skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story isn't as dire as it sounds like. Yes there are multiple stdlib alternatives, but I wouldn't classify any of them as a "wrong" choice. They interoperate pretty well, and using one stdlib alternative will not block you from consuming libraries where the maintainer chooses another stdlib alternative.

I tend to look at this situation as there are multiple really high quality options to pick from. Base [1], and core [2] and containers [3] are the three options I typically recommend people to look into (if they are interested in options outside of the stdlib), and all three are really high quality. Your decision could end up being as easy as deciding which platforms are important for you, if you don't care about windows and need to work with unix apis then core or containers are excellent options. If you do care about windows, then starting with Base/Containers is an excellent choice.

[1] https://opensource.janestreet.com/base/

[2] https://opensource.janestreet.com/core/

[3] https://c-cube.github.io/ocaml-containers/

Some additional notes:

* Core can be seen as an extension to base as it has a very similar API (It re-exports many modules from base), and it adds some unix related utilities and additional data structures.

* The built in Stdlib in OCaml has also been improving and if you are able to use a recent compiler version you might not feel the need for an stdlib alternative.

* Containers is an excellent "default" option as it tries to provide a similar API as the stdlib and works on all major platforms supported by OCaml.
I use Next Up: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/up-next/id1355117041

Does the job, and only costs $19.99/yr.
Heyo Kicks! Long time user, love it.
One feature would be nice, a possibility to change background colors and such. My eyes cant seem to adapt to the deep blue behind white and i get a headache from it sometimes

Wrong place to put in a ticket i know, but love the project!
The globe button on newer Macs can be retasked to call up the emoji input panel (I guess any button could be before with custom keyboard shortcuts but now it's a simple dropdown in keyboard preferences.)
Airbnb has around 7 million listings vs the clone with 0 listings.

It’s an apples-oranges question, these are just examples of OSS code not actual products.
LinkedSecrets Synchronise Secrets Between Cloud Secret Manager and K8s Secrets
Presumably the magnetite is very finely divided and intimately connected to the material it is removing from the water; to reuse it surely one must detach the magnetic material from the plastic. It is not obvious to me that this is easy to do with high effectiveness. Presumably we do not want finely divided magnetic material to escape into the environment or for it to be included in the recovered plastic.
Ah, you caught me there ;). I was hoping someone would spill their secret quantum gravity theory on Hackernews.
I think static forces in quantum mechanics have a little bit different part of the framework:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_forces_and_virtual-part...

Even though nothing is fully static, it is a way of approximating.

So the theories would presumably have something similar for the static gravity case you are describing.
Unfortunately, banks don't see mainframe-based applications as a competitive differential. If they did, they would invest more heavily on that.
Writing a cloud-native distributed system for everything is not free; software development is a bigger expense than raw capacity for many use cases.
CLM Icertis Bags $80m Values at $2.8B
I'm not sure it is getting easier to cloak identity, because privacy-defeating mobile phones are required to do more and more things in society, for example:

1) Around the world, ID is increasingly required to buy a SIM card, because governments want one-to-one mapping between a phone number (and IMEI) and a particular person. Surveillance-heavy countries can then trivially link all mobile web-browsing to that particular person.

2) Nearly all of the "vaccine passports" that have been announced recently are intended to be mobile phone apps that generate a limited-time QR code, ostensibly to prevent forgery as could happen with paper certificates. Knowing how lazy governments are, the Android version will probably require Play Services, which means Android phone owners will have to disclose a ton of info to Google – it won’t be as easy for people to install a de-Googled Android and still e.g. enter restaurants or cross borders.

3) The same is true of online banking, as many banks have phased out e.g. code cards and they now require a mobile app for authentication. Such mobile apps often require Play Services and, citing lack of security, refuse to launch if a user has unlocked the phone's bootloader and installed a more privacy-respecting Android version. It is not longer reasonable to tell privacy-savvy people to eschewing online banking and visiting their bank to do their business: physical bank locations are being slashed left and right, and even in the physical location they might tell you "Oh, you have to go online to do that".
-Mars is connected to a plate in steel symbolizing the Earth.

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One take-away I had from reading this excellent and detailed article is the fundamental tension in Facebook's approach to moderating content:

They rely on a hammer to catch what is objectionable or misinformation, but optimize for engagement maximally with everything else. However the hammer misses plenty of newly emerging inflammatory content (for example, anti-Rohingya content would look very different from anything prior), and this content gets maximally amplified because the overall newsfeed algorithms optimize for engagement.

An alternate approach would be to sacrifice engagement overall (perhaps only a little!) to reduce the very real and negative consequences of undesirable content that slips past the detection algorithms (which it always will). I suspect some of the fixes that were proposed, but never implemented, effectively did this. But they were shot down because, well, the top-line engagement numbers would dip.
Going to go ahead and assume a glossy color print out of your "digital property" at Kinkos is going to make your imaginary scam purchase more tangible.
Can anyone find the actual poem?
Mine is my name, like john@jsmith.com. The number of people who exclaim "I've never heard that one before!" surprises me. Obviously other people don't use it, because it's my name.
Huh. Neat idea, but why does emoji needs to be a part of the domain? <rocket>@emojimail.com would work just fine? Plus, you can have mail aliases that way and combine multiple emoji too. <rocket><moon>@emojimail.com could be equivalent to rocket.moon@emojimail.com for compatibility purposes.
Software delivery intelligence: how it started, how it's going
Not to argue that this is a good thing, but to expand: the UX of having your ad purchaser decide how best to target a demographic is really bad, so Google abstracted it away.

For example, you might not know that only homeowners in Minnesota like to buy cheese, but you want to sell cheese to Minnesotans, so Google will automatically target your ad to homeowners. It doesn't need to know the former fact explicitly either; it's just a large correlation matrix that they learn on the fly.
It seems that there are two related but distinct ways to simplifying a model:

1. projections / disregarding some dimension, followed by some model in this latent space, followed by an injection back into the native space. The model is simpler by virtue of operating in a lower dimensional space.

2. using a "reduced-order model" or "surrogate model", but still operating in the same input/output space. The model is simpler by virtue of, e.g. using fewer derivatives or delays.

And with 2, you can have have the simple model e.g. arise from first principles, and learn a _residual_ correction on top of it.

And it sounds like the comment contains a bit of both. Am I getting that right?
The best MUD hands down was Armageddon.

Oh shit, it still exists.

I kind of wish I hadn't realized that.
Funny you mention that. I started playing MUDs @ 2400 baud. You could literally watch each letter being written out. When 16.8k came out, my first thought was "how can anyone read this fast?" I thought MUDs were doomed...

but, you get used to it. You will figure out what's actually important and what can be ignored. Someone else mentioned the 'brief' command, which shortens room descriptions, and that is a good start. After you log in, just take your time, there's no rush...
How?
Like really though, what would software do to control a compressor unit that would be expensive or difficult to do on a PCB? Especially given that a little microchip to run that software likely is far more complex and expensive than the PCB itself.

Most software of that type i've written is based in control theory, which can be replicated in analog circuits fairly simply.

Surprisingly often, you even see people writing code for this type of thing using ladder diagram programms, literally designing electronic circuits to do the job that then get converted into code
Do you think such an approach could extend to the final verification stage of a large post-extraction chip? My impression is that speedups are most sorely needed in this final sign off phase where the number of nodes explodes with parasitic R's and C's, especially in modern technologies. Simulation times in weeks seem necessary now for sufficient verification accuracy of analog/mixed signal chips.
Try spelling that, though. :)
> It's like you DDoS'd someones real life

No... It's called "doxxing".

DDoS is completely different.
Eugene, Oregon, USA
http://members.efn.org/~jack_v/
> A black satellite against the black of space does not.

It sure heats up fast, though. Radiating enough heat not to roast the electronics is already an issue for satellites with shiny coatings to keep heat from the sun out.

There's a good, detailed explanation of how hard stealth in space is at https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/23313/stea....

There've been efforts towards stealthier craft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)
Trump isn't problematic because he's a populist, he's problematic because he does things like call the Secretary of State and beg him to alter the certified count to give him an extra 11,780 votes.
Tabloids come at most daily. They don't create patterns of continuous engagement throughout the day (unless linked to by social media).

News broadcast is a better analogy but still not as addictive as something that continually reaches out to you throughout the day.
Modia.jl is great! Though note that there are other M&S DAE libraries in Julia which stray from the Modelica DSL syntax. For example, ModelingToolkit.jl can do it directly by modifying Julia code:

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/generalizing-automatic-d...

or it can work via a component-based modeling DSL:

https://mtk.sciml.ai/dev/tutorials/acausal_components/
Also solar is made primarily in China. It's cheap currently but when the inevitable cold war happens with China and the USA those solar panels may not be nearly as cheap or reliably sourced. Sure we can make our own but it would take a decade or more to ramp up.
grsecurity's policy is such a fascinating end-run against the usual redistribution freedom associated with open source.

"Sure you can redistribute the software. We'll just cut you off if you do."

But suing Bruce Perens for saying that this is a legal risk is a pretty bad look for grsecurity...

https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/27/grsecurity_bruce_pere...
Pinker wrote a whole book about this, much better written, in fact. Unlike an HN essayist, Pinker also is an actual wide-audience best-seller. And unlike this essay, Pinker correctly acknowledges many nuances.
You assert that the Stock Market offers nothing. But in practice, and what has been true since the 1500s, is that the Stock Market:

1. Provides initial funding for large, risky projects.

2. These projects (and jobs), such as the sailing jobs associated with those 1500s Treasure ships, would not exist without investment from a large number of investors.

3. The rewards (such as the Treasure Ship successfully returning from India) offers exponential growth. $100 investment becomes $200. Or $200 initial investment becomes $400, due to the difference in prices between Europe and India. As such, all investors of all classes who can afford a share can benefit. (Ex: A millionare may offer $100k, but a billionaire may offer $100 million. Both are awarded by proportion of the initial investment).

4. The value of the shares change based on information. If you hear that the Treasure Ship has sunk, the value is zero. If you hear that the Treasure Ship has made successful stops in Madagascar, India, or is nearly home, the value of those shares increases (less chance of failure, since its almost done with the trip). To fairly trade the shares innately means changing the value of the shares as various information comes in.

---------

So my point is multi-fold.

1. Exponential growth isn't really from the Stock Market per se, but from the opportunities that arise from pooling money together.

2. The Stock Market makes those trades possible.

3. There are other ways to make such investments (such as US Government). But its not very clear that the government should be the one solely responsible for these sorts of risky behaviors. For better or worse, people understand the risks on the Stock Market (ex: if the Treasure Ship sinks, the value of that stock loses everything). If a Government-sponsored ship sinks, that's a huge loss for the Government. These sorts of risks are almost better handled by private citizens: the risk-takers, the Entrepreneurs, rather than stable governments or workers.

4. It is natural for the value of shares to change.
There are a lot of options out there already. From low level audrino stuff to high level commercial stuff. Most of them aren't widespread, because the kids aren't that interested in the nuts and bolts aspect.

That said, the classes for this aren't too hard to find. Some schools and college summer camps do offer this kind of class. Schools can even get grants for the equipment.
A lot of mission critical systems are Java on the mainframe.
Not just Cobol.

Why don't people switch, then?

The mainframe gives you a predictible runtime.
Long running jobs don't get rescheduled or hogged by other loads.

I know about a firm that uses a mainframe to control a factory line.

The problem with replacing stuff that works (and the mainframe does) is then your job is on the line if the transition fails, and there are a lot of business moving parts inside.
China All but Ends Hong Kong Democracy with ‘Patriots Only’ Rule
Two main differences: Scale and transparency.

The scale of reach is tremendous, faster and optimized in a way newspapers/media could only dream of.

It's also not publicly clear what is being widely disseminated and to whom, other than when outside parties analyze what's happening within Facebook on a given day (and this has limits).
I came to a similar junction with my app. It's B2C SaaS, and I bluntly want to earn money for all the years I put into it. I chose to add a free tier and self hosting as a compromise.

In the future, I would love to open source it. But for now, all I see in other B2C/consumer OSS projects is a lot of complaining, frustration, and extra work without a benefit to my paying customers.
I was curious about where they filed this. The answer is US District Court, Northern California (San Francisco). I was curious less about the exact location than that this is a federal, not state, matter.
It definitely could be easier.

I searched for “open3A” via Google (not ddg, but if I got errors on ddg, I would try “!open3a”) and the first hit is a German site. I don’t speak German, but I saw the download link [0] and downloaded the first zip and viewed the license.

I spent more time downloading the 4mb zip than clicking on stuff.

It’s not the author’s job to make answering my questions easy. It is my job to not make easily verifiable claims without trying.

I’ve dealt with lots of projects that are crappy about licenses and frequently have to download the tarball to look for licenses, just to check if I can actually use.

The author could make this easier, but she didn’t. That doesn’t mean I should go into attack mode because other people make bad claims. (And I suppose I give up after 10 seconds and don’t want to stick around for 20 seconds)

I also noticed that author doesn’t even link to her project. Maybe it’s because her project is in German and the blog is English. But I’d rather have more posts like this with whatever time the author can spend, than wait for it to sit in draft while unimportant details are finally added.

[0] https://www.open3a.de/page-Download
Thanks for making Fraidycat and helping take the web back to the good old RSS days! I especially like the Dire Straits Money for Nothing video-like logo.

I have a question:

Is it possible to make the Fraidycat endpoint on your own server instead of having the browser extension take you to https://fraidyc.at/s/? Or am I totally confused?
Maybe you can double its usefulness by adding an option to save as WebP, so that's both a ratio and a format converter.

I think should be trivial, on current supported browsers at least.
There was an excellent citation:

"I apologize, I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have the time to write you a shorter one."
everything feeds the basilisk.
Might not be the same crowd, but some of us wouldn't mind to learn COBOL and get our hands on a mainframe (while at the same time wondering whether the world really needed Go).
It's still early days for this project but take a look at https://www.codelearncreate.org (Build section)
That is interesting, because it implies exactly the opposite of what it seems to.

Mandarin was the official language of the government, and so all regional and local bureaucracies, during the days of dynasties in China. Although it may sound foreign to locals in various provinces, it guaranteed that every part of the government had a common understanding.

Quite the opposite of fluff for fluff's sake.
> still can’t get around the fact you quit your discipline for the lack of a better tool.

When people are at the very beginning of some path, they have almost no attachment to it and the smallest nudge one way or the other can change their course.

Think about how many people say, "If it wasn't for <random elementary school teacher> I would have never gotten into <field they became famous in>."
I'm shocked :-)
> You sell additional premium extension

...which are open source.
Oh I see,
yes I was a little curious that product source code is available and I wonder why people are still paying for the product but you just made it clear with your answer

thanks man !!
Vendor by Default
> "Most authors write in a "fancy" way to invoke a feeling in the reader. They don't add random words to "seem cool"."

I'd bet money this is mostly wrong, and most authors are writing in a fancy way to seem fancy. That's part of the reason their writing is often bad.

There are exceptions, but I'd argue that failure is the general case.

> "I don't understand a thing of this."

Clarity of thought without purple prose fluff? That's my take away from it anyway. Basically, most of the time extra purple prose fluff is not poetry and just gets in the way. Poetry would be an exception to this rule.

This essay is also similar to another one of his from 2015 (which has more explicit examples): http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
We joined TinySeed last year as part of batch 2 and it was easily the best decision we've made regarding the business.

The money, advice, community and mentorship we got those last 10 months were definitely worth it.
Did you record that with lice cap?
Has anyone ever looked at history and figured out that humans are pretty damn awful? Facebook is just a catalyzer just like Twitter is. Every platform has their own disgusting self-centered bubbles and that’s not because of the platform.

The bar to get banned from any online platform is pretty high. Just look at how long it took for the most prominent Twitter offender to get rejected.

You can ban all public forums you want, then people will just continue sharing BS on WhatsApp without you even noticing.

The problem isn’t Facebook but people. Governments should punish people, not outsource the policing to companies.
can't wait for his testimony before congress tomorrow about saving the free and diverse press.
Root causes of the perceived mainframe problem as I see it are:

1. It’s difficult to obtain skilled personnel, that’s it.

Why, because you can only truly learn mainframe technologies on a mainframe. Hercules and all the things that IBM have done themselves such as MTM, VS Code extensions are not enough. The barrier to learn mainframe technologies is too high.
That is a very tiny employment market.

There are only a couple of FAANG+, with crazy hiring practices, and most businesses aren't engineering centric, the world is bigger than that.
I didn't really learn SQL until being given small tasks at work that involved some basic scripting. Requests for populating tables with new data so admins wouldn't have to manually input it from the web UI was a common one. That in particular was helpful because:

1. Performance is not usually as important for one-time scripts like these.

2. It gets you familiar with your database and the relationships between entities in your product.

3. It shows you how powerful SQL is. With a few hours writing a single script, I saved users many more hours that would've been spent entering it all manually.

The other benefit of this approach, it's easier for senior developers to review too. You can give feedback like, "this works fine for this use-case, but here's something you can do in situations where performance is a concern" and provide some useful tips in PR comments.
Are we in the same job market? It might be geographically related. I get bothered non stop by recruiters (And I'm not special, just a humble software dev)
> Governments should punish people, not outsource the policing to companies.

Governments shouldn't be in the business of deciding what is truth and what is "misinformation", and they certainly shouldn't be punishing people based on the outcomes of such determinations.

Otherwise, we'd have to ban the church and jail all the priests.
Well, I don't expect more than far-leftist "opinions" from this once-great institution. My message for Thomas is that democracy only works when you have cultural cohesion. So why even act surprised?
Online invoicing is hardly an area unexplored by large corporate SaaS companies. The world is a big place and it seems he's found a niche he can make money in.
I'd add the active component of Facebook compared to tabloids/broadcasts. With the latter, I'm just a consumer. With the former, I'm actively contributing via share/like/comment. There's probably a psychological component that deepens your commitment to the viewpoint when you actively participate like that.
> This is true of pretty much any faith group (Baptist, myself).

Maybe for Abrahamic/Christian faith groups. Definitely not true for many others like Buddhists, Sikhs, etc.
I was just looking at this new Terraform provider yesterday how timely. Nice to see the quickstart guide this will be helpful for managing the buckets and application keys.
Sorry if you've already clarified, but is this meant to replace or augment traditional SPICE simulators? I remember Ken Kundert mentioned that, even with the improvements of Spectre over SPICE-based simulators, it took things like SpectreRF's oscillator phase noise modeling to get analog designers to consider changing their ways. Their steadfast use of SPICE is "a form of Stockholm Syndrome," in his own words.