skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because generics allow for many different programming paradigms, and different packages will use different paradigms, requiring developers to understand all of them and integrate them. In addition to varying paradigms, packages will also vary in their degrees of abstraction—generics permit very abstract code while idiomatic Go code is not particularly abstract. Note that I’m not arguing that these tradeoffs aren’t worth the while, just that they do in fact exist.
Health Canada authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech in children 12 to 15
Missing the forest for the tree, well done!
I worked through the first four chapters of The Little Schemer in Hy a bunch of years ago: https://github.com/andybp85/hyLittleSchemer

I moved on to Racket shortly after (which I sadly don't use nearly as much as I should these days), but that work definitely made me a far better programmer!
Your blog post was a great read. Completely agree. I’ve seen so much stuff turn to excrement the moment FP is applied.

I’m writing a complex aggregator in go and the abstraction is buffered channels. There is no map or filter in sight. It is not needed.
How to pinpoint UI bugs automatically
I've been writing Go for 8+ years now, I guess. In all that time I've maybe hit 3 or 4 problems that generics would have helped with. And there were always workarounds (tending to be heavy on the boilerplate). This is fairly common, from the other Gophers I've talked to.

The problem with generics is they're a hammer, and everything is going to look like a nail. Instead of being a rarity, and everyone basically writing idiomatic Go as normal and only pulling out the generics when really needed, this functional-ish style that relies on generics (as in TFA) will become common.

Devs who are used to writing array.map code in JS will start on Go and immediately find the slices package in the standard lib, and create a generic for every single slice they use, because that's what they're used to and how they think it's meant to be used. For...range loops will look as old-skool and primitive as for loops look in modern JS (despite all their advantages).

We already have the "learning path" of newbie Gophers, whose first question is always "which framework should I use?", and it's an uphill battle getting them to accept that they should just use the standard lib. Trying to get them to accept that they basically never need generics is going to be harder.

Old crusty Gophers like me, who are used to and like the simplicity of idiomatic Go, will be left shouting into the void. Again.

edit: typing stuff as interface{} is also one of those things that you learn to get past. I'm working on a ~80Kloc Go code base at the moment, and have not had to resort to interface{} once yet. Interfaces are way more powerful than they appear at first. I'm not saying interface{} doesn't have its place, and it's used heavily in the standard library, but it's not as common as you'd think at first glance.
Australian's have a term, "She'll be right", which is used in much the same way (it's also used in some other ways). But I think the difference is in how much bite regulators and consumer protection bodies have, and in Australia, it's a lot.

"She'll be right" usually only applies until it won't be alright, it's more about pragmatism than laziness.

This is all obviously generalizing, everyone is different. But you can't really discuss colloquialisms without generalizing.
The YesMen thought about this with their "Survivaball" [1], [2]. See [3] for presentation of their "innovation".

[1]https://theyesmen.org/project/halliburton [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men#New_York_Post_and_... [3] https://theyesmen.org/project/halliburton/talk
No because snapchat doesn't have live features, so it's only captured at one point in time via a photo or video
I think its more fund the navy under the guise of a defense spending bill that ends up going for an RFP to energy companies to build the reactors "for the navy"
There are back-confirmed cases of covid in Italy in September 2019, so the Wuhan incident is definitely not a patient-0 situation (even if it could be a ground-0 location from previous patient-0 situation, but its just a guess and we'll never know).

Given that, having a case in Beijing in November 2019 is entirely plausible
There is also a study from 2014 that suggests that prions were not detected in stems even though the roots of wheat plants were exposed to them. I don't know if there is conclusive evidence yet on getting sick by eating a plant based diet.

"This suggests wheat was unable to transport sufficient PrP(TSE) from the roots to the stem to be detectable by the methods employed."

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24509640/
Did they seriously dub in a lion's roar when the Dodge Ram came out? Lol
WW1: Was it the first world war? (2014)
> Anyway 5$ for not knowing to what I'm joining is a bit strange.

Agreed.
Someone once told me don’t make the perfect be the enemy of the good.
That doesn't make any sense. US is a net petroleum exporter and the cheapest fuel comes from domestic natural gas.
“HTML processor” for CLI browsers?
Is there something like uMatrix or some sort of processor to take unused JavaScript-reliant classes out of an HTML page in order to make it more usable on CLI browsers like Lynx and elinks? Many websites are very JS/CSS-reliant and that makes them very challenging or at the least frustrating to use on command line browsers.
We actually see a bunch of startups directly going after that market leader in historian space that are building on _top_ of TimescaleDB.

So they can bring their domain expertise in process manufacturing and elsewhere, and then build on a modern, powerful platform. We're excited to see this!
So this is a comment variant of an account tontine.

The only reason to join is if you think you can make back your $5/mo or more. And because some people make more and others lose money and that sum equals 0, makes this a 0 sum game.

And thats not even discussing the echo chamber eventualities of $bad_group taking majority stake.

I pass.
100%. We should be promoting energy sources that don't have catastrophic outcomes when somebody inevitably makes a serious operational error.
- The term is called "pump and dump". It happens with stocks regularly; analyst/fund manager goes on CNBC and hypes up the next big thing, sells shortly after.

- The last people to cash out are called bag holders.

- There is a difference between good assets (AAPL, Bitcoin) and bad assets (NKLA, Doge), however the market is free to speculate in between.

- Regulation is required to ensure that markets are fair.

- The kids pumping Doge will probably lose their money sooner or later. Or maybe Doge just becomes a permanent thing. Who knows.
I'd assumed anyone with visual impairment—but not outright blindness requiring a screen-reader—was using custom stylesheet stuff pretty much constantly all over the web. Controlling the appearance of sites client-site used to be a basic browser feature. I know that's receded into the background, but is something similar (either some accessibility feature, or a plugin) not the norm for those who need them? If not, that sucks, because control used to be so firmly on the client-side for those things and that was a good thing.
Glad to see your mission.

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I don't know. I wish I fell for their scam back in 2009/2010 when they were flooding HN with bitcoin posts. There were so many it seemed coordinated.
Presidents have always acted unpresidential but the difference is that Twitter and TV didn't exist then. Lincoln was notorious for using profanity, more than a few (Including Jackson) killed someone in a duel. While some presidents have been more controversial, and outspoken than others, the idea that there is a "well mannered" presidential archetype is a myth.
Actually, nuclear power plant operators have special liability protections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price-Anderson_Act
"Survival Capsule LLC is an intellectual property company developing survival solutions for natural disasters."

"The Survival Capsule is patented as a personal safety system (PSS), designed as a sphere to protect against tsunami events, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and storm surges."

So are they building these or are they just building an IP portfolio to use for licensing? Looks like they are taking "pre orders" but the latest news is from 2017, and nothing has been posted on their YouTube channel for 5 years.
That's for conventional nuclear. Small reactors will take a order less as they have structurally safer designs.
An interesting meta-problem comes with success of a curated search engine. The sites it actually supports would themselves have to be curated as otherwise the camel's nose gets back into the tent.
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> My point is that our current situation of resource usage cannot last much longer. This is unavoidable fact. We can opt to find ways to dramatically cut back—far past current feel-good greening measures—or it will happen automatically for us.

This is blantantly false.

How does an energy budget that is multiple orders of magnitude larger than our current usage imply we must reduce energy usage below current levels?

What is the "automatic" mechanism that will curtail our energy usage below current levels?

You arguments don't make any sense and seem completely pointless. If you really don't believe there are any solutions, you should shut up and let the optimists work the problem on the off chance you are wrong.
US Naval reactors are not a substitute for commercial power plants. They use highly enriched fuel, and are optimized for small volume and low maintenance costs, not net generation efficiency. They're at least one if not two orders of magnitude smaller than what's economic in power plants, and they are not in any way built with an efficient "model T" style production line.

US Naval reactors are not some silver bullet no one has thought of. They're a different tool, and it's not clear the Navy would be particularly more effective in creating a future of factory built small modular reactors vs any other company that's attempted it so far.
I think the manufacturing is required to be contracted out. The military can and does sell many things if they no longer have need for them. You can find some of that stuff in surplus shops, but they even sell old aircraft and other vehicles.
What do you think about this video?
Ask HN: Who uses third party authentication services like Auth0 in their apps?
Hi, I'm wondering who is using these services and why.

What are the pros that made you choose them and the cons that bring you pain?

Are they suitable for a startup or is it better to start with another approach and then move when need to scale?
Hate to be that guy but unless the payouts are reduced for “dumb” answers. The site is doomed to become same as any other answer site because top answers will always be something like. “Is it ok to switch from tide to gain in my washing machine”. Actual difficult questions will never make money so the premises will not bring anything new
Social media companies have every right to ban Trump just because they can. But they should be honest about it: he is their political enemy and they don't want him to spread his message.

Instead, they engage in an elaborate hypocrisy, inventing rules and procedures that are only applied to him and are only used to silence him. It is clear as a day that they don't apply the same standards to other politicians, especially their allies. And to me, few things are as disgusting as such hypocrisy. Shameless bias in reporting (to either side, while pretending to be 'objective') comes close, but not quite.
The price is crazy, but this idea has been around for quite a while. Here are some for 50 eur: https://en.boardingglasses.com/collections/frontpage.

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> Fortunately, in the case of the shuttle, the engines were on the orbiter, so only the relatively light fuel tank had the problem

The Shuttle external tank never entered orbit. At separation, the perigee of the trajectory was still inside the atmosphere. While the Shuttle burned its OMS engines at apogee to complete orbital insertion, the external tank remained on a ballistic trajectory, and its impact point was controlled at all times.
Yeah While on one hand I am supportive of more money going to clean energy tech / infra build out, I can’t help but be disappointed that this legislation ISN’T technology agnostic.

We are at the point now where there are enough “options on the table” (solar, onshore offshore wind, hydro, nuclear, various storage applications ) that incentives should go towards the cheapest “clean electrons”, regardless of technology. This way the money contributed as subsidy can go the furthest distance.

Nuclear power’s Achilles heel on the economics side are particularly problematic for new builds. With increasing construction costs (compared to declining solar and wind), an almost 10 year timeframe to build out, and potentially half a century operating lifespan, it can be hard to ultimately pencil out. That said, nuclear refurbs and upgrades of existing setups is probably a better direction, even if life extension is likely to be more limited.
That's true, but I posit that there are entire large categories of computer users who open Excel exactly 0 times per year but who use Word.
Give green power a chance - fully invest in solar, kinetic energy power projects for 10 years and only then decide if nuclear power is needed.
Even Hollywood feature films offer from 30 sec to 2 minute trailers. And that even goes for the mega-hits like the Marvel Universe.

These folks think they're better than Hollywood at buying before you try.
what are we doing with the nuclear waste? I mean in reality not in theory. Aren't renewables cheap enough also with energy storage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2RxWtF4Ds
We're not talking about the perfect vs. the good here. We're talking about a power source (nuclear) that can result in virtually unlimited harm to human life in cases of serious failure vs. power sources that, while not as well-developed, are much lower-risk long-term.
> To read the full case decision (case 2021-001-FB-FBR), click here.

I can't decide if it's cute or terrifying that Facebook's moderators are LARPing as a judicial system.
I would rather not confirm or deny, but I find it funny that apparently telco companies in the US share a considerable amount of hate; enough for you to have to wonder :D

maybe it is a location-based hatred distribution?
> Our team is smaller than you might think!

I thought so but the other half of my brain was screaming for "FB has so much power, how come they don't invest more in open source".

But well, that's economics at play I guess. I'm an idealist after all... Thx for replying !
I think he was referring to Trump's re-election.

Edit: When somebody who proudly proclaims that "I lie occasionally. Sometimes enjoy it too." denies knowing about something so widely covered in the international news, believe them when they say they enjoy lying.

the-dude: You have google and wikipedia. Look it up. No more excuses for ignorance and whitewashes for liars and blame for believers.
MongoDB your days are numbered
I code in VBA constantly as a Finance Manager. I also spend a lot of time learning Python and used it throughout a CS Degree. VBA and Python are not alike at all IMO.

You are right that you can use something like C# to manipulate Excel files, but there isn't a ton of tutorials on it, which makes it difficult and prohibitive to learn.
Nuclear power plants aren't just an all-or-nothing kind of risk. There is plenty that could go wrong and either halt its operations or affect its environment.
For instance, a lot of plants increase the average temperature of the rivers they dump their cooling water in. That issue has become more threatening over time since climate change is doing the same.
This is true, it does depend on how the implementation works.
I guess I've never had inside information to see this firsthand.

Or maybe my internet spidey sense is so attuned that I've learned to subconsciously tune out B.S.

So I've never really seen that type of thing happening.

Does anyone really believe unverified information people post on the internet ?
The Navy acquires many reactors annually and operates a ton of small to medium reactors. I think they mostly buy the reactors from contractors, but either way, they have a ton of operational experience.

Maybe funding it via the navy is politically palatable.
The treadmills are recalled, not the bikes.
For those who own Peloton products, what do you think of them? Are they genuinely worth the price and continued financial commitment?
There could be some serious historical value or insights in that journal, even if there are terrible deeds listed within. If you can't bring yourself to read it, perhaps consider sharing it with a WWII museum or historian.

They might be willing to leave your great-grandfather's name out of it, if that's a concern for you.
Everyone already has to pay in time and frustration to use the roads when it is congested. Slapping a monetary fee on top gives priority to the wealthy. $10/day is a lot more when you make $12/hr. When you consider the flexibility afforded to well compensated white collar workers it becomes even less fair.

The drywaller has every right to sit in stop and go traffic with the investment banker.
I think it would be possible to adapt some Linux drivers to run in a sandboxed capacity within a capability/microkernel system.

IIRC there was once an L4 based project that integrated with Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4Linux
How is one supposed to semi-reliably distinguish between a tiny vocal minority “cancel mob” and an “actual majority” when the end result is the same: $thing is cancelled. I suspect the only discernible difference between the two for most people is one of opinion - whether they agree or disagree with $thing being cancelled. If they agree, they’re in the majority and if they disagree it’s obviously that pesky vocal minority.
Looking at the picture from the previous thread, it seems they don't even have to compromise the look by putting a guard. All they need to do is cover the bottom side of the belt - if it isn't exposed it can't pull anything under.
Nuclear power is very safe - far safer in aggregate impacts to the environment than any other technology. And even more important, it’s predictable - something most other “clean” energy sources are not.

As for “cheaper” - citation needed. Especially for handling base load requirements in reliable and predictable ways. Most of the cost around nuclear power, especially in the United States, is from bloated, ineffectual policy decisions designed to artificially suppress it.

I do agree we should be doing more with the existing “waste” - we should be burning it in better reactor designs instead of burying or storing it. Note I didn’t say newer or modern designs - we have had the technology since the 50’s to burn what we (ridiculously) term “waste” today but it wasn’t pursued for numerous political and ill informed social issues. These designs also coast to a natural stop if their support systems are interrupted, negating the problems of active systems (like cooling) failing leading to problems in most of our currently deployed reactors.
Maybe they could sneak the funding into the F-35 program.
Peloton Is Recalling Its Treadmills After Safety Warnings
In Tuscon, or Seattle?
It Began as an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game
Do you have an example of such a chemical being used to effectively remediate prion contaminated environments?
Lots of people did shitty things in that war (and all wars), and honestly if Germany had won the war it likely would have been all condoned, like the US dropping two atomic bombs on Japan is. The Japanese committed vast atrocities in China, but they were never made to sit in a war crimes communal because the US thought the chemical warfare research was worthwhile knowing. Either way, what you grandfather did or didn't do doesn't make you a bad person, and reading it might give you reflection to make better choices in your life?
No. It should be:

1 2 3

P ● ● ○

(next P) ● ○ ○

All formulae share the same timeline in terms of state numbering.

In non-temporal logic, all operators operate on the values at a single time. So, when we say "P and Q", or "not P", these implicitly all apply to some state i.

Temporal logic adds "next", which links a state i to the state i+1. (next P) in state i refers to the value of P in state (i+1). (always P) refers to states (i ... inf).

In this example, the value of (next P) in state 2 must be false, because it refers to P's value in state 3.
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Yeah it’s a real dystopia out there.
> Instead of having a unifying and inclusive movement for police reform we got a politically weaponized racially polarizing movement.

Yep. Watching (unarmed, white) Daniel Shaver weeping and begging for his life as he crawled on his hands and knees down the hallway before officer Philip Brailsford executed him with a spray of bullets — that was as clear-cut a case as you could get that the police in many districts are NOT policing their own as much as they should. In many ways, there is a straight line from
Brailsford to Chauvin: a cop with lots of citizen complaints and a bad attitude ends up killing someone who didn’t need to die. Race, even when it is a factor, is an unnecessary distraction from the bigger picture.
That didn't seem right, so I looked up nuclear exclusion zones -- those things are huge!

[1] https://cdn.britannica.com/s:800x1000/00/196800-050-E30A2B4A...
>One is asking you which color of emoji you prefer. Other is asking you which race you are.

How would you recommend which emoji color I should pick? How do you imagine most people would navigate that decision?

>The difference is big enough to make original statement lie - inflammatory lie that makes people outraged over something that dont exists.

I'm very sorry that your notions of epistemology and morality are this underdeveloped, for you to be so confused about what lies are.
http://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text/Biggs...
For me at least, I try to avoid Word because it is so slow and cumbersome compared to notepad or notepad++ for the purpose of writing notes. It seems like most of my word processing is for my eyes only.