The exercises featured are actually good.

The problem with all of these exercise sites is that people have different weaknesses, need specific programming and learning how to do complex movements from watching videos is suspect at best.
Oakland, Seattle, and Tacoma (the only other west coast options) are tiny by comparison. LA/Long Beach handles 25% of all imports to the US. Based on some quick research it looks like some shippers are even routing containers from Asia as far away as Houston.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/programming-your-hands/

https://selfcare.tech/
Thanks for building this! I love that this exists, and want to encourage you to continue.

Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focusing on the many smaller muscles in the neck like SCM/Scalenes/Occipitals/etc.

Another great area to expand is 'click where you have pain' and it would recommend certain stretches, weights, trigger points, etc. There are common pain referral patterns that most people do not know about and I imagine that would be very helpful for people who don't have easy access to physical therapy or even feel they are candidates for it.

After casually mentioning my neck issues to people over the years, I've found so many people open up about persistent pain they have but that they're not addressing because it hasn't reached a bad enough point. I think that's an ideal audience to target with online resources like musclewiki.
I like the feature of being able to select what equipment you have available. Lots of us lost access to a gym with COVID and don't have the ability to put a power rack in our abode. A simple concept, but great execution!

PS: Do you know where I can download more RAM for my computer? It's been a bit laggy recently.
The strong bonds are in CO2 and H2O i.e. carbon dioxide and water vapour, both of which dissipate into the air.
https://old.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor

(Sort by top for some good ones)
'Jet Pack Guy' might not be a guy at all, but a drone disguised as a person
The first idea doesn't make sense to me. What evolutionary tool did cicadas have access to that would enable them to do something which the predators would be unable to do?
https://exerciseencyclopedia.com/
> Christian values are deeply individualistic.

Arguable. For example look at Acts 2:44 which reads "All the believers were together and had everything in common." Or Luke 3:11 which states "Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same."

In fact, there is an entire ideology referred to as [Christian communism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism)
Apples and oranges. Corporations that feel they need Enterprise Support, either for the OS itself, or for software that runs on the OS (commercial databases, engineering tools, etc.), pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Or, if they were small just feeling like throwing caution to the wind, they would use Centos (and not tell anyone that it wasn't actually Red Hat). These are businesses and software that used to run only on commercial UNIX operating systems.

People tried selling Enterprise Support for Debian back even before Red Hat went commercial, if I remember correctly, but somehow Red Hat timed their effort right and became the defacto replacement for UNIX in these environments.
I've been super excited for this space for a long time. Novel interaction ideas in the digital age seems to have a hard time breaking through (mouse and keyboard has was really a killer application).

I'm wondering if a matrix of wire which could just run some very small currents through gloves onto specific sections and points on the hands could work ? (please be gentle, I haven't really researched this just a fun thought :) )
A standard used by nobody does nothing for privacy. I also dont really see the connection - we could have both if that was desired, they solve similar problems but they don't conflict with each other. HKPK wasn't removed to make way for CT, it was removed because it did not work in practise.
Peak superhero? How one genre became the guiding myth of neoliberalism (2018)
Original version: what Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
Signal App UX: “X just joined Signal”
The question isn't really if Kotlin is better or not. It is whether or not people will end up using it. And it doesn't really look like it's going to be a winner in the market.
> This is pretty ridiculously low

False equivalence. The other option in most cases isn't no decrease in rent (i.e., 0%), it is an increase in rent (> 0%). So if with no increase in supply the rent increase would have been 10% (like it has been on my rent for the past several years in San Diego), than it suddenly seems like a pretty good deal.
Cool. But that argument wasn't presented in the article.
Are you suggesting that we should rename all companies named after objects/words?
For a passenger port though they'll probably come up with something different. Not sure if there's anything preventing a fairly normal dock from being added to the rig at water level with an elevator to take people to the main levels along on of the legs.
Hands and feet, fingers and ankles please.
The addition of band work would be great; most homes have spots where they could be anchored and it's a smaller outlay in both money and space.
Are there any good tools to manage task follow-ups?
As the team and the business grows, a problem we are facing is that of inter-team communication (especially in the remote world).

Basically, person A needs help from person B with some task. So, they put up an email to B. But, later B forgets the task and also A forgets to follow-up with B. When something goes wrong, suddenly A remembers that they had a task due on B. This leads to a bad situation.

This problem mainly happens across the teams rather than within the same team.

Do you also face this problem? What tools/mechanisms/SOPs do you use for this?

This is my first time posting on Hacker News. Please pardon me for any mistakes :)
Math joke:

Always take care you don't get Descartes before Deshorse.
Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon
Off the top of my head I’d counter with another OT reference: the Ten Commandments. One could argue every one is an effort to get an individual’s perspective off of themselves as the primary object of worship, and to focus on others as more important than themselves (God among them.)
Yes, I agree with the point that Oxygen is not answering the question definitively. The issue is that say, you build a very, very expensive space telescope and you have to decide if you want it to look for Oxygen or CFC. CFC is a shot in the dark: likely you won't see anything (see my previous comment). Which means likely no data, no PhD thesis, nothing. You pretty much wasted a few billion dollars and you're not ruling out much because what if civilizations only use chemical energy sources for ~200 yrs, then they all switch to nuclear fusion? On the other hand is likely Oxygen will show up as a signature in some exoplanets, and a lot of new understanding about exoplanet atmosphere and geology would follow. Which, among many other things, might help us narrowing down planets where to look for life and how. And next iteration of instruments we might be able to really discover life. So this is why review panels do opt for choices that are more likely to benefit the scientific community at large. It might sound a bit incremental at first, but it's how progress is made. This said, it's not like astrophysicists are not thinking about detecting technosignatures in exoplanetary spectra, see e.g. 3.2 in https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2009.0371 and e.g. https://elib.dlr.de/119683/1/1803.05179.pdf
Q: How many Haskell programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Irrelevant, that's a side effect.
Wonder how much he paid for it?
Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he did come up with algorithms.
Both PS Vita and Nintendo Switch have miles long credits listing all the licenses (mostly BSD) and authors of the many OSS software bits they use.
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider)? Or that birds brains are "wired" more dense, like our cerebellum?
A physicist, chemist, and programmer were going to lunch together.

When they got in the car though, it wouldn’t start.

“Maybe it’s out of gas?” said the Chemist.

“Maybe it’s a problem with the engine?” said the Physicist.

“Maybe if we all just get out of the car and get back in.”
This is a fantastic effort of 100+ volunteers [1] that are calling pharmacies and other sites offering vaccines throughout California and getting their eligibility requirements and daily updates on their vaccine availability.

I imagine they could use more help. Vaccine distribution is the #1 priority right now. This should be on the front-page!

[1] https://www.vaccinateca.com/who-we-are
I dont think this is true. I just tried with the following program and it runs as expected (Run on Python 3.7.9).

import logging
got = "%d"
logging.warning(f"hi {got}")
logging.debug(f"hi {got}")

Output

WARNING:root:hi %d
DEBUG:root:hi %d
If you involve serious compound exercises, weight training will also be a cardio workout.
That’s a slightly different principle, as it applies to intro-domain work as well (say refactoring code or redesigning a circuit board to reduce cost).

The issue at hand is mistaking one’s own competence in domain D as evidence of competence in domain R.
That is a very creative hack, but please never use it, as it destroys accessibility: screen reader will read all these brackets and numbers.
On the plus side you have just named the next Stephen King novel: The Harvestmen
New WhiteHouse.gov
Forks of Chromium are not controlled by Google. Google gave up the legal right to restrict what other parties can do with Chromium when they released it under a liberal open-source license. Google has a little influence over Chromium in that the people that designed and implemented Chromium mostly still work for Google.

Google has more control over Mozilla than they do over organizations that have forked Chromium because about 90% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google.
>You are replacing the usual meaning of AGI (a machine that can execute a wide variety of tasks in human to superhuman fashion) with a far stronger one (a machine that can complete arbitrary tasks perfectly).

No, I never make any assumption about AGIs being capable of completing arbitrary tasks perfectly. Indeed, that would be quite impossible, no agent could do that. The point is rather that the traditional RL agent cannot even comprehend environments with non-Archimedean rewards, but a genuine AGI would be able to comprehend them.
> Anyone with a gun can hold anyone else, you don't need to be "powerful".

> had I the inclination, skills, and firepower

That's a very big "had I", and certainly not "anyone with a gun" as you said previously.

Let me put it this way: suppose you're Bezos or Jack Ma and had access to unimaginable resources, comfort, and security from the best of the best. Surely it would be absolutely trivial to hire someone so that the vast, vast, majority of people with guns wouldn't be able to get to you, no matter how hard they tried, even _with_ so-called inclination and skills?

I'm not even referring to having guard detail around them all the time; when you're that important and hundreds of billions of market cap depends on your very existence, their entire schedules will be mapped down to the smallest detail to minimize risk of harm to them, since if they were to get kidnapped, it would immediately wipe billions off the stock price. Do you really think that the only reason Bezos hasn't been captured is because ordinary people with guns just chose not to do so, and if anyone wanted, they could just kidnap Bezos easily? What percent of ordinary people like you or I have "skills" and "inclination" that can beat that hired by Bezos' billions?
Williams Process