skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because to start a project you have to spend days and even months researching libraries, the current best practices, etc. and then glue them all together with some monster build system (webpack, etc.) and pray that one library doesn't update to be incompatible, or that the library maintainer loses interest and maintenance, etc. And then if you look at another project you have to learn everything again because they took an entirely different approach of glueing together libraries.

These frameworks are an opinionated take on project structure meant to save time and effort. Can they build anything and everything with JS? No, and they don't make such promises. Can they build most apps and things people want to build, and with a much faster and simpler setup? Absolutely, yes.

But honestly this isn't the thread to fight the framework vs. library fight. That ship sailed _years_ ago after create-react-app got popular.
Phenakistiscope
I’d like to hear more about your experiences with UNICEF. It’s one of the only places I donate to and I’ve heard many first hand experiences of where they’ve saved lives and provided opportunity
D also has a full set of a checked integer type:

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_checkedint.html
Prince Harry takes a job at Silicon Valley startup
A constant frame interval is better than occasional skipped frames. You don't need a super high frame rate for perceived smooth motion, but dropped frames look like stutter.
You don't have to understand everything to understand anything. Scientific theories are always abstractions that reduce the complex interconnected universe to a workable surface area we are trying to explore in order to produce a model that can be used to make predictions about the larger world that in turn can be tested, refined, or shit canned as appropriate.

You can say we can't possibly understand how the heart works because we do not understand the entire evolutionary tree leading up to the human race and how the circulatory system evolved over billions of years and ergo heart transplants are impossible. This is trivially false and its false for the same reason parent posters assertion is false. Everything is how it is because of initial conditions ergo everything connects back to time zero but we can still use the abstract understanding we do have to make models and predictions.
> If there is a belief that Bannon was not just being his normal blowhard jerk self I am sure the police would have had a chat with him.

Fauci has 24/7 protection from a security detail for himself and his family. Clearly this “blowhard” blew hard enough for the US Marshals to be worried.

I am quite sure that it was never the concern that Bannon himself would actually commit the murder.
More than 90 percent of all galactic systems are moving away from us faster than speed of light. There is no way we can ever reach them. The unreachable horizon is capturing more and more of what we currently observe. https://youtu.be/4iC9Qi3y9q8
In addition to what others have said, from a historical perspective such bonds were the functional equivalent of stock. That is, these particular bonds effectively represented equity, not debt. Joint-stock, limited liability corporations are relatively recent, especially in terms of market liquidity and legal norms. Whereas the laws regarding bonds and bond payments are much older and were (and in many ways remain) much more consistent across all of Europe and, today, the world.

A bond is a type of negotiable instrument, and laws regarding negotiable instruments--which also include checks, letters of credit, mortgages, etc--go back to at least the Medieval period in their literal terms, and in general terms to the Lex Mercatoria (i.e. merchant laws of the Mediterranean trading nations, including the Roman Empire, that were organically preserved through the Medieval period and even up to today). Other commercialized civilizations also had substantially similar laws. Bonds are a relatively safe investment for more than the reasons commonly recited today--e.g. hedging market volatility, etc.
> So yeah, I hope this pandemic ends before I develop health issues from sitting too much.

Never mind physical health, we've got a world where mental health has gone in the gutter.
> algorithms aren't patentable

I wish. The RSA cryptosystem was patented and under license until 2000 in the US, even though the math wasn't secret.
I wrote that sentence and you took that completely out of context.

Here's the context if someone really does care: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/corporate_marketing/...

It's also important to note in a non-transparent company you wouldn't see any of this
Is this really any worse than the scale of harm to insects and small mammals which occurs due to mechanised crop agriculture?
Bezos was good buddies with MBS and then changed his mind. Seems like others could as well.
I don't know anything about WebAssembly, but that sounds like a major design flaw in it.
There are some practical and legal difference between the two, but this "water bond" is more akin to a modern stock certificate. The interest payments are derived from an ownership stake in the a series of dykes and canals, which are managed by a water board.

Replace water board with board of directors and interest payment with dividend and nobody would bat an eye at the perpetual aspect.

The big difference is that stock certificates usually don't have dividend entitlements outlined on them, while bonds do. However, historically, stock certificates could have either face values or distribution entitlements listed directly. Especially stocks in railways.
I was immediately reminded of the Dual Photography paper (well, I had to look it up first; I only remembered the "photographing a playing card that is facing away" demo at the end):

- http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/

- https://youtu.be/p5_tpq5ejFQ
weird post/experiment. Everything so suspicious, cranky. Certain type of relationships..... alot of this comes down to users on both ends.

All can be dealt with via moderation/account choices etc. Also, when did this take place? Not during the pandemic I don't think. Big factor there
>The fact is SpaceX launched 50% of the global payload to Orbit, and over around 30% of all spacecraft.

Again, I'm not arguing that SpaceX isn't capable of ferrying people or cargo into orbit, or that they don't have a viable business, or that they are not leaders in this market segment. That's all fine. I have no issues with Musk or SpaceX. I like seeing American companies succeeding. But perhaps Musk should dial down the hyperbole.

>It my have a kernel of truth but if the 'truth' is something totally banal like 'Reusability is not a panacea.' then that doesn't actually make their arguments valid

But reusability isn't a panacea for cost savings. There are real challenges with reusable rockets. This is where Thunderf00t does a real good job explaining the issues because they aren't space-specific, but rather the problem derives from first principles of Newtonian mechanics (https://youtu.be/4TxkE_oYrjU?t=891) namely, you have to carry the fuel for return, which severely cuts into the amount of payload you can take up. Also, maintenance is expensive. But the issues are there. Tory Bruno, the CEO of ULA lays out the challenges of reusable rockets: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/ftstmv/tony_o... . Yes, he's a competitor, but his argument strikes me as honest and credible.

So SpaceX hasn't proven the concept yet. They haven't made enough flights (and only the first stage boosters are actually reusable). The Space Shuttle is a good guide of how subtle the issues may be and it may take years to fully realize the flaws in the design or economics. Believe me, I wish them well.

>If you are gone talk about the 'Cult of Musk', Thunderf00t is the opposite basically the pope of the 'Cult of Anti-Musk', he made a career of making videos about how every Musk is wrong about everything.

To be fair to Thunderf00t, Musk says a lot of objectively idiotic things. So the low hanging fruit of, say, hyperloop, that Thunderf00t took much glee in trashing was kind of warranted. It's a stupid concept. SpaceX, specifically Musk and SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, also made some outrageously silly arguments around city-to-city rocket-powered transport [2] - a concept that is so idiotic I'm flabbergasted Shotwell (and Musk) would actually try to advance it seriously and also claim it would be available within 10 years. Come on man. And that's the problem with SpaceX and Musk in a nutshell, there make a lot of unfeasible aspirational claims that are taken at face-value by their devotees.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Pricing
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dar8P3r7GYA (skip to 15m to see the claim about city-to-city rocket transport)
As I recall the AFI list is a good "mid-brow" list which probably describes me pretty well. I like these films more than most of the blockbusters but I also tend to clock out a lot of the time when you get into real art house fare.
What apps do you care about? And what do you find wrong with Nvidia GPU support on Linux right now?
I absolutely agree that cave diving is a way to get where people have never been before, and to explore the extraordinary.

But to remark on those people as "ordinary middle class" is a bit misleading. I'd probably lean more towards "extraordinary, and possibly middle class." Otherwise, I think the appropriate label for any normal person doing cave diving explorations is "dead."

(Not serious criticism, hopefully you read in a playful tone)
There still is. We have a couple of these in my house. It's not as effective as a metal stapler, but it works well enough for things that we don't need permanently connected (plus it's much safer for my 6-year-old kids to use).
lol getting downvoted for expressing misery - no complaining, citizen!

It's basically a blaring bourgeouis flag if the past year has been pleasant for you.

The less well-off and young are suffering greatly.
JavaScript is single threaded, Node is most certainly not.
You could get a Google Voice number and use the web app to text people. It rather sucks, or maybe it just sucks in Firefox, I don't know. But it's usable enough, you just have to hard-refresh the page every now and then. At least they finally started allowing downloading of "unsupported" attachments, which was the biggest problem before.
I guess they don't understand streisand effect. If you explicitly ban people will follow that rule but what happens when people get around by using some made up name different from original. Are admins going to read every comment on the platform to uphold this rule?
These look really cool. Unfortunately, I can't seem to configure one without Windows.
Where does that show anyone from the PR department approving it? I don't see anyone I recognize from the PR department there...

This is how "unfiltered" blogs work: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/unfiltered/
Short answer is nobody knows. The winter spike began around late October so you can't say it had much to do with holidays really -- maybe it's weather, made worse by holiday travel, made worse by students being back in school.
Are you a doctor or biologist?
Live from Geldingadalir Volcano in Iceland
"The more highly successful companies YC has, the more brand recognition"

The more unsuccessful companies YC has has the opposite effect and reduces YC's status as a kingmaker.

The bigger the batches the less close the relationships.
I do remember reading a research article a long time ago saying that is precisely what happened with wheat (did not exist in the wild as we know it today, was bred over millenia into the flour-yielding plant we know today).

It's not a long shot to imagine that animals like cows and goats (or dog, for that matter, although not with food as a goal) were given the same treatment.
Whenever you read in Regency to Victorian books that so-and-so has an income some pounds per year it is usually referring to these.
Canary post: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/mbdg8o/a_senior_...
For some reason I get angry when reading LI. Self promotion got worse last year. People now post that they are going to change job a couple of days before job change. I don't understand why.

The job offers are crap. I'm not going to move to Switzerland or Germany for 3 months gig and I don't want to work for Uber. I stopped responding to recruiters as they don't understand that I really don't want to do Java for some crappy bank. I would rather starve.

End rant.

HN is great. People are usually nice and often I learn something new about a topic that I didn't know.
Probably the part where there's major libraries that have required unstable Rust for years?
Their wealth is overrated - they run huge deficits and the writing is on the wall for ARAMCO
The 2nd mortgage on my house is a perpetual loan, so it very much is still a thing.

Some context: I could only go 5% down but wanted to avoid PMI, so the other 15% for 20% down on the first mortgage was taken from a 2nd mortgage, which had the perpetual terms. It's more commonly known as an interest-only payment loan. The interest rate is adjustable and I only pay the monthly accumulated interest.
I didn't get a Facebook account or a smartphone until 2018. I could probably ditch the former. The latter is occasionally handy.
I don't think this has been done before
I don't think any other tool has this, but we have added the ability to view your Docker Containers and Volumes files inside of a treeview. This has been a major annoyance to me through all the years of working with Docker. We plan on allowing you to edit, add, and delete files as well, but this is pretty helpful for seeing what the heck is going on in your Docker universe. https://docs.getcommandeer.com/releases/latest/version-1.8.0-3-23-2021/#view-container-and-volume-files
If over half of the high schoolers driving by your place would really chose to ride a bike instead of driving... Well, the high schoolers you know appear to be quite different than the high schoolers I know.

Even myself - I couldn't wait to be able to drive to high school, nevermind the bus, my bicycle, carpooling with neighbors, etc.
Why is this not in the front page still? I'm not sure about how the ranking algorithm works but it seems that this has more points and is more recent that some of the post in the front page.
Subjunctives aren't rare. They arise whenever we speculate or wish for something.

"I don't think he'd appreciate you stealing his spotlight on grammatical minutia."

"I wouldn't bet on it."
I always loose in a couple of minutes in 0 A.D. :-(

Then again, I am more interested in exploration and building than fighting to the dead. I loved playing Age of Empires on the easy setting and then go overboard with the civilization building.
Some of the sequels aren't bad either although the original is definitely the best. William Powell and Myrna Loy can lift up a lot of material even if it's just so-so.
My comment is only dismissive if you read it with a competitive overtone, but in reality the authors work and the fields that I listed compete barely for talent and not for funding. Yes, it's true that the instability of world conditions make some fields of research more immediately imperative (I work in these fields and in general, I am somewhat dissatisfied with the rate and quality of research done in those areas). It's difficult to find legitimate "10x talent", and I'm merely saying that the author would probably excel at whatever they put their mind to. I challenge you to express the same sentiment without being dismissive in a reasonable amount of time.

As for your the latter part of your comment, any publicity is good publicity, so thank you however you spin it.
TuSimple IPO S-1
Who? What is a 'Chief Impact Officer'?

Man gets job at startup; like the rest of us.
> It's unclear this work would really be important in production computing

It most certainly won't [0]. But neither will something like 99% of mathematical research right now.

[0]: See first example in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm
> Not that I've ever done that, as a courier, in a live-roleplay game, ever. Repeatedly ;D

Well now I'd love to hear more about this!
By snipping out references to God, you place yourself above God's order (i.e. create an evil power structure).
Cory Doctorow has an excellent blogpost on Amazon's delivery service partners[1] and why it's a very difficult situation for the workers to demand better working conditions. It's very eye-opening in my opinion.

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex
>> the network effects that make YC more valuable for companies when the batch is larger.

This is only part of the story though. THe size of the network doesn't mean nearly as much as the quality of the connection; i.e. edges over nodes.

Every other point is true to some extent but addresses the accidental vs. essential aspects of a startup. Collective bargaining for services? hiring pool? potential customers? These all seem like nice-to-haves vs. must-haves.

Call me jaded but I see a VC machine that hires it's friends, associates and good-but-not-great investments, and then needs to fuel the machine with startups at scale. This could work but I can't see how it's better than smaller batches for anyone but YC.
Is RP2040 completely open though?
>Or, look at Covid -- the mayor of Wuhan and governor of Hubei were sacked over their poor initial handling. Is NY gonna elect a Republican over it? TX elect a Democrat?

I mean, whoever they replace the mayor of Wuhan and governor of Hubei with will certainly still be members of the Chinese Communist Party. NY and TX might not flip their governing parties, but I'd be much more willing to assure you that the process of choosing their replacements will be more transparent than that for Wuhan and Hubei.
Not GP, but affordable health insurance with pre-existing conditions maybe?
This one[1]? It says it's only 2G GSM?

1- https://smile.amazon.com/CAT-Rugged-Phone-Factory-Unlocked/d...
Having them spend so much with Western companies on such an ineffective military can be seen as a form of punishment
Why on earth would you use the microSD when you were booting off an nvme drive, as is the whole point of the OP?
She does have a point but drops under the bus all Trump supporters as unreasonable people.
Imagine thinking there's such thing as bravery on the internet.

You worked at FB; so you've got the moral high ground of IBM in thirties. Coward.
Data and Models
Again, you're confusing percentages.

To use some simplified numbers to explain it - consider that normally 100,000 people are infected with some form of respiratory virus on a daily, basis and 20% of those are rhinoviruses, then that means there are 20,000 daily rhinovirus infections. And let's also say that strains of influenza are another 20% and 20,000/day.

Now what is happening, is in a covid world, due to masks and distancing, the number of people infected on a daily basis drops from 100,000 to 10,000. Rhinoviruses are sill 20% of that, but they are now down to 2,000. Masks and social distancing has had a drastic affect on them.

Influenza drops down to only 2% so only 200 cases daily. Masks and distancing have an even more drastic effect in influenza.

As a result, we're seeing exactly the graph you've linked.

Rhinovirus is 20% rate, but of a much smaller pie. And you're mistaking that as masks and distancing having little or no effect.
Anyone else see the irony in making a big deal about giving up social media but then writing a blog post about it and promoting that post on various social media platforms?
Ask HN: Good newsletter to follow the Indian startup ecosystem?
I follow a bunch in the US, however, they rarely contain updates from outside the SF/Bay Area bubble. I would love to know if anyone collates such info for an Indian startup ecosystem.
As far as I know the RP2040 has no secrets, everything is documented in public: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...

Realistically a Pi Linux SoC would probably be more open than Broadcom hardware, but not completely open. IP blocks they license from 3rd parties (e.g. the GPU) may still have NDA strings attached, and the wireless firmware would still need to be an untinkerable black box to get regulatory approval.

It would still be a step up from Broadcom who won't give you anything until you sign an NDA and commit to buying 10 million units and offer up your firstborn child.
This is why I don't & never will have a reddit account. I have heard the mods are very quick to ban people & even whole subreddits for ridiculous reasons. That & security reasons. It's astonishing how much personal information becomes available from being on reddit. See www.redective.com.
Guilded is the Discord alternative you didn't know you needed
I wonder if the WSB gang will short this right from the get go
> Does the world really stand to gain much exposing a fringe activist to the opprobrium of the entire world?

In this case, the person being shamed for endorsing pedophilia was hired to manage a communities of children. She hired a child rapist, married an admitted pedophile, and now (as demonstrated by this incident) has the power to control what media many children are exposed to.

I’ve no problem with her getting a job that doesn’t involve kids.
Why not Minot?
I get that Go doesn't have generics and is generally in the C-family of languages, but beyond that there's not much to compare--I'm shocked that anyone would even make the assertion. Go has first class functions, value types, generic slice/hashmap/channels/etc, goroutines, and type inference, and it lacks inheritance and constructors. Those different feature sets predictably breed very different programming paradigms. Notably, I recall early Java was all about inheritance and distributing your object graph arbitrarily among constructors.
To them it's pretty much free money.
Yeah, I am fully onboard with the reasoning for why people hate calls and prefer messaging (sync vs. async), but the passage you quoted describes something that is straight up wrong on human level.

They give you their unlocked device for a specific task of entering your phone number, which already implies a high level of trust, and you instantly break that trust by unsolicitedly installing software on their device? That sounds like a quick way to lose your connection to that person.

I know I wouldn't want to have any further interaction with the person who breaks my trust right at the beginning by going out of their way and sneakily installing software on my device. Especially since they aren't a close friend of mine to begin with, because if they were a close friend, we would have each other's phone numbers already.
The biggest threat to interest compounding is inflation. Every time you see someone saying that by saving $X each month you can get $1M in 50 years, the question to answer is: what's gonna be the real value of $1M 50 years from now?
It should be a nominal task to install Ubuntu on top of it, worst comes to worse it doesn't work and you send it back to Best buy.
The Untold Stories of Archaeology’s Women
What would be nice is a way of preventing the same job running multiple times concurrently. Like if I start a job and a job with the same parameters was already started milliseconds ago then it automatically awaits the already running job rather than starting another.
They both tell more or less the same story (the show is based on the books) but I believe they were referring to the tv show.