skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those ought to be banned, much like fonts which make the distinction between 1 and l difficult or O and 0.
NASA Wallops Launch a GO for Sun 8:02pm, to be visible across eastern US
> Our "large" pizzas here in Germany have a diameter of 26cm.

IME, That’s about a typical US small pizza (10”; large is typically 14” though I've seen places that use 12”/14”/16” S/M/L.)
Biggest thing impeding Ocaml for the average developer is the situation with the Stdlib, and multicore.

It's not exactly a struggle to get Base or Core working, but it's way less streamlined than it really ought to be. I see things like F# picking up some popularity and it strikes me as a bit of a tragedy on Ocaml's part. .NET is pretty bad to work with, imo. I know C# people will hate that, and indeed if I was meaning C# then they'd be right to feel that way. The fact is, there are few FP languages with a deep platform (like JVM, .NET, js/browser) already, and even fewer pleasant enough to work with on a daily basis.

I've been blessed to use Ocaml for some of my statistics work, and I'm watching very close the OWL project (ocaml.xyz), and hopefully it will come together nicely.

Still, I see the quickstart process of F#, Scala, Clojure, Elixir, even Haskell, and it's just much less headache than Ocaml for the first 10-15 minutes.

Ultimately, I don't know. I use Python a LOT, and I REALLY enjoy it. A lot of what people don't like about Python just doesn't get in my way that much. Really the only thing that I could see myself yearning for in the language is pattern-matching (which we're getting soon) and some form of piping with better lambda support. I really miss |>, <| in the way I build my tools, but in the end I get along just fine.

I'm glad that SO many languages have taken inspiration from Ocaml, and I'm sure that as time goes on, many more still will draw water from the plentiful well of its beautiful type inference, compiler architecture, domain modeling capabilities without annotations, et al.

Finally, I think it remiss to sorta colloquialize projects by a sum of their most recent decisions. It's not difficult to look around and go "Man, ReScript is sort of a shit-show, ReasonML doesn't really offer anything except different syntax at this point, and there's typescript anyhow, which has a vastly superior dev experience in just about every modern code editor." But that doesn't do justice to how incredibly epic it is that a project is still alive and competitive at a deep, academic level, across continents, for 25 years. I could munge around my emails and find projects starting near me that are using things like Coq (now called something else, I think), it's very much still alive for important technical work even throughout the Numpy-pocalypse.

Anyhow, this comment is a mess. Congratulations Ocaml team. Keep on truckin'. <3
What a silly idea. The Chinese will conduct a false flag cyber attack to trick us into retaliating against the Russians.
Let's say each pizza is eight slices, and each person eats two slices. So, a team should only ever be around eight people. Personally, as a former manager, I've found the sweet spot to be 6 people for software.
100k Digits of Tau
> I would argue, however, that you do need some level of certainty if you’re going to start making trillion-dollar decisions, And right now the models are all over the place and they are getting more so with each new generation of models.

The hard truth that indecision is a decision.

Sometimes you just have to go on what you've got and use your gut for the rest. For me, it's pretty obvious that we'll gain something by cleaning up our act.
Not sure the details on this but why would that be racism? Mexican is a nationality.
I don’t really know much to help out, but have you considered reaching out to recruiters? If they don’t have contract positions they may know who does
Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use (2020)
True. In Florida, 1/3 of trucks are raised so there occupants have to literally climb in. These are commonly adorn with "Trump" and "Don't tread on me" bumper stickers and even massive flags (because you know, big truck means big flag...)

I once drove one to move something (the cab/bed being five feet off the ground wasn't as helpful as you'd think \s). The experience was somewhat surreal, like driving in an air traffic control tower. Much different than a u-haul (my only other trucking experience).

Edit: oh yeah, they do this to go "mudding" (drinking and driving in a giant muddy mess with guns, so much fun!).
Then let's hear some of your brilliant options based on your expensive experience in cyber security and international relations.
I don’t know about the US, but that’s definitely not allowed in Germany.

It _must_ be signed by hand and I‘m pretty confident that the packages were rejected because of that.

If they aren’t rejected by USPS, they _will_ be rejected by German customs.
I would suggest using different names than "minute" and "hour" and "week" for the new units they are suggesting, and leaving the old names referring to the old units.

Since the new hour is ten new minutes, making the two names where one has a "deka-" or "deci-" prefix of the other, may work.
They are certainly aware. At the simplest level, we know for a fact they respond to their environment. On accelerated time scales, it is also fairly obvious to see them compete with other plants and branches of themselves. We also know they communicate with other plants, warning them of the danger of insect predators, to which they respond by increasing the production of natural insecticides.

Though I can't prove it, I'm edging toward the belief they share resources with each other, including water and nutrients through the root system.

All these facts and ideas are easily undone by particularly defining "awareness" and so this is largely a terminological problem.

The discussion quickly becomes, "Define awareness." or ... more generally ... "Define consciousness," which we see with machines, insects, plants, even single celled organisms.

Here's what science does tell us repeatedly: Those things which humans as a species are convinced have no consciousness is decreasing. Most, even today, would not believe an octopus is conscious, but we now think they are. Dolphins. Birds, even fish now have scientific studies indicating they are self-aware.

So, yeah, justifying the eating of plants because they lack self-awareness isn't a valid argument in my book.

That doesn't absolve us of a mission to reduce suffering for the things we eat.

Plants can certainly suffer and it's trivial to identify.
Musk’s companies continuously raise funds, even SpaceX. Spending money in order to grow is easy, and not necessary given sufficient profitability. Look at Apple, Amazon etc. for examples of successful transitions to profitable hypergrowth.

Startups who spend money to grow eventually make it, or die. Musk’s self-promotion, combined with a low interest rate environment, has allowed him to continuously raise enough money to stay in a zombie state, neither dead, nor profitable: only spending.
Learning: Near Misses, Felicity Conditions – MIT OpenCourseWare
And on the flip side, there are other technical topics where large parts of the article are written by people unschooled in the subject citing magazine and news articles which are online rather than the field's core texts which aren't...
Technical documentation sometimes does contain humor, it's not that uncommon for developers to include jokes and easter eggs. Furthermore, this is listed under category "Poul-Hennings random outbursts", described as "You may or may not want to know what Poul-Henning thinks.". So while technically included in it, it's not really a documentation of anything. It's basically a blog post. And just like I don't find anything wrong about a blog about cosmetics or fashion assuming that the reader is a woman, I don't find anything wrong in a blog post about technology assuming that the reader is a man.
Discovering “Cornell is WIRED!”
patrick winston has this idea of "only possible to learn something one nearly already knows"
A few months ago Tyler Cowen had Jimmy Wales on the Conversations with Tyler podcast[0].

He spends some time talking about why he thinks Wikipedia turned out the way it did and avoid some of the potential traps you pointed out.

Really enjoyed listening to it and made me think a lot of about structure of organizations.

[0] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jimmy-wales/
That's a tale as old as time to anyone who weathered the great recession, and I can deeply sympathize.

You've highlighted exactly the value and difference experience makes. People born at the crest of the wave can only take for granted their position until they have lived enough to reflect.
That's if the ecosystem doesn't revert to a MacOS majority over Windows
Does that mean I’m to be banned from planes, buildings and shops?
Compared to the radius of the earth the Bridge is on the surface of the earth. In other words you don’t travel far enough / long enough to observe any difference in g.
This isn't scamming but rather ransomware extortion. If you're the CEO of a company and a ransomware gang targets you, encrypts the disks of every single server, including backups - leaving you completely inoperable - and messages you with screenshots of all the sensitive documents and PII they'll release if you don't pay, it's hard to just release a PSA telling people to ignore it.

The threat is absolutely real, and the total cost might end up being much more than the ransom payment. This happens on a daily basis. You might as well inform people to not pay when a cartel kidnaps their child and holds them for ransom.

A better PSA would be to keep off-site cold-storage backups, secure hot backups as much as you can, abide by the principle of least privilege, keep sensitive materials in as few and secure of places as possible, general network and application security advice, etc. But no matter how much you try to inform people, there'll still be thousands of companies that won't win against organized crime gangs filled with sophisticated, dedicated attackers who are constantly scouring for potential new victims and who know they have no risk of being hampered by any law enforcement organization in the world.
“We can’t fix software, so let’s call the police.”
What isn't? I'm earnestly trying to understand what you're actually advocating, as your perspective seems to be shifting with each comment. If I have characterized your previous comments incorrectly, it was done in good faith and please correct me.
> Focusing on efficiency will always come at cost of reduced features.

This is probably sort of true, but it's way worse than it has to be. I feel like with just a little more effort, a little bit of a higher standard, we could get massive improvements.

Electron is great for the problem that it solved. But what if they'd started from day 1 thinking about performance? Maybe they would have taken a year longer, or whatever, but I'd imagine it could be 10x-100x faster/lighter. Perhaps not, but there's plenty of software where that is the case.

The problem then is that someone would release a garbage slow version sooner, and we'd all be using that - and imo this is the more serious issue. When something like electron comes out we need to push back wayyyy harder, the industry needs actual standards.

Things like maximum viable latency for UX - it is insane to me that software deployed on extremely powerful systems can have 10s of milliseconds spent on something like typing a character, or even longer! But we have no quality standards in this industry, so it's I guess hard for everyone to say "this is below our standard".
Why not? And what’s the definition of a „web server“ anyway?

In my opinion it’s about whether a software can process http requests on a configurable port - and envoy can for sure do that.
I learned it a little bit differently, for example

https://youtu.be/twc_Yo4LFJI
It is weird seeing the word CPR in the same sentence as Denmark when not talking about our SSN (which the most common use of "cpr" in Danish, it is short for central person register)..

On a more on-topic note, we have a hell of a lot of the AED devices all around (at least here in the capital). I am within 100 meters of a (public) device at most of my waking hours (most are privately owned by businesses and associations like my home-owner's assoc).
That ridiculous purchase is fully on you, my friend. You would have been absolutely more than fine with 16GB, or even 32GB if you're scared.

But given that quadro, I feel like this wasn't at all a protest, but rather you do some sort of resource heavy work such as 3d simulations or rendering. Yes, these pursuits have always been resource intensive. No, it's not the fault of electron.
Rent a seedbox for a few bucks a month
I use a "Temporal distancing" method for feedback of audio / visual recordings of my performances.

I record and watch or listen after many days. I have recordings of some of my performances from years ago which felt really terrible on the day of the performance but felt ok many years later.
Uh, while that was informative, more important is IMHO that gnuplot is a great tool and I like to take the opportunity to express my gratitude to all who contributed.
I'm not trying to be oppositional or take anything away from what you said about OCaml, but I'm interested in the evolution of programming languages and watching how the best ideas are borrowed or stolen and incorporated into new languages, sometimes with additions that improve upon the original. That's why I always check out new languages that are posted on HN. I like to see if the author has a new idea and then which language picks up on it. It's interesting to ponder such things as what will be the C++ response to Rust?
Seems like the same issue would affect any rando cleaning out their basement with eBay too.

As a Canadian, I can see why so few Americans want to ship internationally. Which is a negative economically.
What are the challenges in making a website that only scrolls vertically? The content fits nicely in the viewpoint but it really wants to scroll horizontally on my phone.

(Not a front end dev, genuinely curious)
Read "Tools for conviventiality", by Ivan Illich.

It inspired one of the makers of the first Personal Computer.
Hest, Time Travel (2019)
Hey, we make can NAD+ ourselves, you just have to get the Quinolinic pathway flowing:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Overview-of-the-kynureni...

This is most important when you have any kind of inflammation since inflammation stimulates the IDO enzymes.

How do you do that? Probably with some of the cofactors of the enzymes in the pathway liken:

B6 for KYNU: https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q16719

Riboflavin for KMO: https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O15229

I really wish the researchers would start testing people for these deficiencies more regularly.
Congratulations!

I remember trying it out 22 years ago and in retrospect I did not appreciate what a young language it must have been :)
Do you have ADHD?
I think that the fact that so many of those organizations haven't (in the past) jumped onto it, is probably part of why Wikipedia turned out as well as it did. It's run by those who mostly care about Wikipedia, rather than some other organization.

But as to your first point: definitely. It is the equivalent of the Library at Alexandria in ancient times; a step function rise in the information actually available to people.
because they didn't have millions of dollars for marketing budgets or the one thing they did that could make startups make millions off their work.
Hm, depends on a country perhaps. I did the test twice in Poland, and yes - there were questions about experience, but also questions from knowledge. My guess is that if you fail answering questions about the experience you will get access to fewer instruments, and with time you can get access to more.

The test could be definitely done better though, perhaps closer to the new tests for basic drone piloting.

For basic drone piloting, in Poland at least, you have to take an online course, and then take a test with I think 40 knowledge questions selected randomly from a pool of 90 or so.

You have 90 sec to answer each question, so if you're a good Googler, you can cheat, but really after taking the online course you don't need to.

Took me 2-3h to get my basic permissions to fly a drone.
Advanced permissions require a weekend in-person training and a more complicated exam. Still pretty accessible.

I think we could have the same thing with investor qualification - a good test, and also a single "license", instead of each bank implementing their own testing scheme to answer 10 basic questions.
Clubhouse launches Android app as downloads plummet
In that they restrict you from screwing around as root and otherwise aren’t “ridiculously restrictive” compared to Android in any way? You're right, they are.
you are one of those very dangerous followers who touts the virtues of independence, and fighting against the system, pointing to something that seems new. Telling us it is better and different, and if we weren't such sheep we could be free, at least those of us brave enough to follow you.

I no longer believe in pretending in the good faith of posters here on HN. This kind of anti-social clap-trap is dangerous and stupid.
Yeah I’m using the same machine. It depends what you do. I haven’t hit a memory pressure warning yet. 99% of what I’m doing is either on remote systems or in vim and safari. My MacBook is a futuristic portable vt terminal and iPod and 8gb is fine for a that!
The public article just mentions phone scams, but now having read the Outline link I see the private version goes into much more. Obviously PSAs aren't an approach to ransomware, but talking about the need to take software security seriously isn't as directly actionable.
People will always be mugged by thugs who are stronger than them, so let’s get rid of all assault laws and shrug because nothing can be done right?
not personality trait obviously, but in terms of success IQ probably matters more than big 5. I think personality can be improved or changed though effort but intelligence cannot. Someone who is introverted can make an effort to be extroverted in situations where it matters.
The future of the planet cannot depend on anyone's predictions -- that's a category error.

What you are referring to is "consensus", e.g. gatekeeping. This is similar to the deplatforming crisis. For some reason a lot of people are convinced that things like opinions or predictions are going to destroy their lives, or the planet, etc, who knows, perhaps even justice and gravity are at risk. It would help everyone to gain some more perspective and lay off the world-ending rhetoric, which has taken on a life of its own in a small, yet highly unstable proportion of the population.
Epic doesn’t have to convince the jury that they’re innocent or even not despicable. They only need to convince the jury that Apple is doing bad things.
Unfortunately the turn signals thing is common. I think BMW started it in ~2006 with the E90 3 series. I have a 2011 X5 diesel that has the same infuriating 'stateless' turn signal stalk. It's not helped by the fact that most modern cars have turn signal indicator noises that are too quiet to be heard if you even have quiet music on, and, in most cars I drive, with the steering wheel setup where I want it, I can't see half the speedometer or the turn signal indicators. (not an issue with the Model 3/Y of course, but the indicators are off-center and small so it's even harder to see!) I've owned numerous cars where I can't see the turn signal indicators, but at least you can hear them and feel where the stalk is in most cars. The 'electronic' canceling function means you never quite know if the signal is still on or not.

Don't get me started on the Model 3 having red turn signal indicators on the rear; I spent close to a thousand dollars to swap my last car (a VW) to proper amber indicators. There's no good fix for the 3 yet, that I know of. (The Model Y is almost entirely amber I think, the early cars might have been red)

The windshield wiper physical control doesn't bother me anymore, but I got a relatively early production 3 in July 2018, and when winter rolled around here in the bay area, I found out how bad the early rain sensing software was. For the first November/December/January wet months, it was pretty common to have to hit the washer button to trigger a quick windshield wipe until you had time to fiddle with the touch screen. It seems pretty perfect now. (My x5 also has auto wipers, but they disable every time you turn off the car, and of course has a physical stalk and button).

No need for gear in the HUD on a current Tesla :) But yeah, I have a HUD in my other car, and it's great (again, because the speedometer is blocked by the steering wheel for me).
What Is the mark of the beast revelation? – Gospel of God
please ban me from this fucking hell
This is an silly argument. The temperatures could peak in 5,000 years and we could still all be living in crisis 50 years from now. I'm not saying that will happen, just that the concept of a peak isn't really all that important to the point you are making. The "rapidly impending doom" could come from social reactions to a point being passed which itself snowballs out of control.
It was a reckless thing for China to do
> Of all the things to rename, this may be at the top of my list.

I think more confounding is that the electron carries a negative charge.

This mistake goes back to Franklin but we can’t blame him; from the data he had he had a 50/50 chance of getting it right.
Couldn't you just burn it?
They are a good deal and I had replaced at least six. My assumption was it's just a manufacturing defect since it's low cost and mass produced. And I'll buy the same ones to replace them.

Also note, these are spotlight LEDs that in the past were halogen, and not your standard sized lightbulbs, which are probably a few generations ahead in terms of manufacturing.
It is for me; both comfortable and clear sound; how I see and agree the correct positioning is. Emphasis on seeing how people have incorrect positioning can form bad habits. Fix these for yourself; and for your audience
I’m fairly sure people referred to it as Macintosh, simply.
I guess “emotional stability” is an inverted rebranding of neuroticism as it’s usually known?
Show HN: ITIS Galileo – Biography of Galileo
Hi HN! I wanted to share a personal project of mine, putting english subtitles for a theatrical monologue from 2012 by Italian actor Marco Paolini, recounting the history, life and achievements of Galileo Galilei
German submarine U-1206 was lost due to a malfunctioning toilet
Quite the opposite. You could handle material that can be handled by any other lab equipment (that's what lab equipment is for) at minuscule scales.

People have been producing Chemical- and Bioweapons already with stuff you can essentially order on amazon. If a large drug lab decided to do nerve agents they could probably do so.

Additionally you need surprisingly large amounts of these weapons to effectively target more than a couple people.

Fear of these things causing a doomsday movie like scenario where somebody combines the common cold with ebola in their garage are like fearing 3D printed guns when you might as well buy a fully automatic rifle at the next U.S. gun shop or E.U. criminal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Chem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
Curated boxes with different themes that provide unique individual experiences
In a similar way, an interview with departing CEO Katherine Maher on the Why Is This Happening? podcast.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0ZmVlZHM...
Animation of the Construction of the Charles Bridge in Prague from 1357-1402
The hardy banana tree is actually an herbaceous perennial (the world's largest) despite being referred to as a tree.
San Francisco All-Female Hacker House Aims to Support Women Builders
Yeah, eating noting but sardines pizza isn't going to end well.