skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nix-script looks awesome -- I saw that post on HN right after I started learning Nix, and it's sitting in my notes as something to go back to later in the series (I'm trying not to jump around too much until I'm done reading the official docs, to try not to taint myself with too much knowledge). I used to work somewhere that had built something like this specifically for OCaml scripts, so it's very cool to see a generic solution.

I have encountered flakes in passing -- in the as yet unpublished part 20 I built Nix from source to try to fix a bug I found, and encountered the concept briefly. This series is on my reading list once I've read the Nixpkgs manual and Nix Pills:

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-05-25-flakes/

(Not sure if there's a better place to start.)

I plan on opening some doc PRs once I'm done reading through everything -- I found a few little things that I feel like I can fix myself. For higher level issues I'll try to open a discussion (e.g. I had a lot of trouble going through section 14.3 and 15.4 of the Nix manual). Anyway. Kind of off-topic for this thread, but here we are.
that problem of you going to it. why not it come to us. even taking a note should be seamless. Like adding to a list and retrieving it.
Smell sensor combines biology with electronics
I though King Canute died ages ago - who would have ever expected him to be reborn...;)
Seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale
I just launched Writxt[0] a “walkthrough” to let you setup your own SMS to blog platform.

I also put up a stupid side project ThriftyName[1] where you get a brand name for $5.

[0]: https://writxt.fun

[1]: https://thrifty.name
Personally I hate that you can no longer copy an entire URL and its GET/POST data in a single click like you previously could.

Now you can "copy URL" or "copy URL parameters" but there's no way to copy them all in one go. You need to manually combine them in an external text editor which is annoying.
Alright, so what you have here is pretty innovative. The problem for me was that it just took way too long for me to figure out what it is you did.

You might be spending a bit too much time on the problem here. It may be worth spending a bit more on the solution and making that clearer.

Right now it seems that its hidden within the modal underneath the copy. It should be much higher and not within a modal.

I would also try to say more with less with the problem. Again, it felt like it took a little too long to get to the point (and the point you're making is a pretty good one I might add!).

I find that with people who are more on the 'founder' end of the customer spectrum, particularly those who are tech focused, too much 'copy' and 'slow salesmanship' can be a negative. We tend to err on the side of 'just tell me and I'll figure out if its valuable' if that makes any sense.

I hope this helps?

Good luck man!

Tapha
This is super interesting. I'm your target customer. We have that spreadsheet you describe, even the tabs.

Pricing is good.

My only skepticism is that it can model our forecast the way we need it modeled. Gonna check it out.
Owl wings may hold the key to turbulence-proof planes
It's tough, because indie labels will likely find it hard to both remain popular/relevant while pulling all their songs off the worlds most popular listening platforms.

It's a bit of a catch 22 - these platforms are now where people discover new bands, so if you are not on them people don't discover you so can't buy your album, and if you are on them then people can listen to your album without paying.

Unfortunately I think the truth is that in the future bands will have to think of slightly different monetisation strategies - maybe a mix of subscriber content (see Pomplamoose Patreon as the creators of this concept), fan engagement, merchandise, shows, premium albums that aren't on streaming platforms e.t.c. rather than pulling from Spotify & Apple Music entirely.
You can do it right now — become a contractor or a consultant.

You will immediately notice that nobody likes it when work is done slowly. Working for 4 hours a day is only possible if you complete a paid portion of work at that time (e.g. teach 2-3 classes). Nearly any project that has work for multiple days would benefit from people working on it 24/7 and completing it faster, but it's often too expensive.

So your less work schedule often becomes a high-energy consulting gig when you work 12 hours a day, and then a couple months of leisurely coasting.

I have no reason to think that the future would be materially different. Just finding the gigs is going to become harder. This very future has already arrived for many low-skilled workers, like those in Amazon warehouses; they never know if there will be demand for their service today, and need to apply daily.
(I was at Dropbox from 2015-2020)

The legacy framework was Pylons, which eventually evolved into Pyramid.

The tldr is there were hundreds of unowned endpoints that, yes, were allowed to fester. They eventually got ownership on all endpoints, so you had somebody to exert pressure on to make things happen.
- Whenever I cross a road, I always look both sides (even if the road is one-way only). I only cross if: cars are fully stopped and traffic lights are green (if any).

I see countless of people that cross the road without even checking if cars stop. They solely rely on the traffic lights. I'm in western europe.
I was going to agree but looking at the proposal I don't.

"Actor" in this case is more like a new access modifier than another type.

I don't see how you could really do this in a standard library as cleanly.
This way people get to choose whether to stick to a monopolistic eyecandy or get more control over their devices and life in general.

I wish more developers could afford to do that.
Public tool to audit CF templates
Graph paper and hexadecimal calculations. Builds character.
> Recruiters must pay for every message they post to a Group.

Slight adjustment: Recruiters must pay group members for every message they post to a Group.
Leprechaun Dust from DuckDuckGo
Agreed with most but finish Shoreham? With all those no show jobs and failed, touched up x-rays, that sounds like a very bad idea.
Svelte.

It's so much better than React or Vue. It's generally the same ergonomics as a developer, but the speed and simplicity when you push into the browser is revolutionary.
And I would far rather those video cards be used by crypto miners than online profiling and advertising assholes like your company.

You and GP don't get to decide what is a "legitimate" use for a GPU. All the outrage that other people want GPUs for purposes you disagree with and entitlement that only some users really deserve to have access to them is just ridiculous.
Pretty much yes to all of that. You can add npms as dependencies. Some typescript type annotations can be adapted to Kotlin type annotations. And if not, you can write your own. There's a dynamic keyword to deal with untyped javascript objects. Also you can define external interfaces for things. So, interop is pretty good and you have plenty of tools to integrate whatever. With Fritz2 you can create or integrate web components pretty easily as well.

That being said, it doesn't really make sense to try to use mainstream javascript frameworks as they are a poor fit for a strongly typed language like Kotlin. And in general, there aren't a lot of npms that are worth integrating. We made an exception for leaflet and that was pretty easy to integrate in the end. Otherwise we mostly use multiplatform kotlin libraries.
I think highly of this concern about selecting vaccine-escaping variants due to exposing a lot of immunized people to a lot of infected people, to the extent that I've posted about it myself[0].

However, the author is wrong about there being no attention given to these issues, it's a very active research topic in general (although AFAIK not some specifics he mentions like NK vaccines). Vaccine escaping, its consequences, and how to beat it are not obscure topics, but seem to be considered and explored on virtually every scientific endeavor in the last months.

Vaccination efforts aren't necessarily informed by those, and more attention to real world risks is warranted IMO. But that effort should build on the growing awareness and datasets about vaccine escaping. And probably it should avoid presenting a solution (NK vaccines) to a problem (vaccines actually making the immune response weaker when escaping happens) that is AFAICS construed from first principles as opposed to experimental data.

I have issues with this particular effort, but welcome it if it's a way to foment evidence based, non-alarmist discussion on possible vaccine-escaping and what can be done to avoid it. It might result in opposite decisions to what the author argues, like for instance we may have to massively speed up vaccination in key countries, maybe funded by other countries, or escaping becomes much more likely. There are many ideas around, and fortunately there's a lot of science being made on this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071768
That’s why in non-American English it’s called earth. :)

I had no idea. Hackaday explains as well as some other things I’d not though about.

https://hackaday.com/2017/08/17/living-on-mars-the-stuff-you...
I’m working on a decision tree workflow to help burned out / aged out engineers leave the industry and seek a happier career path.
Then they would be better served by a desktop.
The first battles certainly, but unless MAD occurs we have at least a few Patton/Eisenhower/MacArthur's that would rise to the occasion. And as impressive at the Chinese are at tech they are in a sense dependant on yankee ingenuity which would get cut off quick.
> but on the downside, it means exports are often not viable.

A large hole is shot in your premise by the fact that the US is a wildly successful exporter of both goods and services.

There's very little evidence that the US Dollar has been too strong during the era you're referencing, save for a few brief periods of time. For example the USD was quite weak from 2004-2015, and yet education and healthcare soared in cost regardless. For most of the comparison history, the USD has not been far out of line with the value of the Euro in how they trade, and that's despite the US having a far more potent economy during that time than Western Europe.

The so called petro dollar (commodities linked dollar) has existed for most of the post WW2 era. And yet education and healthcare were reasonably priced until the late 1990s forward. The ramp in education costs is easily explained by the infinite backing of student loans by the US Government, that's a never-ending inflationary cycle caused solely by the Feds. When or if they remove that inflationary prop, the cost of higher education in the US will begin to stagnate or deflate.

It's real simple: pull the government inflation prop out from under education. Stop backing student loans so freely and to such a dramatic extent. What would happen? It'd instantly collapse, except for higher end private schools. What the universities could command in the way of prices would be obliterated overnight, they'd have to match what the students could actually afford in reality, instead of in govt-backed fantasy land.

Education and healthcare costs keep going up because the operators can keep charging more due to how those systems are structured. There's either not a competitive market to push down on prices at all (healthcare) or there's an infinite inflation prop being supplied by the Feds (education). Prices are soaring as entirely proper representatives of real inflation over that time, which you can see if you stack the USD against gold, oil, silver, platinum, housing, or new car prices over decades. It's everything else that is doing worse than real inflation, because there is generally plentiful market competition to push downward on pricing power.
I missed something from Groff, sorry.
I found this, and i do get ads...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3292619/the-brave-brow...
This is a bit of a meta rant, on topic but not solely aimed at the article.

I really, really hate how YA is called out as somehow different from the rest of the book universe.

As if being written for teenagers (if they're even written for teenagers, and not simply marketed that way) makes them worse books.

As if having sex and violence in a book somehow makes it better than YA books.

TFA talks about how unlikable-but-redeemed characters in teen books are treated as if they're dramatically worse than unlikable-but-redeemed characters in the broader book category. How YA authors are tarred with that brush for the rest of their careers.

It's such a stupid, and worthless, classification. Remember, award winning writers like Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein all wrote books targeted at children as well.
This thread is a perfect microcosm of the american psyche - two extremes that only see the other side's extremism. There is little measured, nuanced opinion to be had. Both extreme jingoistic nationalism, and shame for any nationalism at all are unhealthy.
Unfortunately voip, in my case voip.ms, does not work with all sms send methods.
As technology advances, more "wealth" can be created with fewer inputs, of course.

Greater wealth means a bigger "pie" to split. Inequality obviously comes into question here, but objectively there is more total wealth that can be spread around, so it's a net good, if we can optimize the distribution.

It also means that the contribution of an individual can create more value. In some ways this leads to inequality, where the most capable people are able to capitalize on technology and make a lot more money than was possible in the past... see: any of the FAANG founders.

Taking the thought experiment to a logical extreme: in a hypothetical world where 100% of the supply chain is automated, people would no longer be required to work. So it must be true that there's some level of automation that will produce a net decrease in jobs. At that point some form of UBI likely makes sense.

Though I'm doubtful we'll ever reach that kind of state. Realistically people will continue to divert their efforts into new things.
There are definitely pros and cons to either approach. My personal preference/bias is a monorepo architecture, even for smaller teams and orgs.

Working effectively in a monorepo does require suitable tooling (full disclosure: I am a core contributor to Pants, a monorepo build system with, currently, a Python focus). But with that tooling in place a monorepo can make it a lot easier to collaborate, to manage changes and dependencies, and to avoid balkanization and fiefs. Granted there are no silver bullets, but we are working to make tooling good enough to avoid needing the large in-house support team you allude to.

Having a large number of small repos can work if they don't have a lot of interdependencies, and maybe this is what you mean by "totally unrelated projects". But if there are significant interdependencies (and repos usually end up this way, in my experience, which may or may not be representative) things become very brittle, and it's very hard to make changes and reason about how they affect downstream code, not to mention the challenge of version resolution, aka "dependency hell".

In the end, managing a large codebase, whether it follows a monorepo or multi-repo architecture, requires suitable tooling. On balance I think that monorepo is often a better choice, but YMMV for sure.
Corruption is taking money in exchange of favors. The typical French scandal involved having relatives and friends getting fake jobs, typically paid for by a city government.
`dplyr`, the data manipulation library in R.

Some prefer base R or data table, or python pandas, but for me, dplyr is essentially a _perfect_ data manipulation library for small to medium data, and nothing comes close.

Given that for a data scientist, data cleaning is “80% of the work”, and in a world where science is increasingly data science, means that dplyr has done a LOT of good.

Honorable mention goes to ggplot2, the plotting library, and the rest of the tidyverse.
What is the best way to learn how to program?
I have no coding experience. Thanks.
Not all countries have the same corruption level.
I was thinking the same how deflation is good for society? Reducing costs of production, increasing efficiency and having decent market competition brings prices down and technological progress enables all of that.

Not anytime soon prices will be so low that all people can afford everything they want. Luxury goods and premium pricing are here to stay.

Maybe he was referring to Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek [1]. Post-scarcity moneyless society.

Here is excerpt from Wikipedia: "The third chapter talks about the replicator, the machine that makes Star Trek's post-scarcity possible. Post-scarcity's meaning is the infinite social wealth. The replicator is as a metaphor for automation, and an endpoint of the industrial revolution. Crucially, in the Star Trek's society it and its produces are public good."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekonomics
You absolutely do not need a controlling HOA just to maintain common areas. My neighborhood considered a HOA for the common park areas but in the end the land was transferred to the city and maintenance is paid via property taxes. No HOA to tell us what flowers we can plant.
That's what my original argument stated,

> Because all laptop users make use of the screen.

If they wanted less bulk, they could buy an Intel Nuc or similar form factor device.

The screen and portability are the compelling feature of the laptop design.
prions are fairly specific sequences to begin with, and then there is the folding issue that apparently makes some prions an active concern, the most concerning being those that are autotemplates and replicate themselves. commonly prions are not digestible by protease enzymes, thus accumulate like a factory floor full of broken, off spec parts.

its not good odds at all to bet on a viral mRNA fragment spontaneously creating a prion protien sequence. this is not beyond the realm of possibilities however the probability nonexistent, compared to the probability that anyone at random could have a nasty interferon mediated cytokine cascade, and sequential inflamatory response to the virus.
Interesting, I think there's a lot we could improve in the way we do things. You're talking about an automatic pricing tool that learns the market through time and region and automatically seeks optimal price points?... Some kind of drop in library tool a few lines of code thing would be awesome! Also if you're making me more money, I'd be willing to share a percentage with you considering I may not have had that money otherwise.
Shouldn't the Policemen in question then be charged with breaching the secrecy of correspondance for each of those of the messages that did not pertain to illegal activities?

Het briefgeheim is onschendbaar.
Why Is Kubernetes So Hard
Pirate Bay, Napster, Limewire etc. are what dragged us into the digital media age. Might not seem like it today but had studios and record companies had their way, Netflix or Spotify would not exist.
California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal
Very cool. I hope Wikipedia sees success with this strategy!
Income tax is already progressive so I'm assuming you're talking about corporate tax. The usual arguments for progressive taxes (ie. "because the rich can afford to pay more") doesn't really apply because a company making 10B of profit on 100B worth of revenue is very different than a company making 10B of profit on 11B of revenue. Similarly, a company making 1M of profit with five employees is very different than a company making 1M of profit with 100,000 employees.
Sure, but also sometimes the only way to learn is to ask.
Single quotes are better.
Its so weird that barely anybody does it

Probably more people played “retro” games on emulators than actually owned them so life has just gotten extremely meta
How might this work? Could you give example of privacy heuristics you are considering?
I'm working on https://hanami.run an email forwarding service.

I tried to build it in open https://www.indiehackers.com/product/hanami and plan to blog more about my journey on https://hanami.run/blog.

I started this because I want to make send and receive email easier once I bought a domain.

I also want to give my wife and me has some kind of mail alias so both of us can receive email(kids information, hospital etc).

Right now, I'm working hard to add Disposable email feature and add team access.
Too late to edit, but now I understand why people on here use footnote numbers instead of asterisks. oops
Just a quick search in Google Play Store shows several apps that are similarly named including "Threesome Dating App for Couples & Swingers: 3rder". While I don't agree that they should be policing this content at all I think the inconsistency at which they do it is even worse. They won't hesitate to remove an app or your entire account and once they do it's impossible to talk to anyone. Meanwhile other similar apps or developers of similar apps that got you banned remain in the store.

I've been banned from Google Play Developer portal since 2015 because I had an app that accessed an undocumented API of a 3rd party service: "we have determined that your app interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner." I had two different apps using the same API so I got 2 strikes at once and was immediately banned.

I've tried multiple times to contact Google to get my account restored, several times in the past few years since it's been so long, but they don't even respond and it's impossible to get a hold of a human.
Funnily enough, that's what everyone said about gamers 20 years ago.
In the 90s I used to spend DAYS hunting down memory issues (corruption, leaks, crashes) in C++ code. Your whole schedule could slip by weeks because of one hard to reproduce issue. I haven't seen that kind of problem in a long time.
Agreed. It should be illegal for a HOA to have any involvement in such decisions within personal property.
Large discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334086

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26329791

A few other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26339162

Steven Galbraith's criticism: https://twitter.com/EllipticKiwi/status/1367322432571240450
Chinese American Parents View Critical Race Theory as New Chinese Exclusion Act
Amazed not to see markdown listed anywhere (or textile before it)... major step forward when it comes to inline and in-situ documentation!
If you're talking about assembly then every single statement in python will involve hidden conditions.

I was talking about the idea behind the code - that map is a pythonic shorthand for a bunch of if-then statements, it still expresses conditionals. While using string multiplication doesn't.
I lived half of my adult life in a major city before Uber/Lyft, and yet it is unimaginable what life was like before them. Did I really get ready for a night out and go out in the rain desperately waving for a cab?
Nobody knows how to get a programming-language miracle.

Sun committed a billion dollars to promoting Java—and the opportunity-cost loss is probably a big part of what killed them. It still would not have been enough to secure a place for Java, except that Java offered MS sharecroppers a road to a sort of freedom. Ada got even more $promotion than Java, in its day, but faded.

C got its miracle on the coattails of Unix, C++ on C's. Javascript rode on Netscape. (Who remembers MS Silverlight? MS spent as much as Sun.)

Python, if does survive, got its miracle the hard way. Perl and Ruby once seemed more secure than Python does now. Rust and Julia are going the hard route.

All it takes to fade away is not getting that miracle, mo maledictions needed.
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US sends team to Detroit to investigate Tesla-semi crash