skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link to the 2001 article they base it from is broken, but it sounds like all their color words are just derived from nouns, maybe with some affix indicating 'of the color like'. The description is too vague to make a lot of sense.

There's lots of really weird and interesting things about Australian languages that would make better subjects for an article, like the avoidance register in Warlpiri. Hard to see why they chose that particular one.
As someone who worked at a FAANG and still struggled to find my next job, I can tell you that this is absolutely not necessarily true. It may moderately increase the number of recruiters that spam you, but in my experience, it did not otherwise make it any easier to find a different job. You're going to still have the 100:10:1 ratio. You're still going to get whiteboard-hazed. You make it sound almost as though you can just waltz through the door at most companies, simply for having worked at one of these FAANG companies in the past.
Unfortunately, map[t]bool (or map[t]struct{}) only works for special structs that happen to have equality defined for them. It's not a general purpose solution, it's just a hack.
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OK, but if any of those was actually saving lives I'd argue it should've been approved, side effects be damned.

Last time I looked, thousands of people were dying every day of Covid. Ignoring those just in case a vaccine is harmful is, IMHO, a bad tradeoff and I don't trust the people making it in my name. I prefer, in life-or-death situations, making my own (informed) decisions.
I don't know how much meaning you can take from the farewell video. But, to me, it looked like one of them couldn't go on anymore.
The Great Divide?
Grandmaster: Revolution? How did this happen?

Topaz: Don't know. But the Arena's mainframe for the Obedience Disks have been deactivated and the slaves have armed themselves.

Grandmaster: Ohhh! I don't like that word!

Topaz: Mainframe?

Grandmaster: No. Why would I not like "mainframe?" No, the "S" word!

Topaz: Sorry, the "prisoners with jobs" have armed themselves.

Grandmaster: Okay, that's better.
>> to start talking more about malware on macOS

We had this debate in my office today. Imho malware is any software that the user/owner of a system doesn't want running. Others were of the opinion that "malware" doesn't include software for which someone, perhaps other than the user, has a legitimate use. So surveillance software isn't malware because it can be installed on a target device legitimately. So too most bloatware, stuff I call malware but many large corporations do not.
Technically speaking cancellable sort requires non-local jumps, which includes exceptions but also many others (call/cc, delimited continuations, algebraic effects, ...). It can be also argued that the general idea of cancellation is an exception (as in futures). In any case we are not dealing with something unnecessarily requiring exceptions.
I think this underscores for me just how hard it is to equitably administer the earth's ecosystem. solar in Sahara => more Saharan vegetation => drought in Brazil & hurricanes for America. How the heck are we going to adjudicate stuff like this? Indeed ignorance would be bliss; unworthy stewards of the earth that we are.
What happened during start of pandemic is WHO and big tech meeting up to discuss the threat of an "infodemic". Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, agreed to suppress amateur takes on COVID. Mentioning COVID would vastly decrease your reach if not a verified public health source. It would get you demonitized, to not incentivise low-quality clickbait COVID videos. Of course, these algorithms are way more aggressive and produce more false positives (ads removed for just mentioning COVID without giving false cures, like happened here).

It has nothing to do with white or black and race. Just the nitwits at WHO and big business mismanaging crowd intelligence during a pandemic. WHO said masks do not work. Youtube banned users for mentioning vitamin D defiency and COVID. But they meant it well...
It is now, but wasn't originally. It was a touring show the first half dozen years until it went on hiatus. When it was revived in the (mid?) 2000s, it became a solo Chicago event.
Not all problems are specifically technical in nature.

One of the big issues with Go is that it's got a steep learning curve. (There was an article about this posted on HN yesterday, in fact)

Rust, by contrast, is an extremely easy language to learn. Of all the languages I've picked up at least partially in my ~12 years of professional programming, Rust was probably second only to to PHP in "get up and start running with it".

If Discord is trying to pick up new developers, or cross discipline seniors to improve their talent pool, Rust is definitely a better choice than Go.
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I take it you haven't been following what's going on with "Long Covid". But even among people who aren't hospitalized, there's lasting harm: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/91270

I know somebody who's had this. Despite never being hospitalized, after getting sick they had to take a long medical leave from work in hopes of getting their strength back. That's worlds away from "sick for a few days".
Personally, I didn't work on this, but I'm completely amazed. To think Curiosity did this 8 years ago as well is kind of staggering to me.
I wouldn’t work on such software.
To me it’s a synonym to shot or injection. It doesn’t seem particularly a Britishism. Perhaps they don’t use shot as much?
To everyone who is relatively new to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Large swings in price are entirely normal and they are rarely due to a straightforward reason. There are certainly some people who dumped some coins because of Elon's announcement, but the reporters are never mindful of the fact that correlation =/= causation. Generally speaking, be weary of any specific attribution to market movements in this space because it's chaotic.
They chose to risk the possibility of unlimited prices. They chose to abandon agents that would hedge against price spikes. They pocketed the money they "saved" and chose not to insure themselves against this possibility.

We have been subjected to sneering lectures from Texans and libertarians about the nanny state, socialist bureaucrats, freedom killing regulation, Venezuela, the Great Leap Forward and on and on. I'd suggest Texans kick such politicians out of government and replace them with ones that have advocated for sane policies PRIOR to this event.
Would an equivalent amount of solar located somewhere else have a different effect?
Zeller's design seems to be addressed at least in part by darcs/pijul using the methods described in David Roundy's Theory of Patches¹. A virtual filesystem seems like an especially nice way to solve the interface issues that would arise too.

It strikes me that I treat the result of git-rerere as a ridiculously weak version of this. I'll occasionally carry an unwanted integration branch simply to handle changes that could be managed correctly if there was a better way to express relationships in my tools. Having the functionality baked in to the graph with the associated strictness, and available across clone boundaries would be great.

¹ https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/david-roundy/Theo...
Why do you think you waste a lot of energy on climbs? For most riders, climbing speed is based on your power to weight ratio. So the easiest way to waste less energy is simply to reduce body fat.
> It is also a perfect example of how software is used to create increasingly more elaborate and faceless bureaucracies that force individuals to spend more and more time contending with them.

You are attacking the wrong target. It's the government that's broken. This kind of outrage can happen just as easily with pencil and paper. The root cause is the lack of accountability and desire to make the government function better.
Yes that would be honest.

But it’s not what they are doing. They are not saying it’s ‘a lot like’ a tax, the way you are. They are saying it is a tax.

What they are doing is dishonest.
This is an issue I've always hated about Steemit.com, too.

There were a few writing mediocre at best content making up to $1,500 a day/post at some point, just because they managed to gain a lot of followers initially, while everyone else had to deal with writing dozens of posts and making only a few dollars a month, if that.

Social platforms should take this "inequality" issue a lot more seriously. It's in their long-term benefit to have thousands, millions of people who "make it big" on their platform, not just a handful that make it "really big."
One note: For me it is much harder if I had control of the root cause because then it is my fault and I am crushing myself about how I was wrong etc.

If it’s some others fault, you can be sad but shrug it off more easily. Also, the others wont be as mad towards you.
I’ll note that I don’t have electric heat or central air. My electric is utilization is pretty low.

When I signed up I looked at the data for pricing and there wasn’t a time period in the data where I didn’t save. Now obviously that’s sort of the point of tail risk.

I’ve been looking for our regulators caps but haven’t found them yet.
If that's the case, why hide behind a pseudonym that seems like it was created purely for buying crypto art? I'm looking at one right now -- their Twitter says they're a "rare digital art collector", and links to their pages on SuperRare and MakersPlace, but doesn't have any tweets, and there's otherwise no identifiable information.

They've succeeded in demonstrating their wealth, but no one has any idea who they are, which seems to poke a hole in that theory.
It’s not the software makers who are committing the crimes. It’s the people abdicating responsibility to software. You can’t wipe your hands of releasing a prisoner on schedule by delegation that to software. The software can help you with your task, but if it’s brought to your attention that there’s a mistake, your failure to promptly fix it is on you.
Great post! Just heard about this from one of our customers who slacked me with "He is describing Ascend.io!" :-)

Having spent 15+ years writing big data pipelines and building teams who do the same, I couldn't agree more... the conceptual model we're all quite comfortable with is this notion of cascading, materialized views. The challenge, however, is that they are expensive to maintain in a big data pipeline context -- paid either in system resource cost, or developer cost. The only reasonable way to achieve this is a fundamental shift away from imperative pipelines, and to declarative orchestration (a few folks mention this as well). We've seen this in other domains with technologies like React, Terraform, Kubernetes, and more to great success.

I've written about this in tldr form @ https://www.ascend.io/data-engineering/, namely the evolution from ETL, to ELT, to (ETL)+, to Declarative. A also gave a more detailed tech talk on this topic @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVTXC0qPwE.

For those who are interested in a longer white paper on data orchestration methodologies, namely imperative vs declarative, this is a good read: https://info.ascend.io/hubfs/Whitepapers/Whitepaper-Orchestr...
All software has bugs. This is the mantra we are taught and for a good reason.

The answer is human oversight.
True, the pictures look pretty eerie (I had a professor whose first career was in nuclear reactors and he liked to show us pics). I imagine radiation that's dangerous is dangerous because it can impact a human body at a high speed, and we're mostly water, so...
That's probably why it confused me so much; I couldn't rule out that interpretation reliably enough to interpret it as a typo.
My pleasure. Enjoy! ;)
Here's the video of the landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
Ah I've often wondered about this when riding! I wear grippy shoes on spiky pedals, but not clipped in (or using a poorly-named clipless system).

Alternating left-right pushes feels very different than trying to maintain a continuous circular motion with quasi-equal force throughout. But unscientifically I can't notice any difference.
First google result worked for me: https://www.wsj.com/articles/there-isnt-a-coronavirus-second...
For 56 minutes this wasn't downvoted to hell on HN. This means that humans as currently existing are morally unprepared to handle any uploading.
https://github.com/ronaldstoner/sparrow-detector
These threads are always full of people criticizing these moves by companies. But nothing is gained of nothing is risked, right? Sometimes these things pay off, and we would never know without early adopters.
Perhaps software isn't the right place to implement the law?
Interesting. I'll have to take that into account when I choose my next device.
Like I said, I get defensive when people pit nuclear as a solution to the climate crisis, this is regardless of the context. I get equally defensive if the pit is “nuclear + renewables” or “nuclear only”. The reason is that I am skeptical of the claim that it is (there are ample nibling comments that demonstrate why) and that a false premise might affect public policy that hinders politicians from pursuing real solutions (like renewables).

I mentioned GMO as a prime example of this, as—if I remember correctly—the debate was most heated about a decade ago. The argument went that we needed GMO in order to get food security for our growing population. This was a distraction (or a red herring if you will) food security was not a problem of technology but of distribution. This distraction caused politicians to focus on the wrong things to solve world hunger. Instead of looking to change market regulations in order to distribute food more equally, politicians were contempt to lift trade restrictions on GMO crops and technology which solved nothing.

What I am saying is not that GMO is bad, or a lousy technology, but that GMO is not a solution to world hunger, and pitting it as such is distracting from actual solutions. Nuclear fits exactly the same bill in today’s world of the climate emergency.
And how does that matter in terms of:

1. Google's statement, is it still accurate then? Seems to me.

2. Firing the employee. There's one thing for the law to shield employee from legal repercussions in a situation of them sending communications to their lawyer and quite another for the company still being within rights to fire them because of that. A large set of perfectly legal actions can get you fired at almost any workplace.
I really enjoyed reading this article last time it was posted. I particularly like it because it shows evidence that current tooling wasn't doing the job. I believe I remember seeing some comments on how Discord was on an old version of go that wasn't receiving the benefit around gc collections, but we'll never know if that would've been a solution.

That all said, I've noticed that people here are really off golang in favor of rust. I believe I sort of understand. I've recently switched from python to go at work, and I frequently bring up why I like it so much (caveat I'm overly enthusiastic about the things I like related to my work). But again, that all said, at the end of the day, both Python and golang will definitely get the job done.
My only question was why did they wait so long? They could have rolled out 321kbps super-duper mode for $14.99 years ago. People would have paid for it.
Plane crashes of the last century deeply inform regulation of planes this century. It's why we have so few plane crashes despite massive increases in passenger-miles flown.
It's not that software is the exclusive enabler. It is that software is the ideal enabler because of its ability to create a truly faceless entity that seems to exist outside the power of even those who administer it. Of course these issues were always possible without software. Software is just so much more efficient and useful for creating these kinds of issues because it can scale and because it can be the scapegoat.
Hasn't this ground already been covered in Crossing the Chasm[1]? I.e. that in order to move your marketing from early adopters to the early majority pragmatists you need to build an integrated solution for a specific problem. E.g. the Mac and desktop publishing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
I've no experience with it, but I imagine it's like heroine or DMT or something like that. Wouldn't that come close to something that "hits some maximum"?
Saying something is a cost doesn’t make it a tax.

For what it’s worth, I know people who haven’t cut their hair in decades, without any serious consequences.
This article reeks of the author (and author's customers who read this blog) trying to justify away their internal guilt. Author is trying to paint a picture that "there is so much complexity this isn't easy to fix and no clear party to blame".

Nonsense. There should be a price ceiling to consumers during natural disasters like this and regulations powerful enough to mitigate them more effectively.

People are not able to make rational financial decisions when reducing power consumption means your 11 year old child could freeze to death. I think the death count from exposure (freezing to death) in TX during that period is now 4, and I expect that will climb as we get a more full picture.

Meanwhile, many office buildings and rich neighborhoods had relatively uninterrupted power. What resulted in this class-stratification of power availability?

An energy exec was recorded on a call saying that the storm was "very good for them" in reference to the high profits made during the storm. Should these companies be allowed to rake in cash on one side of the system while passing thousands of dollars bills to their consumers on the other side to profit off human misery and misfortune?

On the other side, other energy companies skimped on winterization, leading to their gas lines freezing. Does anyone think "not being able to price gouge during the 4 most profitable days this year" is sufficient market-punishment to change behavior of these actors?

ERCOT and the energy players built a system that killed several people and made hundreds of thousands miserable. Author says "ERCOT is not evil", but I disagree: intent is irrelevant if greed motivated lack or risk management results in this scale of death, misery and destruction. Everyone working to make energy a "free market" in Texas has a share of the blood on their hands from building a system that led to this outcome. There should be a thorough investigation and several people deserve to end up in prison as a result. But, being that this occurred in "free market" loving Texas, I won't be holding my breath.

Perfect example of why basic human needs should not be run as a for-profit "free market".
Thanks, didn't know that. Will have to look into it.
> The EU did not "thrash AstraZeneca".

Sure they did, they publicly try to shame them on not delivering on their contract. Turns out the commission has a hard time negotiotating and understanding contracts.

> The "closing" of the Irish border is a result of Brexit, you know the thing UK voters voted on.

The EU tried to close the border to Northern-Ireland to try and prevent allegedly export of vaccines.

Almost everybody agreed it was an irresponsible act, cleary lacking any diplomatical tact and sense of history. At least that was turned around quickly.

All in all quite a shameful episode. At least we can vote for the parliament.
Some folks don't like to deal with a swarming mass of tweaked out people. They just don't.

As someone who survived early 90s acid house and rave culture in the Bay Area, people falling over, spilling things on you, or being rambling goofs for hours on end had a limited life span. Frankly, a mosh pit was more comfortable, because there you at least KNEW what was expected and how to counter.
No, they’re effective on both. My point was that relying on herd immunity will never work again influenza but it responded sharply to the same measures helping reduce COVID cases.
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You guys should contact (some of) the F1 teams. They would certainly love to have more efficient motors in their hybrid PUs. A 5kg saving is literally worth millions in that business. Also Formula-E might be interested, but I don't know how free they are in their choice of material, so you might want to talk to the organizers.
Yup, but I'll bet a significant sum it corresponds with tonnage of neonicotinoid and other pesticide production (application).

This is truly a problem that free markets will never handle, by design

The market is great at identifying the utility of aggressive pesticides. Need found, production started, pricing, & distribution - insect crop damage 'solved' (for some values of 'solved').

Discovering that this 'solution' actually breaks the food web will also be 'solved' by the free market, as the last remaining produce that requires those pollinators spike from $/bushel to $/gram levels.

But, that will fail to create more production when pollinators are extinct, and even if they could be ressurrected from DNA libraries, the poisons are still spread.

Oh, and all the customers also died

Yes, regulation is massively inconvenient, and apparently inefficient, and one can always find egregious bad examples. But intelligent regulation is necessary for our survival.
And you should expect to be fired for doing so. I think both parties can be right to act as they did.
Usually botnet control systems like this will generate a new domain every day using some difficult-to-predict algorithm. Maybe seed it off of the previous day Dow Jones Index closing figure or something. This makes it a race to try to register the domain before the bad guys do.

I find it weird how all of the stories about this thing have the tone of "oh no, what could it be for, there is no payload!?!", when it phones home to a control server regularly waiting for payload. Guys, it's a botnet. They're just waiting for it to get big enough to be worth selling. This isn't some huge mystery. It could be used for hundreds of uses from DDOSing, to spamming, to being a covert VPN network, to Warez distribution, porn, etc... Plus it will probably eventually install a keylogger on the system to harvest CC numbers and passwords from the infected users, maybe run some crypto-locking ransomware if the devs need some bitcoin. All of the typical stuff you can expect after a box is rooted by one of these botnet operators.
The kinds of people who'd use SourceHut and Gemini [0] and run a lightweight desktop Linux distro?

RMS is famously unbending in his refusal to use non-Free software. There aren't many like him though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
The EU invoked Article 16 of the Northern Irish Protocol which is a temporary emergency closure of the NI border.

It was highly reckless given the sensitivity of NI politics.

I have no ill will towards the EU, but they messed up badly with that one.
For a while BIND had a reputation as a Swiss-cheese DNS server.

I think they fixed those issues after a major rewrite. But at least from the security point of view it was considered really bad. Functionally it did the job, but considering that DNS servers are frequently used on the open web, they're still major attack vectors.
Fairly sure there has been some reporting about this here in Germany, but very much in the general small updates bucket of news.
These benchmarks also in no way represent actual webapps. Have you seen this code? Have you ever written a webapp where not using hardcoded, static headers like Content-Length was a bottleneck?
deus ex ATM
At what point do you feel the developers - the ones who actually wrote the code - should be held legally responsible for that code's execution?