skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I really enjoyed compilers in college I never thought I would build one for practical reasons.

I ended up using the knowledge for two very interesting projects. One was a template engine in Java for turning variables into clauses in SQL queries. The other was an interpreter for PL/SQL that helps to extract procedures and functions in order to do partial updates of packages in production (the user chooses which procedures to send to production and doesn't have to update the whole package).
“The amount of money you raised means nothing about the quality of your tech”
Without resorting to experiments, theories can be valuable in themselves, their soundness of argument, their coherence, and them not leading to confounding and condtradictory predictions can guide us as to their validity.

There is value in approaching problems analytically rather than resorting to empirical methods.
I guarantee you can be a PM without being able to code things the right way yourself.
Inflation as it's being used in this conversation and in general is measured against a specific currency. I mean you could, I suppose, use the term to measure the cost of a specific asset against a basket of other assets, but that is not really standard and if you wish to use it that way you should qualify your usage as such to avoid confusion.

Using your approach you'd end up saying something like Apple is experiencing inflation because its price has gone up more against housing, oil, General Electric stock. Yeah, that could be done, but it's not the way the word is being used in this conversation. We're talking about inflation of US dollars against a basket of goods as measured by the CPI as opposed to talking about an increase in housing costs relative to Apple stock.
I’m wondering why you’re not putting ST and VSC in the same basket. They’re the same type of text editor: light, extensible with community plugins. Hell, the design and the shortcuts are the same as well!

I think it’s going to be hard for ST to compete with VSC, their major offering seems to be native over electron, which is great but will it be enough?
Yeah but Giphy's a full on product, not just a static single page site.
For companies the likelihood of not needing stuff outside of AWS is relatively low. Unless you're okay with managing other applications by hand, which is probably the wrong attitude.
Looks like 0.8 tonnes / troy oz? https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

Given 3000 tons of gold mined per year, that should be roughly 70 megatons of CO2 / year.

[I am pleased to report that this falls squarely in my previous estimate of 30-150 megatons / year that was based on the cost to mine gold, the cost of fuel, and the CO2 emitted by fuel.]
What sort of peasant doesn't have an entire lavatory in one's automobile?
> pyramid scheme

Could this be a pyramid scheme? From my (very limited) understanding of the technology, it is basically a single-sell item - so the value you get out of it does not depend on whether they take off or cease to exists post-buy. A pyramid doesn't really fit to this. Or am I missing something?
Something like a micro-cell tower inside the house hooked up to the wired connection, with explicit black/white listing for the devices you do or don't want?
Latency is actually reduced compared to kafka because when you have 3 replica you just need to wait for a response of the fastest of the 3 replica instead of waiting for a response of the slowest (master) of the 3 replica.
hilarious detail: if you go all the way back to the homepage (http://www.whale.to/) you see this beautiful line:

> Last update 2017. Next update when donations add-up to a good laptop.
I'd be curious to see whether we actually see an uptick in cancers in the coming months/years. If so, I wonder whether it will turn out that using hand sanitizer resulted in a net increase or decrease in overall mortality.

Evidence that Covid spreads through surfaces is sparse and that route of transmission is no longer emphasized by the CDC https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4.

While the IFR of COVID varies, it appears to be below 1% for most regions of the world, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v.... Could anyone who is more informed than me estimate what the increased mortality would be for those who religiously use hand sanitizer with this level of benzene? My guess is still lower than COVID but I have no reference point.
Deflation by definition implies means that stuff will be worth less in future than it is now.

This is bad for investors and producers spending money now in the hope of earning more money in future.

On the other hand, simply holding onto cash is risk free, and that cash will have increased purchasing power in future (at the expense of the producers forced into offering lower prices to get money circulating again)

An economic system which deters investment, production and consumption but rewards inactivity is not a healthy one.
Abbey (and climate change) has had a profound effect on my view of traveling. I once had a bucket list to visit every national park (and every continent, and every wonder, etc), but after reading Desert Solitaire I've tried to better appreciate and pursue a deeper relationship with what's around me (even in somewhere as "dull" and flat as the Midwest), rather than dreaming about and planning shallow, wasteful trips to other places. One quote in particular has really stuck with me:

"A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles."

Looking over the tens of thousands of miles I've traveled, it's always the hiking/walking that's the most memorable, despite being the tiniest proportion, in distance, time, and cost. Whether hiking to Half Dome or walking around my local park, forest preserve, or neighborhood, there's so much more to experience.

Most tourists today are just checking off items on their list and taking a selfie for Instagram, then moving on to the next item, without ever really experiencing anything.
Very well explained! Would love to know if you folks are hiring SWEs
> * Programs that need to know their absolute window coordinates

> * Windows that want to draw to the root window

Gnome certainly won't support it, but in principle a compositor could expose that functionality.

> * Programs that want to capture the screen via XGetImage()

Yeah, doing anything via XAnything() only works on X. So you replace XAnything() by somethingElse().
> Why would you need operator overloading in a low-level language?

Have you ever heard of matrices and vectors? You need them in a lot of DSP (digital signal processing) applications, like audio and video filters, or in 3D graphics. Being able to write

x = m * y

instead of

x = m.vector_mult(y)

makes life so much more pleasant.
No they don’t. Believe it or not a lot of people make network API calls from the command line.

I know this because I’m one of them. I’ve even published guides I’m on how to make said API calls and parse them all as one command pipeline.
Everywhere has bad managers, but this is a case where a union was formed specifically because of a single actor, and that actor has a demonstrated history of abuses yet was then silently brought back despite that history because of a few zealots who cared more about him than what was ostensibly their mission.
The great irony is that the main interest in cryptocurrency is increasing fiat currency. There's some mildly interesting ideas for cryptocurrency other than a commodity, but none of them have shown any real public interest. There has yet to be a useful ICO and the majority of them are scams. Smart contracts are a hilariously bad idea. NFTs are a gold rush for fiat and memes. If cryptocurrency had any potential as a currency, bitcoin cash would have already won.

Another irony is the fundamentally terrible design of cryptocurrency seems to be why it's a gold rush to increase fiat. Generating random numbers until you find the right one as a means of verifying transactions is almost as a bad idea as a smart contract, and yet! This profound waste and inefficiency is precisely why the fiat price is going up, increasing interest, not at all increasing the desire for use.
> "I have worked with and written with some UNREAL artists who let me into their lives to create with them who deserved their credit and publishing, ..."

I think most people think she falls under this category.
Me too - but what would it mean? A long time or a short time?
Scientists use a blender to reveal what’s in our smartphones (2019)
Fun tangent, Russian cosmonauts had pistols to defend themselves from bears and wolves in the Siberian wilderness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82_Cosmonaut_survival_pisto...
> Why is gabeldorsche plural?

> Please see this informative video we've prepared[0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLRyJ0dawjM
Safely Navigating the Minefield of Workplace Communication
Say it went the route you're suggesting, what should the next step be, if the people in question ignore the court's verdict? It the follows the question: how do you know it didn't already go this route?
A whole City?
Not quite true, you can technically create your own CloudFormation resources[0]. It's a pain to do though.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
V. valuable resource, thank you.
We are :)!
Don't hesitate to apply: https://docs.airbyte.io/career-and-open-positions/senior-sof...
That is definitely one downside of VSC.
Even then its behavior differs between iOS and Mac. My BT-using app would run fine under iOS but not the Mac; it turned out that the Mac rediscovers devices several times unnecessarily. So if your application progresses through states based on device discovery, it will be confused by this. Not a huge problem to mitigate once you discover it, but the different behavior is annoying.
No, great leader must recognize his weaknesses and hire people to compensate for them. If you think leaders/owners of big companies are not dictators, I have a bridge to sell to you.
This reminds me of Rich Hickey's "Maybe Not" talk
Commenting as a mathematician who sometimes uses the Bourbaki books as reference for research: this is probably not a good idea. These books have a very dry style and in particular rarely contain detailed examples, motivation for definitions, or intuition for theorems.

They are great for reference if you already know the subject, but if you want to learn something, you'd be better off using introductory textbooks for the various fields you're interested in. I'm happy to make recommendations, and you can also look up syllabi for math undergrad at Stanford, Princeton, etc.
My manager, who is American, once made a comparison that completely blew my mind: we laugh at native Americans handing over their land without really understanding that they're getting screwed in the transaction, and yet we just hand over our personal data to Google and Facebook without a second thought. We barely even have a concept of data ownership. –u/henrebotha

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/kd0s5c/dont_rel...
Yes ... using a copy and paste of seven existing functions, knowing what two of them do. Oh, and bootstrapped using a copy of an existing execution environment.
JCVI-Syn3A has been around for a while. Here is the genome sequence from 2018 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/1241355755

Back at FreeGenes we synthesized all of the genes from this organism with codon optimization for Escherichia coli (https://stanford.freegenes.org/collections/gene-sets/product...), the workhorse of synthetic biology. If you combine the right transcriptional and translational elements, you should be able to build a fully modular genome from this gene set! We also did a couple other organisms in pursuit of this modular genome. As a nice bonus, you can also easily do in-vitro cell-free experiments since the codon tables are nice (and I've heard from Kate Adamala's group that JCVI-Syn3 has pretty bad cell free, though that was a couple years ago)

It's important to note that JCVI-Syn3A has a LOT of problems when it comes to its practical use. There just isn't enough energy being put into making an understandable and practical modular/minimal genome.
They are likely doing it to their subjects as well
As a distillery owner I was happy to see that this wasn't another takedown of craft distillers by the sanitizer industry. Very good to see zero US distilleries in their report.
Yeah, true. I don’t find the “for beginners” thing too compelling but I do like the idea of removing boilerplate.
Honestly, I'm less concerned about the benzene and more concerned by the implication that hand sanitizer makers are trying to make their hand sanitizers taste good.
Dev of the last modern browser for PowerPC Macs calls it a day
Most of my scripts start with that template on 4.20.1. That's the baseline. But soon enough they have 4.22 and 4.25.

I never liked those "bare minimum templates" that are 100 lines, because usually the scripts I write start being just a couple dozen lines. If they grow, I add things on a need basis, but the ratio of logic/template has to be >0 always.

wrt completions, doing smart completions is hard, and the zsh ones are not very intuitive to me. I try to make my scripts work with "compdef _gnu_generic ". It goes a long way, and it's an incentive to write proper --help
I’d pay.
I dunno, there are definitely distribution-based assumptions—good luck working with skewed data. Most old-school techniques are kinda additive, so nobody's really been assuming a single distribution for practical applications.

Current ML techniques just work well for the kinds of problems people are applying them to, which is kind of a tautology. We should definitely seek to understand the theory behind stuff like dropout and not consider our lack of understanding a strength.
Sometimes you want the safer isolation of virtualization, and you want to spin up individual workload elements in virtual machines.
Yes, and when you regularly ask too much of the other party in those negotiations they band together and ask you to stop. Much like what's happening in the story.
I get what you are saying but they are simply in different positions. Broadcom can say "Hey, there's a bunch of work here to make this not suck" and Samsung, even if they wanted to do their own thing, realizes they too would have to go through that effort to make everything work. It wouldn't be a simple matter of just making non-sucky bluetooth, they'd have to also work with the android OS to improve the bluetooth stack and no guarantee that those changes can be merged.

Apple controls their whole stack. They've already written the Bluetooth stack for their OS. They only have to service their devices.

> Incidentally Apple sometimes has more than one vendor too, so it's not just two parties.

Not the point I was making. It's not an issue with multiple vendors, its and issue of who controls what. Those other vendors also have to conform to apples standards if they want to sell apple their products. What I'm talking about is the fact that a bluetooth device manufacture has to conform to google's android standards if they want to sell their chips to android manufactures, not to samsung standards. That's where the leverage goes away.

If samsung ever pulls the trigger and uses Tizen everywhere, then they'll be more in Apples position. Until that happens, they need to work with google to get stuff done.
I bought the EdgeRouter X a year or two ago because I was tired of having to reboot my router constantly. Still use it, still love it.
One of the reasons for not doing this is that I decided I don't want to lure the users into a false sense of security. A comment by hnlmorg basically sums this up better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645875 (The other being, that I was cutting corners on my initial ideas brutally trying to push the tool out of the door, and it's still kind of a miracle I eventually managed to do that.)
Well, that's something. Good on 'em.

I wonder what "eggs identified as male can be discarded before a fetus develops". Are the eggs just destroyed, or can they be used for food (perhaps industrially)?

It just feels a little weird watching people get fussed over the deaths of chicks while still eating the meat of grown animals. I don't expect perfect rationality on what is fundamentally an emotional decision, and we've always known that there are lots of hypocrisies that we don't want to look at too closely. Like the way we just live with the knowledge that it's OK to eat a pig but horrifying to eat a dog.

I don't mean that judgmentally. Life is complicated and we make arbitrary judgments all the time. It's just interesting to watch this thing that we've lived with all this time, and mostly managed to ignore because we didn't think about it. Having found out about it might have caused us to push back on other assumptions. Instead, we teched our way around it. Which is pretty impressive.
What's stopping a group of people from abducting you and beating you for your bitcoin or breaking into your house when your not home to find and take your wallet? Those same police. That argument doesn't really hold up, it's not like someone can't force you to give them your bitcoins
I would have imagined that in game dev you prototype first with a high level language and then you would write the math code. How much of game dev is actually math code, aside from critical components like rendering, physics, etc.?
I have been a fine artist and illustrator for years, either doing commissioned work, or licensing existing work from my catalog, which at this point is fairly large. Commissioned work is infrequent, because I don't market it much and I charge real rates for my time, and Silicon Valley is actually a fairly milquetoast, cheapskate market for art unless someone is buying a very established name for an investment vehicle. licensing is more common.

With the advent of JIT print services (e.g. Society6, DeviantArt, Redbubble, etc), I also monetize any existing work where applicable.

It's not huge in terms of revenue (small margins), but it's very low friction to capitalize on.
> No, great leader must recognize his weaknesses and hire people to compensate for them.

Which he didn't do.
It is testable, if a scientist creates life in a laboratory then intelligent design exists. It is falsifiable, you can compute the amount of information contained in biological structures, and compute whether known natural processes can create that amount of information on the timescale of the universe. If they can, intelligent design is falsified.

Regardless, where the theory lives in the org chart is irrelevant to whether it is true or not, and it’s certainly no worse than all the other origin of life speculation.
Frontend tests (even if get automated) are usually very flaky and are always slow, that is the problem.

Flaky tests are mostly meaningless. Slow tests are burden.
I'd like to hear more about your setup, because I'm tempted to try something similar. How do you actually bootstrap it? How do you configure it? Just a bunch of iptables rules? How do you configure the WiFi? What packages do you install?
How does this compare with Tesla's offering, technology wise?

It seems to me that battery-based storage isn't very advanced technology, and is something that is enabled by declining battery prices. I see Tesla fans pointing to it as another one of Tesla's trillion dollar markets, but it never seemed like something Tesla would have an exclusive lock on.
I'm not sure i want to engage it shitty whataboutism, but here it goes:

> Hell, even in the western countries, women are banned from wearing their burqas and facial veils.

It's not about assimilation of a foreign culture, it's about an unacceptable practice part of a foreign culture. Similar to genital mutilation which is accepted in some cultures and religions, but really shouldn't be and that's why it's forbidden in some places. You can practice your culture all you want, but you can't show everyone that you treat women like shit because your holy book said so 2 millennia ago.

> And then, speaking of concentration camps, then don’t you agree that the United States had their own concentration camps when they arrested all the Japanese and threw them into the American Concentration Camps? This was only 70 years ago, so it’s not very far back in American history.

There are people as stupid as this? Yes, Japanese internment in the US is the US putting people in concentration camp based on racial profiling, and was terrible, and probably illegal.

> This is very prevalent in the white countries, where white people scream out: “Why don’t you speak English, and learn our culture!”

Yes, white=English, it's obvious how basic your argument is.

> They do this by socially shaming the immigrants to adopt local names, and to not speak their own native language.
> And in grade schools, the immigrants are mocked for being foreign.

You can't generalise like this. I'm living in "white" ( i fucking hate using that term, it's useless ) France, and it's really not the case.

> And furthermore, the United States and the other western countries, have their own techniques of genociding foreign culture. They do this through Hollywood, by casting Asian males as weirdly foreign, incompetent, and ignorant to the western ways. If this is not cultural genocide, per your own definition, then I don’t know what is.

Yes, every western country does Hollywood.
I think with sufficient leadership and charisma you can attract managers to allow you to focus on your vision while they organize it’s execution.

I’m sure there are good ideas but all I can think of is cult leaders.
> Respectfully, ST devs, I think you might need to have a hard look at how you do customer communication

You have really odd expectations of a small team making a targeted tool and for which you have expounded at length about how it doesn't work for you. Cool beans, my dude.

I love Sublime. The devs have earned a good portion of my trust to keep on rocking; they'll get my license fee whenever they ask for it (the benefit of trust).
Oh, come on! Tone is set at the top everywhere. Uber, Amazon, SpaceX, these are great examples with tens of thousands affected.

And what's with the abuse? One makes strange remarks about women and abhors soap, and the other manages you out a few months before vesting cliff. That isn't even the same league.
So they make an Appeal Board to please the politicians and potential regulators and turns out it is completely useless?

They just want all their Apps to use Sign In with Apple and further lock customers into their ecosystem.

What is going on with Apple?
Show HN: Fuzzy Match Library in Elixir
A fuzzy match library ported in elixir from SeatGeek's fuzzywuzzy
> No, great leader must recognize his weaknesses and hire people to compensate for them.

Hell yeah. And RMS didn't do that.
Love to play my Yamaha trombone on my Yamaha motorcycle
I agree. I think we should incentivize more people like this to come clean rather than spending our own resources having to go out and search for them. I think this will result in more people like him getting the punishment they deserve, and also makes it so that we turn more of these people back into contributing members of society.
No, this thread was originally about a version of said tool that I built and the dilemma I had about making it safe.

A VM would be too slow to spin up to be practical for a live preview. A container would be too host specific. And neither solutions fully solve the problem because all you’re addressing is file system access and, as mentioned several times already, that’s only scratching the surface of the interactions a command line tool can make.

My shell, murex, is designed around making networking access as seamless as writing to a local file. Bash does this too with its /dev/$datagram/$port pseudo file system too. So you can’t just dismiss non-local changes as irrelevant.