skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the hell do you get away with writing an article like that in 2021 and not make a single mention of "cofounders" or some such in the abstract (or in the news story, for that matter)??
> I can't memorize all thousands of functions to manipulate lists and hashs in clojure (get-in, map-vals, conj, dissoc, select-keys, sorted-map-by, do you know what all those do?) which do a lot, I felt clojure was dense, the opposite of little cognitive load

Funny, I would say that it’s the functions for manipulating data structures that makes clojure a joy to use. To me it feels like there are very few of them, and there’s a lot of consistency which makes it easy to guess what one does if you haven’t seen it before (once you’ve learned map, map-keys/map-vals/mapv don’t really need learning etc). Yes there are actually a lot, but I basically only use a dozen or so. Would be interesting to see the frequencies of clojure syntax vs other languages.

Clojure was my first (professional) language though, and I have used it every day for the last 4 years. I guess it’s different if you’re trying to learn it on the side.

I have dabbled in a few other languages on side projects (js/go/swift/svelte) and while there are definitely big improvements to be found in the tooling, nothing really matches Clojure as a language for me. Though I won’t claim that ‘clojure is more productive’, I will claim that ‘I am more productive with Clojure’, probably largely for the same reasons that you are not, it’s comfortable for me.
They have the kind of erotica that used to be done in Flash. So what? That stuff is more funny than erotic. PornHub is easily available to anyone with access to a web browser. Get over it.

Fussing about porn is usually an excuse for controlling something else.
Sorry, you are correct. I was thinking about the post at the top of this chain that wasn't actually made by you.
There’s a wide world between “survive” and the lifestyle I described. A wider universe between that lifestyle and “rich.”

In San Francisco it's just about striking distance to the lifestyle I described. The commutes and the housing are generally a little worse.
The DCSS community has vocal minority that's against any change to the game. Often they forget that old versions are still available for download, playable offline and on most online webtiles servers.

I for one appreciate the underlying philosophy of the game and the overarching intent for any change: to remove tedium, grinding, trivial optimal play, remove the requirement of spoiling yourself to beat the game - the latter point making it basically the opposite of a game like Nethack.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/docs/cr...
If I understand correctly, that is point is in the sea very close to the north part of Portugal. (And a delay will put the point over Portugal or Spain.) https://www.latlong.net/c/?lat=41.6&long=-9.3
Personally, when trying to get into a new language, I like to use https://www.projecteuler.net. It's a nifty way to try to use features of a new language. I tried it with go an learned quite a bit about channels and goroutines to optimize solving problems.

The place I see small C++ making gains is in IOT. With https://platformio.org it makes it a breeze to get a compiler to target the platform you want.

ESP32 modules have wifi/bluetooth and are $19 for 3 on Amazon and programmable over usb.

https://www.amazon.com/D-FLIFE-ESP-WROOM-32-Bluetooth-Develo...
10 years to recover from 2006 peak, not adjusting for inflation.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SFXRSA
Or suggestions to the page author to improve readability on [platform].
Daily reminder that inferring causation from correlation is a slippery business.

Did you know the S&P500 stock index was highly and 'significantly' correlated with butter prices in Bangladesh for many years?
I'm so glad you think highly of my English, good Sir. You should hear me speak one day!
I was clicking another cookie banner today and had the same thought
Ask HN: Tool to query schema from drawings?
Looking for the best (preferably FOSS) tool for querying measurements on abstract geometric figures based on limited provided information. Preferably, this would support symbolic data representations (X = sin(Y)-cos(Z)).

Basically a tool to auto-complete high-school geometry problems. Looking for in in the context of rough woodworking/carpentry. I'm aware of the usual high-end CAD tools that would do this, I want something that is ultra-lightweight, for a quick "hand-sketch to finished product" development cycle.
The 'Xkcd' Science-Paper Meme Nails Academic Publishing
Dylan’s 1966 “moto accident” ended rock N roll / end of story

The album that would have come after Blonde On Blonde (hinted at on Eat The Document (1/2) would have been like angels on ze livewire)

[1]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-1n5g8fM0

[2]

https://m.facebook.com/vidclosetphx/videos/2709040459351627/
The first sentence in the article is:

> Once upon a time a 7-year-old refugee living in a homeless shelter sat down at a chess board in school and learned how to play.

He may not be homeless now but he certainly was.
Context matters, in the context of the original post that was not how they used the term.
That's just egocide. We've had plants that do that for millennia.
So what the journals provide in exchange for money is impact factor?

And what do you mean “gatekeeper”? It’s their journal and they created the impact factor, no?
The blog has a list of all recent trunk and released changes: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/blog

As I mentioned in the sibling comment, there's a vocal minority in this game loudly complaining about any change. My suggestion is to decide for yourself, play an older version if you prefer, or any of the dozen forks, all available on most public servers.

Off the top of my head, they have recently:

* removed the whole hunger/food system: no need to eat, no need to butcher corpses or collect food, magic doesn't make you hungry.

* removed cursed items: an issue only in the early game, trivially managed by careful identification of unknown scrolls

* removed unremarkable species or monsters

* removed trivial spells such as Deflect Missiles or Regeneration
FYI .. I work in deep learning and lucidrains is becoming a legend in my line of work. Seems someone who is obsessed about transformers (the deep learning ones, and rightly so, they are amazing). To the author (if you are reading this on HN), I want to thank you for the amazing work you have done!

For the non-DL crowd, Transformers are a tsunami in deep learning for the past few years. They are topping benchmarks in many subfields. I do research professionally and this work is amazingly useful for people like me.
For memetic reasons I immediately wondered if the same cognitive apparatus might be repurposed to identify hotdogs. No doubt specific areas of the brain are electrically involved, and monitorable via electrodes or more invasive probes. This suggests an opportunity to bring to market an efficient, self-cleaning, content filter engine employing a redundant array of cats; then further observe that caudal repositioning is an output property
of tensor cats, making such an array the perfect vehicle to unlock the broader field of Feline Learning, with obvious opportunities for tail optimisation at runtime
and dinner time.
I don't understand how in 2021 small businesses have such a hard time with inventory / stock?

I've always tried to support local, but lately I've given up on local bike stores near me house. Went in looking for simple things, spokes, tube patches, quick links for chains. Only to be stared at blankly with confusion or told they don't have said items in stock. I went home an ordered off Amazon in 2 minutes, arrived next day.

Similar experiences with all types of things.

One thing I'm not sure about is if small businesses really care about surviving or competing with "the internet" I've not really seen much evidence to support this idea.
> the fact that you can't see the problem is actually evidence of how insidious these problems are

I've looked for a while now, but still can't see it, would you be willing to share?

> (p[1] << 8) & 0xff00

With p[1] being uint8_t? Because then I cannot imagine why, and also fail to see a reason to apply the 0xff00 mask here.

If this is for int8_t instead, the problem you are alluding to is sign extension? If p[1] gets promoted to an int in the negative range, (then its representation has the high order bit set), and shifting that to the left is UB.
Remember the blockchain hype? Well it turns out it's actually incredibly practical for food traceability and provenance. Governments around the world are starting to demand transparency around this, and in the near future it will be common for consumers to be able to see where their food was grown, processed, shipped to, and how long that took.

So, scan the QR code and pick the produce with the shortest supply chain. If consumers demand it, local food production WILL be a big thing.
Now that's an example of a good README. All the practical information you could want, and a screenshot.

(Also, clever name! I'd heard of that particular Greek deity from somewhere else, but never knew she had a moon named after her =])
I’ll buy another TI calculator when hell freezes over. Both the ACT and SAT allow some HP and Casio models that are actually useful outside of these stupid tests, so when my daughter is old enough to need one I’ll be buying anything else for her as well.

Personally I’m quite happy with my HP Prime.
It also shed some light on the inefficiency / inefficacy of most production groups .. a few persons with a real motive ended up doing more than many large companies.

Nothing new, it's obvious to many how much drag and cruft lies in the majority of businesses in the world.
This is doubly silly because the Google Authenticator team created the otpauth:// URI scheme which every authenticator application supports. I integrated it in pass-otp, for example.
One step closer to the Tricorder.
> By impossible you mean impossible-impossible or too much of a hustle?

Too hard, in terms of finding and preparing them, but also in terms of finding something with mushrooms you'd actually want to eat every day. Unless you're going to count chaga lattes or something, which probably isn't environmentally sustainable unless you live in northern Canada or Siberia.
This is one of those games I play intensely for a few weeks every year before forcing myself to stop. It has so much depth and is so addicting. The spectator mode on the web version is fun and I learn a lot watching other players.
Yeah, seems it’s purpose-tailored to the material. The title made me think it did not interact with the barrier, which raised a ton of weird questions.
Science and Technology Issues in the 117th Congress
Do you have a reference? It would be hard to establish causality. Genetic drift extremely important in megafauna due to very small population size. Selection has to be exceedingly strong. Read Mike Lynch’s lovely paper in PNAS in 2007 (free from PubMed)—The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origin of organismal complexity. There is a high risk of “just so” stories to “explain” biological processes and phenomena. Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan well worth reading; Chapter 6 in particular.
> given the things people are expected rely on incognito mode for.

I don't think Google tracks these things in regular search either.
My interests profile doesn't include my favorite porn.
It's an important topic that I see in many places.

Old system had to certify a certain level of quality to exist due to structural constraints (fragile business, cost of production/operation). Now that the costs are fading away, the danger is to end up like bad social networks who just do whatever because it's free and people waste years until it's obvious it doesn't provide any value anymore.
Uranium
Google in $5bn lawsuit for tracking in 'private' mode:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340
Nope: there is a huge difference between MHC gene recombination and mutation.
Why do you think we can cure aging when we haven’t solved or even made any progress tackling much simpler problems like Alzheimer’s?
I bought some proxies to use in different EDH decks. The quality of the fakes was actually better than the real ones (anyone who follows MTG will know what I’m talking about).

Using a microscope it was pretty easy to tell them apart, based on the different printing technologies making different and hard to replicate pixel patterns (I don’t know the printing equivelent of a pixel).

Each proxy was $2, and you get to pick what you want. At that rate it’s pretty close to the rate you’d get if you bought a standard booster pack.
> [they are signalling that]

Not just signaling. Probably 20-30% of tables do get personalized menus due to dietary restrictions or preferences.
This is like the 90s era Nintendo vs SEGA Senate hearings about video game violence all over again.

Cynically grasping pearls to try to damage a business competitor.
They have and that's my point. Any medium of communication can and has been used for pornographic distribution. Mail, Lithograph, Magazines, Comic Books, Movies, Telephone, SMS, the Internet, BBS, Usenet, etc and I'm sure there'll be more by the time Apple is gone. If wants to dictate what people can watch or receive in addition to what they say, at any point in time they can boot off UPS and Netflix. And it's telling that they haven't.

Apple's decision points have no consistency if such consistency is predicated on Mr.Cook's claim that all developers are treated equally (however he happens to define it). Why Telegram and not Tinder or iMessage as a medium of distrribution? With respect to your point about private messages, do those private messages become public when more than two people are involved? Would that mean that conferencing apps like Skype, Zoom, Teams, or Slack fall under the aegis of Apple's benevolent dictatorship so long as they wish to keep a cubby in App Store? Or is there something more going on. (My money is on the latter but who knows?)

To cut to the chase, Apple's positions are similar to a tyrannical parent justifying it's trigger-happy hot-and-cold approach in a roundabout pseudological fashion that ,once untangled, spells out "ipse dixit". The company affirms the conclusions of its arguments by merely citing their name, whereas similar actions from Microsoft or Amazon would warrant shaming or at least suspicion even where the latter two would a plausible justification. While I don't recommend anti-trust provisions (as that doesn't solve the underlying problem with how Apple or an Apple rump company engages in business) an investigation by the FTC into Apple's actual business conduct cross-examined with Apple's/Cook's lofty if shallow claims is more than appropriate to assess whether Apple has perpetrated a fraud against developers and consumers.
Debris from Chinese rocket likely to fall to Earth this weekend
I wonder if this is a good use case for deep learning. I am wondering if you rely completely on images or, in some cases, does it boil down to things that images cannot portray? Like texture, weight, flexibility, etc.?
Sourcehut is the fastest. So what?
This reminds me of the time I went looking for a Somali restaurant in Minneapolis (this was 2007 or so, right when the Grindhouse double feature had been released)

I finally found a place and poked my head in. A bunch of old bearded Somali men in skullcaps all turned and stared at me and Al Jazeera was on in the corner.

No menu was visible so I approached the counter and asked the man behind it what was for lunch. He responded, “Goat.”

I replied, “Can you be more specific?”

He replied again “Goat.” but added “$8”
With a lot of software, it may be the case that you may want some of the changes but not others. (Fortunately, you can fork the project and make your own modifications, but you might not want to do that, for whatever reason, but if you do, then it will be a nonstandard version.)
The changes remove some of the most memorable moments:

- Eating questionable meat for random powers

- Losing your great items permanently

- Not getting poison resistance and putting off the hive for ages

- Not being able to carry as much as a weak character

- Putting a stash on Hive:2 so monsters can't get your items

- Being a mummy summoner and having a full screen of summons (no hunger requirement)

- Hill orc priests would wander the map gaining converts

A lot of these things became part of the game muscle memory to avoid. They were hilarious and emotional as a new player. They are now obsolete. I have mixed feelings - I always felt enough mitigation existed in the game and I enjoyed learning about it
I’d be interested to see your sources and learn how increasing CA’s population will lead to less water usage.
Not right. Get some hard core background in population genetics. If you want a great (but costly) text on this topic with real insight—, then read Lynch’s The Origins of Genome Architecture.
Nope. Stoicism is about focusing 100% on what you can do and not on what you can’t. Worrying about things you can’t control is a waste of time.
The HP Prime is great, I use mine all the time. The 3D plotting capabilities are really useful. I use that and occasionally an HP 12c. I wish the Prime used a better language for the programming though - Python would be a wonderful addition
If that’s your preference, just do it. My comment wasn’t not about you or me, it was about what you get if you choose macos, how it works, and the reasoning behind that. This “I want how I want” sounds like a christian complaint in a mosque.
It’s like any other trend. Elaborate french menus were en vogue in the 80s and 90s, eventually the style trickled down to places like Cheesecake Factory, and once they’re doing it it’s not cool any more.

As chains adopt the simple and local style the high end will move on to something else.
Added detail:

Ever since I first encountered G, I always wondered, "is gravity really constant? Is it emergent from 'the universe', or from matter?"

This eventually led to thinking about, "well maybe gravity has more or different properties than G".

As evidenced by the link to a typical comment from me above, these thoughts are always dismissed out of hand. For good reason. But now that a "legit" particle physicist is raising these questions, I hope to see some movement.
The thing I appreciate the most about a device like this is that it's largely self-contained. I can program my phone in Python, sure, but I largely can't program my phone in Python on the phone. There are tools which do this, but the device isn't optimized for it, and the usage metaphor isn't really compatible - coding UI applications with a soft keyboard doesn't sound fun or useful.

On the other hand, getting a text-based REPL that I can quickly enter some commands on is great - that was why I really loved TI-BASIC on my TI-83. In college it made it easy to write a small program, roughly when I needed that program. In one extreme example, my girlfriend and I took ours to the grocery store every week, and used a BASIC app I wrote for meal planning for the week (this was pre-smartphone era).

I'd hope that this is _something_ of an answer to the concern that computing is getting too complicated and detached. Just thinking about the near-ubiquity of the TI-83 when I was in high school, giving kids the ability to code out of their pockets without having to worry about UI mechanics, publishing to an app store, or _threads_ even (AFAIK Android throws exceptions if you do certain things on the main thread), sounds pretty powerful.
Hey TranquilMarmot. I am working on a TypeScript code Generator for OpenAPI 2 and 3 that you might be interested in. It works on Node.js and web, provides strong typing (types generated against schema in the OpenAPI definition) and runtime type-checking to prevent the runtime data from deviating from TS types. We have been testing it in private for sometime; clients generated using this Code Generator have already been installed ~50K (and counting). I am looking for feedback so I'd be happy if you could try it out. My email is in my profile.
They still make the Voyage 200? That's hilarious, what a blast from the past.
Yes. Over time they've balanced out their reporting by at least acknowledging legitimate uses of tax havens, and even going as far to point out that it is probably the predominate use of tax havens - compliant to all countries involved. But their headlines still lead their readers towards assuming impropriety. And now that they bother to acknowledge the existence of legitimate uses, given the ongoing criticism from anybody educated in the financial sector, they don't bother with the advantages or "the why". They could educate, but choose to only raise awareness towards the assumption of guilt for using leading and competitive jurisdictions. They just instigate populist sentiment and make a tally of the few people adversely affected due to the populist sentiment after being doxxed, alongside the different and fewer people that actually broke their country's laws.
Thank you. I've added a reply to clarify as edit window has passed.
Great analysis. I wonder, is there a ratings agency for scientific studies? It would be neat to see a score associated with experimental design.
I agree and you make some good points.
Damage to White Matter Is Linked to Worse Cognitive Outcomes After Brain Injury
And don't get started on comments about the stock market, or quantitative trading. I'm not an expert on physics so I'm unable to judge, but I am a quant and work at a quant firm and it's absolutely clear most comments discussing stock markets, HFT, automated trading and the like are coming from people with only a superficial understanding of the subject.

And what's worse is like you say... the comments are made with such certainty that unless you knew better, you'd think it was experts making authoritative claims on the subject.

There's a principle that says take a subject you're an expert in and see how poorly journalists explain it, then consider that they're likely just as poor at explaining subjects you're not an expert on.

Same principle likely applies to HN.
i've been building software as an engineer for 20+ years for big cos and indie projects.

... they all kinda start out the same:

![](https://yen.fm/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/3-steps-for-basic-...)

i essentially boil it down to 3 steps:

1. Customer sends you data…
2. You manipulate the data…
3. You send the data back to the customer…

this is how i start the process... i figure out the fundamentals.

a few examples:

Dating / Matching Service:
- You send me your dating preferences (via form)…
- I’ll manually sort / categorize / match you with the “best fit” (manipulating data)…
- I’ll send you your match (and you’ll pay me)!
Customer gets a potential match and you get paid.

Collecting, Delivering Daily Standup Notes:
- You (team) sends me daily standup notes (via web form)…
- I’ll auto-magically categorize notes into business unit (ops, dev, design, legal, marketing, etc)…
- I’ll send you (the team) all the notes related to your specific business unit!
Individuals and teams are updated, aligned, and they now have the necessary info to do their job well.

Blogging Publishing Template:
- You create a simple form to capture blog post ideas…
- I’ll sort it based on length and other metadata…
- I’ll send you the template to use for your post (with API access?)!
Customer get a “best practice” blogging template and you get a repeat customer (monetization)?

... so, that gets me a baseline of the problem, the customer, and a very basic product... this can oftentimes done with #nocode or with existing services... you can almost fake a lot of this in the beginning.

if you've got the customer and the value right... then you can iterate on the product, part #2 which was once a manual (or semi-manual process) and then you graduate or iterate or evolve or level-up the product to be more automated over time.

this is a land-war of sorts... and will take many attempts to get it right. don't give up.

ping me if you need anything: john [at] yen [dot] io