skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s continually amusing to me that some of the most outwardly “anti-religious” people (I’m reminded of this Silicon Valley scene [1]) adopt belief systems and act in ways that are nearly indistinguishable from American Protestantism,

This is an empty statement. You accuse him of somehow behaving similar to "protestants" with zero further description of why or how this is true.

Lot's of disparate intellectual movements share many ideas, it doesn't make them any better or worse or have any bearing on their value at all.
This reminds of my DS class at a normal state uni. We started with about 30 students, 7 showed up for the final exam. 2 walked out during the exam.
That's nice they call. I'm aware of a variety of business listings they helpfully automatically update to be wrong. The only way to know is to check back often.
You’re suggesting that a head of state (more, a sovereign) should have the right to rule subjects by decree in private. I think that most would agree that the citizens should have the right to know how the laws they live under came to be. You are unfair to conflate Greenwald's advocacy for everyday individual privacy with the Queen’s right to rule arbitrarily.
For comparison, the original Reddit homepage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050804002153/http://www.reddit...
It's not necessarily a bad thing. We have folders and file names because we lacked a search feature. Now if you want "the file where I said X..." you search for X, and there it is. No need to remember where you put it; no need to remember the precise name of it. GMail trained them not to need folders, and I assure you I don't miss them.

If people need folders and file names, they're there. People will rediscover them and reinvent all the techniques we did. But they're also inventing new techniques that fit their workflows. Workflows that are more efficient because they're built around their toolkit, not our toolkit.

Like the toolkit of just doing everything online. I've got Google backing up almost everything I do, faster, cheaper, and better than I can. And available anywhere. Not only is it there if I lose my laptop, it's there if I left it at home and want to use my phone, or somebody else's computer.

Different times call for different mechanisms. They'll take time to shake out, see what survives and what doesn't. But things they don't learn aren't necessarily signs of weakness. They may be signs of new strengths.
I'm reacting to the central conceit of the piece, that this process of royal consent is somehow undemocratic.

This is the system of government that the people of Britain have chosen, and the impact of the queen is exclusively a political problem. If there was a serious difference between the will of Parliament (Commons) and the Queen, the result is a foregone conclusion.
For those completely out of the Windows-loop : what are those new features?

I do know about WSL, which you could consider an anti-feature in a way.
I was hoping the Queen's consent would be about things like foreign policy, going to war, etc. But it's just about laws that could possibly affect the Queen's income. That sounds just like garden variety corruption.
Hey guys! I'm Ansgar (https://github.com/gruns). I built Pep because I believe Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are the future. They turn websites into apps that load quickly, work offline, and can be installed like native apps.

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We built Pep to solve that.

I'd love to hear your thoughts -- good and bad. Feedback is how good products become great.
I’ve followed these things over the years. Had many discussions with people, including a few Python luminaries, but I honestly never expected this day would come. I fell in love with pattern matching when I learned Erlang and Elixir and it’s bugged me ever since that I didn’t have any built in equivalent in Python, until now!
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Jose Valim is so prolific; I love seeing what he comes up with.
I hope you mean Golang's type system. It is indeed underwhelming. However it is arguably the poorest type system in popular usage. Therr exists much better, which I encourage you to explore - Typescript, Haskell, Rust
That's kind of misleading, like there's some sort of built-in support in some sort of go command that does that already.

"go generate" is really a red herring. It's completely meaningless. It allows you to define some commands that get run when you type "go generate", but... if I define a shell script called "blah", I can get some commands to run every time I type "blah". go generate doesn't do anything useful.
Yes, you can import your data (and synch in the near future), create cohorts and message them.

We then manage user consent & permissions for further comms / participation.

Drop me a line at ned@greatquestion.co if you want to see if this might be a fit
Not only that, but Signal has indicated that third-party clients are not welcome to use their servers. So even if you contented yourself with forking the client, you can't use it.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
> The fact that golang doesn't have the equivalent of Java's `final` is just poor design.

That Java dropped C++-style `const` is also poor design.

We're just all really bad at this.
I was randomly chosen to come up with an event for my team, a couple of weeks ago. Our team had recently doubled in size, and I have never met some of them face to face. So I decided to come up with a 1 1/2 slot, where a team member could present something about themselves. Be it a hobby, interest, holiday, interesting story, game you played e.t.c. people were given the option to join and watch only, or present. a
About a 1/3 of my team volunteered. So we had around 10 presentations. I personally presented my beer brewing hobby. At the end people sent me there favourite (I like to call them lightning talks) and who ever got the most won some money. It was great. Found out stuff I never knew about people. And the winner was a guy who did wood carving in his spare time, particularly
Daenerys from Game of Thrones. People who were from other countries talked about there homes and some about photography, there was a guy who talked about his heavy metal interest, another archery and the others were interesting to.
> When it finally catches up, that bear can take many forms. Running out of money, losing interest, burning out, partners falling out, family or life situations changing, markets shifting and opportunities disappearing… That bear is running out of time.

It’s funny because I read many books and HN posts until I launched 7 years ago, and I was prepared for all situations (including downs) and all went well.

But no-one had told me that one. Fortunately, my startup is my longest streak in a single employment (2.5 max for the other ones, I’m missing recognition in the real world), but now I feel it’s time to enquire how one jumps out of this.

- Intermediaries like Corum Group only accept to help you sell if you are worth 6-30m€ (I’m around there, but, being sole owner, it’s hard to prove a valuation),

- When selling a startup, there are always provision clauses that a lot of liabilities will remain with you. Which defeats the role of an LLC (or equivalent in Europe).

So it’s hard to sell or jump ships.

This is just food for thoughts for the wannabe-entrepreneurs here — but by all means, that was my best professional experience and I had immensely more recognition naked in front of a market than in companies where the boss wouldn’t even coach me into improving myself, apart from “be the best of the team and we may promote you – 9 month later — maybe.”

So: THANK YOU HN!
I like to build things from source, but I'd also like to hear more details about the problems encountered.

The whole tiers thing is first of all a chicken and egg problem. Which probably could be solved faster by keeping Drew invested. I also constantly have to fiddle with rust's lack of support for T2 (armv7-linux-musleabihf in the past and aarch64-linux-musl now, having given up on the former) and I agree that this aspect sucks and hinders adoption. And furthermore it defies one of rust's main goals, security: With something like ME/PSP having unrestricted access to whatever they want, why bother that much about memory safety?
Without a doubt the worst subreddits are the unmoderated ones.
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15 crimes per 100 people is a lot higher than I'd have expected for that stat. Probably it contains a large number of crimes that are minor or petty so don't attract notice.

The surge in crime people mean when referring to Sweden is this sort of thing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50339977
Does he really say something in the vein that it wouldn't be as bad if they did this in writing ?
"[...I]mplementing large scale vaccination while large numbers of infected people interact with immunized people sounds like an efficient way to discover vaccine-escaping strains. This vaccine-escaping selection should be more than offset by the fact that vaccination will result in fewer infections and lessen the opportunity for more, worse strains to evolve.

Still, it would be better if we could avoid exposing a huge population of immunized people to a huge population of infected people. It's obvious everything would be better with fewer infected people, but it's still dawning on some that benefits include fewer strains and maybe more effective vaccination impacts."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071768
Well now I know what CPU to get for my Dwarf Fortress machine! (5950X)
In this connection I think it's worth mentioning that in healthy natural ecosystems beavers manage water.

"Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter"

> Eager reveals that our modern conception of a natural landscape is wrong, distorted by the trapping of millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat.

https://www.bengoldfarb.com/eager

Here's a video with the author:

> Environmental journalist and author Ben Goldfarb joined us to discuss the history of this world-changing species; how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, and climate change; and how we can coexist with this vital but occasionally challenging species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeuYhvPaeAw
Wow. It's almost like Rust has 20 years of programming language development experience on Haskell.

(Note: Haskell and Rust are different languages, for different uses. Haskell has many advantages over Rust (some of which the author (and I) have probably complained about at some point). But many of the things that Rust does right and Haskell does wrong, Rust gets right because Haskell did them wrong.)
Just because a slogan is "all over" doesn't mean that people actually believe in its literal meaning. It's kind of like the difference between "black lives matter" and "all lives matter". The literal meaning of both of these slogans is clearly true and so on their face they are not at odds with each other. But there is a sub-text to both slogans that pits them against each other.

Likewise, "Silence is violence" doesn't literally mean what it says. What the people who recite it actually mean, I suspect, is that if you do not actively speak out against racism then you are complicit in it, which is a not-entirely-unreasonable position.

But McWhorter was not talking about the slogan. His wording presents it as a literal truth.
I know that expectations are different between 1st and 3rd world nations. But, here goes nothing.

Back home in India, people frequently die on the streets and 50% of the children are malnourished. It is odd to see Americans get passionate to the point refusing to engage with the opposition on issues. Especially when the problems do not seem as major when put in perspective with the problems facing 3rd world nationals.

I live in an international community house and the difference between European and American progressives is quite stark. The Europeans are economically quite left and socially progressive, but cannot empathize with the American culture war at all. Macron and Le Pen voters can enjoy a drink together. This new anti-racism movement specifically stumps most of us non-Americans, many of whom are minorities and from ultra-liberal communities ourselves.

Engaging sincerely with someone in opposition reveals an incredibly amount of nuance that most difficult issues have. Prescriptive politics of coercion is often brought down by blind spots that could have been avoided had they only been less pigheaded about it.
And unsafe, since you can trivially make a `Genre(1138)` and that's correct, compile-able code.

The same is true for a `Genre(0)`, which is easy to make by accident with just a `var genre Genre` declaration (that's a `Genre(0)` already). Or by ignoring an error return, like in `json.Unmarshal(data, &genre)` (that func returns an error, but that fact is invisible in text, and you are not required to assign or handle it. fun for code reviews!).

You can also have a Genre-arg func like `func GenreToString(g Genre) string` and call it with `GenreToString(12345)` and that'll also compile.

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Go does not have anything even remotely like enums. It has a short-hand for auto-incrementing constants, nothing more. As if that were somehow the most valuable part of constants / enums.
The HCE test is complicated, but it basically amounts to ensuring that the disparity between 401k plan usage isn't too great by compensation (so like a Gini coefficient for 401ks).
The way Google satisfies the test probably comes down to three factors:

1. All employees are opted into the plan at hire at 10% of salary, possibly even with a default 1% contribution increase per year (I'm unsure).

2. It's actually not exactly 50% match; it's 100% match on the first $3k and then no additional match on the next $3k, or in other words, it's 100% match that smoothly decreases down to 50% match by $6k and then stays at 50% all the way up to the IRS limit. This helps reduce the 401k "Gini coefficient"; it's progressive contributions.

3. A lot of the lowest rungs of jobs are TVCs, not employees, so they don't even count for this test because they're technically employees of another company (which itself would have a much worse 401k plan than Google's, if any). It's not great but it's relevant here :/
Does anyone know where I could find a dataset with the location of all (or many/most) dams in the world? I've got an idea...
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hmm..I get your point. I searched for Kafka alternatives for a bit before including it on our stack. Though, I couldn't find something more adopted by all. It would be good to know a few Kafka alternatives you prefer which can handle equivalent production scale?
I wonder if private members' bills are subject to the same consent. As far as I'm aware, the first time the chamber hears of these bills is when they are submitted by the member, and presumably by that stage it's public and can't be retracted without bringing a huge spotlight on this obscure rule. A private member's bill could therefore potentially be used to bring about the abolition of this practice.
Agree! We've just been doing a simple Spotify playlist before all hands, shared over Zoom. Works great with everyone just quietly hanging out together for a while and sets the mood for the meeting. Most recent was a 1992 theme for our internal launch celebration of https://steampipe.io (a tool to query cloud resources using SQL).
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What languages do you tend to use?
It would also make an interesting companion product if the rumors of a switch to the Linux kernel turn out to be true, though more likely they'd just "Linux 10" alongside Windows for a while.
But they were never a consumer product in the first place :)

Not saying that they couldn't be useful to consumers, but they're not sold for consumer hardware like intel. They have some strange preconceptions about what consumers need, unfortunately. The same way we still don't have ECC memory in 2021 :/
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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html

A lot of conditions render you ineligible for ever obtaining certain vaccines.

This is usually accounted for through herd immunity.
I can agree with that for the most part. The only point I don't exactly agree on is putting too much weight on being first to market.

Like you said, being first to market comes with the burden of having to educate the market about what the offering even is, whereas having competition means the market exists already and you won't have to do (as much of) this work.

In the end, there are plenty of examples of best-in-market beating first-to-market, and vice versa. And here we are trying to predict the weather :p
Agreed - it's a bad use-case for a decentralized block chain, like all of the other uses brought up so far.
honestly I think it would have been more profitable to modernize ErlPort to better interconnect with the python ecosystem and even other programming languages. I think it will be difficult to move some companies away of their current computation frameworks.
Yes, and so their "staff" engineers stay Sr. Engineers. Isn't that the same point I made?
X interface{} // int(3) | int(5) | []float64 | *Z

It sucks.
This seems to be a sound argument, but it doesn't explain why this doesn't apply equally to all large organizations.

Amazon, for instance, is known to have customer obsession as its core value. I think it succeeded at maintaining it so far (at least from my perspective as a customer). And, yes, that value is helping them make more money.

Maybe, in a large organization, the leadership has an important role in instilling the right values and preventing the shift towards money as the singular focus?
nit: public github repo != f/oss.
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How does one even become a monarch? They weren't always hereditary, and it would be interesting to see what they were based on. Seems like you need some kind of divine recognition, as otherwise you're just a dictator.
Creeping as a Service
What was so good about the old internet that we don't have anymore? I'm curious, as I've been online since 1994/1995. I can't imagine going back to it.
So effectively measuring HRV can possibly predict a covid infection.

Is it possible to measure someone's heart rate from a distance? I thought I read about an experiment where this was done, I think with WiFi devices.
Well it’s clear whatever point you were making was completely opaque, at least to the person you posted it to. Since it’s opaque, why are you surprised I called it something different than you had in mind? instead of clarifying what I very clearly stated did not make any sense, you posted a terse reply that provided no explanation as to what you actually meant.
It's unfortunate that it is so much cheaper to order something on another continent and fly it over. Is there really no way to source custom parts made in the USA without it costing an arm and a leg?
C++'s const has some issues, so I can see why. Plus, it's possible to design around it by means of immutable data structures (e.g. see Scala).

I think that Rust's approach is superior to C++'s here, but even that has some issues so they have to retort to interior mutability via RefCell.
I'd start by questioning why the article critizes Biden and Obama while defending Trump, who is famous for calling any news that made him look bad 'fake news'.
As strange as it looks, parser theory is not very relevant on practice for writing parsers. You just use some parser generator or a parser combinators library if your language allows them, and you won't have many problems (except for maybe they being slow).

It is way more relevant for optimizing parsers performance and for designing languages syntax.
> That's a pretty bold statement.

I use computers for 10-20 hours each day. I've come up with some pretty bold opinions based on actually wanting to improve efficiency of using computers. Someone else's ideas of aesthetics almost always conflicts with efficiently using the computer.
I always turned to TotalBiscuit for indie recommendations while he was still around...

Just had to vent a bit because in my mind CDPR are (still!) the good guys who attempt to hold high standards of old, not least due to GOG. And then they receive this amount vitriol that they publicly apologize (what for? that they made a competent and highly relevant game?) and now this attack.

Can we please banish consumerist entitlement and corporate nonsense from the videogame world please?
Slightly tangential. I really would like to thank José for creating all of this! I have been using Elixir a lot and the language, the ecosystem and the community are amazingly cohesive, friendly and put a strong emphasis on good uncluttered design. If it was not there, something would be sorely missing. I was wondering if something like nx was coming. Together with Flow and Beam you can put the better part pf GCP in one binary with a few lines of pretty code.
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As a foreigner who has only occasionally read articles in the NYT when following links to them, I think the issue is more like extreme disappointment than hate.

It's clear from reading comments by Americans (not just on HN) that the New York Times was considered something of a cultural institution, a pillar of society, a bit like how the BBC used to be perceived in the UK. Perception: If the NYT published something then it was almost certainly true, it was high quality, it cared about journalistic standards, was respected around the world, a unifying force, etc.

Then at some point the NYT changed. A lot of news institutions changed. Or maybe we just got the tools to understand their true nature, who knows. Whatever happened, that perception is now fatally damaged amongst very large numbers of people, in fact majorities of people in both the USA and the UK are now telling pollsters they no longer trust the NYT or the BBC. Those people are angry about it. They want to be able to trust these institutions - it makes life simpler if you can read the news and believe it. But they're realising that they cannot. This anger mixed with disappointment can sometimes look like hate, and in some cases it perhaps becomes that, because these institutions are still vigorously manipulating the large minority that still trusts them and it's natural that this could cause resentment.
Attention Mechanisms
"What Technology Wants" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Technology_Wants
>culminating in the horror of the ribbon bar)

I'm sure this is still an unpopular opinion, but I've come around to the idea of the ribbon bar. Toolbars as they were pre-Office-2007 usually only contained duplicates of entries that were already in the menu. The menus are difficult to discover things in and limited to only showing text (at least in the "classic" sense like Office 03 used). Ribbon bars take the discoverability of a toolbar and make it use only as much space as a menu would. It's a solid compromise IMO.
It'd piss people off in the USA, too
Jekyll + Gitlab for CI/CD

It's been great.
The truth should never be something someone can sue another person over. Gag orders applied to victims are bullshit, the offender in the case is nearly always a powerful entity. They shouldn't get to do the crime and pay their away from scrutiny.
The idea is not "thrown around". It is called the Carnegie Unit: A course should be designed so that for each unit there should be 1 contact hour and 2 hours of outside-class work. This is the standard way courses are implemented in North American universities.