skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can Google around, generally there are good review sites out there (no one specifically is better than the other). I can give you a recommend for Seattle if your looking for it.
By Jove, Northington!

Look yonder at yon contraption! A beast of iron and stream that can pull yet more buttloads [0] than a team of a hundred horses doth speed along tracks at a brisk pace of 80 miles every hour!

Yes, yes... quite right, Wigglesbarton. Truly we live in an age of wonders!

Well, I must away to beat my servants. Cheerio, old boy!

[0]: Actual unit of liquid measurement, eq. to 126 gal.
You definitely don't even have to leave NY State, just the city and its environs. Rural Upstate NY has more in common with rural PA than it does with, say, Westchester or the Hamptons. Or even with most of MA.
And designing to please Google.
Nobody ever has to agree with me and I’m proud to be a minority of one.

However, you’re a beautiful writer and beautiful writers can cause immeasurable pain. I’ll always speak out in case another minority of one feels pain but is too ??? to speak out.

Seriously, take good care. This has been a wonderful thread and again, you’re a really beautiful writer. :)
I agree with this. Everything should be programmable, interoperable. Simple APIs, introspection, etc. Have systems emerge out of simple interactions built by users. Have more users depend on that.

Instead, we get silos, to better capture value. Users are consumers, and need only ingest what we feed them, to better keep them in check.

I'm not blaming anyone specifically here. Even OOP, and living cells tend to work the cell: keep your riches inside a membrane, and control every external interaction on your terms if you want to have it your way. Only... to some extent, as there is an equilibrium. Bacteria have plasmids. We at least have HTTP, for now (but it's not enough anymore due to captchas, js, etc).
It was called 'The Burrito Tool'.
Oh man, this is great. He even had a .costenarc file with the options, haha.

If I was him, I wouldn't have added the "lengua" option. I have not yet met a person that likes to eat lengua.
We're already there though..

I bought a action camera that is the size of a palm, with hardware 3D gimbal stabilization and can track faces and other objects. The video from which I can stream to my phone via bluetooth and it came to my doorstep 2 days after I ordered it online.

All of that involves computers of various size, sitting either in a miniature hardware in my hand or somewhere in a huge data center, and worked in tandem to provide an experience that is just mindblowing 20 years ago.
You're leaving out nutritional deficiencies. Specifically, magnesium, for which most are deficient.

When you increase your levels of magnesium, suddenly it's easier to be present, meditate, mental endurance increases, you can endure much more mental stress.

If you're deficient, it can lead to a bad, downward spiral.

Magnesium Status and Stress: The Vicious Circle Concept Revisited

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/12/3672/htm

"The idea of a bidirectional relationship between magnesium and stress was first introduced by Galland and Seelig, in the early 1990s [9,10] and then referred to as the vicious circle. This vicious circle implies that stress can increase magnesium loss, causing a deficiency; in turn, magnesium deficiency can enhance the body’s susceptibility to stress"
You can use field names or you can encode the type alongside. Ex:

{
“birthdate”: [“date”, “01-02-1991”]
}

And then in your codebase you know that all the values in your data are actually a list of (type, value). In this specific case I’d decide a “date” as “mm-dd-yyyy”

These are trivial problems. We have all solved them.

The root of the problem is wanting to put all your trust/hope/faith in the regular old JSON.encode and JSON.decode methods. Reading between the lines that is what I believe the author is frustrated with. It sounds like they want the equivalent to a Python’s pickle or PHP’s serialize. But of course you will quickly run into limitations there, too.

The lesson being: we will all need to augment vanilla serialization tools with little tweaks and enhancements to fit our specific use cases. Again, blaming the tool is not productive. JSON is not the problem. JSON can do all of the things the author wants it to do. The issue is that JSON.stringify cannot.
Weed is a fairly heavy-handed solution IMO. It’s likely to help with insomnia, but also to have significant side effects. Many people enjoy some of the side effects, which is great. But many do not, which makes it hard to recommend generally for insomnia.
Ah yes that makes sense. I am not familiar with the differences in emission patterns.
Note quite what I meant.

In this context being private is a huge advantage. Less filings and less shareholders and less publicity gives you a lot more room to manoeuvre.
Smart watches can detect symptoms of Covid-19
Melbourne CBD is an exception because of the huge amount of residents on temporary visas and students, both of which are locked out of the country at the moment. The rest of the inner city is back to normal, some parts like Chapel Street and Fitzroy St which definitely weren't thriving pre-covid seem to be now.

It's like watching nature come back after a fire, not every tree survives but the forest rebounds.
Can't help but wonder if receiving a professionally typeset burrito order by fax would have raised any eyebrows in 1992.
I would like to skip the clock ahead about 500 years, but I'm afraid of arriving in a desolate tomb world.

I feel like it wouldn't be that hard for a person from today, especially someone who keeps up with scientific and technological progress, to quickly get up to speed with the world of 500 years from now... but I might be wrong.
I love the presence of this talking point here because its usefulness is self-refuting in this case.

1. To guard against tyranny, always focus more on government overreach than corporate overreach because the government is the one with the guns.

2. Corporations scooping up endless streams of data don't get the same level of scrutiny and pithy talking points from libertarians as the entity with the guns.

3. Class of data-mining corporations collect so much data that it's functionally equivalent to a tyrannical government demanding direct access to everyone's location data.

4. The government-- the entity with the guns that we want to protect ourselves against-- simply buys access to the data from corporations to get around the law.

5. We've done a poor job of guarding against tyranny!

Edit: clarification
> silicon valley is thousands of miles away from all of them.

Intel does 10nm production at their fab complex in Chandler, AZ. About 600 miles away from Silicon Valley.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.06.20226803v...
It is hard to answer without knowing the individual developers and the company you work at. I work at Amazon and if I were to approach the same problem, I would do something like the following:

1. Understand if the consumers of the API have driven the choice or it is driven from development team. If it is consumer driven choice, you have a longer path ahead.
2. Focus on operational capabilities of the team and hopefully, point out that having three foundational tech stacks make the operations difficult.
3. Understand the skill set of your engineers and are they all comfortable moving from one tech stack to another?
4. All of these migrations are difficult and maybe start by building a facade in a commonly agreed upon tech stack to move the consumers out and then start moving one API at a time?

Use the powers vested in you in a subtle way to nudge people by providing carrots - maybe a positive impact on their career path, better recognition from other teams, cross-org influence etc.

Take your developers into confidence, be ready to explain why you want to move to a single tech stack and how it will help the team improve and be better for the developers and the consumers of the service. All the rest is about execution.
IMHO we've had only one material revolution from computing which offered the ability to move away from paper. For individuals and SMBs this was the spreadsheet, for larger organizations this was a centralized database with remote access. But after that I don't think we've seen a material improvement. Dumb terminals in the 80's gave just as much value to access data as their Windows GUI successors and then web/mobile. So aside from the spreadsheet I'd agree with the premise of this post, we're still not seeing a true computer revolution. It's mostly the same stuff with different interfaces.
New results on Gödel incompleteness: talk this Monday at 19:00 UTC
So filesystem meta data is being copied that references the physical cd but it's no longer associated with that cd once copied to magnetic storage? Is that what's going on here?
I find Unikernels fascinating, but I’m curious as to who is running unikernel based applications in production?
> Email is not decentralized. It relies on the central authority of domain registries.

By that definition, almost every chat app is centralized, especially if you include the step of downloading it over HTTPS. In any case, it would be possible to further enhance email using something like SMTorP so that .onion addresses are used instead.[0]

> And then if you do decide that whatever encryption scheme you've chosen is right for you, there's no guarantee any significant mass of people supports it.

The same is true of any system which is proposed as an alternative to email. Admittedly it will be difficult for a UI to convey the security properties of messages when you are interacting with users whose email clients don't support the recommended extensions, but there is always the risk that a recipient will copy-paste the plaintext of your securely sent message into an unsecured channel.

[0] https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP
Of course, we need to give the common stalker and cutthroat corporations a chance to make up the gap.
"In keeping with long standing Unix tradition, the syntax for specifying burritos is somewhat obscure."
You still can today but "leaving your bubble" is not common.
The reason why habits don't work is because habits don't work. Unless you actually change your mind (what is causing these habits) in a pretty comprehensive, introspective way, habits won't get you anywhere.

Although if you are super down with habits, you should keep going. Just saying it's probably a dead-end, and if you really need to solve your problems (i.e. some habits are so crucial that you need to form them/get rid of them to proceed in life), then habit-hacking (or just any sort of self-help in general) won't help. Start looking in the direction of meditation, or just whatever you feel like. Relax a whole lot. The self-help industry is fueled by anxiety.

Belief makes most self-help work, which is also why it is hard to un-believe it in case it's wrong. Very weird corner of the world, that is, the self-help space.

*: Habits that work aren't habits that were constructed.
But it doesn't explain anything. It's ability to explain is entirely unproven.

The social sciences for a long time were just ancient white men writing ever larger treatises "explaining" everything. None of it had any explanatory power and fell apart at the slightest mention of an actual experiment.
Minor nitpick, selling the data probably isn't a service. It would be an action taken to help support the actual service via better monetization.
To me, the world's most famous teapot is the Utah teapot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
You’re an excellent writer!! Again, while sad, this has been a wonderful thread, full of amazing writing.

(I’m on your side but that’s an aside. You’re a really beautiful writer.)
Which is why it is so odd that the differences between them are as large as they are. If they all buy the same ingredients, why is TSMC's secret sauce so much better?
When you hear hoofbeats in Africa and are puzzled, think zebras, not horses: espionage, not warez
I wish we could have something similar in modern times. Instead, we have a handful of equally-shitty delivery platforms with terrible and bloated UIs and no API.
I suppose suburbs are not the most efficient way to live. My priority is quality of MY life, which I find is higher in the suburbs. So i am willing to not be optimized because thats not what provides value to me.
Javascript would have been a Scheme dialect, had it not been that NetScape's management said no.
Not sure what I’m doing “wrong,” but I have no nightmares packaging Python, it all just works. I suppose some ecosystems have done it better, but no complaints from me.
I've had a Galaxy S9 for 2+ years now and I've always found Samsung's Android browser to be far superior to everything else available. People love to crap on Samsung for their software, but their browser is a real solid piece of software.

I just tried Firefox for the 5th time (over the past 2 years) last week and it was so much slower to load pages, and the scrolling experience was quite poor.

Samsung's dark mode is outstanding and while less flexible, a lot less clunkier than Firefox extensions. Any browser without a viable Dark mode setting (for sites i.e.) is a non-starter, especially when you can enjoy dark mode reading in bed with a great OLED screen.

Tab browsing and private mode both work really well.

Text zoom and general page layouts are much more readable. Accessing old.reddit.com via Firefox was a mess with the font being tiny, whereas it is totally usable on Samsung's browser.

Ad blocking works quite well as well. At the end of the day, Samsung's browser gets out of the way and executes really well on all the main things you'd want in a browser.

I really want to use Firefox or a similar browser that I trust more with my privacy, but at the moment, Samsung's browser is miles better than all the other browsers I've tried using.
Yeah that’s definitely the concern.
Are we being downvoted because it's not related?
remote work during a global pandemic wouldn't be possible without computer revolution
It doesn't explain porn. Most people watch porn in isolation and never talk about it so it can't be based on signaling. Hence it doesn't explain everything.
In some ways we've gone backwards. The 80s green screen computers that my public library I had as a kid were really well-designed and efficient to use. The modern, web-based GUI of my public library today is not.

(Though I would say there's a gazillion ways we've gone forward. Videochat, youtube, twitter, and tiktok are all amazing things.)
If their services include providing consumer intelligence about cellular customers to other businesses, that is presumably included even though you are not the beneficiary of such commercial efforts.
I cleaned up this list by category and added descriptions to every site: https://github.com/billmei/every-proximity-chat-app

(Originally I replied to your previous comment with lots more sites as a raw list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664862 )
> You can use field names or you can encode the type alongside. Ex:

> { “birthdate”: [“date”, “01-02-1991”] }

> And then in your codebase you know that all the values in your data are actually a list of (type, value). In this specific case I’d decide a “date” as “mm-dd-yyyy”

This addresses neither of the problems I referenced from the article. The problem you've chosen to demonstrate is, indeed, trivial.

> It sounds like they want the equivalent to a Python’s pickle or PHP’s serialize.

They very much want the opposite. I wonder how you can read the article and conclude that they want an all-in-one serialization facility. The image at the end of the post well summarizes their position [0].

[0] https://einarwh.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/json-serializati...
I found this article from the aforementioned Steve: http://plinth.org/techtalk/?p=81

Maybe he still has screenshots! I really want to see what MacBurrito looks like.

EDIT: Some fun snippets from his (public) resume:

* Wrote XBurrito, a Motif-based GUI for ordering food from a taqueria via fax

* Wrote MacBurrito, an innovative approach to CABO (Computer-Aided Burrito Ordering). It features a virtual tortilla and a drag-and-drop interface for specifying your order
> So what am I suggesting? I’m suggesting letting JSON serialization be about JSON only. Let JSON serializer libraries handle translating between text and a representation of the JSON object model. They can do that one job really well, quickly and robustly. Once you have that, you take over! You take direct control over the mapping from JSON to your own model.

I’m mainly immersed in the Scala world so I’m not sure what solutions in other languages look like, but this is essentially what Circe[0] does, and very well IMO. You write Encoders/Decoders for your domain model which serialize your data to the JSON object model and the library takes care of serializing that to text. In most simple cases you can probably just use the (semi)auto-derived Encoder/Decoders so you don’t need to actually write them, but that’s besides the point which is that Circe does have this separation of concerns and makes working with JSON mostly painless (at least for me).

[0] https://circe.github.io/circe/
> We haven’t seen it as “government control”,

The quotation marks are misleading because I never referred to government control. Instead, I am referring to the "fantasy of control."

However, now that you mentioned it, in these countries with low observed infection rates, are people free to gather in groups? Are they allowed to engage in usual activities? Are they allowed to travel freely?

If the answers to those and similar questions are not all no, then, clearly not everyone is willingly isolating themselves, and people who entertain fantasies of control or directing the power of government to limit their freedoms.

They have done so without ever paying attention to the costs of such limitations on the usual functioning of human beings.
> hit piece against Telegram.

it just lists actual facts. Telegram is for some reason hugely overrated. Even Whatsapp actually is better from a privacy standpoint because of default e2ee. Not to mention that if you're alienated by Facebooks business culture what to make of Telegrams strange ICO experiment that ended with them having to repay investors.
Are you on Linux? People with Macs and Windows seem to be having more problems, because on Linux there's usually one canonical Python installation, whereas on Mac you usually have one from brew, one from Apple, maybe one you downloaded from the site, and whenever you try to install things it's a gamble which Python was used.
Not sure I buy that explanation. Looking through this repo, the kernel, drivers, and many core libraries seem to be written from scratch with no dependencies. There are some deps for reading images, and other things outside of kernel/driver function, but this seems mostly written from ground up (A rust based OS could bind to a C/C++ png or sound file library in the same way).

Writing an OS is a fiddly task to say the least. It's one thing to be motivated to create an OS regardless of language (such as this), vs let's create one to showcase a language. It's harder to recruit people for the latter frankly, and having written OS and kernel code, it's fiddly work that more people talk about then actually enjoy doing it over the long haul.

Also in defense of Redox, I think it has far different goals, rather than getting something up and running with interactivity quickly. SkiftOS is much more "toy"/fun hacking vibe.
Perl has "little mindshare" and "little new development" in the same way as Bash. It's there, people who understand unix will reach for it when it's appropriate and it's as indispensable.

I want to know which distro removed perl because that's quite a drastic step and am interested in studying it. Sorry if that offends you.
1000+ NLP models, 300 languages, translate, summarize - John Snow Labs NLU 1.1.0
> Killfiles!

Ah yes, censorship rears its ghastly head again. Or, what a quaint approach to spam.
Not to belabor the point, but what OSes are actually written in C++?

Most will avoid using many if any C++ features even if they ostensibly use a C++ compiler, and most OSes I've seen (Linux, Windows, Darwin) have kernels written in explicitly C.

Skift appears (at a very quick glance) to be using more "C++-ish" features than typical, though it's still more "C-ish" than your average C++ code.
Another word for DSLs is functions (and objects).

DSLs are just better integrated into the base language so your source code doesn't look like:

three = two.add(one)
so if this was still being done by fax machine, you could replicate the same functionality today with some commerical ($1.50/month plus 0.009 per minute) email to fax services.

the requirements are that you must designate a specific email 'from' address that can send faxes, you put the destination fax number in the subject line, and the email must contain a .PDF attachment which is the contents of what you want to fax.

you could have a shell script that would collect the burrito ingredients requested, generate a pdf, send it to an smtpd on localhost, with an appropriate smtp relay path outbound from your LAN to get to voip.ms

see section 7 here. you don't need a DID dedicated to incoming faxes to use the outgoing service.
https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Virtual_Fax
Just because people don't understand all the technical details doesn't mean they are sufficiently ignorant to cash in on power words like consent. While I realize it's shortsighted reasoning, it's incredibly common to hear some variant of "x already knows everything about me so who cares" or "my stuff's already in the cloud, I bet x could get to it if it mattered". People in the mainstream are /already/ assuming the worst case scenario, they just don't care as much as we think they should and the only reason the Europeans do is because they're not the ones running the services so the power balance is different.
Could someone grab them, melt them, then make dirty bombs?
This is how everyone is already using JSON.

This post is complaining about a problem that doesn’t exist.
this was their _second_ polar orbit mission from Florida

first was SAOCOM 1B back in August 2020:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/08/31/spacex-launches-first-...
That's working now. Thanks for noticing.
"What they have is cars on the road collecting data" ... what do the ToS say about this? Is this really true they are gathering data from all their customers? I havent seen uptick in my internet bandwidth as Tesla owner.
This is the aerodynamics they teach you first as an undergraduate. It is not nonsense, but there are better methods out there. It might be good for your use case, it might not. Comes down to what you’re trying to accomplish.

Other solutions I am aware of have steep learning curves, so maybe give it a try.
Your take is more sensible than the one I had. The community solar sells S units to somebody else, credits me with the monetary proceeds of the sale (and possibly a share of the associated Renewable Energy Credit proceeds), and charges me 90% of that "accounting fiction". They make money off the difference between the rates they invoice me for and the wholesale rates they actually sell the energy for (via a PPA or something).

I still argue that (N+S) units of energy are actually generated. The original generator of N units has no knowledge of the community solar arrangement, and is producing the N units of energy. Unless the community solar is lying about producing S units of energy -- remember, they are never disclosing S, only the associated monetary amount -- they too are selling S units to somebody else at a wholesale rate but getting their cash flow augmented by invoicing me.
What a tangled web of cashflows!

I think that a PV array on the roof is preferable in situations where a purchaser is able to do that. Less financial engineering, and more physics! YMMV.
I've been mulling a "slow conversation platform" but so far my ideas aren't any more novel than Wikipedia with edit delays which just isn't compelling